Samarium compounds intermediate

The occurrence of the indole subunit is well established within the class of natural products and pharmaceutically active compounds. Recently, the Reissig group developed an impressive procedure for the assembly of highly functionalized in-dolizidine derivatives, highlighting again the versatility of domino reactions [8]. The approach is based on a samarium(II) iodide-mediated radical cydization terminated by a subsequent alkylation which can be carried out in an intermolecular - as well as in an intramolecular - fashion. Reaction of ketone 3-11 with samarium(ll) iodide induced a 6-exo-trig cydization, furnishing a samarium enolate intermediate... 

In the presence of samarium(II) iodide, A-(2-iodobenzyl)dialkylamines 347 react with electrophiles at an a-carbon atom to yield deiodinated products by way of intermediate samarium compounds 348. Thus TV-(2-iodobenzyl)diethylamine and pentan-3-one afford the hydroxy amine 349 and 7V-(2-iodobenzyl)pyrrolidine and propyl isocyanate give the amide 350390. 

Investigations of Coulomb transitions in intermediate valent thulium (and samarium) compounds are an obvious development in this field. 

Reductive elimination of the />-tolylsulfinyl group from compound 210 with samarium(n) iodide was performed without isolation of the intermediate in situ after confirmation that (.V)-210 had reacted completely, giving the bicyclic lactam 213 (Scheme 26) <2001J(P1)2924>. 

The ability of Sml2 to reduce alkyl halides has been exploited in a number of carbon carbon bond-forming reactions. Radicals generated from the reduction of alkyl halides can be trapped by alkenes in cyclisation reactions to form carbocyclic and heterocyclic rings (see Chapter 5, Section 5.3), and the alkyl-samarium intermediates can be used in intermolecular and intramolecular Barbier and Grignard reactions (see Chapter 5, Section 5.4). The reduction of ot-halocarbonyl compounds with Sml2 gives rise to Sm(III) enolates that can be exploited in Reformatsky reactions (Chapter 5, Section 5.5) and are discussed in Section 4.5. 

The samarium-catalyzed reduction was utilized in the asymmetric synthesis of the marine macrolide bryostatin 2 (42) to furnish an intermediate (46)12 (Scheme 4.21). The ketone 43 underwent an aldol reaction with the ketoaldehyde 44 via the isopinylboryl enolate to give the aldol adduct 45 in good yield and 93 7 diastereoselectivity. Subsequent samarium-catalyzed Evans-Tishchenko reduction of the (3-hydroxy ketone 45 provided the p-nilrobenzoale 46 with excellent stereoselectivity. Silylation and saponification readily converted compound 46 into the alcohol 47 in 88% yield over two steps. 

Intermediate samarium enolates derived from ketones 1522 or 1525 could stereoselectively be trapped with allyl halides, leading to tricycles 1524 and 1526. The intramolecular alkylation by the chloroalkyl terminus of compound 1527 led to tetracyclic compound 1528 with satisfactory efficiency. These cascade reactions selectively generate three continuous stereogenic centers, including a quaternary carbon atom at the 3-position of the dihydroindole moiety, a structural motif of many indole alkaloids. 

Scheme 10 is representative of the mechanism of these coupling reactions involving a captodatively stabhzed glycyl radical 15 from the initial reduction of the pyridyl sulfide group by the divalent lanthanide reagent. Further reduction of this carbon radical by a second equivalent of samarium diiodide leads to a Sm(lII) enolate intermediate 16 of unknown geometry, which ultimately reacts with the carbonyl compound to give 17. 

Samarium diiodide is a one electron reductant that is capable of reducing both alkyl halides and carbonyl compounds. The rate of the reduction depends on the nature of the substrate and the reaction conditions. The mechanism of the addition of alkyl halides to carbonyls was extensively studied. In case of the samarium Grignard processes, it was concluded that the reaction proceeds through an organosamarium intermediate. However, the mechanism of the samarium Barbier processes is not fully understood and there is no unambiguous evidence in favor of any of the possible pathways. 

Perfluoroalkylacetylenes 4 are prepared from olefins 2 (Rp = perfluoroalkyl) by exhaustive chlorination under ultraviolet irradiation, followed by treatment with zinc. The resulting acetylenic zinc compounds 3 are decomposed by dilute hydrochloric acid. 1,1-Dibromoalk-l-enes 5 (R = Me, cyclohexyl etc. R = H or Ph) are converted into the rearranged acetylenes 7 by the action of samarium(II) iodide in benzene containing 10% HMPA alkylidenecarbenes 6 are presumed to be intermediates in this process. ... 

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