Radical cation-mediated annulation. Stereoselective construction of bicyclo[5.3.0]decan-3-ones by aerobic oxidation of cyclopropylamines
Radical cation-mediated annulation. Stereoselective construction of bicyclo[5.3.0]decan-3-ones by aerobic oxidation of cyclopropylamines
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DOI:
10.1021/ja017043f
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发表时间:
2001-11-14
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15
通讯作者:
Cha, JK
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作者:
Lee, HB;Sung, MJ;Cha, JK
Medium-sized (seven-or eight-membered) carbocyclic rings which are typically embedded in polycyclic systems are found in an increasing number of bioactive natural products. The development of general methods for the construction of mediumsized carbocycles or their annulation onto existing carbocycles has thus become an active area of research. 1 One typical class belongs to hydroazulenic natural products which have prompted a spate of elegant syntheses. Despite many known approaches, conspicuous is the paucity of reliable methods for rapid assembly of functionalized hydroazulenes directly from acyclic substrates. 2 We envisioned the implementation of an intramolecular Kulinkovich cyclopropanation3, 4 of esters or amides and a tandem ring expansion-cyclization sequence of the resulting bicyclic heteroatom-substituted cyclopropanes for the stereocontrolled synthesis of bicyclo [5.3. 0] decan-3-ones. The latter transformation was well-precedented by independent studies of the Booker-Milburn and Narasaka groups involving oxidative cleavage of bicyclic hydroxycyclopropanes and subsequent 5-exo cyclization of the resulting β-keto radicals to the pendant olefins (Scheme 1). 5, 6 Herein we report analogous cyclization of bicyclic aminocyclopropanes.The bicyclic aminocyclopropane functionality was chosen over the respective cyclopropanol substrate because of the possibility of tuning or modulating the oxidation potential of the former for facile generation of cyclopropylaminium radical intermediates under mild conditions. An additional advantage based on our earlier observation7 that an intramolecular Kulinkovich cyclopropanation of carboxamides (especially those containing bulkier N-substituents) typically afforded higher yields than that of esters prompted us to investigate the aminium radical-based annulation approach.