Lactones enolate precursors

Removal of the unsaturated side-chain appendage from C-8 in 22 provides diol lactone 23 and allylic bromide 24 as potential precursors. In the synthetic direction, a diastereoselective alkylation of a hydroxyl-protected lactone enolate derived from 23 with allylic bromide 24 could accomplish the assembly of 22, an intermediate that possesses all of the carbon atoms of PGF2o- It was anticipated that preexisting asymmetry in the lactone enolate would induce the... 

For instance, Trost, Mao and coworkers use a,a-disulfenylated lactones as enolate precursors . Reaction of ethylmagnesium bromide and a,a-di-(phenylthio)-)/-butyr-olactone provides such an enolate that is quenched by ethanal (equation 11). 

Trost has used a,a-disulfenylated lactones as enolate precursors. As shown in equation (23), a,a-di-(phenylthio)- v-butyrolactone is treated sequentially with ethylmagnesium bromide and acetaldehyde to obtain -hydroxy lactone (8) in virtually quantitative yield. Oxidation of the phenylthio group and subsequent elimination of the resulting sulfoxide provides the unsaturated hydroxy lactone (9). The process was employed with more complex lactones in a total synthesis of iridoids. The method fails with a,a-di-sulfenylated ketones unless a catalytic amount of copper(I) bromide is included in the reaction mixture. 

Silyl enol ethers are mainly used as precursors for uncontaminated lithium enolates (Section 2.1.6.1.1.). However, direct C-protonation can successfully be applied as demonstrated with the already known158- 1593 lactone enol silyl ether 10. 

In all but one reaction discussed in this section up to this point, the carbonyl compounds serving as enolate precursors are either externally added or present in the starting substrates. In the lactone formation shown in Scheme 7, however, the ketone moiety serving as an enolate precursor is generated in situ via cyclic acylpaUadation. We may therefore... 

Intramolecular [80] and intermolecular [81,82] trapping of acylpalladium intermediates with enolates has been studied. Intermolecular versions can involve trapping with both C- and 0-enolates. The Pd-catalyzed carbonylation reactions of alkenyl iodides in the presence of various ketone enolate precursors displayed an interesting dichotomy the expected 0-enolate trapping product 47 may undergo cyclization to give six-membered lactone 48, and the product s composition critically depends on the amount of a base and the structure of ketones (Scheme 9.19). 

Miscellaneous Reactions.—a-Alkoxylated a-lithioacetates may be alkylated,may react with ketones (the products from which cyclize to f3-lactones, themselves precursors of enol ethers by CO2 elimination" ), and may be condensed with lactones, as applied in a synthesis of natural product derivatives.The trianion derived from PhCH(0H)C02H is. C-alkylated but only in mediocre yield.The anions PhSCHCO and PhSCHC02Me react efficiently with electrophiles however, the former adds 1,2 to a, 8-unsaturated ketones, whereas the latter adds 1,4- ... 

This arrangement of subgroups is due to the hypothetical biosynthetic sequence. It assumes that precursors for these alkaloids are the Af-methylphth-alideisoquinolinium salts, whose presence in plants is well documented. Enol lactones may be the initial degradation products formed in a Hofmann-type jft-elimination process. They could be hydrated to the keto acids and in the next step oxidated in air to the diketo acids. Diketo adds may undergo further oxidative cleavage to yield simple alkaloids of the fumariflorine (87) type 85,86), which seem to be the final products of the metabolism of phthalideiso-quinoline alkaloids. 

In Table VI secophthalideisoquinoline alkaloids and their precursors are presented. They form four series of seco bases from enol lactones to diketo adds ending with ene lactams, which in all probability are not true alkaloids but products arising during the extraction process. The classic precursors of... 

Enol lactones are assumed to form from iV-methylisoquinolinium salts as a result of a Hofmann-type degradation process. This P elimination is a highly stereospecific reaction in which Z isomers are produced from precursors of erythro configuration and isomers from threo diastereomers(5,97). This fact seems to suggest that syn rather than the more usual anti elimination takes place. Examination of models indicates, however, that there is a preferred conformation in which the C-8 hydrogen is in the syn and coplanar position to the quaternary nitrogen. This hypothesis was proved correct in experiments carried out in vitro (5,14,15,91-94). 

Mass spectra of these alkaloids are almost identical with the mass spectra of their enol lactone precursors. It may be assumed that the molecular ions, recorded only in spectra of 104 and 106, can be easily dehydrated under electron impact (4,107,108). 

At the first step, the insertion of MMA to the lanthanide-alkyl bond gave the enolate complex. The Michael addition of MMA to the enolate complex via the 8-membered transition state results in stereoselective C-C bond formation, giving a new chelating enolate complex with two MMA units one of them is enolate and the other is coordinated to Sm via its carbonyl group. The successive insertion of MMA afforded a syndiotactic polymer. The activity of the polymerization increased with an increase in the ionic radius of the metal (Sm > Y > Yb > Lu). Furthermore, these complexes become precursors for the block co-polymerization of ethylene with polar monomers such as MMA and lactones [215, 217]. 

