p-Benzoquinone-2,3-dicarboxylic anhydride as highly reactive and versatile electron-accepting dienophile

Pericyclic reactions of p-benzoquinone-2,3-dicarboxylic anhydride(PBA) with homo-dienne and conjugated medium-ring polyenes have been examined. The high peri- and stereospecificity observed with dienes is explained using the frontier orbital model where the diene HOMO-PBA LUMO interaction predominates.     

Cycloaddition of nitrones with arynes generated from benzobisoxadisilole or 2,3-naphthoxadisilole

1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition of nitrones with arynes generated in situ from benzobisoxadisilole or 2,3-naphthoxadisilole afforded the oxadisilole fused benzo[d]isoxazoline or the naphtho[2,3-d]isoxazoline derivatives at room temperature in good yields.     

Cycloaddition reactions with 2,3‐benzodiazepine derivatives

We report here on some 3+2 dipolar cycloaddition reactions of propargyl, allyl and cyano substituted 2,3‐benzodiazepines with in situ generated nitrile oxides and diazomethane. The reactivity of carbon‐nitrogen double bonds of the 5H‐[2,3]benzodiazepine ring system was also noticed.     

Cycloaddition reactions of trimethylenemethane diyls generated from alkynyl iodonium salts

Intramolecular [2+3] cycloaddition reaction of trimethylenemethane diyls that were generated successfully from the reaction of malonate anions containing diene units with propynyl iodonium salts via alkylidene carbene intermediates produced linearly fused triquinanes.     

Flash vacuum thermolysis of spirocyclohexadienones

In an attempt to prepare short-bridged hydroxymetacyclophanes $\text{1b-d}$, the spirocyclohexadienones $\text{2b-d}$ were pyrolyzed by flash vacuum thermolysis (FVT). Instead of $\text{1b-d}$, variable amounts of 4-(5-hexenyl)phenol ($\text{4b}$), β-hydroxybenzocycloalkenes ($\text{5b-d}$) and 4-(trans-1-alkenyl) phenols ($\text{6c-d}$) were obtained. The formation of these products is explained by invoking cleavage of a spiro bond in $\text{2}$ under formation of the intermediate diradical $\text{3}$ which, depending on the length of the aliphatic chain and on the temperature, has several pathways open for isomerization to spin-paired products.     

Ring-opening metathesis polymerization of cis-5-norbornene-endo-2,3-dicarboxylic anhydride derivatives using the grubbs third generation catalyst

A series of cis-5-norbornene-endo-2,3-dicarboxylic anhydride(NDCA,M1) derivatives(M2-M4) with different types of nonpolar substituted groups were synthesized and characterized by ~1H/~(13)C-NMR and mass spectrometry(MS). Ringopening metathesis polymerization(ROMP) of these monomers using the Grubbs third generation catalyst(G3) generated high molecular weight polymers with much improved solubility compared with the NDCA's homopolymer. It was found that the solubility of these polymers increased with increased substituent's steric hindrance. The living polymerization of NDCA derivative containing the bulkiest substituent(M4) catalyzed by G3 in tetrahydrofuran was confirmed by the kinetic studies with low polydispersity indices(PDI)( 1.30). By using sequential ROMP, well-defined diblock copolymers containing anhydride groups were synthesized.     

Acephenanthrylenes from flash vacuum thermolysis of diarylmethylidenecycloproparenes

Upon flash vacuum thermolysis at 750 °C fluorenylidenecyclopropa[b]naphthalene (1) undergoes opening of the three-membered ring and rearrangement to give a range of C₂₄H₁₄ polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Dibenz[e.l]- and -[e.k]acephenanthrylene (7) and (12), respectively, have been identified while the plausible naphth[1,2-e]- and [2,3-e]acephenanthrylenes (9) and (14) were not detected. With diphenylmethylidenecyclopropa[b]naphthalene (2) cyclodehydrogenation and rearrangement also provide C₂₄H₁₄ polycycles; dibenz[e.k]acephenanthrylene (12) is identified and dibenz[a.e]aceanthrylene (15) is a proposed product.     

