Intramolecular Pauson-Khand Reactions

An example for the synthetic potential is the formation of a fenestrane skeleton 11 from the open-chain compound 10 by a cascade of two consecutive intramolecular Pauson-Khand reactions, the yield in this case is however only 9% J... 

Mukai, C., Yoshida, T., Sorimachi, M., Odani, A. (2006) Co2(CO)8-Catalyzed Intramolecular Hetero-Pauson-Khand Reaction of Alkynecarbodiimide Synthesis of ( )-Physostigmine. Organic Letters, 8, 83-86. 

Later, Chung et al. successfully developed an intramolecular Pauson-Khand reaction in water without any cosolvent by using aqueous colloidal cobalt nanoparticles as catalysts. The catalyst was prepared by reducing an aqueous solution of cobalt acetate containing sodium dode-cyl sulfate (SDS) surfactant. The cobalt nanoparticle could be reused eight times without any loss of catalytic activity (Eq. 4.57).107... 

Table 34. Intramolecular Pauson-Khand reactions of alkylidenecyelopropanes 421-426...

Wilkinson s catalyst also allows the intramolecular cycloisomerization of allenynes 243 to interesting cross-conjugated trienes 244 (Scheme 15.76) [146], Similar compounds are observed as side-products in Pauson-Khand reactions of allenynes [147]. 

Scheme 16.49 Intramolecular Pauson-Khand reactions using NMO as a promoter.

An important advance was reported by Schore and Croudace [13], who showed for the first time that carbon-tethered enyne precursors undergo an intramolecular Pauson-Khand reaction (PKR) in good yields with complete control of regioselectivity. In this connection, it was not essential to use strained olefins as starting materials. 

S. Son, S. Lee, Y. Chung, S. Kim, and T Hyeon, The first intramolecular Pauson—Khand reaction in water using aqueous colloidal cobalt nanoparticles as catalysts. Organ. Lett. 4,277—279 (2002). 

An enantioselective intramolecular Pauson-Khand reaction based on chiral auxiliary-directed 7t-face discrimination in acetylenic 0-alkyl enol ether-dicobalt hexacarbonyl complexes, which proceeds with good yields and high facial diastereoselectivity, has recently been developed by M.A. Pericas, A. Moyano, A.E. Greene and their associates. The method has been applied to an enantioselective formal synthesis of hirsutene. Moreover, the process is stereodivergent and the chiral auxiliary -rran5-2-phenylcyclohexanol- is recovered in a yield as high as 92% [18]. 

Also alkynylcarbene complexes can react as Michael acceptors with nucleophiles, forming 1,3-dien-l-ylcarbene complexes (Figure 2.17). Both carbon nucleophiles, such as, e.g., enamines [246-249], and non-carbon nucleophiles, such as imidates [250], amines [64,131,251], aliphatic alcohols [48,79,252], phenols [252], and thiols [252] can add to the C-C triple bond of alkynylcarbene complexes. Further reactions of the C-C triple bond of alkynylcarbene complexes include 1,3-dipolar [253,254], Diels-Alder [64,234,238,255-258] and [2 -i- 2] cycloadditions [259 -261], intramolecular Pauson-Khand reactions [43,262], and C-metallation of ethynylcarbene complexes [263]. 

Some of the most striking examples for an intramolecular Pauson-Khand reaction involving a tetrasubstituted double bond are the cobalt-mediated cyc-lizations of bicyclopropylidene derivatives 234 leading to the interesting spirocyclopropanated tricyclic products 235. The successful cyclizations even of the trimethylsilyl-substituted enynes 234 demonstrate the unique reactivity of the strained double bond in the bicyclopropylidene moiety of these molecules (Scheme 55) [145]. 

Application of the intramolecular Pauson-Khand reaction to enynes derived from salicylaldehyde leads to the cyclopentenone 27 (Scheme 13) <99TL2817>. Intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions feature in syntheses of the bipyridyl 28 <99CC793> and benzopyrano[4,3-b]quinolines <99JCR254>. 

One of the most powerful methods for bicyclic ketone construction is the intramolecular Pauson-Khand reaction (14 ->15). Although catalytic methods for this transformation have been put forward, they are not always successful. Jihua Chen and Zhen Yang of Peking University have now found (Organic Lett. 2005, 7, 593) that the cyclization proceeds quickly and efficiently with 5 mol % of the commercial grade of Co,(CO), if it is run in the presence of the inexpensive tetramethylthiourea. The authors have also reported (Organic Lett. 2005, 7, 1657) that TMTU is beneficial to the Pd-catalyzed version of the reaction. These advances will make the Pauson-Khand cyclization a more generally practical procedure. 

