Structures of dienophiles

Figure 2. Structures of dienophiles investigated by Mayoral et al. in Diels-Alder reactions with cyclopentadiene catalyzed by Lewis acids supported on alumina or silica. Reference numbers are given in square parentheses.

The rate constants for the catalysed Diels-Alder reaction of 2.4g with 2.5 (Table 2.3) demonstrate that the presence of the ionic group in the dienophile does not diminish the accelerating effect of water on the catalysed reaction. Comparison of these rate constants with those for the nonionic dienophiles even seems to indicate a modest extra aqueous rate enhancement of the reaction of 2.4g. It is important to note here that no detailed information has been obtained about the exact structure of the catalytically active species in the oiganic solvents. For example, ion pairing is likely to occur in the organic solvents. 

Chapter 5, may provide a rationale. Conclusions derived from a number of H-MVIR measurements indicate that cyclopentadiene has a high affinity for the interior of the micelles that were investigated, whereas the dienophile prefers the outer regions. In view of the structures of most dienes and dienophiles such a spatial separation can be expected for the majority of Diels-Alder reactions. This arrangement accounts for the unexpectedly small influence of micelles on the rates of Diels-Alder reactions as reported in the literature. 

A transition-state structure was proposed on the basis of the solid-state structure of [Ni((R,R)-DBF0X)(H20)3](C104)2 (Fig. 1.8). The catalyst-dienophUe complex is thought to be a square-bipyramidal structure containing an octahedral nickel ion. The dienophile adopts an s-cis conformation with the si face shielded by a phenyl group. 

Since both oxepin and its valence isomer benzene oxide contain a x-tb-diene structure they are prone to Diels-Alder addition reactions. The dienophiles 4-phenyl- and 4-methyl-4//-l,2,4-triazole-3,5-dione react with substituted oxepins at room temperature to give the 1 1 adducts 7 formed by addition to the diene structure of the respective benzene oxide.149 190,222... 

Methyl-7-(trimethylsilyl)oxepin and 4-methyl-4//-l,2,4-triazole-3,5-dione as dienophile undergo a Diels-Alder reaction in which the 4,6-diene structure of the seven-membered ring react. Contrary to the aforementioned reactions, the primary adduct 12 is stable and does not rearrange to a carbonyl compound.222... 

The comparison of rates of cycloaddition of maleic anhydride, tetracyanoethylene, and styrene to PPA shows that the latter, irrespective of the presence of electronegative groups, behaves in these reactions not as an electron-poor diene system. This fact, together with the composition of side products (giving evidence of PPA decarboxylation), allows the assumption to be made that the cycloaddition of dienophiles involves mainly decarboxylated polyene sections of cis-transoid structure213, 266. This is in agreement with the fact that PPA with predominant trans-transoid configuration interacts with these dienophiles at a substantially lower rate. The ultimate amounts of the dienophile combined with PPA of this structure is also considerably smaller. 

For clarity, the reactions contained in this section can be divided into three categories according to the structure of the carbene complexes (Fig. 4) (i) those in which the dienophile and the diene are tethered through the heteroatom and the carbene carbon of the complex (type 1), (ii) those in which the dienophile and the diene are part of the same carbon chain (type 2), and finally (iii) those where the diene and the dienophile belong to different ligands within the complex (type 3). 

The transition state assembly 55 (Figure 3.8), that rationalizes the stereochemistry of the cycloadduct, is consistent with the structure of the chiral catalyst determined by an X-ray diffraction study. Interestingly it has been shown [58] that in the cycloadditions of maleimides 56 with 2-methoxy-l,3-butadiene, the enantioselection depends on the bulkiness of Ar and Ari groups of catalyst 54 and dienophile 56, respectively (Scheme 3.13). The importance of the bulky Ari... 

Schemes 10.1 and 10.4 of Part A, respectively, give the structure of a number of typical dienophiles and show representative D-A reactions involving relatively simple reactants. The D-A reaction is frequently used in synthesis and can either be utilized early in a process to construct basic ring structures or to bring together two subunits in a convergent synthesis. The intramolecular version, which will be discussed in section 6.1.7, can be used to construct two new rings.

Diels-Alder reactions are attractive for synthetic application because of the predictable regio- and stereochemistry. There are, however, limitations on the types of compounds that can serve as dienophiles or dienes. As a result, the idea of synthetic equivalence has been exploited by development of dienophiles and dienes that meet the reactivity requirements of the Diels-Alder reaction and can then be converted to the desired structure. For each of the dienophiles and dienes given below, suggest a Diels-Alder reaction and subsequent transformation(s) that would give a product not directly attainable by a Diels-Alder reaction. Give the structure of the diene or dienophile synthetic equivalent and indicate why the direct Diels-Alder reaction is not possible. 

