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The first chapter of this dissertation reports the synthesis of highly fluorinated Diels-Alder polyphenylenes. The first section of this chapter describes the three-pot synthesis of a perfluoroarylated bis(cyclopentadienone) monomer. The synthesis begins with the previously reported substitution reaction of decafluorobiphenyl and sodium cyclopentadienide. To the resulting 4,4'-octafluorobiphenylene-linked bis(cyclopentadiene), six perfluoro-4-tolyl groups (three on each of the two cyclopentadienyl moieties) are attached by nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) reactions. The remaining ring methylenes are subjected to a selenium dioxide-catalyzed oxidation to obtain the desired bis(cyclopentadienone) monomer. The next part of this chapter describes the polymerization of the perfluoroarylated bis-(cyclopentadienone) monomer and bis(4-ethynylphenyl) ether. The reaction affords an oligomer (Mn ~ 14,000 g/mol according to size-exclusion chromatographic analysis) that is soluble in several solvents and that decomposes above about 300°C according to thermogravimetric analysis. The second chapter of this dissertation describes a novel method to oxidize per-fluoroarylated cyclopentadiene compounds to the corresponding ketones using catalytic selenium dioxide and stoichiometric hydrogen peroxide. The first part of this chapter shows the synthesis of some perfluoroarylated cyclopentadiene substrates, while the second part of the chapter explores the oxidation of these compounds along with other perfluoroarylated cyclopentadienes already available within our research group. This chapter also explains how the reactivity of the perfluoroarylated cyclopentadienes under the oxidation conditions depends on their structure. Generally more electron-deficient cyclopentadienes react more readily, while sterically crowded cyclopentadienes react more reluctantly. This third chapter of this dissertation describes the synthesis and characterization of a reversible Diels-Alder polymer from an octafluorobiphenylene-linked bis(cyclopentadiene). In the first section, the synthesis of a reversible homopolymer of the bis(cyclopentadiene) monomer is described. The polymer reaches an optimized molecular weight of 11,000 g/mol (degree of polymerization is 20) under the reaction conditions because there is an equilibrium between polymerization and depolymerization even at the mild polymerization temperature (65°C). The TGA trace of the polymer shows that chain degradation takes place beyond 300°C. The thermal reversibility of the polymer was examined by bulk thermolysis, and flash-vacuum thermolysis. The second section describes the synthesis of a methylated bis(cyclopentadiene) that does not undergo self-polymerization at comparatively lower temperature but instead reacts with a second bis(maleimide) monomer. The resulting polymer typically shows a number-average molecular weight of 15,400 g/mol. This polymerization also is limited by the attainment of steady-state end group concentrations. The reversibility of the polymerization is demonstrated by solution thermolysis experiments in which unmasked cyclopentadiene groups are trapped by a monofunctional maleimide. / Ph. D.

This dissertation describes a new platform for the synthesis of thermally reversible polymers, based on Diels-Alder reactions of bis-cyclopentadienes (bis-CPDs) and bis-maleimides (bis-MIs), that meets two main objectives. First, the bis-CPD must resist characteristic self-coupling. Second, the CPD-MI adducts should undergo the retro-Diels-Alder (rDA) reaction (i.e., thermal depolymerization) in a temperature regime that is comparable or slightly higher than that of the freely reversible bis-furan/bis-MI polymers (rDA between 80 °C and 130 °C) but much lower than that of bis-CPD homopolymers (rDA above 160 °C). Structure-reactivity relationships gleaned from the literature and from related but as yet unpublished work in our own laboratories led to our main hypothesis that a CPD moiety bearing one sterically encumbering substituent such as isopropyl (𝑖Pr) or tert-butyl (𝑡Bu) and one electronwithdrawing substituent such as perfluoroaryl would have the desired reactivity and adduct stability in combination with an 𝑁-substituted maleimide. Synthetic considerations led to a bisCPD monomer design in which two alkylcyclopentadiene groups (alkyl = 𝑖Pr or 𝑡Bu) are connected by an octafluorobiphenylene linker. As an initial fundamental step (Chapter 3), 1-(nonafluorobiphenyl-4’-yl)-4-tertbutylcyclopentadiene (1) was synthesized to provide a monofunctional model for the proposed difunctional CPD monomer. Reactions of 1 and 𝑁-(4-fluorophenyl)maleimide (FMI) afforded up to five regio- and stereo-isomeric adducts (of fourteen possible). Variable-temperature reactivity studies combined with NMR spectroscopic analysis, X-ray crystallography, and computational modeling enabled product distributions to be understood according to a conventional kinetic-vs- iii thermodynamic