Intramolecular, addition photochemical cycloaddition

Another interesting example of a photochemi-cally induced domino process is the combination of the photocyclization of aryl vinyl sulfides with an intramolecular addition as described by Dittami et al. [901 as intermediate a thiocarbonyl ylide can be assumed. The domino-Norrish I-Knoevenagel-allyl-silane cyclization developed by us allows the efficient stereoselective formation of 1,2-trans-subsituted five- and six-membered carbocycles.1911 A photochemical cycloaddition of enamino-aldehydes and enamino-ketones with the intermediate formation of an iminium salt followed by addition to allylsilanes gives access to novel bicyclic heterocy-des. New examples of photochemically induced... 

The most widely exploited photochemical cycloadditions involve irradiation of dienes in which the two double bonds are fairly close and result in formation of polycyclic cage compounds. Some examples are given in Scheme 6.7. Copper(I) triflate facilitates these intramolecular additions, as was the case for intermolecular reactions. 

This chapter begins with an introduction to the basic principles that are required to apply radical reactions in synthesis, with references to more detailed treatments. After a discussion of the effect of substituents on the rates of radical addition reactions, a new method to notate radical reactions in retrosynthetic analysis will be introduced. A summary of synthetically useful radical addition reactions will then follow. Emphasis will be placed on how the selection of an available method, either chain or non-chain, may affect the outcome of an addition reaction. The addition reactions of carbon radicals to multiple bonds and aromatic rings will be the major focus of the presentation, with a shorter section on the addition reactions of heteroatom-centered radicals. Intramolecular addition reactions, that is radical cyclizations, will be covered in the following chapter with a similar organizational pattern. This second chapter will also cover the use of sequential radical reactions. Reactions of diradicals (and related reactive intermediates) will not be discussed in either chapter. Photochemical [2 + 2] cycloadditions are covered in Volume 5, Chapter 3.1 and diyl cycloadditions are covered in Volume 5, Chapter 3.1. Related functional group transformations of radicals (that do not involve ir-bond additions) are treated in Volume 8, Chapter 4.2. 

Among the variety of terpenes which were synthesized with an intramolecular meta photocycloaddition as key step, triquinane derivatives were particularly well studied. Two isomers of these compounds are readily accessible via intramolecular meta cycloaddition in position 1,3 (Sch. 9). The following cyclopropanation reaction of intermediate O controls which of the angular or linear isomers is formed (Sch. 17) [67]. As this step is almost always unselective, both isomers are concomitantly formed. However, one of the isomers can be obtained predominantly via an additional photochemical equilibration step (compare Sch. 11). The triquinane frame is obtained by rupture of the distant C-C bond of the cyclopropane in connection to the 10-membered ring moiety. 

Ortho addition to the arene ring also occurs in cage systems where geometrical constraints disallow other orientations of addition a common example is the intramolecular photochemical cycloaddition which can occur in... 

Intramolecular Additions - The predominant photochemical reaction of the allene derivatives (65) is (2 + 2)-cycloaddition yielding the housanes (66). The reaction occurs in a variety of solvents (e.g. hexane, acetonitrile or acetone) and the triplet excited state of (65) is implicated. In hexane and... 

The unsaturated 6-lactone (84) undergoes intramolecular photochemical (2 + 2)-cycloaddition to give (85)." The scope of the process has been evaluated and the 5-lactones (86-88) all behave similarly, affording the products shown in Scheme 2. The lactones (86) and (87) both cyclise in the two possible modes. Intramolecular cycloaddition reactions within polymethyldia-minebis(4-methyl-7-coumarinyl)oxyacetamides have been described. Zhu and Wu have reported that a biscoumarin system linked by a phenanthroline unit does not undergo photodimerisation. Instead, intramolecular addition of a coumarin unit to the phenanthroline occurs. 

Cyclopropanes exhibit similar modes of reactivity. [2Dipolar additions with electron-deficient alkenes and electron-donor-substituted cyclopropanes, additions of electron-rich alkenes to electron-deficient cyclopropanes, a number of radicaloid reactions and intramolecular photochemical cycloadditions are known, which may be described by the general scheme H-2 3. 

Copper-catalysed Michael addition followed by an aldol reaction with formaldehyde, gives a 1 1 mixture of diastereoisomers of the aldol 86 that can be eliminated to the enone 83. The resulting efficient photochemical cycloaddition gives ketone 82 with total regioselectivity probably because it is intramolecular. 

In contrast to the preferred meta mode of intramolecular photoaddition of 5-phenyl-l-pentenes, where the alkene and benzene groups are separated by three atoms, irradiation of the styrene (64) yields a single stereoisomer of the ortho adduct (65). In (64), not only are the reacting units separated by 4 atoms, but also it is the styrene rather than the benzene which is excited. Comparable photoreactivity is seen for phenanthrene-styrene systems such as (66) which yield 2+2 adducts (67) along with products derived from competing Paterno-Btichi reaction of the ester carbonyl with the alkene side chain. The photochemical cycloaddition also proceeds in an intermolecular fashion between the ester of 9-phenanthrene carboxylic acid and para-methoxy-0-methylstyrene. The mechanism of this reaction is shown to involve addition of the styrene to the singlet excited state of the phenanthrene derivative. °... 

The regiochemistry of photochemical 2 + 2 cycloaddition is reminiscent of the intramolecular addition of radicals onto an ethylene double bond and especially of the regioselectivity observed in the cyclization process of 5-hexenyl radicals [108] (Scheme 18). The empirical rule of five states that the preferred regioisomer involves a five-membered ring biradical as intermediate [109]. 

