Oximes-alkenes, radical

In qualitative terms, the rearrangement reaction is considerably more efficient for the oxime acetate 107b than for the oxime ether 107a. As a result, the photochemical reactivity of the oxime acetates 109 and 110 was probed. Irradiation of 109 for 3 hr, under the same conditions used for 107, affords the cyclopropane 111 (25%) as a 1 2 mixture of Z.E isomers. Likewise, DCA-sensitized irradiation of 110 for 1 hr yields the cyclopropane derivative 112 (16%) and the dihydroisoxazole 113 (18%). It is unclear at this point how 113 arises in the SET-sensitized reaction of 110. However, this cyclization process is similar to that observed in our studies of the DCA-sensitized reaction of the 7,8-unsaturated oximes 114, which affords the 5,6-dihydro-4//-l,2-oxazines 115 [68]. A possible mechanism to justify the formation of 113 could involve intramolecular electrophilic addition to the alkene unit in 116 of the oxygen from the oxime localized radical-cation, followed by transfer of an acyl cation to any of the radical-anions present in the reaction medium. 

The (TMS)3Si radical addition to terminal alkenes or alkynes, followed by radical cyclization to oxime ethers, were also studied (Reaction 50). The radical reactions proceeded effectively by the use of triethylborane as a radical initiator to provide the functionalized pyrrolidines via a carbon-carbon bond-forming process. Yields of 79 and 63% are obtained for oxime ethers connected with an olefin or propargyl group, respectively. 

Viologen salts act as one-electron phase-transfer agents and, in conjunction with sodium dithionite which regenerates the bipyridinium radical cation, they have been used for the debromination of 1,2-dibromoalkanes to yield alkenes in variable yields [13-15]. Nitroarenes are reduced to anilines in high yield (>90%) under similar conditions [16], whereas conjugated nitroalkenes are converted into the oximes of the saturated ketones [17] saturated aliphatic nitro compounds are not reduced by this process. 

The intramolecular cyclization of oximes with alkene substituents to dihydropyrroles in the presence of radical initiator or by heating was also describedThus, oxime 83 underwent a tandem 1,2-prototropy-cycloaddition sequence and gave an unstable cycloadduct 84, which on treatment with NaOH afforded indolizine 85 (equation 36). ... 

Radical chemistry has witnessed remarkable progress since the mid 1980s [1], In addition to common radical C2 synthons such as alkenes and alkynes [2], several radical Cl synthons are also available, including carbon monoxide, isonitriles, and sulfonyl oxime ethers [3, 4]. As featured in Scheme 6.1, a variety of combinations of radical Cl and C2 synthons are now possible, which makes radical methodologies more attractive and permits the design and implementation of a wide range of multicomponent processes. 

A functionalization that converts C—H bonds to C— NO bonds occurs when nitrite esters are photo-lyzed (the Barton reaction Scheme 4). Again an alkoxyl radical abstracts a 8-hydrogen, and the resulting carbon radical picks up NO. The product nitroso compounds convert easily to oximes. Particularly valuable examples have bMn studied in the steroid field. If the photolysis is performed in the presence of copperfll) acetate the intermediate carbon radical can be oxidized to an alkene, rather than capture NO. If the alcohol whose nitrite ester is photolyzed is part of a cyanohydrin, then the Heusler-Kalvoda reaction occurs, and the product is a ketone with a migrated cyano group (Scheme 5) ... 

Attempts were also made to access penicillin derivatives by this route. Several thiazolidine-containing oxime oxalate amides were prepared and photol-ysed under the same conditions, but without success [84]. It is known that and other conventional cyclisations onto oxime ether acceptors (> C = NOR) are faster than onto alkene acceptors [85]. In the hope that cyclisation onto an oxime ether acceptor would also be more efficient, oxime oxalate amide 80 containing both a thiazolidine ring and oxime ether acceptor was prepared. The photosensitised reaction of 80 did yield the desired carbamoyl radical 81, as shown by EPR spectroscopy. However, the presence of the thiazolidine ring evidently inhibited 4-exo cyclisation because no significant amount of cyclisation to radical 82 took place and none of the penicillin derivative was isolated. 

