Rearrangements vinylcyclopropane

Offer an explanation for the facility of the reaction, as compared to the vinylcyclopropane rearrangement of hydrocarbons, which requires a temperature above 200°C. Consider concerted reaction pathways which would account for the observed stereospecificity of the reaction. 

The photochemical isomerization of 1,4-dienes 1, bearing substituents at C-3, leads to vinyl-cyclopropanes 2, and is called the di-n-methane rearrangement This reaction produces possible substrates for the vinylcyclopropane rearrangement. 

The thermal rearrangement of vinylcyclopropanes 1 to yield cyclopentenes 2 is called the vinylcyclopropane rearrangement. 

The vinylcyclopropane rearrangement is an important method for the construction of cyclopentenes. The direct 1,4-addition of a carbene to a 1,3-diene to give a cyclopentene works only in a few special cases and with poor yield. The desired product may instead be obtained by a sequence involving the 1,2-addition of a carbene to one carbon-carbon double bond of a 1,3-diene to give a vinylcyclopropane, and a subsequent rearrangement to yield a cyclopentene ... 

The vinylcyclopropane rearrangement is of synthetic importance, as well as of mechanistic interest—i.e. the concerted vs. the radical mechanism. A reaction temperature of 200 to 400 °C is usually required for the rearrangement however, depending on substrate structure, the required reaction temperature may range from 50 to 600 °C. Photochemical and transition metal catalyzed variants are known that do not require high temperatures. 

Viagra, preeclampsia and, 164 structure of, 1 Vicinal, 261, 662 Vinyl group, 178 Vinyl monomer, 241 Vinylcyclopropane, rearrangement of, 1202... 

An interesting example of the situation in which the preferred addition site does not lead to the preferred ring size has been provided by Miura and coworkers with the extended vinylcyclopropane rearrangement of substrate 2164. Formation of vinylcyclopentyl derivative 22 requires the addition of the triphenylstannyl radical to the unsubstituted terminus... 

Eq. 12) position of the cyclopropyl ring dramatically lowers the activation energy of this process 12). In addition charge accelerated vinylcyclopropane rearrangements... 

The vinylcyclopropane rearrangement is particularly valuable for cyclopentane synthesis. Aphidicolin (187), a most unusual antitumor agent, yields nicely to an analysis based on the concept of cyclopentanone annulation as outlined in Scheme 9... 

The isopropenyl side chain may derive by elimination of a tertiary alcohol or ether as in 202. Such a masking of the olefin avoids a possible competing vinylcyclopropane rearrangement. The correspondence of the cyclopentene of 202 with the vinylcyclopropane in 203 now becomes obvious. The presence of the dimethylcarbinol side chain now also offers the opportunity for its introduction by addition of a cyclopropyl anion to acetone. The feasibility of creating such an anion by fluoride initiated desilylation... 

The heteroatom version of the vinylcyclopropane rearrangement serves to facilitate alkaloid construction. Scheme 13 outlines a strategy for the pyrrolizidine alkaloid isoretronecanol 211 90). Use of a carboxaldehyde (i.e. 213) as a synthon for the primary alcohol provides an ability to adjust stereochemistry. It also sets up formation of the pyrrolidine ring bearing the aldehyde by an aldol-type condensation of an enol of the aldehyde onto an imine derived from 214. Because of the lability of such systems, introduction of X=PhS imparts stability. The resultant azacyclopentene translates to an imine 215 using the iminocyclopropane rearrangement methodology. Simple condensation of the primary amine 216 with aldehyde 37a then initiates this... 

In 1998, Saigo et al. [150] discovered the Rh(I)-catalyzed allenic version of the vinylcyclopropane rearrangement. With a subsituent on the cyclopropane ring two different isomers can be formed depending on which of the different allylic C-C bonds in the three-membered ring is broken. Depending on R2, different regioselec-tivites were obtained with 250. Alkyl-substituted substrates lead to 251 and aryl-substituted substrates to 252 (Scheme 15.79) [150]. 

In practice, it was found that whereas the synthesis of hirsutene according to the dual strategy met with success under thermal conditions, but at temperatures as high as 580 °C, under photochemical conditions it afforded the unnatural cis, syn, cis configuration of some intermediates which then need further elaboration. Although the transformations 44 — 43a and 45. — 43a by a [2 + 2] -cycloaddition and a vinylcyclopropane rearrangement, respectively, may involve intermediates with a more or less biradical character, they are not typical radical reactions such as the ones we are considering here. 

In contrast to the isomerization of 39, the retention of optical activity for the conversion of 41 to 42 is very small. However, the loss of activity cannot be explained by a degenerate vinylcyclopropane rearrangement, since the recovered starting material ([(X]54g = +32 ) shows essentially complete retention of chirality. An alternative explanation involves competing stereoselective processes in a chiral intermediate (41a ). For 41a a hydride shift from the allylic position, C2, might compete with the migration from C6 to Cl. This possibility can be probed by... 

Vilsmeier reaction, 49, 1 56, 2 Vinylcyclopropanes, rearrangement to cyclopentenes, 33, 2 Vinyllithiums, from sulfonylhydrazones, 39, 1... 

There is every reason to believe that the results found for the vinylcyclopropane rearrangement are typical of those to be expected for reactions involving biradicals (and presumably other reactive intermediates) on energetic plateaus. Such reactions simply cannot be understood within the context of any statistical kinetic model. 

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