A series of perfluoroalkylated indenes has been synthesized using four different synthetic pathways. 1-(Pentafluoroethyl)indene and 2-(pentafluoroethyl)indene were prepared by the addition of (pentafluoroethyl)lithium to the appropriate ketones and subsequent dehydration. 2-(Trifluoromethyl)indene was synthesized through the photoinduced addition of trifluoromethyl iodide to indene, followed by dehydroiodination. 1-(Trifluoromethyl)indene was prepared by the addition of (trifluoromethyl)trimethylsilane to 1-indanone followed by deprotection and dehydration and by the sigmatropic cyclization of the appropriate phenylvinyl carbocation. This latter approach was also used to synthesize 1,3-bis(trifluoromethyl)indene and 1,2,3-tris(trifluoromethyl)indene.
Regioselective Nucleophilic 1,4-Trifluoromethylation of 2-Polyfluoroalkylchromones with (Trifluoromethyl)trimethylsilane. Synthesis of Fluorinated Analogs of Natural 2,2-Dimethylchroman-4-ones and 2,2-Dimethylchromenes
作者:Vyacheslav Ya. Sosnovskikh、Boris I. Usachev、Dmitri V. Sevenard、Gerd-Volker Röschenthaler
DOI:10.1021/jo034591y
日期:2003.10.1
Reactions of 2-polyfluoroalkylchromones with (perfluoroalkyl)trimethylsilanes proceed as a 1,4-nucleophilic perfluoroalkylation to give 2,2-bis(polyfluoroalkyl)chroman-4-ones with high regioselectivity and good yields after acid hydrolysis. Oxidation of 6-methyl-2,2-bis(trifluoromethyl)chroman-4-one with a mixture of K2S2O8 and CuSO4 in aqueous acetonitrile leads to fluorinated analogues of natural lactarochromal and the corresponding acid. Reduction of substituted 2,2-bis(trifluoromethyl)chroman-4-one with sodium borohydride in methanol and subsequent dehydration of chromanols in refluxing xylene in the presence of p-toluene sulfonic acid gives 2,2-bis(trifluoromethyl)chromenes, which are fluorinated analogues of natural precocenes.