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Cette thèse présente la réactivité de diènes polyfonctionnalisés incorporant un atome de bore (diènes borylés) en présence de composés de type nitroso. La première partie est une étude de la réactivité des diènes borylés en présence de dérivés arylnitroso. Le produit formé ainsi que l'efficacité de la réaction est dépendant de la substitution sur l'atome de bore ainsi que du solvant utilisé pour la réaction. Suivant les conditions employées, la formation de composés avec différentes structures; pyrroles, oxazines substitués par un atome de bore, ou nitrones a été obtenue. Une stratégie one-pot a ensuite été développée pour la synthèse d'oxazolines utilisant la formation des nitrones en tant qu'intermédiaire. Des investigations théoriques et pratiques concernant le mécanisme de la formation du pyrrole ont été réalisées. La séquence expliquant la synthèse de cette structure est basée sur la cascade suivante; cycloaddition régiosélective (Nitroso Diels-Alder)/réarrangement/élimination du borate. La formation des composés de type nitrone n'a pas été totalement explicité. Des recherches sont actuellement en cours dans le but d'obtenir plus de détails sur le mécanisme mis en jeu. La deuxième partie de l'étude est orientée sur la réactivité des diènes borylés en présence de dérivés carbonylnitroso. Au contraire des dérivés arylnitroso, la nature du composé carbonylnitroso joue un rôle majeur sur la réactivité. Si le même type de réactivité engendrant la formation de pyrroles et d'oxazines substitués par un atome de bore a été observé dans certains cas, l'utilisation d'un composé carbonylnitroso étant assez pauvre en électrons génère la formation du produit issu d'une réaction nitroso-ène. Ce produit, issu de la réaction nitrosoène, a été utilisé comme intermédiaire clé pour la synthèse de différents produits polycycliques. Une séquence one-pot, multicomposants, Diels-Alder/allylboration a été optimisée donnant différentes structures suivant le dienophile et l'aldehyde employé. Dans le but de diversifier la chimie du produit résultant de la réaction nitroso-ène, une autre séquence a été mise au point utilisant la synthèse des pyrroles. Une voie multi-étape a permis la synthèse de nouvelles structures bicycliques incorporant une oxazine et un pyrrole. / This thesis presents the reactivity of dienylboronated compounds towards arylnitroso and carbonylnitroso derivatives and its use in the synthesis of heterocyclic and polycyclics compounds. The first study focused on the reactivity of dienylboronate compounds with arylnitroso derivatives resulting in pyrrole or furan products. The outcome and efficiency of the reaction is related to the boron on the dienyl moiety and the solvent used. Using the certain conditions, pyrroles, boronated MIDA ester oxazines or nitrones could be obtained. A one-pot strategy was then applied to synthesise oxazoline derivatives using nitrones as an intermediate. Theoretical, as well as experimental, work has supported that the formation of the pyrrole was obtained by a regioselective nitroso Diels-Alder reaction/rearrangement/borate elimination cascade process. Details on the nitrone formation have not been clarified, but further investigations are on-going. Secondly, attention was focused on the reactivity of dienylboronate compounds with carbonylnitroso derivatives. Contrary to the arylnitroso species, the nature of the carbonylnitroso had a dramatic impact on reactivity. On the one hand, similar reactivity towards the formation of pyrroles and boronated MIDA ester oxazines was observed, however, by employing a higher electron-deficient carbonylnitroso species, the product resulting from a nitroso-ene reaction was obtained. Ene-product was used as the key intermediate for the synthesis of different polycyclic compounds. A multicomponent, one-pot, Diels-Alder/allylboration procedure was optimised to yield various structures depending on the nature of the dienophile and the aldehyde. To diversify the chemistry of the ene-product another sequence was designed using the pyrrole synthesis. A multi-step pathway was optimised to afford novel fused bicylic oxazine-pyrrole products.

