Pummerer additive

Zwanenburg and Wagenaar148 have reported the rather unusual rearrangement of sulfone 81 to 82, after standing overnight at 0°, and suggested an elimination-addition mechanism, via initial isomerization of A3 to the A2-thiazoline-oxide with subsequent elimination and readdition of sulfmic acid, followed by spontaneous loss of water in a Pummerer-type aromatization reaction. 

An intramolecular version of enolate Michael addition to enantiomerically pure vinylic sulfoxides is represented by reaction of a cyclopentenone sulfoxide with dichloroketene (Scheme 5)90 this type of additive Pummerer rearrangement has been developed by Marino and coworkers91 into a highly effective way of constructing variously substituted lactones in very high enantiomeric purity (equation 43). 

The sequence could even be prolonged by including a Pummerer reaction. Thus, treatment of 4-103 with trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) gave the furan 4-104, which underwent a cycloaddition to furnish 4-105 the erythryna skeleton 4-109 was obtained after subsequent addition of a Lewis acid such as BF3- Et20 (Scheme 4.23) [33]. It can be assumed that 4-106, 4-107 and 4-108 act as intermediates. In a more recent example, these authors also used the procedure for the synthesis of indole alkaloids of the Aspidosperma type [34]. 

As depicted in the following scheme, in the presence of sodium iodate and pyridine, several 5,6-dihydroxylated benzofuran derivatives were synthesized via an oxidation-Michael addition of P-dicarbonyl compounds to catechols in a one-pot procedure <06TL2615 06JHC1673>. A novel additive Pummerer reaction of 2-benzo[fc]furan sulfilimines with carbon nucleophiles derived from P-dicarbonyl compounds was also employed to the synthesis of 2,3-disubstituted benzo[b]furans <06TL595>. 

The mechanism of the formation of compound 67 has been studied by Higa and Krubsack [41] in detail, as shown in Scheme 15. Namely, the initial step of the reaction of the cinnamic acid derivative 66 with thionyl chloride is an electrophilic addition of thionyl chloride across the double bond of cin-namoyl chloride to form the sulfinyl chloride intermediate (66a), which is then converted to 68 by the Pummerer reaction. Dehydrochlorination of 68... 

Suppression of the Pummerer reaction (Fig. 24) could also be a manifestation of the stabilization of the persulfoxide which prevents its interconversion to the hydro-peroxysulfonium ylide, HPSY (Fig. 25), which is the intermediate that has been suggested to undergo a 1,2-shift of the hydroperoxy group and ultimately produces the SC bond cleavage products.92 However, the situation is probably more complex since the intrazeolite reaction of /1-chlorosulfide, 29 (Fig. 28A), requires 7-hydrogen abstraction. The complexation motif (Fig. 28B) which favors the extended rather than folded M+-PS may also play an important role. A complete understanding of these reactions will require additional studies. 

Phenylthio-l-trimethylsilylalkanes are easily prepared by the alkylation of (phenylthioXtrimethylsilyl)mcthane as shown in Scheme 10 [40], The treatment of (phenylthio)(trimethylsilyl)methane with butyllithium/tetramethylethylene-diamine (TMEDA) in hexane followed by the addition of alkyl halides or epoxides produces alkylation products which can be oxidized electrochemically to yield the acetals. Since acetals are readily hydrolyzed to aldehydes, (phenylthioXtrimethylsilyl)methane provides a synthon of the formyl anion. This is an alternative to the oxidative transformation of a-thiosilanes to aldehydes via Sila-Pummerer rearrangement under application of MCPBA as oxidant [40, 41]. 

Toru has investigated the stereoselectivity of the conjugate addition of trialkylboranes to 2-arylsulfinylcyclopentenones. Excellent stereocontrol is achieved with different alkyl radicals (Scheme 27) [73-76]. In the acyclic series, the lack of diastereoselectivity in the addition step and a competitive Pummerer rearrangement have limited the synthetic potential of this reaction [77]. 

