Furans cycloaddition reactions

An example of an acetylenic furan cycloaddition reaction was reported by Ho and Wong [14]. While in some cases, the reaction of furans with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD) leads to ring opening and aromatization (see below), the addition of 3,4-bis(trimethylsilyl)furan to DMAD at 75 °C gave furan-3,4-dicarboxylate 13, presumably by extrusion of bis(trimethylsilyl)acetylene from the initially formed cycloadduct 12. Stable [47t-l-27i] furan cycloadducts were also obtained using the highly reactive bis(terf-butylsulfonyl)acetylene [15], as well as nitro(trime thylsilyl)acetylene (Scheme 13.5) [16]. 

The success of the cycloaddition reaction of maleic anhydride varies gready depending on which heterocyclic diene is used. The cycloaddition of maleic anhydride to furan [110-00-9] occurs ia a few seconds under ambient conditions (42,43). Although the endo adduct (14) is favored kiaeticaHy, the exo adduct (13) is isolated. 

Furan has the greater reactivity in cycloaddition reactions compared with pyrrole and thiophene the latter is the least reactive diene. However, A -substituted pyrroles show enhanced dienic character compared with the parent heterocycle. 

Benzo[Z)]furans and indoles do not take part in Diels-Alder reactions but 2-vinyl-benzo[Z)]furan and 2- and 3-vinylindoles give adducts involving the exocyclic double bond. In contrast, the benzo[c]-fused heterocycles function as highly reactive dienes in [4 + 2] cycloaddition reactions. Thus benzo[c]furan, isoindole (benzo[c]pyrrole) and benzo[c]thiophene all yield Diels-Alder adducts (137) with maleic anhydride. Adducts of this type are used to characterize these unstable molecules and in a similar way benzo[c]selenophene, which polymerizes on attempted isolation, was characterized by formation of an adduct with tetracyanoethylene (76JA867). 

A-Substituted pyrroles, furans and dialkylthiophenes undergo photosensitized [2 + 2] cycloaddition reactions with carbonyl compounds to give oxetanes. This is illustrated by the addition of furan and benzophenone to give the oxetane (138). The photochemical reaction of pyrroles with aliphatic aldehydes and ketones results in the regiospecific formation of 3-(l-hydroxyalkyl)pyrroles (e.g. 139). The intermediate oxetane undergoes rearrangement under the reaction conditions (79JOC2949). 

Benzo[b]furan, 3-(pyrrolidin-1 -yl)-cycloaddition reactions, 4, 636 synthesis, 4, 648 Benzo[b]furan, tetrahydro-synthesis, 4, 671... 

Benzo[c]furan, 1-cyan 0-3-phenyl-synthesis, 4, 683 Benzo[c]furan, 1,3-diatyl-cycloaddition reactions, 4, 635 reduction, 4, 614 synthesis, 4, 701 Benzo[c]furan, 1,3-di-t-butyl-synthesis, 4, 703 Benzo[c]furan, 1,3-dihydro-NMR, 4, 572-574, structure, 4, 549 synthesis, 4, 683 Benzo[c]furan, 4,7-dihydro-synthesis, 4, 682... 

Benzo[c]furan, 1,3-dihydro-1,3-diphenyl-mass spectrometry, 4, 585 Benzo[c]furan, 1,3-dfmethyl-synthesis, 4, 699, 701 Benzo[c]furan, 1,3-diphenyl-cycloaddition reactions, 4, 67 electrophilic substitution, 4, 604 history, 4, 533... 

Furan, 2,5-bis(trimethylsilyloxy)-cycloaddition reactions, 4, 625 Diels-Alder reactions, 4, 77 synthesis, 1, 417 Furan, bromo-dipole moments, 4, 553 Furan, 2-bromo-electron diffraction, 4, 537 reactions, 4, 78 synthesis, 4, 604 Furan, 3-bromo-electron diffraction, 4, 537 Furan, 2-bromomethyl-5-nitro-reactions... 

