Sulphonyl isocyanates, cycloaddition

The alternative [2 + 2] cycloaddition route to azetidinones, using chloro-sulphonyl isocyanate and functionalized alkenes, has been further used in syntheses of /8-lactam antibiotics. Asymmetric induction in the formation of /3-amino-aa-dimethyl-/8-phenylpropionic acid has been achieved, using a Reformatsky reagent and a chiral Schifif base, the reaction proceeding through a /3-lactam intermediate. ... 

Neooctams, such as the unsubstituted parent compound (191), are easily obtained in cycloadditions. Isocyanates [125,126], sulphonyl isocyanates (43) [29,127] and especially chlorosulphonyl isocyanate (189) [128] react with alkenes to form variously-substituted j3-lactams [129—135]. Synthesis of compound (191) is an example of this reaction which has been discussed in detail [52]. The same compound (192) can be obtained in the photolytic rearrangement of the pyrazolone (194) [136]. Compound (196) is neooctam-5,7-diene, obtained from the azocine (195) and hydrogen bromide [137]. Lactam (196)is a partly saturated form of (199). The latter is an unstable neooctam derivative, formed in an intramolecular ketene-imine cycloaddition reaction (see (198))... 

An extended study of the [2+2]cycloaddition of -toluene-sulphonyl isocyanate to glycal derivatives (M. Chralelewskl et al.. Tetrahedron Lett., 1984, 4797) has led to the following... 

Protonation of the allenyl complex (16) with HPFg at — 20°C gives the cationic acetylene complex (17), and this observation, together with product stereochemistry, strongly suggests that the [2 + 3] cycloaddition reactions of (16) with tetracyanoethylene and toluene-p-sulphonyl isocyanate, which generate (18) and (19), respectively, proceed via an acetylene dipolar ion (20) rather than an allene (21). However, protonation of the related butynyl complex (22) generates stereospecifically a cationic allene complex (23), which on... 

The reactions of (Zi -allyl)iron and of cyclopropylmethyliron complexes with SOa and electrophilic olefins give cycloaddition products. The mechanisms of these reactions are considered to involve dipolar intermediates as illustrated in Scheme 4. These reactions have now been extended to cyclo-alkenyliron complexes, and it is found that toluene-p-sulphonyl isocyanate... 

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