Furan, Michael addition

As we found that furan and thiophene substituted oximes can be used as substrates for the INOC reactions (Eq. 5) [29b] similarly, furan substituted nitro alkane 134 is also a good substrate for INOC reactions (Eq. 13) [40]. The furfuryl derivative 134, prepared via Michael addition of furfuryl alcohol to 4-methoxy- -nitrostyrene, was subsequently transformed without isolation of the intermediate nitrile oxide 135 to the triheterocyclic isoxazoline 136 as a 5 1 mixture of isomers in high yield. 

In the case of nitronates possessing ester or nitrile moieties as terminal olefin substituents, tandem Michael addition to produce substituted furans 174,175 occurred faster than trapping of the nitronate anion by TMSCl (Eq. 17). 

Balme and coworkers reported on a procedure for the preparation of highly functionalized furans of type 2-940 (Scheme 2.210) [480]. Their approach is based on a nucleophilic Michael addition of propargyl alcohols 2-937 to alkylidene or aryl-idenemalonates 2-938, followed by a palladium-catalyzed cydization via the carban-ion 2-939. The reactions with propargyl alcohol led to the formation of only one di-... 

Yosikoshi reported the synthesis of furan derivatives by the reaction of 1,3-diketones with nitroalkenes, in which the Michael addition of the anions of 1,3-diketones and the subsequent intramolecular displacement of the nitro group by enolate oxygen are involved as key steps (Eq. 7.40).42... 

Sequential Michael additions are versatile methods for the construction of cyclic compounds. Although a variety of these reactions have been developed, the use of alcohols as nucleophiles for the Michael addition to nitroalkenes has been little studied. Recently, Ikeda and coworkers have reported an elegant synthesis of octahydrobenzo[b]furans via the sequential Michael addition of 1-nitro-cyclohexene with methyl 4-hydroxy-2-butynoate in the presence of t-BuOK followed by radical denitration (Eq. 7.74).94... 

An intramolecular radical cyclization gives the cxo-cyclic compounds, which has been extensively used in the synthesis of cyclic compounds. Michael additions of allyl alcohols or propargy 1 alcohols to nitroalkenes and the subsequent treatment with tin radicals provide a useful method for the preparation of substituted furans (Eqs. 7.83 and 7.84).126... 

The IMDAF (intramolecular Diels-Alder furan) precursors 492 were prepared via Michael addition of nucleophiles possessing an unsaturated tether 491 to furoyl nitroalkene 490. Furyl nitroalkene 490 was prepaperd via the nitroaldol (Flenry) reaction. Compound 492 was heated in appropriate solvent such as toluene, xylene, etc., to provide the IMDAF cycloadducts 65 and 66 (Table 16) <2005JOC2235>. 

Dicarbonyl compounds can be converted into furans by methods other than the classical Feist- Benary method, the essential feature of which is alkylation by a haloketone or similar species. A curious variation is provided by the use of trichloronitroethene, Cl2C=CCIN02, which condenses with two moles of a 1,3-dicarbonyl compound by Michael addition followed by elimination of two chloride ions the third chloride is lost at the aroma-tization step so that, for example, methyl 3-oxobenzenepropanoate is converted into the nitrofuran 38."... 

As depicted in the following scheme, in the presence of sodium iodate and pyridine, several 5,6-dihydroxylated benzofuran derivatives were synthesized via an oxidation-Michael addition of P-dicarbonyl compounds to catechols in a one-pot procedure <06TL2615 06JHC1673>. A novel additive Pummerer reaction of 2-benzo[fc]furan sulfilimines with carbon nucleophiles derived from P-dicarbonyl compounds was also employed to the synthesis of 2,3-disubstituted benzo[b]furans <06TL595>. 

Deprotection of 2,2-disubstituted-l,3-dithiolanes to give carbonyl compounds can be achieved using Oxone with KBr in aq. MeCN <06TL8559> and a review of silylated heterocycles as formyl anion equivalents includes reference to 64 <06CC4881>. A method for transformation of propargylic dithiolanes 43 into tetrasubstituted furans has been reported <06SL1209> and Michael addition of enolates to the chiral dithiolane dioxide 65 takes place... 

Reactions of furan (5) under solvent-free conditions, catalyzed by Montmorillonite K10, have been described by Cintas [27]. The reaction with methyl vinyl ketone (32) produced Michael addition in positions 2 and 5, whereas reaction with symmetrically substituted cyclic dienophiles produced a mixture of the endo and exo adducts with the kinetically favored endo adduct predominating, except when maleic anhydride (39) was used as the dienophile (Scheme 9.2). 

