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The lack of scalable and sustainable methods to prepare conjugated polymers belies their importance in many enabling technologies. Accessing high-performance poly(hetero)arene conjugated polymers by dehydration has remained an unsolved problem in synthetic chemistry and has historically required transitional-metal coupling reactions. Herein, we report a dehydration method that allows access to conjugated heterocyclic materials. By using the technique, we have prepared a series of small molecules and polymers. The reaction avoids using transition metals, proceeds at room temperature, the only required reactant is a simple base and water is the sole by-product. The dehydration reaction is technically simple and provides a sustainable and straightforward method to prepare conjugated heteroarene motifs.
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This review summarizes research directed towards the formation of carbocyclic adducts from donor-acceptor cyclopropanes. The focus of the review is on annulation and cycloaddition reactions (both inter- and intramolecularly) mediated by Lewis or protic acid, bases, or thermal conditions. Rearrangements resulting in carbocycles and those reactions mediated by transition metal catalysis have been excluded.
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Exploration into the reactivity of donor-acceptor cyclopropane hemimalonates has led to the facile synthesis of γ-substituted butanolides. Under microwave irradiation, cyclopropane hemimalonates undergo rapid conversion to butanolides in the presence of inorganic salts with an unprecedented retention of stereochemistry. This unique process has been applied to the total synthesis of the naturally occurring (R)-dodecan-4-olide.
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4-Butyrolactone/analogs & derivatives , 4-Butyrolactone/chemical synthesis , Biological Products/chemical synthesis , Cyclopropanes/chemistry , Lactones/chemical synthesis , Malonates/chemistry , 4-Butyrolactone/chemistry , Biological Products/chemistry , Lactones/chemistry , Microwaves , Molecular Structure , StereoisomerismABSTRACT
Cyclopropane hemimalonates, when treated with sodium azide, undergo a tandem ring-opening decarboxylation to produce γ-azidobutyric acids in good yields. These adducts were hydrogenated to form γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) methyl esters.
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Cyclopropanes/chemistry , Sodium Azide/chemistry , Decarboxylation , Molecular Structure , gamma-Aminobutyric Acid/analogs & derivatives , gamma-Aminobutyric Acid/chemical synthesis , gamma-Aminobutyric Acid/chemistryABSTRACT
The reaction of cyclopropanes, geminally disubstituted with one carboalkoxy and one carbohydroxy group, undergoes ring-opening reactions with indole nucleophiles under catalyst-free, hyperbaric (13 kbar) conditions. An internal hydrogen bond is postulated as the mode of activation obviating the need for the Lewis acid catalyst normally used for such donor-acceptor cyclopropane chemistry. These conditions avoid decarboxylation and yield useful adducts with the carboxylic acid group intact for further elaboration.