Furan, 2,3-dihydro-5-methyl-polymers, 1, 276 Furan, 2,3-dihydro-3-methylene- H NMR, 4, 577 Furan, 2,5-dihydro-2-methylene- H NMR, 4, 577 tautomerism aromaticity and, 4, 595 Furan, 2,5-dihydro-2-nitro-structure, 4, 550 Furan, 2,3-dihydroxy-tautomerism, 4, 37 Furan, 2,4-dihydroxy-tautomerism, 4, 37 Furan, 3,4-dihydroxy-tautomerism, 4, 37 Furan, 2,5-diiodo-nitration, 4, 602 synthesis, 4, 712 Furan, 3,4-diiodo-reactions, 4, 650 Furan, 2,3-dimethoxy-synthesis, 4, 625, 648 Furan, 2,5-dimethoxy-synthesis, 4, 648 Furan, 3,4-dimethoxy-cycloaddition reactions, 4, 64, 625 lithiation, 4, 651 reactions... 

Intramolecular cycloaddition reactions of allylic cations with participation and/ or formation of heterocycles, mainly [4+3]-cycloaddition to furan system 97T6235. 

Thiophenes are less reactive than furans and therefore react with very reactive dienophiles. They behave somewhat differently from furans and in many cases the intermediate addition products are unstable and undergo cheleotropic extrusion of sulfur [30]. Thiophenes 30 undergo cycloaddition reactions with DMAD (Equation 2.11) to afford bicyclic cycloadducts which lead to phthal-ates by sulfur extrusion, thus offering a one-pot synthesis of dimethylphthalates [31]. 

Benzo[c]furans (isobenzofurans) are very reactive but generally unstable dienes which are prepared in situ and trapped. The in ihu-generated isobenzo-furan 33 was trapped by cycloaddition reaction with bis(methyl (S)-lactyl) ester 34 to afford [32] optically active naphthols (Equation 2.12). The cycloaddition was carried out in the presence of a catalytic amount of glacial acetic acid and represents a facile one-pot procedure to synthesize substituted naphthols. 

As vinylbenzofurans allow a large variety of substituted dibenzofurans to be synthesized, 2- and 3-vinylbenzo[b]thiophenes allow an easy entry, by Diels Alder reaction with the appropriate dienophiles, to substituted dibenzo-thiophenes which are not easily accessible by other methods. Vinylbenzo-[bjthiophenes are less reactive than the corresponding vinylbenzo[b]furans. Some cycloaddition reactions of 2-vinylbenzo[b]thiophene (82) with various dienophiles are reported [83] in Scheme 2.34. 

The thermo- and photocycloaddition of alkenes will be discussed in Chapter 12, on pericyclic reactions. On the other hand, transition-metals have effectively catalyzed some synthetically useful cycloaddition reactions in water. For example, Lubineau and co-worker reported a [4 + 3] cycloaddition by reacting a,a-dibromo ketones with furan or cyclopen-tadiene mediated by iron or copper, or a-chloro ketones in the presence of triethylamine (Eq. 3.48).185... 

The study of the cycloaddition behavior of l,l-dichloro-2-neopentylsilene, C Si =CHCH2Bu (2) [3], reveals the high polarity of the Si=C bond and a strong electrophilicity. The [4+2] cycloaddition reactions with anthracene (3), cyclopentadiene (4) and fulvenes (5) proceed as expected surprising, however, the Diels-Alder reactions with dienes are of lower activity, like naphthalene (6) and furans (7). 

The substitution of the exo-methylene hydrogen atoms of MCP with halogens seems to favor the [2 + 2] cycloaddition reaction by stabilizing the intermediate diradical. Indeed, chloromethylenecyclopropane (96) reacts with acrylonitrile (519) to give a diastereomeric mixture of spirohexanes in good yield (Table 41, entry 2) [27], but was unreactive towards styrene and ds-stilbene. Anyway, it reacted with dienes (2,3-dimethylbutadiene, cyclopentadiene, cyc-lohexadiene, furan) exclusively in a [4 + 2] fashion (see Sect. 2.1.1) [27], while its... 

Cycloaddition reactions of furans are still widely used as key steps in the construction of complex molecules including natural products. As an example, the intramolecular Diels-Alder cycloaddition of 2-amido substituted furans provides a useful tool for the synthesis of fused, nitrogen-containing poly-heterocycles. Thus, thermolysis of 3-substituted amidofuran produces tricyclic indolinone 39 as a 2 1 mixture of diastereomers via amidofuran cycloaddition-rearrangement methodology, which serves as a key intermediate in the total synthesis of ( )-dendrobine, a major component of the Chinese ornamental orchid Dendrobium nobile . 

