Intramolecular, addition insertion

In the reaction of Q,/3-unsaturated ketones and esters, sometimes simple Michael-type addition (insertion and hydrogenolysis, or hydroarylation, and hydroalkenylation) of alkenes is observed[53,54]. For example, a simple addition product 56 to methyl vinyl ketone was obtained by the reaction of the heteroaromatic iodide 55[S5]. The corresponding bromide affords the usual insertion-elimination product. Saturated ketones are obtained cleanly by hydroarylation of o,/3l-unsaturated ketones with aryl halides in the presence of sodium formate, which hydrogenolyses the R—Pd—I intermediate to R— Pd—H[56]. Intramolecular hydroarylation is a useful reaction. The diiodide 57 reacts smoothly with sodium formate to give a model compound for the afla-toxin 58. (see Section 1.1.6)[57]. Use of triethylammonium formate and BU4NCI gives better results. 

A interesting and useful reaetion is the intramolecular polycyclization reaction of polyalkenes by tandem or domino insertions of alkenes to give polycyclic compounds[l 38]. In the tandem cyclization. an intermediate in many cases is a neopentylpalladium formed by the insertion of 1,1-disubstituted alkenes, which has no possibility of /3-elimination. The key step in the total synthesis of scopadulcic acid is the Pd-catalyzed construction of the tricyclic system 202 containing the bicyclo[3.2. Ijoctane substructure. The single tricyclic product 202 was obtained in 82% yield from 201 [20,164). The benzyl chloride 203 undergoes oxidative addition and alkene insertion. Formation of the spiro compound 204 by the intramolecular double insertion of alkenes is an exam-ple[165]. 

Intramolecular reaction can be used for polycyclization reaction[275]. In the so-called Pd-catalyzed cascade carbopalladation of the polyalkenyne 392, the first step is the oxidative addition to alkenyl iodide. Then the intramolecular alkyne insertion takes place twice, followed by the alkene insertion twice. The last step is the elimination of/3-hydrogen. In this way, the steroid skeleton 393 is constructed from the linear diynetriene 392(276]. 

The acylpalladium complex formed from acyl halides undergoes intramolecular alkene insertion. 2,5-Hexadienoyl chloride (894) is converted into phenol in its attempted Rosenmund reduction[759]. The reaction is explained by the oxidative addition, intramolecular alkene insertion to generate 895, and / -elimination. Chloroformate will be a useful compound for the preparation of a, /3-unsaturated esters if its oxidative addition and alkene insertion are possible. An intramolecular version is known, namely homoallylic chloroformates are converted into a-methylene-7-butyrolactones in moderate yields[760]. As another example, the homoallylic chloroformamide 896 is converted into the q-methylene- -butyrolactams 897 and 898[761]. An intermolecular version of alkene insertion into acyl chlorides is known only with bridgehead acid chlorides. Adamantanecarbonyl chloride (899) reacts with acrylonitrile to give the unsaturated ketone 900[762],... 

The a-bromo-7-lactone 901 undergoes smooth coupling with the acetonyltin reagent 902 to afford the o-acetonyl-7-butyrolactone 903[763j. The o-chloro ether 904, which has no possibility of //-elimination after oxidative addition, reacts with vinylstannane to give the allyl ether 905, The o -bromo ether 906 is also used for the intramolecular alkyne insertion and transmetallation with allylstannane to give 907[764],... 

Rhodium carboxylates have been found to be effective catalysts for intramolecular C—H insertion reactions of a-diazo ketones and esters.215 In flexible systems, five-membered rings are formed in preference to six-membered ones. Insertion into methine hydrogen is preferred to a methylene hydrogen. Intramolecular insertion can be competitive with intramolecular addition. Product ratios can to some extent be controlled by the specific rhodium catalyst that is used.216 In the example shown, insertion is the exclusive reaction with Rh2(02CC4F9)4, whereas only addition occurs with Rh2(caprolactamate)4, which indicates that the more electrophilic carbenoids favor insertion. 

