Dimer Dimerization, Diels-Alder

A catalytic, completely regioselective conversion of 4,4-dimethyl-2-pentyne (methyl-r-butylacetylene) to 2,5-di(r-butyl)-3,4-dimethylcyclopentadienone is mediated by (PhCN)2PdCl2. Other examples exist for early as well as late transition metals, and an isonitrile has been used as a CO equivalent in one Ni -based system as well, Finally, a heterogeneous catalytic intramolecular cycloaddition of diynes has been developed, leading to cyclopentadienones which either dimerize (Diels-Alder) or in certain cases may be trapped by nucleophiles (equation 10). °... 

I-3 ,II-3 )-Dihydrochalcone-prenylchalcone dimer (Diels-Alder type adduets of a ehaleone and a dehydroprenylflavone)... 

II-8)-Prenyldihydroehaleone-prenylflavanone dimer Diels-Alder type adduet OH... 

Artocarpus heterophylla Lamk. (bark) DieLs-Alder-type adducts Artonin C (401) artonin D (402) artonin I (397) (root bark). Prenyldihydrochalcone-chalcone dimers (Diels-Alder-type adducts) Artonin X (403) kuwanon R (404). Used as a traditional medicine in Southeastern Asia. Ingredient in the preparations of some Ayurvedic and Yunani medicines. Melanin biosynthesis inhibitory activity. Flano et al., 1990[251], 1992[252] Shinomiya et al., 1995[253]. 

An intense purple crystalline solid m.p. 219-220 C. One of the few monomeric cyclo-pentadienone derivatives, most of which spontaneously undergo self Diels-Alder type dimerization. Used as a diene in many studies of various aspects of the Diels-Alder reaction. ... 

Production of Acrolein Dimer. Acting as both the diene and dienoplule, acrolein undergoes a Diels-Alder reaction with itself to produce acrolein dimer, 3,4-dihydro-2-formyl-2id-pyran, CgHg02 [100-73-2], At room temperature the rate of dimerization is very slow. However, at elevated temperatures and pressures the dimer may be produced in single-pass yields of 33% with selectivities greater than 95%. 

In the area of moleculady designed hot-melt adhesives, the most widely used resins are the polyamides (qv), formed upon reaction of a diamine and a dimer acid. Dimer acids (qv) are obtained from the Diels-Alder reaction of unsaturated fatty acids. Linoleic acid is an example. Judicious selection of diamine and diacid leads to a wide range of adhesive properties. Typical shear characteristics are in the range of thousands of kilopascals and are dependent upon temperature. Although hot-melt adhesives normally become quite brittle below the glass-transition temperature, these materials can often attain physical properties that approach those of a stmctural adhesive. These properties severely degrade as the material becomes Hquid above the melt temperature. 

Hydrocarbon resins based on CPD are used heavily in the adhesive and road marking industries derivatives of these resins are used in the production of printing inks. These resins may be produced catalyticaHy using typical carbocationic polymerization techniques, but the large majority of these resins are synthesized under thermal polymerization conditions. The rate constants for the Diels-Alder based dimerization of CPD to DCPD are weU known (49). The abiHty to polymerize without Lewis acid catalysis reduces the amount of aluminous water or other catalyst effluents/emissions that must be addressed from an environmental standpoint. Both thermal and catalyticaHy polymerized DCPD/CPD-based resins contain a high degree of unsaturation. Therefore, many of these resins are hydrogenated for certain appHcations. 

Maleic anhydride has been used in many Diels-Alder reactions (29), and the kinetics of its reaction with isoprene have been taken as proof of the essentially transoid stmcture of isoprene monomer (30). The Diels-Alder reaction of isoprene with chloromaleic anhydride has been analy2ed using gas chromatography (31). Reactions with other reactive hydrocarbons have been studied, eg, the reaction with cyclopentadiene yields 2-isopropenylbicyclo[2.2.1]hept-5-ene (32). Isoprene may function both as diene and dienophile in Diels-Alder reactions to form dimers. 

In the absence of air or peroxides, only cycHc dimers are formed in the thermal dimerization of isoprene (33). Six cycHc dimers are formed in good yields four substituted cyclohexenes (3—6) and two dimethylcyclooctadienes (7—8). The latter two are, of course, not Diels-Alder dimers. There is some evidence that the isoprene dimerization mechanism differs from the usual Diels-Alder route. 

Sorbic acid is oxidized rapidly in the presence of molecular oxygen or peroxide compounds. The decomposition products indicate that the double bond farthest from the carboxyl group is oxidized (11). More complete oxidation leads to acetaldehyde, acetic acid, fumaraldehyde, fumaric acid, and polymeric products. Sorbic acid undergoes Diels-Alder reactions with many dienophiles and undergoes self-dimerization, which leads to eight possible isomeric Diels-Alder stmctures (12). 

The second mechanism, proposed by Mayo (116), involves the Diels-Alder reaction of two styrene molecules to form a reactive dimer (DH) followed by a molecular assisted homolysis between DH and another styrene molecule. 

Diels-Alder Reactions. The important dimerization between 1,3-dienes and a wide variety of dienoplules to produce cyclohexene derivatives was discovered in 1928 by Otto Diels and Kurt Alder. In 1950 they won the Nobel prize for their pioneering work. Butadiene has to be in the j -cis form in order to participate in these concerted reactions. Typical examples of reaction products from the reaction between butadiene and maleic anhydride (1), or cyclopentadiene (2), or itself (3), are <7 -1,2,3,6-tetrahydrophthaHc anhydride [27813-21 -4] 5-vinyl-2-norbomene [3048-64-4], and 4-vinyl-1-cyclohexene [100-40-3], respectively. 

