Lewis acid-promoted stereoselective Diels-Alder cycloadditions of captodative olefins acetylvinyl carboxylates and NMR structural study of their cyclopentadiene adducts

Octavio García De Alba, Jorge Chanona, Francisco Delgado, Gerardo Zepeda, Fernando Labarrios, Roderick W. Bates, Simon Bott, Eusebio Juaristi, Joaquîn Tamariz

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Abstract

A study of Lewis acid-promoted Diels-Alder cycloadditions of the captodative olefins 1-acetyl vinyl carboxylates 1 with cyclopentadiene is described. Catalyst, temperature and solvent were the assessed variables, the exo/endo ratio being more significantly modified by the first one. Znh and TiCl4 showed the most remarkable effect with olefin la, giving very high and opposite stereoselectivity, since exo isomer 3 and endo 4 were the major adducts, respectively. The steric effect of the carboxylate substituent of 1 could participate in controlling the stereoselectivity. Structural characterization of the adducts was made by NMR and X-ray analysis. Electronic and anisotropic effects are probably involved in unusual proton chemical shifts of the norbornene structure of the adducts.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)108-117
Number of pages10
JournalAnales de Quimica
Volume92
Issue number2
StatePublished - 1996

Keywords

  • Acetylvinyl carboxylates
  • Captodative
  • Catalysis
  • Diels-alder
  • Lewis acids
  • Stereoselectivity

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