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Photochemical diene synthesis (mechanisms, chemical and stereochemical selectivity). Abstracts of scientific papers, XVIIIth International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Montreal, August 1961, S. 52. Angew. Chem. 74, 81 (1962). —VB-... 

This synthesis method can be utilised by any alkene or alkyne, but steric hindrance on internal double bonds can cause these reactions to be quite slow. Conjugated dienes and aromatic alkenes are not suited for the ultraviolet light-initiated process. The use of other free-radical initiators is required in free-radical-initiated reactions involving these species. 

Ebdon and coworkers22 "232 have reported telechelic synthesis by a process that involves copolymerizing butadiene or acetylene derivatives to form polymers with internal unsaturation. Ozonolysis of these polymers yields di-end functional polymers. The a,o>dicarboxy1ic acid telechelic was prepared from poly(S-s tot-B) (Scheme 7.19). Precautions were necessary to stop degradation of the PS chains during ozonolysis. 28 The presence of pendant carboxylic acid groups, formed by ozonolysis of 1,2-diene units, was not reported. 

Intramolecular versions of the Diels-Alder reaction are well known, and this is a powerful method for the synthesis of mono- and polycyclic compounds.There are many examples and variations. One interesting internal Diels-Alder reaction links the diene and dienophile by a C—O—SiR2—or a C—O—SiR2—O—C linkage. Internal cyclization to give a bicyclic product is followed by cleavage of the O-Si unit to give a monocyclic alcohol. 

Sections I-V of this chapter deal with the syntheses of unsaturated organic compounds playing an essential role in biochemical processes of life. Numerous polyunsaturated compounds have been synthesized in order to elucidate their physiological role, for instance in brain. However, the main impact on permanent searches for new improved methods of synthesis of isotopically labelled dienes and polyenes comes from nuclear medicine and nuclear pharmacy. The deuterium and carbon-13 labelled polyunsaturated compounds are needed as internal standards in mass spectral determinations of very low concentrations of biologically active substances in biological fluids. 

Palladium-catalyzed cyclic carboxylation of dienes can be utilized for the synthesis of lactones.2 Polymer-supported Pd catalyst could also be used for this reaction (Scheme 42).61 The reaction is initiated by dimerization of two molecules of diene to give a bis-7r-allylpalladium intermediate such as 123. The incorporation of C02 takes place at the internal position of an allyl unit to afford the 7r-allylpalladium carboxylate 124 which, after reductive elimination/ cyclization, yields the (5-lactone 121 (Scheme 43). 

Considering the monoaminomercuration-demercuration of 1,4-hexadiene with /V-me-thylaniline leads to V-methyl-lV-(l-methylpent-3-enyl)aniline, the stereoselective synthesis of /V-alkoxycarbonyl or /V-tosyl s-2,5-dimethylpyrrolidine from the same diene has been explained172 on the basis of an initial amidomercuration reaction on the terminal bond followed by the second addition of mercury(II) salt to the internal double bond, on the less sterically hindered site (equation 171). 

Vogel and Delavier (26) reported a synthesis of the 6-azabicyclo[3.2.2]nonane skeleton 130 using an intramolecular azide-alkene cycloaddition strategy (Scheme 9.26). When refluxed in xylene, the azide 126 underwent an intramolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with the internal alkene. Nitrogen extrusion and subsequent rearrangement led to a mixmre of compounds 128, 129, and 130. Reactions of azides with the double bond of dienes were also used in various total syntheses of alkaloids, and will be discussed later in Section 9.2.2. 

Trost used the dihydroxylation methodology extensively in the total synthesis of (+)-parvi-florin (68) [96]. Both bistetrahydrofuran elements were prepared from 8, tn-dienyl alcohol 71. To avoid overoxidation the reaction was stopped before complete conversion, giving triol 72 with 94% ee in 71 % yield. Protection as the acetonide afforded 73 and subsequent hydrogenation furnished saturated alcohol 74. The construction of 75 was accomplished by Julia olefination using derivatives of 73 and 74. Diene 75 was thenregioselectively dihydroxylated at the internal... 

Desymmetrization of an achiral, symmetrical molecule through a catalytic process is a potentially powerful but relatively unexplored concept for asymmetric synthesis. Whereas the ability of enzymes to differentiate enantiotopic functional groups is well-known [27], little has been explored on a similar ability of non-enzymatic catalysts, particularly for C-C bond-forming processes. The asymmetric desymmetrization through the catalytic glyoxylate-ene reaction of prochiral ene substrates with planar symmetry provides an efficient access to remote [28] and internal [29] asymmetric induction (Scheme 8C.10) [30]. The (2/ ,5S)-s> i-product is obtained with >99% ee and >99% diastereoselectivity. The diene thus obtained can be transformed to a more functionalized compound in a regioselective and diastereoselective manner. 

An ingenious new method for the preparation of Woodward s intermediate (97) by Pearlman70 constitutes another formal synthesis of reserpine. The essence of this new approach is an adaptation of the de Mayo reaction which allows the introduction of vicinal aldehyde and acetic ester functions on to a double-bond (Scheme 13). An internal [2tt + 27r] photocyclization of the diene (98) gave the tetracyclic cyclobutane derivative (99), which was converted into the ester (100) by standard procedures. Methanolysis of the acetate function with concomitant retro-aldol fission completed the introduction of the vicinal aldehyde and acetic ester functions obvious manipulation then gave the desired intermediate (97). 

Synthesis of substituted l,4-bis(trimethylsilyl)buta-1,3-dienes was achieved via the reaction of terminal or internal alkynes with N2=CHSiMe3 (Eq. 66) [110]. 

In this tandem allylic C-H bond activation, followed by an elimination reaction, substituted l-zircono-lZ,3 -dienes (zirconium moiety at the terminal position of the dienyl system) were easily prepared as unique isomers. With the idea of extending this methodology to the stereoselective synthesis of 3-zircono-1,3-diene (zirconium moiety at the internal position of the dienyl system), 119 was prepared and the reactivity was investigated with (1-butene)ZrCp2 21 (119 was obtained by carbocupration of the a-allyl alkoxy-allene, Scheme 35) [79]. When 119 was submitted to the tandem reaction, the diene 120 was isolated after hydrolysis as a unique ( ,Z) isomer in 75% isolated yield (Scheme 44). 

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