SUMMARY The moenomycin-type compounds are known to inhibit selectively the enzyme penicillin binding protein 1b (PBP 1b) that catalyses the transglycosylation reaction in the biosynthesis of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan. The moenomycins (see moenomycin A12) have been shown to interfere with this biosynthetic step interacting with the enzyme(s). The moenomycins do not induce resistance readily. A weak point in this respect may, however, be the phosphate bond to unit F. Its cleavage by a yet poorly characterized enzyme is the only enzymatic degradation reaction of the moenomycins that is known to-date. With this in mind we started a programme aimed at synthesizing trisaccharide analogues of moenomycin A12 in which the phosphate oxygen at C-1 of unit F is replaced by a CH2 group. It seemed important to retain all other functional groups in ring F as present in moenomycin since they are known to be of major importance as far as antibiotic activity is concerned. It appeared that the commercially available and cheap b-D-galactose-pentaacetate 30 would be an interesting starting material for this synthesis. In this work, the synthesis began with the introduction of the C-glycoside appendage at position 1 according to Giannis et al., thus forming the allyl C-galactopyranoside 34, a substance that represents the first C-glycosyl backbone for the synthesis of the glycosyl acceptors. The total synthesis of the glycosyl acceptors is shown in Scheme 6.1. We wanted to convert the C-allyl glycoside 34 into its propenyl analogue. Attempts to achieve this with singlet oxygen and palladium-mediated reaction proved fruitless. On the other hand, ene reaction of 34 with 4-phenyltriazolin-3,5-dione in CH2Cl2 provided 56 in 83 % yield. Ozonolysis of this alkene (-70 °C, MeOH-CH2Cl2) and subsequent quenching with dimethyl sulfide, followed by reduction of the crude aldehyde with sodium acetoxyborohydride (prepared from NaBH4 and AcOH in THF) furnished the primary alcohol 35 (85 %). This alcohol was converted into the mesylate 60 (60 %), and this in turn into the bromide 61 (80 %) by heating it at 80 °C with tetrabutylammonium bromide in toluene. The acetate groups were hydrolysed using Zemplén conditions to furnish 62 quantitatively. The primary hydroxyl group in 62 was protected as a tBuPh2Si ether 63 (85 %) on reaction with TBDPSCl in DMF at 0 °C, and as a tBuMe2Si ether 94 (87 %) on reaction with TBDMSCl in DMF at 0 °C in the presence of imidazole. PTScatalysed isopropylidenation of the 3,4-diols 63 and 94 with 2,2-dimethoxypropane in dry acetone gave the 3,4-O-acetonide derivatives 53 (88 %) and 95 (90 %), respectively. On the other hand, the glycosyl acceptor 53 was converted into the glycosyl acceptor 92. The free hydroxyl group in compound 53 was protected as an acetate group on reaction with acetic anhydride in pyridine in the presence of DMAP giving 89 (88 %). The silyl ether in 89 was cleaved with a molar solution of TBAF in THF affording compound 90 in 87 % yield. The free hydroxyl group in 90 was then subjected to an oxidation using the TEMPO method affording the aldehyde which was in turn oxidised with sodium chlorite to the corresponding acid. The acid was converted to the amide 91, making use of Staab's method, in which the acid was activated with CDI in dichloromethane to give the imidazolide, which upon reaction with ammonia furnished the amide 91 in an overall yield of 95 %. The required glycosyl acceptor 92 was obtained in quantitative yield by cleavage of the ester bond at position 5 under Zemplén conditions. Disaccharide formation was achieved employing the Jacquinet and Blatter method, which involves the use of glycosyl donor 67 and TMSOTf. No reaction was observed between this donor and acceptor 92, which may reflect the low nucleophilicity of the acceptor. On the contrary, glycosylation with acceptor 53 gave 68 (79 %). Deprotection of the silyl group in the disaccharide 68 was easily accomplished on treatment with a molar solution of TBAF in THF at RT affording 71 (89 %). Synthesis of the uronamide 72 was achieved after three major steps, in an overall yield of 98 %. Oxidation of the primary hydroxyl group in unit F to the corresponding aldehyde was accomplished with sodium hypochlorite and TEMPO. Oxidation of the crude aldehyde to the carboxylic acid with sodium chlorite followed by amide formation according to Staab gave 72. Removal of the isopropylidene group from 72 with trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) at RT furnished the diol 73 (89 %). Introduction of the carbamoyl group at C-4F position was achieved in two steps. Conversion of the diol 73 into the cyclic carbonate 76 with CDI in CH2Cl2 (84 %) and subsequent ring opening of this carbonate by bubbling a stream of gaseous ammonia into the CH2Cl2 solution at 0 °C gave 74 (62 %) as well as its isomer 77 (21 %). Dehalogenation of the N-trichloroacetyl group was