The 1980s witnessed a revival of interest in synthetic photochemistry, largely based on the successful application of intramolecular arene-olefin and enone-olefin photochemical cycloaddition reactions to the synthesis of polycyclic natural and unnatural products. The potential application of intramolecular arene-amine addition to the synthesis of alkaloids was suggested in 1973 by Btyce-Smith et al.," based on their observation of intramolecular photochemical 1,4-addition reaction of the (N,A/-dimethylaminoalkyl)benzenes I and 2 to yield 3 and 4, respectively. Intramolecular addition reactions have subsequently been observed for a large number of (aminoal-... 

The following additional examples offer a hint of the utility of organic photochemistry in s)mthesis. A [2 + 2] photochemical cycloaddition was a key step in the synthesis of cubane. S)mthesis of 2-bromocyclopenta-2,4-dienone resulted in a spontaneous Diels-Alder reaction, which produced 132. The monoketal of the dimer (133) underwent intramolecular photocycloaddition to produce 134 (equation 12.85). The Favorskii reaction of 134 gave 135, which was decarboxylated to 136 (equation 12.86). Hydrolysis of the ketal gave 137. Subsequent Favorskii reaction to 138 and then decarboxylation produced cubane, 139. Similarly, de Meijere and co-workers reported that the intramolecular [2 + 2] photochemical cycloaddition of 140 produced octacyclopropylcubane (141, equation 12.87) Meder and coworkers utilized the reaction sequence in equation 12.88 to convert the diazo compound 142 into tetra-f-butylcyclobutadiene (143) and tetra-f-butyltetra-hedrane (144). " ... 

It is also worthwhile comparing the intramolecular photochemical cycloaddition reactions of ethylenic aldehydes and ketones with free radical intramolecular additions. For instance, irradiation of 5-hexen-2-one (470) (Scheme 161) in the gas phase gives the oxetane 471 as only cyclized product, as expected from the known photochemical intermolecular reaction between olefins and ketones. If the irradiation is conducted in solution 470 gives 471 (26%) and 472 (18%). With other y,< -unsaturated ketones, the bicyclic compound analogous to 472 may become the major product. With 2-allylcyclanones such as 473 (Scheme 161) bicyclic compounds are obtained (80% yield) as a mixture of 474 and 475, with 475 being the major product, but such compounds are difficult to isolate. " In the same manner, selective irradiation of the carbonyl group of 2-acyl-2,3-dihydro-4/f-pyrans (476) leads exclusively (23% yield) to exo-brevicomin (477) (a sex attractant), neither oxetane formation nor Norrish type II reaction being observed. The formation of the compounds 472, 475, and 477 which was considered as unexpected... 

Finally it must be pointed out that if this analogous behavior can be misleading from the point of view of mechanism studies, it may be also rewarding since advances of the knowledges in one area such as photochemical cycloaddition of dienes may be of great help in the understanding of another area such as free radical intramolecular additions and vice versa. 

Recent synthetic applications of the photochemical [2 + 2] cycloaddition of unsaturated sulfones have been noted. Musser and Fuchs84 have effected an intramolecular [2 + 2] addition of a 6-membered ring vinyl sulfone and a five-membered ring vinylogous ester in excellent yield, as part of a synthetic approach to the synthesis of the mould metabolite, cytochalasin C. The stereospecificity of the addition was only moderate, however, and later problems with this synthetic approach led to its abandonment. Williams and coworkers85 have used the facile [2 + 2] photoaddition of 73 and... 

Numerous examples of intermolecular and intramolecular photocycloaddition to heterocyclic systems (including the dimerization of individual heterocycles) have now been reported. Two types of cycloaddition can readily be effected photochemically, namely, [n2 + 2] and [ 4 + 4] additions. Although concerted suprafacial additions of this type are allowed photochemical processes, in reality many cycloadditions occur via diradicals, zwitterions or exciplexes. 

Becker et al. prepared a series of 10-substituted and 10,10 -disubstituted l,2-di(9-anthryl)ethanes 349 and their photochemical properties have been studied by determining the quantum yields for intramolecular (4tt + 4 77) photocyclomerization and the quantum yields of fluorescence in both cyclohexane solutions [347] (Scheme 96). The quantum yields for the intramolecular cyclization of monosubstituted 1,2-dianthrylethanes are higher than those for disubstituted analogs (see Table 8). Bulky substituents increase the fluorescence efficiencies and decrease the quantum yields for cycloaddition. The rate of the cycloreversion is enhanced by the addition of trifluoroacetic acid. 

Cyclic enones with ring sizes of six-to-eight carbons can be photochemically induced to undergo [4+2] cycloadditions via isomerization to a strained trans isomer (Schs. 22-24). Irradiation of 2-cycloheptenone 99 leads to [2+2] dimerization of an intermediate r -2-cycloheptenone 100, but if this irradiation is conducted with an excess of cyclopentadiene 32 at —50 °C, a single [4+2] adduct 101 is isolated in very high yield [65,66]. The somewhat less strained nms-2-cyclo-octenone can be generated and trapped by subsequent addition of a cyclopentadiene [67,68]. Extension of this reaction to intramolecular examples has recently been reported [69]. 

Some efforts have also been done to induce chirality in the intramolecular [2 + 2] photocycloaddition of benzene derivatives using a chiral auxiliary [88]. 141b was isolated with a diastereoselectivity of 17% from the intramolecular photocycloaddition of the salicylic acid derivative 140b (Scheme 35) [89]. After an initial [2 + 2] cycloaddition, reversible thermal and photochemical rearrangements took place. These equilibria can be displaced by an acid catalyzed and irreversible addition of methanol to the intermediate P. 

Heathcock used as concerted cycloaddition intramolecular photochemical (2 + 2) addition to create the quaternary center in his projected synthesis. A cationic rearrangement Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement) was intended as further key step but failed (162). 

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