Efficient synthesis of vinyl ethers of spiroquinol ketals and their high-yield photochemical oxygen-to-carbon [1,3]-shift to spiro-fused 2,5-cyclohexadienones
摘要:
An efficient route to spiroquinol vinyl ethers involves addition of a 1-lithio-2-(trimethylsilyl)acetylene-substituted benzene to the monoethylene ketal of benzoquinone followed by desilylation/cyclization of the resulting product to give vinyl ethers of spiroquinol ketals. A high-yield photochemical conversion of these vinyl ethers of spiroquinol ketals to ketals of spiro-fused 2,5-cyclohexadienones has been developed. A complication in some of these photochemical reactions is formation of secondary products from light absorbed by the product, spiro dienone ketals. This has been solved by conducting the reaction in the presence of piperylene, which quenches the triplet-state chemistry of the product spiro dienone ketal without altering the singlet excited-state chemistry of the quinol ketal vinyl ether. The quantum yield for the photochemical [1,3]-shift reaction in a methyl-substituted vinyl ether is 0.4. Finally, irradiation of quinol spiro vinyl ethers was also observed to give spiro dienones in good yields. Although the spiro dienone is absorbing light in competition with starting quinol vinyl ether in this system, a high yield of product was obtained. The unexpected photochemical stability of these spiro dienones is discussed. The chemistry reported herein establishes an efficient high-yield route to spiro-fused 2,5-cyclohexadienones and their ketals under very mild conditions.
Spiro-fused 2,5-cyclohexadienones from thermal 1,3-shifts in quinol vinyl ethers. Reactions in nonbenzenoid systems and limitations of the chemistry
摘要:
Addition of functionalized organolithium compounds to quinone monoketals furnished 4-hydroxy-2,5-cyclo-hexadienone derivatives. The 4-hydroxyl group of these molecules was then transformed into a vinyl ether, and the thermal [1,3]-shift chemistry of these functionalized vinyl ethers was studied. In dienone derivatives wherein a [3,3]-sigmatropic shift was not stereoelectronically possible, these molecules underwent thermal and photochemical [1,3]-oxygen-to-carbon migration, affording spiro-2,5-cyclohexadienones in good yield. However, for compounds in which the [3,3]-shift involving the vinyl ether was possible, this reaction occurred at or below room temperature. 1,5-Cyclooctadienebis(methyldiphenylphosphine)iridium hexafluorophosphate was found to be an especially efficient catalyst for the allyl-to-vinyl ether isomerization in these systems.