Rh/Cu-Catalyzed Cascade [4+2] Vinylic C−H <i>O</i>
-Annulation and Ring Contraction of α-Aryl Enones with Alkynes in Air
作者:Yinsong Zhao、Shiqing Li、Xuesong Zheng、Junbin Tang、Zhijie She、Ge Gao、Jingsong You
DOI:10.1002/anie.201612147
日期:2017.4.3
An unprecedented Rh‐catalyzed ketone‐directed vinylic C−H activation/[4+2] O‐annulation of α‐aryl enones with internal alkynes followed by a Cu‐catalyzed ring contraction in air to provide multiaryl‐substituted furan derivatives has been developed. The preliminary mechanism study identifies the active pyryliumsalt as the key intermediate.
The palladium-catalyzed desilylation-arylation of substituted vinylsilanes by p-iodoanisole in the presence of bidentate phosphine ligands is described. Apart from enhancing the rate of the reaction considerably, heteroatom-based functional groups in the vinylsilane moiety have a profound influence on the regiochemistry. A catalytic cycle for the chelation-controlled desilylation-arylation reaction
A highly efficient asymmetric hydrogenation of α-substituted α,β-unsaturated acyclic ketones catalyzed by chiral spiro iridium complexes for the preparation of chiral 2-substituted allylicalcohols has been developed (ee up to 99.7%). This method provides a concise route to (−)-mesembrine (34% yield, 12 steps).
Reaction of a series of (E)-3-phenyl-4-(p-substituted phenyl)-3-buten-2-ones with p-sulfamylphenyl hydrazine in glacial acetic acid gave the corresponding hydrazones, subsequent treatment of which with 30% HCl afforded pyrazole-1-sulphonamides. On the other hand, refluxing of chalcones with either thiosemicarbazide or isonicotinic acid hydrazide in ethanol containing a few drops of acetic acid gave pyrazoline-1-thiocarboxamides and isonicotinoyl pyrazolines, respectively. The structures of the synthesized compounds were determined on the basis of their elemental analyses and spectroscopic data. The antimicrobial activity of the newly isolated heterocyclic compounds was evaluated against Gram-positive, Gram-negative bacteria and fungi. Most of the compounds showed a moderate degree of potent antimicrobial activity.
Singlet Photochemistry of Vinyl Cyclopropenes: Regioselectivity and Mechanism; Mechanistic and Exploratory Organic Photochemistry
作者:Howard E. Zimmerman、David W. Wilson
DOI:10.1021/jo00108a036
日期:1995.2
A study of the direct photochemistry of 1-anisyl-2-phenyl-3-methyl-3-isobutenylcyclopropene (5) was pursued with the objective of elucidating the reaction regioselectivity and casting light on alternative reaction mechanisms for this reaction known to afford cyclopentadienes. Two mechanisms had previously been advanced-one proceeding by an initial three-ring bond fission to afford an intermediate vinyl carbene and the other by vinyl-vinyl bonding to afford a housane diradical intermediate. The two reaction mechanisms predict different reaction regiochemistry. The experimental observation in the case of vinylcyclopropene 5 was a preference for formation of that product in which the C1-C3 three-ring single bond is severed to give an anisyl-substituted carbene. Then bonding occurs between the isobutenyl moiety and the carbene center. CASSCF computations mere run on S-1 of the reactant cyclopropene as well as S-0 and S-1 of the two regioisomeric carbenes. The preferred carbene, both in the ground state and the first excited singlet, was that having the anisyl group on the carbene center. The S-1 carbenes were Linear at the carbene center while the S-0 carbenes were bent. The aryl group at the carbene center of S-1 preferred to overlap with a pentadienyl pi-system. The lower energy of the excited singlet carbenes with anisyl at the carbene center accounts for the regioselectivity of opening with internal conversion occurring during or subsequent to bond stretching.