Five-membered acetal moiety

An intramolecular Pd-catalyzed ring closure of an allylic halide, acetate or carbonate containing an allene moiety as 6/1-256, followed by a Suzuki reaction, was used by Zhang and coworkers for the synthesis of five-membered carbo- and heterocycles 6/1-257 and 6/1-258 (Scheme 6/1.67) [125]. 

The acetoxytellurium tribromides are converted into the diacetates by the same treatment employed for the diacetoxylation reaction (HOAc, 120°C). The formation of an overall syn- or anft-addnct depends on the competition between a rearward attack by the acetate ion at the tellnrinm atom (as in the case of cyclohexene and 2-butenes), and a front attack by the neighbonring acetate moiety (as in cyclopentenes, where the almost the planarity of the five-membered ring makes the conformation of the acetoxytellnrinm tribromide susceptible to frontal attack). 

The palladium catalysed substitution reaction of allylic systems has also been utilised in the formation of five membered rings. Intramolecular nucleophilic attack of the amide nitrogen atom on the allylpalladium complex formed in the oxidative addition of the allyl acetate moiety on the catalyst led to the formation of the five membered ring (3.63.). In the presence of a copper(II) salt the intermediate pyrroline derivative oxidized to pyrrole.80... 

The reaction of /V-pentenyl-2-iodoindole in the presence of a palladium-triphenylphosphine catalyst led to the formation of a mixture of isomeric products in good yield (4.8.), Addition of thallium(I) acetate favoured the formation of an exocyclic double bond, while in its absence the product containing the endocyclic olefin moiety is formed preferentially. The shortening of the A-alkenyl chain by one carbon leads to the selective formation of a five membered ring.9 Starting from indole-carboxamide derivatives both /3-. and carbolinones are available in intramolecular Heck coupling. 

The reaction of five-membered cyclic N,N-acetals results in ring expansion with CO incorporation to give cyclic enediamines with no silyl moiety. No reaction is observed for alkyl-substituted cyclic N,N-acetals. Cyclic N,0-... 

The high stereoselectivity observed in this cyclization reaction was attributed to the location of the carbonyl moiety in a rigid cyclic ring framework, allowing H-abstraction from the same face of the initially formed five-membered ring. The same group has further utilized the constraint imparted by the benzylidene acetal moiety on the excited state photoreactivity of the carbonyl moiety of the D-xylose derivative 52. Thus, 8-H-abstraction results in the formation of a diastereomeric mixture of cyclized product 53, which is further transformed into D-glucopyranose 54 and D-idopyranose 55 derivatives, as shown in Scheme 8.16 [17]. 

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