Ozonolysis. silyl enolates

An alternative approach to the synthesis of isocoumarins which probably proceeds through the intermediacy of 2-carboxybenzyl ketones is based on the oxidative cleavage of indan-1-ones (76JCS(P1)1438). Although ozonolysis of the silyl enol ether (505) leads to the 2-hydroxy-2-methylindan-l-one (506), periodate oxidation of which gives the isocoumarin, a more convenient and direct route involves ozonolysis of the enol trifluoroacetate (Scheme 182). This synthesis is especially attractive for the preparation of isotopically labelled isocoumarins, since the precursors of the indanones, arylpropanoic acids or acrylophenones, are readily available bearing labels at specific sites. 

Unsaturated 1,5-dicarbonyl compounds. The phenylthioalkylation of silyl enol ethers of carbonyl compounds (9, 521-522) can be extended to the synthesis of unsaturated 1,5-dicarbonyl compounds. In a typical reaction the enol silyl ether of a ketone is alkylated with the unsaturated chloride 1 under ZnBr2 catalysis to give a homoallyl sulfide. Ozonolysis of the methylene group is accompanied by oxidation of the phenylthio group sulfoxide elimination results in an unsaturated 1,5-aldehydo ketone (equation I). Alkylation with 2 results in a methyl ketone (equation II). 

Heathcock has reported an anomalous case of ozonolysis of a silyl enol ether. Usually these substrates undergo facile oxidative cleavage in the same manner as alkoies. However, in this instance the a-silyloxy ketone (61) was obtained in quantitative yield. The inteimediacy of a silyloxy epoxide was suggested. A more recent leport has indicated that a similar process is competitive with the simple cleavage reaction, (63a) versus (63b), in the ozonolysis of the steroidal enol ether (62). 

Yoshikoshi s synthesis15 of nootkatone (then supposed to be the flavouring principle of grapefruit) uses an optically active enone 52 prepared from P-pinene 48 by ozonolysis to (+)-nopinone 49 and a chemo- and regioselective aldol condensation using the silyl enol ether 50. Though the aldol reaction produces a mixture of diastereoisomers of 51, all dehydrate to the same enone E-52. 

Electrophilic oxygen is introduced at the carbon atom next to the old carbonyl group but the C—C bond linking these atoms is lost so the result is not a-hydroxylation. Oxidative cleavage of the enol alkene bond is going generally to be a problem in this section and is best illustrated by the useful ozonolysis of silyl enol ethers 198 and 199 of the same ketone 194. The regiospecihc formation of silyl enol ethers is described in chapter 3. 

Two remarkable observations need discussion at this stage as they show that the two methods we have dismissed sometimes work. Attempted ozonolysis of the silyl enol ether 202 derived from camphor 201 gave instead a quantitative yield of the silyl ether of hydroxycamphor31 203. 

Oxabicyclic ketones have also been further derivatized to the alpha-oxidation products which are in turn cleaved, offering still another option for carbon-carbon bond scission. For example, hydroxyketone 114, available in > 98 % ee from the parent ketone, was cleaved by lead tetraacetate to afford an excellent yield of the hydroxyester 115, a key intermediate in Noyori s synthesis of showdomycin, Eq. 86 [121,129]. In this case, the ozonolysis of the silyl enol ether of the parent ketone led to complex mixtures, demonstrating the complementarity of these approaches. 

Synthesis of 7 -amino acid-oxazole fragment 68 of calyculins A and B from D-erythronol-actone 58 has been reported by conversion to 59," which was subjected to oxidation reaction to afford the hemiaminal 60 (Scheme 9) Acetylation of 60 furnished 61, which was converted to ketone 62 in 88% yield. Conversion of 62 to a silyl enol ether, ozonolysis with reductive workup and O-methylation of the resultant alcohol 63 furnished 7 -lactam 64. Treatment of 64 with CAN led to 65 (60%), which was reacted with (CHj)2 A1 derivative of 66 to provide 67 (62%), which upon removal of the silyl group provided 68. 

Diketones are accessible via a number routes, for example by Michael addition of enolate to enone (or precursor Mannich base " ), by ozonolysis of a cyclopentene precursor, or by reaction of silyl enol ethers with 3-methoxyallylic alcohols. They react with ammonia, with loss of two mol equivalents of water to produce a cyclic bis-enamine, i.e. a 1,4-dihydropyridine, which is generally unstable but can be easily and efficiently dehydrogenated to the aromatic heterocycle. 

Nucleophiles other than hydrides can be used, such as aUylsilanes, siloxy-dienes, or silyl enol ethers, to access substituted THPs from cyclic ketals. Rych-novsky et al. and Wipf et al. synthesized one THP of leucascandrolide A from ketal 76 by using a nucleophilic addition of aUylsilane in the presence of BF3 Et20. The diastereoselectivity of the reaction was explained by an axial attack on the half-chair oxocarbenium intermediate. The double bond was then transformed into the corresponding aldehyde by ozonolysis to afibrd further functionalizations (Scheme 38) (2001JA8420 2002CC2066). 

The silyl enol ether 153 was then subjected to a controlled ozonolysis followed by a stereoselective reduction with sodium borohydride to give alcohol 154 (Scheme 3.37). Simultaneous cleavage of both protecting groups with aqueous HCl afforded diol 155. Finally, a Wittig reaction with ylide 156 produced prostaglandin F (113). 

The synthesis of the non-racemic cyclopentanone (+)-93 is outlined in Scheme 15. Starting with 2-methyl-cyclopent-2-enone (90), sequential cuprate addition and enolate alkylation afforded the racemic cyclopentanone rac-92 as a single diastereomer. The double bond was cleaved by ozonolysis, the resulting aldehyde chemoselectively reduced in the presence of the keto function and the primary hydroxyl function was subsequently protected as a silyl ether to provide racemic rac-93. This sequence has been applied fre-... 

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. " ... 

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