He studied at Imperial College, London, and spent most of the years 1969 1978 at MIT, where he published his most significant work Baldwin's rules for ring closure reactions.
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In the case of the conrotatory 4 electron electrocyclic ring closure of 1, 3-butadiene, the lowest molecular orbital ? 1 is asymmetric ( A ) with respect to the C 2 axis.
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As noted above, variants that deviate from this template are known; what designates a Nazarov cyclization in particular is the generation of the pentadienyl cation followed by electrocyclic ring closure to an oxyallyl cation.
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This process is thought to proceed via the formation of a " CH 2 CO 2 H radical intermediate, which then reacts with the alkene, followed by additional oxidation steps and finally ring closure.
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Ring closure of ring III to "'8 "'was then accomplished with an aldol reaction using lithium bis ( trimethylsilyl ) amide ( using only the epimer with correct configuration ).
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Ring closure creates another chiral center at the anomeric carbon ( the one with the hemiacetal or acetal functionality ), and therefore each open-chain stereoisomer gives rise to two distinct stereoisomers ( anomers ).
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Next, DHQ synthase catalyzes a ring closure to give 4-amino3-dehydroquinate ( aminoDHQ ), which is then undergoes a double oxidation via aminoDHQ dehydratase to give 4-amino-dehydroshikimate ( aminoDHS ).
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"' SIMes "'( or "'H 2 Imes "') is an Grubbs II . It is prepared by alkylation of trimethylaniline by dibromoethane followed by ring closure and dehydrohalogenation.
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Key steps involve the construction of the six-membered ketone ring by Diels-Alder reaction, ?-allylation for synthesis of the quaternary carbon, and conjugate addition reaction for the final five-membered ring closure.
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Optically inactive Aze was obtained in small yield from ?-aminobutyric acid by ?-bromination, followed by removal of hydrogen bromide from the intermediate ?-amino-?-butyric acid and ring closure by treatment with a barium hydroxide solution.
