4- -2-aminoimidazoles synthesis

Guchhait SK, Madaan C, Thakkar BS (2009) A highly flexible and efficient Ugi-type multi-component synthesis of versatile iV-fused aminoimidazoles. Synthesis 19 3293-3300... 

Fig. 4.5 The adenine synthesis can be varied to give other purine derivatives. Structures I-IX are those of I aminomalonitrile, II HCN tetramer, III aminoimidazole-carbonitrile, IV 4-aminoimidazole-5-carboxamide, V adenine, VI diaminopurine, VII xanthine, VIII guanine and IX hypo xanthine (Sanchez et al., 1966a)... 

Four approaches to the synthesis of 4(5)-aminoimidazoles (25) have been described and are summarized in Scheme 1. These are (a) reduction of 4(5)-nitroimidazoles (27), (b) hydrolysis of carbamates and amides (28),... 

This approach (Scheme 3) has been applied (53JCS1636) to the synthesis of 4(5)-aminoimidazole derivatives with potential antihistamine or anthelmintic properties. For example, 4(5)-amino-2-thymyloxymethylimidazole (47) was obtained from benzyl-thymyloxy acetothioimidate hydrochloride (42) (75%). Similarly, 4(5)-amino-2-phenylimidazole (48) and 4(5)-amino-2-(thiophen-3-yl)imidazole (49) were prepared (72CA19645) from benzyl-phenyl acetothioimidate hydrochloride (43) and benzyl-(thiophen-3-yl) acetothioimidate hydrochloride (44), respectively. 

This approach was later extended to investigate a synthesis of 5-aminoimidazoles (96) by chemical transformations using the more readily... 

The effect of 6-mercaptopurine on the incorporation of a number of C-labelled compounds into soluble purine nucleotides and into RNA and DNA has been studied in leukemia L1210, Ehrlich ascites carcinoma, and solid sarcoma 180. At a level of 6-mercaptopurine that markedly inhibited the incorporation of formate and glycine, the utilization of adenine or 2-aminoadenine was not affected. There was no inhibition of the incorporation of 5(or 4)-aminoimidazole-4(5)-carboxamide (AIC) into adenine derivatives and no marked or consistent inhibition of its incorporation into guanine derivatives. The conversion of AIC to purines in ascites cells was not inhibited at levels of 6-mercaptopurine 8-20 times those that produced 50 per cent or greater inhibition of de novo synthesis [292]. Furthermore, AIC reverses the inhibition of growth of S180 cells (AH/5) in culture by 6-mercaptopurine [293]. These results suggest that in all these systems, in vitro and in vivo, the principal site at which 6-mercaptopurine inhibits nucleic acid biosynthesis is prior to the formation of AIC, and that the interconversion of purine ribonucleotides (see below) is not the primary site of action [292]. Presumably, this early step is the conversion of PRPP to 5-phosphoribosylamine inhibited allosterically by 6-mercaptopurine ribonucleotide (feedback inhibition is not observed in cells that cannot convert 6-mercaptopurine to its ribonucleotide [244]. 

Studies in prebiotic synthesis. IV, The conversion of 4-aminoimidazole-5-carbonitrile derivatives to purines. J. Mol. Biol, 38, 121-8. 

A further example of synthesis of the imidazo[4,5-rf [l,3,2]diazaborolidine ring system involving reaction between 4-imino-5-aminoimidazoles, analogous to 90, and boranes has been reported (see Section 10.05.9.1.2(viii)) <2006ZN(B)437>. 

Treatment of 1-methyl-4-cyano-5-aminoimidazole with phosgeniminium chloride produced an imidazoloamidine (64% yield) that cyclized when exposed to dry hydrogen chloride gas (95% yield) to give 6-chloro-2-dimethylamino-9-methylpurine <1997T8269>. Elaboration of this material led to the first synthesis of the natural product purine heteromine A (see Section 10.11.12.1). 

Ferris and Antonucci73 have reported a photochemical synthesis of imidazo[4,5-d]imidazole (80) from 4-aminoimidazole-5-carbonitrile (78), which has attracted interest since 78, and its photochemical precursor diaminomaleonitrile (77) have been proposed74 as key intermediates in the prebiotic chemical evolution of purines. Mechanistic studies7311 suggest that the fused pyrazole 79 may be an intermediate. 

Purine bases from ingested foods, or formed by catabolism of nucleic acids, are able to react with PRPP under the influence of phosphoribosyltransferases.3063 Two such enzymes are known to act on purines. One converts adenine to AMP (Fig. 25-17, step b) and also acts upon 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide. This enzyme may be especially important to parasitic protozoa such as Leishmania, which lack the de novo pathway of purine synthesis (Fig. 25-15).278/306b... 

