Antibacterial amidines

In a synthesis similar to that depicted in Scheme 54, aminoesters 344 dissolved in DMF are treated with POCI3 and heated at 50-60 °C for 2h. The simple work-up procedure involves pouring into ice-water, neutralization with NaOH and separation of the precipitate by fdtration to afford amidines 345 in 66-86% yield (Equation 11). Some of the obtained amidines exhibit selective antibacterial activity <2003SC3969>. 

Condensation of anthrandic acid (77-1) with an iminoether represents another method for preparing quinazolones. The reaction with the iminoether (77-2) from 2-cyano-5-nitrofuran and ethanohc acid can be visualized as proceeding through the formation of the amidine from addition-elimination of anthranilic acid cycliza-tion then affords the observed product (77-3). This is then converted to chloride (77-4) in the usual way. Displacement of the newly introduced chlorine with diethanolamine leads to the formation of nifurquinazol (77-5) [86], one of the antibacterial nitrofmans (see Chapter 8). 

Antibacterial activity is retained when the relatively complex amide side chains are replaced by a simple heterocycle amidine. The required reagent (7-2) is prepared by reaction of azepine formamide (7-1) with oxalyl chloride. Condensation of the product with 6-APA (2-4) leads to the formation of the amidine and thus amdinocillin (7-3) [11]. 

Quinazolinones are an important class of fused heterocycles that have been reported with remarkable activities in biology and pharmacology such as anticancer, antiinflammatory, anticonvulsant, antibacterial, antidiabetic, hypolipidemic, and protein tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Alper and Zheng reported a palladium-catalyzed cyclocarbonylation of o-iodoanilines with imidoyl chlorides to produce quinazolin-4(3H)-ones in 2008. A wide variety of substituted quinazolin-4(3H)-ones were prepared in 63-91% yields (Scheme 3.27a). The reaction is believed to proceed via in situ formation of an amidine, followed by oxidative addition, CO insertion, and intramolecular cyclization to give the substituted quinazolin-4(3H)-ones. Later on, a procedure was established based on generating the amidine in situ by a copper-catalyzed reaction of terminal allq nes, sulfonyl azide and o-iodo-anilines. The desired quinazolinones can be produced by carbonylation with Pd(OAc)2-DPPB-NEt3-THF as the reaction system. In the same year, Alper s group developed a procedure for 2,3-dihydro-4(lH)-quinazolinone preparation. The reaction started with the reaction of 2-iodoanilines and N-toluenesulfonyl aldimines followed by palladium-catalyzed intramolecular... 

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