31503-04-5Relevant articles and documents
Thermal isomerization of isoborneols and dehydroisoborneols to new chiral building blocks in terpenoid synthesis
Rueedi, Georg,Hansen, Hans-Juergen
, p. 1968 - 1989 (2007/10/03)
The substituted isoborneols 1a-1g and 5,6-dehydroisoborneols 6a-6c, readily prepared in excellent yields from (+)-camphor and (+)-5,6-dehydrocamphor (2) by aryl, vinyl, or alkyl Grignard addition in the presence of stoichiometric amounts of CeCl3, were thermally isomerized in a flow reactor system under DGPTI (dynamic gas-phase thermo-isomerization) conditions at temperatures between 480 and 630° to give the enantiomerically pure monocyclic carbonyl compounds 7a-7d, 19a,b, 23, and 24. In all cases, product formation proceeded highly regio- as well as stereoselectively. The absolute configurations of the new stereogenic centers were determined by 1H-NOE measurements. DGPTI of the aryl substrates 1a-1d is proposed to effect initial cleavage of the weakest single bond in the molecule under formation of a diradical intermediate state followed by intramolecular H-abstraction to afford the acetophenone derivatives 7a-7d. This reaction path was further supported by a 2H-labeling study showing the OH group to be the exclusive H-source. In contrast, DGPTI of the vinyl substrates 1e and 6b allowed concerted retro-ene and oxy-Cope rearrangements. In the case of 5,6-dehydro-2-phenylisoborneol (6a), concomitant diradical and retro-Diels-Alder reaction pathways could be observed. In addition, a new route to (+)-rrans-a-campholanic acid (9) and (+)-trans-a-dihydrocampholytic acid (14) is presented by regioselective Baeyer-Villiger oxidation and subsequent hydrolysis of 7c and 7d, respectively.
Improved addition of phenyllithium to hindered ketones by the use of non-polar media
Lecomte, Vincent,Stéphan, Elie,Jaouen, Gérard
, p. 3463 - 3465 (2007/10/03)
The use of a non-polar medium at room temperature is an efficient, cheap and easy way to improve the low reactivity of six hindered ketones towards phenyllithium.
Asymmetric Conversion of Arenechromium Complexes to Functionalized Cyclohexenones: Progress toward Defining an Optimum Chiral Auxiliary
Pearson, Anthony J.,Gontcharov, Alexander V.
, p. 152 - 162 (2007/10/03)
An investigation into the asymmetric synthesis of 5-substituted cyclohexenones via nucleophile addition to (alkoxyarene)chromium tricarbonyl complexes is described. Diastereoselectivity during the nucleophile addition step was achieved using alkoxy substituents derived from terpenoid substrates as chiral auxiliaries. Selectivities as high as 24:1 were obtained when 2-phenylisoborneol was used as the chiral auxiliary and as high as 17:1 using 3,3-(ethylenedioxy)isoborneol. The absolute stereochemistry of the major products was assigned by Mosher's method, after their conversion to the corresponding cyclohexenol. A study of the temperature dependence of the nucleophile addition to alkoxytoluene complexes revealed a thermodynamic preference for addition ortho to the ether substituent.
