Cyclic ketenes

In this chapter, we discuss the rate coefficients and the mechanisms of oxidation of ketones. The classes covered include alkanones, hydroxyketones, diketones, unsaturated ketones, ketenes, cyclic ketones, ketones derived from biogenic compounds, and halogen-substituted ketones. Photolysis is a major atmospheric process for many ketones, and will be discussed in chapter IX. The major bimolecular reactions removing ketones from the atmosphere are with OH. Although less important than the OH... 

The oxidation of the cyclic enol ether 93 in MeOH affords the methyl ester 95 by hydrolysis of the ketene acetal 94 formed initially by regioselective attack of the methoxy group at the anomeric carbon, rather than the a-alkoxy ketone[35]. Similarly, the double bond of the furan part in khellin (96) is converted ino the ester 98 via the ketene acetal 97[l23],... 

The first /3 -lactam was produced by addition of a ketene to an imine and there are now many examples of this type of approach. The ketenes are most frequently generated in situ from acid chlorides by dehydrohalogenation, but have also been produced from diazo ketones, by heating of alkoxyacetylenes and in the case of certain cyanoketenes by thermolysis of the cyclic precursors (162) and (163). 

A wide variety of /3-lactams are available by these routes because of the range of substituents possible in either the ketene or its equivalent substituted acetic acid derivative. Considerable diversity in imine structure is also possible. In addition to simple Schiff bases, imino esters and thioethers, amidines, cyclic imines and conjugated imines such as cinnamy-lidineaniline have found wide application in the synthesis of functionalized /3-lactams. A-Acylhydrazones can be used, but phenylhydrazones and O-alkyloximes do not give /3-lactams. These /3-lactam forming reactions give both cis and /raMS-azetidin-2-ones some control over stereochemistry can, however, be exercised by choice of reactants and conditions. 

The most efficient intramolecular secondary processes competing with the acyl-alkyl diradical recombination in five-membered and larger cyclic ketones are hydrogen shifts resulting in the disproportionation of the diradical to either ketenes or unsaturated aldehydes [cf. (5) (4) (6)]. 

Aromatic aldehydes and cyclic perfluoroketones are oxidized to a-hydroxy hydroperoxides or bis(a-hydroxy) peroxides, aliphatic ketones are converted to esters, and ketenes are converted to a-lactones... 

There is some spectral evidence that acylation of enamines of cyclic ketones with acid chlorides having an a-hydrogen in the presence of triethylamine proceeds via the ketene and subsequent cycloaddition (84). The intermediate cyclobutanone is then opened to give the enamino ketone which is hydrolyzed to the 2-acyl cyclohexanone. In the case of enamines of larger cyclic ketones the alternate mode of the cyclobutanone opening predominates, with the formation of ring-expanded 1,3-diketones upon... 

In context with the formation of peraminosubstituted 1,4,5,8-tetraazaful-valenes of type 85 it must be mentioned that the bis-vinylogous compounds 94 can be easily prepared by reaction of acetamidine with bisimidoylchlo-rides derived from oxalic acid (96S1302). In the course of a complex reaction a cyclic ketene aminal was produced it immediately underwent an oxidative dimerization to yield deeply colored TAFs. Tlieir high chemical stability can be compared with that of indigoid dyes and manifests itself, for example, by the fact that they are soluble in hot concentrated sulfuric acid without decomposition. Tire same type of fulvalene is also available by cy-... 

Flash vacuum thermolysis (FVT) of 2-substituted 4//-pyrido[l,2-n]pyrimidin-4-ones 126 above 800 °C afforded (2-pyridyl)iminopropadie-none (130) (99JCS(P2)1087). These reactions were interpreted in terms of reversible ring opening of 4//-pyrido[l,2-n]pyrimidin-4-ones to imidoyl-ketenes 127. A 1,5-H shift in 127 generated the N(l)H-tautomeric methylene ketene 128, in which facile elimination of HX took place via a six-membered cyclic transition state 129 to yield 130. In the case of 2-methoxy derivative 126 (X = OMe) another competing pathway was also identified at lower temperature, which resulted in the formation C3O2 and 2-methylaminopyr-idine via mesoionic isomer 131 (Scheme 9). The products were identified by IR spectroscopy. 

