Lithium bromide carbamate

A one-pot synthesis of bromodeoxy carbamates has been achieved using Viehe s salt followed by treatment with lithium bromide. Thus... 

The cyclohexene 121, which was readily accessible from the Diels-Alder reaction of methyl hexa-3,5-dienoate and 3,4-methylenedioxy-(3-nitrostyrene (108), served as the starting point for another formal total synthesis of ( )-lycorine (1) (Scheme 11) (113). In the event dissolving metal reduction of 121 with zinc followed by reduction of the intermediate cyclic hydroxamic acid with lithium diethoxyaluminum hydride provided the secondary amine 122. Transformation of 122 to the tetracyclic lactam 123 was achieved by sequential treatment with ethyl chloroformate and Bischler-Napieralski cyclization of the resulting carbamate with phosphorus oxychloride. Since attempts to effect cleanly the direct allylic oxidation of 123 to provide an intermediate suitable for subsequent elaboration to ( )-lycorine (1) were unsuccessful, a stepwise protocol was devised. Namely, addition of phenylselenyl bromide to 123 in acetic acid followed by hydrolysis of the intermediate acetates gave a mixture of two hydroxy se-lenides. Oxidative elimination of phenylselenous acid from the minor product afforded the allylic alcohol 124, whereas the major hydroxy selenide was resistant to oxidation and elimination. When 124 was treated with a small amount of acetic anhydride and sulfuric acid in acetic acid, the main product was the rearranged acetate 67, which had been previously converted to ( )-lycorine (108). 

The lithiation of an O-vinyl carbamate with rAr-BuLi followed by transmetallation with zinc bromide provides the convenient acyl anion derivative, which undergoes smooth Pd(0)-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions (Equation (24)).67 This reaction sequence has been extended to lithium enolates. The deprotonation of the aminoester with LDA followed by a transmetallation with zinc bromide in ether furnishes a zinc enolate, which readily adds to the double... 

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