The thermally induced Diels-Alder dimerization reaction producing vinylcyclohexene is very difficult to prevent except by lowering the storage... 

Polymerization. CPD dimerizes spontaneously and exothermically at ambient temperature to DCPD. At temperatures above 100°C, CPD can be made to polymerize noncatalytically via a series of consecutive Diels-Alder reactions to trimer, tetramers, and higher oligomers. Eor example, the trimers, 3a,4,4a,5,8,8a,9,9a-octahydro-4,9 5,8-dimethanobenz-lJT-[ iQdene, [7158-25-0] (3) and l,4,4a,4b,5,8,8a,9a-octahydro-l,4 5,8-dimethano-lJT-fluorene [35184-08-8] (4), are formed ia the ratio 87 13 by the monomer adding to the dimer (19). 

The dimer acids [61788-89-4] 9- and 10-carboxystearic acids, and C-21 dicarboxylic acids are products resulting from three different reactions of C-18 unsaturated fatty acids. These reactions are, respectively, self-condensation, reaction with carbon monoxide followed by oxidation of the resulting 9- or 10-formylstearic acid (or, alternatively, by hydrocarboxylation of the unsaturated fatty acid), and Diels-Alder reaction with acryUc acid. The starting materials for these reactions have been almost exclusively tall oil fatty acids or, to a lesser degree, oleic acid, although other unsaturated fatty acid feedstocks can be used (see Carboxylic acids. Fatty acids from tall oil Tall oil). 

Structure and Mechanism of Formation. Thermal dimerization of unsaturated fatty acids has been explaiaed both by a Diels-Alder mechanism and by a free-radical route involving hydrogen transfer. The Diels-Alder reaction appears to apply to starting materials high ia linoleic acid content satisfactorily, but oleic acid oligomerization seems better rationalized by a free-radical reaction (8—10). 

Pyran-3-one, 6-acetoxy-2,6-dihydro-Diels-Alder reaction, 3, 731 dimerization, 3, 722 Pyran-3-one, 6-alkoxy-synthesis, 3, 815... 

Tile behavior of /3-moiiooxo derivatives of 4-chlomaiioiies (27) toward morpholine was rather complex (98JOC9840). Tlius, the proposed thio-ketoiie 5-sulhde intermediates 28 would dimerize into either 1,2,4,5-tetrathianes 29 in a two-step manner or to 1,3,4,5,6-oxatetrathiocins 30 by a [5 + 3] cycloaddition. Meanwhile, the formation of oxadithiins 31 and 1,2,4-trithiolanes 32 is suggestive of the disproportionation of 28 into the thioke-tones 33 and the thioketone 5 -disulhdes 34. Tlie oxadithiins 31 correspond to a Diels-Alder dimer of 33, and the 1,2,4-trithiolanes 32 correspond to cycloadducts of 33 and 34. 

When methyl 2-(indol-2-yl)acrylate derivative (22a) reacted with A-methoxy-carbonyl-l,2-dihydropyridine (8a) in refluxing toluene, in addition to the dimer of 22a (25%), a mixture of the expected isoquinculidine 23a and the product 24a (two isomers) was obtained in 7% and 45% yields, respectively (81CC37). The formation of 24a indicates the involvement of the 3,4-double bond of dihydropyridine. Similarly, Diels-Alder reaction of methyl l-methyl-2-(indol-2-yl)acrylate (22b) with 8a gave, in addition to dimer of 22b, a mixture of adducts 23b and 24b. However, in this case, product 23b was obtained as a major product in a 3 2 mixture of two isomers (with a- and (3-COOMe). The major isomer shows an a-conhguration. The yields of the dimer, 23b, and 24b were 25%, 30%, and 6%, respectively. Thus, a substituent on the nitrogen atom or at the 3-position of indole favors the formation of the isoquinuclidine adduct 23. 

UV irradiation. Indeed, thermal reaction of 1-phenyl-3,4-dimethylphosphole with (C5HloNH)Mo(CO)4 leads to 155 (M = Mo) and not to 154 (M = Mo, R = Ph). Complex 155 (M = Mo) converts into 154 (M = Mo, R = Ph) under UV irradiation. This route was confirmed by a photochemical reaction between 3,4-dimethyl-l-phenylphosphole and Mo(CO)6 when both 146 (M = Mo, R = Ph, R = R = H, R = R" = Me) and 155 (M = Mo) resulted (89IC4536). In excess phosphole, the product was 156. A similar chromium complex is known [82JCS(CC)667]. Complex 146 (M = Mo, R = Ph, r2 = R = H, R = R = Me) enters [4 -H 2] Diels-Alder cycloaddition with diphenylvinylphosphine to give 157. However, from the viewpoint of Woodward-Hoffmann rules and on the basis of the study of UV irradiation of 1,2,5-trimethylphosphole, it is highly probable that [2 - - 2] dimers are the initial products of dimerization, and [4 - - 2] dimers are the final results of thermally allowed intramolecular rearrangement of [2 - - 2] dimers. This hypothesis was confirmed by the data obtained from the reaction of 1-phenylphosphole with molybdenum hexacarbonyl under UV irradiation the head-to-tail structure of the complex 158. 

For a discussion of the mechanistic course of the reaction, many aspects have to be taken into account. The cisoid conformation of the diene 1, which is in equilibrium with the thermodynamically more favored transoid conformation, is a prerequisite for the cycloaddition step. Favored by a fixed cisoid geometry are those substrates where the diene is fitted into a ring, e.g. cyclopentadiene 5. This particular compound is so reactive that it dimerizes easily at room temperature by undergoing a Diels-Alder reaction ... 

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