Cyclizations of alkynes: revisiting Baldwin's rules for ring closure

K Gilmore, IV Alabugin - Chemical Reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
According to the CRC dictionary of natural products, 1 90% of chemically individual
molecules discovered in nature contain either a carbocyclic or a heterocyclic subunit. 2 Not …

Rules for anionic and radical ring closure of alkynes

IV Alabugin, K Gilmore… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - ACS Publications
This work reexamined the stereoelectronic basis for the “favored attack trajectories”
regarding the nucleophilic and radical cyclizations of alkynes. In contrast to the original …

Aromatic transition states in nonpericyclic reactions: anionic 5-endo cyclizations are aborted sigmatropic shifts

K Gilmore, M Manoharan, JIC Wu… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The transition states (TSs) of 5-endo-dig and 5-endo-trig anionic ring closures are the first
unambiguous examples of nonpericyclic reactions with TSs stabilized by aromaticity. Their …

In search of efficient 5-endo-dig cyclization of a carbon-centered radical: 40 years from a prediction to another success for the Baldwin rules

IV Alabugin, VI Timokhin, JN Abrams… - Journal of the …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Despite being predicted to be stereoelectronically favorable by the Baldwin rules, efficient
formation of a C− C bond through a 5-endo-dig radical cyclization remained unknown for …

IR, Raman, SERS and computational study of 2-(benzylsulfanyl)-3, 5-dinitrobenzoic acid

A Raj, YS Mary, CY Panicker, HT Varghese… - Spectrochimica Acta Part …, 2013 - Elsevier
FT-IR and FT-Raman spectra of 2-(benzylsulfanyl)-3, 5-dinitrobenzoic acid were recorded
and analyzed. SERS spectra were recorded in silver colloid, silver electrode and silver …

Conformationally gated fragmentations and rearrangements promoted by interception of the Bergman cyclization through intramolecular H-abstraction: a possible …

A Baroudi, J Mauldin, IV Alabugin - Journal of the American …, 2010 - ACS Publications
A variety of fragmentations and rearrangements can follow Bergman cyclization in
enediynes equipped with acetal rings mimicking the carbohydrate moiety of natural …

Strain control in nucleophilic cyclizations: reversal of exo‐selectivity in cyclizations of hydrazides of acetylenyl carboxylic acids by annealing to a pyrazole scaffold

SF Vasilevsky, B Gold… - Journal of Physical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Independent of the nature of alkyne substitution, hydrazides of 4‐arylethynyl‐5‐carboxylic
acid annealed at the pyrazole scaffold undergo a regioselective base‐catalyzed 6‐endo‐dig …

Controlling Regioselectivity in Cyclization of Unsaturated Amidyl Radicals:  5-Exo Versus 6-Endo

YY Yu, Y Fu, M Xie, L Liu, QX Guo - The Journal of Organic …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Intramolecular cyclization of an amidyl radical onto an olefin provides an appealing method
for the synthesis of lactams and other nitrogen-containing heterocycles. Here we conducted …

Substituent effects on the rearrangements of cyclohexyl to cyclopentyl radicals involving avermectin-related radicals

JAR Luft, T Winkler, FM Kessabi… - The Journal of organic …, 2008 - ACS Publications
The rearrangement of a substituted cyclohexyl radical to a cyclopentylmethyl radical on the
skeleton of avermectin B1 has been investigated using density functional (UB3LYP/6-31G …

Tertiary alkoxyl radicals from 3-alkoxythiazole-2 (3H)-thiones

C Schur, N Becker, U Bergsträßer, T Gottwald… - Tetrahedron, 2011 - Elsevier
This study deals with the synthesis of tert-O-alkyl thiohydroxamates and their use as tert-
alkoxyl radical precursors. tert-Alkoxyl radicals were applied in mechanistic studies to …