Acetophenone, multicomponent reaction

Acetamido ketones have been prepared in a multicomponent reaction from aromatic aldehydes, enolizable ketones (acetophenone and propiophenone), and acetyl chloride in acetonitrile over Nafion-H1002 [Eq. (5.363)]. High yields are achieved under mild conditions and the catalyst proved to be recyclable. 

An iron-catalyzed multicomponent reaction of aldehyde 4a, acetophenone, acetyl chloride and acetonitrile, which was used as the solvent, gave P-amino ketones such as 32 (Scheme 8.11) [41]. It was assumed that the sequence starts with an aldol reaction of aldehyde and ketone and then proceeds further with a displacement of a P-acetoxy group by the nucleophilic nitrile-nitrogen. 

There are a series of communications about the formation of dihydroazines by direct reaction of urea-like compounds with synthetic precursors of unsaturated carbonyls—ketones, containing an activated methyl or methylene group. The reaction products formed in this case are usually identical to the heterocycles obtained in reactions of the same binuclephiles with a,(3-unsatu-rated ketones. For example, interaction of 2 equiv of acetophenone 103 with urea under acidic catalysis yielded 6-methyl-4,6-diphenyl-2-oxi- 1,6-dihydro-pyrimidine 106 and two products of the self-condensation of acetophenone— dipnone 104 and 1,3,5-triphenylbenzene 105 [100] (Scheme 3.32). When urea was absent from the reaction mixture or substituted with 1,3-dimethylurea, the only isolated product was dipnon 104. In addition, ketone 104 and urea in a multicomponent reaction form the same pyrimidine derivative 106. All these facts suggest mechanism for the heterocyclization shown in Scheme 3.32. 

A possibility of formation of 5,7-diaryl-4,7-dihydro-1,2,4-triazolo[l,5-a]pyr-imidines 182 in reactions of 3-amino-l,2.4-triazole 147 with synthetic precursors of unsaturated ketones—aldehydes 179 and ketones 180—or in condensation of acetophenones 180 and azomethynes 183 was established in [176, 177]. It was shown that in the first case the multicomponent procedure was not an independent method but resulted in the initial formation of unsaturated ketones 181 themselves and their further reaction with aminoazol (Scheme 3.53). 

Two consecutive reactions viz. the multicomponent synthesis of infermediates 139 and the further reaction with acetophenones were performed in PEG 400 (Scheme 80) [111]. The prepared compoxmds 140 were reported to possess antimycobacterial activity. 

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