Michael dimethyl malonate

Scheme 5.5 The dual catalyst system gives access to intermediate 4, which gives the otherwise inaccessible Michael adduct 6 after addition of dimethyl malonate (DMM) instead of the dinitro product 5 [19].

Reactions of a,(3-unsaturated acylzirconocene chlorides with stable carbon nucleophiles (sodium salts of dimethyl malonate and malononitrile) at 0°C in THF afford the Michael addition products in good yields (Scheme 5.38). Direct treatment of the reaction mixture with allyl bromide in the presence of a catalytic amount of Cul -2LiCl (10 mol%) in THF at 0 °C gives the allylic ketone in a one-pot reaction. This sequential transformation implies the electronic nature of a,P-unsaturated acylzirconocene chloride to be of type E as shown in Scheme 5.37. 

Papai et al. selected as model reaction the addition of 2,4-pentanedione (acetylacetone) to trans-(R)-mtrostyvQnQ, catalyzed by the bifunctional thiourea catalyst shown in Scheme 6 [46]. The analogous Michael-addition involving dimethyl malonate and nitroethylene as substrates, and a simplified catalyst was calculated at the same level of theory by Liu et al. [47]. Himo et al. performed a density functional study on the related cinchona-thiouTQa catalyzed Henry-reaction between nitromethane and benzaldehyde [48]. 

Tan and co-workers reported the Michael reactions of di-thiomalonates and P-keto-thioesters to a range of acceptors, including maleimides, cyclic enones, furanones and acyclic dioxobutenes [129]. Unlike dimethyl malonate, additions with acidic thioesters proceeded in higher yields, and overall better enantioselectivities (Scheme 74). 

A chiral phase transfer catalyst was dissolved in ionic liquid media for the enantioselective Michael reaction of dimethyl malonate with l,3-diphenylprop-2-en-l-one with K2CO3 203). The phase-transfer catalyst was a chiral quininium bromide (Scheme 20). The reaction proceeded rapidly with good yield and good enantioselectivity at room temperature in all three ionic liquids investigated, [BMIM]PF6, [BMIM]BF4 and [BPy]BF4. In the asymmetric Michael addition, the enantioselectivity or the reaction in [BPy]Bp4 was the same as in conventional organic solvents. 

Dixon et al. screened cinchonine-derived thioureas 117-120 for their performance in the dimethyl malonate Michael addition to tra s-(5-nitrostyrene in dichlo-romethane at room temperature and at -20°C [274]. As shown in Figure 6.38, all candidates revealed comparable activity, but monodentate hydrogen-bond donor 118 exhibited very low asymmetric induction producing the desired Michael... 

Figure 6.38 Cinchonine-derived thioureas (10mol% loading) screened in the Michael reaction of dimethyl malonate to trans- 3-nitrostyrene.

Scheme 6.113 Product range for the 117-catalyzed Michael reaction of dimethyl malonate to various tram-P-nitrostyrenes.

Figure 6.40 (Thio)urea catalysts derived from dihydroquinine and dihydroquinidine screening results obtained from the asymmetric Michael addition of dimethyl malonate to frans-p-nitrostyrene.

In the presence of thiourea catalyst 122, the authors converted various (hetero) aromatic and aliphatic trons-P-nitroalkenes with dimethyl malonate to the desired (S)-configured Michael adducts 1-8. The reaction occurred at low 122-loading (2-5 mol%) in toluene at -20 to 20 °C and furnished very good yields (88-95%) and ee values (75-99%) for the respective products (Scheme 6.120). The dependency of the catalytic efficiency and selectivity on both the presence of the (thio) urea functionality and the relative stereochemistry at the key stereogenic centers C8/C9 suggested bifunctional catalysis, that is, a quinuclidine-moiety-assisted generation of the deprotonated malonate nucleophile and its asymmetric addition to the (thio)urea-bound nitroalkene Michael acceptor [279]. 

Scheme 6.120 Michael adducts prepared from the 122-catalyzed asymmetric addition of dimethyl malonate to trans-P-nitroalkenes.

Shibasaki made several improvements in the asymmetric Michael addition reaction using the previously developed BINOL-based (R)-ALB, (R)-6, and (R)-LPB, (R)-7 [1]. The former is prepared from (R)-BINOL, diisobutylaluminum hydride, and butyllithium, while the latter is from (R)-BINOL, La(Oz -Pr)3, and potassium f-butoxide. Only 0.1 mol % of (R)-6 and 0.09 mol % of potassium f-butoxide were needed to catalyze the addition of dimethyl malonate to 2-cy-clohexenone on a kilogram scale in >99% ee, when 4-A molecular sieves were added [15,16]. (R)-6 in the presence of sodium f-butoxide catalyzes the asymmetric 1,4-addition of the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reagent [17]. (R)-7 catalyzes the addition of nitromethane to chalcone [18]. Feringa prepared another aluminum complex from BINOL and lithium aluminum hydride and used this in the addition of nitroacetate to methyl vinyl ketone [19]. Later, Shibasaki developed a linked lanthanum reagent (R,R)-8 for the same asymmetric addition, in which two BINOLs were connected at the 3-positions with a 2-oxapropylene... 

