Hetero- 1,3-diene

Halogen-free A/-acyl aldimines and N-acyl ketiimnes tautomenze readily to give enamides [J6] In contrast, perfluonnatedyV-acylimines are stable compounds These electron-deficient itnmes not only exhibit high thermal stability but also show umque properties both as electrophiles and as strongly polanzed hetero-1,3-dienes... 

On the basis of these findings, the reaction of acyl imines with methanesulfony 1 chloride-triethylamine is not expected to proceed via a sulfene intermediate as previously proposed [99]. Again, a carbanion intermediate accounts nicely for the experimental facts. The electrophihcity of the hetero-l,3-diene is exdemely high, therefore the carbanion, formed on reaction of triethylamme with methanesulfonyl chloride, should undergo nucleophilic attack at C-4 of the hetero-1,3-diene faster than sulfene formabon by chloride elimination. 

Highly reactive dipolar bis(tnfluoromethyl)-subsmtuted heterodienes are excellent traps for one-skeleton-atom species , even when these are short lived The hetero-1,3-dienes add electron nch and electron poorcarbenes[/2,, 125,126,127,128 129,130], carbene complexes [131], carbene analogues [SnClj, Sn(C< H, )2, GeCl2, Gey [132, 133], isonitriles [128], etc, to give [4-t-l] cycloadducts (equation 29)... 

Isonitriles and some nitriles can be viewed formally as having a nucleophihc center and an electrophilic center at the same skeleton atom Tnmethylsilylcyanide and cyanoformates add to hetero-1,3 dienes in a stepwise process to give five-mem bered rmg systems with the same stmcture as the isonitnle adducts [41],... 

Bis(tnfluoromethyl)-subsntuted hetero-1,3-dienes and acetylenes react to give open-chain tnfluoromethyl-substituted N-propargylic amides, 4//-1.3 oxazines, and 2-oxazohnes [42,144] The formation of 2-oxazolmes is an example of pathway 2 (equabon 25), where only one carbon atom of the acetylene moiety IS incorporated into the new nng system The selectivity of this reaction can be controlled efficiently in favor of the five-membered nng system by altering the reaction conditions In the presence of 4-dimethylaminopyndine, the five-mem-... 

The above cycloaddition process consists of two separate [3-1-2] cycloaddition steps and represents a 1,3-2,4 addition of a multiple bond system to a hetero-1,3-diene [7S7]. The structure ot the azomethine imine intermediate has been proved unequivocally by X-ray analysis [195] Ethylene [194], acetylene [/iS2] . many alkyl- and aryl- as well sgemmal dialkyl- and diaryl-substituted alkenes [196,197, 198, 199], dienes [200], and alkynes [182, 201], certain cyclic alkenes [198, 199,... 

Cycloaddition reactions where bis(trifluoromethyl)-substituted hetero-1,3-dienes act as dienophiles have been descnbed for open-chain and cyclic dienes [115, 126, 127] The balance of the diene -dienophile activity of bis(tnfluoro-methyl)-substituted hetero-l,3-dienes can be influenced strongly by the substituents bonded to the inuno nitrogen atom For instance, A/-(arylsulfonyl) denvatives of tnfluoroacetaldimine and hexafluoroacetone imine do not act as dienes but exhibit only the dienophile reactivity of electron deficient imines [5 229, 234,235, 236 237] (equation 52)... 

Cycloaddition Reactions with Trifluoromethyl-Substituted Hetero-1,3-dienes... 

The reactions of bis(trifluoromethyl)-subsatuted hetero 1,3 dienes are predomi nantly LLJMO controlled processes [238] With polar or highly polarizable dieno philes, the tendency to undergo stepwise cycloaddition reactions is considerable Notably these hetero-1,3-dienes react with a,(l unsaturated hetero multiple bond systems across the hetero multiple bond exclusively [243, 246 248] (equation 53)... 

Certain trifluoromethyl-substituted 1,2,4,5 tetrazines [260, 26i] and 1,2,4 triazines [i06] can be used as cyclic hetero-1,3-dienes and provide efficient preparative routes to partially fluorinated heterocycles (equations 55 and 56)... 

Oxiranes exhibit 1,3 [e,n] capacity. Therefore, seven-membered ring systems can be synthesized on reaction with hetero-1,3-dienes. The reaction is catalyzed by 4-dimethylaminopyridine. On catalysis with boron trifluonde, the regioche-mistry is reversed [263] (equation 58). 

Trapping reactions of benzoylmethyleneoxophosphorane 39 a with carbonyl compounds dispel any remaining doubts as to the existence of acylated phosphenes. Unlike the diphenylmethyleneoxophosphorane 9, whose P/C double bond participates in cycloadditions, compound 39 a acts as a hetero-1,3-diene and undergoes [4 + 2]-cycloaddition with aldehydes and ketones 10 I7,35> it may again be assumed that the reaction is a two-step process involving 55 as intermediate. 

A thermal equilibrium exists between the 1,3-thiazetes 250 and the hetero-1,3-dienes 251, which makes the latter compounds readily available for the synthesis of novel S-heterocycles (Eq. 

So far, only a single report, by Gorman and Tomlinson of an iron-catalyzed DA reaction with inverse electron demand, has appeared [86]. The transformation of a 4-oxobutenoate (43) as a rather electron-poor hetero-1,3-diene and an enol ether as the electron-rich dienophile can be seen as an extreme example of a diastereoselective hetero-DA reaction controlled by an iron catalyst (Scheme 9.32). 

Five-membered heterocycles with two vicinal chalcogen atoms in the ring system can be used as stable precursors for sulfur as well as for selenium-containing hetero-1,3-dienes in cycloaddition reactions. Consequently, 3//-1,2,4-thiaselenazoles have been used for the in situ formation of 4,4-bis(trifluoromethyl)-l-thia-3-azabuta-1,3-dienes, which exist at room temperature only as 4,4-bis(trifluoromethyl)-2//-l,3-thiazetes. This strategy was applied to the synthesis of the first stable selenophosphorane from bis(trifluoromethyl)-substituted 3//-diselenazol and 2-methoxy-1,3,2-dioxaphospholan [78AG(E)774] (Scheme 83). 

The group transfer regioselectivity exhibited in apparent electron transfer reactions (Eq. (12)) of 1,4-hetero-1,3-dienes with certain organometallics [95,97] can be exploited to obtain synthetically useful organic compounds [95,98], including even -lactams [99]. 

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