Studies with Conjugated Dienes

The hydrosilation of butadiene, isoprene and other simple conjugated dienes with platinum catalysts has not been intensively studied. It usually occurs by 1,4 addition and only at elevated temperatures (10). Although palladium catalysts are practically ineffective to hydrosilate an alkene, they are very active under mild conditions with conjugated dienes to give two principal products, sometimes in 100% yields. With triethoxy silane, butadiene, and PdCl2(PhC=N)2 (5.5 x 103 moles/mole) at 22°C for 24 

The yield of 1 1 adduct rose to about 85% if the reaction was carried out at about 100°C with [PdCl-ir-C3H5]2 as the catalyst. 

Not only do palladium complexes catalyze reactions of Eq. (58), but nickel complexes were also effective (51) and formed the same products. Complexes such as Fe(CO)5 and Fe2(CO)8 were ineffective. Cobalt carbonyl, and tris-triphenylphosphinerhodium chloride were effective even at room temperature, but no 2 1 adducts were made. With both palladium and nickel, the activity of the catalyst and the distribution of products between 1 1 and 2 1 adducts is greatly dependent on the nature of the donor ligands on the metal. 

These studies were extended to hydrosilation of cyclopentadiene with trichlorosilane (52). This is most difficult with platinum catalysts. Palladium complexes favored production of 1 1 adducts as a mixture of 3- and 4-trichlorosilylcyclopentene. Nickel complexes produced substantial amounts of 1 2 adducts as trichlorosilyl-substituted 4,7-methylene-4,7,-8,9-tetrahydroindanes, with the exception of nickel tetracarbonyl, which was very active and selectively formed almost exclusively 3-trichlorosi-lylcyclopentene with no 1 2 adduct. 

The 1 2 adducts in these examples were accounted for by dimerization of cyclopentadiene and subsequent hydrosilation of dicyclopentadiene. The 3-trichlorosilyl isomer is that expected from 1,4 addition of trichlorosilane. Unless isomerization occurred, the 4-isomer could arise only by 1,2 addition 

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The catalytic enantioselective cycloaddition reaction of carbonyl compounds with conjugated dienes has been in intensive development in recent years with the main focus on synthetic aspects the number of mechanistic studies has been limited. This chapter will focus on the development and understanding of cycloaddition reactions of carbonyl compounds with chiral Lewis acid catalysts for the preparation of optically active six-membered ring systems. 

NR, styrene-butadiene mbber (SBR), polybutadiene rubber, nitrile mbber, acrylic copolymer, ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer, and A-B-A type block copolymer with conjugated dienes have been used to prepare pressure-sensitive adhesives by EB radiation [116-126]. It is not necessary to heat up the sample to join the elastomeric joints. This has only been possible due to cross-linking procedure by EB irradiation [127]. Polyfunctional acrylates, tackifier resin, and other additives have also been used to improve adhesive properties. Sasaki et al. [128] have studied the EB radiation-curable pressure-sensitive adhesives from dimer acid-based polyester urethane diacrylate with various methacrylate monomers. Acrylamide has been polymerized in the intercalation space of montmorillonite using an EB. The polymerization condition has been studied using a statistical method. The product shows a good water adsorption and retention capacity [129]. 

Beyond dimerization and oligomerization, [2 + 2]- and [4+ 2]-cycloadditions with conjugated dienes and styrenes and the addition of nucleophiles are typical reactions of strained cyclic allenes. These transformations have been studied most thoroughly with 1,2-cyclohexadiene (6) and its derivatives [1, 2]. Concerning the cycloadditions, a theoretical study had the surprising result that even the [4+ 2]-cycloadditions should proceed in two steps via a diradical intermediate [9]. In the case of nucleophiles, the sites of attack at several 1,2-cyclohexadiene derivatives having an... 

Rees and co-workers in their study of the reactions of trithiazyl trichloride in the preparations of heterocyclic compounds have noted that the isothiazolo[5,4-, isothiazole compound 140 was produced in low yield on reaction with conjugated dienes, along with the other heterocyclic systems 142-145 in much higher yields (Equation 28). Since it is known that trithiazyl trichloride is in thermal equilibrium with its monomer NSCl (Equation 29), the authors propose the so-called criss-cross cycloaddition reaction (Equation 30) which has been reported for azabu-tadienes, but this represents the first example of such a criss-cross cycloaddition to an all-carbon diene <1998CC1207>. 

The hydrogenation of trans-l-phenyl-1,3-butadiene has been discussed49 in terms of the mechanism originally proposed,45 and 773-allyl species were invoked. NMR studies on the hydrogenation of butadiene have shown that Tj -but-2-enyl and r 3-l-methylallyl complexes are present in the reaction mixture. With isoprene, an q1 -methylbut-2-enyl complex was observed.50 By using a two-phase system and a phase-transfer catalyst, the turnover numbers attainable with conjugated dienes can be increased to about 30.51... 

The best studied addition reactions of silylene have been those with conjugated dienes. Earlier studies using the nuclear recoil system have shown that 31SiH2 added to 1,3-butadiene to give silacyclopent-3-ene (44, 99, 100). 

Studies on the gas-phase reactions of dichlorosilylene with conjugated dienes provided more systematic information about the addition reactions of dichlorosilylene (1,10,15,16, 20, 30, 91) ... 

