3H-Azepine

H-Azepine-3-carboxylic acid, 2-methoxy-, methyl ester... 

C NMR, 7, 498 (79TH51600) 2H-Azepine-4-carboxylic acid, 7-(4-bromophenyl)-3-methoxy-2-oxo-6-phenyl-X-ray, 7, 494 <79H(12)1423> 3H-A2epine-4-carboxylic acid, 6-acetyl-2-ethoxy-3-oxo-7-phenyl-, ethyl ester H NMR, 7, 503 <81H(16)363) 3H-Azepine-4-carboxylic acid, 2,6-diethoxy-3-oxo-7-phenyl-, ethyl ester H NMR, 7, 503 <81H(16)363) 3H-Azepine-4-carboxylic acid, 2-ethoxy-3-oxo-6,7-diphenyl-, ethyl ester HNMR, 7, 503 <81H(16)363) 3H-Azepine-4-carboxylic acid, 2-ethoxy-3-oxo-7-phenyl-, ethyl ester... 

IH-Azepine 1-oxide, 1-methyl- C NMR, 7, 498 <770MR<9)333) 2H-Azepine-2-selenone, hexahydro-l-methyl- C NMR, 7, 498 <79AJC567> 3H-Azepine-2,3,5,7-tetracarboxylic acid, 4,6-diphenyl-, tetramethyl ester X-ray, 7, 494 <72CB982) 3H-Azepine-2,4,6,7-tetracarboxylic acid, 3,5-diphenyl-, tetramethyl ester X-ray, 7, 494 <72CB982>... 

H-Azepine, 2-methyl-1-methoxycarbonyl-rearrangement, 7, 504 1 //-Azepine, 3-methyl-1 -methoxycarbonyl-cycloaddition reactions, 7, 520 IH-Azepine, 1-phenyl-synthesis, 7, 542 1 H-Azepine, N-phthalimido-formation, 7, 508 IH-Azepine, N-sulfonyl-UV spectra, 7, 501 1 H-Azepine, tetrahydromethylene-synthesis, 7, 540 IH-Azepine, N-p-tosyl-protonation, 7, 509 synthesis, 7, 537 3H-Azepine, 3-acyl-2-alkoxy-synthesis, 7, 542-543 3H-Azepine, 3-acyl-2-methoxy-rearrangements, 7, 505 3H-Azepine, 2-alkoxy-hydrolysis, 7, 510... 

H-Azepine, 2-allyloxytetrahydro-Claisen rearrangement, 7, 508 3H-Azepine, 2-amino-acylation, 7, 511 effect of acidification, 7, 510 nucleophilic displacement reactions, 7, 514 synthesis, 7, 533, 535 3H-Azepine, 2-amino-7-bromo-synthesis, 7, 529 3H-Azepine, 2-anilino-ring inversion, 7, 495-499 structure, 7, 533... 

H-Azepine, bis(trifluoromethyl)dihydro-synthesis, 7, 539 3H-Azepine, 2-butoxy-synthesis, 7, 536 3H-Azepine, 2-butylamino-synthesis, 7, 536 3H-Azepine, 2-dialkylamino-quaternization, 7, 511 synthesis, 7, 536... 

H-Azepine, 2-(o-hydroxyphenyl)-synthesis, 7, 538 3 H-Azepine, methyl- H NMR, 7, 495 3H-Azepine, 3-methylring inversion barrier, 7, 14 3 H-Azepine, 2-methylene-isomerization, 7, 505 3H-Azepine, 7-(N-phthalimido) synthesis, 7, 538 4H-Azepine, 4,5-dihydro-cyclization, 7, 524... 

H-Azepin-2-one, 3-acetyl-synthesis, 7, 542-543 3/f-Azepin-2-one, 7-acetyl-synthesis, 7, 542-543 3H-Azepin-2-one, 3-acyl-rearrangements, 7, 505 3/f-Azepin-2-one, 3-acyl-2-alkoxy-formation, 7, 542-543 3H-Azepin-2-one, 1-alkyl-rearrangements, 7, 505 3/f-Azepin-2-one, N-alkyl-synthesis, 7, 511 Azepinones... 

H-Azepines 2 by Photolysis of 2,1-Renzisoxazoles 1 in MeOH General Procedure 65... 

Irradiation of the 2,1-benzisoxazoles in wet tetrahydrofuran or wet diethyl ether produces l/7-azepin-2(3//)-ones. whereas in an ethereal solution of a primary or secondary amine 3H-azepin-2-amines, e.g. 3. are formed.65... 

