Rhenium(I)-Catalyzed Intramolecular Geminal Carbofunctionalization of Alkynes: Tandem Cyclization of ω-Acetylenic Dienol Silyl Ethers.
Rhenium(I)-Catalyzed Intramolecular Geminal Carbofunctionalization of Alkynes: Tandem Cyclization of ω-Acetylenic Dienol Silyl Ethers.
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10.1002/chin.200521081
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2005-05
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H. Kusama;H. Yamabe;Yuji Onizawa;Takahiko Hoshino;N. Iwasawa
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H. Kusama;H. Yamabe;Yuji Onizawa;Takahiko Hoshino;N. Iwasawa
On the basis of the above considerations we designed the system shown in Scheme2. Thus, treatment of acetylenic dienol silyl ethers 1 with an appropriate metallic reagent should give zwitterionic intermediates B by 5-endo nucleophilic cyclization of the enol silyl ether to the electrophilically activated h2-alkyne complexes A. The alkenyl metallic moiety produced should then undergo an intramolecular attack at the b-position of the metal center to the a, b-unsaturated silyloxonium moiety to generate bicyclic unstable carbene complexes C. Finally, the destabilized carbene complex moiety would undergo a typical carbene reaction, such as 1, 2-hydrogen migration, to give the products with regeneration of the reactive metallic species.[6] We first examined the reaction of w-acetylenic dienol silyl ether 1a with 10 mol% of [W (CO) 6] under photoirradiation in toluene in the presence of molecular sieves (4)(Table 1). Although the tungsten-catalyzed cyclization reaction of enol silyl ethers with an internal alkyne moiety has not been examined before,[7] the reaction proceeded as expected and the desired bicyclic enol silyl ether 2a was obtained in high yield as a mixture of diastereomers accompanied by a small amount of tricyclic compound 3a.[8] Since geminal carbofunctionalization was found to proceed as expected, we further examined the possibility of using other transition-metal complexes. PtCl2 [2b, c, e, f](67% yield) and AuBr3[2d, e](79% yield) also showed moderate catalytic activity towards this transformation, and furthermore [ReCl (CO) 5] was found to have an extremely high activity. The reaction proceeded even with 0.5 mol% of [ReCl (CO) 5] to give the cyclized products 2a and 3a in 92% yield in a ratio of 86: 14 by carrying out the reaction in toluene under photoirradiation.[9, 10] Formation of the tricyclic compound 3a explicitly implicates the presence of the intermediate carbene complex C, in which the carbene moiety inserts into the neighboring benzylic CÀH bond. Once we established that [ReCl (CO) 5] catalyzed the geminal carbofunctionalization reaction very efficiently, the reaction of several substrates was examined (Table 2). The trisubstituted dienes (1b–e)[11] with a methyl, primary, or secondary alkyl group as well as a phenyl group at the bposition (R2) were cyclized to afford the corresponding bicyclic enol silyl ethers in high yield (Table 2, entries 1–4). Even the reaction of the tetrasubstituted dienes (1 f, 1g)[11] proceeded to afford the corresponding substituted bicyclic enol silyl ethers in high yield. The [ReCl (CO) 5]-catalyzed reaction gave superior results in most cases relative to that catalyzed by [W (CO) 5 (L)].[12] In particular, the rheniumcatalyzed reaction of dienyl silyl ethers 1h and 1i with no substituent at the b-position (R2= H) afforded the desired bicyclic enol silyl ethers in moderate to high yields. However, the corresponding tungsten-catalyzed reaction proceeded in very low yield (17%) even with a stoichiometric amount of [W (CO) 5 (L)] for 1i. In addition, a substrate possessing a terminal alkyne moiety 1j [11] could also be employed for this reaction (Table 2, entry 9). The use of lowvalent rhenium complexes in catalytic synthetic reactions, in particular for CÀC bond forming reactions, is quite limited.[13] The