Barbier-Baudry [147,148,185-188] studied in detail the ani a-samarocene allyl and chloride complexes 91-93 (Fig. 14) as the single-component catalysts for the copolymerization of a series of a-oleflns with conjugated dienes. The resultant copolymers contained about 6% linear a-oleflns. Each olefin unit randomly inserted between two tran5-l,4-isoprenes. It was worth noting that the afforded copolymers with different precatalysts were characterized with almost the same properties, denoting the same catalytic active species formed during polymerization [147,186]. In addition, these catalysts were able to copolymerize isoprene with e-caprolactone to form diblock copolymers [186,187] and triblock copolymer poly[isoprene-ct -... 

RGaCtions. Because of the rich chemistry associated with conjugated diene structures, the reactivity of 1,3-butadiene has been studied extensively. However, the hundreds of polymers and copolymers described in the literature represent by far the most important commercial uses for butadiene. 

The photochemical reaction of Group VI metal hexacarbonyls with mono-enes was studied several years ago, but only recently has the reaction of one of the hexacarbonyls, W(CO)s in fact, with conjugated dienes been investigated. The W(CO)6 proves to be an effective catalyst for cis trans isomerization of such dienes compounds of the type W(CO)6(diene), which must act as intermediates in such isomerizations, have been isolated and their reactions studied. Under normal conditions iron pentacarbonyl reacts with acetylene to produce a complicated mixture of products, but under irradiation in an argon matrix at — 256 °C the product is but-l-en-3-yne, complexed to the iron through the carbon-carbon triple bond only. This iron-alkyne-carbonyl compound is presumably an intermediate in the reaction under normal thermal conditions. In an argon matrix at — 256 C, iron pentacarbonyl reacts with ethylene to give Fe(CO)4(QH4). ... 

Butadiene, the simplest conjugated diene, has been the subject of intensive theoretical and experimental studies to understand its physical and chemical properties. The conjugation of the double bonds makes it 15 kJ/mole (3.6 kcal/mol) (13) more thermodynamically stable than a molecule with two isolated single bonds. The r-trans isomer, often called the trans form, is more stable than the s-cis form at room temperature. Although there is a 20 kJ/mole (4.8 kcal/mol) rotational barrier (14,15), rapid equiUbrium allows reactions to take place with either the s-cis or r-trans form (16,17). 

In addition to the synthetic applications related to the stereoselective or stereospecific syntheses of various systems, especially natural products, described in the previous subsection, a number of general synthetic uses of the reversible [2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement of allylic sulfoxides are presented below. Several investigators110-113 have employed the allylic sulfenate-to-sulfoxide equilibrium in combination with the syn elimination of the latter as a method for the synthesis of conjugated dienes. For example, Reich and coworkers110,111 have reported a detailed study on the conversion of allylic alcohols to 1,3-dienes by sequential sulfenate sulfoxide rearrangement and syn elimination of the sulfoxide. This method of mild and efficient 1,4-dehydration of allylic alcohols has also been shown to proceed with overall cis stereochemistry in cyclic systems, as illustrated by equation 25. The reaction of trans-46 proceeds almost instantaneously at room temperature, while that of the cis-alcohol is much slower. This method has been subsequently applied for the synthesis of several natural products, such as the stereoselective transformation of the allylic alcohol 48 into the sex pheromone of the Red Bollworm Moth (49)112 and the conversion of isocodeine (50) into 6-demethoxythebaine (51)113. 

Studies conducted by Barenghi eta.1. (1990) and Lodge etal. (1993) independently have demonstrated the facile, multicomponent analysis of a wide range of PUFA-derived peroxidation products (e.g. conjugated dienes, epoxides and oxysterols) in samples of oxidized LDL by high-field H-NMR spectroscopy. Figure 1.9 shows the applications of this technique to the detection of cholesterol oxidation products (7-ketocholesterol and the 5a, 6a and 5/3,60-epoxides) in isolated samples of plasma LDL pretreated with added coppcr(Il) or an admixture of this metal ion with H2O2, an experiment conducted in the authors laboratories. 

Guyan et al. 1990) have used several markers of lipid peroxidation (9-cis-, 11-tmns-isomer of linoleic acid, conjugated dienes and ultraviolet fluorescent products) to demonstrate significant increases in the duodenal aspirate after secretin stimulation in patients with acute and clinic pancreatitis. They interpreted this as indicating induction of hepatic and pancreatic drug-metabolizing enzymes in the face of a shortfidl of antioxidant defences, more marked in chronic pancreatitis. Subsequent studies in patients with chronic pancreatitis have confirmed decreased serum concentrations of selenium, -carotene and vitamin E compared with healthy controls (Uden et al., 1992). Basso aol. (1990) have measured increases in lipid peroxides in the sera of patients with chronic... 

The aqueous Diels-Alder reaction has also been used for bioconjugate studies. A Diels-Alder reaction of diene oligonucleotides with maleimide dieneophiles was used to prepare oligonucleotide conjugates in aqueous media under mild conditions (Eq. 12.39).102 A Diels-Alder-type cycloaddition of an electronically matched pair of saccharide-linked conjugated dienes and a dienophile-equipped protein was the... 

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