The thermal, and more importantly, the photolytic decomposition of aryl azides in the presence of nucleophiles, generally amines or alcohols, is the commonest method for preparing 3H-azepines. In fact, jV-phenyl-3//-azepin-2-amine (32, R = Ph), the first example of a 3//-azepine, was prepared by thermal decomposition of phenyl azide in aniline.32... 

Pioneering studies have shown that the yield of iV-phenyl-3//-azepin-2-amine (32, R = Ph) from the thermolysis of phenyl azide in aniline increases as the ratio of azide to aniline decreases, and in dilute solution with an azide to aniline ratio of 1 200 a 54% yield of the 3//-azepine can be achieved.34 The reaction is successful with other arylamines, but the procedure is of limited preparative value as large volumes of amine are required and only moderate yields of 3H-azepines are obtained. 

Likewise, thermolysis of 4-azidophenyl methyl ketone in methanol yields 5-acetyl-2-methoxy-3//-azepine (60%), compared to only an 8% yield from the photolytic reaction.78 119 The thermolysis of phenyl azide in refluxing cyclohexanol yields no 3H-azepine, only diphenyl-diazene (10%) and aniline (30%).74 In contrast, thermolysis of methyl 2-azidobenzoate in cyclohexanol furnishes a mixture of methyl 2-(cyclohexyloxy)-3//-azepine-3-carboxylate (20 % bp 127°C/0.1 Torr) and methyl 2-aminobenzoate (60%). Thermolysis of the azido ester in methanol under nitrogen in an autoclave at 150 C yields a 7 10 mixture (by 1HNMR spectroscopy) of the amino ester and methyl 2-methoxy-3//-azepine-3-carboxylate, which proved to be difficult to separate, and much tar.74 The acidic medium179 is probably responsible for the failure of methyl 2-azidoberjzoate to yield a 3//-azepine when thermolyzed in 3-methoxyphenol aniline (40%) is the major product.74... 

The photolysis of 2 -azido-2,4,4, 6-tetramethylbiphenyl (47) in diethylamine gives 10% of a mixture of A,iY-dicthyl-4-methyl-7-mesityl-3//-azcpin-2-amine (48) and the isomeric 3H-azepine 49, together with the unexpected 4//-azepine SO as the major product." Formation of the 4//-azepine is attributed to severe steric interactions in all conformers of the 3H-tautomers. 

Early efforts to effect the photoinduced ring expansion of aryl azides to 3H-azepines in the presence of other nucleophiles met with only limited success. For example, irradiation of phenyl azide in hydrogen sulfide-diethyl ether, or in methanol, gave 17/-azepine-2(3//)-thione35 (5% mp 106—107 " O and 2-methoxy-3//-azepine (11 %),2 3 respectively. Later workers194 failed to reproduce this latter result, but found that in strongly basic media (3 M potassium hydroxide in methanol/dioxane) and in the presence of 18-crown-6, 17/-azepin-2(3//)-one was produced in 48% yield. In the absence of the crown ether the yield of azepinone falls to 35%. 

As expected, similar treatment of 3-nitroarenes furnishes mixtures of 4- and 6-substituted 3H-azepines, 54 and 55, respectively.176 Comparable yields of mixed azepines were also obtained by deoxygenation of 3-nitroarenes with alkylphophorous triamides, formed in situ from hexa-methylphosphorous triamide and excess of a secondary amine.66 In a few cases the 3//-azepines were separated by fractional crystallization of their oxalate salts66 but, in general, pure isomers were not isolated and the yields cited in the table were determined by HNMR spectroscopy. 

Deoxygenation of the nitroarene in the presence of phenol or an enol (acetyl acetone) fails to yield the 3//-azepine. On the basis of these studies it is concluded that there is a correlation between azepine formation and the p/(a of the hydroxy compound and only those hydroxy compounds of pATa >12 yield 3//-azepines. The detrimental effect of acid conditions on 3H-azepine formation has been referred to earlier.214... 

Prolonged heating of 2-butoxy-3//-azepine with ammonium carbonate in methanol produces 3H-azepin-2-amine in excellent yield.79 Lesser yields (50-55%) of the amine are also obtained from 2-(heptyloxy)-3//-azepine using ammonium acetate or ammonium chloride as the animating agent.79,229... 

Under more forcing conditions (Raney nickel, MeOH, H2 pressure, 150°C, 6h). 3H-azepin-2-amine undergoes reductive deamination to hexahydroazepine (86 %).240... 

