Migrating alkynes in vinylidene carbenoids: An unprecedented route to polyynes
Migrating alkynes in vinylidene carbenoids: An unprecedented route to polyynes
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DOI:
10.1021/ja005557t
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发表时间:
2000-11-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
Tykwinski, RR
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作者:
Eisler, S;Tykwinski, RR
The Fritsch-Buttenberg-Wiechell (FBW) Rearrangement1 of alkylidene carbenoids (1, M) metal) or carbenes (2) is a wellestablished method for the synthesis of acetylenes. 2 This transformation has been applied to numerous systems in which the migrating group in 1 or 2, R1 or R2, is an aryl or heteroaryl moiety, a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl group (for which 1, 5-CH insertion is impossible). 3 In many cases, this rearrangement has been particularly effective in the formation of cyclic acetylenic systems that are otherwise difficult to synthesize. 4 To our knowledge, however, alkynes have never been made to migrate in a FBW rearrangement.With this report we show that alkyne moieties readily undergo 1, 2-shifts via an intermediate alkylidene carbene/carbenoid species. In these reactions, lithium-halogen exchange between n-BuLi and 1, 1-dibromo-2, 2-diethynylethenes initiates alkyne migration and affords synthetically useful yields of a wide range of polyynes. The dibromoolefinic precursors are readily available and can be strategically functionalized in order to afford polyyne systems that are difficult or impossible to attain by other methods. 5 We expected that lithium-halogen exchange between n-BuLi and the appropriate 1, 1-dibromoolefin could effectively generate the requisite carbenoid intermediate 3. 6 In fact, intermediate 3 (M) Li) has been previously generated at low temperature by others from 4a, b (Table 1). 7, 8 Evidence of carbene formation, however, was not reported in these cases. Our initial experiments toward 3 utilized the more stable triisopropylsilyl (TIPS) protected 4a. To a solution of 4a in THF at-78 C was added a slight