Carroll rearrangement

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Template:Short description The Carroll rearrangement is a rearrangement reaction in organic chemistry and involves the transformation of a β-keto allyl ester into a α-allyl-β-ketocarboxylic acid.[1] This organic reaction is accompanied by decarboxylation and the final product is a γ,δ-allylketone. The Carroll rearrangement is an adaptation of the Claisen rearrangement and effectively a decarboxylative allylation.

The Carroll rearrangement (1940) in the presence of base and with high reaction temperature (path A) takes place through an intermediate enol which then rearranges in a sigmatropic Claisen rearrangement. The follow-up is a decarboxylation. This rearrangement is used in the conversion of linalool to geranylacetone.[2]

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Conversion of linalool to geranylacetone via Carroll rearrangement

Palladium-catalyzed processes

With palladium(0) as a catalyst, the reaction (Tsuji, 1980) is much milder (path B) with an intermediate allyl cation / carboxylate organometallic complex.[3]

reaction mechanism
reaction mechanism

Decarboxylation precedes allylation as evidenced by this reaction catalyzed by tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0):[4]

Decarboxylative allylation mechanistic
Decarboxylative allylation mechanistic

Asymmetric decarboxylative allylation

By introducing suitable chiral ligands, the reaction becomes enantioselective.[5]

The first reported asymmetric rearrangement is catalyzed by tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium(0) and the Trost ligand:[4]

Asymmetric allylic alkylation of ketone enolates
Asymmetric allylic alkylation of ketone enolates

A similar reaction[6] uses additional naphthol.

Asymmetric Carrol rearrangement
Asymmetric Carrol rearrangement

This reaction delivers the main enantiomer with 88% enantiomeric excess. It remains to be seen if this reaction will have a wide scope because the acetamido group appears to be a prerequisite.

The same catalyst but a different ligand is employed in this enantioconvergent reaction:[7]

Asymmetric variation
Asymmetric variation

The scope is extended to asymmetric α-alkylation of ketones masked as their enol carbonate esters:[8]

Decarboxylative Allylation Trost 2005
Decarboxylative Allylation Trost 2005

References

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  1. Carroll, M. F. "131. Addition of α,β-unsaturated alcohols to the active methylene group. Part I. The action of ethyl acetoacetate on linalool and geraniol". Journal of the Chemical Society 1940, 704–706. Script error: No such module "doi".
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  3. Palladium-catalyzed rearrangement of allylic esters of acetoacetic acid to give γ,δ-unsaturated methyl ketones Tetrahedron Letters, Volume 21, Issue 33, 1980, Pages 3199-3202 Isao Shimizu, Toshiro Yamada and Jiro Tsuji Script error: No such module "doi".
  4. a b Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation of Ketone Enolates: An Asymmetric Claisen Surrogate Erin C. Burger and Jon A. Tunge Org. Lett.; 2004; 6(22) pp 4113 - 4115; (Letter) Script error: No such module "doi".
  5. Enantioselective Palladium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Allylic Alkylations Shu-Li You and Li-Xin Dai Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 5246 – 5248 Script error: No such module "doi".
  6. Kuwano, R.; Ishida N.; Murakami, M. "Asymmetric Carroll rearrangement of allyl α-acetamido-β-ketocarboxylates catalysed by a chiral palladium complex". Chemical Communications 2005, (31), 3951–3952. Script error: No such module "doi".
  7. Deracemization of Quaternary Stereocenters by Pd-Catalyzed Enantioconvergent Decarboxylative Allylation of Racemic b-Ketoesters Justin T. Mohr, Douglas C. Behenna, Andrew M. Harned, and Brian M. Stoltz Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 6924 –6927 Script error: No such module "doi".
  8. Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic α-Alkylation of Acyclic Ketones|authpr=Barry M. Trost and Jiayi Xu J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 2005; 127(49) pp 17180 - 17181; (Communication) Script error: No such module "doi".