Fluorinated dienophiles Diels Alder reaction

Fluorinated heterodienophiles and heterodienes Diels-Alder reactions in which the dienophiles have perfluoroalkyl-substituted multiple bonds between carbon and a heteroatom are quite common Reported earlier were reactions of perfluoroketones, thiones, ketimines, thioesters, nitroso compounds, and nitriles [9] Examples of a-fluoroimines [107], co-hydroperfluorothioaldehydes [108], perfluorosulfines [109, IIO], and selenocarbonyidifluoride [III] (equations 89-92) have been reported recently... 

Fluorine-substituted heterodienes are particularly prone to inverse electron demand Diels-Alder reactions with electron-rich dienophiles, as can be seen from the examples in equations 94-97 [113, 114, 115, 116, 117]... 

The Diels-Alder reactions of dienes 11 and 12 with many dienophiles allowed other fluorinated aromatics to be synthesized [12,13]. For example, diene 11 reacted with dimethylacetylenedicarboxylate and ethylpropiolate (Scheme 2.8) to give trifluoromethyl diethylphthalate and trifluoromethylethylbenzoate, and diene 12 with/ -benzoquinone affords 5-fluoronaphthoquinone (Equation 2.5). 

This effect cannot be explained by simply considering differences in frontier orbital energies. A useful monofluorinated dienophile has been prepared [364] using metallated difluoroenol carbamate chemistry (Eq. 143) cycloaddition occurred smoothly with a range of dienes, and desulfination could be achieved under mild conditions without loss of the fluorine atom. Wakselman and co-workers [365] synthesised a rare competent difluorinated dienophile. Lewis acid catalysed Diels-Alder reaction with furan afforded an acceptable yield of (unfortunately) unstable cycloadduct which decomposed to a phenolic product via a dehydrofluorination reaction, circumscribing its utility (Eq. 144). 

Krishnaiah, A. and Narsaiah, B. 2002. Studies on inverse electron demand hetero Diels-Alder reaction of perfluoroalkyl 2(1H) pyridones with different dienophiles under microwave irradiation. Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 113 133-37. 

Perfluorotetramethylthiadiphosphanorbomadiene and bis(tnfluoromethyl) thiadiphosphole can be prepared by thermolysis of an adduct of methanol and hexakis(trifluoromethyl)-l,4-diphosphabarrelene with sulfur [113] (equation 23) Pyrolysis of the adduct of hexafluonnated Dewar benzene and phenyl azide results m ring expansion giving azepine, which photochemically yields an intramolecular 1+2 adduct, a good dienophile for the Diels-Alder reaction [114, 115] (equation 24) Thermolysis of fluorinated derivatives of 1,5-diazabicyclo-... 

The Diels-Alder reaction succeeds as well with fluorinated nanotubes. Different dienes can be connected this way to the double bonds of the nanotube surface (Figure 3.75). A 5% degree of functionaUzation is achieved in doing so. The fluori-nation enhances the reactivity of the remaining double bonds of the carbon nanotube as, firstly, the tension is increased by adjacent sp -centers and, secondly, due to the electron-withdrawing effect of fluorine atoms. Once more the double bonds of the nanotube always function as dienophile. 

An unusual approach to the synthesis of chain-fluorinated diazines relies on the inverse-electron-demand hetero-Zretro-Diels - Alder ihDA/rDA) sequence. The background of this method for the preparation of nitrogen-containing heterocycles in general has been reviewed recently [674], Typical dienes used for the synthesis of chain-fluorinated diazines are given in Fig. 29. Since electron-deficient dienes are necessary for the first step of the sequence - inverse-electron-danand hetero-Diels -Alder reaction, fluoroalkyl substituents of tri- and tetrazines 1111-1112 are favorable for the process. Typical electron-rich dienophiles for the reactions with 1111-1112 are enamines (including amino heterocycles) and alkynes, although other examples are also known. 

Substituting vinylic hydrogen in a,P-unsaturated carbonyl compounds with vinylic fluorine does not affect their dienophilic character negatively Indeed, 3,3-difluoroacrylic acid is more reactive toward furan than its nonfluonnated counterpart [95] (equation 81) Consistent with this observation is the fact that tetrafluorobenzoquinone forms only a bis-Diels-Alder adduct in 68% yield in its reaction with cyclopentadiene at room temperature [96, 97 ... 

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