Oxepanes from an unusual acetal cleavage of 6,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octanes
作者:Scott D. Rychnovsky、Vilas H. Dahanukar
DOI:10.1016/0040-4039(95)02167-1
日期:1996.1
On treatment with BF3·OEt2 and TMSCN, epoxy ketone 1 cyclized to the bicyclic acetal 2, which then cleaved to give primarily the oxepane 5 as a single stereoisomer. Reductive decyanation of 5 led to the oxepane 7, a structural unit present in the brevetoxin family of natural products. The scope and limitations of this reaction sequence were investigated.
The composition and chemistry of the mixed higher-order cuprates (PhMe2Si)m(CH3)nCu(CN)Li(m+n)
作者:Robert D. Singer、Allan C. Oehlschlager
DOI:10.1021/jo00011a013
日期:1991.5
Low-temperature Si-29, C-13, and H-1 NMR spectroscopic techniques were used to probe the nature of THF solutions of cuprates derived from PhMe2SiLi, MeLi, and CuCN in the stoichiometric ratios 1:1:1, 2:1:1, and 1:2:1 (Si:Me:Cu). Unlike the corresponding mixed stannyl systems that yield R3Sn(R)2CuLi2 when the ratio of stannyl anion:alkyl anion:cuprous ion is 1:2:1, these mixed silyl systems only form R3Si(R)Cu(CN)Li2. Solutions wherein the ratio of silyl anion and alkyl anion to cuprous ion is greater than 2:1 contain alkyllithium uncoordinated with cuprous ion. The most striking result is the preferential displacement of RLi when R3SiLi is added to solutions of R3Si(R)Cu(CN)Li2 or R2Cu(CN)Li2. These mixed metallocuprate solutions preferentially transfer the PhMe2Si moiety in reactions with alpha,beta-unsaturated enones and other unsaturated organic substrates. However, the mixed alkylsilylcuprate (PhMe2Si)(CH3)Cu(CN)Li2 reacts with 1,2-epoxyoctane to afford up to 31% of the methylated alcohol. Frontier orbital analysis of both the predominant cuprates species and preferential ligand transfer provides a rationale for the observed behavior.
Identification and synthesis of new bicyclic acetals from the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae hopkins (Col.: Scol.)
Head-space volatiles obtained from male mountain pine beetles, Dendroctonus ponderosae, were analyzed by coupled CC-MS and chiral gas chromatography. 5-Ethyl-7-methyl-6,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1] (6) was found as a new naturally occurring isomer of brevicomin (1). In addition, several stereoisomers of 7-ethyl-5-methyl-6,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1] (11) and 1-(5-methyl-6,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octyl)ethanol (12) could be identified. Relative and absolute configurations of the compounds were determined by unambiguous syntheses, which are described. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd