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In addition to ring-forming reactions, the transformation of preformed heterocycles serves as an efficient alternative route for the synthesis of... 

Carbon-centered radicals generated by Barton s thiohydroxamate method can also participate in ring-forming reactions (see Scheme 26).52b,s3 For example, irradiation of 129 results in the formation of compound 130 (82% yield). The outcome of this transformation is reminiscent of Stork s elegant radical cyclization/trapping processes (see Schemes 7 and 8), in that/botn alkene carbon atoms have become functionalized. / I... 

A variety of methods for the asymmetric syntheses of aziridine-2-carboxylates have been developed. They can be generally classified into eight categories based on the key ring-forming transformation and starting materials employed (i) cyclization of hydroxy amino esters, (ii) cyclization of hydroxy azido esters, (iii) cyclization of a-halo- and ot-sulfonyloxy-(3-amino esters, (iv) aziridination of ot, 3-unsaturated esters, (v) aziridination of imines, (vi) aziridination of aldehydes, (vii) 2-carboxylation of aziridines, and (viii) resolution of racemic aziridine-2-carboxylates. 

Bifunctional monomers capable of forming six- or seven-membered rings condense variably, depending upon the particular monomer. The products normally obtained in the absence of diluent in various representative bifunctional condensations are listed in Table IX for unit lengths of six and seven members. The term interconvertibility refers to the reversible transformation between the ring and the linear polymer. Several of the six-membered units (Table IX) prefer the ring form exclusively, but most of them yield both products, or at any rate the ring and chain products are readily interconvertible. Seven-membered units either yield linear polymers exclusively, or, if the cyclic monomer is formed under ordinary conditions, it is convertible to the linear polymer. 

Figure 5. Transformation of a molecule with cycle into a spanning tree and labelling of the ring forming functionalities. (Reproduced with permission from Ref. 42. Copyright 1987 CRC Press).

Pyrroles and fiirans were prepared by the intramolecular carbon-carbon bond formation between pendant acetylene and nitrile or carbonyl functions. The process, running in acetic acid, starts by the fraw-acetoxypalladation of the acetylene moiety, which initiates a series of further transformations. The nature of the ring formed is determined by heteroatom bridging the two reactive units. The propargylamine derivative in 3.88., for example gave a pyrrole ring.112... 

More interestingly, a reversible photo-induced transformation of the cyclic voltam-mograms between the open-ring form and closed-ring form of the TPF was observed. This property could be used as the detecting signal for application in electrochemical switches. 

The syntheses discussed in this section are all ring-forming reactions. Transformations at the carbons or heteroatoms of the five-membered ring are discussed in Section 4.35.5, the section on reactivity. Similarly, many of the coupling reactions used to prepare tetrachal-cogenafulvalenes are also discussed in Section 4.35.5. 

If a nucleophilic group is placed in a side chain which is located at /3-lactam position 4, as shown in Scheme VI/21, the size of the new ring formed be six. The transformation from VI/99 to VI/100 takes place in acid or base [57]. The analogous formation of VI/102 has been observed when the trimethylsilyl protected /3-lactam Vl/lOlwas deprotected [81]. In both cases, retention (C(3)) and inversion (C(4)) of the configuration was found. 

The original photoproduct of these reactions has a hydrated oxazolic ring formed by the interaction of the carbonyl group with the neighboring N-alkylated amino group. This photoproduct was transformed into anthra 2,1 -J oxazoline derivatives, which form following oxidative cleavage. 

Pyrrole syntheses have been organized systematically into intramolecular and intermolecular approaches as well as by the location of the new bonds that describe the pyrrole ring forming step (two examples are illustrated below). Multi-component reactions appear at the end of the section on intermolecular approaches. The final section includes pyrrole syntheses that arise from transformations of other heterocycles. 

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