Support-bound 1,2-diamines can be readily converted into imidazolidinones by treatment with carbonyl diimidazole [128,129]. The required diamines have been prepared on cross-linked polystyrene by reduction of peptides bound to MBHA resin with borane. Similarly, bicyclic imidazolines have been prepared from triamines and thiocarbonyl diimidazole (Entry 10, Table 14.3). Dehydration of polystyrene-bound monoacyl ethylene-1,2-diamines yields 4,5-dihydroimidazoles (cyclic amidines, Entry 5, Table 13.18). Several groups have reported the synthesis of 2-aminoimidazol-4-ones from resin-bound amino acid derivatives (e.g., Entry 6, Table 15.11). Most of these compounds are, however, unstable, and slowly decompose if dissolved in DMSO (Jesper Lau, private communication). 

Finally, 4-cyano-5-aminoimidazole (387) is formed by the action of light on the tetramer of HCN in aqueous solution 403 the imidazole is easily converted chemically into adenine, thus affording a simple synthesis of this aminopurine. 

Groebke, K., Weber, L. and Mehlin, E, Synthesis ofimidazo[l,2-a] annulated pyridines, pyrazines and pyrimidines by a novel three-component condensation, Synlett, 1998, 661 Blackburn, C., Guan, B., Shiosaki, K. and Tsai, S., Parallel synthesis of 3-aminoimidazo[l,2-a] pyridines and pyrazines by a new three-component condensation, Tetrahedron, 1998, 3635-3638 Bienayme, H. and Bouzid, K., A new heterocyclic multicomponent reaction for the combinatorial synthesis of fused 3-aminoimidazoles, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl, 1998, 37, 2234-2237. 

Hydrogen cyanide is used in the synthesis of purines as well as amino acids. This is illustrated in a remarkable synthesis of adenine. If strong ammoniacal solutions of hydrogen cyanide are refluxed for a few days, adenine is obtained in up to 0.5% yield along with 4-aminoimidazole-5-carboxamide and the usual cyanide polymer.27... 

The difficult step in the synthesis of adenine just described is the reaction of tetramer with formadine, This step may be bypassed by the photochemical rearrangement of tetramer to aminoimidazole carboxamide, a reaction that proceeds readily in contemporary sunlight.28... 

Another group of inhibitors prevents nucleotide biosynthesis indirectly by depleting the level of intracellular tetrahydrofolate derivatives. Sulfonamides are structural analogs of p-aminobenzoic acid (fig. 23.19), and they competitively inhibit the bacterial biosynthesis of folic acid at a step in which p-aminobenzoic acid is incorporated into folic acid. Sulfonamides are widely used in medicine because they inhibit growth of many bacteria. When cultures of susceptible bacteria are treated with sulfonamides, they accumulate 4-carboxamide-5-aminoimidazole in the medium, because of a lack of 10-formyltetrahydrofolate for the penultimate step in the pathway to IMP (see fig. 23.10). Methotrexate, and a number of related compounds inhibit the reduction of dihydrofolate to tetrahydrofolate, a reaction catalyzed by dihydrofolate reductase. These inhibitors are structural analogs of folic acid (see fig. 23.19) and bind at the catalytic site of dihydrofolate reductase, an enzyme catalyzing one of the steps in the cycle of reactions involved in thymidylate synthesis (see fig. 23.16). These inhibitors therefore prevent synthesis of thymidylate in replicating... 

The presence or absence of the dioxolane protecting group in dienes dictates whether they participate in normal or inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder reactions.257 The intramolecular inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder cycloaddition of 1,2,4-triazines tethered with imidazoles produce tetrahydro-l,5-naphthyridines following the loss of N2 and CH3CN.258 The inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder reaction of 4,6-dinitrobenzofuroxan (137) with ethyl vinyl ether yields two diastereoisomeric dihydrooxazine /V-oxide adducts (138) and (139) together with a bis(dihydrooxazine A -oxide) product (140) in die presence of excess ethyl vinyl ether (Scheme 52).259 The inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder reaction of 2,4,6-tris(ethoxycarbonyl)-l,3,5-triazine with 5-aminopyrazoles provides a one-step synthesis of pyrazolo[3,4-djpyrimidines.260 The intermolecular inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder reactions of trialkyl l,2,4-triazine-4,5,6-tricarboxylates with protected 2-aminoimidazole produced li/-imidazo[4,5-c]pyridines and die rearranged 3//-pyrido[3,2-[Pg.460]

Fig. 13.2. Synthesis of IMP. c = Hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase (HPRT) GAR = glycinamide ribonucleotide FGAR = formyl glycinamide ribonucleotide PRPP = phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate AICAR = 5 aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide...

In the 1990s the standard synthetic route to purines by cyclization of an appropriate 5(4)-aminoimidazole has been increasingly used. The general method is well illustrated by the synthesis... 

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