Benzenoids in principle represent attractive and abundant starting materials for the preparation of substituted cyclohexanes; however, the synthetic tools available for overcoming the considerable aromatic energies inherent to these building blocks limit the available product types. In this paper, we demonstrate access to heretofore unknown heterotricyclic structures by leveraging oxidative dearomatization of 2-hydroxymethyl phenols with concurrent N-hydroxycarbamate dehydrogenation using a common oxidant. The pairwise-generated, mutually reactive species then participate in a second stage acylnitroso Diels–Alder cycloaddition. The reaction chemistry of the derived [2.2.2]-oxazabicycles, bearing four orthogonal functional groups and three stereogenic centers, is shown to yield considerable diversity in downstream products. The methodology allows for the expeditious synthesis of a functionalized intermediate bearing structural and stereochemical features in common with the complex alkaloid tetrodotoxin.
The
potential safety hazards associated with Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling
reactions have been underappreciated and inadequately discussed. These
hazards have not been universally recognized in the past decades,
perhaps overshadowed by the ubiquity of this class of chemistry and
the desire to pursue new scientific advancements. The awareness of
these hazards is further limited by the fact that synthetic chemists
who develop these types of reactions on small scales are not typically
trained in reactive chemistry hazard evaluation, and existing studies
from industrial chemists and chemical engineers are often not published in journals that are
commonly read by academic groups and synthetic chemists that typically
work on small scales. This review summarizes observations of the exothermic
behavior associated with the Pd-catalyzed α-arylation, Buchwald–Hartwig
amination, Kumada–Corriu, Mizoroki–Heck, Negishi, Sonogashira,
and Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reactions. This exothermic
behavior is consistently observed across each subset of cross-coupling
reactions and appears to be relatively independent of the nucleophile,
electrophile, base, solvent, and catalyst system employed. The magnitude
of the exotherms poses potential safety hazards that could result
in runaway scenarios in cases where the maximum temperature of a synthesis
reaction (MTSR) exceeds the solvent boiling point and/or the onset
temperature for reaction mixture decomposition. This contribution
will serve as an educational resource to encourage researchers to
conduct reaction safety evaluations and to develop control strategies
accordingly to mitigate such potential safety risks prior to practicing
Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling as well as other transition-metal-catalyzed
cross-coupling reactions.
A highly stereoselective and efficient
synthesis of (4S,5S,6S)-6-(benzyloxy)-5-phenoxy-4-propoxyheptanal,
a key intermediate for syntheses of picolinamide fungicides, is described
in this report. The synthesis features a scalable allylpropyl ether
preparation, an efficient synthesis of the C1–C3 anti,syn-(S,S,S) stereotriad via a highly diastereoselective allylboration,
and Cu-catalyzed phenylation of a sterically hindered secondary alcohol
with BiPh3(OAc)2 followed by highly regioselective
hydroformylation with the formation of a linear aldehyde. Excellent
overall route efficiency was achieved (six steps and 39% yield) starting
from readily available and inexpensive (S)-ethyl
lactate.
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