Intramolecular radical-induced 5-alkylation

An intramolecular 2-alkylation was also observed in a sulfonyl free radical induced addition-cyclization <95SL763>. A key intermediate in a new synthesis of pallescensin A (a biologically active labdane diterpene) was prepared by a cationic cyclization reaction with a furan <95SYN1141>. The sonochemical Barbier reaction was extended to carboxylate salts. 2-Furanylketones 10 can be obtained by sonication of a mixture of furan, lithium carboxylate, an alkylchloride, and lithium in THF <95JOC8>. 

A new approach to construction of 3-aminosugar moieties by stereospecific intramolecular addition of a carbon-free radical to hydrazone 125 derived from crotonaldehyde was recently demonstrated by Friestad. This synthesis, comprising asymmetric dihydroxylation, PhS radical-induced C = N bond alkylation (C-vinylation) and subsequent Wacker oxidation [88] of terminal olefin 128, which afforded L-daunosaminide derivative 129, in overall 32% yield, is outlined in Scheme 23 [89]. 

Intramolecular HAS induced by reducing reagents has been intensively applied to obtain a large number of compounds, where either alkyl, vinyl, aryl, or heteroaryl radicals successfully add onto arenes [31b, 40]. Different synthetic strategies, such as ring expansion [41], ipso substitution [42], 1,5-hydrogen translocation, and tandem cyclization [43], among others, have been applied to afford important cyclic compounds such as phenanthridines [44], polycyclic arenes [45], 6//-benzo[c] chromen-6-ones [13a], and strained helicenes [46]. 

The occurrence of the indole subunit is well established within the class of natural products and pharmaceutically active compounds. Recently, the Reissig group developed an impressive procedure for the assembly of highly functionalized in-dolizidine derivatives, highlighting again the versatility of domino reactions [8]. The approach is based on a samarium(II) iodide-mediated radical cydization terminated by a subsequent alkylation which can be carried out in an intermolecular - as well as in an intramolecular - fashion. Reaction of ketone 3-11 with samarium(ll) iodide induced a 6-exo-trig cydization, furnishing a samarium enolate intermediate... 

A novel tandem carbonyiation/cyclization radical process has been developed for the intramolecular acylation of l-(2-iodoethyl)indoles and pyrroles <99TL7153>. In this process, an acyl radical is formed when CO is trapped by an alkyl radical formed from the AIBN-induced radical reaction of l-(2-iodoethyl)indoles 104 with BusSnH. Intramolecular addition of the acyl radical to the C-2 position of the heteroaromatic system presumably affords a benzylic radical which undergoes in situ oxidative rearomatization to the bicycloketones 105. 

Other reactions involving the cleavage of a carbon heteroatom bond include a promising method for the deprotection of benzyl ethers by irradiation in the presence of acceptors (Scheme 46) [240-241] and the liberation of alkyl radicals (capable of initiating a polymerization) from alkyltriarylborate salts [242-243], The PET induced decomposition of phenyldiazomethane leads to cis-stilbene the reaction however appears to involve addition of the radical cation to a neutral molecule prior to nitrogen loss [244]. The detachment of a halogen after intramolecular electron transfer from the a C-X bond to an electron-rich... 

It should be pointed out that intermolecular hydrostannation of acetylene compounds which can be induced by radical initiators, transition metal catalysts, base catalysts, or Lewis acids to form vinylstannanes has also been known for many years. However, the first synthesis of 1-benzostannepines 34 was described in 1998 from (Z)-l-(t>-bromo-phenyl)but-l-en-3-ynes 32 via the tin hydride intermediate 33 by the intramolecular 1 -endn-dig-n ng closure at the sp carbon atom of ethynyl moiety (Scheme 3) <1998CC767, 2000J(PI)1965>. 2-Alkyl-l-benzostannepins thus obtained are stable (not sensitive to air, light and moisture, and colorless oils). 

Some examples of more elaborate radical cyclizations accompanied by I-transfer are illustrated in Scheme 3. The cyclization of alkyl radicals onto propargyl esters has been demonstrated in synthesis of a-methylene butyrolactones [17]. This procedure uses thermolysis in the presence of benzoyl peroxide in order to induce initiation, and appears to progress in the absence of a distannane reagent. Attempts to carry out the cyclization under tin hydride conditions led to uncyclized, reduced substrate. A series of more complex radical cyclizations involving both I-transfer and unimolecular H-transfer have recently been reported. In these reactions, the radical initially formed by I-abstraction underwent 5>-exo cyclization to generate a vinyl radical. This radical, in turn, abstracted H from silicon in an intramolecular... 

Mono- and disubstituted N-alkyl and N-arylaziridines are reported to undergo a photoinduced electron transfer [3+2] cycloaddition to dipolarophiles to produce five-membered heterocycles, and it is suggested that in this process the radical cation intermediate behaves differently from the corresponding classical azomethine ylide. Intramolecular [4+4] photocycloaddition of the dipyridyl-propane (73) followed by Li/NHa reduction is a useful route to the eleven-membered ring system (74), and on irradiation of benzene solutions of 2,3-dicyano-5,6-dimethylpyrazine in the presence of allylic silanes a [2+2] cyclisation is induced followed by rearrangement to give 2,8-diazatricyclo[3.2.1.0 ]oct-2-ene (75 R = H, Me). ... 

Oxoesters are oxidized with Mn(OAc)3 to the corresponding radicals that can add intermolecularly or intramolecularly (eq Ib)" to generate alkyl radicals. In the presence of Cu(OAc)2 the latter are rapidly quenched and oxidized to give alkenes. Radical arylation with alkyl iodides can be induced with dibenzoyl peroxide the yield of the reaction can be improved using a catalytic amount of Cu(0Ac)2-H20, which minimizes hydrogen abstraction by the intermediate radical but introduces a competitive electron-transfer oxidation of the intermediate radical. The oxidative addition of disulfides to alkenes (Trost hydroxysulfenylation ) can be promoted by catalytic amounts ofCu(OAc)2. ... 

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