Hetero-Diels-Alder reaction enol ethers

It can be assumed that, in the presence of InCl3 and water, the cyclic enol ethers 2-618 form a hydroxy aldehyde which reacts with the aniline to give an aromatic im-inium ion. This represents an electron-poor 1,3-butadiene which can undergo a hetero-Diels-Alder reaction [323] with another molecule of 2-618 to give a mixture of the diastereomeric tetrahydroquinolines 2-619 and 2-620. 

As the name implies, the first step of this domino process consists of a Knoevenagel condensation of an aldehyde or a ketone 2-742 with a 1,3-dicarbonyl compound 2-743 in the presence of catalytic amounts of a weak base such as ethylene diammonium diacetate (EDDA) or piperidinium acetate (Scheme 2.163). In the reaction, a 1,3-oxabutadiene 2-744 is formed as intermediate, which undergoes an inter- or an intramolecular hetero-Diels-Alder reaction either with an enol ether or an alkene to give a dihydropyran 2-745. 

Today, multi-parallel synthesis lies at the forefront of organic and medicinal chemistry, and plays a major role in lead discovery and lead optimization programs in the pharmaceutical industry. The first solid-phase domino reactions were developed by Tietze and coworkers [6] using a domino Knoevenagel/hetero-Diels-Alder and a domino Knoevenagel/ene protocol. Reaction of solid-phase bound 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds such as 10-22 with aldehydes and enol ethers in the presence of piperidinium acetate led to the 1-oxa-1,3-butadiene 10-23, which underwent an intermolecular hetero-Diels-Alder reaction with the enol ethers to give the resin-bound products 10-24. Solvolysis with NaOMe afforded the desired dihydro-pyranes, 10-25 with over 90 % purity. Ene reactions have also been performed in a similar manner [7]. 

Jorgensen s group44a carried out the reaction using the anhydrous form of chiral bis(oxazoline) coordinated copper complex. Complex 106 containing 83 as the chiral ligand was found to be the most effective. As shown in Scheme 5-32, the asymmetric hetero Diels-Alder reaction of //.y-unsaturated a-keto esters with acyclic enol ethers results in products with excellent yield and enantioselectivity. 

The copper complex of these bis(oxazoline) compounds can also be used for hetero Diels-Alder reactions of acyl phosphonates with enol ethers.43 5 A favorable acyl phosphonate-catalyst association is achieved via complexation between the vicinal C=0 and P=0 functional groups. The acyl phosphonates are activated, leading to facile cycloaddition with electron-rich alkenes such as enol ethers. The product cyclic enol phosphonates can be used as building blocks in the asymmetric synthesis of complicated molecules. Scheme 5-36 shows the results of such reactions. 

Scheme 22. Effect of the enol ether alkyl group in the catalyzed hetero-Diels-Alder reaction. [Adapted from (221).]...

The second product must incorporate two equivalents of the enol ether. We form C3-C5, C5-C4, and C5-S1 bonds, and we transfer a H from SI to C4. A hetero-ene reaction forms the C3-C5 bond and transfers the H. As for the other two bonds, since SI and C5 are at the ends of a four-atom unit, we might expect a Diels-Alder reaction. We can get to the requisite diene by eliminating the elements of BuOH by an Elcb mechanism. The hetero-Diels-Alder reaction gives the product with ertdo stereoselectivity and the expected regioselectivity. 

A similar enantiomer-selective activation has been observed for aldol " and hetero-Diels-Alder reactions.Asymmetric activation of (R)-9 by (/f)-BINOL is also effective in giving higher enantioselectivity (97% ee) than those by the parent (R)-9 (91% ee) in the aldol reaction of silyl enol ethers (Scheme 8.12a). Asymmetric activation of R)-9 by (/f)-BINOL is the key to provide higher enantioselectivity (84% ee) than those obtained by (R)-9 (5% ee) in the hetero-Diels-Alder reaction with Danishefsky s diene (Scheme 8.12b). Activation with (/ )-6-Br-BINOL gives lower yield (25%) and enantioselectivity (43% ee) than the one using (/f)-BINOL (50%, 84% ee). One can see that not only steric but also electronic factors are important in a chiral activator. 

Inverse type hetero-Diels-Alder reactions between p-acyloxy-a-phenylthio substituted a, p-unsaturated cabonyl compounds as 1-oxa-1,3-dienes, enol ethers, a-alkoxy acrylates, and styrenes, respectively, as hetero-dienophiles result in an efficient one step synthesis of highly functionalized 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyrans (hex-4-enopyranosides). These compounds are diastereospecifically transformed into deoxy and amino-deoxy sugars such as the antibiotic ramulosin, in pyridines having a variety of electron donating substituents, in the important 3-deoxy-2-gly-culosonates, in precursors for macrolide synthesis, and in C.-aryl-glucopyranosides. 

