Dienophiles trans

The Diels-Alder reaction is stereospecific Substituents that are cis in the dienophile remain cis in the product substituents that are trans in the dienophile remain trans m the product... 

Another stereochemical feature of the Diels-Alder reaction is that the diene and dienophile partners orient so that the endo product, rather than the alternative exo product, is formed. The words endo and exo are used to indicate relative stereochemistry when referring to bicyclic structures like substituted norbornanes (Section 4.9). A substituent on one bridge is said to be exo if it is anti (trans) to the larger of the other two bridges and is said to be endo if it is syn (cis) to the larger of the other two bridges. 

The diene must adopt what is called an s-cis conformation, meaning "cis-like" about the single bond, to undergo a Diels-Alder reaction. Only in the s-cis conformation are carbons 1 and 4 of the diene close enough to react through a cyclic transition state. In the alternative s-trans conformation, the ends of the diene partner are too far apart to overlap with the dienophile p orbitals. 

The Diels-Alder cycloaddition reaction (Section 14.4) is a pericvclic process that takes place between a diene (four tt electrons) and a dienophile (two tr electrons) to yield a cyclohexene product. Many thousands of examples of Diels-Alder reactions are known. They often take place easily at room temperature or slightly above, and they are stereospecific with respect to substituents. For example, room-temperature reaction between 1,3-butadiene and diethyl maleate (cis) yields exclusively the cis-disubstituted cyclohexene product. A similar reaction between 1,3-butadiene and diethyl fumarate (trans) yields exclusively the trans-disubstituted product. 

Scheme 8 presents the sequence of reactions that led to the synthesis of the B-ring of vitamin B12 by the Eschenmoser group. An important virtue of the Diels-Alder reaction is that it is a stereospecific process wherein relative stereochemical relationships present in the diene and/or the dienophile are preserved throughout the course of the reaction.8 Thus, when the doubly activated dienophile 12 (Scheme 8) is exposed to butadiene 11 in the presence of stannic chloride, a stereospecific reaction takes place to give compound 27 in racemic form. As expected, the trans relationship between... 

The comparison of rates of cycloaddition of maleic anhydride, tetracyanoethylene, and styrene to PPA shows that the latter, irrespective of the presence of electronegative groups, behaves in these reactions not as an electron-poor diene system. This fact, together with the composition of side products (giving evidence of PPA decarboxylation), allows the assumption to be made that the cycloaddition of dienophiles involves mainly decarboxylated polyene sections of cis-transoid structure213, 266. This is in agreement with the fact that PPA with predominant trans-transoid configuration interacts with these dienophiles at a substantially lower rate. The ultimate amounts of the dienophile combined with PPA of this structure is also considerably smaller. 

The non-preservation of cis stereochemistry of dienophiles 24 and 26 in the adducts 25 and 27 is due to a cis-trans photoisomerization of the double bond and to the concerted suprafacial Diels-Alder cycloaddition of diene to the ground state of trans dienophiles. 

The extensive study of Craig and coworkers [116] on the intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions of E- and Z-sulphonyl-substituted deca-, undeca- and dodecatrienes 120 (Figure 2.13) has opened a short route to trans- and cis-bridgehead hydrindanes and decalines and has given new insights into the role of dienophile substitution and geometry in determining the stereochemical outcome of these intramolecular cycloadditions. 

We may now proceed to an analysis of the significance of the d values. If the transition state were close to the product, then the P values of the disubstituted ethylenes should be small, because in the product, the substituent is bonded to an sp hybridized carbon atom. Thus, it is incapable of resonance interaction. As the observed values of p for the trans-disubstituted dienophiles are very large, we conclude that the transition state is closer to reactants than to products. The cis-disubstituted dienophiles show a much smaller value of P than do the trans compounds. It therefore seems likely that the transition state for the CIS compounds will be closer to product than is the transition state for the trans compounds. The values of p for the reaction of the tnws-disubstituted dienophiles with 9,10-dimethylanthracene, while large, are much smaller than... 

Answer Diels-Alder disconnection (7a) reveals a diene (9), with no stereochemistry, and a dienophile (10) which must be trans to give trans groups in (7). The one-step synthesis is successful. ... 

The cyclohexene is easy to see so that the Diels-Alder disconnection follows. The stereochemistry of the double bonds comes from two separate arguments the dienophile (a in 5) must be trarjs as the two substituents it produces in (4) are also trans. The diene must be all ain or all trann since the two substituents it produces in (4) are ois (both down). The all tvan, is needed because endo approach (6) is preferred. 

The stereospecificity is of course correct all trans diene producing ais substituents and ais dienophile producing endo approach (12) is too much. The exo approach is much easier (13). 

The enantioselectivity was explained by the preference for a transition state 28, in which the diene approaches the face of the coordinated dienophile, which adopts an s-trans conformation (Fig. 14). 

Diels-Alder reactions are stereospecific with respect to the E- and Z-relationships in both the dienophile and the diene. For example, addition of dimethyl fumarate and dimethyl maleate with cyclopentadiene is completely stereospecific with respect to the cis or trans orientation of the ester substituents. 