framework. These studies also predicted the microstructure of polymers derived from the proposed bis-CPD monomer, which is structurally analogous to 1, and bis-MIs. Moreover, 1 does not undergo DA self-coupling under ordinary conditions (T < 180 °C). Thermolysis studies of the major adducts revealed that the rDA becomes observable on a laboratory timescale (hours) at about 140 °C, which is at the upper end of the temperature range reported for furan+MI adducts but well below that of CPD+CPD adducts. In contrast, adducts formed from either of the analogous monosubstituted cyclopentadienes (𝑡BuC₅H₅ and C₆F₅C₅H₅) do not undergo rDA below 180 °C. These results strongly support the proposed bis-CPD monomer design. In a second fundamental step (Chapter 4), the hypothesis that an electron-withdrawing CPD substituent would destabilize a CPD-MI adduct was further tested by reacting 𝑁-(4- fluorophenyl)maleimide with a series of triarylated cyclopentadienes (1,2,3-Ar₃C₅H₃ and 1,2,4- Ar₃C₅H₃, Ar = C₆F₅, C₆F₄CF₃, and Ar = C₅F₄N). The perfluorophenyl- and perfluorotolylsubstituted compounds were previously reported, but the perfluoropyridyl-substituted cyclopentadienes were prepared for this study using SNAr reactions of pentafluoropyridine and sodium cyclopentadienide. The least electron deficient cyclopentadiene in each series (Ar = C₆F₅) reacted the most quickly and with the highest ultimate equilibrium binding constant, confirming the electron-effects hypothesis as well as the underlying presumption that DA reactions of even relatively electron-poor CPDs with MI would behave according to normal-electron-demand principles. In the main section of this dissertation (Chapter 5) the proposed bis(cyclopentadiene)s reacted with a series of previously reported bis(maleimides) to form linear polymers having molecular weights (Mn) up to 40 kDa. Relationships among the length and flexibility of the bis-MI linker (C₆H₁₂, C₁₂H₂₄, C₆H₄OC₆H₄, and (C₂H₄O)₂), the identity of the CPD alkyl substitutent (CHMe₂, CMe₃ and CMe₂Ph) and the glass transition temperature (Tg) as measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were understood in terms of a general model of local segmental mobility and free volume. Solution thermolysis of a model polymer system (bis-MI linker = C₆H₁₂ (7), CPD alkyl substituent = 𝑡Bu) showed a rapid decrease in molecular weight at 160 °C as determined by size exclusion chromatography (SEC). Solution thermolysis in the presence of excess FMI (as a trap for free CPD moieties) revealed that the onset temperature for rDA on a laboratory time scale (hours) was as low as 120 °C. In the bulk, thermolysis above 250 °C under vacuum led to recovery of a small portion of the bis-CPD monomer, but bulk thermolysis at 200 °C did not reveal a change in molecular weight as determined by SEC. The current interpretation of these observations is that limited mobility in these glassy polymers prohibits retro-DA decoupling. These findings largely validate the main hypothesis of this dissertation. / Ph. D.

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This thesis describes a new method for the synthesis of pseudodisaccharides containing a carbasugar analogue attached to a "true" sugar. The methodology is based on a Diels-Alder cycloaddition of vinyl sugars and appropriately substituted pyran-2-ones, followed by chemical manipulation of the resulting cycloadducts. The thesis also describes the synthesis of inhibitors of Golgi ¿-mannosidase II and glucokinase. The first chapter is a comprehensive survey of the reported synthetic routes to pseudodisaccharides from the literature. The results and discussions are presented in chapter 2. This chapter starts by discussion of the preparation of vinyl sugars and pyran-2-ones and the regio- and stereoselectivity of their cycloadditions. This is followed by reporting the chemical manipulations of these cycloadducts and the synthesis of a pseudodisaccharide. Cycloadducts are shown to lose carbon dioxide at elevated temperatures to afford dihydrobenzenes. The loss of the bridging carbon dioxide from the cycloadducts is experimentally and computationally investigated. The resulting dihydrobenzenes are shown to also be useful as precursors in the synthesis of pseudodisaccharides. The chemical manipulation of these dihydrobenzenes is used towards the synthesis of a pseudodisaccharide. The third and fourth chapters focus on the synthesis of new inhibitors of Golgi ¿-mannosidase II and glucokinase respectively. A range of 6-aminoglucose and mannose derivatives were prepared and tested for the inhibition of Jack bean ¿-mannosidase, but were found to lack any inhibition. Similarly, a range of 6-triazologlucose derivatives were prepared but were found to lack any cytotoxicity. The fifth chapter contains the details of the preparation, experimental procedures and spectroscopic characterisation of the synthesised chemical compounds. Rate calculations are reported in Appendix I and the X-ray crystallographic data are presented in the Appendix II.

