Olefins cycloadditions

The highest priority ring disconnective T-goals for 272 are those which disconnect a cocyclic 5,5-fusion bond and offexendo bond pair. The internal ketene-olefin cycloaddition in tactical combination with the Baeyer-Villiger transform is well suited to the double disconnection of such a cyclopentane-y-lactone ring pair. 

Asymmetric bias generated by protected vicinal diol controller and its application to asymmetric nitrone-olefin cycloaddition reactions 98YGK86. 

Intramolecular dipolar azide-olefin cycloaddition of 723 took place upon heating in benzene to afford 724 (83JA3273). An alternative rearrangement process can take place upon photolysis of 724 to give 725. Mesylation of 4-(3-hydroxypropyl)-2,4,6-trimethyl-2,5-cyclohexadiene-l-one (78JA4618) and subsequent treatment with sodium azide in DMF afforded the respective azide 726 which underwent intramolecular cycloaddition to afford the triazoline 727 (83JOC2432). Irradiation of 727 gave the triazole derivative 728 (Scheme 126). 

The elegant, enantiospecific synthesis of biotin (1) by Hoffmann-La Roche1 is based on a strategy that takes advantage of the powerful intramolecular nitrone-olefin cycloaddition reaction. Our analysis begins with model studies in which the straightforward conversion of L-cysteine (2) into aldehyde 3 (see Scheme 1) constitutes... 

Scheme 17. Construction of aglycon 9 intramolecular nitrile oxide-olefin cycloaddition of intermediate 31.

Intramolecular Silyl Nitronate-Olefin Cycloaddition (ISOC)... 

Although nitrile oxide cycloadditions have been extensively investigated, cycloadditions of silyl nitronates, synthetic equivalent of nitrile oxides in their reactions with olefins, have not received similar attention. Since we found that the initial cycloadducts, hl-silyloxyisoxazolidines, are formed with high degree of stereoselectivity and can be easily transformed into isoxazolines upon treatment with acid or TBAF, intramolecular silylnitronate-olefin cycloadditions (ISOC) have emerged as a superior alternative to their corresponding INOC reactions [43]. Furthermore, adaptability of ISOC reactions to one-pot tandem sequences involving 1,4-addition and ISOC as the key steps has recently been demonstrated [44]. 

Intramolecular nitrone cycloadditions often require higher temperatures as nitrones react more sluggishly with alkenes than do nitrile oxides and the products contain a substituent on nitrogen which may not be desirable. Conspicuously absent among various nitrones employed earlier have been NH nitrones, which are tautomers of the more stable oximes. However, Grigg et al. [58 a] and Padwa and Norman [58b] have demonstrated that under certain conditions oximes can undergo addition to electron deficient olefins as Michael acceptors, followed by cycloadditions to multiple bonds. We found that intramolecular oxime-olefin cycloaddition (lOOC) can occur thermally via an H-nitrone and lead to stereospecific introduction of two or more stereocenters. This is an excellent procedure for the stereoselective introduction of amino alcohol functionality via N-0 bond cleavage. 

It was possible to effect lOOC reaction leading to six-membered rings, e.g., 220 in low yield (ca. 20%) by heating the reaction mixture at 110 °C (Eq. 22) [59]. In fact, Oppolzer and Keller [60] had previously reported the lOOC reaction of 219 to 220 in 20% yield by heating at 110 °C. Furthermore, the scope of these oxime-olefin cycloadditions has been extended to ketoximes, e.g., 221. The latter was prepared by amination of a-bromoacetophenone with allylamine 214a. Heating of 221 at 110 °C for 8 h led to cycloaddition with formation of the fused pyrrolidine 222 in 88% yield. As in Scheme 25, only one... 

Dipolar cycloaddition of azides with olefins provides a convenient access to triazolines, cyclic imines, and aziridines and hence is a valuable technique in heterocyclic synthesis. For instance, tricyclic -lactams 273 - 276 have been synthesized using the intramolecular azide-olefin cycloaddition (lAOC) methodology (Scheme 30) [71]. 

The Michael addition of allyl alcohols to nitroalkenes followed by intramolecular silyl nitronate olefin cycloaddition (Section 8.2) leads to functionalized tetrahydrofurans (Eq. 4.15).20... 

Polycyclic oxetanes are obtained in good yields in intramolecular carbonyl-olefin cycloadditions, in an analogous way as the corresponding alicyclic systems are formed in intramolecular enone-olefin additions. Two applications are given in (4.78)492) and in (4.79)493). 

