Enediynes formation

These ease of preparation of vinyl and aryl triflates and the availability of the starting materials have expanded their use as a coupling partner with a terminal acetylene. Facile Pd-Cu coupling of vinyl triflates with terminal acetylenes was reported by Cacchi [51]. The cross-coupling of enol triflate 88 with phenylacetylene proceeds easily under normal conditions [Eq. (33)] [52]. For the double cross-coupling of aromatic 1,2-ditriflates with TMSA, the addition of Bu4NI accelerates enediyne formation [Eq. (34)] [53]. 

The cyclization of the enediynes 110 in AcOH gives the cyclohexadiene derivative 114. The reaction starts by the insertion of the triple bond into Pd—H to give 111, followed by tandem insertion of the triple bond and two double bonds to yield the triene system 113, which is cyclized to give the cyclohexadiene system 114. Another possibility is the direct formation of 114 from 112 by endo-rype. insertion of an exo-methylene double bond[53]. The appropriately structured triyne 115 undergoes Pd-catalyzed cyclization to form an aromatic ring 116 in boiling MeCN, by repeating the intramolecular insertion three times. In this cyclization too, addition of AcOH (5 mol%) is essential to start the reaction[54]. 

The cycloaromatization of enediynes, having a structure like 1, proceeds via formation of a benzenoid 1,4-diradical 2, and is commonly called the Bergman cyclization. It is a relatively recent reaction that has gained importance especially during the last decade. The unusual structural element of enediynes as 1 has been found in natural products (such as calicheamicine and esperamicine) which show a remarkable biological activity... 

With the exocyclic alkylidene at C-13 properly in place, the elaboration of the l,5-diyn-3-ene moiety can now be addressed. Cleavage of both acetate and trimethylsilyl functions in 86 with basic methanol, followed by triethylsilylation of the newly formed tertiary hydroxyl group, efficiently affords alkyne 25 (86 % overall yield). This substance was regarded as a viable candidate for a Pd-catalyzed coupling reaction.12 Indeed, treatment of 25 with (Z)-chloroenyne 26 in the presence of a catalytic amount of Pd(PPh3)4 and Cu1 results in the formation of enediyne 24 in 91 % yield. 

Enediynes are of interest because of their ability to cleave DNA. The 10-membered oxadiyne (5) cycloaromatises to the isochroman (6) <96TL2433> and a biradical intermediate is proposed to account for the formation of an isochroman from an acyclic enediyne <96TL5397>. 

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]. 

In these reactions, a er-bond is formed at the expense of two re-bonds and, thus, the process leads to a net loss of one chemical bond that is intrinsically unfavorable thermodynamically. Formation of the new er-bond leads to ring closure, whereas the net loss of a bond leads to the formation of two radical centers, which can be either inside (the endo pattern in Scheme 1) or outside of the newly formed cycle (the exo pattern). Note that er-radicals are formed through the endo path, while exo-closures may produce either a er-radical when a triple bond is involved or a conjugated re-radical when the new bond is formed at the central carbon of an allene. The parent version of this process is the transformation of enediyne 1 into p-benzyne diradical2 (the Bergman cyclization), shown in Scheme 2. 

Due to the lack of increase in stabilizing re-re interactions at the reaction stage where the destabilizing four-electron repulsive interactions increase steadily, the inward bending of alkyne moieites in unstrained enediynes leads to continuously developing reactant destabilization without any compensation from the increased C1-C6 bonding. Only in the 9-membered enediyne the decrease in the C1-C6 distance results in an immediate increase in the extent of C1-C6 cr-bond formation. 

Scheme 15 Formation of a methanol adduct in cyclization of eneyne-allenes, formed from skipped enediynes.

Scheme 27. Domino Heck-Diels-Alder reaction and formation of dendralenes by cycloisomerization of enediynes...

Benzenediyl diradical formation from enediyne via electrocyclization. 

Detailed thermochemical data for the Bergman rearrangement were determined by Roth et al. from gas-phase NO trapping experiments. The activation barrier for ring opening of 28 to enediyne (Z)-16 was reported as 19.8 kcal/mol, the enthalpy of formation of (Z)-16 293 = 129.5 kcal/mol) is lower than that of p-benzyne... 

Cycloaddition to a hydrocyclobutaindane.1 The framework of the sesquiterpenoid illudol (3) can be obtained in one step and high yield by a [2 + 2 + 2] cycloaddition of the acyclic enediyne 1 mediated by CpCo(CO)2. Transformation of 2 to 3 involves a number of standard reactions. The cycloaddition of 1 to 2 is the first instance of formation of three rings in a single step and with stereospecific generation of three contiguous chiral centers. 

Formation of the isochroman system is considered to trigger the synthesis of the dibenzopyran (17, X = H2) by the acid catalysed cyclisation of c/s-enediynes (16, X = H2). In a similar manner, the carboxyl function in (16, X = O) promotes cylisation to a dihydropyranone derivative which is followed by a Myers cycloaromatisation to the dibenzopyranone (17, X = O) (95TL9165). 

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