Ene Reactions of Allylsilanes

The Znl2-promoted reaction provides an a-enone bearing a vinylsilane moiety as a minor product In contrast under similar reaction conditions reaction of allylsilane 141 with an a-ynone forms a vinylsilane product with high regioselectivity [449]. 

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In 1987, more than a decade before our proposal of the geminal bond participation [94], ene reactions of allylsilanes with singlet oxygen was reported to afford the Z-isomers more than the -isomers of ally lie hydroperoxides (Scheme 40) [106],... 

Scheme 40 Z-Selectivity of ene reactions of allylsilanes with singlet oxygen...

Another thermal route which has been particularly useful for the generation of silaaromatics (silabenzene, silatoluene, 4-substituted silaaromatics, etc.) and silafulvenes is the ene reaction of allylsilanes, as illustrated [Eq. (4)]. 

Recently, a new multicomponent condensation strategy for the stereocontrolled synthesis of polysubstituted tetrahydropyran derivatives was re-published by the Marko group, employing an ene reaction combined with an intramolecular Sakurai cyclization (IMSC) (Scheme 1.14) [14]. The initial step is an Et2AlCl-promoted ene reaction between allylsilane 1-50 and an aldehyde to afford the (Z)-homoallylic alcohol 1-51, with good control of the geometry of the double bond. Subsequent Lewis acid-media ted condensation of 1-51 with another equivalent of an aldehyde provided the polysubstituted exo-methylene tetrahydropyran 1-53 stereoselectively and... 

Substituted allylsilanes are subject to ene reaction with aldehydes and a,/3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds in the presence of a Lewis acid. The Et2AlCl-promoted reaction of /3-siloxymethyl-substituted allylsilane 27 with aldehydes gives more functionalized allylsilanes (Equation (37)).148 The use of TiCU instead of Et2AlCl leads to the Hosomi-Sakurai allylation. Catalytic enantioselective carbonyl-ene reactions of methallylsilanes have been achieved by using chiral Ti and A1 complexes.149,150... 

In the presence of Me2AlCl, isocyclic allylsilane 28 adds to 3-butyn-2-one to afford an ct-enone bearing an allylsilane moiety (Equation (38)).1S1,1Sla In contrast, the ZnI2-promoted ene reaction of an acyclic /3-substituted allylsilane with an a-ynone forms a vinylsilane product exclusively.152... 

Coverage in this chapter is restricted to the use of alkenes or alkynes as enophiles (equation 1 X = Y = C) and to the use of ene components in which a hydrogen is transferred. Coverage in Sections 1.2 and 1.3 is restricted to ene components in which all three heavy atoms are carbon (equation 1 Z = C). Thermal intramolecular ene reactions of enols (equation 1 Z = O) with unactivated alkenes are presented in Section 1.4. Metallo-ene reactions are covered in the following chapter. Use of carbonyl compounds as enophiles, which can be considered as a subset of the Prins reaction, is covered in depth in Volume 2, Chtqiter 2.1. Addition of enophiles to vinylsilanes and allylsilanes is covered in Volume 2, Chapter 2.2, while addition of enophiles to enol ethers is covered in Volume 2, Chapters 2.3-2.S. Addition of imines and iminium compounds to alkenes is presented in Volume 2, Part 4. Use of alkenes, aldehydes and acetals as initiators for polyene cyclizations is covered in Volume 3, Chapter 1.9. Coverage of singlet oxygen, azo, nitroso, S=N, S=0, Se=N or Se=0 enophiles are excluded since these reactions do not result in the formation of a carbon-carbon bond. 

Ene reactions. The enantioselective synthesis of a-hydroxy esters from ene reaction of glyoxylate is effective using vinyl chalcogenides and allylsilanes. The reaction of fluoral also attains a high level of enantio- and diastereoselectivities. Chiral catalysts that contain substituents in the BINOL moiety have been evaluated. 

A three-component domino process consisting of an ene reaction followed by the addition of an allylsilane to afford polysubstituted tetrahydropyrans in generally good yield was described by Marko and coworkers [115]. However, the nature of the products formed in this process depends heavily on the Lewis acid employed as a catalyst. Thus, reaction of the allylsilane 4-333 with an aldehyde in the presence of BF3-Et20 led to the domino products 4-334, whereas in the presence ofTiCL the diol 4-332, and in the presence of Et2AlCl the alcohol 4-335, were obtained (Scheme 4.74). The latter compound can then be transformed in stepwise manner to 4-334, using the same aldehyde as previously. However, it is also possible to use another aldehyde to prepare tetrahydropyrans of type 4-336. 

As expected, there was no formation of stilbenes or a dinitrile product and, more surprisingly, in all of the reactions reported only 5-7% of the allyltrimeth-ylsilane self-metathesis product was observed. It was proposed that this lack of allylsilane self-metathesis was due to the steric bulk of the TMS group reducing the reactivity of the Me3SiCH2 substituted alkylidene. In a more recent report by Blechert and co-workers it was noted that allyltrimethylsilane and its hydrocarbon equivalent (4,4-dimethylpent-l-ene) had comparable reactivities in the cross-metathesis reaction [28], further suggesting that the selectivity arises from steric rather than electronic effects. 