Protonated A-nitroso amines undergo photolytic decomposition from the excited state generating transient aminium radicals and nitric oxide. Aminium radicals, which are electrophilic radicals, initiate the addition to alkenes to give //-amino nitroso compounds or oc-amino oximes (Section 7.2.5.2), however, under an oxygen atmosphere, //-nitryloxy amines (/i-amino nitrates) are produced through peroxynitrites intermediates97-99. 

Nitrosolysis of camphor ethyl acetal with ethanolic ethyl nitrite in sulphur dioxide yields the orthoester oxime (205) which is rapidly dehydrated by excess acetal to the orthoester nitrile which then reacts with sulphur dioxide to form the ester nitrile and diethyl sulphite.Further papers in this section include the full paper on ozonolysis of silyl ethers (Vol. 5, p. 33), another synthesis of camphor-enol trimethylsilyl ether (cf. Vol. 6, p. 41)/°° the conversion of camphor oxime with Grignard reagents into the corresponding imine with no aziridine formation/° the preparation of (206) by treating bornylene with trichloroacetyl isocyanate/ the oxidation of thiocam-phor to the 5-oxide and alkylation in the presence of thallium(i) ethoxide to a/S-unsaturated sulphoxides/ and the free-radical C-3 alkylation of camphor with alkenes. " ... 

Electron Transfer Processes - A study of the benzophenone/acetonitrile/t-butylamine system has shown that electron transfer occurs from the amine to the excited state benzophenone. Hydrogen abstraction processes within this system ultimately yield the CH2CN radical. When this species is generated in the presence of a diarylethene such as that shown in Scheme 1 then addition affords reasonable yields of the adducts (16). The mode of addition is dictated by the stability of the radical formed on addition to the ethene bond. Addition can also occur to alkenes such as (17) when the adduct (18) is obtained. SET processes also provide a novel synthetic path to 5,6-dihydro-4/f-l,2-oxazines. These reactions involve the DCA-sensitized transformations of the y,5-unsaturated oximes (19). The reactions are carried out in acetonitrile solution with irradiation through Pyrex for no longer than 30 min. This treatment yields the products (20) in reasonable yields. The likely mechanism for the process involves the formation of the intermediate (21) which cyclizes to yield the final products. The reaction is to some extent substituent dependent and when the oxime (19, R = H, R = R = R = Me) is irradiated under the same conditions for 3 h no reaction is... 

Difluoroalkyl radicals have also been generated by SmE and utilized in cyclization processes [21]. A variety of alkenes, alkynes, and oxime ethers have been utilized as radical acceptors, providing facile entry to a host of substituted difluorocyclo-pentanes (Eq. 19). 

The Naito group has also prepared pyrrolidines [23] on solid phase by a combination of intermolecular radical addition to alkene 43 (Scheme 10) followed by intramolecular oxime ether cyclization to yield 44. These reactions proceeded sluggishly with triethylborane at room temperature, while the analogous solution-phase process was kinetically much faster. Radical additions to the phenylsulfonyl oxime ether 45 were reported by Jeon et al. [24]. Yields were better with primary and secondary alkyl iodides, and the tandem cyclization sequence with iodide 46 to afford bicyclic 47 was also accomplished, albeit in modest yield. 

Previously, tin-ketyl radicals have been added to alkenes only in an intramolecular fashion. [9] In recent publications, however, pinacols and amino alcohols have been prepared by cyclisation of dicarbonyl compounds [10] or keto-oximes [11] with tributyltin hydride. Cyclisation of 1,5-ketoaldehydes 1 and 1,5-dialdehydes with tributyltin hydride yields cw-diols 2 with excellent stereoselectivities, whereas the keto-oxime 4 with four benzyloxy-substituents affords a 58 42 cis trans) mixture. The tran -product was transformed in two more steps to the potent glycosidase inhibitor 1-deoxynojirimycin (6). [lib] The reversibility of both the addition of the tributyltin-radical to the carbonyl group and the intramolecular radical C-C bond formation is believed to be responsible for the high selectivity in the formation of 2. In the cyclisation of 1,5-pentanedial the unhydrolyzed coupling product 3 could be isolated, therefore providing evidence for a new mechanistic variant of the pinacol reaction, in which only 1.2 equivalent of the reducing agent are necessary. 

