Alkylation, microwave-assisted

A number of microwave-assisted multicomponent methods for the synthesis of imidazoles have been reported [68-71 ]. The irradiation of a 1,2-diketone and aldehyde with ammonium acetate in acetic acid for 5 min at 180 °C in a single-mode reactor provides alkyl-, aryl-, and heteroaryl-substituted imidazoles 39 in excellent yield (Scheme 14) and this method has been used for the rapid and efficient preparation of two biologically active imidazoles, lepidiline B and trifenagrel [68]. 

This transformation can also be carried out under solvent-free conditions in a domestic oven using acidic alumina and ammoniiun acetate, with or without a primary amine, to give 2,4,5-trisubstituted or 1,2,4,5-tetrasubstituted imidazoles, respectively (Scheme 15A) [69]. The automated microwave-assisted synthesis of a library of 2,4,5-triarylimidazoles from the corresponding keto-oxime has been carried out by irradiation at 200 ° C in acetic acid in the presence of ammonium acetate (Scheme 15B) [70]. Under these conditions, thermally induced in situ N - O reduction occurs upon microwave irradiation, to give a diverse set of trisubstituted imidazoles in moderate yield. Parallel synthesis of a 24-membered library of substituted 4(5)-sulfanyl-lff-imidazoles 40 has been achieved by adding an alkyl bromide and base to the reaction of a 2-oxo-thioacetamide, aldehyde and ammonium acetate (Scheme 15C) [71]. Under microwave-assisted conditions, library generation time was dramatically re-... 

A microwave-assisted three-component reaction has been used to prepare a series of 1,4-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazoles with complete control of regiose-lectivity by click chemistry , a fast and efficient approach to novel functionalized compounds using near perfect reactions [76]. In this user-friendly procedure for the copper(l) catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azides and alkynes, irradiation of an alkyl halide, sodium azide, an alkyne and the Cu(l) catalyst, produced by the comproportionation of Cu(0) and Cu(ll), at 125 °C for 10-15 min, or at 75 °C for certain substrates, generated the organic azide in situ and gave the 1,4-disubstituted regioisomer 43 in 81-93% yield, with no contamination by the 1,5-regioisomer (Scheme 18). 

The use of microwave-assisted multicomponent cycloaddition reactions allows unique heterocyclic scaffolds to be assembled rapidly from readily accessible starting materials. The three-component reaction of M-alkyl-l,4-DHP... 

Fig. 14 Microwave-assisted synthesis of pyrazoles and isoxazoles on cellulose. Reagents and conditions a Camphorsulfonic acid, DMF, MW 80 °C, 15 min, open vessel b NH2XH, MW 82 °C, 15 min, open vessel. X = N,0 Y = NH, NEt, O R = Me, i-Pr, BUCH2, PhCH2, Et(Ph)CH, R = alkyl, aUyl, and aryl groups...

Fig. 19 Synthesis and cyclative cleavage of 2,4,6-trisubstituted pyrimidines using microwave-assisted solid-phase protocol. Reagents and conditions a DMF, camphorsul-phonic acid, MW 80 °C, 30 min, open vessel b EtONa, EtOH/THF (4/1), MW 130 °C, to min, closed vessel. Y = O, NEt2 R = Me, i-Pr R = Et R" = H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, benzyl R" = H, Me, Et...

In the frame of a medicinal project at J J Pharmaceutical Research and Development aimed at designing new potent and selective glycogen synthase kinase-3/i (GSK-3/3) inhibitors, the C-3 derivatization of the 1-methyl-4-[l-alkyl-lff-indol-3-yl]-lff-pyrrole-2,5-dione scaffold was explored [31]. Microwave-assisted Stille reaction of 3-chloro-l-methyl-4-[l-alkyl-lff-indol-3-yl]-lH-pyrrole-2,5-diones with (2,4-dimethoxy-5-pyrimidinyl)(tributyl) stannane at 200 °C yielded in 6 min the desired 3,4-diaryl-lff-pyrrole-2,5-diones in moderate yields (Scheme 12). 

Scheme 7.8 Microwave assisted N-alkylation and acylation reactions...

The preparation of resin-bound nitroalkenes via a microwave-assisted Knoevenagel reaction of resin-bound nitroacetic acid with aryl and alkyl substituted aldehydes is reported. The potential of these resin-bound nitroalkenes for application in combinatorial chemistry is demonstrated by a Diels-Alder reaction with 2,3-dimethylbutadiene (Scheme 8.9). It is also used for one-pot three-component tandem [4+2]/[3+2] reactions with ethyl vinyl ether and styrene 46... 

