Issue 43, 2020

Chemoselective acid-catalyzed [4 + 2]-cycloaddition reactions of ortho-quinone methides and styrenes/stilbenes/cinnamates

Abstract

ortho-Quinone methides (o-QMs) generated from the corresponding benzyl acetate precursors chemoselectively underwent the formal [4 + 2]-cycloadditions with the olefin of styrene, stilbene, or cinnamate derivatives by using different transition metal salts or Brønsted acids. Such selectivity was obtained when these olefins either separately acted as the dienophiles or were simultaneously present on the same dienophiles. Complete selectivity was also achieved between the stilbene olefin and acetylene to furnish the key chroman intermediate for the subsequent ring-closing metathesis (RCM), affording the corresponding tetracyclic 5H-dihydronaphtho[1,2-c]chromene.

Graphical abstract: Chemoselective acid-catalyzed [4 + 2]-cycloaddition reactions of ortho-quinone methides and styrenes/stilbenes/cinnamates

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
25 Jun 2020
Accepted
25 Aug 2020
First published
25 Aug 2020

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2020,18, 8854-8866

Chemoselective acid-catalyzed [4 + 2]-cycloaddition reactions of ortho-quinone methides and styrenes/stilbenes/cinnamates

K. Akkarasereenon, K. Tangdenpaisal, S. Ruchirawat and P. Ploypradith, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2020, 18, 8854 DOI: 10.1039/D0OB01312A

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