S+3C] Heterocyclisations have been successfully effected starting from 4-amino-l-azadiene derivatives. The cycloaddition of reactive 4-amino-1-aza-1,3-butadienes towards alkenylcarbene complexes goes to completion in THF at a temperature as low as -40 °C to produce substituted 4,5-dihydro-3H-azepines in 52-91% yield [115] (Scheme 66). Monitoring the reaction by NMR allowed various intermediates to be determined and the reaction course outlined in Scheme 66 to be established. This mechanism features the following points in the chemistry of Fischer carbene complexes (i) the reaction is initiated at -78 °C by nucleophilic 1,2-addition and (ii) the key step cyclisation is triggered by a [l,2]-W(CO)5 shift. 

This reaction can be generally applied with equal success to other 2,6-dialkylphenols,4 many of which are commercially available. Although the procedure cannot be extended to phenol or o-monosubstituted phenols (aminophenols result6), it represents a facile synthetic method for obtaining a ring system heretofore relatively unavailable. The dihydroazepinones in turn are excellent starting materials for the preparation of other novel heterocyclic systems such as 2,3-dihydro-1 H-azepines,6 2-sub-stituted-3H-azepines,7 and derivatives of 2-azabicydo[3.2.0]hept-6-ene.8... 

Experimental Procedure 2.2.8. [4 + 3] Cycloaddition of a Chromium Vinylcarbene Complex to a 1-Azadiene rranj-i-(2-Furyl)-2-inethoxy-5-methyl-4,5-dihydro-3H-azepine [390]... 

Carbonsaure-amid-hydroximid und 99 g (1 mol) 2-Methoxy-4,5-dihydro-3H-pyrrol bzw. 127 g (1 mol) 2-Methoxy-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-3H-azepin werden unter Riihren erwarmt, vvobei bei 110° entstehendes Methanol iiber eine 30-cm-Vigreux-Kolonne abdestilliert wird. Innerhalb von 2 h steigert man die Temp, auf 200° und destillicrt anschlicfiend den Riickstand i.Vak. 

Sundberg and co-workers studied the photochemistry of phenyl azide by conventional flash photolysis in 1974. They detected the transient UV absorption of ke-tenimine 30 and measured its absolute rate constant of reaction with diethylamine to form the IH azepine, which subsequently rearranges to Doering and Odum s 3H-azepine (27). ... 

N-Unsubstituted 1//-azepines are rare since, like the parent system, they tautomerize readily to the 3H-isomers in whose preparation they are often considered as transient intermediates (see Section 5.16.4.1.2(h)). This rearrangement is particularly apparent with 2-amino- and 2-alkoxy derivatives since stabilization of the 37/-azepine is then possible by amidine and imidate type resonance. For the CH2-containing tautomers the order of stability appears to be 3H > AH > 2H, a fact attested to by the facile thermal and base-catalyzed rearrangements of AH- azepines to the 3H-tautomers (72CB982) and the rarity and inherent instability of 2H-azepines. The latter are well established as intermediates in the formation of 3H- azepines (74JOC3070) but have been characterized only as their benzologues. 

Paquette and coworkers (69JOC2866) have demonstrated that H-azepines can be forced into adopting the benzeneimine structure by bridging the 2,7-positions with a trimethylene chain (25). The length of the methylene chain is, however, critical and the tetramethylene derivative (26) exists solely as the bridged azepine. A suggestion that benzeneimines may be involved as intermediates in the formation of 3H-azepines from 2//-azirines and cyclopentadienones (Section 5.16.4.2.1(i)) has been discounted (74JOC3070). 

Ring contractions of 3H-azepines analogous to those outlined in Scheme 1 can give rise to either a 2-azabicyclo[3.2.0]hepta-2,6-diene (40) or the fused azetine (41). Odum and Schmall found exclusive formation of the 2-azabicycloheptadienes (40) for the 3H- azepines (2 R1 = H, R2 = OEt, NH2 or NMe2), and argued that the alternative pathway to the bicyclic azetines (41) would involve loss of amidine or imidate resonance in the product (69CC1299). 

Anomalous isomerizations have been noted during the photolytic and thermal rearrangements of 3-acyl-2-methoxy-3//-azepines (2 R -acyl, R2 = OMe) and 3-acyl-3H- azepin-2-ones (69T5217). Irradiation in methanol solution produces mixtures of 3-azabicyclo[4.1.0]hepta-2,4-dienes (28 R1==acyl and H, R2 = OMe, R3 = H) (or -4-ene-2-ones) and 3-phenacylpyridines (or pyridones), albeit in poor yields. Detailed, but tentative, arguments involving azanorcaradiene and/or diradical intermediates are presented to explain the formation of these unusual products. 

This behavior is in marked contrast to that of vinylcyclopropyl isocyanate, which in boiling benzene undergoes an irreversible Cope-type rearrangement to 3H- azepin-2-one (65LA(682)1>. 

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