Methylidene compounds

With orthoesters, tetramic acid 2b gives methylidene compounds (75) on heating in toluene. With excess triethyl orthoformate as solvent, 2b forms 75a in 90% yield. Intermediates (74) are not isolable, but react further with an excess of 2b. Similarly, a high tendency to form 75a is also reported for the reaction of 2b with ethoxymethylidene compounds 76a,b (67M564). In both cases 75a was furnished in 20% yield. Moreover, 77b (15%) and 78a (20%) were obtained (91TH1). According to X-ray... 

Let us consider the crystal growth of the three previous compounds which have retained our attention by their high nonlinear optical susceptibilities (POM, MAP, NPP) plus an additional one R(+)N-methylidene (gem-carbethoxiphenyl) amide of 4-N-dime-thylamino- benzylidene cyanacetlc acid -AMA, of potential interest but not yet investigated from the optical point of view. We look successively into their synthesis, purification, crystal growth and characterization. 

Namely, the reaction of 2-thioxothiazolidin-4-one N-hexanoic acid (116) with 2,5-dimethyl-l-phenylpyrrol-3-carboxaldehyde (117) in methanol under the catalytic action of ethylenediamine diacetate (EDDA) yields 5-[(2,5-dimethyl-l-phenylpyrrol-3-yl)methylidene]-2-thioxothiazolidin-4-one N-hexanoic acid (118) in 79% yield. The hydroxamate derivative of 118 is prepared by reacting this compound with 0-(tetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-yl)hydroxylamine followed by treatment with p-toluenesulfonic acid in methanol to afford compound 121 in 60% yield. Esterification of compound 118 is carried out by using methyl iodide in acetonitrile in the presence of sodium carbonate to give compound 120. The 5-(cyclohexyl)methylidene analogue (119) is obtained in 42% yield by direct reaction of compound 116 with cyclohexanecar-boxaldehyde in methanol under the catalytic action of EDDA. 

Another approach to synthetically useful olefin metathesis involves the utilization of higher homologues of titanium-methylidene 15, as shown in Scheme 14.11. If the resulting titanium carbene complex 20 is more stable than the starting alkylidene complex 15, this reaction can be employed for the generation of various titanocene-alkylidenes and as a method for the preparation of unsaturated compounds. 

Scheme 14.23. Reaction of titanocene-methylidene with carbonyl compounds.

Reactions of titanocene-methylidene generated from titanacyclobutanes with acyl chlorides 55 [46] or acid anhydrides 56 [47] lead initially to the titanium enolates 57 (Scheme 14.24), which then afford aldols upon treatment with the carbonyl compounds. On the other hand, five-membered cyclic anhydrides are methylenated with dimethyltitanocene (Table 14.5, entry 7) [45]. 

Another titanium-based reagent for the methylenation of carbonyl compounds is that prepared from dibromomethane/zinc/titanium tetrachloride and related systems (Scheme 14.25) [48]. These systems transform a wide variety of carboxylic acid derivatives to terminal olefins in the same way as titanocene-methylidene does. 

As noted above, titanocene-alkylidenes can be prepared using various methods and starting materials. Like the methylidene complex, higher alkylidene complexes are useful for the transformation of carbonyl compounds to highly substituted olefins. Ketones and aldehydes are converted into substituted allenes by treatment with titanocene-alkenylidenes prepared by olefin metathesis between titanocene-methylidene and substituted allenes (see Scheme 14.7) [17]. Titanocene-alkenylidene complexes can also be prepared from... 

Titanium-based reagents generated by the reduction of gem-dihalides with low-valent metal species are widely used for the alkylidenation of carbonyl compounds (Scheme 14.28). As in the case of methylidenation, the system gem-dibromide/TiCl4/Zn/TMEDA... 

