NEW INTERMOLECULAR AND INTRAMOLECULAR CARBOCYCLIZATIONS AND HETEROCYCLIZATIONS OF 4-METHYL-4-TRICHLOROMETHYLCYCLOHEXA-2,5-DIEN-1-ONE AND ITS ETA(4)-RHODIUMCYCLOPENTADIENYL COMPLEX UNDER THE ACTION OF N-BUTHYLLITHIUM - FORMATION OF FUNCTIONALLY-SUBSTITUTED TRICYCLIC SPIROFURAN AND BICYCLO[2.2.1]HEPTADIENE SYSTEMS
Sv. Sergeev et al., NEW INTERMOLECULAR AND INTRAMOLECULAR CARBOCYCLIZATIONS AND HETEROCYCLIZATIONS OF 4-METHYL-4-TRICHLOROMETHYLCYCLOHEXA-2,5-DIEN-1-ONE AND ITS ETA(4)-RHODIUMCYCLOPENTADIENYL COMPLEX UNDER THE ACTION OF N-BUTHYLLITHIUM - FORMATION OF FUNCTIONALLY-SUBSTITUTED TRICYCLIC SPIROFURAN AND BICYCLO[2.2.1]HEPTADIENE SYSTEMS, Russian chemical bulletin, 46(8), 1997, pp. 1454-1457
Treatment with (BuLi)-Li-n in THF (-60-0 degrees C) causes 4-methyl-4-
trichloromethylcyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-one and its exo-eta(4)-coordinated
(by a RhCp-group) pi-diene metal complex to undergo reactions of two
new types: intermolecular autocondensation-heterocyclization (affordin
g piro-[benzofuran-2,1'-cyclohexa-2',5'-dien]-6-one; 24%) and intramol
ecular carbocyclization (yielding ]hepta-2,5-diene)(eta(5)-cyclopentad
ienyl)rhodium; 77%). Both processes are assumed to involve the formati
on of an unusual gem-CCl2Li substituted para-semiquinoid intermediate,
the conformation of the six-membered diene ring of which (planar or a
boat-like) governs its subsequent intra- or intermolecular stereospec
ific carbonyl condensations.