2.3- dihydrofuran, 1,2-cycloaddition with

In a more recent work the same research group has applied cyclic and acyclic vinyl ethers in the oxazaborolidinone-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction with nitrones [30]. The reaction between nitrone 5 and 2,3-dihydrofuran 6 with 20 mol% of the phenyl glycine-derived catalyst 3c, gave the product 7 in 56% yield as the sole diastereomer, however, with a low ee of 38% (Scheme 6.9). 

Another method for pyrazine preparation is the cycloaddition of oxadiazinones with dienophiles. The oxadiazinone 208 undergoes cycloadditions with electron rich dienophiles such as 2,3-dihydrofuran to produce lumazines 209 <00JHC419>. 

The reaction of vinylcarbenoids with vinyl ethers can lead to other types of [3 + 2] cycloadditions. The symmetric synthesis of 2,3-dihydrofurans is readily achieved by reaction of rhodium-stabilized vinylcarbenoids with vinyl ethers (Scheme 14.17) [107]. In this case, (J )-pantolactone is used as a chiral auxihary. The initial cyclopropanation proceeds with high asymmetric induction upon deprotection of the silyl enol ether 146, ring expansion occurs to furnish the dihydrofuran 147, with no significant epi-merization during the ring-expansion process. 

Transition-metal mediated carbene transfer from 205 to benzaldehyde generates carbonyl ylides 211 which are transformed into oxiranes 216 by 1,3-cyclization, into tetrahydrofurans 212, 213 or dihydrofurans 214 by [3 + 2] cycloaddition with electron-deficient alkenes or alkynes, and 1,3-dioxolanes 215 by [3 + 2] cycloaddition with excess carbonyl compound120 (equation 67). Related carbonyl ylide reactions have been performed with crotonaldehyde, acetone and cyclohexanone (equation 68). However, the ylide generated from cyclohexanone could not be trapped with dimethyl fumarate. Rather, the enol ether 217, probably formed by 1,4-proton shift in the ylide intermediate, was isolated in low yield120. In this respect, the carbene transfer reaction with 205 is not different from that with ethyl diazoacetate121, whereas a close analogy to diazomalonates is observed for the other carbonyl ylide reactions. 

The cyclic /J-dicarbonyl iodonium ylides can undergo [3 + 2] cycloaddition reactions with various substrates under catalytic or photochemical conditions, presumably via a stepwise mechanism [153-156]. In a recent example, iodonium ylide 211, derived from dimedone, undergoes dirhodium(II) catalyzed thermal [3+ 2]-cycloaddition with acetylenes 212 to form the corresponding furans 213 (Scheme 75). Under photochemical conditions ylide 211 reacts with various alkenes 214 to form dihydrofuran derivatives 215 [156]. 

One of the most facile methods for construction of the (i-lactam skeleton would be [2 + 2] cyclo additions of isocyanates to alkenes. However, the [2 + 2] cycloadditions of alkyl or aryl isocyanides with either 2,3-dihydrofuran or vinyl ethers often fails under normal conditions. High pressure can surmount this difficulty in certain cases. For instance, alkyl isocyanates 125 underwent [2 + 2] cycloadditions with such cyclic vinyl ethers as 126 to produce the P-lactams 127 (Scheme 34) [80]. 

Dilithio-1,3-dienes were found to react with aldehydes to form polysubstituted 2,5-dihydrofurans in a regio- and stereoselective manner <02OL2269>. Like other metal-carbene reactions, rhodium-catalyzed tandem carbonyl ylide formation - cycloaddition with propargyl bromide gave the 2,5-dihydrofuran in good yield <020L1809>. 

An example of enantioselective 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of ethyl diazopyruvate to 2,3-dihydrofuran, catalyzed by a chiral ruthenium-PyBox complex, to provide a tetrahydrofurofuran was reported (Equation 125). However, the adduct 240 was only obtained in 74% ee, and its absolute configuration not determined <2004SL2573, 2005HCA1010>. As shown in Equation (126), 2,3-dihydrofuran also participated in 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with dipoles derived from aziridines under Sc(OTf)3-catalyzed conditions, forming rfr-fused furopyrrolidines <2001TL9089>. 

Besides the easy photoinitiated [2 + 2] cycloadditions of fluoroalkyl ketones or aldehydes with fluoro-substituteci alkenes (see Section 2.1.1.6.1.), one example of such a photochemical cycloaddition with a non-fluorinated alkene has been described, leading to Irifluoromethyl-sub-stituted oxetanes However, the 1,4-diradical intermediate also provides large amounts of 2.3-dihydrofurans. 

Murphy and Neville found that dihydrofuran undergoes Me2AlCl-promoted [2 + 2] cycloaddition with benzo- and naphthoquinone [55]. It was proposed that this cycloaddition occurs by initial Lewis acid coordination to the quinone, then Michael addition to dihydrofuran, followed by rapid ring closure of the intermediate dipolar ion, as shown in Sch. 31. 

In a similar fashion l-diazo-2,5-diones, in the presence of rhodium acetate, undergo cyclization and cycloaddition with dimethyl butynedioate to form 8-oxabicyclo[3.2.1]octenone adducts 6, which upon irradiation provide cw-fused dihydrofurans 786. 

