STEREOCHEMICAL ASPECTS OF THE INTRAMOLECULAR DIELS-ALDER REACTION
STEREOCHEMICAL ASPECTS OF THE INTRAMOLECULAR DIELS-ALDER REACTION
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DOI:
10.1039/cs9871600187
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发表时间:
1987-06-01
影响因子:
46.2
通讯作者:
CRAIG, D
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作者:
CRAIG, D
Since its discovery nearly 60 years ago,’the Diels-Alder reaction has become one of the most commonly used stratagems in organic chemistry. The ability to generate simultaneously up to four chiral centres in a highly stereoselective and largely predictable fashion has resulted in its application to numerous synthetic challenges, often difficultly accessible by other means. The intramolecular version of this process, although over thirty years younger than its bimolecular counterpart, 2 has similarly enjoyed widespread use in the construction of polycyclic ring systems with high levels of stereocontrol.Whilst the last ten years have seen a large number of additions to the review literature covering the. intramolecular Diels-Alder (IMDA) rea~ tion,~ these have largely simply catalogued published examples of the reaction, classifying cyclization substrates according to such structural features as the nature of substituents on the diene and dienophilic groups, the nature and presence of substituents in the linking chain, and the incorporation of heteroatomic groups in the linking chain. The present review sets out to assess critically the effect of such parameters on the stereochemical outcome of the IMDA reaction, including a brief discussion of some recent theoretical work in the area. Although it is clearly outside the scope of this review to analyse exhaustively all the known examples of the IMDA reaction, particular emphasis has been placed on those instances where the observed reactivity serves to highlight and exemplify an emerging stereochemical trend. As a corollary of this selective analysis, examples of the reaction in which stereochemistry is not apparent, or where the observed selectivity results purely as a consequence of some obvious structural feature have been omitted. The use of the IMDA reaction in steroid synthesis, amply reviewed elsewhere, has not been covered in detail. Because the last major reviews appeared in 1984, all the relevant literature since that date has been reviewed.