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| Author(s): |
Paulo Sergio de Carvalho
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Química |
| Defense date: | 2013-12-20 |
| Examining board members: |
José Augusto Rosário Rodrigues;
Liliana Marzorati;
Luiz Alberto Beraldo de Moraes;
Carlos Roque Duarte Correia;
Lucia Helena Brito Baptistella
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| Advisor: | José Augusto Rosário Rodrigues |
| Abstract | |
A methodology to the synthesis of 1,2- and 1,4-benzoquinone semicyclic monoketals through the oxidation of phenols bearing a hydroxy-alkyl side chain promoted by hypervalent iodine(III) reagents is described. 3-Hydroxy-?-methyl-benzenepropanol and three of its methoxy derivatives were prepared from the respective benzaldehydes. Oxidations of 3-hydroxy-?-methyl-benzenepropanol with one equivalent of iodobenzene diacetate (IBDA) or [bis(trifluoroacetoxy)iodobenzene] (BTIB) in a variety of solvents did not furnish the expected chroman-6-ol; instead, only red-brownish polymeric materials were produced. However, better results were achieved from the oxidations of the benzenepropanols by two equivalents of IBDA in methanol or 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol (TFE) as solvent. In methanol, 4,4-dimethoxy-cyclohexa-2,5-dienones and 6,6-dimethoxy-cyclohexa-2,4-dienones were the major products, whereas in TFE, cyclizations of the nonrigid hydroxy-alkyl side chain took place to furnish 1,2- and 1,4-benzoquinone semicyclic monoketals as main products. The oxidation of the 3-hydroxy-4-methoxy derivative in methanol yielded only a Diels-Alder dimer by the cycloaddition of the unstable intermediate cyclohexa-2,4-dienone. The syntheses of the semicyclic monoketals described here represent an important achievement since these are the first examples of semicyclic ketals related to chromanols obtained by the oxidation of phenols having a nonrigid hydroxy-alkyl side chain. The final part of this work describes the initial efforts towards the synthesis of (S)-6-benzyloxy-2,5,7,8-tetramethyl-chroman-2-carbaldehyde, proposed on the basis of the developed methodology. The synthesis of this heterocyclic compound would represent a new formal synthesis of vitamin E (?-tocopherol). (AU) | |