Enol ethyl ethers, synthesis

A related allylic C-H insertion that has considerable promise for strategic organic synthesis is the reaction with enol silyl ethers [23]. The resulting silyl-protected 1,5-dicarbonyls would otherwise typically be formed by means of a Michael addition. Even though with ethyl diazoacetates vinyl ethers are readily cyclopropanated [l],such reactions are generally disfavored in trisubstituted vinyl ethers with the sterically crowded donor/acceptor carbenoids [23]. Instead, C-H insertion predominates. Again, if sufficient size differentiation exists at the C-H activation site, highly diastereoselective and enantioselective reactions can be achieved as illustrated in the reaction of 20 with 17 to form 21 [23]. 

Nitrosolysis of camphor ethyl acetal with ethanolic ethyl nitrite in sulphur dioxide yields the orthoester oxime (205) which is rapidly dehydrated by excess acetal to the orthoester nitrile which then reacts with sulphur dioxide to form the ester nitrile and diethyl sulphite.Further papers in this section include the full paper on ozonolysis of silyl ethers (Vol. 5, p. 33), another synthesis of camphor-enol trimethylsilyl ether (cf. Vol. 6, p. 41)/°° the conversion of camphor oxime with Grignard reagents into the corresponding imine with no aziridine formation/° the preparation of (206) by treating bornylene with trichloroacetyl isocyanate/ the oxidation of thiocam-phor to the 5-oxide and alkylation in the presence of thallium(i) ethoxide to a/S-unsaturated sulphoxides/ and the free-radical C-3 alkylation of camphor with alkenes. " ... 

A useful application of an enolate-oxime ether condensation, described by Weeks, Volkmann and co-woricers, is found in the synthesis of 6-aminomethylpenicillin derivative (218), a potent -lactamase inhibitor. As shown in Scheme 45, the sensitive penicillin Grignard (216) is condensed with ethyl formaldoxime at -80 C in the presence of Bp3-OEt2 to afford adduct (217). The use of Bp3-OEt2 is critical because it allows the reaction to proceed at the low temperature required for the stability of enolate (216). Hydrogenolysis of (217) simultaneously results in removal of the ethoxy, bromo and benzyl groups, affording (218). 

The reaction mechanism and the application of the enol ether condensation in the synthesis of carotenoids have recently been reviewed [38]. The main advantage of the enol ether condensation, compared with the aldol condensation, is that the enol ether reacts exclusively as the nucleophilic reaction partner and the acetal exclusively as the electrophilic one and this leads unequivocally to the desired, uniform, reaction product. As the alkoxy group of the starting acetal takes part in the formation of the new acetal grouping that results from the enol ether moiety, it is preferable for all the alkoxy groups of both reactant to be identical. Most of the examples published have been carried out with vinyl methyl ether (16) and vinyl ethyl ether (17), used to extend the carbon skeleton by two carbon atoms, or propenyl ethyl ether (18) and 1-methoxy-1-methylethene (19) for the extension by three carbon atoms (Figure 5). 

The commercial apo-p-carotenoids ethyl 8 -apo-p-caroten-8 -oate (286) and 8 -apo-p-caroten-8 -al (287) may be prepared from the Cig-aldehyde 53, used in the synthesis of p,p-carotene (2). By reaction of 53 with the Cg-acetal 288 the C25-aldehyde 15,15 -didehydro-12 -apo-p-caroten-12 -al (289) is obtained [115], This compound can be transformed into the Cso-aldehyde 287 by consecutive enol ether condensations first with vinyl ethyl ether (17), to give the C2/-aldehyde 290, and then with prop-1-enyl ether (18), followed by partial hydrogenation and isomerization [116] Scheme 59... 

In a different approach it was found that (E) and (Z) 3-alkoxy-2,4-bis(trimethylsiloxy)penta-1,3-dienes (the methyl, ethyl and benzyl esters were used) were more easily prepared dienes than monotrimethylsilyl enolic methyl ethers such as compound A used in the first synthesis of kermesic acid due to the unwanted occurrence of C- as well as O-methylation in the methylation of methyl diacetylacetate. 