Extension of this work by reacting 5-nitropyrimidine with 0,0-ketene acetals and with other cyclic and non-cyclic enamines showed that also with these electron-rich dienophiles the addition is regioselective and gives rise to the formation of 2-mono- or 2,3-disubstituted 5-nitropyridines (Scheme 30). Thus, reaction of 5-nitropyrimidine with the cyclic N,S-ketene acetals 4,5-dihydro-1 -methyl-2-methylthiopyrrole and 4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1 -methyl-2-methylthioazepine gives in low yields 2,3-dihydro-1-methyl-5-nitropyr-olo[2,3-h]pyridine and the 5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-9-methyl-3-nitropyrido [2,3-Z)]azepine, respectively (89T2693) (Scheme 30). 

A quite different type of titanium catalyst has been used in an inverse electron-demand 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. Bosnich et al. applied the chiral titanocene-(OTf)2 complex 32 for the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition between the cyclic nitrone 14a and the ketene acetal 2c (Scheme 6.25). The reaction only proceeded in the presence of the catalyst and a good cis/trans ratio of 8 92 was obtained using catalyst 32, however, only 14% ee was observed for the major isomer [70]. 

The thermal [2 + 2] cycloaddition is limited to certain activated alkenes. For instance tetrafluoroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, allenes e.g. 17, ketenes and ena-mines can form cyclic dimers or react with other alkenes ... 

Stansbury and Bailey. A review by Colombam on addition-fragmentation processes is also relevant. Monomers used in ring-opening are typically vinyl (e.g. vinylcyclopropane - Scheme 4.20 Section 4.4.2.1) or methylene substituted cyclic compounds (e.g. ketene acetals - Section 4.4.2.2) where addition to the double bond is followed by p-scission. 

Ketenes react with tertiary allylic amines in the presence of Lewis acids to give zwitterionic intermediates which undergo [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement [119]. Photolysis of chromium carbene complexes in the presence of tertiary amines results in similar chemistry [120]. Cyclic (Table 21) and strained allylic amines (Eq. 34) work best, while acylic amines are less reactive (Eq. 35). 

Staudinger observed that the cycloaddition of ketenes with 1,3-dienes afforded cyclobutanones from a formal [2+2] cycloaddition [52] prior to the discovery of the Diels-Alder reaction. The 2+2 cycloadditions were classified into the symmetry-allowed 2+2 cycloaddition reactions [6, 7], It was quite momentous when Machiguchi and Yamabe reported that [4+2] cycloadducts are initial products in the reactions of diphenylketene with cyclic dienes such as cyclopentadiene (Scheme 11) [53, 54], The cyclobutanones arise by a [3, 3]-sigmatropic (Claisen) rearrangement of the initial products. 

Additions of silylated ketene acetals to lactones such as valerolactone in the presence of triphenylmethyl perchlorate in combination with either allyltrimethylsilane 82, trimethylsilyl cyanide 18, or triethylsilane 84b, to afford substituted cyclic ethers in high yields have already been discussed in Section 4.8. Aldehydes or ketones such as cyclohexanone condense in a modified Sakurai-cyclization with the silylated homoallylic alcohol 640 in the presence of TMSOTf 20, via 641, to give unsaturated cyclic spiro ethers 642 and HMDSO 7, whereas the 0,0-diethyllactone acetal 643 gives, with 640, the spiroacetal 644 and ethoxytrimethylsilane 13b [176-181]... 

Nitrobenzene reacts with the O-trimethylsilyl ketene acetal 663 in the presence of tris(dimethylamino)sulfur(trimefhylsilyl)difluoride (Me2N)3S(Me3SiF2) (TASF) to give the O-silylated adduct 1007 a, which can be oxidized in situ, e. g. by bromine, to give the 4-substituted nitrobenzene 1008 in an overall yield of 79% [87] (Scheme 7.28). With less hindered ketene-acetals, however, mixtures of ortho- and para-substituted nitrobenzenes are obtained. Yet, on reaction of 4-fluoronitroben-zene with the cyclic O-trimethylsilyl ketene acetal 1009 the ortho-substitution product 1010 is obtained in 79% yield [87]. 

The stereochemistry of the silyl ketene acetal can be controlled by the conditions of preparation. The base that is usually used for enolate formation is lithium diisopropyl-amide (LDA). If the enolate is prepared in pure THF, the F-enolate is generated and this stereochemistry is maintained in the silyl derivative. The preferential formation of the F-enolate can be explained in terms of a cyclic TS in which the proton is abstracted from the stereoelectronically preferred orientation perpendicular to the carbonyl plane. The carboxy substituent is oriented away from the alkyl groups on the amide base. 

The photolysis of cyclic a-diazoketones results in ring contraction to a ketene, which can be isolated as the corresponding ester. 

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