Similarly to alkenes, alkynes react with various titanium-methylidene precursors, such as the Tebbe reagent [13,63], titanacydobutanes [9b, 64], and dimethyltitanocene [65] to form the titanium-containing unsaturated cyclic compounds, titanacydobutenes 67 (Scheme 14.29). Alternatively, 2,3-diphenyltitanacydobutene can be prepared by the reaction of the complex titanocene(II) bis(trimethylphosphine) with 1,2-diphenylcyclopropene [66]. Substituent effects in titanacydobutenes [67], the preparation of titanocene-vinylke-tene complexes by carbonylation of titanacydobutenes [68], and titanacyclobutene-vinylcar-bene complex interconversion [69] have been investigated. 

Butenolides have also been prepared from aldohexono-1,4-lactones via trimethylammonium methylidene derivatives (15). 5,6-0-Isopropylidene-L-gulono- (9a) and D-mannono-1,4-lactone (10a) were converted into 2-(di-methylamino)-l,3-dioxolane derivatives, which on treatment with iodomethane followed by thermal decomposition yielded compounds 226 and 227 respectively. 

The Curie Point flash evaporation-pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometric method [32] described in section 2.2.1.2 for the analysis of aromatic hydrocarbons in soils has also been applied to the determination of heteroaromatic compounds (Table 2.2) such as methyledene, isomeric methylidenes, biphenyl and methylbenzofurans. 

Since it is known that the cyclopentene ring of norbomene can be easily opened by methylidene carbene complex Ih, bicyclic compound 66 has been synthesized from norbomene derivative 65 having an alkene part in a sidechain in the presence... 

If ROM-RCM of cycloalkene-yne 123, which has a substituent at the 2-position of cycloalkene, is carried out under ethylene gas, what compound is formed In this reaction, ruthenium carbene XIX would be formed via [2-1-2] cycloaddition of ruthenium methylidene carbene and alkyne as shown in Eq. (6.91). If XIX reacts with an olefin intramolecularly or ethylene, bicyclic compound 124 or triene 125... 

Cross-metathesis of terminal alkyne 142 and cyclopentene gives cyclic compound 143 having a diene moiety [Eq. (6.114)]. ° Terminal ruthenium carbene generated from an alkyne and methylidene ruthenium carbene complex reacts with cyclopentene to afford two-carbon elongated cycloheptadiene 143 ... 

Methylidene-9-purine analogs were prepared by the reaction of 6-chloropurines with active methylene compounds (94PHA480). A 5-trifluoromethanesulfonylpyrimidine of type 3.1 was prepared (93T5873). 

Alkenylidene cyclopropanes react readily with 246 to yield 1,4-diazo-bicyclo[3,3,0]oxtanes, whereas methylidene cyclopropane reacts only very slowly with 246 to yield a 2 + 2 cycloadduct (73AJ1553). Compound 246 also reacts with 5-methylfuran-2(3//)-one in an acyl-ene reaction to yield 7-acetyl-6,7-dihydro-2-phenyl-2.ff-pyrazolo[I,2-a]-l,2,4,-triazol-l,3, 5-trione [80JCS(P1)843]. 

A versatile method for the synthesis of perhydrofuropyrans begins with 2-chloromethyl-3-(2-methoxyethoxy)pro-pene, 79. Compound 79, in the presence of lithium powder and a catalytic amount of naphthalene, undergoes sequential reaction with two electrophiles, first a carbonyl compound and then an epoxide, to form methylidenic diols. Hydroboration-oxidation, followed by oxidation with PCC, affords perhydrofuropyrans (Scheme 15) <2000TL1661, 2001SL1197, 2003T5199>. 

As part of extensive studies lasting over 30 years on the structures of chromophores involved in nonenzymatic browning reactions, two intensely orange, previously unknown, compounds have been identified (2R,8aR)-l and ZS, 8aR)-4-(2-furyl)-7-[(2-furyl)methylidene]-2-hydroxy-2//,7//,8a//-pyrano[2,3-3]pyran-3-one <1998CAR215>. Additional studies on the single Maillard reaction products of these compounds have also been reported <1998JFA3912>. 

C-Glycosidation of Pyranosyl Compound Forming a C-Dissccharide [34]. To a boiling solution of the a-D-glucopyranosyl bromide 47 (748 mg, 1.82 mmol), methylidene-... 

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