Dioxanes rearrangement

The vinyl-1,4-dioxane rearrangement using the Ireland variation has been used for the synthesis of macrodiolide and macrotriolidc ionophores with C2 and C3 symmetry324. 

Dehydrotestosterone acetate (174) in nonprotic solvents (dioxane, benzene) undergoes a rearrangement to the isomer (175). This product is photolabile and isomerizes readily to new cross-conjugated dienones. Thus, ultraviolet irradiation of (174), its 1-, 2- and 4-methyl homologs, and its lOa-stereoisomer (188) in dioxane solution causes, in each case, a series of rearrangements as summarized on page 331 for (174) and (188). ... 

Acid-catalyzed rearrangement of a-phenylethyl chlorocarbonates in dioxane 80 -3.01... 

Reaction of anthanilic acid 112 with acid anhydrides afforded the corresponding imide derivatives 113. Subjecting 113 to intramolecular Wittig cyclization has been achieved by treatment with A-phenyl(triphe-nylphosphoranylidene)etheneimine in toluene or dioxane whereby the corresponding pyrroloquinolines 116 were obtained (94TL9229). The intermediate 115 resulting from the rearrangement of 114 could be isolated when the reaction was done at room temperature (Scheme 22). 

Aliphatic carboxylic acids Alkyl ethyl ethers Cyclic polyethers Phosphorous compounds Rearrangement peak in dioxanes... 

THE EFFECT OF RING-DEUTERIUM SUBSTITUTION ON THE RATE AND PRODUCTS OF THE REARRANGEMENT OF I.l -HYDRAZONAPHTHALENE IN 60% DIOXAN AT 0 °C... 

Cyclobuta[fc]chroman-4-ols, derived from chromones by a [2+2] photocycloaddition to ethylene, are prone to acid-catalysed rearrangements. Elaboration of the parent system prior to rearrangement has enabled the marine sesquiterpene filiformin <96JOC4391>, the henzo-1,3-dioxan nucleus of averufin <96JOC9164> and cyclobuta[h][l]benzoxepin-8,9-diones <96CC1965> to be synthesised. 

Another general method for converting alcohols to halides involves reactions with halides of certain nonmetallic elements. Thionyl chloride, phosphorus trichloride, and phosphorus tribromide are the most common examples of this group of reagents. These reagents are suitable for alcohols that are neither acid sensitive nor prone to structural rearrangement. The reaction of alcohols with thionyl chloride initially results in the formation of a chlorosulfite ester. There are two mechanisms by which the chlorosulfite can be converted to a chloride. In aprotic nucleophilic solvents, such as dioxane, solvent participation can lead to overall retention of configuration.7... 

Kametani et al. (163-165) studied the Stevens rearrangement using sodium bis(2-methoxyethoxy)aluminum hydride as the base in dioxane. It became clear from studies using deuterium-labeled or optically active compounds that quasi-axially oriented hydrogens at C-8 and C-14 were independently abstracted by the base, leading to a spirobenzylisoquinoline and an 8-... 

Other non-traditional preparations of 1,2,3-triazoles have been reported. The rearrangement in dioxane/water of (Z)-arylhydrazones of 5-amino-3-benzoyl-l,2,4-oxadiazole into (2-aryl-5-phenyl-27/-l,2,3-triazol-4-yl)ureas was investigated mechanistically in terms of substituents on different pathways <06JOC5616>. A general and efficient method for the preparation of 2,4-diary 1-1,2,3-triazoles 140 from a-hydroxyacetophenones 139 and arylhydrazines is reported <06SC2461>. 5-Alkylamino-] //-], 2,3-triazoles were obtained by base-mediated cleavage of cycloadducts of azides to cyclic ketene acetals <06S1943>. Oxidation of N-... 

It should be noted that codimerization was achieved from diphenyl cyclopropenone and unsubstituted cyclopropenone (2JS)197. Phenyl hydroxy cyclopropenone, which appears to be an associated dimer in (dioxane) solution52, formed a dimeric pulviniv acid lactone 260 on treatment with thionyl chloride51, probably via oxidative rearrangement of a dimer 259 ... 

