Ruthenium‐catalyzed cyclizations of enynes via a ruthenacyclopentene intermediate: Development of three novel cyclizations controlled by a substituent on alkyne of enyne

Three novel ruthenium‐catalyzed cyclizations of enynes were developed. In each cyclization, a ruthenacyclopentene derived from enyne and Cp*RuCl(cod) is a common intermediate. When an enyne having an alkyl, an ester, or a formyl group on an alkyne was reacted with Cp*RuCl(cod) under ethylene gas, ethylene was inserted into the ruthenium‐sp² carbon bond of ruthenacyclopentene to afford ruthenacycloheptene, and β‐hydrogen elimination followed by reductive elimination occurred to give a cyclic compound having a 1,3‐diene moiety. When an acyl group was placed on the alkyne, the carbonyl oxygen coordinated to the ruthenium metal of ruthenacyclopentene to produce a ruthenium carbene complex, which reacted with ethylene to give a cyclic compound having a cyclopropane ring on the substituent. On the other hand, when the substituent on the alkyne was pent‐4‐enyl, insertion of an alkene part into ruthenacyclopentene followed by reductive elimination gave a tricyclic compound by a ruthenium‐catalyzed [2 + 2 + 2] cyclization of diene and an alkyne. DOI 10.1002/tcr.201100003     

Alkene-directed, nickel-catalyzed alkyne coupling reactions

In alkene-directed, nickel-catalyzed coupling reactions of 1,3-enynes with aldehydes and epoxides, the conjugated alkene dramatically enhances reactivity and uniformly directs regioselectivity, independent of the nature of the other alkyne substituent (aryl, alkyl (1 degrees , 2 degrees , 3 degrees )) or the degree of alkene substitution (mono-, di-, tri-, and tetrasubstituted). These observations are best explained by a temporary interaction between the alkene and the transition metal center during the regioselectivity-determining step. The highly substituted 1,3-diene products are useful in organic synthesis and, in conjunction with a Rh-catalyzed, site-selective hydrogenation, afford allylic and homoallylic alcohols that previously could not be prepared in high regioselectivity (or at all) with related Ni-catalyzed alkyne coupling reactions.     

Ene-yne metathesis of polyunsaturated norbornene derivatives

Norbornene derivatives bearing endo-substituents in the 5- and 6-positions were studied as substrates for ene-yne metathesis cascades. Substrates which contained an internal alkyne and a terminal alkene or alkyne in each sidechain were found to undergo a metathesis cascade leading to pentacyclic bis-dienes and bis-trienes. Attempts to extend the chemistry further to sidechains containing two internal alkynes or two internal alkynes and a terminal alkene were not successful with the first generation Grubbs' catalyst. However, the substrate containing two internal alkynes did react with the second generation Grubbs' catalyst to give a tetra-diene containing product.     

High oxidation state alkylidene and alkylidyne complexes

Electron deficient high oxidation state early transition metal complexes that contain metal-carbon double or triple bonds and bulky supporting ligands have been found to be highly reactive catalysts for the alkene and alkyne metathesis reactions, respectively.     

Preparation of 2-phospholene derivatives from zirconacyclopentenes

Zirconacyclopentenes, which are easily prepared from alkynes, alkenes, and zirconocene compounds, reacted with dichlorophenylphosphine to give 2-phospholene in high yields. The reaction was performed conveniently in one-pot from an alkyne, alkene, dichlorophosphine, and zirconocene compounds.     

Lactone Radical Cyclizations and Cyclization Cascades Mediated by SmI(2)-H(2)O

Unsaturated lactones undergo reductive radical cyclizations upon treatment with SmI(2)-H(2)O to give decorated cycloheptanes in a single highly selective operation during which up to three contiguous stereocenters are generated. Furthermore, cascade processes involving lactones bearing two alkenes, an alkene and an alkyne, or an allene and an alkene allow "one-pot" access to biologically significant molecular scaffolds with the construction of up to four contiguous stereocenters. The cyclizations proceed by the trapping of radical anions formed by electron transfer reduction of the lactone carbonyl.     

