Radical oxidative cycloaddition

Radical oxidative cycloaddition of 4-hydroxycoumarins to alkenes has also emerged as a powerful tool for the rapid construction of dihydrofuro[3,2-c] coumarins [83-87]. The fact that 4-hydroxycoumarins behave as 1,3-dicarbonyI systems allows the easy generation of a,a-dicarbonyl radicals, which can be readily added to the C=C bond of the alkene. First examples of this reaction were described in 1998 by Lee and coworkers employing Ag2C03/celite (Fetizon reagent) as promoter [83]. A variety of olefins such as styrenes, dienes, vinyl ethers. 

The quiaones have excellent redox properties and are thus important oxidants ia laboratory and biological synthons. The presence of an extensive array of conjugated systems, especially the a,P-unsaturated ketone arrangement, allows the quiaones to participate ia a variety of reactioas. Characteristics of quiaoae reactioas iaclude nucleophilic substitutioa electrophilic, radical, and cycloaddition reactions photochemistry and normal and unusual carbonyl chemistry. 

As shown in Table 4.1, formation of the mixed adduct is favored over homodimerization of 8a with the simple styrene 13a, but this selectivity is inverted for the case of the more bulky dienophile tra 5-[3-methylstyrene 13b, presumably due to steric effects. Although the overall reaction is highly exothermic on the radical cation surface, the reaction is not insensitive to steric effects. Chemoselectivity in the radical cation cycloaddition is largely a consequence of a substrate s ability to stabilize the radical cation of the oxidized species through the formation of a weakly bound ion-molecule complex. Such complexes have been known for a long time in gas-phase... 

Polyelectrolytes and soluble polymers containing triarylamine monomers have been applied successfully for the indirect electrochemical oxidation of benzylic alcohols to the benzaldehydes. With the triarylamine polyelectrolyte systems, no additional supporting electrolyte was necessary [91]. Polymer-coated electrodes containing triarylamine redox centers have also been generated either by coating of the electrode with poly(4-vinyltri-arylamine) films [92], or by electrochemical polymerization of 4-vinyl- or 4-(l-hydroxy-ethyl) triarylamines [93], or pyrrol- or aniline-linked triarylamines [94], Triarylamine radical cations are also suitable to induce pericyclic reactions via olefin radical cations in the form of an electron-transfer chain reaction. These include radical cation cycloadditions [95], dioxetane [96] and endoperoxide formation [97], and cycloreversion reactions [98]. 

Chloroform and an organic peroxide. Dowbenko has described an interesting radical-induced cycloaddition of chloroform to cij,cw-l,5-cyclooctadiene (I) to produce a 2-(trichloromethyl)bicyclo[3.3.0]octane (2) and hydrolysis of the latter to exo-cis-bicyclof3.3.0]octane-2-carboxylic acid (3). In the procedure cited the oxidant is... 

The oxidative cycloaddition of 4-hydroxycoumarins with alkenes are also promoted by cerium(IV) ammonium nitrate (CAN) [85-87]. However, as shown in the examples given in Scheme 16, mixtures of the desired dihydrofuro[3,2-c]coumarins and their linear isomers are usually formed as the result of the nonregioselective addition of the in situ formed a,a-dicarbonyl radical to the C=C bond of the olefin [85]. 

Unexpectedly, a completely different reaction took place in the oxidation of 2-(l-propenyl)phenol (111) with PdCh. Carpanone (112) was obtained in one step in 62% crude yield. This remarkable reaction is explained by the formation of o-quinone, followed by the radical coupling of the side-chain. Then the intramolecular cycloaddition takes place to form carpanone[131]. 

The trans isomer is more reactive than the cis isomer ia 1,2-addition reactions (5). The cis and trans isomers also undergo ben2yne, C H, cycloaddition (6). The isomers dimerize to tetrachlorobutene ia the presence of organic peroxides. Photolysis of each isomer produces a different excited state (7,8). Oxidation of 1,2-dichloroethylene ia the presence of a free-radical iaitiator or concentrated sulfuric acid produces the corresponding epoxide [60336-63-2] which then rearranges to form chloroacetyl chloride [79-04-9] (9). 

Luche and coworkers [34] investigated the mechanistic aspects of Diels-Alder reactions of anthracene with either 1,4-benzoquinone or maleic anhydride. The cycloaddition of anthracene with maleic anhydride in DCM is slow under US irradiation in the presence or absence of 5% tris (p-bromophenyl) aminium hexachloroantimonate (the classical Bauld monoelectronic oxidant, TBPA), whereas the Diels Alder reaction of 1,4-benzoquinone with anthracene in DCM under US irradiation at 80 °C is slow in the absence of 5 % TBPA but proceeds very quickly and with high yield at 25 °C in the presence of TBPA. This last cycloaddition is also strongly accelerated when carried out under stirring solely at 0°C with 1% FeCh. The US-promoted Diels Alder reaction in the presence of TBPA has been justified by hypothesizing a mechanism via radical-cation of diene, which is operative if the electronic affinity of dienophile is not too weak. 

Thermolysis of a stable radical 4-[(hydroxyimino)nitromethyl]-2,2,5,5-tetra-methyl-3-imidazolin-l-oxyl 13 gives the corresponding spin-labeled nitrile oxide. It was also identified in isoxazolines formed in cycloadditions with olefins (88). 

Although cycloaddition reactions have yet to be observed for alkene radical cations generated by the fragmentation method, there is a very substantial literature covering this aspect of alkene radical cation chemistry when obtained by one-electron oxidation of alkenes [2-16,18-26,28-31]. Rate constants have been measured for cycloadditions of alkene and diene radical cations, generated oxidatively, in both the intra- and intermolecular modes and some examples are given in Table 4 [91,92]. 

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