Friedel–Crafts Reaction of Activated Benzene Rings with Captodative and Electron‐Deficient Alkenes. A One‐Step Synthesis of the Natural Product Methyl 3‐(2,4,5‐Trimethoxyphenyl)propionate
摘要:
Electrophilic aromatic substitution of activated benzenes with the captodative olefin 1-acetylvinyl-1-p-nitrobenzoate (9), and with the electron-deficient alkenes methyl acrylate (8a), methylvinylketone (8b), and acrolein (8c) were evaluated under Lewis acid catalysis. Olefin 9 proved to be much more reactive than alkenes 8a-8c. We also describe a one-step synthesis of the antifungal and larvicidal natural product methyl 3-(2,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)propionate (6), by reaction of 1,2,4-trimethoxybenzene with 8a under microwave irradiation.
Friedel–Crafts Reaction of Activated Benzene Rings with Captodative and Electron‐Deficient Alkenes. A One‐Step Synthesis of the Natural Product Methyl 3‐(2,4,5‐Trimethoxyphenyl)propionate
摘要:
Electrophilic aromatic substitution of activated benzenes with the captodative olefin 1-acetylvinyl-1-p-nitrobenzoate (9), and with the electron-deficient alkenes methyl acrylate (8a), methylvinylketone (8b), and acrolein (8c) were evaluated under Lewis acid catalysis. Olefin 9 proved to be much more reactive than alkenes 8a-8c. We also describe a one-step synthesis of the antifungal and larvicidal natural product methyl 3-(2,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)propionate (6), by reaction of 1,2,4-trimethoxybenzene with 8a under microwave irradiation.
Synthesis of α-ketols by functionalization of captodative alkenes and divergent preparation of heterocycles and natural products
作者:Daniel Zárate-Zárate、Raúl Aguilar、R. Israel Hernández-Benitez、Ehecatl M. Labarrios、Francisco Delgado、Joaquín Tamariz
DOI:10.1016/j.tet.2015.07.010
日期:2015.9
Captodative alkene 1-acetylvinyl p-nitrobenzenecarboxylate 1a was evaluated for its reactivity in Lewis acid-catalyzed Michael additions with functionalized benzene rings and heterocycles, leading to diverse conjugated addition adducts. The hydrolysis of the latter resulted in the desired functionalized a-ketols, including natural alkaloid actinopolymorphol B (24a). The alpha-ketol core structure of these compounds was used as the building block for the synthesis of the natural alkaloid tanakine (25) and for the divergent construction of highly substituted heterocycles, such as 4-oxazolin-2-ones and butenolides, and their respective fused polycyclic derivatives. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.