Titanocene-catalyzed cascade cyclization of epoxypolyprenes: straightforward synthesis of terpenoids by free-radical chemistry |
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Authors: | Justicia José Rosales Antonio Buñuel Elena Oller-López Juan L Valdivia Mónica Haïdour Ali Oltra J Enrique Barrero Alejandro F Cárdenas Diego J Cuerva Juan M |
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Affiliation: | Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Granada, 18071, Spain. |
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Abstract: | The titanocene-catalyzed cascade cyclization of epoxypolyenes, which are easily prepared from commercially available polyprenoids, has proven to be a useful procedure for the synthesis of C(10), C(15), C(20), and C(30) terpenoids, including monocyclic, bicyclic, and tricyclic natural products. Both theoretical and experimental evidence suggests that this cyclization takes place in a nonconcerted fashion via discrete carbon-centered radicals. Nevertheless, the termination step of the process seems to be subjected to a kind of water-dependent control, which is unusual in free-radical chemistry. The catalytic cycle is based on the use of the novel combination Me(3)SiCl/2,4,6-collidine to regenerate the titanocene catalyst. In practice this procedure has several advantages: it takes place at room temperature under mild conditions compatible with different functional groups, uses inexpensive reagents, and its end step can easily be controlled to give exocyclic double bonds by simply excluding water from the medium. |
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Keywords: | cyclization domino reactions homogeneous catalysis radical reactions titanium |
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