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J Am Soc Mass Spectrom ; 24(4): 563-72, 2013 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23512422

ABSTRACT

A negatively charged biradical intermediate was successfully generated in the gas phase via cyclization of the deprotonated bicyclo[8.3.0]trideca-12-ene-2,7-diyn-1-one precursor. The inherent negative charge of this biradical allows its characterization via collision-activated dissociation and reactions with a variety of neutral substrates in an FT-ICR mass spectrometer. Although the biradical is unreactive toward reagents that usually react rapidly with positively charged biradicals, such as dimethyl disulfide, it reacts with the halogen-containing substrates carbon tetrachloride, carbon tetrabromide, and bromotrichloromethane via bromine or chlorine atom abstraction, which supports its biradical structure. The results presented in this study indicate that cyclizations commonly used in solution to form biradical intermediates from enediyne compounds may also occur in the gas phase.


Subject(s)
Enediynes/chemistry , Prodrugs/chemistry , Pyrimidines/chemistry , Anions/chemistry , Boranes , Gases/chemistry , Hydrocarbons, Halogenated , Mass Spectrometry , Models, Molecular
2.
J Am Chem Soc ; 130(50): 17085-94, 2008 Dec 17.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19053448

ABSTRACT

We report a detailed synthetic and mechanistic study of an unusual bifunctional, sequential hetero-Diels-Alder/ring-opening reaction in which chiral, metal complexed ketene enolates react with o-quinones to afford highly enantioenriched, alpha-hydroxylated carbonyl derivatives in excellent yield. A number of Lewis acids were screened in tandem with cinchona alkaloid derivatives; surprisingly, trans-(Ph(3)P)(2)PdCl(2) was found to afford the most dramatic increase in yield and rate of reaction. A series of Lewis acid binding motifs were explored through molecular modeling, as well as IR, UV, and NMR spectroscopy. Our observations document a fundamental mechanistic "switch", namely the formation of a tandem Lewis base/Lewis acid activated metal enolate in preference to a metal-coordinated quinone species (as observed in other reactions of o-quinone derivatives). This new method was applied to the syntheses of several pharmaceutical targets, each of which was obtained in high yield and enantioselectivity.


Subject(s)
Acids/chemistry , Hydroxy Acids/chemistry , Catalysis , Chloranil/chemistry , Models, Anatomic , Molecular Structure , Palladium/chemistry , Phosphites/chemistry , Spectrophotometry , Stereoisomerism
3.
J Org Chem ; 71(23): 8946-9, 2006 Nov 10.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17081026

ABSTRACT

The optimization of a practical, catalytic, asymmetric process for the alpha-bromination of acid chlorides to produce synthetically versatile, optically active alpha-bromoesters is reported. A range of products is produced in high enantioselectivity and moderate to good chemical yields with retention of both upon scale-up. The reactions herein are catalyzed by cinchona alkaloid derivatives, with the best performance achieved by the use of a proline cinchona alkaloid conjugate designed in a de novo fashion.


Subject(s)
Bromine/chemistry , Esters/chemical synthesis , Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/chemistry , Catalysis , Esters/chemistry , Molecular Structure , Stereoisomerism
4.
J Org Chem ; 71(22): 8372-7, 2006 Oct 27.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17064007

ABSTRACT

A series of acetoxy-substituted enyne-allenes, fused to cyclopentene and cyclohexene ring systems, were synthesized and treated with methyllithium to generate the corresponding enolates. It was found that whereas the cyclohexannulated examples underwent either C2-C7 (Myers-Saito) cycloaromatization or C2-C6 (Schmittel) cyclization depending on their terminal subsituents, the cyclopentannulated examples either failed to cyclize altogether or underwent C2-C7 cyclization. Both of these results lie in contrast to the behavior of their benzannulated analogues, which underwent exclusive C2-C6 cyclization independent of substituents. These findings are rationalized on the basis of both ring strain effects and the steric encumbrance of the terminal alkynyl and allenyl subsituents.


Subject(s)
Alkadienes/chemistry , Alkenes/chemistry , Alkynes/chemistry , Cold Temperature , Temperature , Anions , Cyclization , Molecular Structure , Organometallic Compounds/chemistry
6.
J Am Chem Soc ; 128(6): 1810-1, 2006 Feb 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16464078

ABSTRACT

We report catalytic, enantioselective [4 + 2]-cycloadditions of o-quinones with ketene enolates (derived from readily available acid chlorides) using cinchona alkaloid derivatives as catalysts to produce products in high enantiomeric excess (ee) and good to excellent yields. The thermodynamic driving force for these reactions is due in part to the restoration of aromaticity to the products. The resulting chiral, bicycloadducts can be synthetically manipulated in a variety of useful ways, for example to provide a flexible synthesis of alpha-oxygenated carboxylic acid derivatives.


