Aryl radical, intramolecular cyclization

The radical intramolecular cyclization of a-anilino-oi-(chloromethylcarbonyl)phenylacetonitriles 150 is induced by tri- -butyltinhydride/azoisobutyronitrile to afford l-aryl-2-cyano-2-phenylazetidin-3-ones 151 (Equation 34) <1997JCM254>. 

More recently, elegant mechanistic studies on intramolecular Meer-wein reactions by Beckwith et al. considerably extended the utility of diazonium salts. They showed that many electron donors could convert an arenediazonium cation into an aryl radical which cyclized in good yield to form dihydrobenzofurans and indolines. The final radical was functionalized as a halide, sulfide, or ferrocene. Thus, the credentials of diazonium salts as electron acceptors were well established, and the stage was set to investigate the interaction between diazonium salts and TTF. 

In another version of this method, the radical generated by radical exchange from the aryl telluride carbohydrate 83 and the N-acetoxy-2-thiopyridone affords, after intramolecular cyclization and desulfanylation, the polyhydroxylated and phosphorylated pseudo sugar 84 [54] (Scheme 23). 

Thermolysis of benzoenyneallene (113) in cyclohexadiene at 75 °C produced the cycloaromatized adduct (116) in 22% yield. A biradical is believed to form through a cascade sequence involving an initial Myers cyclization. Trapping of the aryl radical centre in (114) with the tetrarylallenic moiety intramolecularly affords (115), having two triaryl radical centres. Hydrogen abstraction from cyclohexa-1,4-diene by (115)... 

Intramolecular group-transfer reactions can involve either direct displacements or addition-fragmentation reactions that are discussed in Section 4.2.4. A direct displacement is shown in the reaction of aryl radical 1, produced from the corresponding bromide. Cyclization of 1 is fast enough to compete efficiently... 

Formation of cyclized products, resulting from intramolecular attack of the intermediate aryl radical in the SrnI reaction on a second aromatic ring (i.e. intramolecular homolytic arylation) are rare and not synthetically useful.64-158-161... 

Moreover, using the same starting materials, they have reported the regio- and stereoselective synthesis of enantiopure or racemic benzofused tricyclic (3-lactams such as benzocarbapenems and benzocarbacephems (III and IV, Fig. 17) via intramolecular aryl radical cyclization [287]. 

Intramolecular addition of vinyl radicals to olefins as a method for heterocycle synthesis has been examined. The vinyl radicals can be conveniently generated from vinyl bromides and samarium(II) diiodide [95JOC7424], The intermediate radical after cyclization undergoes a further electron transfer from samarium to furnish a carbanion which is quenched at the end of the reaction. A samarium(II) diiodide mediated aryl radical cyclization onto a dihydrofuran has been reported [95T8555],... 

Beckwith and Storey have developed a tandem translocation and homolytic aromatic substitution sequence en route to spiro-oxindoles [95CC977]. Treatment of the bromoaniline derivative 122 with tin hydride at 160 °C generated the aryl radical 123 which underwent a 1,5-hydrogen atom transfer to give intermediate 124. Intramolecular homolytic aromatic substitution and aromatization gave the spiro-oxindole 125. Intramolecular aryl radical cyclization on to a pyrrole nucleus has been used to prepare spirocyclic heterocycles [95TL6743]. 

Various intramolecular aryl radical reactions of pyridine derivatives have been developed <2004COR757, 2001J(P 1 )2885>. An early example of this type is found in a short synthesis of camptothecin 195. The tetracyclic intermediate 197 was cyclized by a free radical reaction to afford the natural product (Equation 106) <1994TL5331>. 

Exposure of the diazonium salt 1107 to iodide ion generates an aryl radical, which undergoes intramolecular homolytic substitution at sulfur to liberate the acyl radical intermediate 1108. An exo-mode cyclization with concomitant incorporation of iodide then occurs to afford the 3-disubstituted-chroman-4-one 1109 in excellent yield (Scheme 275) <1997JOC5982>. 

B. K. Banik, Tributyltin Hydride Induced Intramolecular Aryl Radical Cyclizations Synthesis of Biologically Interesting Organic Compounds, Curr. Org. Chem. 1999, 3, 469 496. 

Aryl radical cations generated by electron-transfer processes from methoxy substituted arenes to DCN, tethered by oxygen, nitrogen as well as carbon nucleophile leads to intramolecular cyclizations (Scheme 8.67). The synthetic potentials of... 

An unusual 4-exo-trig cyclization accompanied by a later rearrangement was observed with aryl enolether 13 (Scheme 6) [48], The benzoxetane 14, which is formed in the initial cyclization step, undergoes ring-opening to form the phenoxy radical 15. 5-Endo cyclization of 15 and reduction of the resulting benzylic radical leads to the spirocycle 16. Diverse polycyclic products have also recently been obtained by intramolecular aryl radical cyclizations to tetrahydropyridines [49]. 

