Selected substituent effects on the rate and efficiency of formation of an eight-membered ring by RCM

Mitchell, L. and Parkinson, J.A. and Percy, Jonathan and Singh, K. (2008) Selected substituent effects on the rate and efficiency of formation of an eight-membered ring by RCM. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 73 (6). pp. 2389-2395. ISSN 0022-3263 (https://doi.org/10.1021/jo702726b)

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Abstract

Studies of a range of reactions forming cyclooctenones highlight a discrepancy between cyclization rate and cyclization efficiency. Cyclization rates change modestly as the oxygen function at the allylic position is varied, and increase upon gem-dimethylation. Cyclization efficiency has also been quantified for four substrates, revealing a range of effective molarities (EMs) of 2 orders of magnitude that are substituent dependent. The most efficient cyclization appears to result from suppression of the cross-metathesis pathway through which oligomerization begins, rather than from a particularly rapid cyclization reaction. In the presence of a Ti(IV) cocatalyst, diene monomers transform smoothly to eight-membered-ring products without the intermediacy of dimers or other oligomers, indicating that the cyclizations are kinetically and not thermodynamically controlled. The gem-dialkyl effect is also shown to be kinetic.

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Mitchell, L., Parkinson, J.A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4270-6135, Percy, Jonathan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8636-2704 and Singh, K.;
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