Organolithium compounds cyclization

Another use of organolithium compounds to produce cyclostannanes is the cyclization of the 2.2 clrIithiobiphenyl compounds of type 53 by Bu2SnCl292. 

The intramolecular carbolithiation of 6-lithio-l-hexene (9) was studied after lithiation of 6-chloro-l-hexene (8) in the presence of a catalytic amount of DTBB (5%). At —78 °C the corresponding organolithium compound 9 is stable, giving the expected products 10 by reaction with different electrophiles. However, when the lithiation step was carried out at — 30 °C a cyclization reaction took place, so that a new organolithium intermediate 11 was formed, which reacted with the same electrophiles to give cyclic products 12 (Scheme 5). ... 

The synthesis of oxygen- and nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds by anionic cyclization of unsaturated organolithium compounds has been reviewed recently. " Broka and Shen reported the first intramolecular reaction of an unstabilized a-amino-organolithium compound using reductive lithiation of an A,5-acetal derived from a homoaUylic secondary amine (Scheme 21). Just one example was reported treatment with lithium naphthalenide gave the pyrrolidine product, predominantly as the cis isomer. 

The electrophile for the cyclization reaction of an a-amino-organolithium compound is not restricted to a terminal (or phenylthio-substituted) ahcene and examples have been reported using carboxylic amides, alkynes and allyhc ethers." " For example, Fautens and Kumanovic reported that treatment of the bicyclic stannane shown in Scheme 24... 

Recently, some examples of the dearomatizing cyclization of unstabilized a-amino-organolithium compounds have been reported. For example, Clayden and Kenworthy showed that cyclization onto an oxazoline-activated naphthalene ring gives a lithium azaenolate. Note the high diastereoselectivity of the subsequent electrophilic quench, which places the electrophile cis to the carbon-carbon bond formed in the cyclization step (Scheme 25). "... 

The bisthieno[2,3-c 3, 2 -/]azocine 157 containing a bicyclic azocine fragment has been obtained for the first time by cyclization of A/ ,N -bis-(thienyl-2-methyl)valine ester 156 with organolithium compounds (Scheme 42). Compound 156 has been formed by the alkylation of valine ester with thienylmethylbromide in acetonitrile in the presence of potash (98SL1355). 

The dilithio derivative of N-methyl-o-toluamide reacts with aromatic aldehydes and ketones to give hydroxyamides. Thermal cyclization affords 3-phenylisochroman-l-ones (64JOC3514). Spiroannelated isochromanones result when the organolithium compound reacts with fluorenone or alicyclic ketones. 

As described in Section II.A, the tandem sequence reaction of organolithium compounds with carbon monoxide followed by reaction with suitable electrophiles provides an useful tool for the preparation of diphenyldialkyl carbinols, and the reaction could be easily extended to produce substituted cyclic ethers in a one-pot synthesis. Thus, by carrying out the carbonylation of phenyllithium in the presence of conveniently substituted chloroalkyl bromides, Br(CH2)3+ Cl, at -78 °C, the oxo-lithiated intermediates 243 are obtained and cyclized to 244 by warming up the reaction mixture (Scheme 74)21. 

The first vinyllithium carbolithiation reaction was reported by Chamberlin and Bloom15, who showed that Shapiro-derived organolithium 10 cyclized onto a terminal alkene giving stereoselectively (>50 1) bicyclic compounds 11, after treatment with electrophiles (Scheme 4). The intermediate alkyllithiums 12 are generated via a 5-exo-trig cyclization reaction from 10, which undergo the carbolithiation reaction at approximately the same rate as reported by Bailey for the simple parent compound 5-hexenylIithium, i.e. with a half-life of a few minutes at 0 °C. 

As discussed later, some examples for the formation of three- and four-membered ring products have been reported from substituted alkenes that generate more stabilized organolithium compounds after cyclization. 

From alcohols. Alcohols can be transformed into phenylselenides in a stepwise manner via mesylation and reaction with lithium phenylselenolate. This procedure offers obvious advantages over the formation of the corresponding bromides or iodides when subsequent reaction with strong nucleophiles, such as organolithium compounds, are necessary to prepare the radical precursors. The diol 8 is converted to the bis(phenylselenide) 9 via the corresponding bis(mesylate) as shown in Scheme 2 [6]. Compound 9 is converted to the radical precursor 11 via reaction with lithium phenylacetylide followed by alkylation with allylbromide and a Pauson-Khand reaction. Such a reaction sequence would not be feasible with an alkyl halide. The cyclization afforded the expected tricyclic compound 12 in 95% yield. 

ORGANOLITHIUM COMPOUNDS AS ELECTRON-TRANSFER AGENTS IN CARRON-CARRON ROND FORMATION. An instructive example of how RLi, rather than lithium metal, can act as an electron source (cf. Figure 2) is the cyclization of 2-(2-biphenylyl)-l,l-diphenylethene (34) by n-butyllithium. To enhance electron transfer, the chelating strong-donor TMEDA was employed. The observed cyclization to 9-(diphenylmethyl)fluorene (35) can best be explained by electron transfer (Scheme XIII).2... 

Intramolecular cyclization reactions proceed by reaction of halides with organolithium compounds as shown in eq. (3.16) [55], where E is a double bond, triple... 

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