TY - JOUR
T1 - Synthesis and structure of a chiral areno-bridged [2.4]metacyclophane
AU - Akther, Thamina
AU - Islam, Md Monarul
AU - Matsumoto, Taisuke
AU - Tanaka, Junji
AU - Thuéry, Pierre
AU - Redshaw, Carl
AU - Yamato, Takehiko
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the OTEC at Semnan University for financial support. This work was performed under the Cooperative Research Program of “Network Joint Research Center for Materials and Devices ( Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University )”. CR thanks the EPSRC for a travel award.
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2018/1/11
Y1 - 2018/1/11
N2 - The reductive coupling reaction of 1,4-bis(3-acetyl-5-tert-butyl-2-methoxyphenyl)butane 3 was carried out using TiCl4-Zn in pyridine followed by a McMurry coupling reaction to afford the compounds anti and syn 1,2-dimethyl[2.4]MCP-1-ene 4. Bromination of 4 with BTMA-Br3 in dry CH2Cl2 afforded the interesting compound 1,2-bis-(bromomethyl)-5,15-di-tert-butyl-8,18-dimethoxy[2.4]MCP-1-ene 6 and consecutive debromination with Zn and AcOH in CH2Cl2 solution afforded the stable solid 5,15-di-tert-butyl-8,18-dimethoxy-1,2-dimethylene[2.4]MCP 7 in 89% yield. Compound 7 was conveniently employed in a Diels–Alder reaction with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD) to provide 2-(3′,6′-dihydrobenzo)-5,15-di-tert-butyl-8,18-dimethoxy[2.4]MCP-4′,5′-dimethylcarboxylate 8 in good yield. Diels–Alder adduct 8 was converted into a novel and inherently chiral areno-bridged compound [2.4]MCP 9 by aromatization. The chirality of the two conformers was characterized by circular dichroism (CD) spectra of the separated enantiomer which are perfect mirror images of each other.
AB - The reductive coupling reaction of 1,4-bis(3-acetyl-5-tert-butyl-2-methoxyphenyl)butane 3 was carried out using TiCl4-Zn in pyridine followed by a McMurry coupling reaction to afford the compounds anti and syn 1,2-dimethyl[2.4]MCP-1-ene 4. Bromination of 4 with BTMA-Br3 in dry CH2Cl2 afforded the interesting compound 1,2-bis-(bromomethyl)-5,15-di-tert-butyl-8,18-dimethoxy[2.4]MCP-1-ene 6 and consecutive debromination with Zn and AcOH in CH2Cl2 solution afforded the stable solid 5,15-di-tert-butyl-8,18-dimethoxy-1,2-dimethylene[2.4]MCP 7 in 89% yield. Compound 7 was conveniently employed in a Diels–Alder reaction with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD) to provide 2-(3′,6′-dihydrobenzo)-5,15-di-tert-butyl-8,18-dimethoxy[2.4]MCP-4′,5′-dimethylcarboxylate 8 in good yield. Diels–Alder adduct 8 was converted into a novel and inherently chiral areno-bridged compound [2.4]MCP 9 by aromatization. The chirality of the two conformers was characterized by circular dichroism (CD) spectra of the separated enantiomer which are perfect mirror images of each other.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tet.2017.11.075
DO - 10.1016/j.tet.2017.11.075
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85036652024
SN - 0040-4020
VL - 74
SP - 329
EP - 335
JO - Tetrahedron
JF - Tetrahedron
IS - 2
ER -