Certain specific steric effects are operative on intramolecular nitrile oxide— olefin cycloadditions. These effects are governed by both ring size and character of substituents. Thus, cycloadditions to the exomethylene group are successful with substituted methylenecyclohexanones 334 (m = 1, 2 n = 2) and gave tricyclic 335 (m = 1, 2), but do not occur with methylenecyclopentanones 334 (m = 1, 2, 3 n = 1). Activation energies calculated by molecular mechanics are consistent with these results. Cleavage of 335 (m = 2) by Raney Ni gives cA-decalone 336 (403). 

Intramolecular nitrile oxide—olefin cycloaddition of oxazolidine and thiazoli-dine oximes 407 (R = H, Me R1 =H, Me X = 0, S n = 1,2) proceed stereose-lectively, yielding tricyclic fused pyrrolidines and piperidines. Thus, 407 (n =2 R = H R1 =Me X=S) has been oxidized to the nitrile oxides with sodium hypochlorite, in the presence of triethylamine in methylene chloride, to give the isoxazolothiazolopyridine 408 in 68% yield. Reduction of 408 with lithium aluminum hydride affords mercaptomethylmethylpiperidine 409 in 24% yield (448). 

A total synthesis of the sesquiterpene ( )-illudin C 420 has been described. The tricyclic ring system of the natural product is readily quickly assembled from cyclopropane and cyclopentene precursors via a novel oxime dianion coupling reaction and a subsequent intramolecular nitrile oxide—olefin cycloaddition (463). 

Diastereoselective intermolecular nitrile oxide—olefin cycloaddition has been used in an enantioselective synthesis of the C(7)-C(24) segment 433 of the 24-membered natural lactone, macrolactin A 434 (471, 472). Two (carbonyl)iron moieties are instrumental for the stereoselective preparation of the C(8)-C(ii) E,Z-diene and the C(i5) and C(24) sp3 stereocenters. Also it is important to note that the (carbonyl)iron complexation serves to protect the C(8)-C(ii) and C(i6)-C(i9) diene groups during the reductive hydrolysis of an isoxazoline ring. 

Nitro compounds, synthesis of, 12, 3 Nitrone-olefin cycloadditions, 36, 1 Nitrosation, 2, 6 7, 6 Nucleosides, synthesis of, 55, 1... 

Table I details representative examples of the [4 + 2] cycloaddition of triethyl 1,2, 4-triazine-3,5,6-tricarboxylate with pyrrolidine enamines and related electron-rich olefins. Cycloaddition occurs across carbon-3 and carbon-6 of the 1,2,4-triazine nucleus, and the nucleophilic carbon of the dienophile attaches to carbon-3 (eq 1). Loss of nitrogen from the initial adduct and aromatization with loss of pyrrolidine affords pyridine products.

In this case, the exojendo selection coincides with the ratio of cis and trans annulation of ring A (formed by the cycloaddition) and ring B (formed from the tether which connects the reactive sites in the starting material). By means of the intramolecular cycloaddition, the exojendo selection may be significantly improved in a predictable manner (Section 2.3.6.). The exojendo problem is characteristic of all types of cycloadditions and enc reactions for instance, nitrone-olefin cycloaddition. 

Intramolecular cycloaddition of fV-benzyl-substituted 3-O-allylhexose nitrones furnishes chiral oxepane derivatives. The regioselectivity of the cycloaddition depends on several factors such as (1) the structural nature of the nitrone, (2) substitution and stereochemistry at 3-C of the carbohydrate backbone, and (3) substitution at the terminus of the O-allyl moiety. A mixture of an oxepane and a pyran is formed in the intramolecular oxime olefin cycloaddition of a 3-O-allyl carbohydrate-derived oxime <2003T4623>. The highly stereoselective synthesis of oxepanes proceeds by intramolecular nitrone cycloaddition reactions on sugar-derived methallyl ethers <2003TA3899>. 

Several publications are devoted to the reactions of olefin cycloaddition to dihydroazines in the presence of Lewis acid and to an intramolecular addition in 1,4-dihydropyridines containing <9/+/z<9-alkenylaryl substituents at position 4 [374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379]. 

Wender PA, DeLong MA. Synthetic studies on arene-olefin cycloadditions. XII. Total synthesis of ( )-subergorgic acid. Tetrahedron Lett 1990 31(38) 5429-5432. 

Cu(I) triflate has been used as an olefin cycloaddition photoassistance agent as in reactions (42) and (43).127 Detailed study of reaction (43) shows that it is very likely that it is photoexcitation of a Cu(alkene)2 complex that results in the dimerization.127) This provides a second good example of the possible utility of transition metal photoassistance involving reactions between coordinated ligands. The nature of the excited state leading to reactions (40)-(43) is not known. 

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