Jul 11, 2014 for the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration. These reactions are now appreciated as being concerted and stereocontrolled, and governed by orbital symmetry rules. Staudinger reaction very general ch 3 co 2 o r x o c o r r r 3 n x cl, ts, aco, dcc, etc. We shall consider two types of these pericyclic reactions. Reactions of alkenyl fischer carbene complexes with ketene acetals. Cycloaddition reactions are considered among the most powerful.
Cycloaddition simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Paulla, anthony weatherwaxb, thomas lectkaa, adepartment of chemistry, johns hopkins university, 3400 north charles street, baltimore, md 21218, usa. Subsequent work by others was done in the shadow of staudingers exhaustive and rigorous study of all phases of ketene reactivity. Catalytic asymmetric ketene cycloadditions establish four or sixmembered rings via the formal cycloaddition of a nucleophilic ketene or vinylketene with an electrophilic two or fouratom. Chemical reactivity of dihydropyrazine derivatives. The obtained crude diketene consists of a mobile, dark brown liquid, containing about 5 to 10% of triketene besides small quantities of acetic anhydride 34%. After many trials, we developed the novel rhclpph33catalyzed linear. Nearly all studies to date of asymmetric variants of the. Reactions of alkenyl fischer carbene complexes with ketene.
Using controlled conditions, yields of up to 85% can be achieved based on the acetic acid feed initially used in the ketene process. This reaction is not a thermal cycloaddition of a ketene to an alkene but rather a photochemical additionof an enone. Pdf halogenated catechols from cycloaddition reactions of. The development of efficient methods for the stereoselective generation of. At first it cannot be determined how the substituents of alkene and diene relate to each other in the product since the two possibilities a and b mentioned above exist. Ketene chemistry and the application in synthesis the dong group. Cycloaddition reactions in organic synthesis, volume 8 1st. Intramolecular keteneimine cycloadditionthe keteneimine cycloaddition reactions, developed previously by the nelson group, have beenextended to the intramolecular cycloaddition of the keteneimine cycloaddition. Hai dao 25012014 baran group meeting ketenes a brief history 1828. Cycloadditions in organic synthesis introduction 2 cycloaddition describes the union of two independent. The relative small size of ketene and imine allows more accurate levels of ab initio. Chemistry of ketenes, allenes, and related compounds, john wiley and sons, 1980.
The dielsalder reaction is perhaps the most important and commonly taught cycloaddition reaction. Cycloaddition reactions results in the formation of a new ring. A cycloaddition reaction indicates the addition of two. Dft study on the mechanisms and diastereoselectivities of. The ketene cycloaddition reaction has attracted much attention from both synthetic and theoretical chemists because the 2 2 cycloaddition products of cyclic dienes and ketenes are known to be formed via 3,3sigmatropic rearrangement of the 4 2 cycloadduct in which the carbonyl double bond of the ketene acts as a dienophile chart 3. With acetone, ketene reacts to give isopropenyl acetate. While other cycloaddition reactions are thought to proceed through zwitterionic oxyallyl cations, 25 dft studies on the current system predicted that a pathway for the formation of product 74 via hydroxyallyl 75 is a lowerenergy route than that emanating from the. Fischer carbene complex ketene acetal michael addition vinylidene complex rearrangement alkenyl fischer carbene complexes with an. Cycloaddition reactions of acyl ketenes thieme connect. Depending on the substitution one product can be the larger product.
