Longifolene
Longifolene is the common (or trivial) chemical name of a naturally occurring, oily liquid hydrocarbon found primarily in the high-boiling fraction of certain pine resins. The name is derived from that of a pine species from which the compound was isolated,[1] Chemically, longifolene is a tricyclic sesquiterpene. This molecule is chiral, and the enantiomer commonly found in pines and other higher plants exhibits a positive optical rotation of +42.73°. The other enantiomer (optical rotation −42.73°) is found in small amounts in certain fungi and liverworts.
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(1R,2S,7S,9S)- 3,3,7-trimethyl- 8-methylenetricyclo- [5.4.0.02,9]undecane | |
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C15H24 | |
Molar mass | 204.36 g/mol |
Density | 0.928 g/cm3 |
Boiling point | 254 °C (489 °F; 527 K) (706 mm Hg) |
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H304, H317, H410 | |
P261, P272, P273, P280, P301+P310, P302+P352, P321, P331, P333+P313, P363, P391, P405, P501 | |
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Longifolene is also one of two most abundant aroma constituents of lapsang souchong tea, because the tea is smoked over pinewood fires.[2]
Occurrence and syntheses
Terpentine obtained from Pinus longifolia (obsolete name for Pinus roxburghii Sarg.) contains as much as 20% of longifolene.[3]
The laboratory synthesis of longifolene has attracted much syntheses.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
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Biosynthesis
The biosynthesis of longifolene begins with farnesyl diphosphate (1) (also called farnesyl pyrophosphate) by means of a cationic polycyclization cascade. Loss of the pyrophosphate group and cyclization by the distal alkene gives intermediate 3, which by means of a 1,3-hydride shift gives intermediate 4. After two additional cyclizations, intermediate 6 produces longifolene by a 1,2-alkyl migration.
Reactions
It reacts with borane to give the derivative dilongifolylborane, which is a chiral hydroborating agent.[11]
References
- Naffa, P.; Ourisson, G. Bulletin de la Société chimique de France, 1954, 1410.
- Shan-Shan Yao; Wen-Fei Guo; YI Lu; Yuan-Xun Jiang, "Flavor Characteristics of Lapsang Souchong and Smoked Lapsang Souchong,a Special Chinese Black Tea with Pine Smoking Process", Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol. 53, No.22, (2005)
- Gscheidmeier, Manfred; Fleig, Helmut (2000). "Turpentines". Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH. doi:10.1002/14356007.a27_267.
- Corey, E. J.; Ohno, Masaji.; Mitra, Rajat B.; Vatakencherry, Paul A. (February 1964). "Total Synthesis of Longifolene". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 86 (3): 478–485. doi:10.1021/ja01057a039.
- McMurry, John E.; Isser, Stephen J. (October 1972). "Total synthesis of longifolene". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 94 (20): 7132–7137. doi:10.1021/ja00775a044.
- Volkmann, Robert A.; Andrews, Glenn C.; Johnson, William S. (August 1975). "Novel Synthesis of Longifolene". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 97 (16): 4777–4779. doi:10.1021/ja00849a062.
- Oppolzer, Wolfgang; Godel, Thierry (April 1978). "A New and Efficient Total Synthesis of (.+-.)-longifolene". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 100 (8): 2583–2584. doi:10.1021/ja00476a071.
- Schultz, Arthur G.; Puig, Salvador (March 1985). "The Intramolecular Diene-Carbene Cycloaddition Equivalence and an Enantioselective Birch Reduction-Alkylation by the Chiral Auxiliary Approach. Total Synthesis of (.+-.)- and (−)-Longifolene". The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 50 (6): 915–916. doi:10.1021/jo00206a049.
- Bo, Lei; Fallis, Alex G. (May 1990). "Direct total synthesis of (+)-longifolene via an intramolecular Diels-Alder strategy". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 112 (11): 4609–4610. doi:10.1021/ja00167a105.
- Ho, Gregory J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 5139 -5143.
- Dev, Sukh (1981). "Aspects of Longifolene chemistry. An example of another Facet of natural products chemistry". Accounts of Chemical Research. 14 (3): 82–88. doi:10.1021/ar00063a004.