Five-membered-ring carbocyclics

Cyclopentadienyl compounds of the form CpCo(CO)2 are also known to convert l,n-enynes into the tranditional 1,3-diene cycloisomerization products (486, 487). Remarkably, the metathesis reaction is independent of tether length between both unsaturated functional groups, and leads to five-membered ring carbocycles exclusively (Scheme 60). 

Shibasaki and co-workers used a ring-closing metathesis approach to prepare a number of five-, six-, and seven-membered rings from electron-deficient olefins. Treatment of acyclic enol ether 18 with 7 mol % of 3 in refluxing benzene provided the corresponding cyclic enol ether 19 in 94% yield. Deprotection of the silyl ether 19 (not shown) resulted in the corresponding cyclic ketone, a valuable synthetic intermediate in natural products synthesis and a number of industrial processes. The authors reported additional examples of the synthesis of five-membered ring carbocycles as part of this study. 

Dipolar cycloaddUions. Interest in 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions increased dramatically during the past 20 years, largely because of the pioneering studies of Huisgen [7, 2] The versatility of this class of pericychc reactions in the synthesis of five-membered-ring heterocyclic compounds is comparable with that of the Diels-Alder reaction in the synthesis of six-membered-ring carbocyclic systems (equation 1)... 

In the construction of carbocycles, five-membered ring formation has been used for preparing fused cyclic compounds, such as functionalized diquinanes. ° The reaction of 36 with (TMSlsSiH furnished the expected product 37 in 80% yield and in a or.fi ratio of 82 18, as the result of a kinetic controlled reaction (Reaction 43). 

Hydrosilylation of 1,6-dienes accompanied by cyclization giving a five-membered ring system is emerging as a potential route to the synthesis of functionalized carbocycles.81,81a,81b 82 As its asymmetric version, diallylmalonates 86 were treated with trialkylsilane in the presence of a cationic palladium catalyst 88, which is coordinated with a chiral pyridine-oxazoline ligand. As the cyclization-hydrosilylation products, //ww-disubstituted cyclopentanes 87 were obtained with high diastereoselectivity (>95%), whose enantioselectivity ranged between 87% and 90% (Scheme 25).83 83a... 

Tricyclic Systems Central Carbocyclic Ring with Fused Five-membered Rings... 

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