intensively studied, but interactions of other functional groups in the studied substances could not be avoided. The base-labile carbonate in 76 and the carbamoyl group in urethane 74 were cleaved under the reaction conditions. Hydrolysis of 76 with 0.5 M LiOH in MeOH-THF (1:1) followed by acetylation gave 80 (73 %), while its reduction with NaBH4 in ethanol followed by acetylation gave 82 (60 °C, 85 %; RT, 83 %). On the other hand, reduction of 74 with NaBH4 in ethanol at 60 °C followed by acetylation gave 82 (78 %), while performing the reduction step at 5 °C (THF-MeOH 4:1) or at RT (ethanol or isopropanol) gave 80 in an average yield of 65 %. In a non reproducible reaction (NaBH4, EtOH, RT, then Ac2O, pyridine, RT), the desired compound 83 (42 %) was obtained accompanied by 82 (46 %) The reaction between the N-trichloroacetyl group and NaBH3CN was also fruitless. The phosphonate grouping was installed making use of Arbuzov reaction furnishing 85 (70 %). Trisaccharides could not be obtained from the oxazoline donor 42 (prepared from chitobiose octaacetate 86) through its reaction with acceptor 53. There was also no coupling product between the recently synthesized donor 88 and the acceptor 92. However, in this work, trisaccharide formation was achieved through the glycosylation reaction of donor 88 and acceptor 95 in 50 % yield (-30 °C, 1,2-dichloroethane, 3 Å, TMSOTf-TEA). Selective deprotection of the TBDMS group in compound 96 was accomplished at -10 °C with 1 eq of a molar solution of TBAF in THF. The free hydroxyl group of 97 was subjected to an oxidation using the TEMPO method affording the aldehyde. After oxidation of the aldehyde with sodium chlorite, the resulting carboxylic acid was converted according to Staab's method into the amide 93 in an overall yield of 95 % (based on 96). There were difficulties in converting the N-phthalimido group in 93 to the N-acetyl group which is necessary for biological activity of moenomycin-type compounds, since the reactions were accompanied by elimination of HBr. In conclusion, the synthetic methods employed in this work allow to prepare the di- and trisaccharides C-phosphonate analogues of moenomycin A12. / Synthese von Phosphonat-Analoga des Antibiotikums Moenomycin A12 Universität Leipzig, Dissertation Diese Arbeit enthält 130 Seiten, 73 Abbildungen, 1 Tabelle, 156 Literaturangaben Referat: Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden C-Glycosid-Di- und Trisaccharid-Bausteine des Antibiotikums Moenomycin A12 ausgehend von b-D-Galactose-pentaacetat hergestellt. Das Ausgangmaterial wurde in D-Galactoheptonamid übergeführt. Die Einheit F des Disaccharidbausteins hat alle Substituenten, die die Einheit F des Moenomycins A12 hat. Der ausgearbeitete Syntheseweg sollte zur Synthese anderer Analoga geeignet sein.

Les composés organoborés constituent des outils remarquables en synthèse organique de par leur chimie très diversifiée. Les travaux présentés dans ce mémoire abordent de nouveaux aspects de leur réactivité. Une méthode de synthèse rapide et efficace de 9-hydroxyfluorènes est décrite via une séquence tandem Suzuki/ aldolisation phénolique. Ce processus a été ensuite étendu aux 9-aminofluorènes en ajoutant simplement comme troisième partenaire diverses amines au milieu réactionnel. Des hypothèses mécanistiques sont proposées pour rationaliser ces résultats expérimentaux. Dans une deuxième partie, est présentée une étude articulée autour de la mise en œuvre de réactions ène sur des diènes borylés 1,3. Les produits ainsi obtenus sont ensuite utilisés comme intermédiaires clé de structures polycycliques plus complexes. Enfin, le troisième chapitre est consacré à une nouvelle voie d'accès aux pyrroles C-fusionnés à partir de diènes cycliques borylés, ces derniers étant préparés par hydroboration d'énynes, bora-Wittig ou métathèse. Une grande diversité structurale est alors accessible à partir de ces précurseurs d'accès aisé. / Organoboron compounds are remarkable tools in organic synthesis due to their very diversified chemistry. The work presented in this thesis addresses new aspects of their reactivity. A rapid and efficient synthesis of 9-hydroxyfluorenes is described via a tandem Suzuki/phenol aldolisation sequence. This process was then extended to 9-aminofluorenes by simply adding various amines to the reaction medium as the third partner. Mechanistic hypotheses are proposed to rationalize these experimental results. In a second part, was presented a study articulated around the implementation of ene reactions on borylated 1,3-dienes. The products thus obtained are then used as key intermediates of more complex polycyclic scaffolds. Finally, the third chapter is dedicated to a new access to C-fused pyrroles from borylated cyclic dienes, the latter being prepared by hydroboration of enynes, boron-Wittig or metathesis reactions. A great structural diversity is then accessible from these easily prepared precursors.

