High functionality precursors

High functionality precursors of/ > 10-20 are primary chains if they participate in crosslinking by vulcanization each monomer unit of primary chain is a potential site for crosslinking. Also, dendrimers and random hyperbranched polymers of higher molecular weight, rank among high-functionality precursors. 

Perhaps the greatest utility of (36-39) (and many of their precursors, such as 41, 42 and 48) is as starting points for the synthesis of highly functionalized cyclohexanes. For example, (38) has been converted in five steps (overall yield 70-75%) to streptamine (57) the key step is selective ring-opening with hydrazine to give intermediate (56) (75AG(E)630). 

A useful and simple method for the one-pot preparation of highly functionalized, enanhomerically pure cyclopentanes from readily accessible carbohydrate precursors has been designed by Chiara and coworkers [73]. The procedure depends on a samarium(II) iodide-promoted reductive dealkoxyhalogenahon of 6-desoxy-6-iodo-hexopyranosides such as 7-160 to produce a 6,e-unsaturated aldehyde which, after reductive cyclization, is trapped by an added electrophile to furnish the final product. In the presence of acetic anhydride, the four products 7-161 to 7-164 were obtained from 7-160. 

The Wittig reaction, or its phosphonate modification, can be a very useful reaction in the synthesis of anomerically functionalized precursors to C-nucleosides, particularly when the ring-closure reaction leads to five-membered, anhydro derivatives, and occurs with a high degree of stereocontrol. Zhdanov and coworkers,130 showed that the following five-membered, Wittig products (179-182) were formed from various free sugars and (p-methoxybenzoyl)- and (acetyl-methylene)-triphenylphosphoranes. 

To form a polymer network, at least one of the starting components must have functionality,/, (equal to the number of functional groups per molecule) larger than two if > 2). This is a necessary but often not a sufficient condition. The precursors of networks differ in two ways (1) they are of low or of high functionality, (2) they bear functional groups that are engaged in bond formation either by stepwise or chain mechanisms. 

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. 

Diketone 228, prepared by Mehta in conjunction with another study, has been transformed into 717 in a clever sequence of reactions which required no protection steps The conversion of methanoindene 718 into the highly functionalized intermediate 719 that might be serviceable as a coriolin precursor has been published... 

Methyl fluoro(diethoxyphosphono)dithioacetate (34) has been prepared from difluorinated precursors [56], Fluorophosphonothioacetamides (35) derived from this dithioester, have been successfully transformed into highly functionalized fluoroalkenes (36). Judicious selection of the aldehyde coupling partner can lead expeditiously to the preparation of fluoroolefin dipeptide isosteres following elaboration of the carboethoxy group and desulfurization (Scheme 11). 

The easy access to activated aldonolactones, as described above, led us to envisage the possibility of using co-bromo-a>-deoxy-2,3-unsaturated aldono-1,4-lactones (Sect. 3.4) as precursors for highly functionalized cyclopentanes. 

The product of this synthesis is an especially useful, highly functionalized hydroazulene that is not available commercially. We have used it as a synthetic precursor to homoazulene,5 and to a variety of homoazulene derivatives,6 bridged homotropylium cations,7 and azulene quinones.8 It could undoubtedly serve as a precursor to numerous natural products. The cyclization reaction tolerates electron-donating substituents3 9 but not halogens10 on the aromatic ring. 

A highly stereoselective synthesis of a functionalized precursor (92) of the tetrasaccharide unit in durhamycin A (Scheme 19) was described.182... 

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