A SIMPLE STEREOSELECTIVE VERSION OF CLAISEN REARRANGEMENT LEADING TO TRANS-TRISUBSTITUTED OLEFINIC BONDS . SYNTHESIS OF SQUALENE
A SIMPLE STEREOSELECTIVE VERSION OF CLAISEN REARRANGEMENT LEADING TO TRANS-TRISUBSTITUTED OLEFINIC BONDS . SYNTHESIS OF SQUALENE
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00706a074
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发表时间:
1970-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
PETERSEN, MR
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作者:
JOHNSON, WS;WERTHEMANN, L;PETERSEN, MR
We wish to disclose a version of the Claisen rearrange-ment which is highly stereoselective and can be applied to the synthesis of tz-azzy-trisubstituted olefinic bonds. The method simply involves heating an allylic alcohol, 1, with excess ethyl orthoacetate in thepresence of a trace of weak (eg, propionic) acid. Evidently a mixed orthoester, 2, is first formed and loses ethanol to form the ketene acetal 3 which rearrangesto the olefinic ester 4.1As compared with the classical pyrolysis of simple vinyl ethers (3 with H in place of EtO), this orthoester process is simpler to perform (one instead of two opera-tions), and the overall yield as well as stereoselectivity is higher. The high stereoselectivity is probably attribu-table to nonbonded interactions between the ethoxy and R2 groups (3) that develop only in the transition state leading to cis product. 2