Depending on the nature of the substrates, selectivity could be completely reversed between the two isomeric products. For example, switching R1 group between Buc and Ph gave high yields of the first and second product structures, respectively. The authors noted that the reaction did not proceed if the imine contained an ortho-MeO group at R2 or if the imine was replaced with an aldehyde, oxime, or hydrazone. The catalytic cycle is initiated by C-H activation of the imine, that is, the formation of a five-membered metallocycle alkyne insertion affords the intermediate drawn in Scheme 69. It is noteworthy that this is the first report of catalytic synthesis of indene derivatives via a C-H insertion mechanism (C-H activation, insertion, intramolecular addition). 

The intramolecular addition of acylcarbene complexes to alkynes is a general method for the generation of electrophilic vinylcarbene complexes. These reactive intermediates can undergo inter- or intramolecular cyclopropanation reactions [1066 -1068], C-H bond insertions [1061,1068-1070], sulfonium and oxonium ylide formation [1071], carbonyl ylide formation [1067,1069,1071], carbene dimerization [1066], and other reactions characteristic of electrophilic carbene complexes. 

Tamao and Ito proposed a mechanism for the nickel-catalyzed cyclization/hydrosilylation of 1,7-diynes initiated by oxidative addition of the silane to an Ni(0) species to form an Ni(ii) silyl hydride complex. Gomplexation of the diyne could then form the nickel(ii) diyne complex la (Scheme 1). Silylmetallation of the less-substituted G=C bond of la, followed by intramolecular / -migratory insertion of the coordinated G=G bond into the Ni-G bond of alkenyl alkyne intermediate Ila, could form dienylnickel hydride intermediate Ilia. Sequential G-H reductive elimination and Si-H oxidative addition would release the silylated dialkylidene cyclohexane and regenerate the silylnickel hydride catalyst (Scheme 1). 

Acylpalladium intermediates can be involved in intramolecular processes leading to the formation of carbo- or heterocycles. In this chapter we discuss the cyclizations via the attack of acylpalladium intemediates at carbon centers and formation of new G-G bonds. The basic scheme (Scheme 7) of such processes includes the oxidative addition of Pd(0) to G(j )-X bonds (X = halogen or triflate), migratory insertion of GO, and subsequent intramolecular addition of acylpalladium intermediate to double or triple bonds to yield cyclic ketones. 

Intramolecular carbene insertion (e.g. 1 —> 3) has long been a useful method for ring construction. Masahisa Nakada of Waseda University in Tokyo now reports (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125 2860, 2003) that with the addition of the ligand 2 this process can be made highly enantioselective. As the starting diazo ketone 1 is easily prepared by diazo transfer to the sulfonyl ketone, this should allow facile entry to enantioenriched cyclopentanones and cyclohexanones. 

In addition to insertion into p-C—H bonds, cyclopropylidenes can undergo other reactions such as alkylation (c/. Section 4.7.3.2), dimerization, insertion into C—H bonds of the ether solvent (equation 60)183 or reaction with alkenes to afford spirocyclopropanes (equation 61).184 Addition of stoichiometric amounts of Bu OK has been shown to promote the reactions of lithium carbenoids, even at -83 C, with THF to give the insertion product (equation 62).185 Addition to alkenes is also promoted under these conditions. Intramolecular addition of the carbenoid to double bonds has been exploited in the synthesis of spirotricyclic compounds (equation 63).186... 

Analysis of the product distributions arising from both sensitized and non-sensitized irradiation of 2-allyloxyphenyldiazo species (8) showed that the C—H insertion product and much of the cyclopropanation arise from the triplet carbene.16 For the singlet carbene, intermolecular 0—H insertion with methanol is about 50 tunes faster than intramolecular addition to the double bond, hi this system, intramolecular reactions and intersystem crossing of the triplet carbene proceed at similar rates, hi the closely related indanyl system (9), the smaller RCR angle stabilizes the singlet state relative to the triplet and the intramolecular reactivity is dominated by the singlet state.17... 

