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During studies directed towards the synthesis of spatol, Salomon and Murthi studied epoxysilane 153 bearing a temporary tether (Scheme 5.36), which circumvented the potential problem of configurational instability described above [57]. 

Among special chemical methods that facilitate the Diels-Alder reaction can be included the temporary metal connection strategy [101] that is illustrated in Table 4.27. Si, Mg and A1 are used as temporary connectors of diene and dienophile moieties. The cycloaddition occurs easily due to its intramolecular nature and because the dienophilic component of reagent is now formally a vinyl carbon ion (i.e. a vinyl carbanion in 154 with M = AlEt ). Thus the metal-tethered 154, prepared from lithium alkoxide of 153 with the suitable metal vinyl halide, gives, by heating, the cycloadducts 156 and 157, through the... 

The kinetic advantages of IMDA additions can be exploited by installing temporary links (tethers) between the diene and dienophile components.132 After the addition reaction, the tether can be broken. Siloxy derivatives have been used in this way, since silicon-oxygen bonds can be readily cleaved by solvolysis or by fluoride ion.133 The silyl group can also be used to introduce a hydroxy function by oxidation. 

For the synthesis of C2-symmetric 1,4-diol, Evans planned temporary silicon-tethered ring-closing metathesis, and asymmetric synthesis of D-altritol was... 

It has been shown that the cycloaddition of highly unreactive sterically hindered nitrones of type 165 can be catalyzed by magnesium salts that provide temporary tethering of allyl alcohol in the nitrone moiety (equation 106). This results in complete regio- and stereoselectivty of the cycloaddition. 

Figure 2. (Left) Experimental setup in force flow measurements. Optical tweezers are used to trap beads but forces are applied on the RNApol-DNA molecular complex using the Stokes drag force acting on the left bead immersed in the flow. In this setup, force assists RNA transcription as the DNA tether between beads increases in length as a function of time, (a) The contour length of the DNA tether as a function of time and (b) the transcription rate as a function of the contour length. Pauses (temporary arrests of transcription) are shown as vertical arrows. (From Ref. 25.) (See color insert.)...

A remarkable extension of this strategy achieves the stereospecilic introduction of a C-C bond at the anomeric center by the cyclization of an acceptor group tethered to a suitable hydroxyl group of the sugar moiety through a temporary function. Table 2... 

Intramolecular anodic olefin coupling reactions involving allyl- (equation 18) and vinyl-silanes (equation 19) can lead to good yields of quaternary carbons with control of the relative stereochemistry19,20. This is the first example of an electrochemical reaction that makes use of a temporary silicon tether. 

Giilten, S., Sharpe, A., Baker, J.R., and Booker-Milburn, K.I. (2007) Use of temporary tethers in the intramolecular [2 + 2] photocydoaddition reactions of tetrahydrophthalimide derivatives a new approach to complex tricydic lactones. Tetrahedron, 63, 3659-3671. 

Despite the development of various intermolecular radical addition methods, those studies have rarely accommodated additional functionality, our discovery of the manganese-mediated photolysis conditions notwithstanding. Prior to that discovery, we began to elaborate an alternative strategy which employs temporary tethers ([115, 116] reviews of silicon-tethered reactions [117-120]) (silyl ether or acetal linkages) linking radical and acceptor. In this scenario the C-C bond is constructed via cyclization, in which internal conformational constraints can control diaster-eoselectivity. The tether itself would be converted to useful functionality upon cleavage, and once the tether is cleaved the net result may be considered as formal acyclic stereocontrol. ... 

In combination with the range of standard transformations of alcohols, alkenes, and vinylsulfides, these silicon-tethered additions of functionalized radicals offer a versatile and stereoselective approach to amino alcohol synthesis. Whereas vinyl and 2-oxoethyl radicals have not yet been demonstrated as competent participants in the various intermolecular additions reported in the literature, the temporary tether approach allows such functionalized fragments to be installed in an efficient and stereoselective manner. Synthesis of the aminosugar daunosamine from achiral precursors shows how this concept, employing hydrazone radical acceptors, can be merged with asymmetric catalysis to achieve practical synthetic advances. 

As already mentioned (see Chaps. 8.2 and 8.3), the addition of an unsymmetrical enone to an unsymmetrical alkene usually affords a mixture of the possible regioisomers. This is illustrated in Sch. 10 for the reaction of cyclopentenone 28 with allylic alcohol as alkene where a mixture of eight cycloadducts is obtained. A very efficient way in controlling the regiochemical outcome for such a reaction has been proposed by Crimmins by using a siloxane as temporary tether, i.e., cyclopentenone 29 in an intramolecular reaction which now proceeds regioselectively to give first tricycle 30 and then the desired cycloadduct 31 [56]. 

