Intermolecular additions allylsilanes

Almost 15 years ago Sakurai and Hosomi, in pioneering work, showed that intermolecular addition of an allylsilane to a,j6-unsaturated ketones in the presence of titanium(IV) chloride as the Lewis acid gave the desired 1,4-addition products1 4. In the case of 4,4a,5,6,7,8-hexahy-dro-2(3//)-naphthalenone, reaction was shown to proceed by 1,4-addition with exclusive production of the ris-fused product in high chemical yield. 

Stereochemistry of addition reactions involving allylsilanes 23.4.12 Intermolecular additions to aldehydes, ketones and acetals... 

Figure 15 Open transition state models for intermolecular additions of C(3)-substituted allylsilanes...

Usefiil levels of stereoselectivity were obtained in intermolecular addition reactions of C(3)-sub-stituted allylsilanes to chiral aldehydes. Lewis acids that are citable of chelating to heteroatoms have been used to direct the stereochemical course of allylsilane additions to a-alkoxy and a,p-dialkoxy carbonyl compounds. The allylation of a-benzyloxy iddehyde (94) in the presence of TiG4 and SnOt furnished products with high levels of syn stereoselection (syn-9. In contrast, under nonchelation-controlled reaction conditions (BF3-OEt2) allyltrimethylsilane reacted to form predonunantly the anti-1,2-diol product (anti-95), as shown in Scheme 45. 

By intermolecular competition of an allylsilane and a homoallylstannane for reaction with an electrophile, the P-effect of silicon has been shown to be more effective than the y-effect of tin in activating the double bond towards addition.40 41... 

The ene and Prins reactions are not mechanistically distinct. Coverage will therefore be organized by the nature of the carbonyl compound, with intermolecular reactions presented first, followed by intramolecular reactions. The emphasis will be on material published since the field has been reviewed " and on examples demonstrating the stereo-, regio- and chemo-selectivity of these reactions. Coverage is restricted to the addition of carbonyl and thiocarbonyl compounds to simple alkenes. Addition of carbonyl compounds to vinylsilanes, allylsilanes and enol ethers is covered in the following chapters. Addition of imines and iminium compounds to alkenes is presented in Part 4 of this volume. Ene reactions with alkenes and alkynes as enophiles are covered in Volume 5, Chapter 1.1. Use of aldehydes and acetals as initiators for polyene cyclizations is covered in Volume 3, Chapter 1.6. 

Difficulties have been fonnd in the intermolecular coupling reactions of allylsilanes with epoxides other than the simplest ethylene oxide . For example, reactions of allylsilane 99 with epichlorohydrins in the presence of TiCLj or EtAlCl2 give chlorohydrins in moderate to good yields. However, treatment of epichlorohydrin with 99 fnrnishes the expected allylated chlorohydrin product 100 (equation 78). In the intramolecnlar addition of the allylsilane moiety to 2,3-epoxyether moiety of 101, the ratio of 6- and 7-membered ring products is affected by the nature of the Lewis acid. When BF3 OEta is nsed, a mixture of 102 and 103 is obtained (equation 79). Interestingly, 102 is the exclusive product in the TiCU-catalyzed reaction . 

Generation of Electrophilic Cations. Complexation of Et2AlCl to ketones and aldehydes activates the carbonyl group toward addition of a nucleophilic alkyl- or allylstannane or allylsilane. Et2AlCl has been used to initiate Beckmann rearrangements of oxime mesylates. The ring-expanded cation can be trapped intermolecularly by enol ethers and cyanide and in-tramolecularly by alkenes (eq 5). ... 

The whole transformation is an oxidative intramolecular 1,4-addition. Stereochemistry of the 1,4-addition is explained by an intramolecular anti attack of the allylsilane moiety to a Pd(II)-coordinated diene functionality in 26 to generate (jt-allyl)palladium complex 27 followed by an intermolecular anti attack of a chloride ion. The substrate allylsilane is easily prepared by the reaction of the corresponding allylic acetate with PhMCjSiLi. 

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