This thesis describes the efforts towards the synthesis of the guaiane-6,12-olide skeleton, which characterises the guaianolide family of bioactive natural compounds. Two approaches have been investigated: the intramolecular hetero Diels Alder (IMHDA) reaction and the intramolecular carbonyl ene reaction. This thesis has been divided in three sections: the first part gives a general background about the guaianolides, the second section describes the synthetic approaches we investigated and, finally, the third section reports the experimental details. The first section gives a brief overview about the biosynthesis, the biological activities of the guaianolides, and the most interesting synthetic approaches to obtain them. The second section describes the two different approaches we investigated and gives a theoretical background about the main chemical transformations used. At first, the IMHDA reaction approach is described: a brief overview of palladium catalysis and Diels Alder reaction is given, and it is followed by the results and discussion of our study. Similarly, a theoretical background of the Alder ene reaction is given, before the results and discussion of the intramolecular carbonyl ene reaction approach are described: particular importance is given to the reasoning that led to the assignment of the relative configuration of the cycloadducts obtained, and to the rationalisation of this stereochemical outcome. Finally, the third section gives a complete description of the experimental procedures followed, and of the experimental data for the synthetic studies performed in the previous chapter.

SUMMARY The moenomycin-type compounds are known to inhibit selectively the enzyme penicillin binding protein 1b (PBP 1b) that catalyses the transglycosylation reaction in the biosynthesis of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan. The moenomycins (see moenomycin A12) have been shown to interfere with this biosynthetic step interacting with the enzyme(s). The moenomycins do not induce resistance readily. A weak point in this respect may, however, be the phosphate bond to unit F. Its cleavage by a yet poorly characterized enzyme is the only enzymatic degradation reaction of the moenomycins that is known to-date. With this in mind we started a programme aimed at synthesizing trisaccharide analogues of moenomycin A12 in which the phosphate oxygen at C-1 of unit F is replaced by a CH2 group. It seemed important to retain all other functional groups in ring F as present in moenomycin since they are known to be of major importance as far as antibiotic activity is concerned. It appeared that the commercially available and cheap b-D-galactose-pentaacetate 30 would be an interesting starting material for this synthesis. In this work, the synthesis began with the introduction of the C-glycoside appendage at position 1 according to Giannis et al., thus forming the allyl C-galactopyranoside 34, a substance that represents the first C-glycosyl backbone for the synthesis of the glycosyl acceptors. The total synthesis of the glycosyl acceptors is shown in Scheme 6.1. We wanted to convert the C-allyl glycoside 34 into its propenyl analogue. Attempts to achieve this with singlet oxygen and palladium-mediated reaction proved fruitless. On the other hand, ene reaction of 34 with 4-phenyltriazolin-3,5-dione in CH2Cl2 provided 56 in 83 % yield. Ozonolysis of this alkene (-70 °C, MeOH-CH2Cl2) and subsequent quenching with dimethyl sulfide, followed by reduction of the crude aldehyde with sodium acetoxyborohydride (prepared from NaBH4 and AcOH in THF) furnished the primary alcohol 35 (85 %). This alcohol was converted into the mesylate 60 (60 %), and this in turn into the bromide 61 (80 %) by heating it at 80 °C with tetrabutylammonium bromide in toluene. The acetate groups were hydrolysed using Zemplén conditions to furnish 62 quantitatively. The primary hydroxyl group in 62 was protected as a tBuPh2Si ether 63 (85 %) on reaction with TBDPSCl in DMF at 0 °C, and as a tBuMe2Si ether 94 (87 %) on reaction with TBDMSCl in DMF at 0 °C in the presence of imidazole. PTScatalysed isopropylidenation of the 3,4-diols 63 and 94 with 2,2-dimethoxypropane in dry acetone gave the 3,4-O-acetonide derivatives 53 (88 %) and 95 (90 %), respectively. On the other hand, the glycosyl acceptor 53 was converted into the glycosyl acceptor 92. The free hydroxyl group in compound 53 was protected as an acetate group on reaction with acetic anhydride in pyridine in the presence of DMAP giving 89 (88 %). The silyl ether in 89 was cleaved with a molar solution of TBAF in THF affording compound 90 in 87 % yield. The free hydroxyl group in 90 was then