Transition metal-catalyzed cyclocarbonylation in organic synthesis

Cyclocarbonylation reactions proceed mainly by the coupling reactions of carbonylation components with cyclization components having an unsaturated π-electron bond, in the presence of transition metal compounds. The representative reactions are cyclocarbonylation of alkynes by carbon monoxide such as Pauson–Khand reactions, hetero Pauson–Khand reactions, cyclocarbonylation of alkynyl alcohols, cyclocarbonylation of alkynyl amines, cyclocarbonylative alkyne–alkyne coupling reactions, and reductive cyclocarbonylation of alkynes. The other reactions are cyclocarbonylation of alkenes by carbon monoxide such as alkene–alkene coupling reactions, cyclocarbonylation with aldehydes, ketones, amines or imines, cyclocarbonylation of alkenyl alcohols. Carbonylation via cyclometalation, carbonylative ring expansion reactions, cyclocarbonylation by aldehydes, carboxylic acids or carboxylic acid esters are also cyclocarbonylation reactions. These reactions are conveniently used for organic syntheses, especially, for the syntheses of pharmaceutical intermediates.     

Synthesis of functionalized hydroquinones via [Cp*RuCl2]2-catalyzed cocyclization of alkynes, alpha,beta-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, and carbon monoxide

[reaction: see text] Catalytic [2 + 2 + 1 + 1] cocyclization reaction of an alkyne, an alkene, and two molecules of carbon monoxide, leading to functionalized hydroquinones, was studied. Using [Cp*RuCl2]2 as a catalyst, we found that a variety of electron-deficient alkenes, such as alpha,beta-unsaturated ketones, esters, amides, and nitriles, can be employed as an alkene coupling partner to give the corresponding hydroquinones.     

Recent advances in enantioselective [2 + 2 + 2] cycloaddition

Enantioselective cycloaddition using chiral transition metal catalysts is an atom-economical and efficient synthetic tool for the construction of chiral carbo- and heterocyclic skeletons. This short account discloses our recent results of inter- and intramolecular enantioselective [2 + 2 + 2] cycloadditions of alkyne and/or alkene moiety(ies). Chiral iridium complexes catalyzed the alkyne trimerization for the generation of axial chirality(ies), and chiral rhodium ones catalyzed alkyne-alkyne-alkene cyclization for the generation of a quaternary carbon including spirocyclic system.     

Reactions of strained hydrocarbons with alkene and alkyne metathesis catalysts

Here we describe the metathesis reactions of a strained eight-membered ring that contains both alkene and alkyne functionality. We find that the alkyne metathesis catalyst produces polymer through a ring-opening alkyne metathesis reaction that is driven by the strain release from the monomer. The strained monomer provides unusual reactivity with ruthenium-based alkene metathesis catalysts. We isolate a discrete trimeric species a Dewar benzene derivative that is locked in this form through an unsaturated cyclophane strap.     

Phosphine–Alkene Ligands as Mechanistic Probes in the Pauson–Khand Reaction

An alkyne tetracarbonyl dicobalt complex with a chelated phosphine–alkene ligand, in which the phosphorus atom and the alkene from the ligand are attached to the same cobalt atom has been prepared, isolated, and characterized by X‐ray crystallography. The complex serves as a mechanistic model for an intermediate of the Pauson–Khand (PK) reaction. Although the alkene fragment is located in an equatorial coordination site with an appropriate orientation, and, therefore, should undergo insertion, it failed to give the PK product upon either thermal or N‐methylmorpholine N‐oxide activation. However, a phosphine–alkene complex that contains a terminal alkene readily provided the corresponding PK product. We attribute this change in reactivity to the different ability of each olefin to undergo 1,2‐insertion. These results provide further insights into the factors that govern a crucial step in the PK reaction, the olefin insertion.     

金属蒸气合成在金属有机合成中的应用

本文简要地介绍了金属蒸气合成法的基本原理、仪器和实验技术, 并按金属原子分别与炔、单烯、多烯、环烯、芳烃体系、卤代烃、有机混和物的反应及有机金属硼化合物的合成, 对金属蒸气合成法在金属有机合成中的应用进行了讨论。     

Functional aliphatic polyesters and nanoparticles prepared by organocatalysis and orthogonal grafting chemistry

We describe the use of organic catalysis for the ring‐opening polymerization of functionalized lactones and conversion of the resulting aliphatic polyesters into crosslinked nanoparticles that carry additional functional groups amenable to further modification. Specifically, highly functional aliphatic polyester homopolymers, as well as random and block copolymers, were prepared by 1,5,7‐triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec‐5‐ene catalysis, giving polyesters with pendent alkene and alkyne groups. Azide‐alkyne click and thiol‐ene chemistries were used for postpolymerization modification of diblock copolymers possessing alkene groups on one block and alkyne groups on the other block. The polyesters were crosslinked using azide/alkyne cycloaddition, by reaction of α,ω‐diazides with the pendent alkynes on the polyester backbone. This gave polyester nanoparticles possessing alkene functionality, which were subjected to further modification using thiol‐ene reactions to introduce additional functionality. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2012     

