Intramolecular alkene coupling

C-C bond formation can be favored over /3-hydride elimination by changing the nature of the catalyst. Hence, cyclizations can be mediated by iridium carbene complexes resulting from a formal intramolecular cross-coupling of the alkene with an. s -C-H bond (Equation (40)). 

Formation of a titanacyclopentane via cyclic dimerization of ethylene was reported as early as 197644 (Scheme 17). In marked contrast with the corresponding Zr-promoted reactions discussed later in this chapter, the intramolecular version of the Ti-promoted alkene-alkene coupling reactions does not appear to have been well developed. Consequently, detailed aspects of pair -selectivity and regioselectivity still remain largely unknown. 

Scheme 19 Ti-promoted intramolecular alkyne-alkene coupling.

Scheme 12 Spirodienones by intramolecular phenol-alkene coupling.

Intramolecular geometries, database studies, 1, 597 Intramolecular hydroalkoxylation, and etherification, 10, 672 Intramolecular pinacol coupling to cyclic 1,2-diols, 11, 51 with samarium reagents, 11, 60 Intramolecular silylformylation, alkynes and alkenes, 11, 489 Intramolecular solvomercuration alkenes, 2, 436 alkynes, 2, 439... 

Primary alkylboranes derived by hydroboration of terminal alkenes with 9-BBN-H are coupled with aryl and alkenyl triflates and halides under properly selected conditions. The reaction proceeds smoothly without elimination of /1-hydrogen using PdCTklppf) or Pd(Ph3P)4 and K3PO4 in dioxane or DMF [132]. The intramolecular cross-coupling of the alkenyl triflate with the alkylborane in 292, prepared by in situ hydroboration of the double bond in 291 with 9-BBN-H, is applied to the annulation to... 

Alkyne-alkene carbonylative coupling. Intramolecular carbonylative coupling of dialkynes catalyzed by Fe(CO)3 provides a route to cyclopentadienones (equation I). The more difficult carbonylative alkyne-alkene coupling to provide cyclopen-tenones (Pauson-Khand reaction) can also be effected with Fe(CO)s, but in modest yield. In an improved coupling, acetone is treated with Fe2(CO)9 to form Fe-... 

Dimethylbutadiene)HfCp (Cl)] (74c) reacts with one molar equivalent of acetylene to yield the unusual product 87. This is probably formed by a conventional butadiene/alkyne coupling at the Group 4 metal center, followed by an intramolecular alkene insertion into the adjacent hafnium to carbon cr-bond. The resulting alkylidene complex (86) then rapidly dimerizes to yield the observed final product (see Scheme 28), that was characterized by X-ray diffraction.96... 

The Cp2TiCl/H20 combination can also be used for the chemoselective reduction of aromatic ketones. The reaction discriminates between ketones and alkenes, between ketones and esters and, remarkably, between conjugated and non-conjugated ketones [80]. There is strong evidence that this reduction proceeds via ketyl-type radicals, which are finally reduced by H-atom transfer from 42 [81]. Under dry conditions, titanium-promoted ketyl radicals from aromatic ketones can be used for intermolecular and intramolecular cross-coupling of ketones [82], Thus, depending on whether water is added or not, complementary and versatile synthetic procedure protocols are available. 

The ketyl radical anion intermediates can be exploited in carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. Intermolecular and intramolecular pinacol couplings between the carbonyl groups of ketones and aldehydes are well known (Chapter 5, Section 5.1), as are intermolecular and intramolecular carbonyl-alkene couplings (Chapter 5, Section 5.2). 

A prototype example is the famous McMurry coupling of carbonyl compounds to alkenes (Scheme 1) [4]. The very high stability of the accumulating titanium oxides constitutes the thermodynamic sink which drives the conversion but demands the use of stoichiometric or excess amounts of the low-valent titanium reagent [Ti]. Only recently has it been possible to elaborate a procedure that for the first time enables us to perform intramolecular carbonyl coupling reactions catalyzed by titanium species [5]. 

Scheme 3-36 Intramolecular tiryl-aryl as well as intra-intermolecular aryl-aryl and aryl-alkene coupling cascades [189].

Scheme 3-37 Inter-intramolecular alkenyl-alkene coupling cascades involving C H activation on an alkene and arene, respectively [188d,e]. A = Pd(OAc), K2CO3, Bu NBr, DMF, 80 °C.

Intramolecular reductive couplings between alkenes and aromatic halides have been mentioned in sec. IV.B.5 and IV.B.6. Here, discussion centers on reductive coupling either between two aromatic rings or between an aromatic ring and another, nonolefinic molecule. 

Curiously, the relative stereochemistry between the carboxylate and the adjacent hydroxy group in the Sml2-mediated intramolecular pinacolic coupling reaction is opposite to that observed in the intramolecular Barbier reactions and ketone-alkene reductive coupling reactions discussed previously (compare... 

Functionalized macrocyclic alkenes can be synthesized by intramolecular Stille coupling using polymer-bound stannanes. The products are released during the coupling process. ... 

Cleavage Intramolecular Suzuki-coupling Product after cleavage Substituted alkene [310]... 

Tin hydride reagents are versatile tools for the functionalization of alkenes and alkynes. Based on this concept, Nicolaou and coworkers developed a polymer-bound tin hydride (118) that reacts via Pd-catalyzed hydrostannylation (or nucleophilic attack on the tin chloride with a vinyl lithium) with alkynes to give alkenylstannanes [116]. After further transformation to derivatives 119, the resin-bound substrates undergo proteolytic traceless cleavage to yield unsubstituted alkenes 120. Alternatively, the stannane can be employed for intramolecular Shlle coupling to produce macrolactones 121 in the cleavage step (Scheme 16.28). 

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