A microwave-assisted method to prepare novel 8-mercapto-3-methyl-7-alkyl xanthines 68 has been reported. Compared to conventional synthetic routes, the new method has significantly shortened synthetic steps and reaction time <06TL775>. 

Microwave-assisted reactions allow rapid product generation in high yield under uniform conditions. Therefore, they should be ideally suited for parallel synthesis applications. The first example of parallel reactions carried out under microwave irradiation conditions involved the nucleophilic substitution of an alkyl iodide with 60 diverse piperidine or piperazine derivatives (Scheme 4.22) [76]. Reactions were carried out in a multimode microwave reactor in individual sealed polypropylene vials using acetonitrile as solvent. Screening of the resulting 2-aminothiazole library in a herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) assay led to three confirmed hits, demonstrating the potential of this method for rapid lead optimization. 

The group of Caddick has described the synthesis of functionalized sulfonamides by microwave-assisted displacement of pentafluorophenyl (PFP) sulfonate esters with amines (Scheme 6.159) [306]. Their ease of handling due to their higher crystallinity, along with their long shelf-life and their ability to react under aqueous reaction conditions, makes these an attractive alternative to sulfonyl chlorides. The microwave-assisted reaction of alkyl PFP esters with amines is a facile process which proceeds cleanly and in good yields with a number of different amines, including primary, secondary, and sterically hindered amines, and anilines. Optimum condi-... 

The aforementioned polymer-supported bis-pyridyl ligand has also been applied in microwave-assisted asymmetric allylic alkylation [140], a key step in the enantio-selective synthesis of (R)-baclofen (Scheme 7.118), as reported by Moberg and coworkers. The ( (-enantiomer is a useful agonist of the GABAb (y-aminobutyric acid) receptor, and the racemic form is used as a muscle relaxant (antispasmodic). Under microwave heating, the enantioselectivity could be improved to 89% when using toluene as solvent (see also Scheme 6.52) [140],... 

Another metal-catalyzed microwave-assisted transformation performed on a polymer support involves the asymmetric allylic malonate alkylation reaction shown in Scheme 12.4. The rapid molybdenum(0)-catalyzed process involving thermostable chiral ligands proceeded with 99% ee on a solid support. When TentaGel was used as as support, however, the yields after cleavage were low (8-34%) compared with the corresponding solution phase microwave-assisted process (monomode cavity) which generally proceeded in high yields (>85%) [30],... 

Direct electrophilic alkylation in the pyrimidine 5-position can be carried out on pyrimidines with at least two strongly donating groups, more readily with three such groups. For example, uracil can be 5-hydroxymethylated by formaldehyde under alkaline conditions, and a microwave-assisted procedure has now been developed which allows formation of 5-hydroxymethyluracil in 98% yield, with just 3 min of reaction time <2002SL2043>. 

Dialkylquinazolines 825 are available by microwave-assisted amination and ring closure of 2-acylamino phenyl-ketones 824 with ammonium formate <20070L69>. The 2-aminophenyl ketone precursors of the amides 824 are available by a photochemically induced Fries rearrangement of anilides 823, which enables a variety of different alkyl substituents to be incorporated at the 4-position of the quinazoline <20070L69>. 

The microwave-assisted iV-alkylation of 2-chloropyridines proceeds more rapidly and in better yields compared to the corresponding thermal reactions <9912317>. 

A similar rapid microwave one-pot synthesis of substituted quinazolin-4-ones was also reported, which involved cyclocondensation af anthranilic acid, formic acid (or an orthoester) and an amine under solvent-free conditions (Scheme 3.37)61. A complimentary approach was adopted to synthesise 4-aminoquinazolines in very good yields, involving the reaction of aromatic nitrile compounds with 2-aminobenzonitrile in the presence of a catalytic amount ofbase (Scheme 3.38)62. The reactions were performed in a domestic microwave oven and required only a very short heating time. A microwave-assisted synthesis of a variety of new 3-substituted-2-alkyl-4-(3H)-quinazolinones using isatoic anhydride, 2-aminobenzimidazole and orthoesters has also been described (Scheme 3.38)63. 

Ranu, B.C., Hajra, A. and Jana, U., Microwave-assisted simple synthesis of quinolines from anilines and alkyl vinyl ketones on the surface of silica gel in the presence of indium(III) chloride, Tetrahedron Lett., 2000, 41, 531-533. 

The solid-supported reagent, 2, was subsequently used to convert isothiocyanates to isonitriles (Scheme 5.7). Primary, secondary and tertiary alkyl isocyanides, as well as aromatic analogues were synthesised using this microwave assisted methodology. Isocyamide products were produced in excellent yields and high purity in 30 min to 2 h at 140°C. 

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