Esters ring-contracted

Ester Enolate Claisen- 4 carbon ring contractions... 

Rearrangement (ring contraction) of a-diazokelones to cartioxylic adds or their derivatives (esters, amides) via ketenes (see also Amdt-Eistert). 

The procedure described is essentially that of Shioiri and Yamada. Diphenyl phosphorazidate is a useful and versatile reagent in organic synthesis. It has been used for racemlzatlon-free peptide syntheses, thiol ester synthesis, a modified Curtius reaction, an esterification of a-substituted carboxylic acld, formation of diketoplperazines, alkyl azide synthesis, phosphorylation of alcohols and amines,and polymerization of amino acids and peptides. - Furthermore, diphenyl phosphorazidate acts as a nitrene source and as a 1,3-dipole.An example in the ring contraction of cyclic ketones to form cycloalkanecarboxylic acids is presented in the next procedure, this volume. 

Compound 15 is prepared in two steps acid-catalyzed condensation of the pyrimidinediamine with ethyl aceloacelale provides ester 14, which cyclizes under strongly basic conditions. The pyrimidodiazepinone 15 undergoes ring contraction to 7-isopropenyl-7//-purin-8(9//)-one (16) on prolonged heating under basic conditions.297... 

Reaction of the cyclic sulfoxide 1176 with trimethylchlorosilane (TCS) 14 in CH2CI2 affords the unsaturated sulfide 1177, in 86% yield, and HCl and HMDSO 7 whereas the ester 1178 gives rise to 72% 1179, 16% isomer 1180, and, via 1181, the chloro compounds 1182 and the ring contracted 1183 in 7% yield [17, 18] (Scheme 8.5). 

The photolysis of cyclic a-diazoketones results in ring contraction to a ketene, which can be isolated as the corresponding ester. 

Photolysis of the first known cyclic a-diazo-p-oxophosphine oxide 49 is unsuccessful with regard to phosphene formation. There is no evidence for a P/C-phenyl shift, which should lead to 51, nor for a P/C-alkyl shift, which would afford 52 via ring contraction, since none of the expected phosphinic esters could be isolated in methanolM). 

Attempted hydrolysis of the ester group in the thienothiadiazine 66 using H2SO4 and AcOH at 100 °C gave a moderate yield of the ring-contracted thieno[2,3-carboxylic acid. Compound 67 was... 

As usual, the key to this problem is numbering correctly. The main question is whether the ester C in the product is C3 or C4. Because a ring contraction from 6- to 5-membered is likely to proceed by a Favorskii rearrangement, where the last step is cleavage of a cyclopropanone, it makes sense to label the... 

The effects observed for the ether-protected carbohydrates are likely a result of their lower degree of positive charge destabilization than the corresponding ester groups, leading to side reactions such as ring contraction and ehmination. ... 

The Favorskii reaction has been used to effect ring contraction in the synthesis of strained ring compounds. Entry 4 in Scheme 10.3 illustrates this application of the reaction. With 7,7 -dihalo ketones, the rearrangement is accompanied by dehydrohalo-genation to yield an a,/ -unsaturated ester, as illustrated by entry 3 in Scheme 10.3. 

Methyl trisnorshionanoate (126) has been synthesized from friedelan-19a-ol (127) via the ring-contracted intermediate (128) and the trisnor-ketone (129). Irradiation of (129) in methanol afforded the desired ester (126). An investigation of the effect of solvent on the backbone rearrangement of 3/8,4/3-epoxyshionane (130) by boron trifluoride etherate has shown that nucleophilic solvents tend to interrupt the rearrangement at an early stage (see Vol. 6, p. 130). 

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