Furans unsaturated

Clerodanes involve a (C61C6) group variously linked to furan (unsaturated C40), pyran (unsaturated C50), methyleneoxy and methylenedioxy rings. Clerodanes include bitter tastants and antifeedants as exemplified by the extremely bitter component columbin of the bitter tonic made from roots of Jateorhiza columba (columba root) (Menispermaceae). 

The disadvantages associated with the Clemmensen reduction of carbonyl compounds (see 3 above), viz., (a) the production of small amounts of carbinols and unsaturated compounds as by-products, (h) the poor results obtained with many compounds of high molecular weight, (c) the non-appUcability to furan and pyrrole compounds (owing to their sensitivity to acids), and (d) the sensitivity to steric hindrance, are absent in the modified Wolff-Kishner reduction. 

The 7, i5-unsaturated alcohol 99 is cyclized to 2-vinyl-5-phenyltetrahydro-furan (100) by exo cyclization in aqueous alcohol[124]. On the other hand, the dihydropyran 101 is formed by endo cyclization from a 7, (5-unsaturated alcohol substituted by two methyl groups at the i5-position. The direction of elimination of /3-hydrogen to give either enol ethers or allylic ethers can be controlled by using DMSO as a solvent and utilized in the synthesis of the tetronomycin precursor 102[125], The oxidation of the optically active 3-alkene-l,2-diol 103 affords the 2,5-dihydrofuran 104 in high ee. It should be noted that /3-OH is eliminated rather than /3-H at the end of the reac-tion[126]. 

The radical-catalyzed polymerization of furan and maleic anhydride has been reported to yield a 1 1 furan-maleic anhydride copolymer (89,91). The stmcture of the equimolar product, as shown by nmr analyses, is that of an unsaturated alternating copolymer (18) arising through homopolymerization of the intermediate excited donor—acceptor complex (91,92). 

Aqueous mineral acids react with BF to yield the hydrates of BF or the hydroxyfluoroboric acids, fluoroboric acid, or boric acid. Solution in aqueous alkali gives the soluble salts of the hydroxyfluoroboric acids, fluoroboric acids, or boric acid. Boron trifluoride, slightly soluble in many organic solvents including saturated hydrocarbons (qv), halogenated hydrocarbons, and aromatic compounds, easily polymerizes unsaturated compounds such as butylenes (qv), styrene (qv), or vinyl esters, as well as easily cleaved cycHc molecules such as tetrahydrofuran (see Furan derivatives). Other molecules containing electron-donating atoms such as O, S, N, P, etc, eg, alcohols, acids, amines, phosphines, and ethers, may dissolve BF to produce soluble adducts. 

Similar transformations are based upon 1,2-thiazine 2,2-dioxides (5-sultones), easily obtained by treating a,/3- or /3,y-unsaturated ketones with acetic anhydride and sulfuric acid. These compounds can be converted subsequently into furans, thiophenes or pyrroles (Scheme 115). 

The unsaturated tetraoxaquaterene (accompanied by linear condensation products) was first synthesized in 18.5% yield by the acid-catalyzed condensation of furan with acetone in the absence of added lithium salts. Other ketones also condensed with furan to give analogous products in 6-12% yield.A corresponding macrocycle was also prepared in 9% yield from pyrrole and cyclohexanone. The macrocyclic ether products have also been obtained by condensation of short linear condensation products having 2, 3, or 4 furan rings with a carbonyl compound. ... 

Subsbtuting vinylic hydrogen in a,P-unsaturated carbonyl compounds with vinylic fluonne 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 tctrafluorobenzoquinone forms only a bis-Diels-Alder adduct m 68% yield in its reaction with cyclopentadiene at room temperature [96, 97 ... 

Unsaturated y-lactones, c.g., a- (23) and / -angelica lactone (24), are well known. Compounds 23 and 24 are both converted by alkaline catalysts into an equilibrium mixture in which 23 predominates, the amount of the hydroxy form (25) present at equilibrium being exceedingly small. True a-hydroxy furans are unknown, and, although the preparation of both a- and / -bydroxyfurans has been reported, these claims have often been refuted (see, e.g., reference 14). 

