Fused bicyclic ring systems

A number of papers have been published on the chemistry and biological activity of 1,5-benzothiazepines containing an additional bicyclic system fused to different positions of the seven-membered ring. Tetracyclic indolo-, benzofuro-, pyrazolopyrido-, quino-, benzopyrano-, benzothio-pyrano-, quinazolino-, and quinoxalino-l,5-benzothiazepines are known. 

It is possible to prepare pyrimidines from other heteromonocyclic compounds by a variety of processes, or from fused heterobicyclic systems which already contain a pyrimidine ring by preferentially degrading the unwanted second ring. In the latter case, the bicyclic system may best be made from a pyrimidine in the first place, occasionally even from the self-same pyrimidine to which it reverts on degradation. Such syntheses may be of interest but are certainly not of any utility. 

When the bicyclic thiirene oxide 180164 is dissolved in excess furan, a single crystalline endo-cycloadduct (182) is formed stereospecifically (equation 71)164. This is the first propellane containing the thiirane oxide moiety. Clearly, the driving force for its formation is the release of the ring strain of the starting fused-ring system 180. In contrast, 18a did not react with furan even under forcing conditions. 

Fused bicyclic systems are those in which two rings share two and only two atoms. In such systems there is no new principle. The fusion may be cis or trans, as illustrated by cis- and /ran -decalin. However, when the rings are small enough, the trans configuration is impossible and the junction must be cis. The smallest trans junction that has been prepared when one ring is four-membered is a four-five... 

The following syntheses of five-membered carbocyclic systems involve radical-induced epoxide fragmentation with radical translocation and cyclization. The resulting bicyclic alcohols are formed as a mixture of two epimeric esters with cw-fused rings.[71]... 

Of the possible 10 bicyclic systems containing one bridgehead nitrogen and two extra nitrogen atoms, 1 1 in each ring, nine are known. One new system, pyrimido[l,6-A]pyridazine (system 1 in Table 1), has been reported since CHEC-II(1996) <1996CHEC-II(8)633>. The number of known tricyclic benzo-fused systems is 16. 

A wide range of ring sizes have been synthesized, from the very small [1.1.0] fused ring systems to the macro-bicyclic systems. The reactivity and synthesis of the fused ring systems is reviewed first followed by the nonfused compounds. As the synthetic methods used to produce the various examples in this class of compounds were well reviewed in CHEC-II(1996), the synthetic methods section, Section 12.12.8, will outline selected types of compound within this group that have received more attention over the review period. 

The overall style follows that used in Chemical Abstracts and the first two editions of Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry, but in order to keep the size of the index within reasonable bounds more attention has been paid to the monocyclic and bicyclic rings and only systems containing up to six fused rings have been included. For the same reason a limit on individual ring size in any system has been placed at 12 atoms. Also complexes of metals, clusters and carcass structures are not included. 

The products of these [4 + 2 + 2]-reactions have a high level of molecular complexity, which has been used to advantage in exploring the conversion of the [4 + 2 + 2]-cycloadducts into commonly encountered ring systems. Zeise s dimer, for example, has been employed to carry out a skeletal rearrangement, as illustrated in Scheme 61, producing fused and bridged bicyclic systems found in several natural product families. 

The number of methods available for the synthesis of bicyclic systems containing two fused five-membered rings with one bridgehead nitrogen can be summarized in a few general reactions dehydrative ring closure, oxidative Schiff base cyclization, and base-induced closure (Scheme 3). One-pot reactions involving precursor synthesis followed by cyclization are also known. 

An alternative approach to 5-5 bicyclic fused ring systems utilizing a condensation reaction was described by Moderhack et al. <2000JPC591> (Scheme 10). The amino-substituted tetrazole derivatives 52 and 54 gave the neutral 53 as well as the mesoionic derivatives 55 in moderate to excellent yields (16-86% R = CH3 or Ph). 

In contrast, in the formation of the hydroazulene ring of bulnesol (23) Marshall and Partridge [11] started from a bridged system (21) to arrive, through an intermediate carbocation 22, at the fused bicyclic system 23 (Scheme 7.10). 

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