Strain-Induced Nucleophilic Ring Opening of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropenes for Synthesis of Monosubstituted Succinic Acid Derivatives.

Kostiantyn O Marichev, Kan Wang, Nicole Greco, Kuiyong Dong, Jinzhou Chen, Jinping Lei, Michael P Doyle

Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 2021 Jan 04

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1,2,3-Trisubstituted donor-acceptor cyclopropenes (DACPs) generated in situ from enoldiazo compounds react with nucleophiles to form α-substituted succinic acid derivatives in high yields. Initial dirhodium(II) carboxylate catalysis rapidly converts enoldiazo-acetates or -acetamides to DACPs that undergo catalyst-free Favorskii ring opening with amines, and also with anilines, alcohols, and thiols, when facilitated by catalytic amounts of 4-dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP). This methodology provides easy access to mixed esters and amides of monosubstituted succinic acids, including derivatives of naturally occurring compounds. It also affords dihydrazide, dihydroxamic acid, and diamide derivatives, as well as α-substituted tetrahydropyridazine-3,6-diones in high yields. Attempts to generate optically enriched DACPs were not successful because their populations having the R and S configurations formed with a chiral dirhodium catalyst are quite similar, and the loss of enantiocontrol likely originates from the DACP ring forming step which is reversible with its intermediate metal carbene. © 2020 Wiley-VCH GmbH.

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Kostiantyn O Marichev, Kan Wang, Nicole Greco, Kuiyong Dong, Jinzhou Chen, Jinping Lei, Michael P Doyle. Strain-Induced Nucleophilic Ring Opening of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropenes for Synthesis of Monosubstituted Succinic Acid Derivatives. Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany). 2021 Jan 04;27(1):340-347