Other solid-phase preparations of carbonyl compounds include the hydrolysis of acetals (Table 12.4), inter- [52] and intramolecular Pauson-Khand reactions, the isomerization of allyl alcohols, and the a-alkylation and a-arylation of other ketones. Tietze reported the generation of acetoacetyl dianions on cross-linked polystyrene and their selective alkylation at C-4 (Entry 6, Table 12.4). The use of weaker bases resulted in single or twofold alkylation at C-2 [53]. 

One approach to tetrahydropyridinones is the Lewis acid mediated hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of electron-rich dienes with polystyrene-bound imines (Entries 3 and 4, Table 15.23). The Ugi reaction of 5-oxo carboxylic acids and primary amines with support-bound isonitriles has been used to prepare piperidinones on insoluble supports (Entry 5, Table 15.23). Entry 6 in Table 15.23 is an example of the preparation of a 4-piperidinone by amine-induced 3-elimination of a resin-bound sulfinate followed by Michael addition of the amine to the newly generated divinyl ketone. The intramolecular Pauson-Khand reaction of propargyl(3-butenyl)amines, which yields cyclopenta[c]pyridin-6-ones, is depicted in Table 12.4. 

Intramolecular Pauson-Khand reactions to prepare [3.3.0]-bicyclo-octenones from several 1,6-enynes (eq. 2.11) were reported to occur efficiently in sc C02 using a Co2(CO)8 catalyst (Jeong et ah, 1997). The reactions proceed very well regardless of the substitution pattern of... 

Bicyclic cyclotrigermanes, thermolysis, 3, 793 Bicyclic imidazoles, via intramolecular C-H functionalizations, 10, 138 Bicyclic siloxanes, rational synthesis, 3, 655 Bicycloctasilane dianion, preparation, 3, 466468 Bicyclo[5.3.0]decadiene, via [5+2]-cycloadditions, 10, 613 Bicyclo[5,3,0]-decanes, via Pauson-Khand reaction, 11, 361 Bicyclononasilane anions, preparation, 3, 466-468 Bicyclo[3.3.0]-octanones, via carbonylative carbocyclization, 11, 427... 

Deoxypolypropionates, via ZACA reaction, 10, 273 13-Deoxyserratine, via Pauson-Khand reaction, 11, 360 2-Deoxy sugars, via rhodium(II)-catalyzed intramolecular nitrene C-H insertions, 10, 203-204 Deprotection reactions, by nucleophilic tellurium species,... 

Insertion of CO to the metallacyclopentenes 197 and 198 formed from enynes and metal complexes offers a useful synthetic route to the cyclopentenone derivatives 199 and 200. This [2+2+1] cycloaddition mediated by Co2(CO)8 is called the Pauson-Khand reaction [80], Both inter- and intramolecular versions are known. 

Coordination to alkynes distorts the triple bond character nearer to that of a double bond, decreasing the linearity. Utilization of the coordination effect makes it feasible to prepare cyclic alkynes whose synthesis is difficult to achieve. Highly strained cyclooctyne can be prepared by coordination. As an example, starting from (R)-pulegone, three of the four rings of the epoxydictymene skeleton 152 were constructed by the consecutive Lewis acid-promoted Nicholas reaction of allylic silane 149 to form 150, and the intramolecular Pauson-Khand reaction of 151. The total synthesis of (+)-epoxydictymene 153 from 152 has been achieved [38]. 

The complex of o-substituted anisole 203 is planar chiral, and can be used for diastereoselective generation of two new stereogenic centres in the products. Propargylation and allylation of 203 gave 204 regio- and stereoselectively. Hydrolysis of 204 afforded the cyclohexenone 205, and its intramolecular Pauson-Khand reaction gave 206 diastereoselectively. The two reactions were completely diastereoselective, and the planar chirality in 203 was efficiently transferred to the three new stereogenic centers in 206 [51]. 

Alkyne-alkene carbonylative coupling. Intramolecular carbonylative coupling of dialkynes catalyzed by Fe(CO)3 provides a route to cyclopentadienones (equation I). The more difficult carbonylative alkyne-alkene coupling to provide cyclopen-tenones (Pauson-Khand reaction) can also be effected with Fe(CO)s, but in modest yield. In an improved coupling, acetone is treated with Fe2(CO)9 to form Fe-... 

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