Homoallylic nucleophilic substitution

Homoallylic nucleophilic substitution is known (equation 23), but its synthetic utility is hampered by competing direct substitution without opening of the cyclopropane ring. The product ratio is largely influenced by the nature of the attacking nucleophile and the cyclopropane substituents (steric effects). ... 

In conjunction with this, Jeong reported the cycloadditions of bis(allyl) and bis(homoallyl) acetals of alkynals leading to bicyclic lactols. Smaltz extended its utility to the synthesis of carbocyclic nucleoside by coupling with nucleophilic substitution of a 7r-allylic palladium complex (Equation (46)). ... 

The resulting homoallylic alcohol 24 is next transformed into a tosylate, which subsequently undergoes nucleophilic substitution with sodium iodide in a Finkelstein reaction to give compound 13. 

Homofamesyl iodide 7 was prepared by the reaction sequence shown in the margin. Of interest here is the two-step transformation of an alkyl halide into a Crextended alkyl halide.9 Compound 30 is first subjected to a nucleophilic substitution by an urganolithium species with formation of a homoallylic phenyl thioether This is then methylated in a second step to an intermediate sulfonium salt. The final SN2 reaction with an iodide ion releases thioanisol as a stable leaving group to give compound 7. 

It is noteworthy that (q3-allyl)ruthenium species, which react with nucleophiles to give nucleophilic substitution of allylic substrates, are also active for the allylation of electrophiles. Thus, allyl acetate and carbonate react with aldehydes in the presence of catalytic amounts of Ru3(CO)12 to give homoallylic alcohols in good yields [116] (Eq. 86). 

Bu3Bi mediates the allylation of carbonyl compounds with allyl bromide to give a mixture of homoallyl alcohols and fheir allyl ethers (Scheme 14.133) [278], Tris(4-methoxyphenyl)bismuthane catalyzes the cyanation of carbonyl compounds with MesSiCN [175], In the presence of fluoride ions (CeFsjsBi undergoes nucleophilic substitution with an activated C-F bond of perfluorinated compounds to transfer three CgFj groups [279]. (CFsjsBi can also act as a trifluoromethyl anion equivalent [280]. 

The acetoxy group was hydrolyzed using hydrazine to give (46). Nucleophilic substitution of the fluorine atom produced the tricyclic p lactam (47). A diastereoselective aza-Diels-Alder reaction was used in a synthesis of (—)-lasubine (I). Tin tetrachloride-mediated reaction of complex (48) with Danishefsky s diene afford 2,3-dihydro-4-pyridone (49) as a single diastereomer (Scheme 86). Chiral benzaldehyde imines can be allylated with high diastereoselectivity to give optically active homoallylic amines (Scheme 87). 

It is of interest to note that artemisia alcohol (18) produced in the hydrolysis of 16-OPy I" is essentially completely racemic (>98%) (57). Apparently (18) is formed by nucleophilic capture of the acyclic allylic carbonium ion (29) rather than direct attack in the 3 position of the chrysanthemyl carbonium ion (28). Nucleophilic substitution upon cyclopropylcarbinyl cations to give homoallyl products occurs with inversion of configuration 74—75). In the case of (28), however, position 3 is highly hindered by the adjacent gem dimethyl groups thus collapse to the allylicly stabilized (29) is faster than direct substitution. The formation of a small amount of cw-chrysanthemol (27, 0.25%) is taken to indicate that allylic ion (29) recyclizes, at least in part, back to (28) and its cis isomer (30). 

Slightly more exotic carbon-centered nucleophiles can also participate in the ring-optening of epoxides. For example, the vinyl metallate 81, prepared by the treatment of the alkenyl acetal 86 with Schlosser s reagent, attacks mono-substituted epoxides 82 at the C-2 position to give the labile homoallyl alcohols 83 in fair to very good yields <96TET1433>. 

Suzuki T, Oriyama T (1999) Novel reactions of ethylene acetals with silyl-substituted nucleophiles. A mild and efficient procedure for the synthesis of homoallyl alkyl ethers and unsymmetrical dialkyl ethers. Synth Commun 29 1263-1269... 

Other kinds of propargylic-substituted products were prepared by this procedure. When Grignard reagents such as allylic and homoallylic magnesium bromides are used in place of lithium enolates as carbon-centered nucleophiles. 

Pancratistatln. The first total synthesis of ( )-pancratistatin (94) (Scheme 14), the structurally most complex of narciclasine alkaloids, was achieved by Danishefsky [27]. The requisite starting material, the substituted benzaldehyde 95 prepared from pyrogallol in six steps in 18% overall yield, was converted via the homoallylic alcohol 96 into the diene 97. Reaction of 97 with 2-nitrovinylsulphone yielded the cycloadduct 98, which on treatment with tributyltinhydride and 2,2 -azobisisobutyronitrile furnished the cyclohexadiene 99. Whilst the cyclisation of the silylether 99 or the derived phenol, under the influence of iodine, could not be accomplished, the more nucleophilic stannylether did participate in the desired ring closure and provided via the iminium salt, the iodolactone 100 on aqueous work-up. 

Nucleophilic attack occurs at C(2) of the diene. The 1,3-cyclohexadiene complex 66 is converted to the homoallyl anionic complex 67 by nucleophilic attack, and the 3-alkyl-1-cyclohexene 68 is obtained by protonation. Insertion of CO to 67 generates the acyl complex 69, and its protonation and reductive elimination afford the aldehyde 70 [20]. Reaction of the butadiene complex 56 with an anion derived from ester 71 under CO atmosphere generates the homoallyl complex 72 and then the acyl complex 73 by CO insertion. The cyclopentanone complex 74 is formed by intramolecular insertion of alkene, and the 3-substituted cyclopentanone 75 is obtained by reductive elimination. The intramolecular version, when applied to the 1,3-cyclohexadiene complex 76 bearing an ester chain at C(5), offers a good synthetic route to the bicyclo[3.3.1]nonane system 78 via intermediate 77 [21]. 

Both simple and fused poly substituted pyran-2-ones can be obtained from the reaction between substituted allenyl esters and ketones activated by an electron-withdrawing group. A base-catalysed nucleophilic conjugate addition affords a homoallylic ester and lactonisation completes the one-pot sequence (Scheme 19) <06S2731>. 

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