Spiro components

A further extension of this system consists in the inclusion of spiro components and appears particularly advantageous in the case of multilayered polyspiro systems of the following type ... 

Volatiles or Aroma. The essential oil, or aroma, of tea provides much of the pleasing flavor and scent of green and black tea beverages. Despite this, volatile components comprise only - 1% of the total mass of the tea leaves and tea infusions. Black tea aroma contains over 300 characterizing compounds, the most important of which are terpenes, terpene alcohols, lactones, ketones, esters, and spiro compounds (30). The mechanisms for the formation of these important tea compounds are not fully understood. The respective chemistries of the aroma constituents of tea have been reviewed... 

When ring fusions and/or bridges are present in addition to spiro linkages, the fused or bridged units are first named individually (by any of the available methods) and the names are then cited (in square brackets and in alphabetical order) with the prefix spiro- or dispiro-, etc. Points of spiro attachment are indicated between the names of the components, with primes as necessary (examples 64-66). This method is also applicable to structures like (62) and (63) but is more cumbersome. 

An alternative form of spiro nomenclature more common in Europe than in America is similar to that used in examples (64)-(66), but the order of citation of components is based on size, and the term spiro appears between the component names (see lUPAC Blue Book B-79MI10200) Rule B-11). Thus (64) would be called 3H-indole-S-spiro-l -cyclopenta-2, 4 -diene, and (63) would be cyclohexanespiro-4 -[l,3]dithian-2 -spirocyclopentane. 

As discussed in connection with the facial selectivities of 7-methylidenenorbom-ane 46 and bicyclo[2.2.2]octene 48, the components of the molecules, i.e., n functionality and two interacting o orbitals at the two P positions, are the same, but the connectivity of these fragments, i.e., the topology of the n systems, is different (A and B, Fig. 9). A similar situation was found in the case of spiro[cyclopentane-l,9 -fluorene] 68 [96, 97] and 11-isopropylidenedibenzo-norbomadienes 71 (see 3.4.1 and 3.4.2) [123]. In these systems, the n faces of the olefins are subject to unsymmetrization due to the difference of the interacting orbitals at the P positions. In principle, consistent facial selectivities were observed in these systems. 

In the spirothiopyran 45b, the spiro form has two absorptions in the visible region (Vax 490 and 474nm) due to a polyene chromophore from IV-vinyl group to oxygen of the benzopyrylium component.90 The colored form of 45b produced by visible light irradiation shows the Vax at 570 nm. This colored form 45b" was confirmed by characteristic 1H-NMR spectra, as well as that of spiropyran. 

The de Meijere group [63] prepared interesting spiro-compounds containing a cyclopropyl moiety using a combination of a Heck and a Diels-Alder reaction, with bicyclopropylidene 6/1-115 as the starting material. The transformation can be performed as a three-component process. Thus, reaction of 6/1-115, iodobenzene and acrylate gave 6/1-116 in excellent yield. With vinyliodide, the tricyclic compound 6/1-117 was obtained (Scheme 6/1.31). Several other examples were also described. 

A spiro[pyrrolidine-2,3 -oxindole] library <1998TL2235> has been synthesized via a three-component 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition in the solution phase. Isatins 432 were treated with L-proline or L-thiaproline and chalcone 433 in a MeOH-H20, CH3CN-H20, or dioxane-H20 solution. Spiropyrrolidines 49 (Scheme 96) were obtained as the sole products in good yield and high purity (Table 15). 

The three-component reaction between isatin 432a, a-aminoacids 433 (proline and thioproline) and dipolarophiles in methanol/water medium was carried out by heating at 90 °C to afford the pyrrolidine-2-spiro-3 -(2-oxindoles) 51. The first step of the reaction is the formation of oxazlidinones 448. Loss of carbon dioxide from oxazolidinone proceeds via a stereospecific 1,3-cycloreversion to produce the formation of oxazolidinones almost exclusively with /razw-stereoselectivity. This /f-azomethine ylide undergo 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with dipolarophiles to yield the pyrrohdinc-2-r/ V -3-(2-oxindolcs) 51. (Scheme 101) <2004EJ0413>. 

The first cyclization of a-hydroxyalkoxyallenes goes back to the pioneering experiments of Brandsma, Hoff and Arens, who found that dihydrofuran derivatives 102 are formed by treatment of 101 with KOtBu in DMSO (Scheme 8.26) [12c], This reaction protocol was successfully applied by others [61, 63, 64, 80-83], for example in the preparation of spiro compound 104 (Eq. 8.19) [83] and in the cyclization of 64 leading to a-amino acid-derived dihydrofurans 105 (Scheme 8.27) [61, 63], Acidic hydrolysis of dihydrofurans furnished 3(2H)-dihydrofuranones, which could be used again as carbonyl components in the repetitive addition of lithiated methoxyal-lene 42. This concept was employed in syntheses of racemic [82] and enantiomeri-cally pure [64] primary helical spirocycles. 

Scheme 61) [2b, 150], but can give rise to a variety of products. With unsym-metrically substituted alkenes of type 266, two regioisomeric products were obtained, but the isomer 268 bearing the ester group near the spiro atom was the minor component in all cases. Norbornadiene and norbornene react with 1 by the same mode to give formal [3 -F 2] cycloadducts 269 and 270, respectively, the latter as a 9 1 mixture of exo- and endo-isomers. 

N-Methyl-4-hydroxy-2-quinolone 183 in a three-component reaction gives spiro pyrano[3,2-c]qionoline-2-ones (02MI2), but indolones 213 with 4-hydroxy-6-methyl-2-pyridone 177 react in a complicated way (97BCJ1625). Ethoxycarbonyl-methylene indolone (Z = COOEt) forms pyrans 224, while dicyano analogs (Z = CN) yield substituted quinoline 225 (Scheme 85). 

A large series of spiro-annulated pyranopyrazoles were synthesized in base-catalyzed three-component reactions (08JCO741, 09JCC)914). 

A three-component reaction of piperidin-4-ones 246, pyrazolones 194b, and malononitrile 27a represents a convenient approach to spiro 247 (02OL423) (Scheme 94). 

A three-component reaction of thienopyridinone 211, substituted piperidin-4-ones 246, and malononitrile 27a leads to spiro-conjugated polycycles 251 (03RCB1380) (Scheme 96). 

The mechanism of the cycloaddition appears to be concerted for various reagents however, for several cases, radical cation cycloaddition-cycloreversions have a stepwise component. For example, CIDNP effects observed during the PET induced dimerization of spiro[2.4]heptadiene (97) identify a dimer radical cation with spin density only on two carbons of the dienophile fragment this intermediate must be a doubly linked radical cation ( 99 + 282,283 pulsed laser experiment at high concentrations of 97 supports a second dimer radical cation at high... 

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