Ring-closing rearrangements

Double Bond Inducing Ring-Closing Rearrangements. 393... 

There are a variety of examples of ring-closing rearrangements with exhausting double and/or triple bonds and some recent examples are shown here. Pd(0)-complexes catalyze reactions of the unsaturated amine 109 to give the azasugar 110, an intermediate in the synthesis of SS20846A 111 [97,98,99,100] (O Scheme 25). 

Rearrangements involving boron and a ring-closing rearrangement of sorts plus stereochemistry. 

Fig. la—d Typical alkene metathesis reactions ring-closing (RCM) and ring-opening (ROM) metathesis (a), diene cross metathesis (CM, b), ROM-RCM (c), and ROM-double RCM (d) sequences (ring-rearrangement reactions, RRM)... 

A nice application of this reaction for the synthesis of cyclic a-sulfanylphos-phonates 63 has been reported [42]. It involves a Rh(II)-catalyzed [2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement and a ring-closing metathesis of the resulting a-(S-allyl) y,d-unsaturated phosphonates 62 (Scheme 16). However, the last step occurs with a low yield (19%) when R = H. 

The reactions of dienes and other polyenes can be broadly classified as either addition reactions, coupling (or substitution reactions) or rearrangements (including metathesis reactions). This chapter will present recent examples from the literature of synthetic transformations involving polyenes. Cycloaddition and ring closing metathesis reactions appeared in volume one of this series and therefore will not be covered in this chapter. Citations for more detailed descriptions of the individual reactions discussed in this chapter and for more comprehensive reviews appear in the text. 

Ring-closing metathesis of an enyne, which has double and triple bonds in the molecule, is a remarkable reaction which is useful in synthetic organic chemistry. In enyne metathesis, the double bond is cleaved and carbon-carbon bond formation occurs between the double and triple bonds. The cleaved alkylidene part is moved to the alkyne carbon. Thus, the cyclized compound formed in this reaction has a diene moiety [Eq. (6.77)]. The reaction is also called skeletal rearrangement and is induced by Pt, Pd, Ga, and Ru catalysts ... 

These reactions involve metallate rearrangements , migratory insertion and transition metal-catalysed vinylic substitution reactions. They also perform well in applications in natural product synthesis . Many useful synthetic possibilities arise from application of ring-closing olefin metathesis (RCM) to unsaturated homoaldol products and their derivatives by means of the Grubbs catalyst 3942 4-286 Equation 105 presents some examples. ... 

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