Formation of bridging alkene and conjugated dialkenes exclusively generated from alkynes on the [3,3'-Co(1,2-C2B9H11)2]- platform. The unique hydroboration role of [3,3'-Co(1,2-C2B9H11)2]-

The unprecedented metal-mediated transformation of an alkyne into a B,B' bridging alkene is reported. Also, the unprecedented synthesis of a conjugated dialkene derivative of [3,3'-Co(1,2-C2B9H11)2]- generated only from an alkyne, contrary to the usual case where an alkyne and an alkene are needed, is described. This has been possible through the singular capacity of a B-H to produce hydroboration.     

Ligand-switchable directing effects of tethered alkenes in nickel-catalyzed additions to alkynes

Nickel-catalyzed reductive couplings of aldehydes with alkynes that contain tethered olefins are described, in which the degree and sense of regioselectivity are controlled by the length of the tether and the presence or absence of an additive. When the alkyne and alkene are separated by four bonds, very high (>95:5) regioselectivities are observed. Use of a monodentate phosphine as an additive leads to formation of the opposite regioisomer in equal and opposite selectivity (5: >95). These results provide strong evidence for an interaction between the remote alkene and the metal center during the regioselectivity-determining step and suggest that reactions with and without an additive proceed via fundamentally distinct mechanisms.     

Boron-directed regio- and stereoselective enyne cross metathesis: efficient synthesis of vinyl boronate containing 1,3-dienes

[reaction: see text] Regio- and stereoselective enyne cross metathesis reactions between borylated alkynes and terminal alkenes were realized to provide a variety of functionalized vinyl boronates. High chemical yield and regioselectivity was achieved irrespective of substituents on the alkyne and alkene counterparts, whereas Z/E-selectivity was found to be dependent upon the substituents both on the alkyne and alkene.     

The mechanistic puzzle of transition-metal-catalyzed skeletal rearrangements of enynes

Three pathways actually compete in metal-catalyzed cyclizations of enynes in which the metal selectively activates the alkyne: an endocyclic process and two exo-cyclizations, one proceeding by anti attack of the alkene and a second one resulting in a syn addition. Although cyclobutenes may be formed in transition-metal-catalyzed cyclization of some enynes, particularly, 1,7-enynes, these compounds are not necessarily the intermediates in the skeletal rearrangement. Cyclobutenes are formed by ring expansion of syn-cyclopropyl metal-carbenes formed in the syn pathway.     

The scope of catalytic enantioselective tandem carbonyl ylide formation-intramolecular [3 + 2] cycloadditions

Catalytic enantioselective tandem carbonyl ylide formation-intramolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of 2-diazo-3,6-diketoesters show promising scope in terms of asymmetric induction as the tethered alkene/alkyne dipolarophile component is varied. Cycloadditions were found to occur in moderate to very good yields, with a difference in ee exhibited by the electronically different 2-diazo-3,6-diketoesters 1, 25 and 33, 34. Values for ee of up to 90% for alkene dipolarophiles and up to 86% for alkyne dipolarophiles were obtained.     

Enantioselective syntheses of various chiral multicyclic compounds with quaternary carbon stereocenters by catalytic intramolecular cycloaddition

The intramolecular cycloaddition of 1,n-diene-ynes (n = 4-6), where alkyne and alkene moieties are connected by a 1,1-disubstituted alkene, was examined using a chiral rhodium catalyst, and various types of cycloadducts with quaternary carbon stereocenter(s) were obtained in high to excellent enantiomeric excess. In the case of 1,4-diene-ynes, tricyclic, bicyclic, and spirocyclic compounds were obtained depending upon the substituents at the 2-position of the 1,4-diene moiety and those at their alkyne termini. On the other hand, 1,5- and 1,6-diene-ynes gave tricyclic and bicyclic compounds, which included medium-sized ring systems. The mechanistic considerations for different reaction pathways and the synthetic transformation of tricyclic products into functionalized spirocyclic compounds are also described. The reaction of enediynes, where two alkyne moieties are connected by a 1,1-disubstituted alkene, was also examined, and sterically strained tricyclic compounds with two carbon stereocenters were obtained.