1.3- Dipolar cycloaddition reactions isomiinchnone

The first successful generation and trapping of isomiinchnones using this strategy was described independently by Maier et al. (36,37) and Padwa et al. (38,39). Maier and Evertz (36) were the first workers to report the intramolecular dipolar cycloaddition of isomiinchnones to alkenes, the reaction that Padwa would later exploit so spectacularly. Thus, diazo imide 62 was readily prepared from... 

The reader was given a taste of the power of isomiinchnone dipolar cycloaddition chemistry in Section 10.2.1. As discussed by Potts (1) and Gingrich and Baum (10), the isomiinchnone ring system—a masked carbonyl dipole—is exceptionally reactive as a 1,3-dipole in 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions. In the intervening years since these two excellent reviews the major research efforts in isomiinchnone chemistry have entailed synthetic applications to specific targets such as alkaloids and other natural and unnatural products. 

Gowravaram and Gallop (169) adapted the rhodium-catalyzed generation of isomiinchnones from diazo imides to the solid-phase synthesis of furans, following a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction with alkynes. A variety of furans were prepared in this fashion. With unsymmetrical electron-deficient alkynes (e.g., methyl... 

Padwa et al. (187,188) concisely summarized his domino cycloaddition/ A -acyliminium ion cyclization cascade process, which involves sequentially the generation of an isomiinchnone 1,3-dipole, intramolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction, 77-acyliminium ion formation, and, hnally, Mannich cyclization. Kappe and co-workers (189) utilized Padwa s cyclization-cycloaddition cascade methodology to construct several rigid compounds that mimic the putative receptor-bound conformation of dihydropyridine-type calcium channel modulators. 

Prompted by our earlier work dealing with the internal dipolar cycloaddition reaction of mesoionic oxazolium ylides of type 74, we subsequently studied the rhodium(II) catalyzed reactions of the related a-diazo ketoamide system 154 <97JOC2001 04OL3241 05JOC2206>. Attack of the amido oxygen at the rhodium carbenoid produces a push-pull carbonyl ylide dipole (i.e., 155) that is isomeric with the isomiinchnone class of mesoionic betaines. 

Kappe and co-workers have extended their intermolecular isomiinch-none cycloaddition reaction (see Scheme 26) to an intramolecular version to obtain the conformationally rigid polyheterocycles 206, which mimic the putative receptor-bound conformation of dihydropyrimidine-type calcium channel modulators [159]. The key step in the synthesis involves the regio- and diastereoselective intramolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of a dihydropyrimidine-fused isomiinchnone dipole. The diazoimides... 

In the full account of this work, Padwa et al. (41) demonstrated that the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition is an endo cycloaddition and the regiochemistry is consistent with that of a HOMO-dipole controlled process as judged from the products 91 and 92 that arise from the reaction between isomiinchnone 90 and methyl propiolate and phenyl vinyl sulfone, respectively (Scheme 10.15). Iso-miinchnone 90 is also trapped with DMAD to give the expected furan in 41% yield. 

Padwa and Prein (105,106) applied chiral, but racemic, isomiinchnone dipoles in diastereoselective 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions. The carbonyl ylide related isomiinch-none derivative rac-70 was obtained from the rhodium-catalyzed cyclization of diazo-derivative rac-69 (Scheme 12.24) (105). The reactions of the in situ formed dipole with a series of alkenes was described and in particular the reaction with maleic acid derivatives 71a-c gave rise to reaction with high selectivities. The tetracyclic products 72a-c were all obtained in good yield with high endo/ exo and diastereofacial selectivities. In another paper by the same authors, the reactions of racemic isomilnchnones having an exo-cyclic chirality was described (106). 

Ibata was the first to show that the masked carbonyl ylide embedded within the isomiinchnone framework would readily undergo 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with various dipolarophiles [34], The isolable isomiinchnone 4 was observed to react with dimethyl fumarate to produce cycloadduct 7 which possesses the 7-oxa-2-azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane skeleton. When the reaction of 1 was carried out using catalytic amounts of Cu(acac)2 in the presence of various dipolarophiles, smooth dipolar cycloaddition was observed to occur giving mixtures of endo and exo isomers. In most cases, the exo isomers were favored. All of Ibata s isomiinchnone cycloadditions contain aromatic substituent groups, presumably selected to facilitate dipole formation. The synthetic utility of the cycloaddition reaction is diminished, however, because of the low reactivity of the aromatic substituents toward further manipulation. 

A Pummerer-initiated cascade reaction has also been used as a method for generating isomiinchnones for further use in cycloaddition chemistry. For example, treatment of sulfoxide 23 with acetic anhydride first resulted in the formation of a reactive thionium ion that reacted with the distal amide carbonyl group to produce isomunchnone 24 (Scheme 6) (99JOC2038). Exposure of 24 to a dipolarophile, such as iV-phenylmaleimide, resulted in 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition to give 25 as a single diastereomer in 85% yield. 

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