Elimination reactions, cyclic alkynes

In a reaction similar to the (>-alkoxide elimination reactions seen with zir-conocenes, catalytic Rh(OH)(cod)2 and 2 eq. of arylboronic acids gave cyclic products 165 from enynes 166 (Scheme 35) [100]. In this reaction, transmet-allation of Rh - OR with B - Ph gave Rh - Ph species 167, which inserted into the alkyne, cyclized to 168, and finally underwent [>-alkoxidc elimination to provide Rh-OCH3. This reaction is limited to the formation of five-membered rings, but it can also undergo cascade type reactions of enediynes to give multicyclic products [100]. 

Lactams Lactams represent a special type of C=N system due to the tautomerization between the lactam (keto amine) and lactim (hydroxyimine) forms. The lactim form is much more favored for cyclic than for non-cyclic amides of carbocyclic acids. In the reaction of complex 2b with N-methyl-e-caprolactam, a simple ligand exchange reaction occurs and complex 87 can be isolated. With P-propiolactam, the alkenyl-amido complex 88 is formed, which indicates an agostic interaction. The reaction of complex 1 with e-caprolactam gives, after elimination of the alkyne and of molecular hydrogen, complex 89 with a deproto-nated lactam in a r]2-amidate bonding fashion [47]. 

The combination of probably the oldest synthetic procedure for formation of a triple bond, i.e., the dehydrobromination of a vinyl bromide, with modern crown ether chemistry has resulted in one of the simplest yet very powerful methods for making highly strained cycloal-kynes. Thus, 1,5-cyclooctadiyne (56) can be made by treating l,5-dibromo-l,5-cyclooctadiene (55) with potassium rerf-butanolate in nonpolar solvents in the presence of 18-crown-6 [3 b, 24]. The nonpolar solvent protects the bent triple bond from nucleophilic attack by tert-butanol (Scheme 8-5). 1,5-Cyclooctadiyne had previously been made in very low yield by dimerization of butatriene (57), which is not a readily accessible compound [25]. Other important 1,2-elimination reactions generating cyclic alkynes are the oxidative degradation of... 

Other important cycloelimination procedures correspond to an elimination of H2O from cyclic ketones. Thus, the a-hydrogen atoms of semicarbazones of cyclic ketones are removed by oxidative cyclization with thionyl chloride or selenium dioxide (Scheme 8-7). The 1,2,3-thiadiazoles (71) or 1,2,3-selenadiazoles (72) which result from these reactions can be cleaved in a second step to yield cyclic alkynes (Scheme 8-8) [28]. Several fragmentation conditions are known, among them thermal decomposition and base-induced cleavage. The mechanism of these reactions has been studied in detaU [29]. It has been noted that the crucial step is the cleavage of the carbon-sulfur or carbon-selenium bond, as in this step the geometrical strain is introduced into the system. Clearly, due to the weakness of the C —Se... 

What reactions of halides do you know besides displacement The El and E2 reactions compete with displacement reactions (Chapter 7). If HCl were lost from chlorobenzene, a cyclic alkyne, called benzyne (or dehydrobenzene), would be formed. This symmetrical bent alkyne might be reactive enough to undergo an addition reaction with the amide ion. If this were the case, the labeled material must produce two differently labeled products of addition (Fig. 14.113), because the NH2 can attack either carbon of the alkyne. This mechanism is the elimination-addition version of the SnAt reaction. 

The cyclic enol ether 255 from the functionalized 3-alkynoI 254 was converted into the furans 256 by the reaction of allyl chloride, and 257 by elimination of MeOH[132], The alkynes 258 and 260, which have two hydroxy groups at suitable positions, are converted into the cyclic acetals 259 and 261. Carcogran and frontalin have been prepared by this reaction[124]. 

To probe the reaction mechanism of the silane-mediated reaction, EtjSiD was substituted for PMHS in the cyclization of 1,6-enyne 34a.5 The mono-deuterated reductive cyclization product 34b was obtained as a single diastereomer. This result is consistent with entry of palladium into the catalytic cycle as the hydride derived from its reaction with acetic acid. Alkyne hydrometallation provides intermediate A-7, which upon cw-carbopalladation gives rise to cyclic intermediate B-6. Delivery of deuterium to the palladium center provides C-2, which upon reductive elimination provides the mono-deuterated product 34b, along with palladium(O) to close the catalytic cycle. The relative stereochemistry of 34b was not determined but was inferred on the basis of the aforementioned mechanism (Scheme 24). 

