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Section 19.20 Designing a Synthesis VI: Making New Carbon–Carbon Bonds 825

In planning the following synthesis, the diester that is given as the starting mate-
rial suggests that you should use a Dieckmann condensation to obtain the cyclic
compound:


After the cyclopentanone ring is formed from a Dieckmann condensation of the
starting material, alkylation of the followed by hydrolysis of the ester
and decarboxylation forms the desired product.


PROBLEM 39

Design a synthesis for each of the following compounds:

a.

b.

c.

d. CH 3 OCCH 2 COCH 3

OO

O

COH

CH

O

CH CHCOH

O

O
CH 3 OCCH 2 CH 2 COCH 3

OO

CH 2 CH 3

CCH 3

O

CCH 2 CH 2 CH 3

O

a-carbon b-keto

CH 3 O OCH 3

OO

CH 3 O OCH 3


  1. CH 3 O− CH 3 O−

  2. Br Br


OO O O

Br

CH 3 O OCH 3

OO

CH 3 O OCH 3


++


nucleophile

electrophile

O

O
O

C 2 H 5 OCCH 2 CH 2 CH 2 CH 2 COC 2 H 5

CH 3 CH 2

O O

C 2 H 5 OC

nucleophile

new bond electrophile

? −+

C 1. C
2 H 5 O−


  1. H+

    1. C 2 H 5 O− HCl, H 2 O

    2. CH 3 CH 2 Br




C 2 H 5 O O O

C 2 H 5 OC

OO

CH 3 CH 2

CO 2

C 2 H 5 OC

O

O


+ + C 2 H 5 OH

O

C 2 H 5 OC

CH 3 CH 2
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