Aiming at the pyranose form of sugars, normal type hetero-Diels-Alder reactions were extensively used for the synthesis of functionally substituted dihydropyran and tetrahydropyran systems (5-10) (see routes A - D in the general Scheme 1) which are also important targets in the "Chiron approach" to natural product syntheses (2.) Hetero-Diels-Alder reactions with inverse electron demand such as a, p-unsaturated carbonyl compounds (l-oxa-1,3-dienes) as heterodienes and enol ethers as hetero-dienophiles, are an attractive route for the synthesis of 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyrans (11). 

The inverse type hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of functionally substituted a, p-unsaturated carbonyl compounds was also possible with -alkyl substituted enol ethers (Scheme 9) (25). This was demonstrated in the synthesis... 

Bismuth(lll) chloride catalyzes the intramolecular hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of aldimines, generated in situ from aromatic amines and the A -allyl derivative of o-aminobenzaldehyde, in acetonitrile at reflux to generate [l,6]naphthyridine derivatives <2002TL1573>. The hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of 3-aryl-2-benzoyl-2-propeneni-triles and enol ethers yields 2-alkoxy, 6-diaryl-3,4-dihydro-2//-pyran-5-carbonitriles (Scheme 29) <1997M1157>. 

Evans has reported that the cationic C2-symmetric chiral Lewis acid Cu(ll)bis(oxazoline) complex promotes the hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of 0 ,/3-unsaturated acyl phosphonates with enol ethers to give the cycloadducts with excellent ee (Scheme 52). As well as simple dihydropyrans, various fused bis-dihydropyrans are also reported <1998JA4895, 2000JA1635>. 

Hanessian and Compain have also reported a Lewis acid-promoted inverse electron demand hetero-Diels-Alder reaction between dihydrofurans and dihydropyrans with a-keto-/3,7-unsaturated phosphonates to give stmcturally related products <2002T6521>. High-pressure OTr/o-selective hetero-Diels-Alder reactions between a,/3-unsaturated aldehydes and enol ethers in the presence of lanthanide catalysts have also been reported and give 3,4-dihydro-27/-pyrans. Examples include the use of cyclic enol ethers to give 2,3,4,4a,5,8a-hexahydro-277,577-pyrano[2,3-. ]pyrans <1995T8383>. 

Hetero-Diels-Alder reaction with inverted electron demand between a, 3-unsatu-rated carbonyl compounds (1-oxa-l,3-butadienes 11 Scheme 6) and enol ethers provides an access to 6-alkoxy-3,4-dihydro-2/f-pyrans 12 [31,32]. These heterocycles are also useful... 

The synthetic strategies used for the preparation of pyrans on insoluble supports have mainly been hetero-Diels-Alder reactions of enones with enol ethers and ringclosing olefin metathesis (Table 15.33). Benzopyrans have been prepared by hetero-Diels-Alder reactions of polystyrene-bound o-quinodimethanes with aldehydes. The required quinodimethanes were generated by thermolysis of benzocyclobutanes, which were prepared in solution [308]. Other solid-phase procedures for the preparation of benzopyrans are the palladium-mediated reaction of support-bound 2-iodo-phenols with 1,4-dienes (Entry 5, Table 15.33) and the intramolecular Knoevenagel... 

The chiral bis(oxazoline)/Cu(II) complex with OTf or SbFg as a counter anion effectively promotes the enantioselective hetero Diels-Alder reaction of enol ethers with acyl phosphonates to give chiral enol phosphonates as synthetically useful chiral building blocks [64] (Eq. 8A.40). 

Solid-phase three-component domino-Knoevenagel-hetero-Diels-Alder reaction can also be performed using a resin-linked 1,3-dicarbonyl compound such as 100 with aldehydes and an enol ether to give dihydropyrans 102 via the intermediately formed 1-oxa-l,3-butadiene 101 (Scheme 5.18) [30], The resin can be deaved off after the reaction by solvolysis, for instance using sodium methanolate to give the corresponding methyl ester 103 as a mixture of diastereomers. The overall yield varies from 12 to 37% and the selectivity from 1 1 to 1 5 in favor of the tis-product depending on the applied aldehyde. The crude dihydropyrans thus obtained are reasonably pure (> 90% HPLC). 

