Title
Intramolecularly competitive Ireland-Claisen rearrangements: Scope and potential applications to natural product synthesis
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2002
Department/School
Chemistry
Abstract
A variety of bis-allylic esters were prepared by vinylmetal addition to cycloalkenones followed by esterification either in situ or in a separate operation. For chiral cyclohexenones, the vinyl additions generally occurred with > 10:1 diastereoselectivity. Although in some cases the bis-allylic esters proved to be sensitive to silica gel or other adsorbents, all of the esters examined could be isolated in acceptable purity. The Ireland-Claisen rearrangement of the bis-allylic esters occurred with complete regioselectivity via the exocyclic alkene. The alkene stereochemistry and the stereochemistry at C-2 and C-3 of the pentenoic acid products were consistent with a chairlike transition state in the rearrangement. Substituents at the carbons adjacent to the allylic carbinol carbon (i.e., C-2 or C-6 in cyclohexenone-derived substrates) directed the stereochemical course of the rearrangement. The rearrangements generally proceeded so as to place the larger of the C-2 or C-6 substituents in the pseudoequatorial position with respect to the chairlike transition state. For a bis-allylic ester bearing both a C-2-CH3 and a C-6-OMEM substituent, the rearrangement product resulted from the nominally smaller OMEM substituent occupying a pseudoequatorial position with respect to the chairlike transition state.
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Recommended Citation
Hong, S. P., Lindsay, H. A., Yaramasu, T., Zhang, X., & McIntosh, M. C. (2002). Intramolecularly competitive Ireland-Claisen rearrangements: Scope and potential applications to natural product synthesis. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 67(7), 2042–2055. doi:10.1021/jo010752r