A similar study was done with methyl acrylate as the dienophile.28 The uncatalyzed and catalyzed TSs are shown in Figure 6.7. As with propenal, the catalyzed reaction is quite asynchronous with C(2)-C(3) bonding running ahead of C(l)-C(6) bonding. In this system, there is a shift from favoring the exo-s-cis TS in the thermal reaction to the endo-s-trans TS in the catalyzed reaction. A large component in this difference is the relative stability of the free and complexed dienophile. The free dienophile favors the s-cis conformation, whereas the BF3 complex favors the s-trans conformation. 

Entry 3 involves a catalyst derived from (/ , Trans-cyclohexane- 1,2-diamine. The square planar Cu2+ complex exposes the re face of the dienophile. As with the BOX catalysts, this catalyst has c2 symmetry. 

Entry 9 uses the oxaborazolidine catalysts discussed on p. 505 with 2-bromopropenal as the dienophile. The aldehyde adopts the exo position in each case, which is consistent with the proposed TS model. Entry 10 illustrates the use of a cationic oxaborazolidine catalyst. The chirality is derived from trans-1,2-diaminocyclohcxanc. Entry 12 shows the use of a TADDOL catalyst in the construction of the steroid skeleton. Entry 13 is an intramolecular D-A reaction catalyzed by a Cu-Ws-oxazoline. Entries 14 and 15 show the use of the oxazaborolidinone catalyst with more complex dienes. 

In Entry 2 a similar triene that lacks the activating carbonyl group undergoes reaction but a much higher temperature is required. In this case the ring junction is trans, which corresponds to an exo TS and may reflect the absence of secondary orbital interaction between the diene and dienophile. 

The hetero-Diels-Alder reaction has also utilized dienophiles in which both reactive centers are heteroatoms. Kibayashi reported that the intramolecular hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition of chiral acylnitroso compounds, generated in situ from periodate oxidation of the precursor hydroxamic acid, showed a marked enhancement of the trans-selectivity in an aqueous medium compared with the selectivity in nonaqueous conditions (Eq. 12.55).125 The reaction was readily applied to the total synthesis of (—)-pumiliotoxin C (Figure 12.5).126... 

The observation that the overwhelming product from the cycloaddition of 3 to 1,3-butadiene (12) is a cyclobutane derivative 31 and the proportion of the [4 -I- 2] adduct increases in the order 12 < 26 6 is in accord with the increasing diene reactivity in this series. Whereas cyclopentadiene readily combines with most dienophiles at low temperatures, 1,3-butadiene, mainly owing to its predominant s-trans conformation, enters into [4 + 2] cycloadditions only at elevated temperatures. 

Cyclopentadiene (6) reacted with 105 at 0°C to give 108 (entry 1). At 100°C, butadiene (12) afforded 109 (entry 2). No [2 + 2] cycloadduct was formed in either reaction. Perfluoromethylenecyclopropane (105) failed to react with cis,cis- or cis,trans-2,4-hexadiene at 100 °C, although 110 was readily formed from trans,frans-2,4-hexadiene (106) under these conditions [29] (entry 3). Anthracene (107) added to 105 at 100 °C. The dienophilicity of 105 is exceptional when compared with the reactivity of simple fluoroolefins, such as perfluoro-isobutylene, which require 150 and 200 °C to undergo cycloaddition to cyclopentadiene [30] and anthracene, respectively. 

In a comparative study, Jacobson et al. have shown that for the cis-fused cyclohexadiene, l,2,3,4,4a,8a-hexahydronaphthalene, the dienophilic reactivity follows the order PTAD > cis-DEAZD > trans-DEAZD, while the order is reversed for their reactivity as enophiles.67 Other studies have produced similar conclusions.21,54 In general, azo compounds give more ene product than the corresponding C=C compounds. 

In the presence of a more reactive dienophile, a retro Diels-Alder reaction can be carried out at or below room temperature when catalyzed by a Lewis acid.78 In fact, this process can be regarded as a trans-Diels-Alder reaction in which the C C bond is replaced by another more reactive functionality. Thus, when treated with fumaronitrile in the presence of EtAlCl2 at ambient temperature for 2 hours, compound 159 can easily be converted to compound 160 with the removal of cyclopentadiene (Scheme 5-48). 

How the relative orientation of substituents is preserved in the adduct is also illustrated by the combination of cyclopentadiene with the two isomers of 1, 2 disubstituted dienophile. Here the cis isomer gives the cis product and the trans isomer, the trans adduct. 

The enone system has to preferably adopt an s-cis or s-trans conformation in the transition state. Which one is favored may depend on the nature of the Lewis acid. It is generally accepted that Lewis acid complexation dramatically stabilizes the s-trans conformation204. The s-cis conformation, however, may be the more reactive conformation. The dienophile may react selectively in this conformation, if the s-trans and s-cis conformations are in equilibrium. 

Unlike thermal homo Diels-Alder reactions in which endo adducts predominate330, the nickel catalyzed reactions of acyclic electron-deficient dienophiles afford the exo isomers as the major cycloadducts. This has been explained by unfavorable steric interactions within intermediate 559 leading to the endo adduct. Cyclic dienophiles, on the contrary, give predominantly the endo isomer, which has again been explained by unfavorable steric interactions within exo 559. The preferred conformation of the dienophile, s-cis or s-trans, has also been suggested to play a role328. 

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