And, it is highly electrophilic in nature, reacts with water rapidly, to give the corresponding acid. Cycloaddition reactions ketene cycloadditions nptel. Recent advances in ketene chemistry arkat usa, inc. This is the staudinger synthesis, a facile route to this important class of compounds. Mechanistic aspects of the keteneimine cycloaddition reactions. Rhodiumcatalyzed linear codimerization and cycloaddition. Here, a cycloaddition is defined as a reaction of a ketene with an unsaturated organic compound to give a cyclic product by a mechanism that, in principle, involves the almost simultaneous formation of two bonds between two reactants. Cycloaddition and annulation reactions are among the most powerful methods in organic synthesis, owing to their ability to provide multiple bond formations with regio and stereochemical control leading to polycyclic carbocycles and heterocycles through a concerted, stepwise, or sequential process. These reactions were once called nomechanism reactions because they involved bond reorganization. Cycloadditions are bimolecular as shown in the dielsalder reaction fig. Wedekinds proposal for the formation of ketene equivalent confirmed by staudinger 1911. Catalytic asymmetric ketene cycloadditions organic reactions.
Experiment 22 the dielsalder cycloaddition reaction pg. A cycloaddition is a chemical reaction between reactants with double bonds that get replaced by a ring structure. A theoretical study on the reaction mechanisms and. Examples of all three modes of cycloaddition are discussed in this section. Ketene is a very reactive intermediate in organic chemistry. It is a pericyclic chemical reaction where two or more unsaturated molecules or parts of the same molecule combine with the formation of a cyclic adduct in which there is a net reduction of the bond multiplicity. Ketenes are also formed by elimination reactions of esters, and the reaction of acetylated cellulose with tetranbutylammonium fluoride in tetrahydrofuran has been suggested to result in ketene formation by an elimination reaction by the e1cb mechanism in which fluoride ion acts a general base to abstract the proton scheme 4. Michael williams department of chemistry, harvard university cambridge, massachusetts 028 usa. Oct 15, 2004 ketene cycloaddition was an early example of a peculiar process, one that formed carboncarbon bonds with ease, often without the need for solvent, catalyst, or high heat. Initial results showed that the intramolecular cycloaddition exhibited excellent enantioselectivity, but it was suffered from poor. Information is available for this article pdf files. The relative small size of ketene and imine allows more accurate levels of. The author, a leading exponent of the subject, illustrates the ways in which they can be employed in the synthesis of a wide range of carbocyclic and heterocyclic. The reactions of ketene and methylketene with ethylene and of ketene with propene were studied with ab initio molecular orbital calculations, with the sto3g, 321g, and 631g basis sets and.
Introduction in 1928, otto diels and his student kurt alder at the university of kiel in germany first reported their work in the reactions of electron poor alkenes with. Intramolecular keteneimine cycloaddition the keteneimine cycloaddition reactions, developed previously by the nelson group, have been extended to the intramolecular keteneimine cycloaddition. Ketenes, unlike most alkenes, can align antarafacially with respect to other alkenes. When dissolved, ketene readily dimerizes to diketene. Reaction 3 is an intramolecular dielsalder reaction. Solvent effects on structure and reaction mechanism. Ketene cycloaddition was an early example of a peculiar process, one that formed carboncarbon bonds with ease, often without the need for solvent, catalyst, or high heat. The periselectivity of a particular reaction depends on the structure of both the ketene and the substrate. Cycloaddition reactions in organic chemistry are chemical reactions that always produce a cyclic compound as the product. Ketene preparation 4 from carboxylic acid and their derivatives. Tetrahedron report number 880 catalytic, asymmetric reactions of ketenes and ketene enolates daniel h.
Synthesis of urea the starting point of modern organic chemistry. A brief history 2 cl o ph ph cl h o o o cl o ph ph h ph 2 c cl o zn ph 2 cco ch 2 co ph 2 cco npr 3 nhcl npr 3 n hot pt wire wanted to make. Then, the reactions of ketenes with alkynes were investigated in the presence of several transitionmetal catalysts. Halogenated catechols from cycloaddition reactions of. Among the evergrowing list of cycloaddition reactions available to the. For the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration. Intramolecular cycloaddition reactions of ketenes and keteniminium. Chiral, nonracemic lewis bases and lewis acids have been employed as catalysts for these reactions, which may or may not occur through pericyclic. Ketene cycloadditions are the reactions of the pi system of ketenes with unsaturated. Catalytic, asymmetric reactions of ketenes and ketene enolates.