AND 7-PH!NTLCTCLOHIPTA-1,3,5-TRIIN!S FRON B!NZVAL!NI VIA 3,3A,,,5,5, &A 4 H!XAHYDRO·•,S,&-M!TH!NOCYCLOPBNTAPYRAZOLIS and TBTRACYCLO[ •
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Tetrahedron Vol. 45, No. 10, pp. 2905 to 2915, 1989 0040-4020/89 $3.00+.00 Printed in Great Britain. © 1989 Pergarnon Press plc 7-M!THYL- AND 7-PH!NTLCTCLOHIPTA-1,3,5-TRIIN!S FRON B!NZVAL!NI VIA 3,3a,,,5,5, &a 4 H!XAHYDRO·•,s,&-M!TH!NOCYCLOPBNTAPYRAZOLIS AND TBTRACYCLO[ •. 1. 0.01 ' • 0~' 1 lHIPTAHIS MANFRED CHRIStL••, ERICH BRUNN•, WOLFGANG R. ROTH~, AND HANS-WERHER LENNARTZ' Institut für Organische Chemie der Universität Würzburg•, Am Hubland, D-8700 Würzburg, Federal Republ ic of Germany Fakultät für Chemie der Universität Bochum~, Postfach 102148, D-4630 Bochum 1, Federal Republic of Germany (Received in Belgium 8 August 1988) Abstract: The addition of benzvalene < n to diazomethane, diazoethane, 2- diazopropane, phenyldiazomethane, and diphenyldiazomethane afforded the 1-pyrazolines 2a-; in good yields. By means of competition experiments, the relative reactivities of benzvalene 111 and norbornene with regard to diazomethane and 2-diazopropane have been determined. The fact that benz valene reacts about twice as fast as norbornene with both diazoalkanes cannot be rationalized on the basis of frontier orbital energies. On direct photolysis, the pyrazolines 2a-; were converted into the tetracy 2 4 3 clo[ 4. 1. 0. 0 • • 0 •., l heptanes 4a-; exclusi vely. These compounds gave the 1,3,5-cycloheptatrienes !5a,b,d,t,; in high yields on treatment with sil ver ions, thus providing better access to 7, 7-dimethyl-( Sdl and 7.7- diphenylcycloheptatriene C 5;1 than before. Su1•prisingly. the latter com pound is in equilibrium with a substantial Quantity of the norcaradiene form. - The heat of reaction for the rearrangement of •• to 5a has been determined, which allows to derive the heat of formation of tetracyclo l4.1.0.02'4.03''1heptane <4al. The most generally applicable methods for the synthesis of 1, 3,5-cyclohepta triene derivatives are reactions of the tropylium cation with nucleophiles and the addition of carbenes to benzene. 1 While the former can give unequivocally only 7- monosubstituted cycloheptatrienes, the latter is also suitable for the preparation of certain derivatives disubstituted in the 7-position. However, many carbenes do not react with benzene or qive products only in low yields. Obviously, 7, 7-di- methylcycloheptatriene < Sd) cannot be obtained via this route, since it has exclu sively been prepared by using other approaches 2 ' 3 Formed in low yield on ther molysis or photolysis of diphenyldiazomethane in benzene, 7,7-diphenylcyclohepta triene C5;) appears in the litersture for the firsttime in 1988. 4 We wish to report here a three-step reaction sequence rendering cycloheptatrienes with one or two methyl or phenyl substituents in the 7-position accessible in good yields. This method demonstrates a utilization of benzvalene as benzene equivalent. ,,3-Dipolar cycloadditiona of diazoalkanea with beniValent~ As early as 1973, we described the addition of diazomethane to benzvalene. • The yield of 1-pyrazoline 2a has now been increased considerably, and in addition diazoethane, 2-diazopropane, phenyldiazomethane, and diphenyldiazomethane have been found to give the corresponding pyrazolines 2b-; in good yields. In the cases of diazoethane and phenyldiazomethane, the ratios of the diastereemers 2b : 2c '"' 1. 7 : 1. 0 and 2• : 2f • 1. 5 : 1. 0, respectively, indicate only a minor stereoselectivity. The structure of the 1-pyrazolines 2 is established unambiguously by analytical and spectral data. The stereochemical assignment within the isomeric pairs 2b,c and 2e,r is based on the maqnitude of the coupling constants 3 ~3.Jo in the 'H-NHR 2905 2906 M. Cmusn et al. spectra (see Table 1) and on the y-gauche effect of the ~-3-substituent <R'> on the chemical shift of C-4 in the ' 3 C-NHR spectra <see Table 21. Although C-5 and C-7 match each other rather closely, their signals can be distinguiahed by means of long-range 13 C-H coupling constants as noted earlier for related tricyclo- 13. 1.0.02 •'Jhexane derivatives. 