Intramolecular heteroatom

Intramolecular heteroatom coordination may also influence the stabilities or structures of catenated tellurium compounds. For example, a rare example of a tritelluride, bis[2-(2-pyridyl)phenyl]tritelluride, is stabilized by a Te N contact of 2.55 The ditelluride (2-MeOCelFtCOTe) has an unusual planar structure. Although the C=0 Te interaction is longer (3.11 A) than the Me 0 contact (2.76 A), ab initio molecular orbital calculations indicate that the planarity results predominantly from the former intramolecular connection. 

Intramolecular Heteroatom Substitution for Halide. Intramolecular substitution for chloride or fluoride is particularly effective. Oxygen heterocycles with fused benzo rings are obtained from Cr(CO)3 complexes of fluorobenzene with an o-(hydroxyalkyl) side chain (equation 100). Efforts to produce the dUiydrobenzofuran under the same conditions failed only intermolecular substitution products were... 

It is anticipated that this concept of intramolecular assistance by heteroatom-tin coordination will be shown to be extremely useful in reactions comprising metal-mediated group transfer from tin to an oiganic substrate by C—C bond formation (111,112). In this context similar reactivity of tetraorganosilicon compounds with intramolecular heteroatom coordination can be expected. 

The pioneering studies in this area were reported in 1999 by Narasaka, who demonstrated intramolecular heteroatom Heck-type reactions of 0-pentafluorobenzoyl oximes [97]. As shown below, treatment of unsaturated substrate 97 with a catalytic amount of Pd(PPh,y in the presence of triethyl amine provided pyrrole 98 upon workup with chlorotrimethylsilane. The mechanism of this reaction proceeds via oxidative addition of the N—O bond to afford 99, which undergoes alkene insertion into the Pd—N bond to provide alkyl-palladium complex 100. The exo-methylene product 101 is generated by [i-hydride elimination from 100, and isomerization to the desired pyrrole 98 occurs when chlorotrimethylsilane is added. 

Ring closure resulting from attack of a heteroatom on a carboxyl group or its equivalent is merely a case of intramolecular esterification or amide formation. The y-butyrolactones or pyrrolidones obtained from such reactions are usually regarded as the province of aliphatic chemistry, so only a few examples are offered by way of illustration in Scheme 15. 

Cyclization reactions effected by intramolecular attack of the heteroatom on a nitrile group provide a useful source of 2-amino heterocycles. Some illustrative examples are depicted in Scheme 16. 

The converse situation in which ring closure is initiated by the attack of a carbon-based radical on the heteroatom has been employed only infrequently (Scheme 18c) (66JA4096). The example in Scheme 18d begins with an intramolecular carbene attack on sulfur followed by rearrangement (75BCJ1490). The formation of pyrrolidines by intramolecular attack of an amino radical on a carbon-carbon double bond is exemplified in Scheme 19. In the third example, where cyclization is catalyzed by a metal ion (Ti, Cu, Fe, Co " ), the stereospecificity of the reaction depends upon the choice of metal ion. 

Intramolecular methathesis of a,oj-diolefins containing a heteroatom in the chain 97AG(E)2036. 

Non-heteroatom-stabilised Fischer carbene complexes also react with alkenes to give mixtures of olefin metathesis products and cyclopropane derivatives which are frequently the minor reaction products [19]. Furthermore, non-heteroatom-stabilised vinylcarbene complexes, generated in situ by reaction of an alkoxy- or aminocarbene complex with an alkyne, are able to react with different types of alkenes in an intramolecular or intermolecular process to produce bicyclic compounds containing a cyclopropane ring [20]. 

The second option involves the incorporation of either chiral amines or chiral alcohols into the heteroatom-carbene side chain (R ), which represents the most versatile approach to diastereoselective benzannulation. The optically pure (2R,3R)-butane-2,3-diol was used to tether the biscarbene complex 37. The double intramolecular benzannulation reaction with diphenylbutadiyne allowed introduction of an additional stereogenic element in terms of an axis... 

The Diels-Alder cycloaddition is the best-known organic reaction that is widely used to construct, in a regio- and stereo-controlled way, a six-membered ring with up to four stereogenic centers. With the potential of forming carbon-carbon, carbon-heteroatom and heteroatom-heteroatom bonds, the reaction is a versatile synthetic tool for constructing simple and complex molecules [1], Scheme 1.1 illustrates two examples the synthesis of a small molecule such as the tricyclic compound 1 by intermolecular Diels-Alder reaction [2] and the construction of a complex compound, like 2, which is the key intermediate in the synthesis of (-)chlorothricolide 3, by a combination of an intermolecular and an intramolecular Diels-Alder cycloaddition [3]. 

Muller et al. have also examined the enantioselectivity and the stereochemical course of copper-catalyzed intramolecular CH insertions of phenyl-iodonium ylides [34]. The decomposition of diazo compounds in the presence of transition metals leads to typical reactions for metal-carbenoid intermediates, such as cyclopropanations, insertions into X - H bonds, and formation of ylides with heteroatoms that have available lone pairs. Since diazo compounds are potentially explosive, toxic, and carcinogenic, the number of industrial applications is limited. Phenyliodonium ylides are potential substitutes for diazo compounds in metal-carbenoid reactions. Their photochemical, thermal, and transition-metal-catalyzed decompositions exhibit some similarities to those of diazo compounds. 

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