Biological. Benzoic acid may degrade to catechol if it is the central metabolite whereas, if protocatechuic acid (3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid) is the central metabolite, the precursor is 3-hydroxybenzoic acid (Chapman, 1972). Other compounds identified following degradation of benzoic acid to catechol include cis,c/5-muconic acid, (+)-muconolactone, 3-oxoadipate enol lactone, and 3-oxoadipate (quoted, Verschueren, 1983). Pure microbial cultures hydroxylated benzoic acid to 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid, 2- and 4-hydroxybenzoic acid (Smith and Rosazza, 1974). In activated sludge, 65.5% mineralized to carbon dioxide after 5 d (Freitag et al., 1985). 

The norbornene derivative 16, obtained exclusively as the exo adduct via a Diels-Alder reaction of itaconic anhydride with cyclopentadiene followed by hydrolysis and esterification [7], was found to be a suitable precursor for an enolate of type 14 (Scheme 2). Due to the quaternary center at C-3 eno-lization with base proceeded unambiguously, giving rise to a diastereomeric mixture of lactones 17/18 after reaction with hexanal. Retro-Diels-Alder reaction led to the monocyclic lactones 19/20 (2 1), elegantly unmasking the cxo-methylene group found in so many paraconic acids [8]. Hydrolysis of this mixture in refluxing butanone with 6 N HCl [9] effected epimerization... 

The required 1-oxa-l,3-diene precursor was synthesized according to the synthesis design (Scheme 8). Cycloadditon with enol ether furnished exclusively the endo-isomer. Raney nickel treatment in refluxing ethanol yielded in one step the desired tetrahydropyran derivative in a favorable 6 1 cis/trans ratio. Transformation into the lactone and ring closure with potassium tert.-butoxide afforded (+)-ramulosin. 

Methylene difluorocyclopropanes are relatively rare and their rearrangement chemistry has been reviewed recently [14]. In addition, electron deficient alkenes such as sesquiterpenoid methylene lactones may be competent substrates. Two crystal structures of compounds prepared in this way were reported recently [15,16]. Other relatively recent methods use dibromodifluoromethane, a relatively inexpensive and liquid precursor. Dolbier and co-workers described a simple zinc-mediated protocol [17], while Balcerzak and Jonczyk described a useful reproducible phase transfer catalysed procedure (Eq. 6) using bromo-form and dibromodifluoromethane [18]. The only problem here appears to be in separating cyclopropane products from alkene starting material (the authors recommend titration with bromine which is not particularly amenable for small scale use). Schlosser and co-workers have also described a mild ylide-based approach using dibromodifluoromethane [19] which reacts particularly well with highly nucleophilic alkenes such as enol ethers [20], and remarkably, with alkynes [21] to afford labile difluorocyclopropenes (Eq. 7). 

Stereoselective routes to the lactone precursors of the 1-hydroxyethylene isosteres using a titanium-mediated condensation has been reported by both Shibuya and co-workers1 and DeCamp et al. 19 The former method (Scheme 9) features the reaction between (2S)-2-dibenzylamino aldehydes and optically active dichloroisopropoxytitanium ester homo-enolates to provide the desired lactone with high erythro selectivity. Then, the lactone is opened by treatment with an amine and trimethylaluminum to give the 1-hydroxyethylene isostere. The experimental details of DeCamp et al. s high yielding and stereoselective synthesis 19 of lactone 8 (Scheme 10) is discussed in Section 10.6.2.2. 

Lithium enolates of phenyl esters (28) react with aldehydes or ketones to give O-lithiated phenyl 3-hydroxyalkanoates (29) which undergo spontaneous intramolecular cyclization to P-lactones (30) (95JOC758), Also, lithium enolates are used in the synthesis of 3-[l-(dialkylamino)alkyl]()-lactoncs (94JOC7994), which are precursors for a-oxo-P-lactones. 

Since the use of stoichiometric amounts of organostannane is unfavorable for the environment, they have established reaction conditions for a process that is catalytic in organostannane. Thus, the reaction with an alkenyl trichloroacetate as the precursor of the tin enolate in the presence of the catalytic amount of Me3SnOMe and the appropriate aldehydes afforded the corresponding aldol adducts with high enantio-and diastereoselectivities (Table 9.8).17 However, when the aliphatic aldehydes were used as substrates, the reaction did not take place at all. The proposed catalytic cycle is shown in Figure 9.3. It was also demonstrated that this catalytic system could be applied using a [3-lactone compound as an alkenyl trichloroacetate equivalent to... 

Starting from pent-4-yn-l-ols,the previously described catalytic system led to a mixture of lactone and cyclic enol ether [41]. However, in the presence of (Cp)ruthenium complexes bearing an electron-rich ligand such as tris(p-methoxyphenyl)phosphine in the presence of a large excess of the same ligand [system A], the selective formation of lactones was obtained. A simple modification of the catalyst precursor such as the switch to the electron-deficient... 

Lactone precursor 173 was converted in 83% yield into enol ether 174 via Petasis methylation (Equation 9) <2004SL1434>. 

Michael addition of the potassium enolate of cy-anacetamide (14) provided the precursor 55 of the pyridone 56. This intermediate was obtained by oxidation of 55 with t-BuOOH in the presence of 20 mol % SeOj on Si02. The addition of 10 % H2SO4 to the reaction mixture directly delivered the lactone 56. Lactones like 56 are not easy to reduce, but treatment with NaBH4/CeCl3 provided the diol 57 in 95 % yield. 57 could be easily converted to camptothecin by heating it to 115 °C in 60 % H2SO4 in EtOH. 

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