Nucleophilic substitution allenes, 1,2-oxidation

Several trivial but highly useful reactions are known to convert one acceptor-substituted allene into another. For example, the transformation of allenic carboxylic acids is possible both via the corresponding 2,3-allenoyl chlorides or directly to 2,3-allen-amides [182,185], Allenylimines were prepared by condensation of allenyl aldehydes with primary amines [199]. However, the analogous reaction of allenyl ketones fails because in this case the nucleophilic addition to the central carbon atom of the allenic unit predominates (cf. Section 7.3.1). Allenyl sulfoxides can be oxidized by m-CPBA to give nearly quantitatively the corresponding allenyl sulfones [200]. The reaction of the ketone 144 with bromine yields first a 2 1 mixture of the addition product 145 and the allene 146, respectively (Scheme 7.24). By use of triethylamine, the unitary product 146 is obtained [59]. The allenylphosphane oxides and allene-... 

The anodic oxidation of substituted allenes [76-79] and hetero-allenes [80-85] has been extensively studied by Becker and coworkers. Oxidation of secondary and tertiary alkyl isothiocyanates resulted in an ot-cleavage processes [77]. Primary alkyl isocyanates yielded amides and carbonyl compounds due to the nucleophilic involvement of either acetonitrile or water [80]. Primary alkyl isothiocyanates 48 afforded five-membered thiadiazolidine 49 and 50 and... 

The array of dienophiles amenable to these hetero Diels-Alder reactions is not limited to enol ethers and enamines since allylsilanes and simple alkenes have also been successfully employed [370, 371]. More recently, it has been shown that methoxy allenes such as 4-41 undergo formation of 6H-l,2-oxazines 4-43 upon cycloaddition to nitrosoalkenes such as 4-34 and subsequent tauto-merisation of the intermediate exo-methylene compound 4-42 (Fig. 4-9) [372, 373]. In these studies, 4-43 proved to be a versatile synthetical intermediate allowing oxidative demethylation or reductive removal of the methoxy group as well as nucleophilic substitutions after the generation of an azapyrylium ion [372 - 374]. Furthermore, ring contraction reactions of these oxazines leading to pyrroles [373] and y-lactames [375] are known. 

Allenes are activated by a diphenylphosphine oxide substituent towards nucleophilic substitution at the j3-carbon atom. Lithium dimethyl-cuprate adds quickly to the 1,2-bond to give, on hydrolysis, the olefin in 16-84% yield, according to the nature of the substituents (76). Optimum conditions were not reported. The intermediate a-copper compound resulting from the addition can be dimerized or reacted with methyl iodide [Eq. (106)]. Similar reactions involving methyllithium are complicated. 

Backvall et al. demonstrated the Pd(II)-catalyzed cyclizations of 4,5- or 5,6-allenoic acids 45,3,4- or 4,5-allenols 47, and 4,5-allenyltoluenesulfonamides 49 with LiBr (Scheme 25). The reaction was initiated with bromopalladation of the allene moiety affording a 2-bromo-substituted 71-allylic palladium intermediate, which underwent intramolecular nucleophilic substitution to afford the heterocyclic products and Pd(0) (pathway 1, Scheme 1). The in situ generated Pd(0) was oxidized to the catalytically active Pd(II) species by its reaction with benzoquinone [18]. 

The additives of water can serve as mechanistic probes and aid in obtaining true mechanistic understanding in some organocatalytic reactions [123]. The water is nucleophile in palladium-catalyzed oxidative carbo-hydroxylation of allene-substituted conjugated dienes [124]. This is an example of Pd- catalyzed oxidation leading to C -C bond formation in water with subsequent water attack on a (rr-allyl) palladium intermediate. The different effect of the water concentration on the intra- and extra-diol oxygenations of 3,5-di-tert-butylcatechol with O2, catalyzed by FeC in tetrahydrofuran-water indicates that the intermediates for two reactions are different (model for Catechol-2,3-dioxygenases) [125]. 

A further variation of these functionalizations of cyanoarenes is the NOCAS process [14, 15]. As shown in Scheme 14.2, path g, this involves the addition of a nucleophile (which is often the solvent) to the donor radical cation. The thus-formed neutral radical adds to the acceptor radical anion, while rearomatization by the loss of an anion leads again to an overall ipso-substitution. AUenes could be used as the donors in these reactions, as shown recently by Arnold [50]. Accordingly, the irradiation of TCB in the presence of tetramethylaUene (15) in a 3 1 MeCN/MeOH mixture afforded 1 1 1 arene-allene-methanol adduct 16 in 48% yield (Scheme 14.9, central part). Interestingly, the addition of methanol took place exclusively at the central allene carbon, while aromatic substitution occurred through the terminal carbons. co-Alkenols, in which an O-nucleophile and an easily oxidized moiety are both present, could also be used. In the latter case, the initial ET was followed by a cyclization, yielding aryl-substituted tetra-hydrofurans or tetrahydropyrans as the final products via a tandem Ar—C, C—O bond formation [51]. 

The amination of allenylphosphonates (191), including those with nucleobases, takes place readily even in the absence of a transition metal catalyst leading to a single isomer of (enamino)vinyl or (enamino)allyl phosphonate while traditional allenes under these conditions remained unreactive towards nitrogen nucleophiles.Phosphorylated nitrones (192) have been synthesized by Swem oxidation of hydroxymethylphosphonates. Cycloaddition of nitrone (192) with 1-alkenes led to almost exclusively to the formation of C5-substituted isoxazolidines (193) (Scheme 68). ... 

The Larock method for annulation between vicinal iodo-arylamines and 1,2-dienes in the preparation of indoles can be adapted for preparation of azaindoles using corresponding azine substrates. Thus, substituted-3 f-pyrrolo[2,3-fc]pyridin-3-ones can be prepared from 2-amino-3-iodopyridine derivatives by a palladium carboannulation process with al-lenic compounds (Scheme 104). The bicyclic products, the methylene derivatives 308, and the alkylidenes 309 can be oxidatively cleaved with ketone formation. The reaction may proceed by formation of a pyridinylpalladium complex followed by the 7r-allyl complexa-tion of allenic derivatives 310. Since the polar substituents on terminal carbons of the rr-allyl system influence the regiochemistry of the reactions, nucleophilic attack of the nitrogen atom on the most electron-deficient carbon atom of the rr-allyl system affords either of the... 

---