Hetero Diels-Alder cycloadditions

Lewis-acid-catalyzed asymmetric hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition of a 1-thiabuta-1,3-diene with chiral A/-acryloyl and A/-crotonyl oxazolidinone dienophile [105]... 

Enhanced stereoselectivity in aqueous intramolecular hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition of chiral acyinitroso compounds [17c, d, 99]... 

Streith J., Defoin A. Aza Sugar Syntheses and Multi-Step Cascade Rearrangements Via Hetero Diels-Alder Cycloadditions With Nitroso Dienophiles Synlett 1996 189-200... 

Togni A., Pastor S. D. Cooperativity of Chirality in Homogeneous Catalysis The Gold(I)-Catalyzed Aldol Reaction and the Vanadium(IV)-Catalyzed Hetero-Diels-Alder Cycloaddition Chirality 1991 3 331-340... 

The first microwave-assisted hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition reaction was described by Diaz-Ortiz and co-workers in 1998 between 2-azadiene 198 and the same electron-poor dienophiles as for the preparation of pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridines 200 (Scheme 72) [127]. These dienes reacted with... 

Shao reported the microwave-assisted hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition reaction of a series of acetylenic pyrimidines to introduce a fused lactone/lactam ring, with no degradation of either reactants or products typical for the harsh thermal conditions (150-190°C, 15-144h) [131]. In contrast to the results reported when conventional heating was applied, the Diels-Alder cycloaddition under microwave irradiation gave a high yield of the desired fused lactones or lactams [132]. This reaction provided a practical and general method for the preparation of fused bicyclic pyridines 205 (Scheme 74). 

The hetero-Diels-Alder reaction has also utilized dienophiles in which both reactive centers are heteroatoms. Kibayashi reported that the intramolecular hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition of chiral acylnitroso compounds, generated in situ from periodate oxidation of the precursor hydroxamic acid, showed a marked enhancement of the trans-selectivity in an aqueous medium compared with the selectivity in nonaqueous conditions (Eq. 12.55).125 The reaction was readily applied to the total synthesis of (—)-pumiliotoxin C (Figure 12.5).126... 

Ab initio Hartree-Fock and density functional theory (DFT) calculations were performed to study transition geometries in the intramolecular hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions of azoalkenes 20 (LJ = CH2, NFI, O) (Equation 1). The order of the reactivities was predicted from frontier orbital energies. DFT calculations of the activation energies at the B3LYP level were in full agreement with the experimental results described in the literature <2001JST(535)165>. 

Cyclization reactions of pyrimidines were studied, for instance, the reactivity of tetrahydropyrido[4,3-fc]pyrimidines with DMAD leading to dihydropyrimidinylethylamines <05TL1975> and pyrimido[4,5-rf]pyrimidines obtained efficiently by hetero Diels-Alder cycloaddition of methyl 6-methyl-4-phenyl-2-thioxo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrimidine-5-... 

Inter- and intramolecular hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions in a series of functionalized 2-(lH)-pyrazinones have been studied in detail by the groups of Van der Eycken and Kappe (Scheme 6.95) [195-197]. In the intramolecular series, cycloaddition of alkenyl-tethered 2-(lH)-pyrazinones required 1-2 days under conventional thermal conditions involving chlorobenzene as solvent under reflux conditions (132 °C). Switching to 1,2-dichloroethane doped with the ionic liquid l-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate (bmimPF6) and sealed-vessel microwave technology, the same transformations were completed within 8-18 min at a reaction temperature of 190 °C (Scheme 6.95 a) [195]. Without isolating the primary imidoyl chloride cycloadducts, rapid hydrolysis was achieved by the addition of small amounts of water and subjecting the reaction mixture to further microwave irradia-... 

Scheme 6.95 Hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions of 2(1 H)-pyrazinones.

A general hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition of fulvenes with azadienes to furnish tetrahydro-[l]pyrindines has been described by Hong and coworkers (Scheme 6.241 see also Scheme 6.92) [424]. A solution of the azadiene and fulvene (1.2 equivalents) precursors in chlorobenzene was heated under open-vessel microwave irradiation for 30 min at 125 °C to provide the target compounds in excellent yields and with exclusive regio- and diastereoselectivity. Performing the reactions under conventional conditions or under microwave irradiation in different solvents provided significantly reduced yields. 

In an attempt to further elucidate the mechanism of this process, these workers monitored the reaction between propiophenone enolsilane and fumaroylimide by in situ infrared (IR) spectroscopy, Scheme 25 (240). In the absence of alcoholic additives, the accumulation of an intermediate is observed prior to appearance of product. When i-PrOH is introduced, immediate decomposition of the intermediate occurs with concomitant formation of product. Evans suggests that the intermediate observed in this reaction is dihydropyran (374). Indeed, this reaction may be viewed as a hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition followed by alcohol induced decomposition to the desired Michael adduct. That 374 may be acting as a competent inhibitor was suggested by an observed rate reduction when this reaction was conducted in the presence of IV-methyloxazolidinone. 

