Cascade Vinylation/8π-Electrocyclization and Cu (II)-Catalyzed Dehydrogenation toward Highly Stable Formally Antiaromatic Cycloheptatrienyl Anions

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Cascade Vinylation/8π-Electrocyclization and Cu (II)-Catalyzed Dehydrogenation toward Highly Stable Formally Antiaromatic Cycloheptatrienyl Anions

Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2023. Vol. 88. No. 9. P. 5661–5670.

Ilyushchenko M., Salikov R., Litvinenko V., Sokolova A., Belyy A., Platonov D., Tomilov Y.

An approach to the synthesis of seven-membered systems via the chain elongation of nucleophilic propenes and subsequent 8π-electrocyclization is proposed. The cascade reaction yields either cycloheptadienes or bicycloheptenes, and the latter are formed via a 6π-electrocyclization of intermediate cycloheptadienyl anion which was proved to be reversible in a basic medium. The electrocyclic nature of the ring-closing reactions was supported by density functional theory and DLPNO/CCSD(T) calculations. Highly electron-deficient cycloheptatrienes can be obtained from cycloheptadienes or bicycloheptenes via oxidation either introduced into the cascade reaction or performed as a separate reaction, with the overall yield of up to 81%. The oxidation step was performed by means of a rarely encountered Cu(II)-catalyzed dehydrogenation of cycloheptadienes or bicycloheptenes, and so the reaction mechanism was proposed. Stable formally 8π-antiaromatic cycloheptatrienyl-anion containing compounds were obtained, and some correlations between their UV–vis spectra and the structure of the distorted cycloheptatrienyl-anion moiety were clarified. Additionally, a base-induced retro-[2 + 2]-cycloaddition in a bicycloheptene derivative gave cyanotetra(methoxycarbonyl)cyclopentadienyl cesium.

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