TRANSITION-METAL-CATALYZED REACTIONS OF DIAZO-COMPOUNDS .2. ADDITION TO AROMATIC-MOLECULES - CATALYSIS OF BUCHNER SYNTHESIS OF CYCLOHEPTATRIENES
TRANSITION-METAL-CATALYZED REACTIONS OF DIAZO-COMPOUNDS .2. ADDITION TO AROMATIC-MOLECULES - CATALYSIS OF BUCHNER SYNTHESIS OF CYCLOHEPTATRIENES
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DOI:
10.1021/jo00318a010
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
TEYSSIE, P
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作者:
ANCIAUX, AJ;DEMONCEAU, A;TEYSSIE, P
The addition of carbenes (generated from diazo esters) to aromatic molecules is efficiently catalyzed at room temperature by electron-poor Rh (II) carboxylates [tetrakis (perfluorocarboxylato) dirhodium (II)]. The reaction gives ready access to l-carbalkoxycyclohepta-2, 4, 6-trienes (the kinetic nonconjugated isomer) in very good yield. The observed regioselectivities are rationalized in terms of an attack of a highly electrophilic carbenoid species on the aromatic molecule. A competitive reduction of the catalyst simultaneously occurs and is responsible for a slow deactivationof the system.Since Buchner’s classical work, the chemistry of cyclo-heptatrienes has been adequately discussed in the literature. However, the problem of efficient and selective synthesis of substituted cycloheptatrienes is still unsolved. Indeed, because of the lability of the triene system, except for intramolecular reactions, a direct addition of carbenes to aromatic molecules produces hard-to-purify mixtures of isomers2 (Scheme I). Our general investigations of transition-metal catalysis in carbene chemistry ledto the discovery of the high efficiency of rhodium (II) carboxylates for promoting the insertion of carbenes into activated