Rhodium-Catalysed Alkoxycarbonylative Cyclisation Reactions of 1,6-Enynes

Abstract

Transition metal-catalyzed carbonylation reactions of unsaturated systems that contain alkynyl moiety became usually used methodology for the synthesis of biologically active .,. unsaturated carbonyl compounds (Mise et. al., 1983, Yoneda et. al., 1999, Artok et. al., 2009). One type of these reactions is the alkoxycarbonylation reaction of unsaturated systems for the C-C bond formation with transition metals in the presence of alcohol and CO (Scrivanti et. al., 1998). In literature beside alkynes enyne molecules that contain more than one unsaturated moiety could also undergo transition metal-catalyzed carbonylation reactions (Rivero et. al., 2003, Shibata, 2006). Pauson-Khand reactions are well known and used reactions in literature for enyne molecules These type of reactions are transition metal-catalyzed carbonylative cyclization reactions of enyne molecules. However in literature there is no such an example for the alkoxycarbonylative reactions of 1,6-enynes. In this study rhodium-catalyzed alkoxycarbonylative cyclization reactions of 1,6 enyne molecules in the presence of alcohol and CO was performed.