Silyl carbonates 3 4- 2 cycloaddition reactions

The cationic pathway allows the conversion of carboxylic acids into ethers, acetals or amides. From a-aminoacids versatile chiral building blocks are accessible. The eliminative decarboxylation of vicinal diacids or P-silyl carboxylic acids, combined with cycloaddition reactions, allows the efficient construction of cyclobutenes or cyclohexadienes. The induction of cationic rearrangements or fragmentations is a potent way to specifically substituted cyclopentanoids and ring extensions by one-or four carbons. In view of these favorable qualities of Kolbe electrolysis, numerous useful applications of this old reaction can be expected in the future. 

Hassner and coworkers have developed a one-pot tandem consecutive 1,4-addition intramolecular cycloaddition strategy for the construction of five- and six-membered heterocycles and carbocycles. Because nitroalkenes are good Michael acceptors for carbon, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen nucleophiles (see Section 4.1 on the Michael reaction), subsequent intramolecular silyl nitronate cycloaddition (ISOC) or intramolecular nitrile oxide cycloaddition (INOC) provides one-pot synthesis of fused isoxazolines (Scheme 8.26). The ISOC route is generally better than INOC route regarding stereoselectivity and generality. 

The BCR cycloaddition is diastereoselective with respect to the TMM unit, with the alkene approaching from the side opposite to the metal center. This accounts for an overall net retention of configuration of the starting material in the cycloadducts obtained from the silyl carbonates (117) and (118) (equations 122, 123). Thus, no prior coordination of the electron-deficient alkene to the Pd center is necessary for reaction. This is quite different from the methylenecyclopropane mechanism as depicted in Scheme 5. It would also explain the need for a higher ligand-to-metal ratio of the catalyst. 

The use of trimethy1enemethane in [3+2] cycloaddition reactions has been developed extensively. Cycloadditions using methyl 1-(trimethyl silyl)-2-[ (trimethylsilyl)methyl]prop-l-en-3-yl carbonate as the trimethylenemethane precursor produce carboxylated adducts (Scheme 46). Reaction of trimethylenemethane with... 

Of the series of heavier Group 14 double-bonded species, the silyl derivatives are somewhat unique in retaining their double-bond character while in solution. As such, they are subject to a plethora of cycloaddition reactions with unsaturated organic molecules, forming both [2-1-2] and [2-1-3] cycloadducts with much enhanced reactivity over their carbon analogs (Scheme 14.3) [65, 80]. 

As is the case with the [3 + 2] cycloaddition reactions with aldehydes, bulky silicon substituents are supposed to suppress the attack of a chloride and/or oxygen nucleophile to silicon (path a) and allow the silyl group to migrate to a positively charged /5-carbon possibly through 5-endo cyclization of siliranium ion intermediates to give five-membered products (Scheme 3-102). 

A possible mechanism for the catalytic [2+2] cycloaddition reaction catalyzed by Tf2NH is depicted in Scheme 4.9. The Mukaiyama-type Michael addition of silyl enol ether to enoate catalyzed by silyl triflic imide aHbrds the corresponding silyl ketene acetal, and then it proceeds successively to the intramolecular silyl oxonium carbon to... 

Reactions of 1 with epoxides involve some cycloaddition products, and thus will be treated here. Such reactions are quite complicated and have been studied in some depth.84,92 With cyclohexene oxide, 1 yields the disilaoxirane 48, cyclohexene, and the silyl enol ether 56 (Eq. 29). With ( )- and (Z)-stilbene oxides (Eq. 30) the products include 48, ( > and (Z)-stilbenes, the E- and Z-isomers of silyl enol ether 57, and only one (trans) stereoisomer of the five-membered ring compound 58. The products have been rationalized in terms of the mechanism detailed in Scheme 14, involving a ring-opened zwitterionic intermediate, allowing for carbon-carbon bond rotation and the observed stereochemistry. 

Reaction of linear conjugated dienes with la at —10 °C in hydrocarbon solvent in the presence of McsSiCl/AlCls affords stereospecific tra i-l-silyl-3-vinyl-cyclopentanes, indicating a [3 + 2] cycloaddition of the allyl group of la with a carbon arbon double bond of the diene [Eq. (9)]. In the [3 + 2] annulation reaction, of greater significance is the tram conformation of the trimethylsilyl group and vinyl groups. 

Reactions with imines also occur under similar conditions leading to the formation of difluorinated /1-lactams [196,197]. Formally, this reaction corresponds to a [2+ 2]-cycloaddition across an imine there is also an isolated report of a difluoroketene reaction, shown in Eq. (63) [198]. Useful chemistry of a silyl difluoroketene acetal was reported recently Eq. (64) shows the efficient asymmetric reaction between this reactive carbon nucleophile and aldehydes catalysed by chiral Lewis acids [199]. 

Another very elegant reaction is the synthesis of carbon-silylated isoxazoles213 by means of a 1,3-dipolarophilic cycloaddition of nitrile oxide with silylated acetylenes (7), (12) (Scheme 52). If mesitylnitrile oxide (361) and 3,3-dimethyl-3-sila-l, 4-pen-... 

With an acceptor-substituted alkene moiety tethered to the molecule, the intermediate silyl enol ether may undergo an intramolecular [2-I-2] cycloaddition.The silyl-assisted addition of hydrogen halides to cyclopropanes is not restricted to ketones with carbonyl groups as activating function or iodide as nucleophile. Esters and other acid derivatives underwent similar reactions when treated with iodotrimethylsilane alone or in the presence of an additional catalyst such as mercury(II) or zinc(II) chloride.Subsequent treatment of the y-iodo ester with potassium carbonate in tetrahydrofuran gave the respective y-butyrolactones in good yield. 

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