PMID: 11925235Apr 2, 2002Paper

Experimental and theoretical insights regarding the cycloaddition reaction of carbohydrate-based 1,2-diaza-1,3-butadienes and acrylonitrile. A model case for the behavior of chiral azoalkenes and unsymmetric olefins

The Journal of Organic Chemistry
M AvalosJ C Palacios

Abstract

A series of carbohydrate-based tetrahydropyridazines are prepared by the hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of the chiral 1,2-diaza-1,3-butadienes 1 and 2 with acrylonitrile. Reactions are regiospecific, and the observed diastereoselection is consistent with a preferred attack to the Re face of the heterodiene unit, as the chiral sugar placed at C4 does largely protect the opposite Si face. The stereochemistry of the major cycloadduct 4 has been firmly established by an X-ray crystallographic study that, in addition, reveals a conformation placing the cyano group in axial orientation. Cycloadducts such as 9 and 11, in which the axial cyano group and the carbohydrate moiety exhibit a cis relationship, undergo a facile E2 elimination that relieves the steric congestion. A detailed computational study is reported to provide better insight into the factors that influence this asymmetric cycloaddition. A DFT study (B3LYP/6-31G) on a reduced model does correctly predict the regiochemistry observed experimentally, while the facial diastereoselection is modeled at a semiempirical (PM3) level on the parent reagents, thereby accounting for the steric factor provided by the chiral substituent. The calculations also indicate that the axial orient...Continue Reading

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Sep 15, 1988·Physical Review A: General Physics·A D Becke

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Jun 4, 2005·Organic Letters·Orazio A AttanasiStefania Santeusanio

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