Cycloaddition reactions of thiiranimines

Thiiranimines have been found to cycloadd by the three pathways shown in Scheme 1. The reactions are examplified with enamines (path a), ynamines (path b) and aldehydes (path c).     

Cycloaddition reactions of heterophospholes

The cycloaddition reactions namely, [2 + 4], [4 + 2], [2 + 3] and [1 + 4] given by the heterophospholes, which are five-membered 6π aromatic heterocycles containing at least one σ², λ³ phosphorus, are reviewed in the present article. Different aspects of these reactions such as stereoselectivity, regioselectivity, relative reactivities and theoretical correlations thereof are included. The literature has been surveyed up to December 2003. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heteroatom Chem 15:271–287, 2004; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/hc.20002     

Stereospecific synthesis of azetidine-cis-2,3-dicarboxylic acid

Electrocyclic reaction product of 1-(methoxycarbonyl)-1,2-dihydropyridine was stereospecifically converted by RuO(4) oxidation into azetidine-cis-2,3-dicarboxylic acid.     

Synthesis of derivatives of pyrazine-2,3-dicarboxylic acids and pyrazine-2,3-dicarbonamides from 2,3-dichloroquinoxaline

The synthesis of dimethyl 2,3-dichloropyrazine-5,6-dicarboxylate from dichloroquinoxaline has been effected. The nucleophilic substitution reactions of the compound obtained have been studied.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 11, pp. 1548–1551, November, 1973.     

Cycloaddition reactions of dihapto-coordinated furans

Complexes of the type [TpRe(CO)(L)(eta(2)-furan)], where Tp = hydridotris(pyrazolyl)borate and L = PMe(3) (1) or (t)BuNC (2), undergo dipolar cycloadditions with TCNE (tetracyanoethylene) to afford 7-oxabicycloheptene complexes 3 and 4, respectively. The corresponding 2-methylfuran complexes (5 and 7) for these L ligands give similar methyloxabicycloheptene complexes (6 and 8), with a diastereomer ratio >20:1 for 8. For L = N-methylimidazole (MeIm, 9), TCNE oxidizes the complex, but cycloadditions can be achieved with DMAD (dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate) as the electrophile. Three complexes are observed: one in which DMAD undergoes a cycloaddition with the carbonyl ylide form of the complex (10C), and two complexes that are coordination diastereomers where DMAD has undergone a formal [2+2] cycloaddition with the uncoordinated double bond of the 4,5-eta(2)-furan ligand (10B and 10A). With the imidazole complex of 2-methylfuran (11), only the [2+2] products (12B and 12A) are observed. In the case of the 2,5-dimethylfuran complex (L = MeIm, 13), which is formed as a single coordination diastereomer, only one [2+2] product is observed (14), the structure of which was confirmed by X-ray crystallography. Oxidative decomplexation of 14 results in liberation of the free oxabicyclo[3.2.0]heptadiene 15, which can be thermally converted to the corresponding oxepin 16 in 70% yield.     

Cycloaddition reactions of 3-vinylthiophen

Cycloaddition reactions between 3-vinylthiophen and the dienophiles maleic anhydride, methyl acrylate, dimethyl acetylene - dicarboxylate, and methyl propiolate give products including methyl benzo[b]thiophen-7-carboxylate (11) and its dihydroderivative (10), the 6,7-dicarboxylic acid (3), its dimethyl ester (7) and dihydroester (6); the naphtho[a,b]dithiophen (14), and the novel ethano bridged benzo[b]thiophen (15).     

Cycloaddition reactions of 2-vinylthiophen

Cycloaddition reactions between 2-vinylthiophen and the dienophiles maleic anhydride, dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate,' methyl propiolate, and methyl acrylate, are reported. Products include simple benzo[b]thiophen carboxylates (6, 13, 17) and reduced derivatives (3, 4, 18). The acetylenic dienophiles also gave a dihydrobenzthienyl-acrylate (16) or -fumarate (11), and the dithienylcyclohexene esters (7) and (14).     

Cycloaddition reactions of 3-fluorobutenone

3-Fluorobutenone (8) reacted as a dienophile with several dienes 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 to give cycloaddition products in moderate yields. The regio- and stereoselectivity of the reactions are given. Compound 8 is slightly less reactive than methyl vinyl ketone.