The rearrangements of silylenes, like those of carbenes, can involve H shifts and the shifts of C—C bonds (intramolecular insertion and ring expansion) or cyclization by intramolecular addition to C=C jr-bonds5. The mechanism discovered by Barton for... 

The initial conceptualization of the agelastatin A problem took on the form shown below (Scheme 5).17 The key transform in this sequence features intramolecular addition of an amide-derived anion to a tethered alkynyliodonium salt within 33. The alkylidenecarbene generated from this nucleophilic addition, 32, then has a choice of two diastereotopic C-H bonds (Ha or Hb) for 1,5 insertion. Reaction with Ha would provide an advanced intermediate 31 en route to the target 28. Successful execution of this plan would extend alkynyliodonium salt chemistry in three new directions (1) use of an amine derivative as a nucleophile, (2) intramolecularity in the nucleophile addition step, and (3) diastereoselectivity upon alkylidenecarbene C-H insertion. At the initiation of this project, a lack of precedent on any of these topics suggested that focused scouting experiments to assess feasibility would be prudent before beginning work towards the natural product itself. 

Next, we considered the activation of 13 towards hydrolysis by K-complexation of a cationic metal unit to the electron-rich diene system. On the basis of the well-known palladium-mediated addition of nucleophiles to alkenamines, it was anticipated that the enol ether function in 13 would add H2O in the presence of Pd(II).21 Interestingly, exposure of 13 to a slight excess of Pd(OAc)2 led to the isolation of 14 (Scheme 8). This material suggested the exploitation of the existing Pd-C linkage for carbon-carbon bond formation with an appropriate A-side chain. In particular, the intramolecular syn insertion of the allylic double bond in the rrans-butenyl substituent in 15b and subsequent syn (3-hydride elimination would give the desired E-alkene 17. This proposal was examined using alkene 15a as a model system, synthesized in a manner similar to 13. Upon exposure to Pd(OAc)2 under the conditions... 

Among reports related to radicals, ab initio calculations have been used to model intramolecular additions of acyl radicals to imines.83 Imines and oxazolines bearing a pendant acyl radical at carbon have been cyclized to give 2-piperidones through a selective 6-emfo-cyclization at nitrogen.84 The acyl radical is generated via CO (g) insertion into a suitable precursor. A diastereoselective example is also reported. 

In addition to the preparations of ethanoadamantane via Lewis acid catalyzed rearrangement of various polycyclic hydrocarbons described above (Section II. A.1), a ring closure reaction of a substituted adamantane has also been developed. Treatment of 2-adamantyl diazoketone with copper results in the intramolecular carbene insertion illustrated in Eq. (48) 14°1. 

Quantum-chemical calculations have been used to probe all the characteristic chemical reactions of CAs (at least in the case of silylenes and germylenes). The theoretical studies cover intramolecular rearrangements, insertions into 0-bonds, additions to double and triple bonds and dimerizations. Note that experimental data on the mechanisms of these reactions are still scarce and the results of theoretical studies are needed to understand the main trends in the reactivity of germylenes, stannylenes and plumbylenes. 

The azabicyclononane system is a common structural feature in diterpene alkaloids, and the nitrene insertion route to the ring system has been studied in detail in model decalins as well as in steroids (Scheme 11). Thus irradiation of the rrans-acyl azide (21) gave, in addition to isocyanate (30-33%), a mixture of Ae 7- and 8-lactams (22) and (23). The y-lactam (22) predominated, dthough the overall yield was poor. > The corresponding c/s-azide (24), however, gave the 8-lactam (25) as Ae major product, again in low yield. One elegant application of this type of intramolecular nitrene insertion reaction... 

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