The first industrial synthesis of P,P-carotene (3) by Roche [1] followed the C19 + C2 + C19 synthesis principle [1,20]. As in the vitamin A process, the polyene chain was produced by Grignard coupling, elimination and partial hydrogenation. In addition, a new effective synthesis for polyene aldehydes has now been developed in the form of the enol ether condensation and employed industrially for the first time in the production of the C19-aldehyde 27 (Scheme 6). The enol ether condensation permits specific stepwise lengthening of conjugated aldehydes by two carbon atoms each time. Use of prop-l-enyl ethyl ether (28) (Scheme 9) gives a-methyl-branched polyene aldehydes. Chemically, the chain lengthening proceeds in three steps as follows ... 

The synthesis of 1 from the C 14-aldehyde 23 requires twenty reaction steps, including the preparation of the C6-acetal 37, and the formation of seven C-C bonds. Nevertheless, the process is economic because of the chemical and technological integration of the manufacturing process. Construction of the polyene chain, for example, only requires the simple chemicals acetylene, triethyl orthoformate, propenyl ethyl ether and vinyl ethyl ether. Five C-C bonds are formed with the aid of the enol ether condensation. This repetition of simple operations simplifies the process and allows even multistep syntheses to be carried out cost-effectively. 

Kitazume and coworkers used microreactors with microchaimels 100 pm wide and 40 pm deep for the synthesis of a series of organofluorine compounds [19,20]. The silylation of4,4,4-trifluorobutan-2-one and the Mukaiyama-type aldol reaction of the resulting enol silyl ether with acetals gave good yields of the desired products [20]. They also described nitro-aldol reactions of 2,2-difluoro-l-ethoxyethanol and Michael additions of nitroalkanes to ethyl 4,4,4-trifluorocrotonate and ethyl 4,4-difluorocrotonate [19,20]. Reactions were carried out at room temperature, and... 

Enol Ether Synthesis. A 2-(trimethylsilyl)ethyl-based dithioorthoformate was prepared via copper(II) bromide-promoted oxidative coupling of bis(phenylthio)-methyltributylstannane. The dithioorthoformate thus prepared is treated with a titanocene(II) reagent followed by the addition of ketones or esters to promote alkoxymethylidenation as exemplified in eq 32. ... 

Simple 1,2,4-triazole derivatives played a key role in both the synthesis of functionalized triazoles and in asymmetric synthesis. l-(a-Aminomethyl)-1,2,4-triazoles 4 could be converted into 5 by treatment with enol ethers <96SC357>. The novel C2-symmetric triazole-containing chiral auxiliary (S,S)-4-amino-3,5-bis(l-hydroxyethyl)-l,2,4-triazole, SAT, (6) was prepared firmn (S)-lactic acid and hydrazine hydrate <96TA1621>. This chiral auxiliary was employed to mediate the diastereoselective 1,2-addition of Grignard reagents to the C=N bond of hydrazones. The diastereoselective-alkylation of enolates derived from ethyl ester 7 was mediated by a related auxiliary <96TA1631>. 

Giomi s group developed a domino process for the synthesis of spiro tricyclic nitroso acetals using a, 3-unsaturated nitro compounds 4-163 and ethyl vinyl ether to give the nitrone 4-164, which underwent a second 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with the enol ether (Scheme 4.35) [56]. The diastereomeric cycloadducts formed, 4-165 and 4-166 can be isolated in high yield. However, if R is hydrogen, an elimination process follows to give the acetals 4-167 in 56% yield. 

Perfect stereochemical control in the synthesis of sy -a-methyl-/ -hydroxy thioesters has been achieved by asymmetric aldol reaction between the silyl enol ether of. S -ethyl propanethioate (1-trimethylsiloxy-l-ethylthiopropene) and aldehydes using a stoichiometric amount of chiral diamine-coordinated tin(II)... 

Huang, X.-T. Chen, Q.-Y. Ethyl a-Fluoro Silyl Enol Ether Stereoselective Synthesis and Its Aldol Reaction with Aldehydes and Ketones. J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 3231-3234. 

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