The competition between Michael addition of a,(3-unsaturated ketones and Diels-Alder reactions involving furan and 2-methylfuran is affected by the catalyst used. Methyl vinyl ketone gives the alkylation product with furan and 2-methylfuran in the presence of silica gel (88TL175). Bis(alkylated) products have also been obtained in reactions of 2-methylene-1,3-dicarbonyl compounds (90H(31)1699). An intramolecular proton catalyzed alkylation reaction of an a,(3-unsaturated ketone provided a straightforward synthesis of norpinguisone (90TL4343) and in the example shown in Equation (4) the cyclization reaction involved an a,(3-y,8-dienone (94TL4887). 

Nitroalkenes, e.g. 1 -nitrocyclohexene, 1-nitrocycloheptene, 1-nitrocyclooctene and (3-methyl-j8-nitrostyrene, undergo Michael addition with the enolate anions of (3-ketoesters. The resulting acids undergo a Nef reaction to give 1,4-diketones, which yield furans by subsequent ring closure (Scheme 18) (59LA(626)7l). 

The enedione (283) is a useful starting material for a two-step synthesis of 2,3,4,5-tetrasubstituted furans which are not otherwise readily accessible (81JCS(P1)2398). Michael addition of an active methylene compound, e.g. (284), to the enedione (283) led to the two regioisomeric adducts (285) and (286) which could then be cyclized to furans (287) and (288) under mild conditions (Scheme 75). The formation of Michael adducts was successful with both j8-ketoesters (284) and cyclic 1,3-diones. Normal routes to furans require much more drastic conditions the Michael addition allowed the preparation of 1,4-diones particularly activated by the presence of an easily enolizable group. This is a useful synthetic pathway because alternative routes for the preparation of complex furans are not at present available. 

Furo[3,4-c]pyridin-4-one derivatives have been prepared from 3,4-disubstituted furans (Scheme 20). Thus Michael addition of acetoacetic esters to /rans-3-hexene-2,5-dione gives adducts with a cyclohemiacetal structure (90) which easily dehydrates to furan derivatives (91) by treatment with acid. These compounds are suitable intermediates for the preparation of furo[3,4-c]pyridin-4-ones and furo[3,4-c]pyranones (Section 3.17.2.2.1) (78JHC993). These latter compounds are far more stable than the previously described furo[3,4-c]-pyridine itself. 

Methyl 3-oxodithioalkanoates 109 Methyl 2-pyridinesulfinate 55 (Methylthio)furans 146 (/ )-(+)-MethyI p-tolyl sulfoxide 26 Michael addition... 

A six-step synthesis of hexahydrofuro[3,2-3]oxepin-2(3/7)-one involves cyclization with the formation of an ethereal C-0 bond (Scheme 13). However, its specific peculiarities are that the product skeleton is built from tetrahydrofuran (THF) and furan, the key reactions being the oxidation of a furan ring with singlet oxygen, followed by an intramolecular Michael addition to 2(5/7)-furanone C=C bond <2003TL4467, 2004TL5207>. 

Racemic yatein 43 was obtained by Michael addition of the anion of piperonaldehyde dithiomethyl acetal to 5/7-furan-2-one (butenolide), followed by trapping of the resulting enolate with 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzyl bromide (see section 3.2.2). This process gave 43 with the desired trans stereochemistry at the butyrolactone. Oxidative coupling of the two... 

The activation of allenes is a rather new, but particularly promising area of gold catalysis.381,400 The first example for such a transformation is the cycloisomerization of allenic ketones 480 to furans 482 which probably occurs via intermediate 481 (Scheme 147). Hashmi et /.401,401a showed that this reaction proceeds much faster when gold(m) chloride in acetonitrile is employed as the precatalyst instead of the traditionally used silver salts (cf. Section 9.12.3.2). The products are usually contaminated by substituted furans originating from a Michael addition of aurated 482 to the substrates 480, thereby indicating that the gold catalyst is also capable to activate C-H bonds of furans. 

On the basis of this palladium-mediated Michael addition cyclization process, a novel two-step synthetic entry into functionalized furan derivatives 67 has also been devised (Scheme 28). Substitution of benzylidene (or alkyli-dene) malonates for their ethoxymethylene analog (65) as activating olefins gave rise to the formation of the corresponding 2-ethoxy-4-arylidene tetrahy-drofurans 66. An in situ addition of potassium ferf-buloxidc induced a decar-boxylative elimination reaction which was followed by an isomerization of the exocyclic double bond. The entire process successively involved a conjugate addition, a palladium-catalyzed cyclization-coupling reaction, a base-induced eliminative decarboxylation, and finally, a double bond isomerization [73]. 

This sequence can be rationalized by acid-catalyzed transacetalization of the initially formed ynone 159 to give the propargyl alcohol 160 (Scheme 61). Then, the acid-mediated Michael addition of iodide to the ynone moiety gives rise to the formation of the Z-configured enone 161 which, in turn, cyclocon-denses to furnish the iodo furans 158. 

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