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SYNTHESIS OF FUNCTIONALIZED HEXAHYDRO-1H-PHENALENE, OCTAHYDRO-1H-PHENALENE, AND DECAHYDRO-1H-PHENALENE VIA DIELS-ALDER REACTIONS OF 1-METHYLENE-4A-METHOXYCARBONYL-1,2,3,4,4A,5,6,7-OCTAHYDRONAPHTHALENE AND RELATED DIENES

TitleSYNTHESIS OF FUNCTIONALIZED HEXAHYDRO-1H-PHENALENE, OCTAHYDRO-1H-PHENALENE, AND DECAHYDRO-1H-PHENALENE VIA DIELS-ALDER REACTIONS OF 1-METHYLENE-4A-METHOXYCARBONYL-1,2,3,4,4A,5,6,7-OCTAHYDRONAPHTHALENE AND RELATED DIENES
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1993
AuthorsPiers, E, Friesen, RW, Kao, P, Rettig, SJ, Trotter, J
JournalCanadian Journal of Chemistry-Revue Canadienne De Chimie
Volume71
Pagination1463-1483
Date PublishedSep
Type of ArticleArticle
ISBN Number0008-4042
KeywordsSPONGE
Abstract

The results of a study of Diels-Alder reactions of the bicyclic dienes 6-8 with a variety of dienophiles are reported. Although 6 and 7 undergo cycloaddition reactions smoothly and efficiently, thermal Diels-Alder reactions of 8 are generally sluggish or, under the conditions investigated, do not proceed at all. Additions of tetracyanoethylene (TCNE) to 6-8 are highly face-selective, with preferential attack of the dienophile on the side of the dienes opposite to the angular methoxycarbonyl group. Reaction of 7 with maleic anhydride (MAN) is completely face-selective and proceeds preferentially via an endo transition state. Diels-Alder reactions of 6 and 7 with methyl acrylate (MAC) and nitroethylene (NE) are entirely regioselective, but the face-selectivities, which vary from -2:1 to -3:1, are rather low. The use of this chemistry as a method for the synthesis of functionalized, stereochemically defined, perhydro-H-1-phenalenes is demonstrated.

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