Aryl vinyl cyclopropane Cope rearrangements

While the divinyl cyclopropane Cope rearrangement is well-known, and has been broadly applied in synthesis, examples of the aryl vinyl cyclopropane Cope rearrangement are less common and generally limited in scope or reaction yield. The aryl vinyl cyclopropane Cope rearrangement gives access to the benzocycloheptene scaffold, which is present in a variety of naturally occurring and medicinally relevant products. Herein we report a method to obtain either of two regioisomeric benzocycloheptene products via an aryl vinyl cyclopropane Cope rearrangement, featuring additive-controlled regioselectivity. Mechanistic studies indicate a dynamic equilibration of cyclopropane stereoisomers, followed by rearrangement of the cis diastereomer.     

A Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Biologically Interesting Cyclopropane Amines

The synthesis of cyclopropane amine has attracted considerable interest from organic chemists because of the biologically importance and its occurrence in numerous natural products¹. Several synthetic cyclopropane amines have been used as drugs, e.g. the monoamine oxidase inhibitor tranylcypromine (1)². However, it has been found that two enantiomers of chiral cyclopropane amine have different pharmacological effects³,which demands organic chemists to develop efficient methods to prepare them enantioselectively. Previous synthesis of enantiomerically pure cyclopropane amines involves resolution of racemic cyclopropane carboxylic acid followed by Curtius degradation⁴.     

Total synthesis of (+)-nakadomarin A

The total synthesis of (+)-nakadomarin A is described. A three-component cycloaddition of a hydroxylamine, aldehyde, and cyclopropane to form a highly functionalized tetrahydro-1,2-oxazine serves as the foundation for this synthesis. The resulting oxazine is formed as a single diastereomer with the absolute configuration being dictated by the chirality of the cyclopropane. Other key steps include: desymmetrization of a malonate by reduction, Heck cyclization and pyrrolidine formation, and ring-closing metathesis to form both cycloalkenes. Overall, the synthesis required 23 linear steps from the cyclopropane, which in turn is available (six steps) in optically pure form from commercially available d-mannitol.     

Palladium-catalyzed oxidative activation of arylcyclopropanes

Palladium chloride-catalyzed intramolecular activation of electroneutral cyclopropane derivatives results in cleavage of the cyclopropane ring followed by formation of heterocyclic derivatives. Phenols, carboxylic acids, and amide groups were considered as substituents ortho to the cyclopropane ring in this catalytic activation chemistry. The regioselectivity observed in the case of amide-containing substrates was different from that of carboxylic acid-containing substrates, ruling out simple cyclopropane isomerization followed by a Wacker oxidation as the mechanistic pathway. [reaction: see text]     

Reactions of methylated cyclopropanes and olefins with chloroplatinic acid. I. Diacylation and pyrylium ion formation

In contrast to cyclopropane itself, simple methyl-substituted cyclopropanes do not produce platinum insertion products upon reaction with chloroplatinic acid in acetic anhydride. Instead, the major products are aromatic heterocyclic cations, the pyrylium ions, which are formed as the result of diacylation of the cyclopropane ring and subsequent dehydration and ring closure to the aromatic heterocycle. Similar products are formed from the diacylation of certain olefins in the presence of chloroplatinic acid in anhydride solvents. The combination of solvent and substrate variations has led to a proposed mechanism for these reactions which demonstrates the essential and unique mole of platinum. In particular, the specific pyrylium ions produced are formed as a consequence of initial activation of the least-substituted cyclopropane ring bond by insertion of platinum, followed by acylation of platinum-bonded carbon, proton loss to a β,γ-unsaturated carbonyl, a second acylation, and, finally, ring closure.     

Fragmentation des aldehydes cyclopropaniques en spectrometrie de masse: Intervention d'interactions bifonctionnelles

The mass spectra of aliphatic aldehydes which contain a cyclopropane group included in the polymethylenic chain, in some instances, show two intense peaks, called A and B that are not encountered either in other cyclopropane-containing aliphatic compounds or in other aliphatic aldehydes. The intensity of peaks A and B is strictly dependent upon the distance between cyclopropane and aldehyde. When the number x of methylene groups between the two functions is equal to 4 or higher than 10, peaks A and B are intense, but when x is equal to 7, the peaks are small.Specific labelling shows that ion A contains the atoms of the cyclopropane ring, the polymethylenic chain between the two functions and the aldehyde function. Ion B also contains the aldehyde function and results from the expulsion of the polymethylenic interfunctional chain to which a hydrogen atom of the other part of the molecule is added. This hydrogen atom arises, to an extent of about 60%, from the methylene of the cyclopropane ring. A mechanism is proposed in which cyclization of the molecular ion occurs; ion A is obtained by direct α-cleavage to the ether function in the cyclic ion; ion B results from alternative ether-cleavage causing opening of the carbo-ring. One hydrogen from the cyclopropane ring is transferred leading to the elimination of the interfunctional chain.The fact that formulas of ions A and B correspond to [C_nH_2n-3O]⁺ and that their intensities are dependent of x make questionable any structural determination established only by mass spectral examination of cyclopropane aldehydes.     

