Use of 1,3-dioxin-4-ones and their related compounds in synthesis. Part 28 . Asymmetric de mayo reactions using chiral spirocyclic dioxinones†

The use of rigid spirocyclic dioxinones having 1-menthone as the chiral auxiliary as the enones in the photo[2 + 2]cycloaddition reactions opened novel methods for obtaining enantiomerically pure compounds, such as iridoids. Convex side preference of the sofa-conformation of these dioxinones in the photoaddition to cyclopentene increases up to 100% by introducing either a bulky substituent or 5-hexenyl group at the 3-position to these dioxinones and, hence, highly asymmetric inter- and intramolecular de Mayo reactions have been disclosed.