The intramolecular cycloaddition reactions of the nitrile oxides 357 (n = 1, 2, 3, 9), obtained in situ from the 2,5-difunctional furan hydroximoyl chlorides or nitro compounds (415) has specific features because of the 2,5-arrangement of two open chains bearing acetylenic and fulminic moieties. Only with 357 (n = 3) is the expected furanoisoxazolophane 358 formed, in acceptable yield. Compound 357 ( =9) gives a complex product mixture whereas 357 ( = 1, 2) gives rise to the exclusive reaction of the dipole with a double bond of the furan system. 

Ring opening reaction of alkylidenecyclopropanone acetals readily proceeds in the presence of Lewis or Bransted acids to produce l-alkylidene-2-oxyallyl cation, which is provided for the reaction with nucleophiles such as chloride, alcohols, siloxyalkenes, and furans. The reaction of this cation with the carbon nucleophiles gives products of [4 + 3] and [3 + 2] cycloaddition as well as those of nucleophilic addition. The modes of addition reactions are controlled by the oxy group of the cation and by the reaction conditions including solvent. 

Both uncatalyzed and catalyzed [4+2]-cycloaddition reactions of furans with the allenic esters have been reported (Table 12.6) [93]. The allene adds from the less hindered C1-C2 Jt-face. The unfavorable steric interaction between the a-hydrogen atom of the furan and the methyl group at C4 of the allene is responsible for this selectivity. The more reactive 2-methylfuran adds to the allenic ester also in a regio-selective manner. The C2 carbon atom of 2-methylfuran was exclusively attached to the Cl carbon atom of the allenic ester, providing a mixture of endo- and exoadducts. 

Table 12.6 Uncatalyzed and catalyzed cycloaddition reactions of furans with allenic esters...

Nair and coworkers have described the [8 + 2] cycloaddition reactions of 2H-cyclohep-ta[fr]furan-2-ones such as 521 in several reports311. The reactions of 521 with alkenes yield azulene derivatives upon extrusion of carbon dioxide. Table 30 summarizes the results of the reactions between 521 and some 6,6-disubstituted fulvenes 522 (equation 151)311b. In the case of 6,6-dialkyl fulvenes 522a-c, the [8 + 2] cycloadducts 523 were the major adducts obtained, the Diels-Alder adducts 524 only being formed in trace amounts. 

The [8 + 2] cycloaddition reactions between substituted cyclohcpta h]furan-2-ones and enamines have been described by Kuroda and coworkers312. The cycloaddition reactions proceeded with concomitant elimination of carbon dioxide and amine. Thus, the reaction between 527 and enamine 528 afforded [8 + 2] cycloadduct 529 with good yield (equation 153)312c. 

NICS(O) value (—11.0) is lower than that for the corresponding azadiphosphole (—12.8 see section III.C.2.1), similar to the differences in the furan and pyrrole NICS values (—12.3 and —14.7, respectively, at the same level of theory).The high reactivity of the oxadiphosphole in cycloaddition reactions is in accord with its low aromaticity. 

An example of the second type of modification is the application of the Diels-Alder cycloaddition reaction to polders and copol ers containing pendant or backbone furan moieties. The use of bis-dienophiles such as propiolic acid and its esters or bis-maleimides provides a means of crosslinking based on multiple bridging by the double interchain lycloadditions. The thermal reversibility of these reactions allows the return to the original linear structure (thermoplastic material) by simply heating the gel. 

Other examples of the iodonium ylide-based syntheses of furan derivatives involve cycloaddition reactions with alkenes or alkynes. Although the majority of these syntheses involve stable iodonium ylides (86JOC3453 94T11541) (e.g., Eqs. 16 and 17), in some cases the ylides are unstable and are generated in situ (92JOC2135) (e.g., Eq. 18). In the case of alkenes, dihydrofuran derivatives are obtained (Eqs. 16-18). This synthetic route is especially useful for the synthesis of dihydrobenzofuran derivatives that are related to the neolignan family of natural products (Eq. 18). 

When these cycloaddition reactions are carried out with alkynes, furan derivatives are formed. lodonium ylide 5, for instance, on photochemical reaction with alkynes 43, gives benzofurans 44 (86JOC3453) (Eq. 19). In a similar way, the iodonium ylide derived from 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone undergoes a cycloaddition reaction with phenylacety-lene to yield benzofuran 45 (Scheme 16) (89LA167). 

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