Annulation of heterocycles with a cyclobutene ring has been achieved by photochemical (2 + 2)-cycloaddition with acetylenes. Both maleic anhydride and N-substituted maleimides yielded 3-oxa- or 3-aza-bicyclo[3.2.0l-hept-6-ene-2,4-diones (167).,89,9° Vinylene carbonates also entered into a cycloaddition reaction with acetylenes to afford 168, which has been employed as starting material for the synthesis of cyclo-butadiene(tricarbonyl)iron or cyclobutenedione.19,-193 3,4-Dihydro-2/f-pyran and 5-methyl-2,3-dihydrofuran reacted with diphenylacetylene to... 

Oxygen heterocycles. Arylidenemalononitriles like 43 underwent cycloaddition with aromatic aldehydes (e.g. benzaldehyde) to yield dihydrofuranes like... 

A type of 1,3-dipole that has received considerable recent interest is the carbonyl ylide. One method for its formation makes use of carbenoid chemistry (see Section 4.2). Cyclization of an electrophiUc rhodium carbenoid onto a nearby carbonyl group provides access to the carbonyl ylide. Cycloaddition with an alkyne or alkene dipolarophile then gives the dihydro- or tetrahydrofuran product. For example, the carbonyl ylide 235, formed from the diazo compound 234 and rhodium(II) acetate, reacts with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate to give the bridged dihydrofuran 236 (3.148). 

Carbonyl ylides undergo 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with alkenes and al-kynes to yield tetrahydrofuran and 2,5-dihydrofuran derivatives, respectively (Scheme 5.14). 

Reddy et al. [54] developed a method involving in situ-generated aza-diene, from A -[methyl-A -(trimethylsilyl)methyl]aniline using catalytic amount of molecular iodine which undergoes smooth [4+2] cycloaddition with electron-rich enol ethers, such as 3,4-dihydro-2/f-pyran and 2,3-dihydrofuran to afford the corresponding hexahydropyrano 26 and furo[3,2-c]quinoline derivatives 27, respectively, in good yields (Scheme 10.20). 

The use of the CFs-substituted oxazole as an aza-diene for a Diels-Alder reaction was briefly examined. Thus, prolonged heating of the mixture of 5-ethoxy-4-trifluoromethyloxazole and an excess of acrylic acid afforded the CFs-substituted pyridine derivative in reasonable yield [61], However, cycloaddition with other olefins, such as ethyl acrylate, N-phenylmaleimide, 2,5-dihydrofuran, maleic anhydride, and 2-buten-4-olide did not take place to any appreciable extent presumably because of the deactivation of the oxazole ring by a strongly electron-withdrawing CF3 group. 

Dihydrofuran (376) and 2,5-dihydrofuran (377) react with nitrile oxides to give furo[2,3-6 ]isoxazoles (378) and furo[3,4-rf]isoxazoles (379), respectively, as cycloadducts. The double bonds of furan, pyrrole and thiophene also react when the nitrile oxide is generated in situ. Thus furan and benzonitrile oxide gave (380), and with 2-methyl-2-oxazoline the cycloadduct (381) was obtained (71AG(E)810). These and related cycloadditions are discussed in Chapter 4.36. 

Our development of the catalytic enantioselective inverse electron-demand cycloaddition reaction [49], which was followed by related papers by Evans et al. [38, 48], focused in the initial phase on the reaction of mainly / , y-unsaturated a-keto esters 53 with ethyl vinyl ether 46a and 2,3-dihydrofuran 50a (Scheme 4.34). 

The rhodium-mediated reaction of 69 with 2,3-dihydrofuran (a formal dipolar cycloaddition of a cyclic diazo dicarbonyl compound with a vinyl ether) yields 70. Corrqiound 70 can be transformed in a number of steps to 71 a,b <96TL2391>. 

Besides isocyanides, Nair and coworkers also used carbenes to add to alkynes such as DMAD (9-90) leading to 1,3-dipoles, which can be trapped in a formal 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition (Scheme 9.21) [61]. Thus, the dimethoxycarbene 9-99, generated in situ through thermolysis of 9-98, reacts with DMAD (9-90) to give the dipole 9-100, which adds to an aldehyde 9-97 or a ketone. As the final product, dihydrofurans 9-101 are obtained in good yields. 

From the copper-catalyzed reaction of methyl 2-diazo-3-oxobutyrate 57 a with Z-3-methoxystyrene, dihydrofuran 59 (formed with retention of olefin configuration) and butadienol 60 result130). Such an acyclic by-product also occurs when benzofuran is the cycloaddition partner. In that case, however, regioisomers 61 and 62, arising from the connection of the former diazo carbon with either the 2- or 3-position of the heterocycle, are obtained similarly, two isomeric dihydrofurans 63 and 64 are formed under Cu(hfacac)2 catalysis130). 

The comparison between the cycloaddition behavior of simple diazoketones and of ethyl diazopyruvate 56 towards the same olefin underlines the crucial influence of the ethoxycarbonyl group attached to the carbonyl function. This becomes once again evident when COOEt is replaced by an acetal function, such as in l-diazo-3,3-di-methoxy-2-butanone 86 with enol ethers and acetates, cyclopropanes rather than dihydrofurans are now obtained 113). ... 

Selective reduction of the 7-oxo group in pyrido[23-synthetic approach to 5,10-dideazatetrahydrofolic acid <00H(53)1207>. Cycloaddition of pyrimido[4,5-c][l,2,5]oxadiazine 96 with 2,3-dihydrofuran affords a new synthesis of dimethyllumazine derivative 97 which undergoes a ring-opening reaction to give pyrazine derivative 98 <00JHC419>. 

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