The influence of the classical anomeric effect and quasi-anomeric effect on the reactivity of various radicals has been probed. The isomer distribution for the deu-teriation of radical (48) was found to be selective whereas allylation was non-selective (Scheme 37). The results were explained by invoking a later transition state in the allylation, thus increasing the significance of thermodynamic control in the later reactions. Radical addition to a range of o -(arylsulfonyl)enones has been reported to give unexpected Pummerer rearrangement products (49) (Scheme 38).A mechanism has been postulated proceeding via the boron enolate followed by elimination of EtaBO anion. 

A -1,3,4-Thiadiazoline-1 -oxides (146) (Equation (18)) are formed by addition of diazo compounds (R2C=N2) to sulfines (R R C =S=0). The adducts from diazomethane and aryl substituted sulfines are unstable and give the thiadiazole (147) via a Pummerer-type aromatization <84CHEC-I(4)545>. The A -thiadiazoline-1,1-dioxide (149) has been produced by oxidation of the hydrazone (148) (Equation (19)) and treatment with sulfur dioxide <84CHEC-i(4)545>. 2-Alkylidenethiadiazolines can be obtained from the dipolar addition of diazo compounds to thioketenes <83CB66, 90TL3571, 92HCA1825>. 

Pericas and Jeong demonstrated independently that sulfur-tethered substrates, when subjected to the PKR conditions, afforded the desired bicyclic products. The sulfur tether is removed cleanly by Pummerer reaction after oxidation of sulfur to sulfoxide or 1,4-addition of bisalkyl cuprate followed by hydrogenolysis of sulfide with Raney nickel. It is worth mentioning that the regioselectivity regarding the acetylene part is opposite to that of the intermolecular version (Equation (30)). 

Conjugate addition reactions to enantiomerically pure tolylsulfinyl trifluoro-propene were used recently to prepare a-trifluoromethyl aldehydes [249]. Conjugate adducts were elaborated by Pummerer rearrangement of the sulfoxyl group to install the aldehydic carbonyl (Eq. 83). 

Formaldehyde anion synthon ( CHO). The anion of 1 (n-BuLi, THF, 0°) is readily alkylated, particularly by primary halides. The products can he converted into aldehydes under very mild conditions. Oxidation with m-chloroperbenzoic acid gives an unstable sulfoxide, which undergoes an sila-Pummerer rearrangement to an acetal. Addition of water liberates the free aldehyde. Epoxides can also be used as electrophiles.2 3 Example ... 

Dihydrofurans can be prepared efficiently by a Michael addition of (3-ketoesters to alkenyl sulfoxides followed by a Pummerer rearrangement (Scheme 36) (92JCS(Pi)945). 

In the synthesis of a-amino acids [290] through addition of the carbanion of MMTS to nitriles the overall process involves three other steps frequently encountered in sulfur-mediated chemistry a Pummerer-type rearrangement, with a less common migration of a methylthio group, and a Raney nickel desulfurization following transesterification of the thioester function. 

Vinyl sulfoxides (221), which are aldehyde a-cation equivalents, and vinylthiolium ions (230), which are a.jj-unsaturated carbonyl 3-cation equivalents, are also suitable acceptors for silyl ketene acetals and enol silyl ethers (Scheme 36). Kita reports that the bulky r-butyldimethylsilyl ketene acetals and tri-methylsilyl ketene acetals form 1 1 adducts (224) and 1 2 adducts (225) with (221), respectively 91 mechanistically, these additions proceed via an initial Pummerer rearrangement The vinylthiolium ion additions are notable for their synthetic flexibility for example, additions to the ketene dithioacetal (229) proceed with higher diastereoselectivity than the corresponding enolate additions to a,3-unsaturated esters.9 lc,91d... 

Vinylic sulfoxides such as 1 react readily with electrophiles to give highly reactive species, and the overall reactions have been likened to "generation" of the synthon 2. Treatment of 1 with TFAA, for example, results in what is referred to as an "additive Pummerer reaction", and gives the diester 3. Reaction of 1 with triflic anhydride and sodium acetate in acetic anhydride, by contrast, gives an 85% yield of the protected aldehyde 4. 

Based on the concepts of synthon 2 and the "additive Pummerer reaction" suggest a mechanism for the 1 —> 4 transformation. 

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