Pyrrole, the simplest five-membered unsaturated heterocyclic amine, is obtained commercially by treatment of furan with ammonia over an alumina catalyst at 400 °C. Furan, the oxygen-containing analog of pyrrole, is obtained by acid-catalyzed dehydration of the five-carbon sugars found in oat hulls and... 

N. A-Diethyl-2.3-dihydro-8//-thieno[2,3-r/]azcpin-7-amine (20), which is obtained in 49 % yield by photolysis of 6-azido-2,3-dihydrothiophene in a mixture of diethylamine and tetrahydro-furan. on treatment with bromine yields the fully unsaturated derivative 21.1,4... 

Diels-Alder cycloaddition of 3,4-bis(trifluoromethyl)furan with ethyl propynoate involved addition of two a,/3-unsaturated esters followed by acid-catalyzed ring opening, rearrangement, and elimination of ethanol to give a 6,7-bis(trifluoromethyl)isocoumarin-3-carboxylate [92JFC(56)359]. 

Fragmentation Losses from the molecular ions are 1, 29, and 30 Daltons with the loss of 29 (CHO) being characteristic of cyclic ethers. This loss also appears in the mass spectra of unsaturated cyclic ethers, such as furans and benzofurans. The fragmentation of saturated cyclic ethers generally shows a M — 1 ion. 

An excellent review by Roth and Eisner (63) summarized the chemical defense substances found in arthropods up to 1962. These authors listed 31 defense substances of known structure one anhydride, three carboxylic acids, nine aldehydes, one furan, three hydrocarbons, two ketones, one lactone, eight quinones, and three inorganic compounds. Many of these same compounds (unsaturated aldehydes and quinones) have been found in other arthropods since 1962 (38). The compounds are discharged when the animal is disturbed by predators, and there can be no doubt that the action of most of them... 

Furan derivatives with an aromatic system fused on one of the ring s double bonds, such as benzofuran, naphthofuran etc., can be polymerized cationically through the other ring s double bond. In these polymerizations the complications encountered with furan and alkylfurans [see Section III-A-l-c] are absent because only one unsaturation is available for propagation, the other being tied up in the benzene system... 

The insertion of alkynes into a chromium-carbon double bond is not restricted to Fischer alkenylcarbene complexes. Numerous transformations of this kind have been performed with simple alkylcarbene complexes, from which unstable a,/J-unsaturated carbene complexes were formed in situ, and in turn underwent further reactions in several different ways. For example, reaction of the 1-me-thoxyethylidene complex 6a with the conjugated enyne-ketimines and -ketones 131 afforded pyrrole [92] and furan 134 derivatives [93], respectively. The alkyne-inserted intermediate 132 apparently undergoes 671-electrocyclization and reductive elimination to afford enol ether 133, which yields the cycloaddition product 134 via a subsequent hydrolysis (Scheme 28). This transformation also demonstrates that Fischer carbene complexes are highly selective in their reactivity toward alkynes in the presence of other multiple bonds (Table 6). 

The high chemoselectivity for the Baeyer-Villiger process was utilized in the synthetic elaboration of another hetero-bicyclic substrate. The biooxidation only provides the expected unsaturated lactone in a desymmetrization reaction without compromising the olefin functionality. The biotransformation product was then converted to pivotal intermediates for C-nucleosides like showdomycin, tetrahydro-furan natural products like kumausyne, and goniofufurone analogs in subsequent chemical operations (Scheme 9.17) [161]. 

Hydroxy(tosyloxy)iodobenzene 2014 reacts with phenyltrimethylsilane 81 in boiling acetonitrile to give diphenyliodonium tosylate 2015 and trimethylsilanol 4 or HMDSO 7 [184, 185]. Likewise, treatment of 2,5-bis(trimethylsilyl)furan 2016 with 2014 in boiling acetonitrile/methanol affords 78% iodonium tosylate 2017 and trimethylsilanol 4 [185]. In the presence of Bp3-OEt2 iodosobenzene oxidizes allyl-trimethylsilanes such as 2018 to unsaturated aldehydes such as 2019 in 63% yield, with formation of iodobenzene and trimethylsilanol 4 [186]. Analogously, vinyltrimethylsilanes such as (Z)-l-trimethylsilyl-2-phenylethylene 2020 afford, via 2021, acetylenes such as phenylacetylene in 61% yield and iodobenzene and trimethylsilanol 4 [187] (Scheme 12.54). 

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>. 

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