Two rigid derivatives of o-allylaniline, namely 8-allyl-2-phenyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline (1b) and 7-(trans-2-cinnamyl)-2-methylindoline (1c), have been chosen as suitable systems to study the potential stereoselectivity of the photocyclization process. Photolysis of 1b leads to a mixture of diastereomeric lilolidines 4 (trans/cis), while 1cproduces a mixture of 4 (trans/cis) and the tetrahydropyrrolo[3,2,1-hi]indole derivatives 5 (trans/cis). To disclose whether the diastereoselectivity could be entropy dependent, photolysis of 1b and 1c has been performed at several temperatures. In both cases, linear relationships have been observed when ln(k(t)/k(c)) (the relative reaction rate constants calculated from the diastereomeric excess) is plotted against the reciprocal temperatures. However, significant entropy-controlled diastereoselectivity has only been found for the photocyclization of 1c to 4. The fluorescence spectra of 1b,c show formation of intramolecular charge-transfer exciplexes, which is in agreement with the proposed excited-state electron-transfer mechanism for photocyclization.
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Chem Sci
February 2017
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Baylor University, One Bear Place 97348 , Waco , Texas 76798 , USA.
Chiral α,β-unsaturated acylammonium salts are novel dienophiles enabling enantioselective Diels-Alder-lactonization (DAL) organocascades leading to - and -fused, bicyclic γ- and δ-lactones from readily prepared dienes, commodity acid chlorides, and a chiral isothiourea organocatalyst under mild conditions. We describe extensions of stereodivergent DAL organocascades to other racemic dienes bearing pendant secondary and tertiary alcohols, and application to a formal synthesis of (+)-dihydrocompactin is described. A combined experimental and computational investigation of unsaturated acylammonium salt formation and the entire DAL organocascade pathway provide a rationalization of the effect of Brønsted base additives and enabled a controllable, diastereodivergent DAL process leading to a full complement of possible stereoisomeric products.
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November 2002
Departamento de Química, Instituto de Tecnología Química UPV-CSIC, Camino de Vera s/n, Apartado 22012, 46071, Valencia, Spain.
Two rigid derivatives of o-allylaniline, namely 8-allyl-2-phenyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline (1b) and 7-(trans-2-cinnamyl)-2-methylindoline (1c), have been chosen as suitable systems to study the potential stereoselectivity of the photocyclization process. Photolysis of 1b leads to a mixture of diastereomeric lilolidines 4 (trans/cis), while 1cproduces a mixture of 4 (trans/cis) and the tetrahydropyrrolo[3,2,1-hi]indole derivatives 5 (trans/cis). To disclose whether the diastereoselectivity could be entropy dependent, photolysis of 1b and 1c has been performed at several temperatures.
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