Ketones bicyclic, reaction with

The Baeyer-Villiger oxidation is a synthetically very useful reaction it is for example often used in the synthesis of natural products. The Corey lactone 11 is a key intermediate in the total synthesis of the physiologically active prostaglandins. It can be prepared from the lactone 10, which in turn is obtained from the bicyclic ketone 9 by reaction with m-chloroperbenzoic acid (MCPBA) " ... 

The presence of the catalyst can also favor multiple Diels-Alder reactions of cycloalkenones. Two typical examples are reported in Schemes 3.6 and 3.7. When (E)-l-methoxy-1,3-butadiene (14) interacted with 2-cyclohexenone in the presence of Yb(fod)3 catalyst, a multiple Diels-Alder reaction occurred [21] and afforded a 1 1.5 mixture of the two tricyclic ketones 15 and 16 (Scheme 3.6). The sequence of events leading to the products includes the elimination of methanol from the primary cycloadduct to afford a bicyclic dienone that underwent a second cycloaddition. Similarly, 4-acetoxy-2-cyclopenten-l-one (17) (Scheme 3.7) has been shown to behave as a conjunctive reagent for a one-pot multiple Diels-Alder reaction with a variety of dienes under AICI3 catalysis, providing a mild and convenient methodology to synthesize hydrofluorenones [22]. The role of the Lewis acid is crucial to facilitate the elimination of acetic acid from the cycloadducts. The results of the reaction of 17 with diene... 

The Robinson annulation is a valuable method for preparing bicyclic and tricyclic structures that can serve as starting materials for the preparation of steroids and terpenes.175 Reaction with 2-methylcyclohexan-l,3-dione gives a compound called the Wieland-Miescher ketone. 

Hetero Pauson-Khand reactions with an aldehyde or ketone component have been shown to afford synthetically versatile y-butyrolactones. Buchwald [50] and Crowe [51] independently showed that aliphatic enones and enals react with CO under Cp2Ti(PMe3)2 mediation (Scheme 11). CO insertion and thermal (or oxidative) decomposition gave diastereomerically pure bicyclic y-butyrolactones and stable Cp2Ti(CO)2. Imines did not react under the reaction conditions. 

This Asian species is a major agricultural pest. The pheromone has been proposed to consist of three male-specific compounds, only one of which, (Z)-exo-a-bergamotenal 150, has been reported in the literature [114]. The racemic compound was synthesized starting from farnesoic acid chloride 146 (Scheme 25) [114]. Thus, the vinyl ketene prepared from acid chloride 146 underwent 2+2 cycloaddition to give bicyclic ketone 147. The ketone function was removed by reaction with hydrazine followed by treatment of the resulting hy-... 

The CD fragment 1s synthesized starting with resolved bicyclic acid 129. Sequential catalytic hydrogenation and reduction with sodium borohydride leads to the reduced hydroxy acid 1. The carboxylic acid function is then converted to the methyl ketone by treatment with methyl-lithium and the alcohol is converted to the mesylate. Elimination of the latter group with base leads to the conjugated olefin 133. Catalytic reduction followed by equilibration of the ketone in base leads to the saturated methyl ketone 134. Treatment of that intermediate with peracid leads to scission of the ketone by Bayer Villiger reaction to afford acetate 135. The t-butyl protecting... 

A masked allylic boron unit can be revealed through a transition-metal-catalyzed borylation reaction. For example, a one-pot borylation/allylation tandem process based on the borylation of various ketone-containing allylic acetates has been developed. The intramolecular allylboration step is very slow in DMSO, which is the usual solvent for these borylations of allylic acetates (see Eq. 33). The use of a non-coordinating solvent like toluene is more suitable for the overall process provided that an arsine or phosphine ligand is added to stabilize the active Pd(0) species during the borylation reaction. With cyclic ketones such as 136, the intramolecular allylation provides cis-fused bicyclic products in agreement with the involvement of the usual chairlike transition structure, 137 (Eq. 102). 

Of equal importance to the Beckmann rearrangement for the preparation of azepines and azepinones is the Schmidt reaction of ketones. Again, however, with unsymmetrically substituted cyclohexanones or with bicyclic ketones such as a-tetralone, two azepines are possible, a -Substituted cyclohexanones invariably yield the product of attack by azide ion at the least hindered side of the protonated ketone as exemplified in Scheme 19 (B-67MI51600). 

