Heptane structure

Another common ring system is the norbornane, or bicyclo[2.2.1.)heptane, structure. Like decalin, norbornane is a bicycloalkane, so called because two rings would have to be broken open to generate an acyclic structure. Its systematic name, bicyclo[2.2.1 heptane, reflects the fact that the molecule has seven carbons, is bicyclic, and has three "bridges" of 2, 2, and 1 carbon atoms connecting the two bridgehead carbons. 

Thus, the predictions seem to be in conflict with the observed syn biases. However, along the trajectory of attack of the nucleophile to the carbonyl group of the bicyclo[2.2.2]octane structures (indicated in 23 and 24), out-of-phase interactions between the reagent and the substrate are involved, and this is different from the situation in the bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane structures (15a) [83-87]. Thus, attack on the side opposite to the unsaturated moiety will be favored. This is a kind of SOI (Fig. 3a) which unsymmetrizes the n face. 

Pyramidalization is thought not to be relevant to the different face selectivity of 4 + 2 cycloaddition reactions of diene systems exocyclic to the bicyclo[2,2,l]heptane structure, because selectivity persists for additions to dienes which are not significantly distorted (Gallucci et al., 1985). 

In addition, polar media such as methanol should favor SnI mechanisms where the disconnection of the central or zero C-C bond of the bicy-clo[3.2.0]heptane structure XV should be the more likely process, owing to the stability of the benzylic tertiary carbenium ion XIX produced there, and the decrease in ring strain. As a consequence, compounds such as XX should have been obtained, something contrary to actual experimental fact. Finally, the lack of reactivity of XVIII in the 8 2 sense and its putative equivalent in our system I -f II (intermediate XV) may also be due to the neopentylic character of the involved cyclobutyl methylene. 

An enantiomerically pure aldehyde, (lR,2R,3R)-2,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[3.1.1]hep-tane-2-aldehyde, is produced from a-pinene by rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation [79, 80]. Initially, reaction with ferrocene under acidic conditions leads to a 1 1 mixture of diastereoisomeric cations, but on standing for a few hours at room temperature, isomerization by rotation around the ferrocene — cationic carbon bond to the thermodynamically more stable cation (with configuration (R) at the cationic center) occurs (Fig. 4-11). An enantiomerically pure amine is available by trapping of this cation by azide and reduction [75]. Analogously, the isomeric aldehyde with the bicyclo [2.2.1] heptane structure is formed by hydroformylation of a-pinene with cobalt catalysts [79, 80] and was used as the starting material for an isomeric series of chiral amines [75]. 

Even in the early days of homogeneous hydrocyanation the reaction of norbor-nene with hydrogen cyanide in the presence of tetrakisftriphenyl phosphite)palla-dium(O) 12 indicated the influence of steric factors, since exo-5-cyanobicy-clo[2.2.1]heptane (Structure 10) is obtained stereospecifically. This result was confirmed in similar reactions showing that the entering cyano group is directed into the exo-position of the norbomene system [28]. This is due to the complexa-tion of the palladium(O) center to the exo-face of norbomene. Recent experiments have also utilized the bicyclic system to demonstrate asymmetric hydrocyanation induced by chiral palladium diphosphine complexes. Depending on the applied ligand system 11-17, an enantiomeric excess (ee) up to 40% is obtained [25]. 

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The low-temperature stability of bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane derivatives is well documented by the huge literature on liquid-phase norbornyl carbonium chemistry under such conditions, no ring expansion is observed, but instead, multiple Wagner-Meerwein rearrangements take place, preserving the bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane structure in the course of nucleophilic substitution or elimination reactions. This remarkable behavior is at the origin of the nonclassic carbonium ion concept (28). 

Acrylonitriles with donor substituents such as a methoxy or ter/-butylsulfanyl group in the a position reacted with methylenecyclopropane and bicyclopropylidene at higher temperatures to give [2-f2] cycloadducts 14. The tert-butylsulfanyl group gave rise to the formation of a second product with a 5-thiaspiro[2.4]heptane structure 15 due to the isobutene elimination from the intermediate. ... 

Several natural products contain the norcarane (bicyclo[4.1.0]heptane) structure. The isomeric carenes arc comparatively inexpensive compounds occurring in almost enantiomerically pure form, but only as the (-r)-isomers [configuration (15)]. It is possible to convert ( + )-3-carene to ( + )-2-carene by base-induced isomerization31-38, without loss of optical purity. 

Compounds Containing the Bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane Structure 3.4.1. Camphor, Fenchone, Borneol, and Fenchol... 

All natural T. m. have the tricyclo[2.2.1.0 ]heptane structure, the parent C,o-skeleton is called tricyclene. Although the ring system is strained it seems to be... 

Lai, K., Zarate, E.A., Youngs, W.J., and Salomon, R.G., Robustadials. 2. Total synthesis of the bicyclo[3.2.0]heptane structure proposed for robustadials A and B, /. Org. Chem., 53, 3673, 1988. Salomon, R.G. and Avasthi, K., A copper(l) catalyzed photobicyclization route to exo-l,2-polym-ethylene- and 7-hydroxynorbornanes. Nonclassical 2-bicyclo[3.2.0]heptyl and 7-norbornyl carbe-... 

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