Substituent effects on the photorearrangements of 4-alkoxy-4-carbomethoxy-3-methoxy-2,5-cyclohexadien-1-ones
                                
                                    
                                        作者:Arthur G. Schultz、Roger E. Harrington                                    
                                    
                                        DOI:10.1021/jo00022a033
                                    
                                    
                                        日期:1991.10
                                    
                                    Enantiomerically enriched 4-carbomethoxy-3,4-dimethoxy-2,5-cyclohexadien-1-one (1) undergoes a completely diastereoselective (but not enantiospecific) type A photorearrangement at 366 nm to give 6-carbomethoxy-4,6-dimethoxybicyclo[3.1.0(1,5)]hex-3-en-2-one (2) in 81% isolated yield.  A chiral NMR shift study indicates that 1 undergoes partial loss of absolute configuration at C(4) during irradiation.  Bicyclohexenone 2 is photostable at 366 nm but rearranges to its diastereoisomer 3 and phenols 4 and 5 at > 300 nm.  It is proposed that ground-state conformational effects control the type A photoreactivity of 1 and that rearrangement to 2 occurs in accord with the principle of least motion in the transition states for rearrangements to diastereomerically related zwitterions 1a and 1b (Scheme III).  The intramolecular 2 + 2 photocycloaddition of 4-carbomethoxy-3-methoxy-4-(1'-oxa-3'-butenyl)-2,5-cyclohexadien-1-one (9) gives a mixture of 7-oxatricyclodecenones 10 (58%) and 11 (18%), without interference from type A photoreactivity.