Complex LSB 9 is readily prepared either by the reaction of La(0 Pr)3 with 3 equiv. of B1NOL followed by the addition of NaO Bu (3 equiv.) or by the reaction of LaCl nfLO with sodium binaphthoxide. The complex 9 is stable to oxygen and moisture and has been proven to be effective in the catalytic Michael reaction of various enones with either malonates or p-keto esters. The Michael adducts with up to 92% ee were obtained in almost quantitative yield. Typical results with malonates are summarized in Table 8D.1 (Ln = lanthanide) [18], In general, the use of THF as solvent gave the best results except for the case of the LSB-catalyzed reaction of rmns-chalcone with dimethyl malonate, wherein the use of toluene was essential to give the adduct with good enantiomeric excess. The effects of the central metal (La, Pr, and Gd) on asymmetric induction were also examined in the same reaction, and LSB was found to be the best catalyst. 

The Michael addition of oxygen nucleophiles to vinyl sulfones185 and the addition of dimethyl malonate and ethyl cyanoacetate to a,fl-unsaturated sulfones in the presence of Triton-B and K2CO3 have been studied.186... 

Michael addition-alkylation pathway has to be considered because simple methylene active compounds such as dimethyl malonate or methylcyanoac-etate were found to be good Michael donors with /1-substituted unsaturated esters such as 5-phenyl-2-pentenoate in the reaction conditions. However, when the reaction was quenched before completion, a substantial amount of product resulting from attack onto the zr-allylPd complex was isolated, bringing an evidence for the alkylation/Michael addition pathway. 

The intramolecular asymmetric Michael reaction of acyclic compounds obtained from chiral alkaloid building blocks using amines and (5)-proline has been investigated. " The Michael addition of dimethyl malonate to a,p-unsaturated aldehydes proceeds... 

Very recently, Ikariya reported chiral amido ruthenium complex-catalyzed asymmetric Michael addition of dimethyl malonate with conjugate enones using Ru[(i ,i )-TsDPEN](>7 -arene) ((R,R)-TsDPEN = (lR,2R)-N-(p-toluenesulfonyl)-l,2-di-phenylethylenediamine) [84], The reaction of cyclopentenone with dimethyl malonate gave the corresponding /3-alkylation product in 99% yield with 97% e.e. (Eq. 9.60). For this mthenium-catalyzed asymmetric Michael addition, the Bronsted basicity of the amido ligand is responsible for the excellent catalytic activity. 

In another approach, the a-pyrone ring was made by Michael addition of dimethyl malonate to 3j -hydroxy-21-oxo-20-methylenepregn-5-ene (506),... 

Plaquevent and coworkers synthesized methyl dihydrojasmonate 28 using this methodology by performing the asymmetric Michael addition of dimethyl malonate 29 on 2-pentyl-2-cydopentenone 30 [18]. The mechanism involved the tandem deprotonation of the malonate 29 using solid-liquid phase-transfer catalysis... 

Allylic and dienyl sulfones have been prepared by conjugate addition to 1,3-dienes ". Phenylsulfonyhnercuration of conjugated dienes gives mercury adducts which can be treated with base to afford phenylsulfonyldienes. 2-(Phenylsulfonyl)-l,3-dienes can be stereo- and regioselectively functionalized via Michael addition of nucleophiles to give allylic sulfones. A key intermediate in the synthesis of a Monarch butterfly pheromone 4 was prepared by BackvaU and Juntunen by alkylation and subsequent palladium-catalyzed substitution of the allylic sulfone formed by Michael addition of dimethyl malonate to 2-(phenylsulfonyl)-l,3-butadiene (equation 10). 

The nitroalkene intermediate can either form the dinitro product or go through a Michael-type addition with the encapsulated PEI. Eurthermore, because capsules swollen in methanol retain their catalytic activity when placed in toluene, the reaction can be run in a mixture of two different solvents. This allows both the encapsulated PEI and the nickel catalyst to operate in their respective ideal solvents, namely methanol and toluene. To demonstrate the scope of this one-pot process, the reaction was performed with dimethyl malonate (138) and various aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes. Table 3.13 shows the results. 

Evidently, although the system tolerates both aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes, the introduction of an electron-withdrawing substituent on the aromatic substrate results in a decreased yield. To gain information about the mechanism of the overall tandem reaction, kinetic studies were carried out to identify the rate-determining step. Changing the catalyst concentration in the reaction between 3-methylbutyraldehyde, nitromethane and dimethyl malonate revealed that the reaction is first order in nickel catalyst, indicating that the Michael addition of dimethyl malonate to the nitroalkene is the ratedetermining step. 

Michael reaction of dimethyl malonate and 2-cyclopenten-l-one catalysed by Ru[(R,R)-Tsdpen](hmb). 219... 

SYNTHESIS OF (S)-3-DI(METHOXYCARBONYL)METHYL-1 -CYCLOPENTANONE FROM THE MICHAEL REACTION OF DIMETHYL MALONATE AND 2-CYCLOPENTEN-l-ONE CATALYSED BY Ru[(R,R)-TsDPEN](HMB)... 

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