Hexadiyns

Distillation of the residue gave 1-ethoxy-l,4-hexadiyne, b.p. 50°C/15 timHg,... 

To a mixture of 25 ml of water and 3 ml of 95% sulfuric acid were added 40 ml of DMSO. The mixture was cooled to 10°C and 0.20 mol of l-ethoxy-l,4-hexadiyne (see Chapter III, Exp. 51) was added with vigorous stirring in 15 min. During this addition, which was exothermic, the temperature of the mixture was kept between 20 and 25 0. After the addition stirring was continued for 30 min at 3S C, then 150 ml of water were added and six extractions with diethyl ether were carried out. The combined extracts were washed with water and dried over magnesium sulfate. Evaporation of the solvent in a water-pump vacuum, followed by distillation through a 25-cm... 

Simple cyclobutanes do not readily undergo such reactions, but cyclobutenes do. Ben-zocyclobutene derivatives tend to open to give extremely reactive dienes, namely ortho-c]uin(xlimethanes (examples of syntheses see on p. 280, 281, and 297). Benzocyclobutenes and related compounds are obtained by high-temperature elimination reactions of bicyclic benzene derivatives such as 3-isochromanone (C.W. Spangler, 1973, 1976, 1977), or more conveniently in the laboratory, by Diels-Alder reactions (R.P. Thummel, 1974) or by cycliza-tions of silylated acetylenes with 1,5-hexadiynes in the presence of (cyclopentadienyl)dicarbo-nylcobalt (W.G, Aalbersberg, 1975 R.P. Thummel, 1980). 

A similar synthesis starts from commercially available 1,5-hexadiyne and 2-methyl-cyclopent-2-enone. The benzocyclobutene is obtained from a bis-acetylene in a cobalt-catalyzed reaction. It rearranges regio- and stereoselectively to a 3-deoxy steroid derivative. The overall yield from the cyclopentenone was 40% (R.L. Funk, 1977). 

With two equivalents of an organomagnesium hahde, a Gtignard reagent is formed, capable of use in further syntheses (35,36). Cuprous salts cataly2e oxidative dimerization of propargyl alcohol to 2,4-hexadiyne-l,6-diol [3031-68-3] (37). 

Note that 1,4-substituted butadiynes with diazomethane can form two isomers. Kuznetsov and co-workers have considered this problem in detail and established that diphenyldiacetylene with diazomethane forms, in standard conditions (ether, 0°C, 9 days), only one of the two possible regioisomers 4-phenyl-3(5)-phenylethynylpyrazole (yield 86%) (93ZOB1107). The cyclization of derivatives of phenoxy-2,4-hexadiyn-6-oles with diazomethane leads to only one isomer of alkynylpyrazole (76MI1 77MI1) (Scheme 8). 

Seyferth, D., Spohn, R. J., Churchill, M. R., Gold, K. Scholer, F, R. (1970) Co8(CO)24C6, a bis(tricobaltnonacarbonyl)/dico-balt hexacarbonyl derivative of 2,4-hexadiyne from the reaction of dicobalt octacarbonyl with hexachlorocyclopropane, J. Or-ganomet. Chem. 23, 237-255. 

Derivatives of 1,4-bis(arylsu fony )-2-butyne and 1,6-bis(arylsu fonyl)-2,4-hexadiyne... 

Reacts with vapors of sodium with luminescence at about 260°C. Reacts explosively with thionyl chloride or potassium reacts violently with hexafluoro isopropylidene, amino lithium, ammonia, and strong acids reacts with tert-butyl azidoformate to form explosive carbide reacts with 24-hexadiyn-l, 6-diol to form 2, 4-hexadiyn-l, 6-bischloro-formate, a shock-sensitive compound reacts with isopropyl alcohol to form isopropyl chloroformate and hydrogen chloride thermal decomposition may occur in the presents of iron salts and result in explosion. 

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