Epo×ide of a ketene acetal. The first 2,2-dialko×yo×irane to be isolated
作者:Malgorzata Dawid、Paul C. Venneri、John Warkentin
DOI:10.1139/cjc-79-2-110
日期:——
Dimethoxycarbene, generated at 110 degreesC in benzene by thermolysis of 2,2-dimethoxy-5,5-dimethyl-Delta (3)-1,3,4- oxadiazoline, reacted with cyclohexanone to afford 2,2-dimethoxyspiro[2.5]-1-oxaoctane. It is the first oxirane of a ketene acetal that could be isolated and characterized by H-1 NMR-, C-13 NMR-, and IR spectroscopy. The identical oxirane might be expected from conrotatory cyclization of the appropriate carbonyl ylide. That ylide was generated under identical conditions by thermolysis of an oxadiazoline precursor (3,4-diaza-2,2-dimethoxy-1-oxaspiro[4.5]dec-3-ene) (14). The ylide could either cyclize or fragment to dimethoxycarbene and cyclohexanone. Addition of 4-tert-butylcyclohexanone, to trap dimethoxycarbene in competition with the cyclohexanone generated from 14 and, to leave the ylide closure pathway as the only route to the oxirane, showed that the carbonyl ylide does cyclize. However, fragmentation of the carbonyl ylide is relatively fast compared to its cyclization and most of it fragments to dimethoxycarbene and cyclohexanone. Oxirane formation from the carbene and ketone is probably either a concerted cycloaddition or it occurs in two steps, by nucleophilic attack at the carbonyl carbon to form the C-C bond first, prior to ring closure. If the carbene is bonded first to O of the carbonyl group, as it is in the carbonyl ylide, subsequent formation of the C-C bond is too slow, relative to fragmentation of the ylide, to afford the oxirane ring efficiently.