Enones enol ethers

From Simmons-Smith Cyclopropanation of a-Enone Enol Ethers... 

Another preparative method for the enone 554 is the reaction of the enol acetate 553 with allyl methyl carbonate using a bimetallic catalyst of Pd and Tin methoxide[354,358]. The enone formation is competitive with the allylation reaction (see Section 2.4.1). MeCN as a solvent and a low Pd to ligand ratio favor enone formation. Two regioisomeric steroidal dienones, 558 and 559, are prepared regioselectively from the respective dienol acetates 556 and 557 formed from the steroidal a, /3-unsaturated ketone 555. Enone formation from both silyl enol ethers and enol acetates proceeds via 7r-allylpalladium enolates as common intermediates. 

Birch reduction of the norgetrel intermediate 5 oil owed by hydrolysis of the enol ether gives the enone oxidation of the alcohol at 17 leads to dione Fermentation of that intermediate in the presence of the mold PeniciIlium raistricky serves to introduce a hydroxyl group... 

Provided that the silanolate elimination proceeds with anti selectivity, it must be concluded, that the intermediate homoallylic alcohol has an anti configuration, and thus the reagent has an ( -configuration. Acidic hydrolysis of the enol ether leads to enones the overall sequence consists of a nucleophilic acroylation. This has also been applied in the total synthesis of the marine diterpene ( )-aplysin-2067. 

Trimethylsilyl enol ethers can also be prepared by 1,4-reduction of enones using silanes as reductants. Several effective catalysts have been found,38 of which the most versatile appears to be a Pt complex of divinyltetramethyldisiloxane.39 This catalyst gives good yields of substituted silyl enol ethers (e.g., Scheme 1.2, Entry 7). 

Excellent yields of silyl enol have also been obtained from enones using B(C6F5)3 as a catalyst.40 f-Butyldimethylsilyl, triethylsilyl, and other silyl enol ethers can also be made under these conditions. 

Methyl 1-phenylthiovinyl ketones can also be used as enones in kinetically controlled Robinson annulation reactions, as illustrated by Entry 6. Entry 7 shows a annulation using silyl enol ether as the enolate equivalent. These reactions are called Mukaiyama-Michael reactions (see Section 2.6.3). 

In discussion of the dehydrogenation of silyl enol ethers using DDQ, Jung and Murai had proposed that DDQ abstracts a hydride producing a stabilized cation 70 which loses TMS+ to give the enone 23 (Scheme 3.31) [8]. 

The 1,4-hydrosilylation of enones can be used as a method for the introduction of the silyl enol ether functionality, and may be accomplished with the combination of PhMe2SiH/RhH(PPh3)4 (Eq. 278),374 Et3SiH/RhCl(PPh3)3 411 (HMe2 Si)20/[CuH(PPh3) ], 455 Et3 SiH/Pt-complex,456 chloromethy ldimethy 1-... 

The intermediate enolate or enol ether from the initial reduction of an enone may be alkylated in situ (Eq. 281).455 / -Substituted cyclopentenones may be asymmetrically reduced and alkylated459 (see section on asymmetric reductions of enones). Enolates may also be trapped with an aldehyde in a reductive aldol condensation of an enone with an aldehyde,455 permitting a regioselective aldol condensation to be carried out as shown in Eq. 282.455 This class of reductive aldol condensation reactions can also occur in a cyclic manner (Eq. 283).460... 

A further example of the trapping of the in situ generated silyl enol ether from the reduction of an enone is the conversion of an enone into an a-hydroxy ketone via oxidation of the silyl enol ether (Eq. 286).465... 

Palladium-catalyzed bis-silylation of methyl vinyl ketone proceeds in a 1,4-fashion, leading to the formation of a silyl enol ether (Equation (47)).121 1,4-Bis-silylation of a wide variety of enones bearing /3-substituents has become possible by the use of unsymmetrical disilanes, such as 1,1-dichloro-l-phenyltrimethyldisilane and 1,1,1-trichloro-trimethyldisilane (Scheme 28).129 The trimethylsilyl enol ethers obtained by the 1,4-bis-silylation are treated with methyllithium, generating lithium enolates, which in turn are reacted with electrophiles. The a-substituted-/3-silyl ketones, thus obtained, are subjected to Tamao oxidation conditions, leading to the formation of /3-hydroxy ketones. This 1,4-bis-silylation reaction has been extended to the asymmetric synthesis of optically active /3-hydroxy ketones (Scheme 29).130 The key to the success of the asymmetric bis-silylation is to use BINAP as the chiral ligand on palladium. Enantiomeric excesses ranging from 74% to 92% have been attained in the 1,4-bis-silylation. 

Michael reactions of silyl enol ethers.1 2 3 The silyl enol ether of 1-acetylcy-clohexene (1) undergoes two consecutive Michael reactions with an a,p-enone or -enal in the presence of this Lewis acid to form 1-decalones. 

Silyl enol ethers.1 Aldehydes, ketones, ot,p-enals, and a,p-enones are converted into the silyl enol ethers in moderate to high yield by reaction with iodo-trimethylsilane, generated in situ, and N(C2H5)3 at 25° in acetonitrile. In some cases intermediate stable 1,2- or 1,4- adducts can be isolated. Thus the 1,2-adduct a hag been isolated as an intermediate in the reaction of some aldehydes and shown to decompose to the silyl enol ether. 

Addition of RCu to enones silyt enol ethersThe known ability of ClSi(CH3)3 to facilitate addition of cuprates to enones has been extended to addition of alkylcoppers to enones. Indeed silyl enol ethers can be obtained readily by addition of RCu to enones in the presence of ClSi(CH3)3 and TMEDA. A further advantage is that the RCu can be obtained by reaction of RLi with commercial Cul directly. 

Use of TMSCl in combination with HMPA, DMAP, or TMEDA all favored 1,2-addition over 1,4-addition. Sequential a-alkoxyalkylcuprate conjugate addition, enolate trapping with TMSCl, and silyl enol ether alkylation provides a one-pot synthesis of tetrahydrofurans (Scheme 3.35) [129]. Cyclic enones afford as-fused tetrahydrofurans, while acyclic systems give complex mixtures of diastereomers. a-Alkoxyalkylcopper reagents also participate in allylic substitution reactions with ammonium salts [127]. 

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