The retrosynthesis of 111 and 112 led to the amines 133 and 135, respectively and the benzoquinolizidine 134, which can be obtained by a domino-Knoevenagel-hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of the tetrahydroisoquinolinacetaldehyde (S)-136, Meldrum s acid 35 and the enol ether 137 (Scheme 5.26) [44], The stereo-genic centre in (S)-136 was introduced via a transfer hydrogenation of dihydrohy-... 

Scheme 5.36. Domino-Knoevenagel-hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of a-carbonylated phosphonates 183 and a-phosphonodithioesters 187 with aromatic aldehydes 184 and enol ethers 88.

This three-component reaction as the key step of this synthesis is called a domino-Knoevenagel-hetero-Diels-Alder reaction. Domino reactions are defined as processes of two or more bond forming reactions in which a subsequent transformation takes place by virtue of the functionalities introduced in a former transformation.2,16 The tetrahydrocarbolinaldehyde 11 first reacts in a Knoevenagel type condensation with Meldrum s acid 14 and ethyleneammonium diacetate 41 as the catalyst to oxabutadiene 44 which then undergoes a Diels-Alder reaction with enol ether 13. 

Hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of 44 with enol ether 13 as the dienophile gives cycloadduct 45, which is not isolable but reacts with the water formed in the condensation step with loss of acetone and C02 to lactone 15. A suggested mechanism for the formation of lactone 15 is a retro Diels-Alder reaction which leads to the ketene intermediate 46. Ketene 46 adds to the water formed in the previous condensation step, yielding /3-keto-carboxylic acid 47, which then undergoes decarboxylation to 48. 

Novel complex heterocycles such as 2-148 can easily be obtained using the hetero Diels-Alder reaction of enol ethers like 2-147 and 2-146 as l-oxa-1,3-butadiene (Fig. 2-40) [149]. 

Recently, Wada et al. [175,176] have observed an excellent enantioselectivity for the intermolecular hetero Diels-Alder reactions of ( )-2-oxo-l-phenylsul-fonyl-3-alkenes 2-197 - 2-199 with enol ethers 2-200 to give the dihydropyrans 2-201 - 2-203 using the Narasaka catalyst 2-204. The best results were obtained with the iso-propyl vinyl ether 2-200c (Fig. 2-56). 

Figure 4-7 shows a typical hetero Diels-Alder reaction of a nitrosoalkene. Upon in situ generation of the heterodiene 4-34 from the oxime 4-33, cycloaddition occurred in the presence of the silyl enol ether 4-35 to give the 5,6-dihydro-4H- 1,2-oxazine 4-36 in excellent yield [366]. Such conversions are very suitable for achieving kinetic resolutions of -/Z-isomeric silyl enol ethers since the Z-isomers are distinctly less reactive towards 4-34 [367]. 

The array of dienophiles amenable to these hetero Diels-Alder reactions is not limited to enol ethers and enamines since allylsilanes and simple alkenes have also been successfully employed [370, 371]. More recently, it has been shown that methoxy allenes such as 4-41 undergo formation of 6H-l,2-oxazines 4-43 upon cycloaddition to nitrosoalkenes such as 4-34 and subsequent tauto-merisation of the intermediate exo-methylene compound 4-42 (Fig. 4-9) [372, 373]. In these studies, 4-43 proved to be a versatile synthetical intermediate allowing oxidative demethylation or reductive removal of the methoxy group as well as nucleophilic substitutions after the generation of an azapyrylium ion [372 - 374]. Furthermore, ring contraction reactions of these oxazines leading to pyrroles [373] and y-lactames [375] are known. 

In order to carry out asymmetric cycloadditions of nitrosoalkenes, Reissig et al. have introduced chiral enol ethers derived from terpenes [378] and from the glucose derivative 4-46 [379]. Using these compounds, considerable asymmetric induction has been obtained thus, the 5,6-dihydro-4H-l,2-oxazine 4-45 was formed by hetero Diels-Alder reaction of 4-34 with chiral 4-44 in good diastereo-selectivity (Fig. 4-10) [379]. 

Chiral dienophiles, e.g. enol ethers and enamines, allow to conduct these hetero Diels-Alder reactions in a highly stereoselective manner. In an exemplary transformation described by Backvall et al. the nitrone 4-50 was formed as a single diastereomer upon treatment of the chiral enamine 4-48 with the nitroalkene 4-49 which was generated in situ from the seleno compound 4-47 [387]. Interestingly, the enamine 4-48 did not only act as dienophile, it also catalysed the initial base induced elimination of PhSeH from 4-47 (Fig. 4-11). 

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