Diels-Alder disconnection will have been eliminated, and the rctrosynthetic search becomes highly focused. Having selected both the transform and the mapping onto the TGT, it is possible to sharpen the analysis in terms of potentially available dienophile or diene components, variants on the structure of the intermediate for Diels-Alder disconnection, tactics for ensuring stereocontrol and/or position control in the Diels-Alder addition, possible chiral control elements for enantioselective Diels-Alder reaction, etc. 

Thus the considerable variation possible in the structures of both diene and dienophile makes the Diels-Alder reaction a very versatile synthetic route to both carboxylic and heterocyclic compounds. Some examples are ... 

FIGURE 4. The crystal structure of the Lewis add complex of a chiral dienophile with titanium... 

The behavior described above has been verified by experiment and calculation on numerous substituted dienes and dienophiles. For example Fig. 10.13 shows results for 2°-D isotope effects on Diels-Alder reactions of 2-methyl-butadiene with cyano-ethylene and 1,1-dicyano-ethylene. The calculated and experimental isotope effects are in quantitative agreement with each other and with the results on (butadiene + ethylene). In each case the excellent agreement between calculated and observed isotope effects validates the concerted mechanism and establishes the structure of the transition state as that shown at the bottom center of Fig. 10.11 and the left side of Fig. 10.12a. 

An extensive review of the hetero-Diels-Alder reactions of 1-oxabuta-1,3-dienes has been published. Ab initio calculations of the Diels-Alder reactions of prop-2-enethial with a number of dienophiles show that the transition states of all the reactions are similar and synchronous.Thio- and seleno-carbonyl compounds behave as superdienophiles in Diels-Alder reactions with cyclic and aryl-, methyl-, or methoxy-substituted open-chain buta-1,3-dienes.The intramolecular hetero-Diels-Alder reactions of 4-benzylidine-3-oxo[l,3]oxathiolan-5-ones (100) produce cycloadducts (101) and (102) in high yield and excellent endo/exo-selectivity (Scheme 39). A density functional theoretical study of the hetero-Diels-Alder reaction between butadiene and acrolein indicates that the endo s-cis is the most stable transition structure in both catalysed and uncatalysed reactions.The formation and use of amino acid-derived chiral acylnitroso hetero-Diels-Alder reactions in organic synthesis has been reviewed. The 4 + 2-cycloadditions of A-acylthioformamides as dienophiles have been reviewed. ... 

Due to the formal analogy to the classical Diels-Alder reaction, the mechanism of cyclic peroxide formation through cycloadditions of 1,3-dienes with O2 was considered for a long time to involve a concerted suprafacial [4 4- 2]-cycloaddition of a super-dienophile, namely a singlet oxygen to 1,3-dienic system In such a case, the concerted or almost concerted cycloaddition must be c -stereospecific and the stereochemical properties of the diene must be reflected in the three-dimensional structure of cyclic peroxide according to well-defined rules. Indeed, it was found in early stereochemical... 

The structure of A -sulfinyl compound 39 was solved using a single crystal grown by the slow evaporation of a solution of dichloromethane (DCM) and hexane (Figure 7) <2003T4651>. The A -sulfinyl compound crystallizes with two molecules in a unit cell. This work provides additional evidence for the (Z)-preference of this dienophile used in [4-1-2] cycloaddition reactions to prepare 1,2-thiazines. 

Diels-Alder [4 + 2]ir cycloadditions of 1-alkoxycarbonyl-l//-azepines are successful with all but the weakest dienophiles (e.g. maleic anhydride). Early work showed that with tetracyanoethylene (TCNE) cycloaddition at C-2—C-5 takes place readily in benzene solution at room temperature to yield adducts (140) (69JOC2888, 70JHC1249). The structure of the TCNE adduct with 5-bromo-l-ethoxycarbonyl-l//-azepine has been confirmed by X-ray studies (67JCSfBMi2). 

The formation of benzene and pyridine presumably occurs via the bicyclo[4.2.0] valence isomers (175) and (176), although adducts of these structures with dienophiles were not obtained on heating or during irradiation. The difference in products in thermal and photochemical reactions could be explained either by interconversion of (173) and (174) and rate-limiting isomerizations of (173) to (176) and (174) to (175), or alternatively, rate-limiting isomerization of (173) to (174) and symmetry-allowed 4ir photocyclization of (173) to (175) (79JOC1264). 

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