Grignard intramolecular

Intramolecular Grignard Reactions. Some chemists use the reactivity of a substituent in the Gtignard reagent to generate the desired product. For example, a one-step spiroaimelation reaction has been developed by taking advantage of a dihaUde or a cyano-haUde reactant (92—94). 

Formally analogous to the foregoing Grignard additions are the intramolecular condensations of amides with aromatic systems, found in the Bischler-Napieralski reaction 101), which is of particular interest in isoquinoline and indole alkaloid syntheses (102). Condensations of amidines with reactive methylene compounds also led to enamines (103-106). 

A modern variant is the intramolecular magnesium-ene reaction, e.g. the reaction of the alkene-allylic-Grignard compound 9 to give the five-membered ring product 10. This reaction proceeds regio- and stereoselectively, and is a key step in a synthesis of the sesquiterpenoid 6-protoilludene ... 

Phthalic anhydride is reacted with phenylacetic acid to form 3-benzylidenephthalide which is then hydrogenated to 2-phenethylbenzoic acid. Conversion to the acid chloride followed by intramolecular dehydrochlorination yields the ketone, 5H-dibenzo[a,d] cyclohepten-5-one. The ketone undergoes a Grignard reaction with 3-(dimethylamino)propyl chloride to give 5-(7-dimethylaminopropylidene)-5H-dibenzo[a,d] cycloheptene. 

In some cases, the Grignard reaction can be performed intramolecularly. For example, treatment of 5-bromo-2-pentanone with magnesium and a small amount of mercuric chloride in THE produced 1-methyl-1-cyclobutanol in 60% yield. Other four- and five-membered ring compounds were also prepared by this procedure. Similar closing of five- and six-membered rings was achieved by treatment of a 6- or s-halocarbonyl compound, not with a metal, but with a dianion derived from nickel... 

The intramolecular cyclization route to p-lactams still provides interest. P-Amino esters (obtained by a Reformatsky-type reaction of an imine and bromoacetates derived from chiral alcohols) are cyclized by the action Grignard reagents to 4-substituted P-lactams with impressive e.e. <96TL4095>. A similar approach through a Reformatsky-type reaction uses tricarbonyl(Ti -benzaldimine)chromium complexes and ultrasound <96T4849>. 3-Methyl-azetidin-2-ones (obtained from 3-amino-2-methylpropionates) have been resolved and their... 

Intramolecular adducts have also been used as gallium and indium precursor complexes they are synthesized by the alkylation of the group 13 metal trihalide with an appropriate Grignard reagent,89 as shown Figure 20. 

This reaction is extended to the intramolecular ring closure of the intermediate radical 224 with olefinic or trimethylsilylacetylenic side chains [121]. Cu(BF4)2 is also effective as an oxidant (Scheme 89) [122]. Conjugate addition of Grignard reagents to 2-eyclopenten-l-one followed by cyclopropanation of the resulting silyl enol ethers gives the substituted cyclopropyl silyl ethers, which are oxidized to 4-substituted-2-cyclohexen-l-ones according to the above-mentioned method [123]. (Scheme 88 and 89)... 

TMC ATRA reactions can also be conducted intramolecularly when alkyl halide and alkene functionalities are part of the same molecule. Intramolecular TMC ATRA or atom transfer radical cyclization (ATRC) is a very attractive synthetic tool because it enables the synthesis of functionalized ring systems that can be used as starting materials for the preparation of complex organic molecules [10,11], Furthermore, halide functionality in the resulting product can be very beneficial because it can be easily reduced, eliminated, displaced, converted to a Grignard reagent, or if desired serve as a further radical precursor. The use of copper-mediated ATRC in organic synthesis has been reviewed recently and some illustrative examples are shown in Scheme 3 [10,11,31,32,33],... 

Chiral rra s-2,5-dialkylpyrrolidines, which were used for the synthesis of ant-venom pyrrolizidines, were prepared in the following manner, d-Alanine was transformed into an pentenylamine which, upon intramolecular amidomercuration, yielded 15 (90TA561 92JOC4401). From a protected AA amide, after a Grignard reaction and treatment of the aminoketone with ethyl acetoacetate, the tetrasubstituted pyrrole 16 was obtained [93H(35)843],... 

The total synthesis of the natural ( )-l(15),7,9-dolastatrien-14-ol (( )-122) was reported in 1986 by Piers and Friesen (Scheme 21) [80]. The hydroazulene 143 served as key intermediate and the C-ring was annulated by an intramolecular Grignard reaction of the vinyl magnesium ketone 144 to provide the desired dolastane (+)-122 in moderate yield as a single... 

The approach, which differs from other recent syntheses (3,4,5), is outlined in Scheme 1. Three points may be noted (i) in the Grignard addition to 2,3-0-isopropylidene-D-ribose (2) the D-allo configuration in (3 is in accordance with the Felkin-Anh model (0 and is to be expected from our earlier work (1 ) (ii) methane-sulfonylation of the oxime ( ) serves not only to dehydrate the oxime but to introduce a leaving group for ring closure at the next step (iii) the intramolecular displacement to form the pyrrolidine ring (( ) ] proceeds cleanly and with complete inversion of... 

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