Regioselective Synthesis and Diels−Alder Reaction of 3,4-Dimethylpenta-1,3-diene. Conformational Study of Bicyclic Adducts Structures by <sup>1</sup>H NMR (NOESY, ASIS) and Molecular Modeling (MM2, AM1, RHF, and DFT)
作者:Pascal Gosselin、Christophe Bourdy、Stéphane Mille、Angélique Perrotin
DOI:10.1021/jo991173d
日期:1999.12.1
A three-step, regioselective synthesis of 3,4-dimethylpenta-1,3-diene 1 has been developed. The condensation of acetone diethylacetal with ethyl propenyl ether yielded, after hydrolysis of the resulting triethoxy adduct 10, 2,3-dimethyl-2-butenal 7. Wittig reaction of 7 with methylenetriphenylphosphorane afforded desired diene 1 in 31% overall yield, easily scalable to the 10 g level, Diels-Alder reaction of 1 with maleic anhydride in benzene was known to afford a 50:50 mixture of "normal" (2) and "rearranged" (3) adducts. In THF as solvent, 2 has been reproducibly obtained in over 90% yield as a 98:2 mixture with 3. H-1 NMR spectroscopy (NOESY, ASIS) and molecular modeling (MM2, AM1, ab initio) have been used jointly to determine the conformation of 2 and 3, All are consistent with a folded structure of "rearranged" 3. On the other hand, only RHF/6-31G* and B3LYP/6-31G* ab initio models were in agreement with NMR spectroscopy for an extended conformation of adduct 2. In this case, neither MM2 nor AM1 models gave results consistent with NMR: discrepancies as high as 30 degrees were noted for some dihedrals between these models and ab initio ones.