Silanes Brook rearrangement

Bromophenyl trimethylsilyl ether, 41 a-Bromovinyl(triphenyl)silane, 69 Brook rearrangement, 83-4 t-Butoxide-cntalysed condensation, 43 (/ )-4-t-Butyl l-(trimethylsilyloxy)-... 

The proposed mechanism is as follows initial cyanation of the acyl silane followed by a [1,2]-Brook rearrangement yields acyl anion equivalent XIV (Scheme 4). Subsequent attack by the acyl anion equivalent XV to the aldehyde leads to... 

In a related process, Johnson and co-workers have developed an asymmetric metallophosphite-catalyzed intermolecular Stetter-hke reaction employing acyl silanes [81, 82], Acyl silanes are effective aldehyde surrogates which are capable of forming an acyl anion equivalent after a [l,2]-Brook rearrangement. The authors have taken advantage of this concept to induce the catalytic enantioselective synthesis of 1,4-dicarbonyls 118 in 89-97% ee and good chemical yields for a,p-unsaturated amides (Table 11). Enantioselectivities may be enhanced by recrystallization. 

Recently, analogues of nucleosides [60], natural products Huperzine-A [61] and Hydroartemisinin [62], and inhibitors of metallo-/ -lactamases have been synthesised [63]. With acylsilane electrophiles, the initial adducts undergo Brook rearrangement which is interrupted by -Si bond fission with loss of fluoride anion (Eq. 16), leading to the formation of extremely useful difluoro-enol silanes [64]. Of the various fluoride sources employed, the tetrabutylam-monium triphenyldifluorostannate described by Gingras appears to be particularly effective. The numerous other methods for trifluoromethylation formed the subject of an exhaustive review [65]. More recently, the Olah group described a chlorodifluoromethyl trimethylsilane which is expected to have a rich chemistry [66]. 

Conversely, were nucleophilic attack of the alkoxide ion to occur at the carbonyl group of 31, then the species formed (35) should undergo Brook rearrangement to 36 with retention of configuration at silicon (Path A). Reduction of 36 with lithium aluminium hydride would then produce (S)-(—)-l-naphthyl phenyl methyl silane (37). 

In an interesting transformation, reaction of benzoyl trimethylsilane with lithium enolates derived from various methyl ketones gives rise to 1,2-cyclopropanediols, predominantly with the cis configuration, in good yields (Scheme 77). The reaction, which proceeds through addition, Brook rearrangement and cyclization, is also successful with a,/l-unsaturated acyl silanes vide infra, Section IV.D)187. 

Fluoride ion-catalysed addition of trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane to acyl silanes occurs to give l,l-difluoro-2-trimethylsilyloxyalkenes (silyl enol ethers of difluoromethyl ketones), through nucleophilic addition of trifluoromethyl anion, Brook rearrangement and loss of fluoride. These compounds could be isolated when tetrabutylammonium difluorotriphenylstannate was used as a catalyst use of tetrabutylammonium fluoride gave the product corresponding to subsequent aldol reaction with the difluoromethyl ketone (Scheme 78)m. 

The related Brook rearrangement of a-halo-a,jS-unsaturated acyl silanes produces silyloxy allenes (63), from which several sesquiterpenes have been synthesized (Scheme 106)21. Silyloxy allenes may also be prepared by the alkylation of silyloxy allenyl lithium reagents the acyl silane route is, however, less sensitive to solvent effects and other experimental parameters. An outline of the synthesis of dehydrofukinone (64), which elegantly exemplifies this methodology, appears in Scheme 107. 

Some /J-heteroatom substituted a,/J-unsaturated acyl silanes react with methyl ketone enolates in a stepwise stereoselective cyclopentannelation process, formally a [3 + 2] annelation, which may proceed through aldol reaction followed by Brook rearrangement and cyclization (Scheme 111)223. 

The [4 + 2] cycloaddition of a-phenylselenopropenoyl trimethylsilane (75) with 2,3-dimethylbuta-1,3-diene is unusual in that a significant portion of product mixture consists of the hetero-Diels-Alder dihydropyran adduct 76. The phenylselenenyl substituent appears to be responsible for this unusual pattern of reactivity, since propenoyl trimethylsilane gives only the expected regioisomer (77, X = H) (Scheme 116)14. a-Selenenyl substituted a,/l-unsaturated acyl silanes such as 75 were used to prepare a series of substituted dienes in excellent yields through the addition of a-sulphinyl carbanions, Brook rearrangement and expulsion of sulphinate, in a reaction pathway recognisably more typical of acyl silanes (Scheme 117). 

Brook rearrangements are precipitated by the addition of an a-lithiated silane to an epoxide. The same nucleophile 60, for example, gives 65 on addition to 64, with the rate of Brook rearrangement to 66 again under the control of HMPA.51 52... 

Indium-mediated allylation of trialkyl(difluoroacetyl)silane 70 in aqueous media gives homoallylic alcohol 71 exclusively (Scheme 60). Both water and THF are essential for the allylation reaction. It is worth noting that homoallylic alcohol 71 is formed exclusively under these reaction conditions. On the contrary, enol silyl ether 72 is a major product of the fluorinated acylsilanes reaction with other organometallic compounds than indium via a Brook rearrangement and defluorination. Indium-mediated allylsilylation of carbonyl compounds provides a facile route to 2-(hydroxyethyl)allylsilanes. The allene homologs are similarly prepared (Scheme 61).244,244a... 

By itself, the Brook rearrangement is not very useful but, if the carbanion can do something else other than just get protonated, something useful may happen. We have seen what happens to the epoxides of vinyl silanes. Dihydroxylation of the same alkenes also gives interesting chemistry when the diols are treated with base. 

Allenyl trialkylsilyl ethers 771 can be a-deprotonated with f-BuLi in THF at — 78 °C to give the allenyllithiums 77210901091. They underwent reverse Brook rearrangement to afford the silaacrolein enolates 773, which react with aldehydes and ketones to yield the a,/9-unsaturated acyl silanes 774 (Scheme 200). For enolizable aldehydes transmetallation with ZnCl2-TMEDA, and MgBr2 for ketones, provided better yields. 

The total synthesis of (+)- -onocerin via four-component coupling and tetracyclization steps was achieved in the laboratory of E.J. Corey. The farnesyl acetate-derived acyl silane was treated with vinyllithium, which brought about the stereospecific formation of a (Z)-silyl enol ether as a result of a spontaneous Brook rearrangement. In the same pot, the solution of I2 was added to obtain the desired diepoxide via oxidative dimerization. 

The elegant application of the reaction between an a-suhbnyllithium reagent and acyl-silane to afford an enol silyl ether is descrihed in a S3mthetic route to limonoids. Brook rearrangement following the nucleophihc addition of the organolithium protects the oxy functionahty. 

ETHENYL-4-METHOXYCYCLOBUTENE-l,2-DIONE. This procedure also provides a convenient method for the preparation of DIMETHYL SQUARATE, an important intermediate. The synthesis of (lR, 6S, 7S )-4-(tert-BUTYLDIMETHYLSILOXY)-6-(TRIMETHYLSILYL)BICYCLO-[5.4.0JUNDEC-4-EN-2-ONE is representative of a general protocol for the construction of cycloheptenones by a [3 + 4] annulation. The method features the addition of a lithium enolate to an acryloyl silane to give a 1,2-adduct that undergoes a novel sequence of a concerted Brook rearrange-ment/cyclopropanation and an anionic oxy-Cope rearrangement. 

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