Enol ethers dihydropyran

As observed with the TIPS enol ethers, dihydropyran undergoes either allylic azidonation or frans-diazidonation with PhIO/TMSN3, depending on the reaction conditions (Scheme 5) [21]. These general modes of reactivity have been exploited for the synthesis of diaminopyrans from dihydropyran. Related conversions of 0-protected 3-deoxy- and 3,6-dideoxyglycals to 3-azidoglycals (i.e., allylic azidonation) and their 1-azido isomers have also been reported [22]. 

A similar reaction occurs when enol ethers react with alcohols in acid solution and in the absence of water, but now we are starting in the middle of the acetal hydrolysis mechanism and going the other way, in the direction of the acetal A useful example is the formation of THP (= TetraHydroPyranyl) derivatives of alcohols from the enol ether dihydropyran. You will see THP derivatives of alcohols being used as protecting groups in Chapter 24. 

The THP group is a widely used protecting group it is readily introduced by reaction of the enol ether dihydropyran with an alcohol in the presence of an acid catalyst, such as TsOH, BF3 OEt2, or POCI3. For sensitive alcohols such as allylic alcohols, PPTS (pyridinium p-toluenesulfonate) is used as a catalyst for tetrahydropy-ranylation. As an acetal, the THP group is readily hydrolyzed under aqueous acidic conditions with AcOH-THF, TsOH, PPTS-EtOH, or Dowex-H (cation exchange resin). 

Making the THP acetal has to be done in an unfamiliar way because the usual carbonyl plus two alcohols method is inappropriate (work out why ). Alcohols are protected by treating them with an enol ether, dihydropyran, under acid catalysis. Notice the oxonium intermediate (formed by a familiar mechanism from Chapter 12)—just as in a normal acetal-forming reaction. In this example the THP group is at work preventing a hydroxyl group from interfering in the reduction of an ester. 

The 7, i5-unsaturated alcohol 99 is cyclized to 2-vinyl-5-phenyltetrahydro-furan (100) by exo cyclization in aqueous alcohol[124]. On the other hand, the dihydropyran 101 is formed by endo cyclization from a 7, (5-unsaturated alcohol substituted by two methyl groups at the i5-position. The direction of elimination of /3-hydrogen to give either enol ethers or allylic ethers can be controlled by using DMSO as a solvent and utilized in the synthesis of the tetronomycin precursor 102[125], The oxidation of the optically active 3-alkene-l,2-diol 103 affords the 2,5-dihydrofuran 104 in high ee. It should be noted that /3-OH is eliminated rather than /3-H at the end of the reac-tion[126]. 

A chiral titanium(IV) complex has also been used by Wada et al. for the intermole-cular cycloaddition of ( )-2-oxo-l-phenylsulfonyl-3-alkenes 45 with enol ethers 46 using the TADDOL-TiX2 (X=C1, Br) complexes 48 as catalysts in an enantioselective reaction giving the dihydropyrans 47 as shown in Scheme 4.32 [47]. The reaction depends on the anion of the catalyst and the best yield and enantioselectivity were found for the TADDOL-TiBr2 up to 97% ee of the dihydropyrans 47 was obtained. 

For those substrates more susceptible to nucleophilic attack (e.g., polyhalo alkenes and alkenes of the type C=C—Z), it is better to carry out the reaction in basic solution, where the attacking species is RO . The reactions with C=C—Z are of the Michael type, and OR goes to the side away from the Z. Since triple bonds are more susceptible to nucleophilic attack than double bonds, it might be expected that bases would catalyze addition to triple bonds particularly well. This is the case, and enol ethers and acetals can be produced by this reaction. Because enol ethers are more susceptible than triple bonds to electrophilic attack, the addition of alcohols to enol ethers can also be catalyzed by acids. " One utilization of this reaction involves the compound dihydropyran... 

The 5,6-disubstituted dihydropyran 2049 is converted by iodosobenzene diacetate and Me3SiBr 16 or Mc3Sil 17 in pyridine to the 3-bromo (or 3-iodo) compounds 2050 in 79 or 84% yield, respectively [198] (Scheme 12.59). Reaction of olefins such as cyclohexene (or enol ethers) with iodosobenzene diacetate, tetra-... 

As expected, other enol ethers work well in these procedures. For example, Jones and Selenski find that implementation of method F, which occurs by addition of MeMgBr to benzaldehyde 5 in the presence of dihydropyran (DHP) at 78 °C affords a 66% yield of the corresponding tricyclic ketal 59 with better than 50 1 endo diastereoselectivity (Fig. 4.31).27 On the contrary, Lindsey reports use of method H with the benzyl alcohol 35 and diethylketene acetal. The cycloaddition reaction occurs almost instantaneously upon deprotonation of the benzyl alcohol 35 by f-butyl-magnesium bromide in the presence of the ketene acetal and yields the corresponding benzopyran ortho ester 60 in a 67% yield.29... 

