Carbon heteroatom bond forming reactions aminals, formation

A significant part of the examples of transition metal catalyzed formation of five membered heterocycles utilizes a carbon-heteroatom bond forming reaction as the concluding step. The palladium or copper promoted addition of amines or alcohols onto unsaturated bonds (acetylene, olefin, allene or allyl moieties) is a prime example. This chapter summarises all those catalytic transformations, where the five membered ring is formed in the intramolecular connection of a carbon atom and a heteroatom, except for annulation reactions, involving the formation of a carbon-heteroatom bond, which are discussed in Chapter 3.4. 

The last example focuses not on the functionalization of heterocycles by a transition metal mediated carbon-heteroatom bond forming reaction, but the palladium catalyzed conversion of primary amines, including amino-heterocycles, into urea derivatives. A representative example, shown in 8.38., includes the reaction of an amino-carbazole derivative with morpholine, carbon monoxide and oxygen in the presence of catalytic amounts of palladium(II) iodide. The formation of the urea moiety proceeds with great selectivity and in high yield.49 The reaction works equally well for primary aliphatic and aromatic amines. 

With the aid of transition-metal catalysis, heterocycle formations can be achieved not only by carbon-heteroatom bond forming cydizations of an acyclic molecule with a terminal group such as alcohols and amines, but also by intramolecular carbon-carbon bond forming reactions of an acyclic precursor containing one or more heteroatoms in its tether moiety. This section will briefly survey heterocycle synthesis via carbon-carbon bond formations. For details of ruthenium-catalyzed C-C bond formations, see other chapters of this book. 

Carbon-Heteroatom (N, S, O, Sn, Si, Se, P) Bond Formation. Primary and secondary amines (but not ammonia) undergo reaction with allylic acetates, haUdes, phosphates, and nitro compounds in the presence of Pd(PhsP)4 to provide the corresponding allylic amines (eq 26). A variety of ammonia equivalents have been demonstrated to be useful in this Pd(Ph3P)4-catalyzed alkylation, including 4,4 -dimethoxybenzhydrylamine, NaNHTs, and NaNs (eq 26). Both allylic phosphates and chlorides react faster than the corresponding acetates and (Z)-alkenes are isomerized to the ( )-isomers. The use of primary amines as nucleophiles in the synthesis of secondary allyl amines is sometimes problematic since the amine that is formed undergoes further alkylation to form the tertiary amine. Thus hydroxylamines have been shown... 

The direct activation and transformation of a C-H bond adjacent to a carbonyl group into a C-Het bond can take place via a variety of mechanisms, depending on the organocatalyst applied. When secondary amines are used as the catalyst, the first step is the formation of an enamine intermediate, as presented in the mechanism as outlined in Scheme 2.25. The enamine is formed by reaction of the carbonyl compound with the amine, leading to an iminium intermediate, which is then converted to the enamine intermediate by cleavage of the C-H bond. This enamine has a nucleophilic carbon atom which reacts with the electrophilic heteroatom, leading to formation of the new C-Het bond. The optically active product and the chiral amine are released after hydrolysis. 

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