A computational study of anionic alkoxide–allene and amide–allene cyclizations

Florimond Cumine; Allan Young; Hans-Ulrich Reissig; Tell Tuttle; John A. Murphy

doi:10.1002/ejoc.201701381

A computational study of anionic alkoxide–allene and amide–allene cyclizations

Florimond Cumine, Allan Young, Hans-Ulrich Reissig, Tell Tuttle, John A. Murphy

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Abstract

Computational studies have been performed on potassium alkoxide-allenes, as well as potassium and lithium amido-allenes to probe the mechanism of their cyclizations to dihydrofurans and to 2,5-dihydropyrroles. A long-standing proposal envisaged electron transfer from dimsyl anions (formed by deprotonation of the solvent DMSO) but this pathway shows an exceptionally high kinetic barrier, while direct 5-endo-trig cyclization of the alkoxides and amides is much more easily achievable. The energy profiles for 4-exo-trig cyclizations onto the allenes are also explored, and the preferred formation of the observed five-membered products is rationalized.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	6867-6871
Number of pages	5
Journal	European Journal of Organic Chemistry
Volume	2017
Issue number	46
Early online date	11 Oct 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201701381
Publication status	Published - 15 Dec 2017

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Keywords

alkoxyallenes
cyclization
density functional calculations
furans
heterocycles
pyrroles

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Cumine, F., Young, A., Reissig, H-U., Tuttle, T., & Murphy, J. A. (2017). A computational study of anionic alkoxide–allene and amide–allene cyclizations. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2017(46), 6867-6871. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201701381

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