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Ring Strain Effects in Enyne-Allene Thermolysis: Switch from the Myers-Saito Reaction to the C2-C6 Biradical Cyclization

✍ Scribed by Michael Schmittel; Jens-Peter Steffen; Dominik Auer; Michael Maywald


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1997
Tongue
French
Weight
485 KB
Volume
38
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-4039

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✦ Synopsis


The mode of the thermal cyclization of enyne-allenes 1 depends on ring strain effects: when the ene functionality is part of a benzene, cyclohexene or cycloheptene ring the novel C2-C6biradicrd cyclization is observed, while when it is part of a cyclopentene ring the Myers-Saito cycloaromatization is registered. @ 1997Elsevier ScienceLtd.

Recent results from our laboratory2'3and later from two other groups4'5have unambiguously established that the well-known Myers-Saito cycloaromatization6'7of enyne-allenes via biradical B can be completely replaced by a novel C2-C6cyclization as soon as aryl groups or sterically demanding substituents are affixed to the acetylene terminus. Mechanistic investigationss and DFT calculations indicate that the novel cycliration


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