Cyclopenta-l,4-dioxanes 95 are formed in high yields through the acid-catalysed rearrangement of the dioxolanes 94 in which electrocyclisation of a hydroxypentadienyl carbocation, akin to a Nazarov cyclisation, is involved (Scheme 62) <00CEJ4021>. 

The coordination of dioxane and subsequent oxidative addition to the catalytic species (step (a) in Scheme 20.16) probably proceeds after the oxygen atom coordinates to the rhodium (47), followed by abstraction of a hydrogen atom. The cationic species (48) then rearranges to a complex in which the dioxane is bound to the rhodium via the carbon atom (40) (Scheme 20.17) [60]. 

Disproportionation (equation 13) is one of the side reactions that can occur in benzidine rearrangements. Shine and coworkers measured the nitrogen and carbon kinetic isotope effects for the disproportionation reaction of 4,4 -diiodohydrazobenzene, which only yielded disproportionation products, at 25 °C in 70% aqueous dioxane that was 0.376 M in perchloric acid29. The reaction was first order in hydrazobenzene and it has been assumed that an intermediate was involved in the disproportionation reaction. This intermediate must be one of a radical ion30 (equations 14 and 15), a jr-complex31 (equation 16) or a quinonoid structure32 (equation 17). 

TABLE 2. The nitrogen and carbon-13 kinetic isotope effects for the acid-catalyzed and for the thermal benzidine rearrangement of 2,2 -hydrazonaphthalene in 70% aqueous dioxane at 0°C and in 95% ethanol at 80 °C, respectively... 

TABLE 3. The nitrogen, the carbon-13 and carbon-14 kinetic isotope effects found for the acid-catalyzed ortho,ortho1-rearrangement of iV-naphthyl-iV-phenyl-hydrazine in 60% aqueous dioxane at 0°C... 

Rhee and Shine39 used an impressive combination of nitrogen and carbon kinetic isotope effects to demonstrate that a quinonoidal-type intermediate is formed in the rate-determining step of the acid-catalyzed disproportionation reaction of 4,4 -dichlorohydrazobenzene (equation 26). When the reaction was carried out at 0°C in 60% aqueous dioxane that was 0.5 M in perchloric acid and 0.5 M in lithium perchlorate, extensive product analyses indicated that the major pathway was the disproportionation reaction. In fact, the disproportionation reaction accounted for approximately 72% of the product (compounds 6 and 7) while approximately 13% went to the ortho-semidine (8) and approximately 15% was consumed in the para-semidine (9) rearrangement. 

A novel thermal rearrangement with loss of sulfur dioxide leading to the stilbene or styrene derivatives 169 and 170 in highly stereospecific manner was carried out by heating (in dioxane, DMSO, dioxane-water or THF) the sulfene-tropone adducts (y-sultones) 167 or 168 (equations 51 and 52)68. 

This series of rearrangements includes the dithia-Claisen rearrangement mentioned above (Section IV.E.l) as well as the palladium-catalyzed [3,3]-sigmatropic isomeriza-tions of allyl methyl N-aryldithiocarbonimidates 627 (refluxing dioxane, 20 h, 62-90%) (equation 275)376 and a Pd11-catalyzed tandem [2,3]-sigmatropic shift, followed by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition which takes place at equilibrium between O-allyl ethers of oximes 628 and the corresponding N-allyl nitrones 629 (equation 276)377. 

It has been established that in the Dimroth rearrangement of 2-imino-pyrimidines, water plays an essential role (65JCS7071). In water the imine is, in fact, in equilibrium with its hydrate, the carbinolamine 39. That participation of the hydrate is important is shown by the experimental fact that in dry tetrahydrofuran, acetone, dioxane, or ether, the imine is quite stable and is not inclined to undergo rearrangement. However, on addition of a little water, rearrangement occurs its rate is proportional to the concentration of the water (65JCS7071). 

Reaction conditions a-pinene 3.97 mL (25 mmol) 1,4-dioxane 40 mL oxidant air (15 mL/min) reaction time = 24h. Conversion and product composition were determined by GC and identified by GC-MS, Minor amounts of rearranged products of a-pinene oxide also formed. 

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