Synthesis of nitrogen-containing polycycles via rhodium(II)-induced cyclization-cycloaddition and insertion reactions of N-(diazoacetoacetyl)amides. Conformational control of reaction selectivity
摘要:
A series of diazoacetoacetamides, when treated with a catalytic quantity of a rhodium(II) carboxylate, were found to afford products derived from both a carbonyl ylide intermediate and intramolecular C-H insertion. With 3-(N-(diazoacetoacetyl)amino)propanoate derivatives, the rhodium(II)-catalyzed carbenoid reactions exhibit a strong preference for formation of a beta-lactam ring. This is attributed to a conformational preference that juxtaposes the carbenoid center and the less sterically encumbered amide substituent and is consistent with an activating influence on the C-H bond adjacent to the amide nitrogen atom. Carbonyl ylide products derived from carbenoid cyclization onto the ester carbonyl group are also formed, and their relative yields are dependent on electronic influences from the bridging ligands of rhodium(II). Treatment of a series of cyclic diazoimides with rhodium(II) acetate resulted in cyclization of the rhodium carbenoid onto the adjacent imide carbonyl group to produce an isomunchnone dipole. Cyclization onto the imide carbonyl group occurs exclusively even when C-H insertion or aromatic substitution reactions of the carbenoid intermediate are favorable, and this selectivity is also attributed to conformational preferences that juxtapose the carbenoid center and imide carbonyl group. The isomunchnone dipole readily undergoes cycloaddition with several different dipolarophiles to give 1,3-dipolar cycloadducts. When acetylenic dipolarophiles were used as the trapping agents, the initial cycloadducts were found to undergo a [4 + 2]-cycloreversion, producing substituted furans in high yield. The generality of the method was demonstrated by varying the ring size of the cyclic imide. An analogous cyclization-cycloaddition reaction also occurred using diazoacetoacetyl-substituted ureas.
Transition‐Metal‐Free [4+3]‐Cycloaddition of
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‐Quinone Methides and Isomünchnones: Catalytic and Diastereoselective Assembly of Oxa‐bridged Oxazocine Scaffolds
between an in situ generated ortho‐quinonemethide and an isomünchnone to yield oxa‐bridged oxazocine cores, generating N2 and H2O as the sole by‐products. Using only catalytic amounts of camphorsulfonic acid, it is possible to generate both reactive intermediates in one step, eliminating the need for rhodium catalysts generally employed for isomünchnone formation. Spectroscopic data and X‐ray crystallography