It is noteworthy that the ene product 227 is obtained exclusively when allylsilane 226 is treated with butynone in the presence of Znl2 catalyst and molecular sieve (ms) 4A(equation 185)331. Methyl vinyl ketone behaves similarly. High enantioselectivity has been observed in product 228 when triphenylallylsilane is coupled with methyl glyoxylate in the presence of (R)-(BINOL)TiCl2 catalyst (equation 186)332. In addition to [2 + 2] cycloaddition, TCNE undergoes a regiospecific ene reaction with y-alkyl substituted allylsilanes to yield the substituted olefins 229 (equation 187)333. 

Closer examination of tetrahydropyrans 173 clearly reveals that two molecules of aldehyde 174 have been appended onto allylsilane 171 via a novel three-component coupling reaction. Marko et al. proposed the mechanism depicted in Scheme 13.61 [65], Formation of heterocycles 173 is described as a sequence of two processes an initial ene-type reaction [80] which leads to alcohol 177 via the chair-like transition state 176, in which both the aldehydic R-group and the OTMS substituent assume an equatorial position. The high regio- and stereoselectivity observed in this ene-reaction can be nicely explained by considering the stabilizing /(-silicon effect and the repulsive 1,3-diaxial interactions. Transition state 176 contains no 1,3-diaxial interactions and benefits fully from the stabilizing /(-silicon effect [81, 82] (for more detailed transition-state discussion see ref. [63]). 

The regiochemical outcome of this ene reaction is reversed when the double bond of the allylsilane bears a cyano substituent. ... 

Nitration of 2-methyl-l-(trimethylsiloxy)cyclohexene (31) with nitronium tetrafluoroborate leads to 2-methyl-2-nitrocyclohexanone (32 equation 12), while 6-methyl-l-(trimethylsiloxy)cyclohexene (33) gives under similar conditions a 30 70 mixture of cis- and fran5-6-methyl-2-nitrocyclohexanone (equation 13). The desilylative nitration of allylsilanes with nitronium tetrafluoroborate proceeds readily. The reaction is considered to pass through initial electrophilic attack of the nitronium ion on the allyl system followed by desilylative elimination. So, on treatment of l-(trimethylsilyl)but-2-ene (34) with nitronium tetrafluoroborate the product is 3-nitrobut-l-ene (35) and not l-nitrobut-2-ene (equation 14). ... 

Addition to C=0. Hydrates of a-ketoaldehydes react selectively at the aldehyde group with allylsilanes under the influence of YbfOTfjj at room temperature. The allylation of aldehydes with allylstannanes is accelerated by benzoic acid." Another method for the synthesis of homoallylic alcohols is by the ene reaction, thus y,6-unsaturated a-hydroxy esters are obtained from glyoxylic esters at room temperature in a catalyzed process. ... 

The reaction of 2a with an allylsilane-type sulfide, 3-trimethylsilyl-2-methyl-thio-l-propene (7b), also afforded the cyclobutanes 8b and 9b in 54% (>98% ee) and 17% yields, respectively, without any formation of allylation and ene reaction products. The diastereoselectivity of these two reactions using 2-alkylthio-propene derivatives 7a,b is not high, but the major isomers 8a,b are obtained in nearly enantiomerically pure forms. 

Knoevenagel products are highly reactive compounds because of their low energy LUMO. They can act as dienophiles in the normal Diels-Alder reaction, as heterodienes in the hetero Diels-Alder reaction with inverse electron demand,- as dipolarophiles in 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions, as enophiles in the ene reaction and as acceptors for the addition of allylsilanes. Sigmatropic rearrangements and photochemical reactions have been described. 

The ene and Prins reactions are not mechanistically distinct. Coverage will therefore be organized by the nature of the carbonyl compound, with intermolecular reactions presented first, followed by intramolecular reactions. The emphasis will be on material published since the field has been reviewed " and on examples demonstrating the stereo-, regio- and chemo-selectivity of these reactions. Coverage is restricted to the addition of carbonyl and thiocarbonyl compounds to simple alkenes. Addition of carbonyl compounds to vinylsilanes, allylsilanes and enol ethers is covered in the following chapters. Addition of imines and iminium compounds to alkenes is presented in Part 4 of this volume. Ene reactions with alkenes and alkynes as enophiles are covered in Volume 5, Chapter 1.1. Use of aldehydes and acetals as initiators for polyene cyclizations is covered in Volume 3, Chapter 1.6. 

In the absence of Lewis acids, allylsilanes react only with very electrophilic ketones like hexafluo-roacetone, when they undergo ene reactions rather than electrophilic replacement of the silyl group. In the presence of Lewis acids, allylsilanes react with aldehydes and ketones with clean allylic transposition (Scheme 1) and the formation of homoallylic alcohols. The range of Lewis acids used is wide, but titanium tetrachloride and boron trifluoride etherate are the most common. Typically, reaction takes place somewhere between -78 °C and 0 C in dichloromethane solution, and a molar proportion of Lewis acid is used. 

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