Esters acrylate, Michael addition

Compound 183 undergoes B—N cyclodehydration to give the expected isoquinoline 184. Sodium borohydride as a reductive agent was ineffective. However, sodium cyanoborohydride reduction of 184 after prolonged interaction provides tetrahydroisoquinoline 185, which was transformed into an amido ester 186 with ethyl acrylate via Michael addition. The latter can be converted to the desired tricyclic system 187 via Dieckmann cycli-zation.As expected (i-kcto ester 187 is a mixture ofketo—enol tautomers, as proven by its spectroscopic data and a positive FeCls-MeOH test. It is likely that this is the first successful way for the syntheses of l,l-dimethylbenzo[a] quinolizidin-2-ones (Scheme 50) (83JOC1075). 

Enamine addition to an unsaturated ester, followed by an intramolecular alkylation, provided a facile synthesis of an adamantane bis-/3-ketoester 674). Michael addition of pyrrolidinocycloheptene to other acrylic esters 668) and of other enamines to acrylic acids 675), a chloroacrylonitrile 676), and an unsaturated cyanocarboxamide (577) were reported. 

Thus, condensation of isoniazide with acetone at the basic nitrogen gives the corresponding Shiff base (8). Catalytic reduction affords the antidepressant, iproniazid (9). Addition of the same basic nitrogen to methyl acrylate by Michael condensation leads to the 3-amino ester (10). This is converted to the amide, nialamide (11), on heating with benzylamine. 

The application of 3-aminopropyl phosphine (3) [41,46] as a building block for incorporation into -COOH functionalized frameworks provides an excellent example of the utility of preformed primary phosphine frameworks (Scheme 8) [46]. The reactions involved Michael addition of ferf-butyl acrylate to malonic acid dimethyl ester to produce the intermediate adduct, 2-methoxycarbonyl-pentanedioc acid 5-ferf-butyl ester 1-methyl ester, which upon treatment with trifluro-acetic acid (TFA) produced the corresponding diester acid,2-methoxy-carbonyl-pentanedioic acid 1-methyl ester, in near quantitative yield. It is remarkable to note that the reaction of NH2(CH2)3PH2 (3) with the diester acid is highly selective as the -COOH group remained unattacked whereas the reaction occurred smoothly and selectively at the -COOMe groups to pro-... 

Amide disconnection reveals (18) and FGl (amino to nitro) gives (19) which could be made by Michael addition of nitro compound (16) to an acrylate ester.. lalys-ts... 

Hydroxamic acids constitute an important class of siderophores, which play a major role in iron solubilization and transport. Some of them are important as therapeutic agents. The Michael addition of nitroacetyl proline esters to allyl acrylate followed by Pd(0)-catalyzed intramolecular allyl transfer and subsequent reduction of the nitro group yields a novel class of cyclic hydroxamic acids related to pyroglutamic acid (Scheme 5.9).85... 

The controlled polymerization of (meth)acrylates was achieved by anionic polymerization. However, special bulky initiators and very low temperatures (- 78 °C) must be employed in order to avoid side reactions. An alternative procedure for achieving the same results by conducting the polymerization at room temperature was proposed by Webster and Sogah [84], The technique, called group transfer polymerization, involves a catalyzed silicon-mediated sequential Michael addition of a, /f-unsaluralcd esters using silyl ketene acetals as initiators. Nucleophilic (anionic) or Lewis acid catalysts are necessary for the polymerization. Nucleophilic catalysts activate the initiator and are usually employed for the polymerization of methacrylates, whereas Lewis acids activate the monomer and are more suitable for the polymerization of acrylates [85,86]. 

It was shown that microwave irradiation accelerated the 1,4 Michael addition of primary and cyclic secondary amines to acrylic esters, leading to several /j-amino acid derivatives in good yields within short reaction times [78] (Eq. 25). 

The first successful results of the asymmetric Michael addition under phase transfer catalyzed conditions were achieved by use of ingeniously designed chiral crown ethers 13 and 52.1441 The 3-keto ester 49 reacted with methyl vinyl ketone by use of 13 to give the Michael product 50 with excellent enantioselectivity but in moderate yield, as shown in Scheme 18. The Michael addition of methyl 2-phenylpropionate 51 to methyl acrylate afforded the diester 53 by use of another crown ether 52 in good yield with good enantioselectivity.1441 Various chiral crown ethers were studied to... 

