Phenyl substituted cyclohexanones

Photochemical Efficiencies in Crystals of a-Phenyl-Substituted Cyclohexanones... 

Substituted cyclohexanones, bearing a methyl, isopropyl, tert-butyl or phenyl group, give, on deprotonation with various chiral lithium amides in the presence of chlorotrimethylsilane (internal quench), the corresponding chiral enol ethers with moderate to apparently high enantioselec-tivity and in good yield (see Table 2)13,14,24> 29 36,37,55. Similar enantioselectivities are obtained with the external quench " technique when deprotonation is carried out in the presence of added lithium chloride (see Table 2, entries 5, 10, and 30)593. 

Intermediate enolates derived from Michael-type processes can be isolated. For example, enantiomerically pure enolate (5 )-131 can be isolated, as is the case of the almost enantiomerically pure enolate (5 )-131, prepared by 1,4-addition of the phenyl-substituted borane 130 to enone 129, in the presence of a substoichiometric amount of the chiral rhodium mediator [Rh(OMe)(COD)]2-(5 )-BINAP (COD = 1,5-cyclooctadiene, equation 33). Protonation of (5 )-131 with methanol leads to cyclohexanone (5 )-132 in good yield with no loss of enantiomeric purity (equation 34). The protonation is presumably diastereoselective, taking place on the less hindered face of (5)-131, away from the neighbouring phenyl group, as can be inferred from the stereochemical outcome (133)... 

Enamines derived from cyclohexanone and and a-tetralones react with chloro-(phenyl)carbene [generated from dichloro(phenyl)methane and potassium tert-butoxide] to give either 1-chloro-l-phenyl-substituted cyclopropanes, or other products.The type of products formed depends on the structure of the amine moiety in the starting enamines (Table 7). 

Stereoselective carbon-carbon bond formations with hypervalent iodine reagents are also prominently described in the literature. Direct asynunetric a-arylation reactions are not easy to perform. Ochiai et al. synthesized chiral diaryliodonium salts such as [l,l -binaphthalen]-2-yl(phenyl)iodonium tetrafluoroborate derivatives 21 via a BFs-catalyzed tin-X -iodane exchange reaction and developed the direct asymmetric a-phenylation of enolate anions derived from cyclic p-ketoesters (Scheme 7) [37]. A beautiful example of direct asymmetric a-arylation of cyclohexanones in the course of a natural product synthesis was presented through the desymmetrization of 4-substituted cyclohexanones using Simpkin s base, followed by coupling with diaryliodonium salts [38]. Other binaphthyl iodonium salts related to 21 have also been reported [39]. 

Reaction of the pyrrolidine enamine of cyclohexanone with phenyl vinyl sulfone afforded a 9 1 mixture of the tri- and tetrasubstituted isomers (2(5). The preference of the less substituted isomer in this case is in keeping with the greater overlap requirement between the n electrons of the double bond and the electron pair on the nitrogen atom, since the double bond exo to the five-membered ring is much more favored than the double bond exo to the six-membered ring. It is, however, hard to explain the formation of largely the trisubstituted isomer with the piperidine enamine of cyclohexanone, where both of the rings involved are six-membered. 

The piperidine, pyrrolidine, and morpholine enamines of cyclohexanone substituted in the 3-position by methyl, phenyl, and l-butyl have been prepared (49). The complexity of the NMR spectra in the ethylenic hydrogen region indicated a mixture of isomeric enamines. Estimation of the per cent of each isomer by examination of the NMR spectra was not possible, nor were the isomeric enamines separable by vapor-phase chromatography. 

Two closely related indoles fused to an additional saturated ring have been described as CNS agents. The first of these is obtained in straightforward manner by Fischer indole condensation of functionalized cyclohexanone 0 with phenyl hydrazine (19). The product, cyclindole (21) shows antidepressant activity. The fluorinated analogue flucindole (26) can be prepared by the same scheme. An alternate route starting from a somewhat more readily available intermediate involves as the first step Fischer condensation of substituted phenyl hydrazine with 4-hydroxycyclohexanone (23). The resulting alcohol (24) is then converted to its tosylate (25). Displacement by means of dimethyl amine leads to the antipsychotic agent flucindole (26). ... 

A further extension of the MIMIRC reaction is seen in the synthesis of enantiomerically pure cyclohexanones. A successful diastereoselective MIMIRC reaction with 2-(rer/-butyldimethylsi-lyloxy)-4-phenyl-l,3-butadiene and an optically pure (Z)-y-alkoxy-substituted enone was performed using catalytic amounts (5 mol%) of triphenylmethyl perchlorate at — 78 ,C 360,408 (for a further example see Section 1.5.2.4.4.1.). 

Alkyl- and aryl-hydrazones of aldehydes and ketones readily peroxidise in solution and rearrange to azo hydroperoxides [1], some of which are explosively unstable [2], Dry samples of the p-bromo- and p-fluoro-hydroperoxybenzylazobenzenes, prepared by oxygenation of benzene solutions of the phenylhydrazones, exploded while on filter paper in the dark, initiated by vibration of the table or tapping the paper. Samples were later stored moist with benzene at —60°C to prevent explosion [3], A series of a-phenylazo hydroperoxides derived from the phenyl-or p-bromophcnyl-hydrazones of acetone, acetophenone or cyclohexanone, and useful for epoxidation of alkenes, are all explosive [4], The stability of several substituted phenylazo hydroperoxides was found to be strongly controlled by novel substituent effects [5],... 

