TY - JOUR
T1 - Iterative enolate Claisen rearrangements
T2 - Versatile route to optically pure 2,7-nonadiene-5-carboxylic acids
AU - McKew, John C.
AU - Kurth, Mark J.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - A short, versatile, and diastereoselective method of preparing 2,7-nonadiene-5-carboxylic acids by an iterative enolate Claisen rearrangement procedure has been developed. Homochiral (E)- and (Z) secondary allylic alcohols 1-4, prepared from (S)-(-)-ethyl lactate, were esterified with acetic acid and enolized, and the resulting silyl ketene acetals were warmed to room temperature to effect [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement to 4-hexenoic acids 5-8. Esterification of these acids with alcohols 1-4 followed by a second enolate Claisen rearrangement delivered the targeted 2,7-nonadiene-5-carboxylic acids with high diastereoselectivity. This second [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement provides well-placed and potentially synthetically useful functionality and stereochemistry.
AB - A short, versatile, and diastereoselective method of preparing 2,7-nonadiene-5-carboxylic acids by an iterative enolate Claisen rearrangement procedure has been developed. Homochiral (E)- and (Z) secondary allylic alcohols 1-4, prepared from (S)-(-)-ethyl lactate, were esterified with acetic acid and enolized, and the resulting silyl ketene acetals were warmed to room temperature to effect [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement to 4-hexenoic acids 5-8. Esterification of these acids with alcohols 1-4 followed by a second enolate Claisen rearrangement delivered the targeted 2,7-nonadiene-5-carboxylic acids with high diastereoselectivity. This second [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement provides well-placed and potentially synthetically useful functionality and stereochemistry.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000859499
VL - 58
SP - 4589
EP - 4595
JO - Journal of Organic Chemistry
JF - Journal of Organic Chemistry
SN - 0022-3263
IS - 17
ER -