7 Similarly, the absorptions of C-4 and C-6 differ markedly in their fine structure with that of C-4 being much better resolved. diazoalkane R' R2 product yield CII + N2CR 1 R2 b NzCHz H H 2a 83 NzCHCH:~ H CH:r 2b 31 (58) l CH:~ H 2c NzCC CH:~ I z CH:r CH:r 2cl 93 Hz CHC, Hs H 2e 44 N c, "' ( 73) 5 ~ c, Hs H 2r ~H 2 N:z C< c, Hs > 2 c, Hs c, Hs 2g 72 Table 1. 'H-NHR chemical shifta < S values> and coupling conatants <absolute valuea, Hz) of ~-3,3a,4,5,6,6a-hexahydro-4, 5,6-methenocyclopentapyrazolea <2> in CDCl3. The multiplicities are given only for the parent compound <2a>: they are observed only in a high-field spectrum, aince at low field second order effecta interfere. The following coupling constanta are those of 2a with the deviations in the apectra or the derivatives beinc;r at moat ±0.5 Hz: ~3,3 • 18.0. ~JLLL.J• • 8.5, ~l.LLL••• .. 1.8, ~3LJI...LL,3• "'3.5, ~3.l...l...t..l..•'• = 2.5, ~:r •• • • 1.5, ~3•·•• = 7.0, 1.:ro.r • ~···" 1 . 3. ~· • ' • .l• . ., • .l• . ' • ~· . ., • 1 . 7. .l• . ' • 5. 0. ~· • 7 = 9. 2. 1.• • • • = 1 . 7. compd ~-3-H endo-3-H 3a-H 4-H 5-H 7-H 6-H 6a-H 2a 4.06 4. 15 2.23 2. 05 2. 12 1. 83 2.79 5. 15 ddd ddd dddt dq dt dqui dq ddq 2b. 4.23 1. 70-2.40 2.78 5. 20 2c~ 4. 06 1.70-2.40 2. 78 5. 12 2cl" 1. 70-2.30 2.73 5. 12 2•" 5. 18 2. 00-2. 30 1. 93 2.85 5. 33 zr• 2. 46 1. 30 1.93 1. 71 2. 85 2g• 2.93 1. 38 2.00 1. 70 2. 87 5.35 "1. 23 ( d, J = 7. 3, CH:r>. • 1. 52 ( d, J = 7. 5. CH:r>. c 1. 1 0 ( s. .!..!..Q.-CH:~>, 1. 43 ( s. endo-CH3 >. •7.00-7. 30 ( m, c, Hs). "6. 9-7:-s < m, c, Hs). f 4. 9-5. 4. 1 7. 30 (m, 2 c, Hs). Table 2. '.JC-NMR chemical shifts < S valuea> and 13 C-H couplinq constants <Hz> of ~-3.3a,4,5,6,6a-hexahydro-4,5,6-methenocyclopentapyrazoles <2>. The '.J..c.w values are given only for the parent compound <2a> <second line) with the deviationa in the apectra of the derivatives being at most ±3 Hz. Among the coupling constanta aerOB!! two or more bonds. the following are conaidered tobe unambiguous: .J~c-•·•-w 2 2 3 3 ~c-6,4-M • 13, ,lc-•,r-M • ,lc-7,'5-M • 3, ~c-7,3a-M = Ji!.c-?,6a-M • 8. Tbe specific aasignmenta are based on 1 ~c, w, substituent effects. and fine-structure patterns in the proton-coupled spectra. compd C-3 C-3a C-4 C-5 C-6 C-6a C-7 2a• 77. 5 37. 1 38. 4 7. 7 39. 2 98.7 0. 4 141 170 216 170 1 50 218 2.b··· 83. 0 44. 4 36 . ., 6. 6 37.9 97. 0 -0. 4 2o"' • 80. 2 39. 0 32. 8 5. 8 37. 9 97.8 0. 7 2cl c. f 84.8 46.8 34. 1 6. 7 38. 0 97. 3 1.1 ze··· 93. 3 47. 0 38.'2 8.0 39. 0 100.0 1.0 zt•·~ 89.0 41. 5 35. 0 6. 3 38. 8 98.9 2. 1 29°' I 97. 8 46.4 36.0 6. 3 38. 2 99. 3 2. 1 •solvent o,o,. •141 <.!.!l.SIR.-HL 139 <.!..1.2.-H>. •solvent CDCl:~. '18.1 <CH:~I. "12.9 <CH:~>. •20.9 <~-CH3), 27.6 (.!..!.Q.-CH:~>. •127.5-128.9 (.Q.-C. m-C . .R.-C>, 140.0 <!..1!.!..2. C) (C,Hs>. •121.1-128.8 <.Q.-C . .m-C, .R.-C), 138.6 <.ll!..!.2.-C> (C,H,). '126.4-128.4 (g_-C. m-c, ,2-C), 142. 6, 142. 9 ( ipso-C) ( 2 C., Hs >. Benzvalene additions 2907 Ethyl diazoacetate did not reoct with benzvalene <1>. However, methyl 2-diazo propionate and 1 afford both the stereoisomeric 1-pyrazolines. 1 The results of the reactions of 1 with tetrachlorodiazocyclopentadiene, diazofluorene, and 5-diazo- 10,11-dihydro-SH-dibenzo[a,dlcycloheptene will be described elsewhere.' With regard to the mechanism, the reaction of diazoalkanes with alkenes is one of the most thoroughly studied 1, 3-dipolar cycloadditions. This is true for experi- 10 mental as well as theoretical investigations. • Therefore, it was of interest to determine the rate of the reaction between diazomethane and benzvalene (1) and to integrate into the scale of dipolarophiles. 10 Because of the simPle experimental set-up, we have carried out competition experiments, in which 1 and norbornene, both in excess relative to the 1,3-dipole, competed for diazomethane and, in a second series, also for 2-diazopropane. The norbornene adduct 3a of diazomethane 10 ~ and the rate constant for its formation are known. 10 The norbornene adduct 3d of 2-diazopropane has now been obtained in 79% yield. In the experimental part, the data of the individual competition experiments are collected, from which the fol lowing ratios of the rate constants have been calculated according to ref. 11. 2a Rl = R2 = H 1 2 2cl R : R :CH3 k ... ft 1: II. 1 I ft I k. e o • v o I e n e di azomet hane: 1.