The procedure reported here provides a convenient method for the a-hydroxylation of ketones which form enolates under the reaction conditions. The reaction has been applied successfully to a series of para-substituted acetophenones, 1-phenyl-1-propanone, 3-pentanone, cyclopentanone, cyclohexanone, cycloheptanone, cyclododecanone, 2-methyl cyclohexanone, 2-norbornanone and benzalacetone. In the case of a steroidal example it was shown that a carbon-carbon double bond and a secondary hydroxyl group are not oxidized. A primary amino function, as in the case of p-aminoacetophenone, is not affected.5 Similarly, a tertiary amino ketone such as tropinone undergoes the a-hydroxy at ion reaction.5... 

Some reductases isolated from tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) were found to exhibit excellent enantioselectivities on the reduction of a number of a,/i-unsaturated compounds [140,141]. For example, reductase p44 catalyzed the asymmetric reduction of A-phenyl-2-methylmaleimide. yielding the enantiopure (7 )-succinimide. Reductase p90 mediated the enantioselective hydrogenation of a number of methyl or ethyl substituted cyclopentenones and cyclohexanones (Fig. 20). 

This reaction has been made with various carbonyl compounds, e.g., cyclopentanone,27 cyclohexanone,20 cycloheptanone,27 cycloocta-none,27 1-tetralone,21 2-tetralone,28 variously substituted acetophenones,29 phenyl benzyl ketone,29 dibenzyl ketone,29 dibenzoyl-methane,18, 30 ethyl benzoylacetate,18 ethyl malonate,30 malon-anilide,30 and 2-(bisalkylthio)methylenecyclopentanones and cyclohexanones.27... 

The most important industrial process for the production of 2-phenyl- and 2,6-diphenyl-phenol, is based on the long established self-condensations of cyclohexanone under either acidic, or preferentially basic conditions to give mono- or di-substituted aldol-like condensation products79). These easily loose water giving semicyclic or endocyclic ring double bonds. Plesec et al. have studied these reactions extensively 80). 

Thus, when cyclohexyl selenides 1, prepared from the corresponding 4-sub-stituted cyclohexanone via the selenoketals, were oxidized with various Davis and Sharpless oxidants, the chiral alkyl aryl 4-substituted cyclohexylidenemethyl ketones were obtained in excellent chemical yields with high enantiomeric excesses. Typical results are summarized in Table 4. In this asymmetric induction, of the substrate and the chiral oxidant employed were revealed to show a remarkable effect upon the enantioselectivity of the product. The use of a methyl moiety as instead of a phenyl moiety gave a higher ee value, probably due to the steric difference between the two groups bonded to the selenium atom of the substrate. The results indicate that the titanium complex of the Sharpless oxidant may promote the racemization of the chiral selenoxide intermediate by acting as a Lewis acid catalyst, whereas the racemization in the case of the Davis oxidant, which is aprotic in nature, is slow. 

This reaction was done with a variety of substituted aromatic and aUphalic carboxylic acids and aldehydes. Unlike the aromatic aldehydes that produced the corresponding products in high purity and good yields, reactions with aliphatic aldehydes produced several unidentified substances together with the desired a-(acyloxy)carboxamide products. In the case of ketones, cyclohexanone was successfully included into this 3-CC process and gave the corresponding products in reasonable yield, but attempts to use acetophenone as the carbonyl substrate failed. The inactivity of the acetophenone in this reaction may be due to the steric effect of the relatively bulky phenyl group. 

Pyrrolidine enamines of cyclic ketones have been prepared from cyclobutanone to cyclononanone. In the reaction of unsymmetrical 2-methyl or 2-phenyl cyclohexanone with pyrrolidine, of the two regio isomers 50a and 50b the less substituted enamine (50a) is formed preferentially . This is in contrast to the behaviour of enol derivatives, where the most stable regio isomer is the more substituted one. The reason for the destabilization of 50b is the steric interference of the 2-substituent with a CH2 group of the pyrrolidine ring in a coplanar cis arrangement at the C=C double bond. 

Cyclovalone (25), which differs from curcumin in the linker between the two phenyl rings, and three analogs showed anti-inflammatory activity based on inhibition of the enzyme cyclooxygenase [14], Fig. (5). Curcumin was used as a reference, and compounds 26, 27, and 28 were more potent than curcumin. Compounds 26 and 28 showed greater inhibition than compounds 25 and 27, respectively. Therefore, in this series, di-methyl substitution enhanced the ability to inhibit cyclooxygenase more than mono-methoxy substitution. Compound 25 showed greater inhibitory activity than compound 27 however compounds 26 and 28 had similar activity. Hence, the authors concluded that modification of the cyclic ketone from cyclohexanone to... 

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