Deoxygenation of Hydroquinones as a General Route to Norbornane-Fused Aromatic Systems: An Entry into Substituted and Functionalized Dimethano- and Methanoanthracenes

作者：Ganji Prasad; Ibrahim Hasim^*

来源：Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2012, 77(1): 511-518.

DOI：10.1021/jo202023w

A high-yielding route to substituted and functionalized dimethanoanthracenes by the Pd-catalyzed deoxyenation of the corresponding hydroquinone precursors is described. Attempts were made to deoxygenate the 9,10-dimesylate, ditosylate, and ditriflate derivatives of anti-dimethanoanthracene la, and it was found that under the studied conditions only the ditriflate 8a gave the corresponding deoxygenated aromatic scaffold. Optimization of the reaction conditions identified the Pd(OAc)(2)/dppf tandem as a suitable catalytic system for this transformation. The presented strategy was further extended to a novel and efficient synthetic route to methanoanthracenes employing a one-pot Pd-catalyzed deoxygenation/hydrogenation sequence.

• 出版日期2012-1-6