1,4-Quinone cycloadditions, alkene

Other interesting three-component cycloadditions are the following Sulfur dioxide and diazo compounds lead to episulfones (equation 75)436—in a special case to 4,5-dihydrothiepine S,S-dioxides437 sulfur dioxide, ketene, and arylimine lead to thiazole derivatives438 (equation 76) sulfur dioxide, quinone, and alkenes lead to benzoxathiane derivatives439 (equation 77). 

Gilbert, A. (2004) 1,4-Quinone Cycloaddition Reactions with Alkenes, Alkynes, and Related Compounds, in CRC Handbook of Organic Photochemistry and Photobiology, 2nd edn (eds F. Lenci and W.M. Horspool), CRC Press, New York, pp. 87-1-87-12. 

Quinone Cycloaddition Reactions with Alkenes, Alkynes, and Related Compounds... 

Creed, D., 1,4-Quinone cycloaddition reactions with alkene, alkynes and related compounds, in CRC Handbook of Organic Photochemistry and Photobiology, Horspool, W. M. and Song, P.-S., Eds., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1995, 280. 

Amouri and coworkers also demonstrated that the nucleophilic reactivity of the exocyclic carbon of Cp Ir(T 4-QM) complex 24 could be utilized to form carbon -carbon bonds with electron-poor alkenes and alkynes serving as electrophiles or cycloaddition partners (Scheme 3.17).29 For example, when complex 24 was treated with the electron-poor methyl propynoate, a new o-quinone methide complex 28 was formed. The authors suggest that the reaction could be initiated by nucleophilic attack of the terminal carbon of the exocyclic methylene group on the terminal carbon of the alkyne, generating a zwitterionic oxo-dienyl intermediate, followed by proton transfer... 

The coordinated quinone methide Jt-system of complex 24 can also undergo cycloaddition (Scheme 3.17). When 24 was reacted with /V-methylmaleimide, a [3+2] cycloaddition took place to give the tricyclic iridium complex 29. The closest example to this unprecedented reactivity pattern is a formal [3 + 2] cycloaddition of /)-quinone methides with alkenes catalyzed by Lewis acids, although in that reaction the QMs serve as electron-poor reagents. 36... 

Given their extraordinary reactivity, one might assume that o-QMs offer plentiful applications as electrophiles in synthetic chemistry. However, unlike their more stable /tora-quinone methide (p-QM) cousin, the potential of o-QMs remains largely untapped. The reason resides with the propensity of these species to participate in undesired addition of the closest available nucleophile, which can be solvent or the o-QM itself. Methods for o-QM generation have therefore required a combination of low concentrations and high temperatures to mitigate and reverse undesired pathways and enable the redistribution into thermodynamically preferred and desired products. Hence, the principal uses for o-QMs have been as electrophilic heterodienes either in intramolecular cycloaddition reactions with nucleophilic alkenes under thermodynamic control or in intermolecular reactions under thermodynamic control where a large excess of a reactive nucleophile thwarts unwanted side reactions by its sheer vast presence. 

An electrochemical oxidation of hydro-quinones can be used to initiate [3 + 2] cycloaddition reactions with alkenes. The... 

A very remote secondary H/D isotope effect has been measured for the 2 + 2-cycloaddition of TCNE to 2,7-dimethylocta-2,fran -4,6-triene. The reaction of nitric oxide with iV-benzylidene-4-methoxyaniline to produce 4-methoxybenzenediazonium nitrate and benzaldehyde is thought to proceed via a 2 + 2-cycloaddition between nitric oxide and the imine double bond. A novel mechanism for the stepwise dimerization of the parent silaethylene to 1,3-disilacyclobutane involves a low-barrier [1,2]-sigmatropic shift. Density functional, correlated ab initio calculations, and frontier MO analysis support a concerted 2 + 2-pathway for the addition of SO3 to alkenes. " The enone cycloaddition reactions of dienones and quinones have been reviewed. The 2 + 2-photocycloadditions of homochiral 2(5H)-furanones to vinylene carbonate are highly diastereoisomeric. ... 

