摘要:
While bromination of gamma-tocopherol (2) with elemental bromine affords 5-bromo-gamma-tocopherol quantitatively (3), the analogous reaction of its truncated model compound, 2,2,7,8-tetramethylchromanol (2a) is known to be accompanied by side reactions and to produce hitherto unknown byproducts. These compounds originate from pyrano[3,2-f]chromene (6), a byproduct in the synthesis of model compound 2a, which affords bromochromene 7 as the major product. The reaction mechanism was shown to proceed via chromene 8 and its 1,2-dibromo addition compound 9, which eliminates HBr in an E1 process to finally afford 7. Analytical data including crystal structures of both 6 and 7 are reported. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.