subjected to an oxidation using the TEMPO method affording the aldehyde which was in turn oxidised with sodium chlorite to the corresponding acid. The acid was converted to the amide 91, making use of Staab''s method, in which the acid was activated with CDI in dichloromethane to give the imidazolide, which upon reaction with ammonia furnished the amide 91 in an overall yield of 95 %. The required glycosyl acceptor 92 was obtained in quantitative yield by cleavage of the ester bond at position 5 under Zemplén conditions. Disaccharide formation was achieved employing the Jacquinet and Blatter method, which involves the use of glycosyl donor 67 and TMSOTf. No reaction was observed between this donor and acceptor 92, which may reflect the low nucleophilicity of the acceptor. On the contrary, glycosylation with acceptor 53 gave 68 (79 %). Deprotection of the silyl group in the disaccharide 68 was easily accomplished on treatment with a molar solution of TBAF in THF at RT affording 71 (89 %). Synthesis of the uronamide 72 was achieved after three major steps, in an overall yield of 98 %. Oxidation of the primary hydroxyl group in unit F to the corresponding aldehyde was accomplished with sodium hypochlorite and TEMPO. Oxidation of the crude aldehyde to the carboxylic acid with sodium chlorite followed by amide formation according to Staab gave 72. Removal of the isopropylidene group from 72 with trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) at RT furnished the diol 73 (89 %). Introduction of the carbamoyl group at C-4F position was achieved in two steps. Conversion of the diol 73 into the cyclic carbonate 76 with CDI in CH2Cl2 (84 %) and subsequent ring opening of this carbonate by bubbling a stream of gaseous ammonia into the CH2Cl2 solution at 0 °C gave 74 (62 %) as well as its isomer 77 (21 %). Dehalogenation of the N-trichloroacetyl group was intensively studied, but interactions of other functional groups in the studied substances could not be avoided. The base-labile carbonate in 76 and the carbamoyl group in urethane 74 were cleaved under the reaction conditions. Hydrolysis of 76 with 0.5 M LiOH in MeOH-THF (1:1) followed by acetylation gave 80 (73 %), while its reduction with NaBH4 in ethanol followed by acetylation gave 82 (60 °C, 85 %; RT, 83 %). On the other hand, reduction of 74 with NaBH4 in ethanol at 60 °C followed by acetylation gave 82 (78 %), while performing the reduction step at 5 °C (THF-MeOH 4:1) or at RT (ethanol or isopropanol) gave 80 in an average yield of 65 %. In a non reproducible reaction (NaBH4, EtOH, RT, then Ac2O, pyridine, RT), the desired compound 83 (42 %) was obtained accompanied by 82 (46 %) The reaction between the N-trichloroacetyl group and NaBH3CN was also fruitless. The phosphonate grouping was installed making use of Arbuzov reaction furnishing 85 (70 %). Trisaccharides could not be obtained from the oxazoline donor 42 (prepared from chitobiose octaacetate 86) through its reaction with acceptor 53. There was also no coupling product between the recently synthesized donor 88 and the acceptor 92. However, in this work, trisaccharide formation was achieved through the glycosylation reaction of donor 88 and acceptor 95 in 50 % yield (-30 °C, 1,2-dichloroethane, 3 Å, TMSOTf-TEA). Selective deprotection of the TBDMS group in compound 96 was accomplished at -10 °C with 1 eq of a molar solution of TBAF in THF. The free hydroxyl group of 97 was subjected to an oxidation using the TEMPO method affording the aldehyde. After oxidation of the aldehyde with sodium chlorite, the resulting carboxylic acid was converted according to Staab''s method into the amide 93 in an overall yield of 95 % (based on 96). There were difficulties in converting the N-phthalimido group in 93 to the N-acetyl group which is necessary for biological activity of moenomycin-type compounds, since the reactions were accompanied by elimination of HBr. In conclusion, the synthetic methods employed in this work allow to prepare the di- and trisaccharides C-phosphonate analogues of moenomycin A12. / Synthese von Phosphonat-Analoga des Antibiotikums Moenomycin A12 Universität Leipzig, Dissertation Diese Arbeit enthält 130 Seiten, 73 Abbildungen, 1 Tabelle, 156 Literaturangaben Referat: Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden C-Glycosid-Di- und Trisaccharid-Bausteine des Antibiotikums Moenomycin A12 ausgehend von b-D-Galactose-pentaacetat hergestellt. Das Ausgangmaterial wurde in D-Galactoheptonamid übergeführt. Die Einheit F des Disaccharidbausteins hat alle Substituenten, die die Einheit F des Moenomycins A12 hat. Der ausgearbeitete Syntheseweg sollte zur Synthese anderer Analoga geeignet sein.

