Enamines photochemical cycloaddition

Enamine carbaldehyde 76 (Scheme 20) by sequential photochemical cycloaddition and iminium ion-propargylsilane cyclimtion furnishes allenes 77a-c in good yield and with high diastereoselectivity (92X2081). (Gas chromatographic fR values and thin-layer chromatographic Rp values have been reported.) Radical cyclization of ca-iodoalkyl isoquinolone 78a under... 

Enamine carbaldehydes (317) have been used in the synthesis of 1,4-dihydropyridines (318) via photochemical cycloaddition with alkenes183,184. 

Thermal and photochemical electrocyclic reactions are particularly useful in the synthesis of alkaloids (W. Oppolzer, 1973,1978 B K. Wiesner, 1968). A high degree of regio- and stereoselectivity can be reached, if cyclic olefin or enamine components are used in ene reactions or photochemical [2 + 2]cycloadditions. 

Other isocyanates undergo [2 + 2] cycloaddition, but only with very electron rich alkenes. Thus phenyl isocyanate gives /3-lactams with ketene acetals and tetramethoxyethylene. With enamines, unstable /3-lactams are formed if the enamine has a /3-H atom, ring opened amides are produced 2 1 adducts are also found. Photochemical addition of cis- and traH5-stilbene to phenyl isocyanate has also been reported (72CC362). 

The thermal [1] or photochemical [5] isomerization of N-silylated allylamine in the presence of Fe(CO)5 provides the corresponding N-silylated enamines 7a and 7b. Z-enamine 7b does not react in any of the examined cycloadditions. The cyclopropanation of E-enamine 7a with methyl diazoacetate under copper(I) catalysis provides the donor-acceptor-substituted cyclopropane 9 [1], which can be converted in good yield into the interesting dipeptide 10 [6]. 

More recently in 2001, Winkler and Kwak reported methodology designed to access the pyrrolidine core of the hetisine alkaloids via a photochemical [2+2], retro-Mannich, Mannich sequence (Scheme 1.3) [26]. In a representative example of the methodology, vinylogous amide 42 was photo-irradiated to give the [2+2] cycloaddition product 43. Heating cyclobutane 43 in ethanol provided enamine 44 via a retro-Mannich reaction. Exposure of enamine 44 to acidic conditions then effected a Mannich reaction, resulting in pyrrolidine 45. 

The thermal and photochemical [4 + 2] cycloadditions of o-quinones with olefinic and acetylenic dienophiles have been extensively reviewed4,5,200 and include their 4tt heterodiene Diels-Alder reactions with olefins,201-204 vinyl ethers,205 enamines,206 selected dienes,207-209 dipheny-lketenimines,210 ketenes,209,210 fulvenes,211 and selected heterocycles including furan,207-209,212 benzofuran,209,212,215 indoles,213 azepines,214 and 1,2-diazepines.214 The tetrahalo-substituted o-quinones, tetrachloro- and tetrabromo-o-quinone, generally participate in heterodiene [4 + 2] cycloadditions at an increased rate over the unsubstituted systems and generally provide higher overall yields of the Diels-Alder products.4,5 With simple olefins, the dienophile geometry is maintained in the course of the thermal [4 4- 2] cycloadditions [Eq. (52)],203,204... 

R,2S)-Ephedrine has found most application, e.g., as a catalyst in photochemical proton transfer reactions (Section D.2.1.). and as its lithium salt in enantioselective deprotonations (Section D.2.1.). The amino function readily forms chiral amides with carboxylic acids and enamines with carbonyl compounds these reagents perform stereoselective carbanionic reactions, such as Michael additions (Sections D.1.5.2.1. and D. 1.5.2.4.), and alkylations (Section D.1.1.1.3.1.). They have also been used to obtain chiral alkenes for [1 +2] cycloadditions (Section D. 1.6.1.5.). 

The route employed to prepare indanone 51 involved the cycloaddition-hydrolysis-aldol sequence shown in Scheme 3.9. Accordingly, condensation of cyclopentenone 52 with ynamine 53 (84) afforded the bicyclic enamine 54 which was converted to indanones 51 and 55 by hydrolytic cyclobutane ring opening followed by intramolecular aldol condensation. Interestingly, treatment of 54 with aqueous formic acid yielded indanone 51 which has stereochemistry complementary to that at C(15) and C(20) in reserpine. In contrast, hydrolysis of this substance with aqueous hydrochloric acid afforded the trans-fused indanone 55. Subsequent to this work, the Ficini group found that esterification of 51 followed by photochemically induced addition of methanol afforded adduct 56 which has four of the reserpine stereocenters in place (23). While no further work on this problem has been reported, these preliminary investigations demonstrate a novel use of [2 -h 2] photocycloaddition chemistry in potential approaches to yohimbane alkaloid synthesis. 

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