Carbonyl compounds addition scaffolds

Modern MCRs that involve isocyanides as starting materials are by far the most versatile reactions in terms of available scaffolds and numbers of accessible compounds. The oldest among these, the three-component Passerini MCR (P-3CR), involves the reaction between an aldehyde 9-1, an acid 9-2, and an isocyanide 9-3 to yield a-acyloxycarboxamides 9-6 in one step [8], The reaction mechanism has long been a point of debate, but a present-day generally accepted rational assumption for the observed products and byproducts is presented in Scheme 9.1. The reaction starts with the formation of adduct 9-4 by interaction of the carbonyl compound 9-1 and the acid 9-2. This is immediately followed by an addition of the oxygen of the carboxylic acid moiety to the carbon of the isocyanide 9-3 and addition of this carbon to the aldehyde group, as depicted in TS 9-5 to give 9-5. The final product 9-6 is... 

Kanai and colleagues developed an enantioselective synthesis of various 2-(2-hydroxyethyl)indole scaffolds via the amido-cupration of allenes followed by the asymmetric addition of carbonyl compounds. Treatment of allene 88 with a copper catalyst forms a stable and highly nucleophilic allyl-copper species, which then adds into benzaldehyde (89) to furnish indole 90. A range of carbonyl compounds are competent in the sequence, including aryl- and heteroaryl aldehydes, alkyl aldehydes, and aryl ketones. This is reported to be the first example of a combined catalytic indole generation and subsequent enantioselective addition of carbonyl compormds (14CS1585). 

Huge success of benzodiazepenes as pharmaceutical scaffolds has prompted preparation and evaluation of het-erocyde-annulated benzodiazepine derivatives. A tandem Michael addition-condensation sequence xmder MW irradiation was also proved to be useful for the synthesis of amino-substituted pyrimidine-fused diazepine derivatives of the type 96 from 4,5,6-triaminopyrimidine and chalcones [57]. Similarly, the pyridine-fused derivatives (97) were prepared xmder MW-assisted solvent and catalyst-free condition [58], Condensation of thiadiazole-annulated phen-ylene diamines with appropriate carbonyl compounds using sulfamic acid as organocatalyst led to the formation of corresponding diazepine derivatives 98 in excellent yields [59] (Figure 4). 

This type of compounds showed weak or moderate antibacterial and antifungal activities, with selectivity toward Bacillus subtilis and Candida albicans [5]. These bicyclic structures may offer a sterical hindrance to the nucleophilic attack to the electrophilic double bond conjugated to the carbonyl group, thus rendering it less susceptible to a Michael addition. Nevertheless, these molecules are unique scaffolds for further transformations into analogues of biologically active compounds, for example, pamlin, aiming at new, active, and nontoxic products. 

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