AN ANNULATION METHOD FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF HIGHLY SUBSTITUTED POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC AND HETEROAROMATIC-COMPOUNDS
AN ANNULATION METHOD FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF HIGHLY SUBSTITUTED POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC AND HETEROAROMATIC-COMPOUNDS
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00164a033
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发表时间:
1990-04-11
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
MILLER, RF
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作者:
DANHEISER, RL;BRISBOIS, RG;MILLER, RF
A general strategy for thesynthesis of highly substituted polycyclic aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds has been developed. The new aromatic annulation is achievedsimply by the irradiationof a dichloroethane solution of an acetylene derivative and a vinyl or aryl-diazo ketone. Mechanistically, the reaction proceeds via the photochemical Wolff rearrangement of the diazo ketone to generate an aryl-or vinylketene, followed by a cascade of three pericyclic reactions. A variety of substituted phenols, naphthalenes, benzofurans, benzothiophenes, indoles, and carbazoles can beprepared by using the method. The application of the aromatic annulation to the total synthesis of the marine alkaloid hyellazole demonstrates the synthetic utility of the method.The invention of efficient methods for the synthesis of sub-stituted aromatic compounds has commandedthe interest of chemists since the time of the earliest synthetic organic investigations in the 19th century. Classical approaches to aromatic compounds exploited readily available benzene derivatives and relied heavily on electrophilic and nucleophilic substitution re-actions. In recent years, directed metalation reactions have joined the classical substitution methods as another vehicle for the in-troduction of substituents onto preexisting aromatic rings. A second approach to highly substituted aromatic compounds involves the applicationof annulation methods: convergent strategies in which the aromatic system is assembled from acyclic precursors in a single step, with all (ormost) substituents already in place. Annulation strategies enjoy several advantages over classical linear substitution strategies, especially when applied to the preparation of highly substituted target molecules. For ex-ample, annulation routes frequently avoid the regiochemical am-biguities associated with aromatic substitution reactions and provide access to substitution patterns that cannot be obtained via the more conventional routes. The intrinsic convergent nature of annulation strategies facilitates the efficient assembly of highly substituted aromatics that would require long, multistep routes using classical substitution methodology.