Preparation of Arylpropiolate Esters from Trichlorocyclopropenium Cation and Elaboration of the Esters to Unsymmetrical 1,4-Pentadiyn-3-ones and Unsymmetrical Tellurapyranones

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo00392a031

The addition of aromatic compounds including thiophene, naphthalene derivatives, and some benzene derivatives to trichlorocyclopropenium cation gave nearly quantitative yields of 1-aryl-2,3,3-trichlorocyclopropenes.Alcoholysis of the cyclopropene derivatives gave either arylpropiolate esters or arylpropiolate orthoesters (in the presence of added amine base).The arylpropiolates can be converted to unsymmetrical 1,4-pentadiyn-3-ones by two different approaches.The first approach involved reduction of the arylpropiolate esters with diisobutylaluminum hydride to give the corresponding propargyl alcohol.Pyridinium chlorochromate or manganese dioxide oxidation of the alcohol gave the propargyl aldehydes.Addition of a lithium acetylenide gave a 1,4-pentadiyn-3-ol, which could then be oxidized to the 1,4-pentadiyn-3-one with 10percent chromic acid or manganese dioxide.The second pathway used a Lewis acid mediated coupling of a propargylic acid chloride with a (trimethylsilyl)acetylene to give the 1,4-pentadiyn-3-ones directly.The coupling of 2-thiophenepropiolic acid chloride gave the product of HCl addition to the expected 1,4-diynone.The regiochemistry of addition was determined to be chloride addition to the thiophene-bearing triple bond on the basis of 1H NMR studies.The diynones were converted to unsymmetrical 2,6-disubstituted tellura-4H-pyran-4-ones with disodium telluride anion.