1.3- Rearrangements homologations

Dehydrotestosterone acetate (174) in nonprotic solvents (dioxane, benzene) undergoes a rearrangement to the isomer (175). This product is photolabile and isomerizes readily to new cross-conjugated dienones. Thus, ultraviolet irradiation of (174), its 1-, 2- and 4-methyl homologs, and its lOa-stereoisomer (188) in dioxane solution causes, in each case, a series of rearrangements as summarized on page 331 for (174) and (188). ... 

The presentation of the rearranging intermediates as mesoionic ground-state species (196) and (199) has proved an adequate tool for the prediction of structural changes in this field. The steric factors which direct the partly selective rearrangement paths of the bicyclohexenone and dienone photoisomers of (174) and their corresponding alkylated homologs have been extensively discussed in a recent review by this author. ... 

The reaction of diacetylene and its asymmetric homologs (penta-l,3-diyne, hexa-1,3-diyne) with semicarbazide (72ZOR2605) affords the amides of 3-methyl-pyrazole- 1-carboxylic acid (27) (80°C, EtONa, EtOH, 40 h). Amide 26 undergoes irreversible rearrangement to amide 27 at 80°C (EtONa, EtOH). 

Preparation of the sulfur analogue involves as the first step cyclization of the terephthalic acid derivative 92. The acid is then converted to the acid chloride and this is allowed to react with diazomethane. Rearrangement of the resulting diazoketone (95) under the conditions of the Arndt-Eistert reaction leads to the homologated acid. 

Shi epoxidation 283 Shibasald 234, 236, 242 Shikimate pathway 407 [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement 51 silicon-lithium exchange 157 single-carbon homologation... 

As previously seen for other POSS derivatives, compounds Ts[(CH2)3X]8 (X = Cl, Br, 1, or SCN) react in the presence of base to give Tio and T12 homologs by cage rearrangement. The iodide, T8[(CH2)3l]8, reacts with 2-methyl-2-oxazoline to give a precursor that can be used for polymer blending (Figure 45). ... 

The initial results of an early directed evolution study are all the more significant, because no X-ray data or homology models were available then to serve as a possible guide [89]. In a model study using whole E. coU cells containing the CHMO from Adnetohacter sp. NCIM B9871,4-hydroxy-cydohexanone (3 5) was used as the substrate. The WT leads to the preferential formation of the primary product (i )-36, which spontaneously rearranges to the thermodynamically more stable lactone (R)-37. The enantiomeric excess of this desymmetrization is only 9%, and the sense of enantioselectivity (R) is opposite to the usually observed (S)-preference displayed by simple 4-alkyl-substituted cydohexanone derivatives (see Scheme 2.10) [84—87]. 

Lithiated allylic carbamates (35) (prepared as shown) react with aldehydes or ketones (R C0R ), in a reaction accompanied by an allylic rearrangement, to give (after hydrolysis) y-hydroxy aldehydes or ketones. The reaction is called the homoaldol reaction, since the product is a homolog of the product... 

The main synthetic application of the Wolff rearrangement is for the one-carbon homologation of carboxylic acids.242 In this procedure, a diazomethyl ketone is synthesized from an acyl chloride. The rearrangement is then carried out in a nucleophilic solvent that traps the ketene to form a carboxylic acid (in water) or an ester (in alcohols). Silver oxide is often used as a catalyst, since it seems to promote the rearrangement over carbene formation.243... 

Thus appetite has (rightly) grown to obtain [m n] coronanes, 87 (and their homologs) through rearrangement of the appropriate rotanes 36). 

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