A study of molecular motion in solid cyclopropane and cyclopropane clathrate deuterate by nuclear magnetic resonance absorption and relaxation methods

Proton magnetic resonance absorption and spin-lattice relaxation measurements have been carried out for cyclopropane clathrate deuterate from 77 to 290 K together with spin—lattice relaxation measurements on solid cyclopropane from 90 to 146 K. The absorption measurement for the type I structure deuterate indicates the presence of an isotropic rotation of the cyclopropane molecule from about 230 K, while in the type II structure deuterate isotropic rotation of the enclathrated cyclopropane is present over all of the range of stability of the clathrate (~250 to 278 K). The spin-lattice relaxation measurements give an activation energy of 0.83 ± 0.03 kcal mole^?1 for the barrier to reorientation (not assigned) of the cyclopropane molecules inside the clathrate deuterate cavities. In solid cyclopropane the barrier associated with the threefold axis rotation is found to be 4.8 ± 0.2 kcal mole^?1.     

Synthesis and some transformations of bicyclic γ-lactones with a fused cyclopropane ring

Reductive cyclization of 4-hydroxymethyl-5,5-dimethyl(or pentamethylene)-2,5-dihydrofuran-2-ones by the action of sodium tetrahydridoborate gave bicyclic compounds in which the lactone ring is fused to a cyclopropane ring. Hydrolysis of the products with aqueous sodium hydroxide resulted in the formation of the corresponding disodium cyclopropane-1,1-dicarboxylates, which reacted with alkyl halides to produce the diesters. Acid hydrolysis of the fused systems was accompanied by opening of the cyclopropane ring with formation of 4-chloromethyl-5,5-dimethyl-2-oxotetrahydrofuran-3-carboxylic acid.     

Synthesis of a novel tricyclic 4-quinolone. Incorporation of a spiro-cyclopropyl group at N1 by bridging to C2

An important pharmacophore in many quinolone antiinfectives is the N1 cyclopropane. By incorporating the cyclopropane into a N1 to C2 bridge, the first quinolone substrate incorporating a spiro fused cyclopropane, 8,9,10-trifluoro-2,3,4,6-tetrahydro-6-oxospiro[1H-benzo[c]quinolizine-1,l-cyclopropane]-5-carboxylic acid, ethyl ester ( 8 ), was prepared.     

Modular synthesis of a new family of tripodal ligands, all-cis-1,2,3-tris(diphenylphosphinomethyl)cyclopropane and relatives

Bisbenzyl-protected all-cis-1,2,3-tris(hydroxymethyl)cyclopropane has been obtained in three steps from commercially available cis-2-butene-1,4-diol (75% overall yield) and used to prepare a number of all-cis-1,2,3-trisubstituted cyclopropane derivatives. Among them, the new tripodal ligand all-cis-tris(diphenylphosphinomethyl)cyclopropane (TriCyp-PPP) has been demonstrated to furnish-with pi-allylpalladium chloride dimer-a highly active catalyst for the allylation of diethyl methylmalonate enolate with allyl acetate.     

Synthesis and cross-coupling reactions of 7-azaindoles via a new donor-acceptor cyclopropane

[reaction: see text] A new type of donor-acceptor cyclopropane has been prepared from commercially available cyclopropane-1,1-diesters. This cyclopropane reacts with triflic anhydride to produce an isolable tristrifloxy intermediate which when treated with primary amines gives 6-trifloxy-7-azaindolines which in turn can be dehydrogenated to the azaindoles. The 6-trifloxy substituent can be used to introduce diversity at this position via a variety of cross-coupling reactions thus preparing potentially interesting compounds based on the important 7-azaindole pharmacophore.     

Bonding Properties of Cyclopropane and Their Chemical Consequences

Among the cyclic compounds of carbon, cyclopropane and its derivatives are outstanding by virtue of their unusual structural, spectroscopic, and chemical properties. The cyclopropane ring more closely resembles the C?C double bond than the cyclobutane ring: it is a small ring with “double bond character”. Cyclopropyl and vinyl groups interact with neighbouring π-electron systems and p-electron centers; both cyclopropane derivatives and olefins form metal complexes, and add strong acids, halogens, and ozone; they both undergo catalytic hydrogenation and cycloadditions. While distinct differences in reactivity do exist–the double bond usually being more reactive than the three-membered ring–there are no fundamental differences in behavior.–Although cyclopropane derivatives have been known for more than 90 years, intensive studies have been limited to the past 25 years. The development of carbene chemistry has rendered cyclopropane derivatives far more readily accessible. In recent years, the synthetic potential of the small-ring function has been increasingly exploited. A considerable number of newly developed methods utilizing this approach clearly demonstrates that the reactivity of the cyclopropene ring, like that of the C?C double bond, qualify it as a “functional carbon group”. This development is in full swing; we may therefore justifiably devote considerable effort to the study of cyclopropane chemistry.     

