Regio- and Stereoselectivity in the Reductions of Cyclic Enedione Systems
摘要:
Reductions of cyclic enedione substrates by NaBH4 and by LiAl(O-t-Bu)(3)H very predominantly gave monoreduction products with very high regio- and stereoselectivity. The reductions involved axial delivery of the hydride. The results indicated that electronic factors were dominated by steric considerations in the transition state of the reduction, even though the seemingly more encumbered carbonyl was reduced.
A marked acceleration property for the Diels-Alder reaction was observed in an aqueous micellar system composed of perfluorohexane and lithium perfluorooctanesulfonate. The reaction rate increased with the concentration of the equimolar mixture of PFH and LiFOS, and the rate in 500 mM PFH and 500 mM LiFOS was about 100-fold greater than that in water without the fluorous field. After completion of the reaction, the products were simply extracted from the aqueous reaction mixture using n-hexane.