The polar 1,4-cycloaddition of alkenes with 2-hydroxy-5-nitrobenzyl chloride in the presence of tin(IV) chloride yields 6-nitrochromans (69TL5279). The quinone methide, which is protonated under these conditions, undergoes stereospecific syn addition of the alkene. Although in most cases the reaction is regiospecific, ds-pent-2-ene yields a mixture of isomers. 

The photoinduced 1,4-cycloaddition of alkenes to phenanthra-quinone to give substituted 1,4-dioxenes [Eq. (86)] in good yield was first observed in 1944.824 The addition has since then been more fully investigated, and is applicable to a variety of o-quinones and aromatic... 

Another rare kind of 6-electron ionic cycloaddition is that between a pentadienyl cation and an alkene. A telling example is the key step 2.66 — 2.67 in a synthesis of gymnomitrol 2.68, where the nature of the pericyclic step is heavily disguised, but all the more remarkable for that. Ionization of the acetal gives the cationic quinone system 2.66. That this is a pentadienyl cation can be seen in the drawing of a canonical structure on the left, with the components of the pericyclic cycloaddition emphasized in bold. Intramolecular [4+2] cycloaddition takes place, with the pentadienyl cation as the 4-electron component and the cyclopentene as the 2-electron component. Th is reaction is an excellent example of how a reaction can become embedded in so much framework that its pericyclic nature is obscured. 

A review of photo-cycloadditions of dienones and quinones has been published.41 The first example of a Lewis acid-catalysed 2 + 2-cycloaddition of styrene with naphthoquinone has been reported.42 FMO methods have been used to investigate the effect of substituents on the regiochemistry of the 2 + 2-photo-cycloaddition of a, fi-unsaturated carbonyl compounds with substituted alkenes.43 Evidence has been presented for the presence of a triplet exciplex intermediate in the photo-cycloaddition of 4,4-dimethylcyclohexenone to 1,1-diphenylethylene.44 The intramolecular 2-1-2-photo-cycloaddition of 2-acyloxy-3-hexenoylcyclohexenones (26) is highly diastereo-selective yielding the tricyclic adduct (27) (Scheme 10).45... 

Cycloaddition of styrene with p-quinone methides.2 In the presence of this Lewis acid, p-quinone methides and styrenes undergo a formal [3 +2]cycloaddi-tion to form dihydro-lff-indenes. The reaction shows some stereoselectivity. Thus the geometry of the (E)-styrene is largely retained (17 1) and only two of the four possible products are formed. Presumably, any electron-rich alkene could participate in this cycloaddition. 

The one-pot reaction of 0-BOC protected salicylaldehydes and salicyl alcohols with electron-rich alkenes and a Grignard reagent involves a diastereoselective cycloaddition to an o-quinone methide and offers access to a wide range of 4-substituted chromans <02JOC6911>. 

On irradiation / -quinones undergo cycloaddition with alkenes to give oxetanes or cyclobutanes the major factor governing the choice of product seems to be the electronic character of the lowest triplet excited state of the quinone. 

The first reaction is a photochemically allowed [2 + 2] cycloaddition (pp. 927-9). The alternate product would come from the alkene in the quinone being used instead of the carbonyl group. Th regiochemistry is not obvious but the light is absorbed by the quinone and the coefficient in hr SOMO must be larger in the carbonyl groups. The stereochemistry simply results from concerted reaction those hydrogens were cis in cyclooctene and remain cis in the product. 

In the synthesis of a Euglobal skeleton a quinone methide has been generated in situ by anodic oxidation mediated by DDQ. The cycloaddition with unactivated alkenes was promoted by the use of lithium perchlorate/nitromethane and a hydrophobic PTFE-coated electrode (Eq. 24c) [249b]. 

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