Zur Reaktionsweise von Enaminen mit Cyclopropenonen IV. Einsatz von Ketenacetalen

A new interpretation – based on a reevaluation of the spectroscopic properties of products 16 to 27 – is proposed for the reaction of diphenyl-cyclopropen-one 14 and -thione 15 with ketene-A, N-diacetals 8 to 13 (A ? R₂N, RO and RS) originally reported by Sauer & Krapf. It is concluded that the previous structural assignments (see the a-structures), made on the assumption of a prevailing “C,C-insertion” reaction, must be rcplaced as follows: (1) All the “secondary adducts” are, in fact, derivatives (amides and lactams) of 2,3-diphenyl-penta-2, 4-dienoic acid and thioacid (structures 16b to 24b ); (2) the “isomerization products”, differ from the latter only in the configuration of the α,β-double bond (structures 25b and 26b ); (3) the common “hydrolysisproduct” is α,β-diphenyl-γ-methyl-γ-hydroxy-Δ^α-butenolide ( 27b ), The above cyclopropenone-ketcneacetal reactions represent, therefore, cases of “C, N-insertion”. This is rationalized with a reaction scheme, in which the “acylide” structure of the “primary adducts” plays a role.