Early examples of intramolecular aryl radical addition reactions to heteroatom containing multiple bonds included cyclizations on N=N and C=S moieties [52, 53]. Recently, cyclizations to imines have been used as part of a new enantio-selective approach to indolines (Scheme 8). In the first step of the sequence, the required ketimines 19 were obtained by phase-transfer catalyzed alkylation of 2-bromobenzyl bromides 20 with glycinyl imines 21 in the presence of a cincho-nidinium salt [54], Due to the favorable substitution pattern on the imine moiety of 19, the tributyltin hydride mediated radical cyclization to 22 occurred exclusively in the 5-exo mode. The indoline synthesis can therefore also be classified as a radical amination. 

In addition to the well exploited radical additions to enamides, thiovinyl ethers have been shown to be suitable intramolecular acceptors for aryl radicals. By placing a thiophenyl substituent on terminal alkene of 33, the cyclization to 34 occurred exclusively in the 6-exo mode and was not complicated by internal hydrogen abstraction from the allylic positions of the alkene (Scheme 13) [83, 84]. 

As shown in other sections of this chapter, overall attention has shifted from diazonium salts as aryl radical sources to bromo- or iodobenzenes. One of the few recent attempts to improve the classical Pschorr cyclization using diazonium ions as starting materials led to the discovery of new catalysts [119]. Results from a first samarium-mediated Pschorr type show the variety of products that can be expected from intramolecular biaryl syntheses under reductive conditions (Scheme 22). Depending on the substitution pattern of the target aromatic core and the reaction conditions, either the spirocycle 60, the biphenyl 61, or the dearomatized biphenyl 62 were formed as major product from 63 [120]. 

Many reports on tributyltin hydride-mediated intramolecular aryl-aryl coupling reactions have appeared in the literature in the 1990s [27, 121], One of the latest articles, in which many references on previous work have been included, focuses on the preparation of aporphines (Scheme 23) [122], Due to steric repulsion, an undesired 5-endo cyclization of the aryl radical on the imine nitrogen atom occurs only when more bulky substituents R are present in the benzyldihydroisoquinoline 64. With R = H, the cyclization to 65 proceeds in high yields. 

Group-selective cyclizations to aryl units (306c >307c) indicated that the initial intramolecular amidocupration leads to equatorially oriented radicals, which cyclized to... 

Ring closure reactions taking place by intramolecular addition of an aromatic radical to a double bond have been widely studied on both their regio- and stereochemical aspects [93]. Aryl halides and diazonium salts substituted at ortho- position with a 0-allyl or TV-allyl chain were used for the preparation of 2,3-dihydrobenzofuranes and 2,3-dihydro-1/7-indoles under different reaction conditions. The reaction pattern involves the generation of an aryl radical 20, which reacts with the double bond in a 5-exo trig fashion to afford the exocyclic radical 21, plausible of reduction by a hydrogen donor to obtain the reduced-cyclized product 22 (Sch. 23) [93d,94]. 

Baylis-Hillman adducts such as 55 and 56 derived from 2-nitrobenzaldehydes were shown to function as useful precursors to functionalized (1H)-quinol-2-ones and quinolines. Treatment of 55 and 56 with iron and acetic acid at 110 °C afforded 57 and 58, respectively <02T3693>. A variety of other cyclization reactions utilized in the preparation of the quinoline scaffold were also reported. An iridium-catalyzed oxidative cyclization of 3-(2-aminophenyl)propanols afforded 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolines <02OL2691>. The intramolecular cyclization of aryl radicals to prepare pyrrolo[3,2-c]quinolines was studied <02T1453>. Additionally, photocyclization reactions of /rans-o-aminocinnamoyl derivatives were reported to provide 2-quinolones and quinolines <02JHC61>. Enolizable quinone and mono- and diimide intermediates were shown to provide quinolines via a thermal 6jt-electrocyclization <02OL4265>. Quinoline derivatives were also prepared from nitrogen-tethered 2-methoxyphenols. The corresponding 2-methoxyphenols were subjected to a iodine(III)-mediated acetoxylation which was followed by an intramolecular Michael addition to afford the quinoline OAc O... 

Reaction of aryl Grignard compounds, obtained in situ by iodine-magnesium exchange, with C0CI2, presumably generates aryl radicals. In the presence of a double bond or aromatic ring an intramolecular radical cyclization may take place. This reaction was used for the synthesis of spiro-indolines.244 Oshima has applied cobalt-mediated tandem radical cyclization-cross-coupling reaction for the synthesis of benzyl-substituted heterocycles (Scheme 80).245... 

Radical reductive alkylation of enamines has also been utilized for the intramolecular cyclization reaction34. Enamine 38 bearing an exo-olefin moiety, on treatment with Bu3SnH in the presence of a radical initiator, generates an aryl radical 39 which undergoes exclusive 1,6-cyclization to give the isoquinoline 40 as the sole product in 51.3% yield (equation 9). 

Rapid decarboxylation of the alkyl carboxyl radical to the corresponding alkyl radical would be expected to compete with intramolecular cyclization. Moreover, the reaction scheme shown would not be efficient. Not only would the reaction be slow because two radicals must collide in order to form the product, but the step fails to regenerate a radical to continue the reaction. (Note Aryl carboxyl radicals lose carbon dioxide more slowly than alkyl carboxyl radicals.)... 

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