Karahanaenone synthesis

Cycloheptanes.—Two full papers have appeared on subjects mentioned in Vol. 1 Demole and Enggist s karahanaenone synthesis,and the irradiation of eucarvone. " Another paper concerning the irradiation of eucarvone has appeared in this case the substrate was protonated by carrying out the reaction in fluorosulphonic acid at — 78 °C. The products obtained after quenching the reaction with potassium carbonate in methanol are shown in Scheme 5, together... 

The iron carbonyl-promoted [3 + 4] cycloaddition of bromo-ketones to. 1,3-dienes provides a convenient way, via 2-oxyallyIs, of synthesizing tropones and hence thujaplicins. The synthesis of nezukone (154 X = H)253 has been reported from a,a,a, a -tetrabromoacetone and 3-isopropylfuran. Similarly, from 2-isopropylfuran, /3-thujaplicin (154 X = OH) has been synthesized from the corresponding tropone by known methods, and a-thujaplicin synthesis requires isopropyl substitution in the ketone moiety.254 Karahanaenone (155) is a minor product from pyrolysis of the benzoate (156).149... 

Synthesis ofkarahanaenaue. The ionic reaction of NBS in CCI4 at room temperature with a y-ethylcnic tertiary alcohol leads to an -bromotetrahydrofurane. The reaction has been used in a convenient synthesis of karahanaenone (4), a constituent of hop oil, from linalool (1). Thus reaction of (1) with NBS affords 2-mcthyl-2-vinyl-5-(l-bromo-l-methylethyl)tetrahydrofurane (2) in 85% yield. Dehydrohalogena-tion of (2) with collidine at 110 leads to the allyl vinyl ether (3), which immediately... 

This isomerization reaction has been used in the synthesis of some norcarane derivatives. Thus treatment of the epoxide (4) of karahanaenone with sodium ethoxide in ethanol (reflux IS min.) yielded stereospecifically one bicyclic hydroxy ketone (S S-enrf( -hydroxy-3,3.6-trimethylnorcarane-2-onc) in over 80% yield. 

Addition of thiophenol to cyclopropylallene 12, a less common method for the preparation of cist tram mixtures of divinylcyclopropanes, is used in the synthesis of karahanaenone850, an odoriferous constituent of Japanese hop and cypress oil. Karahanaenone is also prepared via a silyloxy-Cope rearrangement of 15 in 54% overall yield (starting with isobutyraldehyde and a mixture of cis- and /rpyridinium chlorochromate oxidation to give 14)851-852,... 

Cycloheptanes.—One synthesis of karahanaenone (231) depends upon thermal rearrangement of a 2-methylene-5-vinyltetrahydrofuran, and the conditions for this type of reaction have been examined on a simpler model (232), which arises from the dihydrofuran (233) at 140—200 °C. The reaction to the cycloheptenone (234) occurs rapidly at active sites on a glass surface, but is arrested in tubes coated with sodium hydroxide. Higher temperatures and lower pressures give two other compounds (235) and (236). All these reactions involve the biradical (237), as does the conversion of the cyclopropane (238) into the cycloheptenone (234). Karahanaenone (231) has also been made by isomerization of terpinolene epoxide (239) with boron trifluoride etherate. Eucarvone (240 R = H) should not be... 

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