An Intramolecular Iodine-Catalyzed C(sp3)?H Oxidation as a Versatile Tool for the Synthesis of Tetrahydrofurans
The formation of ubiquitous occurring tetrahydrofuran patterns has been extensively investigated in the 1960s as it was one of the first examples of a non-directed remote C?H activation. These approaches suffer from the use of toxic transition metals in overstoichiometric amounts. An attractive metal-free solution for transforming carbon-hydrogen bonds into carbon-oxygen bonds lies in applying economically and ecologically favorable iodine reagents. The presented method involves an intertwined catalytic cycle of a radical chain reaction and an iodine(I/III) redox couple by selectively activating a remote C(sp3)?H bond under visible-light irradiation. The reaction proceeds under mild reaction conditions, is operationally simple and tolerates many functional groups giving fast and easy access to different substituted tetrahydrofurans.
Br?se, Stefan,Koch, Vanessa
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p. 3478 - 3483
(2021/07/22)
Highly regioselective reaction of zirconocene-alkene complexes with aldehydes or ketones
Reactions of zirconocene-alkene complexes Cp2Zr(CH2=CHR)(PR'3) (R = H, Me, Et, SiR"3 or Ar) with aldehydes or ketones were investigated.Zirconocene-ethylene, -propylene or 1-butene complexes reacted with aldehydes or ketones at terminal carbons of alkenes to give the corresponding alcohols after hydrolysis with a high regioselectivity.A similar type of reaction product was also obtained by a reaction of zirconacyclopentanes with aldehydes.This reaction proceeded via β-β' carbon-carbon bond cleavage of zirconacyclopentanes.A reaction of zirconocene-vinylsilane complexes with ketones afforded 3-trimethylsilyl-1-oxa-2-zirconacyclopentanes with an excellent regioselectivity.Carbon-carbon bond formation occurred exclusively at the terminal carbon of vinylsilanes.Their corresponding γ-silylalcohols were obtained after hydrolysis.The products showed that vinylsilanes reacted with carbonyl compounds at the β-carbon to silyl group.It is in sharp contrast to the conventional reactions of vinylsilanes of which the α-carbon normally attacked electrophiles.The reactions of styrene and its derivatives with pentan-3-one on zirconium gave a mixture of two regioisomers.Substituents of alkenes tend to be in α-position to Zr in 1-oxa-2-zirconacyclopentanes.This orientation showed a different aspect of the formation of 1-oxa-2-zirconacyclopentanes from the alkene-alkene coupling reaction on zirconium.The regioselectivity of the reaction with carbonyl compounds decreased in this order; R = alkyl > silyl > aryl. Key words: Zirconium; Silicon; Metallocenes; Carbon-carbon bond formation; Aldehyde; Ketone
Zirconium Mediated Regioselective Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation Reactions
Reactions of zirconocene-alkene complexes with aldehydes gave alcohols as coupling products after hydrolysis.The carbon-carbon bond formation proceeded at C1 carbon of alkenes, in sharp contrast to the reactions of alkene-alkene coupling on zirconium.A similar alcohol was also obtained by the reaction of zirconacyclopentane with aldehyde after hydrolysis.Treatment of (C5Me5)2ZrEt2 with styrene gave 2-phenylbutane after hydrolysis contrary to the case of Cp2ZrEt2 which afforded 1-phenylbutane.