By Ring Closure Reactions

Pyrrole can be reduced catalyticaHy to pyrroHdine over a variety of metal catalysts, ie, Pt, Pd, Rh, and Ni. Of these, rhodium on alumina is one of the most active. Less active reducing agents have been used to produce the intermediate 3-pyrroline (36). The 2-pyrrolines are ordinarily obtained by ring-closure reactions. Nonaromatic pyrrolines can be reduced easily with to pyrroHdines. 

Ring-Closure Reactions. Some interesting dyes are prepared by ring-closure reactions at or near the dye-forming step of a synthetic sequence. The stmctural identity of thiacyanine was originally estabUshed by the reaction of diethyl malonate and o-aminothiophenol. 

I.3.2.2.3. 1,3-Diazepines Fnsed to Heteroaromatic Rings Synthesis by Ring-Closure Reactions... 

By Ring-Closure Reactions (With Formation of Two Heteroatom—Carbon Bonds)... 

In the area of pyrazolo[5,l-c][l,2,4]triazines partially saturated fluorous derivatives have been synthesized by ring closure reactions <2005JFC1230>. 

Benzo[6 jthiophenes with nitro groups at the 4-, 5-, 6- or 7-positions may be synthesized by ring closure reactions of appropriately substituted benzene derivatives. Nitration of 5-acetaminobenzo[6]thiophene gives the 4-nitro derivative, which can be hydrolyzed and deaminated to yield 4-nitrobenzo[6]thiophene (equation 44). 5-Nitrobenzo[6]thiophene is conveniently available by decarboxylation of 5-nitrobenzo[6]thiophene-2-carboxylic acid, which in turn is available by a Perkin reaction of 4-nitro-2-formylphenylthioglycoIic ester (equation 45 Section 3.15.2.3). The 7-nitro isomer may be obtained similarly. 

A variety of substituted 3-aminobenzo[6]thiophenes have been obtained by ring closure reactions of nitriles (equation 57). Various o -cyanophenylthioacetyl derivatives, when treated with base, yield the 3-amino derivatives (Section 3.15.2.2.3). The benzonitriles may be obtained by displacement of the o-nitro group from o -nitrobenzonitriles (74JOC3440). 2-Arylthio-l-chloroenamines are cyclized to 3 -dialkylaminobenzo[6]thiophenes in the presence of Lewis acid catalysts (equation 58). The 1 -chloroenamines may be prepared from t-amides or ynamines <8lH(15)l 179>. 

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