The UV irradiation of the 4,5-dihydro-1,3,5-oxazaphosph(V)olene 39 leads to a cyclic elimination. Analogously to the thermal [5 + 3 + 2] cyclo elimination, the photochemical reaction generated nitrile ylides reacted with alkynes and alkenes to yield the 2/f-pyrrole 40 and the pyrrol-l-ine 41, respectively (equation 17)71. 

Reactions of alkynyliodonium salts 119 with nucleophiles proceed via an addition-elimination mechanism involving alkylidenecarbenes 120 as key intermediates. Depending on the structure of the alkynyliodonium salt, specific reaction conditions, and the nucleophile employed, this process can lead to a substituted alkyne 121 due to the carbene rearrangement, or to a cyclic product 122 via intramolecular 1,5-carbene insertion (Scheme 50). Both of these reaction pathways have been widely utilized as a synthetic tool for the formation of new C-C bonds. In addition, the transition metal mediated cross-coupling reactions of alkynyliodonium salts are increasingly used in organic synthesis. 

Under photochemical conditions several 1,4-dipoles reacted with alkenes, alkynes, phenyl isothiocyanate and carbon disulphide to afford, after iodobenzene expulsion, cyclic adducts in moderate to low yields. This drawback is offset by the fact that it is difficult to obtain some of these compounds through alternative methods. Table 10.6 are listed selected examples of cyclic compounds formed by this methodology. Formally, these reactions can be considered as 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions, in which the 1,3-dipole comes from the iodonium precursor after elimination of iodobenzene actually, they arise most probably through 6-membered intermediate iodanes. 

A couple of prototypical examples of the cyclic version of the Heck reaction, defined as a process consisting of alkene carbopalladation followed by -elimination, were reported during the 1984-1985 period [9,10]. Almost concurrently, seminal examples of both the non-Heck cyclic carbopallation reactions [10,30] were reported during the 1983-1985 period. Thus, with due respect paid to earlier discoveries of alkyne cyclooligomerization via cascade carbopalladation [7,8] as well as copolymerization [24] and cocyclization [25,... 

The cyclic oxo esters are very much a feature of osmium(VI) chemistry but analogous rings are rare with other elements they have been detected for ruthenium(VI) and manganese(V), but only for chromium(V) has any substantial oxo ester chemistry been uncovered. The osmium species are formed by two main routes (a) by reaction of 0s04 with alkenes, dienes or alkynes, in which case two electrons are transferred from the multiple bond to osmium(VIII) which is thus reduced to osmium(VI), or (b) by reaction of m-glycols with fra/w-[0s02(02 R)2] (R = H, Me) with elimination of water or methanol (see p. 582). 

Trost and co-workers have made great strides in developing the palladium-catalyzed cycloisomerization of enynes into a powerful ring-forming method [39]. In most cases, the intimate details of these reactions are unknown. They are considered here, since a Heck cyclization is a potential step of one possible mechanistic sequence [40]. Two plausible mechanisms for palladium-catalyzed cycloisomerization of enynes are depicted in Scheme 6-17. In the Heck pathway (101 102 -> 103 - 104), hydropalladation of the alkyne is followed by alkene insertion and /3-hydride elimination to provide cyclic diene 104. 

Internal alkynes will also readily undergo palladium-catalyzed annulation by functionally substituted aromatic or vinylic halides to afford a wide range of heterocycles and carbocycles. However, the mechanism here appears to be quite different from the mechanism for the annulation of terminal alkynes. In this case, it appears that the reaction usually involves (1) oxidative addition of the organic halide to Pd(0) to produce an organopalladium(II) intermediate, (2) subsequent insertion of the alkyne to produce a vinylic palladium intermediate, (3) cyclization to afford a palladacycle, and (4) reductive elimination to produce the cyclic product and regenerate the Pd(0) catalyst (Eq. 28). 

Likewise when two alkyne molecules coordinate to a transition metal such as Co(I) with subsequent coupling of the C-C bond, oxidative cyclization takes place to give a metallacyclopentadiene. Further reaction of another alkyne molecule with the metallacyclopentadiene followed by reductive elimination liberates benzene derivatives. Thus cyclotrimerization of three alkyne molecules catalyzed by a cobalt complex [40,41] can be performed. If a nitrile is used as the second component, pyridine derivatives are obtained catalytically as shown in Scheme 1.13 [42]. The catalytic cyclotrimerization and cyclodimerization of alkynes and conjugated enynes have found extensive applications in synthesis of complex cyclic compounds such as steroid derivatives [43]. 

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