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
- CH 3 O− CH 3 O−
- 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−
- H+
- C 2 H 5 O− HCl, H 2 O
- 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