Subject(s)
Carboxylic Acids/chemical synthesis , Ethylenes/chemistry , Ketones/chemistry , Quinones/chemistry , Catalysis , Chloranil/analogs & derivatives , Chloranil/chemistry , Cyclization , Oxidation-Reduction , Stereoisomerism
7.
J Am Chem Soc ; 127(25): 9216-23, 2005 Jun 29.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15969600

ABSTRACT

The C2-C6 (Schmittel)/ene cyclization of enyne-allenes is studied by a combination of kinetic isotope effects, theoretical calculations, and dynamics trajectories. For the cyclization of allenol acetate 9, the isotope effect (k(CH3)/k(CD3) is approximately 1.43. The isotope effect is interpreted in terms of a highly asynchronous transition state near the concerted/stepwise boundary. This is supported by density functional theory calculations that locate a highly asynchronous transition structure for the concerted ene reaction. However, calculations of both the experimental system and a model reaction were unable to locate a transition structure for formation of the diradical intermediate of a stepwise mechanism. The stepwise mechanism and the asynchronous concerted mechanism start out geometrically similar, and the two pathways appear to have merged as far as the initial transition structure. For the model reaction, quasiclassical direct dynamics trajectories emanating from the initial transition structure afforded the diradical intermediate in 29 out of 101 trajectories. A large portion of the remaining trajectories completes hydrogen transfer before carbon-carbon bond formation, despite the advanced carbon-carbon bond formation in the asynchronous transition structure. Overall, the single minimum-energy path from starting material to product is inadequate to describe the reaction, and a consideration of dynamic effects is necessary to understand the mechanism. The implications of these observations toward questions of concert in other reactions are discussed.


Subject(s)
Alkadienes/chemical synthesis , Alkadienes/chemistry , Cyclization , Kinetics , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy , Models, Chemical , Molecular Conformation
8.
J Phys Chem A ; 109(38): 8497-506, 2005 Sep 29.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16834246

ABSTRACT

3-Benzyl-1,5-hexadiyne (BHD) was studied by a combination of methods, including resonance-enhanced-two-photon ionization, UV-UV hole-burning spectroscopy, resonant ion-dip infrared spectroscopy, and rotational band contour analysis. There are five conformations of BHD observed in the expansion with their 1<-- S0 origins occurring at 37520, 37565, 37599, 37605, and 37631 cm(-1). DFT calculations predict six low energy conformations. Conformational assignments have been made by comparison of the experimental infrared spectra in the alkyl and acetylenic CH stretch region to DFT vibrational frequency and infrared intensity calculations. Rotational band contours provided further confirmation of these assignments. The electronic origin shifts of BHD compare favorably to the electronic origin shifts of 5-phenyl-1-pentyne with the exception of one conformation. This conformation is unique in that it is the only structure with both acetylenic groups in the gauche position over the ring. This gauche-gauche conformation exhibits a perpendicular (b-type) transition and produces extensive vibronic coupling reminiscent of symmetric monosubstituted benzenes.


Subject(s)
Alkynes/chemistry , Benzyl Compounds/chemistry , Computer Simulation , Models, Chemical , Molecular Conformation , Molecular Structure , Rotation , Sensitivity and Specificity , Spectrophotometry, Infrared/methods , Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet/methods , Vibration
9.
J Org Chem ; 68(22): 8471-9, 2003 Oct 31.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-14575473

ABSTRACT

A simple and stable cyclic enediynone (4) has been synthesized using an intramolecular Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi cyclization as the key step. Reaction with a thiolate nucleophile led to rapid cycloaromatization of 4. Trapping experiments using 1,4-cyclohexadiene support the intermediacy of an aromatic diradical in the cycloaromatization.


Subject(s)
Alkadienes/chemical synthesis , Prodrugs/chemical synthesis , Pyrimidines/chemical synthesis , Cyclization , Cyclohexanes/chemistry , Cyclohexenes , Enediynes , Models, Chemical , Thionucleotides/chemistry
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