CONJUGATE ADDITION OF METHANOL TO ALPHA-ENONES - PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND STEREOCHEMICAL DETAILS
CONJUGATE ADDITION OF METHANOL TO ALPHA-ENONES - PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND STEREOCHEMICAL DETAILS
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DOI:
10.1021/jo00244a039
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发表时间:
1988-04-29
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
BECKWITH, ALJ
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作者:
BENKO, Z;FRASERREID, B;BECKWITH, ALJ
Previous studies seemed to indicatethat the benzophenone-initiated photoaddition of methanolto the car-bohydrate-derived-enone 1 occurred more readily than to comparable carbocyclic-enones. A mechanistic study was therefore undertaken (a) toestablish the mechanistic details of the photoaddition reaction and (b) to compare thequantum yields of the carbohydrate and carbocyclic substrates. Evidence is presented that shows that the only important photochemicalevent is hydrogen abstraction (to give" CH2OH) and that energy transfer to the enone substrate is not a factor. The course of addition of" CH2OH to 1 has been monitored by ESR spectroscopy, and the spectrum is best interpreted as involving the initial formation of an equilibrium mixture of the pseudochair and pseudoboat intermediates 26 and 27, respectively. The quantum yields were determined for 1, 5, and 11 in order to discover the effect of (a) the pendant oxygen (1 vs 5) and (b) the ring oxygen (5 vs 11). The latter two give both axial and equatorial photoadducts, and within experimentalerror, there was no detectable difference in their reactivities. However, for the axial adduct formation, the carbohydrate enone 1 was found to be more reactive than oxane 5 or carbocycle 11.Introduction Scheme I In 1972, Fraser-Reid and co-workers reported that the carbohydrate-derived-enone 1 undergoes efficient benzophenone-initiated photoaddition of methanol to give the hydroxymethyl adduct 2 (Scheme I). 2 In subsequent studies aimed at extending the scope of this process, 3, 4 two general observations were made. Firstly, a wide variety of other oxygenated compounds of the type RCH2OH, RCH (OR') 2, and RCHO also served as excellent addends.