Myicene with its conjugated diene system readily undergoes Diels-Alder reactions with a number of dienophiles. For example, reaction with 3-methyl-3-pentene-2-one with a catalytic amount of A1C13 gives an intermediate monocyclic ketone, which when cydized with 85% phosphoric acid produces the bicyclic ketone known as Iso E Super [54464-57-2] (49). The product is useful in providing sandalwood-like and cedarwood-like fragrance ingredients (91). 

Iminium salts (182) were starting materials in reactions with enamines (93CB133 94CB1437), which proceed by two different pathways with the formation of bicyclic ketones (183) and with the formation of substituted pyridines. The authors assume that the reaction takes place by a double electrophilic attack of the salt (182) in the /3-positions of the enamine and the resulting immonium cations undergo a retro-Mannich type of reaction with the opening of one of the piperidine rings. 

Bicyclic alcohols with angular methyl groups (11, 10-11). The reaction of 2,5-dimethylmethylenecyclopentane (1) with acrolein (1 equiv.) and (CH3)2A1C1 involves two sequential ene reactions to give the expected bicyclic alcohol 2 (69%) and in addition the corresponding ketone 3 (12% yield), even in the absence of an oxidant.6 In the presence of 2 equiv. of acrolein, the reaction results in 3 in 60% yield and only 1% of 2. Apparently, the alkoxide precursor to 2 undergoes... 

In contrast, the reactions with aromatic ketones are rather complex and hardly predictable. In some cases, only the [2 + 2] cycloadducts were formed, but they isomerized in the dark to the bicyclic [4 + 2] isomers. Thus, mesitylsilene 349 gives with benzophe-none the 2-siloxetane 470, which undergoes spontaneously a ring expansion reaction at room temperature in the dark to give a 1.8 1 mixture of 471 and unchanged 470 (equation 155)235. 

We should also expect stereoelectronic control when the hydroxyl group is replaced by another nucleophile in the reaction with cyclic oxonium ions. A recent report (110) shows that hydride transfer to cyclic oxonium ion is subject to stereoelectronic control. Tricyclic spiroketal 140 (Fig. 19) undergoes an acid-catalyzed oxidation-reduction reaction to give the equatorial bicyclic aldehyde 147 stereospecifically. Similarly, spiroketals 148 and M9 gave the corresponding equatorial bicyclic ketone 150. 

Cyclohexanol annelation,8 In the presence of dimethylaluminum chloride, a,/3-unsaturated aldehydes or ketones undergo two consecutive ene reactions with alkylidenecycloalkanes to form bicyclic alcohols. Thus, if the reaction of methylene-cyclohexane and methyl vinyl ketone is conducted at — 20°, the product (I) of the initial ene reaction can be isolated in 39% yield together with traces of 2, which becomes the main product from reactions conducted at 25°. The intermediate is usually not isolable in reactions of a,/l-enals. Thus, reaction of ethylidenecyclopentane and acrolein at 0° gives 3 in 72% yield. An attractive feature of this annelation is that... 

Substitution of the acetate group at the C-3 position of the /3-sultam 105 can occur by reaction with silyl enol ethers in the presence of zinc iodide or zinc chloride. When the diazo compound is used, after desilylation with tetrabutyl-ammonium fluoride (TBAF), photochemical cyclization gives the bicyclic /3-sultam 106 as a mixture of two cis/ fra -diastereoisomers. When silyl enol ethers derived from cyclic ketones are used, the substitution product is stabilized by a retro-Michael-type reaction leading to open-chained sulfonamides 107 (Scheme 31) <1997LA1261>. 

The reaction of 1-disilagermirene 22 with ketones is similar to the benzaldehyde case. Thus, reaction with butane-2,3-dione gives a final bicyclic product 41, which also has a norbornane type skeleton (Scheme 15, Figure 13)50. Formation of this compound can be reasonably explained by the initial [2 + 2] cycloaddition of one carbonyl group across the Si=Si bond to form the three- and four-membered ring bicyclic compound 42, followed by the isomerization of disilaoxetane 42 to an enol ether derivative 43. The intramolecular insertion of the second carbonyl group into the endocyclic Si—Ge single bond in 43 completes this reaction sequence to produce the final norbornane 41. In this case, C=0 insertion occurred into the Si—Ge bond rather than the Si—Si bond, which is reasonable due to the weakness of Si—Ge bond. 

As a reductive cascade reaction with Sml2, treatment of methylenecyclopropyl ketone (310) with Sml2 in a mixture of HMPA and f-BuOH at 0 °C generates bicyclic alcohols (311a) and (311b) which are the skeleton of a natural product, paeonilactone, as shown in eq. 3.130. 

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