The described approach to this pharmaceutically important class of compounds [324] was also utilized by Bonnet-Delpon and coworkers one year later [325]. Interestingly, these authors employed hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP) as solvent and were able to perform the domino process without adding any extra Lewis acid catalyst such as InCl3 due to the acidic properties of HFIP (pKa = 9.3) [326]. Besides di-hydrofuran or dihydropyran, they have also used acyclic enol ethers. 

As the name implies, the first step of this domino process consists of a Knoevenagel condensation of an aldehyde or a ketone 2-742 with a 1,3-dicarbonyl compound 2-743 in the presence of catalytic amounts of a weak base such as ethylene diammonium diacetate (EDDA) or piperidinium acetate (Scheme 2.163). In the reaction, a 1,3-oxabutadiene 2-744 is formed as intermediate, which undergoes an inter- or an intramolecular hetero-Diels-Alder reaction either with an enol ether or an alkene to give a dihydropyran 2-745. 

Dicyanopyridazine 4-145 has been used for the synthesis of carbo- and het-ero-cage systems employing nonconjugated dienes such as cyclooctadiene 4-146, or 4-148 or 4-150 to give 4-147, 4-149 and 4-151, respectively (Scheme 4.31) [50]. In a similar way, dihydrofurans, dihydropyrans, pyrrolines, and enol ethers have also been used [51],... 

In a similar way, Carreaux and coworkers [53] used 1-oxa-l,3-butadienes 4-155 carrying a boronic acid ester moiety as heterodienes [54], enol ethers and saturated as well as aromatic aldehydes. Thus, reaction of 4-155 and ethyl vinyl ether was carried out for 24 h in the presence of catalytic amounts of the Lewis acid Yb(fod)3 (Scheme 4.33). Without work-up, the mixture was treated with an excess of an aldehyde 4-156 to give the desired a-hydroxyalkyl dihydropyran 4-157. Although this is not a domino reaction, it is nonetheless a simple and useful one-pot procedure. 

Reipig (39,40), Pfaltz (41), and Andersson and their co-workers (42) independently showed that these catalysts are capable of effecting the selective cyclopropanation of enol ethers and enolsilanes. Methyl vinyl ketone and acetophenone enolsilanes provide high selectivities in the cyclopropane products, but both isomers are formed equally. The trisubstituted dihydropyran 65 leads to cyclopropane adducts in high diastereoselectivities and enantioselectivities using 55c CuOTf as catalyst. 

Aiming at the pyranose form of sugars, normal type hetero-Diels-Alder reactions were extensively used for the synthesis of functionally substituted dihydropyran and tetrahydropyran systems (5-10) (see routes A - D in the general Scheme 1) which are also important targets in the "Chiron approach" to natural product syntheses (2.) Hetero-Diels-Alder reactions with inverse electron demand such as a, p-unsaturated carbonyl compounds (l-oxa-1,3-dienes) as heterodienes and enol ethers as hetero-dienophiles, are an attractive route for the synthesis of 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyrans (11). 

Fig. 7. Oxepine isomers 134-136 that vary as to which ring C—C bond is unsaturated the substituted dihydropyran 137 possesses the enol ether functionality of a glycal, akin to oxepine 136.

Evans has reported that the cationic C2-symmetric chiral Lewis acid Cu(ll)bis(oxazoline) complex promotes the hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of 0 ,/3-unsaturated acyl phosphonates with enol ethers to give the cycloadducts with excellent ee (Scheme 52). As well as simple dihydropyrans, various fused bis-dihydropyrans are also reported <1998JA4895, 2000JA1635>. 

Hanessian and Compain have also reported a Lewis acid-promoted inverse electron demand hetero-Diels-Alder reaction between dihydrofurans and dihydropyrans with a-keto-/3,7-unsaturated phosphonates to give stmcturally related products <2002T6521>. High-pressure OTr/o-selective hetero-Diels-Alder reactions between a,/3-unsaturated aldehydes and enol ethers in the presence of lanthanide catalysts have also been reported and give 3,4-dihydro-27/-pyrans. Examples include the use of cyclic enol ethers to give 2,3,4,4a,5,8a-hexahydro-277,577-pyrano[2,3-. ]pyrans <1995T8383>. 