En raison de leur grande performance, leur prix peu élevé, et leur abondance sur la terre, les catalyseurs de fer ont été choisis pour être testés dans trois différentes transformations de la chimie organique. Le premier projet concerne les réactions asymétriques de Diels-Alder catalysées par Fe⁺¹¹¹ et le ligand bipyridine chiral à des dérivés α, β-insaturés de l’oxazolidin-2-one. Dans un premier temps, nous avons testé différents solvants, diverses quantités en catalyseur, temps de réaction variés et divers sels de fer tels que Fe(ClO₄)₂·6H₂O, Fe(ClO₄)₂·6H₂O, Fe(OTf)₃, Fe(OTf)₂, FeCl₂, FeCl₃, FeBr₃ et FeI₃. Nous avons constaté que 2 mol% de Fe(ClO₄)₃·6H₂O, 2.4 mol% de ligand bipyridine chiral utilisés à –30 °C dans CH₃CN, conduisait à un très bon rendement (99%) et à un bon excès énantiomérique (98%) pour la réaction entre le cyclopentadiène et la 3-alcénoyl-1,3-oxazolidin-2-one. Ensuite, un grand nombre de diénophiles et de diènes moins réactifs ont été testés. Globalement, moins de 10 mol% de catalyseur a été utilisé. L’avantage de ce projet est de pouvoir réaliser la réaction à une température modérée, utiliser de très faibles quantités de catalyseur, obtenir de très bons rendements et d’excellentes énantiosélectivités, et avec une large gamme de substrats. Par la suite, les catalyseurs de fer ont été appliqués aux additions de thia-Michael par deux approches différentes. La première consiste en additions de thia-Michael catalysées par Fe(OTf)₂ dans l’éthanol à température ambiante. Cette méthode permet aux additions de thia-Michael d'être catalysées par un sel de fer vert et beaucoup plus écologique, en quantité catalytique (5 mol% de Fe(OTf)₂), dans un solvant couramment utilisé, EtOH, à température douce, et à atmosphère ambiante. L’avantage de cette réaction a été démontré en l’appliquant à différents accepteurs de Michael et à des thiols aliphatiques et aromatiques. La deuxième méthode consiste en des additions de thia-Michael, catalysées par Fe(OTf)₂ dans le 2-Me-THF, qui est en accord avec les principes de chimie verte en utilisant un sel de vert, Fe(OTf)₂, et un solvant vert 2-Me-THF à température ambiante ou à 50 °C sous air. Le dernier projet est l'allylation asymétrique catalysée par le Fe(OTf)₂ portant un ligand chiral. Avec l'étude d'une variété de ligands chiraux, nous avons sélectionné 5 mol% de Fe(OTf)₂ et 6 mol% de ligand Pybox qui ont catalysé la réaction avec un bon rendement (70%) et 32% d'excès énantiomérique. 20 mol% de TMSCl se sont avérés essentiels pour l'efficacité de la réaction / Iron catalysts are employed in three different organic transformations owing to their advantages: environmental friendliness, being less expensive and abundant on the Earth. The first project deals with asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions of α, β-unsaturated oxazolidin-2-one derivatives catalyzed by Fe¹¹¹ and a chiral bipyridine ligand. In order to obtain the optimized reaction conditions, we screened different solvents, catalyst loading, various reaction times and a variety of iron salts such as Fe(ClO₄)₂·6H₂O, Fe(ClO₄)₂·6H₂O, Fe(OTf)₃, Fe(OTf)₂, FeCl₂, FeCl₃, FeBr₃ and FeI₃. As a result, the reaction between cyclopentadiene and 3-alkenoyl-1,3-oxazolidin-2-one was carried out at –30 °C in CH₃CN in 1.5 h, with Fe(ClO₄)₃·6H₂O (2 mol%) complexed with the chiral bipyridine ligand (2.4 mol%) as catalyst, providing an excellent yield (99%) and an excellent enantiomeric excess (98%). Decreased enantioselectivities were observed for less-reactive dienes. Overall, less than 10 mol% of catalyst loading was employed. The great advantages of this project are the mild reaction temperature, very low catalyst loading, excellent yields and enantioselectivities and the applicability to a wide scope of substrates. Meanwhile, iron catalysts were used in thia-Michael additions by two different approaches. The first one is about thia-Michael additions catalyzed by Fe(OTf)₂ in EtOH at room temperature. This green method allows the thia-Michael additions to be catalyzed by a green iron salt (5 mol% of Fe(OTf)₂), a green and commonly used solvent EtOH at room temperature under ambient atmosphere. The generality of this reaction was demonstrated by applying it to different Michael acceptors, and to aromatic and aliphatic thiols. The second method is about thia-Michael additions catalyzed by Fe(OTf)₂ in 2-Me-THF, which is in agreement with the green chemistry principles by using a green Fe(OTf)₂ and a green solvent 2-Me-THF at room temperature or 50 °C under air atmosphere. The last project is about asymmetric allylation reactions catalyzed by Fe(OTf)₂ using a chiral ligand. With the study of a variety of chiral ligands, we selected 5 mol% of Fe(OTf)₂ and 6 mol% of Pybox ligand which catalyzed the reaction in good yield (70%) and 32% of ee. The utilization of 20 mol% of TMSCl is essential for the effectiveness of the reaction

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