Chemistry of pleuromutilins - 12 : A cyclopropyl conjugated system within the tricyclic skeleton of the diterpene pleuromutilin: formation and synthetic use

The conversion of γ-substituted enol ethers to conjugated cyclopropyl ketones which are part of the skeleton of pleuromutilin is described. The nucleophilic opening of the cyclopropane ring is shown to proceed in a highly stereospecific manner. The cyclopropane bond which is cleaved (C₈-C₄) is the one exhibiting the maximum overlap with the π-orbital of the carbonyl group. This reaction offers a convenient method for the stereospecific introduction of an equatorial fluorine at C₈.     

Can relief of ring-strain in a cyclopropylmethyllithium drive the Brook rearrangement?

α-Cyclopropyl-α-trialkylsilyl alkoxides were formed either by addition of cyclopropyllithiums to acylsilanes or by addition of organolithiums to a cyclopropylformylsilane. [1,2]-Brook rearrangement led to α-silyloxy organolithiums which on warming underwent cyclopropane ring opening and [1,5]-retro-Brook rearrangement to yield γ-silyl ketones. Despite the favourability of the cyclopropane ring opening, the Brook rearrangement still required the presence of an anion stabilising group to proceed. β-Silylketones were similarly formed by Brook-retro-Brook rearrangement on warming acylsilanes with a vinyllithium.     

Dynamic equilibrium between dissociation and regeneration of the C-C bond in trispiro-conjoined cyclopropane compound

-The oxidation of 2,2-di(3,5-di-t-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)indan-1,3-dione by potassium hexacyanoferrate(III) afforded a trispiro-conjoined cyclopropane compound due to the bond formation between the ipso-carbons. Its cyclopropane ring was found to exist in solution in dynamic equilibrium with biradical species by the dissociation of the C-C bond, which is as long as 1.595 Å as revealed by X-ray crystal analysis.     

Studies on the Steroids of Marine Sponge(Ⅳ)──Steroids from the Marine Sponge Biemna Sp.

Reported here is identification of a 7-en-sterol and a 5-en-sterol which containsa cyclopropane ring in its side chain and is separated from the South China Seasponge Biemna sp..This leads to the isolation and identification of twelve sterols inthis marine sponge by using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)analysis.The occurrence of 7-en-sterol and 5-en-sterol with a cyclopropane ring inits side chain from the south China Sea sponge was first reported here.     

A Concise and Versatile Synthesis of Alkaloids from Kopsia tenuis: Total Synthesis of (±)‐Lundurine A and B

A total synthesis of (±)‐lundurines A and B is described. These natural products have a unique hexacyclic skeleton which includes a cyclopropane‐fused indoline. A stereospecific construction of the pentasubstituted cyclopropane core was achieved, by radical cyclization using SmI₂, with perfect stereoselectivity. Cyclizations to give seven‐ and five‐membered heterocycles, under palladium and ruthenium catalysis, respectively, accomplished the total syntheses. The late‐stage construction of the F ring by ring‐closing metathesis enabled access to the title compounds from a spiroindoline intermediate which is a common structure of other kopsia alkaloids.     

The kinetics of the solvolysis of propylene and cyclopropane in concentrated aqueous sulfuric acid relative energies of the 2-propyl cation and protonated cyclopropane

The rates of solvolysis of propylene and cyclopropane in 6.49M H₂SO₄ have been measured as a function of temperature. From the data, calculations of the relative heats of formation in solution of the 2-propyl cation and protonated cyclopropane have been made. The heat of formation of protonated cyclopropane has been found to be 6.4 kcal/mol greater than that of the 2-propyl cation. The implications of this result are discussed.     

Rhodium‐Catalyzed [3+2+2] and [2+2+2] Cycloadditions of Two Alkynes with Cyclopropylideneacetamides

It has been established that a cationic rhodium(I)/H₈‐binap complex catalyzes the [3+2+2] cycloaddition of 1,6‐diynes with cyclopropylideneacetamides to produce cycloheptadiene derivatives through cleavage of cyclopropane rings. In contrast, a cationic rhodium(I)/(S)‐binap complex catalyzes the enantioselective [2+2+2] cycloaddition of terminal alkynes, acetylenedicarboxylates, and cyclopropylideneacetamides to produce spiro‐cyclohexadiene derivatives which retain the cyclopropane rings.     

Halonium-initiated C-O bond formation via umpolung of α-carbon to the carbonyl: efficient access to 5-amino-3(2H)-furanones

Highly efficient C-O bond formation has been developed via carboxylic acid catalyzed reaction of 1-acetylcyclopropanecarboxamides with N-halosuccinimide (NXS), which provides strategically novel and atom-economic access to biologically important 5-amino-3(2H)-furanones. The mechanism of halonium-initiated tandem oxa-cyclization and ring opening of cyclopropane was proposed. A variety of nucleophiles were found to open the cyclopropane.