- Site-Specific Alkene Hydromethylation via Protonolysis of Titanacyclobutanes
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Methyl groups are ubiquitous in biologically active molecules. Thus, new tactics to introduce this alkyl fragment into polyfunctional structures are of significant interest. With this goal in mind, a direct method for the Markovnikov hydromethylation of alkenes is reported. This method exploits the degenerate metathesis reaction between the titanium methylidene unveiled from Cp2Ti(μ-Cl)(μ-CH2)AlMe2 (Tebbe's reagent) and unactivated alkenes. Protonolysis of the resulting titanacyclobutanes in situ effects hydromethylation in a chemo-, regio-, and site-selective manner. The broad utility of this method is demonstrated across a series of mono- and di-substituted alkenes containing pendant alcohols, ethers, amides, carbamates, and basic amines.
- Bartfield, Noah M.,Frederich, James H.,Law, James A.
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p. 14360 - 14364
(2021/05/27)
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- Heterocyclic Deformations from Molecular Enlargement
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The ease of distortion of saturated nitrogen heterocycles has been examined by progressively increasing the bulk of the substituent at nitrogen.The heterocycles included the pharmacophoric piperidine and morpholine six-membered rings, as well as the five-membered oxazolidine ring.Response to increased bulk of substitution was intended to be a crude model for distortions within the drug-receptor complex.Substitution at nitrogen included methyl, (1-adamantyl)methyl, and 6-substituted β-cyclodextrin within a tetrahedral series, and acetyl and (1-adamantyl)carbonyl within a trigonal series.With methyl and acetyl serving as standards for the undistorted rings, we have found that the NCH2CH2X dihedral angle within all three heterocycles is decreased anly by about 1 deg on introduction of adamantyl groups.In agreement with this flattening distortion, the barrier to ring reversal of the piperidine is decreased by 1.4 kcal/mol on replacement of N-methyl by N-adamantylmethyl.The β-cyclodextrin ring imposes a much more severe distortion, as this same dihedral angle in the piperidine and morpholine rings decreases 5-6 deg.The barrier to rotation about the amide bond decreases 5-6 kcal/mol in all three heterocycles on going from acetyl to adamantylcarbonyl.These studies show that the response of these heterocycles to incresed steric bulk of N substitution is a flatter and hence more flexible ring.
- Lambert, Joseph B.,Wharry, Stephen M.
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p. 3890 - 3893
(2007/10/02)
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