Radical reactions are not restricted to cyclizations onto alkenes or alkynes. Increasingly popular is the use of an imine or imine derivative, such as an oxime or hydrazone. ° Most examples involve 5- or 6-exo-trig cyclization to give cyclopentane or cyclohexane ring systems. Thus, treatment of the bromide 77 withtributyltin hydride gave the cyclopentane 78 (4.66). The stereoselectivity of the cyclization is in line with that expected on the basis of a chair-like transition state (compare with Scheme 4.53). 

Reduction of 1-nitro-l-alkene derivatives such as 65 provided 2-deoxy-aldose oximes and their elimination products such as 66 and 67, respectively (Scheme 11). The oxime 66 could be converted into the corresponding free 2-deoxy-sugar, 2-deoxy-aldononitrile and 2-deoxy-aldonic acid. Radical cyclization of 5-keto-aldose aldoximes to give aminocyclopentitol derivatives is covered in Chapter 18. 

The [Ru(bpy)3] photocatalyst was also applied in the following novel visible-light driven processes (i) synthesis of indazolo[2,3-a]quinoline derivatives from 2-(2-nitrophenyl)-l,2,3,4-tetra-hydroquinolines (ii) azido- and amino-trifluoromethylation of alkenes (iii) reduction of nitro compounds to oximes (iv) generation of aryl radicals by visible-light photocatalytic reduction of sulfonium salts. ... 

Radical cyclization continues to be one of the most popular radical reaction classes used in synthesis. By far the majority of published cyclization reactions are 5-exo in nature and this year is no exception. The rates of 5-exo cyclization reactions continue to be measured. For example, the rate constants for the 5-exo cyclizations of the 6,6-diphenylhex-5-enyl, 1-methyl-6,6-diphenylhex-5-enyl and the 1,1-dimethyl-6,6-diphenylhex-5-enyl radicals have been measured by laser flash photolysis studies and Arrhenius parameters determined. The relative rate constants for cyclization, and the reaction with PhSeH, were determined at 20 °C. At 20 °C the rates of the three primary, secondary and tertiary radicals with PhSeH were approximately (1.2 0.1) X 10 lmol s The rate constants for alkyl radicals calibrated by competition reactions with PhSeH and PhSH were found to be 30-40% smaller than previously reported and thus it was concluded that derived rate constants for some fast radical reactions may have to be adjusted accordingly. The rate constants for the 5-exo cyclization of secondary radicals on to hydrazones and oxime ethers have been determined. The fastest rate constants were observed for the IV-benzoylhydrazone acceptor. The rate constants were found to be approximately 800 times faster than for the corresponding 5-exo cyclization on to alkenes." Other work has measured the rate constants of cyclization of a range of fluorinated hex-5-enyl, hept-6-enyl, oct-7-enyl and non-8-enyl radicals. Not only were the rate constants measured but the regioselectivity of cyclization was compared with that for the aU-carbon homologues." The 6-exo cyclization of 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoro- and l,l,2,2,3,3,4,4-octafluorohept-6-enyl radicals were found to be approximately 10 times faster than those for the parent... 

The addition of alkyl radicals to vinyl sulfones to give functionalized alkenes via an addition-elimination sequence has been investigated by Russell and coworkers in some details [132, 147]. This reaction has recently been extended to unsaturated sulfimides, allowing the synthesis of styryl tetrahydrofurans and tetrahydropyrans [148]. The extension of this approach to phenylsulfonyl oxime ethers and heteroaromatic aryl sulfones (/p o-substitution) has recently been obtained with success [149, 150]. An example which comes from the work of Kim et al. is reported in equation (76) [149]. In this radical sequence, the alkyl radical generated photochemically from an alkyl iodide, in the presence of 1.2 equivalent of hexabutylditin, adds readily to the C=N bond of the oxime ether to... 

Studied acid catalyzed photolysis of N-nitrosamines. The photolysis leads to protonated amino radicals, which add to alkenes to produce, generally, amino oximes. In the Intramolecular case, efficient ring closure to the five membered ring occurs, as In the following example (14,15). 

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