This paper reports the results obtained in a study on the radical addition of triorganotin hydrides, R 3 SnH (R ) Me, n-Bu, Ph; Neophyl), to four TADDOL unsaturated diesters. It was found that these reactions lead in high yields to products of cyclohydrostannation. It was also found that whereas the addition of these hydrides to TADDOL diacrylate and TADDOL dimethacrylate leads to the expected mixtures of two and four cycloundecane diastereoisomers, respectively, the addition of triphenyltin hydride to TADDOL disubstituted acrylates yields only four out of the 16 possible stereoisomers. The observed high stereoselectivity is consistent with the radical tandem cyclohydrostannation mechanism proposed. Only in the case of the hydrostannation of TADDOL diacrylate with trimethyl-and triphenyltin hydrides could the diastereoisomers obtained in higher proportion (5a and 8a) be isolated in pure form. The subsequent reduction (lithium aluminum hydride) of macrolides 5a and 8a afforded the corresponding optically active diols 26 and 27 in high yield. Full 1 H, 13 C, and 119 Sn NMR data are given.

A study on the addition of trineophyltin hydride (1) to alkynones under free radical (AIBN and Et3B) and palladium-catalyzed [(PPh3)2PdCl2] conditions is reported. The results obtained indicate that the addition of 1 to eight ynones catalyzed by bis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(II) chloride led in all cases to addition products in very high yields (80-96%). These additions take place with excellent regio- and stereochemistry, leading to the alpha adducts as major products in seven out of the eight cases studied. Also the E adducts, resulting from a syn attack, were the only (seven cases) or the predominant (one case) products. The radical hydrostannations initiated by AIBN of ynones 2-5 with 1 led to addition products in good yields (60-88%); with the more hindered ketones 6 and 7-9 the yields obtained were lower. The radical additions initiated by triethylboron to ynones 2-6 follow a similar pattern but with lower yields; no addition products in the hydrostannation of ynones 7-9 were detected. The new acyl-substituted vinylstannanes, owing to their greater stability compared with that of their tributyl- and trimethylstannyl analogues, can be purified by column chromatography using neutral alumina (in all cases) or silica gel 60 (in most cases) as adsorbents. Full 1H, 13C, and 119Sn NMR data are given.

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