ChemInform Abstract: Studies on the Transannular Diels-Alder Reaction of 15-Membered Macrocyclic Trienes Containing a trans-trans Diene. Part 2. Evidence for Unsymmetrical Transition States in the Formation of A.B.C.(6.6.7) Tricyclic Products.

ChemInform ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (18) ◽  
pp. no-no
Author(s):  
D. G. HALL ◽  
R. MUELLER ◽  
P. DESLONGCHAMPS
1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (10) ◽  
pp. 1675-1694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis G. Hall ◽  
Renate Müller ◽  
Pierre Deslongchamps

The transannular Diels–Alder reaction of 15-membered macrocyclic trienes with a trans-trans-cis (TTC) olefin geometry can lead to A.B.C.[6.6.7] tricyclic products of trans-syn-trans (TST) and cis-syn-cis (CSC) stereochemistry whereas the TTT isomers can produce the trans-anti-cis (TAC) and cis-anti-trans (CAT) tricycles. In order to study the influence of the position (pro-6.6 or pro-6.7) and the nature (alkyl, alkoxymethyl, or formyl) of the dienophile substituent, a set of 10 model cyclopentadecatrienes was prepared. The synthesis of appropriately functionalized trisubstituted dienophile and diene synthons, as well as their coupling reactions affording acyclic precursors, is described in this paper (first in a series of two). A mild and efficient macrocyclization protocol yielded the required methyl- or alkoxymethyl-substituted cyclic substrates. Further transformations led to the formyl-substituted ones. In particular, the TTT macrocycles containing an enal as a dienophile could be completely isomerized to the corresponding TTC thermodynamic isomers in acidic aqueous media. Keywords: transannular, Diels–Alder, 15-membered ring, A.B.C.[6.6.7] tricycles, diterpene.


1976 ◽  
Vol 98 (8) ◽  
pp. 2190-2198 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Townshend ◽  
G. Ramunni ◽  
G. Segal ◽  
W. J. Hehre ◽  
L. Salem

2008 ◽  
Vol 86 (7) ◽  
pp. 737-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Henry Werstiuk ◽  
Wojciech Sokol

We have undertaken a QTAIM–DI–VISAB computational study of the dimerization of cyclopentadiene (1), the archetypal example of a Diels–Alder reaction that has been studied experimentally and computationally. Secondary orbital interactions (SOIs) that have gained acceptance in the interpretation of stereoselectivities seen in many cycloaddition reactions have been used to account for the fact that the endo isomer was the kinetic product of the reaction. To this point, “classical” MO analyses along with a variety of arbitrarily assigned solid and dashed lines (solid lines and bold dashes for “primary” interactions and dashed and dotted lines to differentiate between different SOI schemes) have been used in an attempt to describe the bonding of the transition states. Yet, the existence of SOIs has been challenged. Our interest in applying QTAIM to fundamental chemical problems in physical organic chemistry, with the goal of refining our knowledge of the bonding in transition-states and ground-state molecules while obviating the need to use a variety of confusing arbitrarily assigned dashed and dotted lines, led us to a QTAIM–DI–VISAB computational study of the endo and exo dimerizations of 1 at the DFT B3PW91 and MPW1PW91 levels. We have characterized the bonding interactions between cyclopentadiene rings in the various transition states and show that “normal” bonds are present where SOIs have been considered to exist. There is no need to use different types of dashed and dotted lines. An analysis of the changes in atom energies revealed that the significant destabilization of the carbon atoms in achieving the TSs (potentially leading to a very high barrier) is ameliorated by a stabilization of the hydrogen atoms leading to the relatively low barrier for the D–A reaction.Key words: cyclopentadiene dimerization, bispericyclic transition states, DFT calculations, QTAIM–DI–VISAB analysis, bonding, atom energy analysis.


1976 ◽  
Vol 7 (27) ◽  
pp. no-no
Author(s):  
R. E. TOWNSHEND ◽  
G. RAMUNNI ◽  
G. SEGAL ◽  
W. J. HEHRE ◽  
L. SALEM

Molecules ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 15535-15545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justyna Żurek ◽  
Robert Rae ◽  
Martin Paterson ◽  
Magnus Bebbington

1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (10) ◽  
pp. 2736-2741 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Leigh

The possibility of using liquid crystalline solvents to control the stereospecificity of bimolecular reactions as a result of differences in liquid crystalline solvation of the various possible transition states has been examined. The Diels–Alder reactions of 2,5-dimethyl-3,4-diphenylcyclopentadienone with four dienophiles of varying steric size (cyclopentene, cycloheptene, indene, and acenaphthylene) have been carried out in benzene, cholesteryl nonanoate (isotropic), cholesteryl propionate (cholesteric), and 4-ethyl-4′-(4-pentylcyclohexyl)biphenyl (smectic) at 105 °C. In spite of very large differences in steric solvation requirements for the endo- (globular in shape) and exo- (plate-like in shape) transition states in these reactions, no variation in product ratio with solvent phase is observed in any case.The inability of the ordered liquid crystalline phases to differentiate between endo- and exo-transition states in the Diels–Alder reactions investigated is rationalized as being the possible result of several factors. The most important of these are believed to be free volume effects, owing to both inefficient steric solvation of the bulky diene and volume contraction in the transition states for cycloaddition.


1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 1262-1278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsing-Jang Liu ◽  
Eric N. C. Browne

Diels–Alder additions to enones 1 and 2, synthetic equivalents of the synthon 3, were studied using a variety of hydrocarbon dienes. The two enones have been shown to be effective and synthetically useful dienophiles. Spectroscopic (especially 1H and 13C magnetic resonance) and chemical techniques were used to define unambiguously the full structures of the adducts. The structures of the various reaction products were used to draw qualitative conclusions about the nature of the transition states involved and the various electronic and steric effects that play a role in the mechanistic course of the Diels–Alder reaction.


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (92) ◽  
pp. 89440-89449 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Haghdadi ◽  
A. Abaszade ◽  
L. Abadian ◽  
N. Nab ◽  
H. Ghasemnejad Bosra

DFT studies indicated that a hetero-Diels–Alder reaction of 4-phosphinyl and 4-phosphonyl-1,2-diaza- and 1,2-oxaza-1,3-butadienes with some olefins take place via an asynchronous concerted mechanism through endo or exo transition states.


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