Azadienes of this sort were studied simultaneously by Mariano et al., who reacted mixtures of (1 ,3 ) and (1E, 3Z)-l-phenyl-2-aza-l,3-pentadiene 275 with several electron-rich alkenes, e.g., enamines and enol ethers (85JOC5678) (Scheme 61). They found the (l ,3 )-stereoisomer to be reactive in this process affording stereoselectively endo 276 or exo 277 piperidine cycloadducts in 5-39% yield, after reductive work-up with sodium borohydride. The stereochemistry of the resulting adducts is in agreement with an endo transition state in the case of dienophiles lacking a cis alkyl substituent at the /8-carbon (n-butyl vinyl ether, benzyl vinyl ether, and 1-morpholino cyclopentene), whereas an exo transition state was involved when dihydropyrane or c/s-propenyl benzyl ether were used. Finally, the authors reported that cyclohexene and dimethyl acetylenedi-carboxylate failed to react with these unactivated 2-azadienes. 

Because enol ethers are more susceptible than triple bonds to electrophilic attack, the addition of alcohols to enol ethers can also be catalyzed by acids.170 One utilization of this reaction involves the compound dihydropyran (28), which is often used to protect the OH... 

Pure bis(dihydropyran) is a white and relatively stable crystalline solid. As would be expected for an enol ether, it is sensitive to hydrolysis and is best stored for a long time under an inert atmosphere at -10°C. 

A2-Dihydropyran (536) is an enol ether and as such adds hydroxy compounds (hydroxy groups are thus protected ) to give adducts (537) which dissociate on heating. 

Triazolines from the cyclic enol ethers, dihydrofuran and dihydropyran, decompose at 100-130° into anils and nitrogen. Thus p-bromophenyl azide reacts with dihydropyran (69) to give triazoline 70 which decomposes thermally into the aryl-inline of 5-valerolactone (71). Photochemical decomposition of 70, on the contrary, yields 7-p-bromophenyl-7-aza-2-oxabi-cyclo[4.1.Q]heptane (72) in 67% yield. Scheiner has shown that aziridine 72 is stable at the decomposition temperature of 70, proving that it is not an intermediate in the thermal conversion of 70 to 71. 51... 

Acetalation with Enol Ethers Under Kinetically Controlled Conditions. The first mention of the use of an enol ether to protect the hydroxyl group of an alcohol was developed by Paul [46], who introduced the reaction with dihydropyran to give tetrahydro-pyranyl ethers, which is still used 60 years later. In spite of some noticeable developments, such as the preparation of 2 3 -0-aIkylidene derivatives of nucleosides [33] the synthesis of 4,6-O-ethylidene-a-D-glucopyranoside with use of methylvinylether [47] the intra-... 

The cyclization of the alkynic enol ether (556) leads to a 5,6-dihydropyran-4-one (63JOC687). 

Like enamines, dihalocarbenes add smoothly to enol ethers and in many cases it is possible to isolate the dihalocyclopropyl intermediates which are valuable synthons for chloroenones (cf. Section 4.7.3.7.1). The earliest example of the addition of a dihalocarbene to an enol ether was provided by Parham,6,79 who studied the addition of dichlorocaibene to dihydropyran (equation 22). An example which illustrates the synthetic potential of the process is the conversion of the cyclohexanone enol ether (6) to the dichlorocy-clopropane (7 equation 23).80 The latter served as a useful intermediate in a stereospecific synthesis of Prelog-Djerassi lactonic acid. 

Reaction of Jt-excessive heterocycles (e.g. thiophene, indole), enol ethers (e.g. dihydropyran) and enol acetates, and carboxylic acids with chlorosulfonyl isocyanate leads in generally excellent yields to A-chlorosulfonylamides. These intermediates are converted into the corresponding nitriles by heating in DMF, although the yields can be somewhat variable. A recent reinvestigation of the N-chlorosulfonylamide to nitrile conversion revealed that treatment of the amides with one equivalent of triethylamine led to formation of the nitriles in excellent yield. Clearly, the mechanisms of the DMF and the EtsN induced transformations are different. 

Solid-phase three-component domino-Knoevenagel-hetero-Diels-Alder reaction can also be performed using a resin-linked 1,3-dicarbonyl compound such as 100 with aldehydes and an enol ether to give dihydropyrans 102 via the intermediately formed 1-oxa-l,3-butadiene 101 (Scheme 5.18) [30], The resin can be deaved off after the reaction by solvolysis, for instance using sodium methanolate to give the corresponding methyl ester 103 as a mixture of diastereomers. The overall yield varies from 12 to 37% and the selectivity from 1 1 to 1 5 in favor of the tis-product depending on the applied aldehyde. The crude dihydropyrans thus obtained are reasonably pure (> 90% HPLC). 

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