The Michael addition reaction of the serine-derived oxazolidine 326 with ethyl acrylate gave two products. The major product of the reaction was found to be the bicyclic compound 327, which was formed in 27% yield, accompanied by the unsaturated ester 328. The Dess-Martin oxidation of 327 resulted only in formation of the elimination product, the 7,7a-dihydro-177, 377-pyrrolo[l,2-r ]oxazole 328 (Scheme 46) <2001JOC7555>. 

However, in an intriguing reaction promoted by the para-nitro groups of the aryl-sulphone (1) (Scheme 6.25), the initial Michael adduct derived from acrylic esters produces the diarylpropanoic esters (2), together with the diesters (3) (from methyl or ethyl acrylate) [39]. A similar addition-rearrangement reaction has been observed with l-aryl-2-(4-nitrobenzenesulphonyl)ethanones [40]. Additionally, reaction of the sulphonylethanone with two equivalents of the acrylic ester produces a 4-hydroxy-1,4-diarylcyclohexane-1,3-dicarboxylate. 

Tandem Michael addition and alkylation of acrylic esters... 

It is not surprising that chloro esters 1, 2 readily add thiols, catalyzed by sodium thiolates or triethylamine, to give the corresponding 2-(r-organylthiocy-clopropyl)-2-chloroacetates 85,86 (Scheme 22) [15 b, 22b, 27]. This reaction with thiophenol has been used to quantify the Michael reactivity of 1-Me, 2-Me, 3-X in comparison to simple acrylates (see above). With an excess of PhSH, the nucleophilic substitution of the chlorine in 85 a (but not in 85h) proceeded to give the corresponding bis(phenylthio) derivative in 63% yield [15bj. Alkali thiolates (e.g. NaSMe, NaSBn) add smoothly onto 1-Me, 2c-Me and 2p-Me at - 78 °C, because at this temperature subsequent nucleophilic substitution of the chlorine is much slower [7l, 9]. The Michael additions of sodium phenylselenide and sodium arylsulfenates onto 1-Me and their synthetic utility have been discussed above (see Table 1). 

The divergent method is illustrated in Fig. 2-22 for the synthesis of polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers [Tomalia et al., 1990]. A repetitive sequence of two reactions are used—the Michael addition of an amine to an a,P-unsaturated ester followed by nucleophilic substitution of ester by amine. Ammonia is the starting core molecule. The first step involves reaction of ammonia with excess methyl acrylate (MA) to form LXIII followed by reaction with excess ethylenediamine (EDA) to yield LXIV. LXV is a schematic representation of the dendrimer formed after four more repetitive sequences of MA and EDA. 

Alkenes may be activated toward electrochemical reduction by electron-withdrawing sucstituents. Thus acrylonitrile and acrylate esters are easily reduced and, depending among other factors on the proton availability of the medium, they undergo either hydrogenation or hydrodimerisation. The basic character of the radical-anions of such substrates has been put to use in EGB promoted Michael additions of the type outlined in Scheme 15 the case where the probase is azobenzene has already been discussed. 

Michael adducts are also formed from the reactions of pyrroles with ethyl propiolate and with but-l-yn-3-one. In addition to the expected acrylic ester, 1-methylpyrrole also yields ethyl 3,3-bis(l-methyl-2-pyrrolyl)propanoate in its reaction with ethyl propiolate (67MI30500, 67MI30501), whilst if both a -positions of the pyrrole ring are unsubstituted, a twofold Michael addition with but-l-yn-3-one occurs to give the 2,5-disubstituted pyrrole (76JHC1145). 

Substituted allyl alcohols can be prepared on insoluble supports under mild conditions using the Baylis-Hillman reaction (Figure 7.2). In this reaction, an acrylate is treated with a nucleophilic tertiary amine (typically DABCO) or a phosphine in the presence of an aldehyde. Reversible Michael addition of the amine to the acrylate leads to an ester enolate, which then reacts with the aldehyde. The resulting allyl alcohols are valuable intermediates for the preparation of substituted carboxylic acids [43,44],... 

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