Another example, in which the piperidine cycle is generated de novo, exploits a hetero Diels-Alder cycloaddition of 1 -/r-tolylsulfinyl-1,3-penta-diene 91 with benzylnitrosoformate, that generates an oxazine 92 with complete regioselectivity and 7i-facial diastereoselectivity.69 Osmilation of the double bond inserts stereoselectively two hydroxyl groups on the oxazine skeleton, protection and catalytic hydrogenation finally afforded the enantiomerically pure imino sugars 94 (Fig. 38). 

Another example is the synthesis of carpanone (23), which takes place by a two-step dimerisation of two identical moieties (22). the second step proceeding via a hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition [19] (Scheme 4.5). 

Scheme 11 Regio- and stereoselectivity issues of the model hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition...

The precursor to (5) was made diastereoselectively by Fessner and coworkers [44]. When the intermediate ketose 1-phosphate was immediately submitted to hydrogenation conditions, l,5,6-trideoxy-l,5-imino-D-galactitol (1,6-dideoxygalactonojirimycin, 10) was obtained in fair yield [42]. The latter derivative was also obtained by a hetero Diels-Alder cycloaddition of a benzyloxycarbonyl nitroso dienophile to ( , )-sorbaldehyde dimethylacetal [45]. 

The Lewis acid-mediated reactions of 2-aza-l,3-dienes and aldehydes, resulting in tetrahydro-l,3-oxazin-4-one derivatives, were explained in terms of the competitive existence of two reaction pathways a [4+2] hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition reaction and a Mukaiyama aldol reaction <2001TA439>. 

Resin-bound 4/7-1,3-oxazines 115 were synthetized by the stepwise condensation of an amide resin 489, an aldehyde, and an alkyne. Formation of the oxazine ring took place in the presence of the catalyst BF3-Et20 via a hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition of the alkyne and the acyliminium 491 arising from the condensation of the amide and the aldehyde (Scheme 92). The quantitative efficacy of the process was determined by elemental analysis of a model system bearing a bromine atom on the aldehyde moiety (R =C6H4Br(p)), which indicated a 78% conversion for the heterocyclization <2001CEJ2318, 2004JC0846>. 

Figure 5.16. Attachment of a -conjugated molecule to the Si(100)-2x 1 surface using a hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition. Hamers and workers reacted 9,10-phenanthrenequinone, a di-carbonyl, with the surface, leading to aromatic rings oriented perpendicular to the surface [261].

Oxamborolidenes. There are noteworthy advances in the design, synthesis, and study of amino acid-derived oxazaborolidene complexes as catalysts for the Mukaiyama aldol addition. Corey has documented the use of complex 1 prepared from A-tosyl (S)-tryptophan in enantioselective Mukaiyama aldol addition reactions [5]. The addition of aryl or alkyl methyl ketones 2a-b proceeded with aromatic as well as aliphatic aldehydes, giving adducts in 56-100% yields and up to 93% ee (Scheme 8B2.1, Table 8B2.1). The use of 1-trimethylsilyloxycyclopentene 3 as well as dienolsilane 4 has been examined. Thus, for example, the cyclopentanone adduct with benzaldehyde 5 (R = Ph) was isolated as a 94 6 mixture of diastereomers favoring the syn diastereomer, which was formed with 92% ee, Dienolate adducts 6 were isolated with up to 82% ee it is important that these were shown to afford the corresponding dihydropyrones upon treatment with trifuoroacetic acid. Thus this process not only allows access to aldol addition adducts, but also the products of hetero Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions. 

A 1-thiabuta-1,3-diene (104) undergoes highly stereoselective hetero-Diels-Alder cycloadditions with chiral A -acryloyloxazoIidinones.180... 

Optically active a-alkoxycarbonylthioaldehydes were prepared from the corresponding a-dichloroacetates by treatment with bis(tributyltin)sulfide and tetrabutylammonium fluoride309 8-arylmenthols were used as chiral auxiliaries and the thioaldehydes underwent asymmetric hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition (equation 48). 

A further means of access to unsaturated carbohydrates from nonsugars is by application of the hetero-Diels Alder cycloaddition reaction between substituted-1,3-dienes (167) and aldehydes to give dihydropyrans (168). This... 

Kametani, T., Hibino, S., The Synthesis of Natural Heterocyclic Products by Hetero Diels-Alder Cycloaddition Reactions,... 

Heterocyclic iminium salts, oxidative transformation, 41, 275 Heterocyclic mesomeric betaines and analogs in natural product chemistry, 85, 67 Heterocyclic oligomers, 15, 1 Heterocyclic products, natural, synthesis of by hetero Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions, 42, 245... 

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