Rhodium(II)-catalyzed cyclization of 2-alkynyl 2-diazo-3-oxobutanoates as a method for synthesizing substituted furans
作者:Albert Padwa、Frederick R. Kinder
DOI:10.1021/jo00053a009
日期:1993.1
A series of 2-alkynyl 2-diazo-3-oxobutanoates, when treated with a catalytic quantity of rhodium(II) acetate, were found to produce furo[3,4-c]furans in good yield. The reaction proceeds by addition of a rhodium-stabilized carbenoid onto the acetylenic pi-bond to give a vinyl carbenoid which subsequently cyclizes onto the neighboring carbonyl group to produce the furan ring. In a similar manner, indeno[1,2-c]furans were produced from 2-butynyl 2-diazoarylacetates. Compounds substituted with methyl groups on the propargylic carbon atom cyclized at a slower rate. This rate diminution is attributed to the fact that the unsubstituted propargyl group can more easily achieve the required conformation for cyclization. C-H insertion was found to compete with furan formation when an alkyl group was attached to the keto functionality of the starting diazo acetoacetate. Diazo alkynyl sulfones undergo a novel oxygen transfer reaction when treated with rhodium(II) acetate at 80-degrees-C. The cyclized product is formed by sulfone oxygen attack onto the vinyl carbenoid producing a dipolar species which subsequently collapses to give the butenolide sulfoxide.