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In the first part of this thesis is related to the regioselectivity in ene reaction of singlet oxygen with cyclic alkenes. The photooxygenation of 1-methyl-, 2,3-dimethyl-, 1,4-dimethylcyclohexa-1,4-dienes, 1,2,3,4,5,8-hexahydronaphthalene (16) and 2,3,4,7-tetrahydro-1H-indene (17) which are readily available through Birch reduction, yielded the ene products. The formed endocyclic dienes were trapped by the addition of singlet oxygen to give corresponding bicyclic endoperoxy-hydroperoxides. In the case of 1-methylcyclohexa-1,4-diene (13) and 1,4-dimethyl-cyclohexa-1,4-diene (15), cis-effect determined the product distribution. Photooxygenation of 2,3-dimethylcyclohexa-1,4-dienes (14) gave mainly exocyclic olefin, which was attributed to the lowered rotational barrier of the methyl group and increased reactivity of the methyl groups. Photooxygeneation of 1,2,3,4,5,8-hexahydronaphthalene (16) and 2,3,4,7-tetrahydro-1H-indene (17) shows importance of the geometry of the allylic hydrogen in the ground state. In the second part of this thesis is related to the stereoselective synthesis of carbaheptopyranose derivatives. Two new carbaheptopyranoses, 5a-carba-6-deoxy-&alpha / -DL-galacto-heptopyranose (184) and 5a-carba-6-deoxy-&alpha / -DL-gulo-heptopyranose (185) have been prepared starting from cyclohexa-1,4-diene. The addition of dichloroketene to cyclohexa-1,4-diene followed by subsequent reductive elimination and Baeyer-Villiger oxidation formed the bicyclic lactone 188. Reduction of the lactone moiety followed by acetylation gave the diacetate 182b with cis-configuration. Introduction of additional acetate functionality into the molecule was achieved by singlet oxygen ene-reaction. The formed hydroperoxide 189 was reduced and then acetylated. The double bond in triacetate was further functionalized either by direct cis-hydroxylation using OsO4 or epoxidation followed by ring-opening reaction to give the hepto-pyranose derivatives 184 and 185.

The thesis describes synthesis and reactions of allene azides tethered to various functional groups and the application of the discovered cascade transformations towards the synthesis of radianspene J model system. Chapter 1 covers reactions of simple allene azides containing alkyl and cycloalkyl substituents. Thermal rearrangements of these substrates delivered isocyanides and azadienes via the proposed azatrimethylenemethane (ATMM) intermediates. On the other hand, vinylidenecyclopropanes (VDCPs) gave dramatically different products, as described in Chapter 2. A phenyl-substituted VDCP was transformed into an unstable polycyclic compound by a divinylcyclopropane rearrangement. Chapter 3 discusses allene azides tethered to furan, N-substituted pyrroles, and E- and Z-dienes. Depending on the structure of the starting material, products of formal (3+4)- or (2+3)-cycloaddition were formed. Finally, an application of the discovered cyclisation cascade towards total synthesis is described in Chapter 4. A model system of radianspene J was assembled using a key transannular cycloaddition of a macrocyclic allene.