Table 3 shows the application of these intramolecular biaryl-forming conditions to the indirect synthesis of acyclic biaryls using a temporary tether strategy (Scheme 9). Silaketal tethers (Y = SiR2 and X = O, 31a-f) react efficiently to give the biaryl unit. A sulfide derivative (Y — S, X = CH2, 31g) led to many oxidized products, but sulfoxides (Y = SO,... 

X = CH2, 31h-k) and sulfones (Y = S02. X = CH2, 311,m) participated effectively in the oxidative coupling reaction. Dibenzyl ethers (Y = O, X = CH2, 31n-r) were also coupled in fair to good yields. Cleavage of the temporary tether subsequently delivers the acyclic biaryls 33a-r. 

Several approaches to what are formally Si-0 and O-Si-O heterocycles have been reported, although these reactions invariably involve the use of the Si-O bond only as a temporary tether. The coupling and RCM of dissymmetric alcohols was reported by Eustache and co-workers <01TL239> and this method was applied in the synthesis of attenol A <020L4105>. Denmark and Yang performed the RCM of Si-O tethered dienes in tandem with silicon-assisted cross-... 

A lactone makes a good temporary tether because it can be hydrolysed or reduced to break the ring at the C-0 bond and reveal new stereogenic centres on the old structure. In this sequence a lactone, formed by iodolactonization, controls all the subsequent stereochemistry of the molecule in two ways it fixes the conformation rigidly in one chair form—hence forcing the iodide to be axial— and it blocks one face of the ring. The iodolactonization is very similar to one you saw on p. 872. Next, an alkene is introduced by E2 reaction on the iodide. This stereospecific reaction requires an... 

A diastereoselective formal addition of a 7ra i-2-(phenylthio)vmyl moiety to a-hydroxyhydrazones through a radical pathway is shown in Scheme 2.29. To overcome the lack of a viable intermolecular vinyl radical addition to C=N double bonds, not to mention a reaction proceeding with stereocontrol, this procedure employs a temporary silicon tether, which is used to hold the alkyne unit in place so that the vinyl radical addition could proceed intramolecularly. Thus, intermolecular addition of PhS" to the alkyne moiety in the chiral alkyne 161 leads to vinyl radical 163, which cyclizes in a 5-exo fashion, according to the Beckwith-Houk predictions, to give aminyl radical 164 with an a 7z-arrangement between the ether and the amino group. Radical reduction and removal of the silicon tether without prior isolation of the end product of the radical cyclization cascade, 165, yields the a-amino alcohol 162. This strategy, which could also be applied to the diastereoselective synthesis of polyhydroxylated amines (not shown), can be considered as synthetic equivalent of an acetaldehyde Mannich reaction with acyclic stereocontrol. 

Analogously, intramolecular hydrosilation reactions have been carried out with alkenes cyclization of alkenyloxy-silanes catalyzed by thiols <1998J(P1)467> and by Pt <1996TL827> has been described. In addition, intramolecular temporary silicon-tethered rhodium-catalyzed [4- -2- -2]-cycloisomerization reactions have been carried out by Evans and Bawn (Equation 50) <2004JA11150>. 

Fairbanks, A J, Perrin, E, Sinay, P, Synthesis of the carbon skeleton of the herbicidins via a temporary silaketal tether, Synlett, 679-681, 1996. 

Shuto s group has developed a highly versatile regio- and stereoselective method for introducing the C2 substituent via an intramolecular radical cyclization reaction, in which a silicon-containing group was applied as a temporary radical acceptor tether [59,60], as summarized in... 

Other temporary connections, such as ketal tethers were also tested. Tebbe olefination of acetate 266 and ketal formation with sugar alcohol 255 lead to tethered intermediate 267, which is cyclized to a C-analog derivative 268 of the a-D-Man(l— 4)-D-Glc disaccharide after ketal cleavage [118] (O Scheme 56). 

An efficient synthesis of adenophostin (55a) analogues (55b-f) from d-xylose has been reported." The C-glycosidic analogue of adenophostin A and its uracil congener (56a,b) have also been prepared via a temporary silicon-tethered radical coupling reaction as the key step. ... 

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