Cyclization involving primary amines

Cyclizations can occur when two amino groups are adjacent on a benzene ring. For example, reaction of phosgene with 2,3-diaminotoluene in chlorobenzene gave a precipitate containing a five-membered ring, considered to be a cyclic urea [1154]  

The compounds 2-H2NCeH4XNHj (X = CH, CHMe, (CH,)jCHMe, CH jCHMe(CH 3)3, CHjCHMeCHMe or CHjCHjCHPh) were cyclized similarly to give six-, seven- or eight-membered heterocyclic rings [1081]  

Alicyclic compounds behave analogously. Thus, diaminoadamantyl derivatives can be cyclized [78]  

Cyclization can also occur between primary and secondary amine functions that are adjacent on a ring. Thus, the following reaction has been used to prepare a bactericide [2]  

Similarly, a thiazolidine, in the presence of Na[HC03], gave a fused-ring product [409]  

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Separately, Paal and Knorr described the initial examples of condensation reactions between 1,4-diketones and primary amines, which became known as the Paal-Knorr pyrrole synthesis. Paal also developed a furan synthesis in related studies. The central theme of these reactions involves cyclizations of 1,4-diketones, either in the presence of a primary amine (Paal-Knorr pyrrole synthesis), in the presence of a sulfur(II) source (Paal thiophene synthesis), or by dehydration of the diketone itself (Paal furan synthesis). 

An interesting extrapolation of this synthesis deals with the preparation of the bispyridinium salt 62 from 1,2-phthalic dicarboxaldehyde and its subsequent reaction with primary amines (92BSB509).Tlie expected diimines 63 readily cyclize so that 2-aryl-l-arylimino-2,3-dihydro-l//-isoindoles 64 can be isolated in excellent yields (90-95%). Contrary to the reactions performed by employing the dialdehyde and amines directly, the syntheses involving the azinium salts do not produce those typical dark-colored complex mixtures of products (77JOC4217 85JHC449) (Scheme 20). 

The cyclization of the imine 158 is believed (81UK1252) to involve the addition of the second formamide molecule to C-3 (at least primary amines readily add in a similar manner to such systems). 

Alkylation lo yield a leriiary amine may occur easily if the formation involves cyclization (ii). Catalysts may have a marked influence. In reductive alkylation of ammonia wilh cyclohexanones, more primary amine was formed over Ru and Rh and more secondary amine over Pd and Pt. Reduction of the ketone to an alcohol is an important side reaction over ruthenium. 

Alternatively, Ballini devised a new strategy to synthesize tri-alkylated pyrroles from 2,5-dialkylfurans and nitroalkanes <00SL391>. This method involves initial oxidation of 2,5-dimethylfuran with magnesium monoperoxyphthalate to cA-3-hexen-2,5-dione (6). Conjugate addition of the nitronate anion derived from the nitro compound 7 to 6 followed by chemoselective hydrogenation of the C-C double bond of the resulting enones 8 (obtained by elimination of nitrous acid from the Michael adduct) completes the conversion to the alkylated y-diketones 9. Final cyclization to pyrroles 10 featured improved Paal-Knorr reaction conditions involving reaction of the diketones with primary amines in a bed of basic alumina in the absence of solvent. 

Piperidines. Grieco et al. have described a general synthesis of piperidines by reaction of the acid salt of a primary amine with an allylsilane and 2 equiv. of formaldehyde in water. The reaction involves reaction of iminium ion (a), derived from the amine and formaldehyde, with the allylsilane to form a homoallylamine (b), which can form a second iminium ion (c), which cyclizes with capture of water to the piperidine. 

Several characterized NRPSs utilize alternative methods for chain termination. In some synthetases, the TE domain of the final module is replaced by an NAD(P)H-dependent reductase domain. Reduction of a peptidyl-S-PCP substrate through a two-electron reaction leads to the formation of a transient aldehyde, which is subsequently converted into a cyclic imine or hemiaminal through intramolecular cyclization. This two-electron reaction is utilized in the biosynthesis of nostocyclopeptides, the saframycins, ° and anthramycin. Alternatively, a four-electron reduction to the primary alcohol is observed in the biosynthesis of mycobacterial peptidolipids, linear gramicidin," " the myxalamides, lyngbyatoxin, " and myxochelin A 75,76 alternative four-electron reduction pathway involving aldehyde formation, transamination, and reduction to a primary amine occurs in the biosynthesis of myxochelin B. ... 

One of the most general pyrrole syntheses is the cyclizative condensation of 1,4-dicarbonyl compounds with ammonia, a primary amine or related compound. The mechanistic pattern involves formation of carbinolamine and imine intermediates followed by aromatization. This method is sometimes referred to as the Paal-Knorr pyrrole synthesis (equation 65) (B-77MI30601). Once the dicarbonyl compound is available, the cyclization normally proceeds in good yield, so ease of access to the diketone is of major importance in determining the applicability of this method to specific pyrroles. Pyrrole formation usually takes place on heating the diketone in a solvent such as benzene or toluene with a catalytic amount of acid. An alternative method involves heating the dicarbonyl compound and an amine salt... 

An important pyrrole synthesis, known as the Knorr synthesis, is of the cyclizative condensation type. An a -amino ketone furnishes a nucleophilic nitrogen and an electrophilic carbonyl, while the second component, a /3-keto ester or similar /3-dicarbonyl compound, furnishes an electrophilic carbonyl and a nucleophilic carbon. The initial combination involves enamine formation between the primary amine and the dicarbonyl compound. Subsequent cyclization occurs as a result of the nucleophilic jg-carbon of the enamine adding to the electrophilic carbonyl group of the a-amino ketone (equation 76). Since a-amino... 

We end this chapter with a simple commercial synthesis of a drug molecule described as a dopaminergic antagonist. It uses four reactions that you have met conjugate addition of an enolate to acrylonitrile reduction of CN to a primary amine alkylation and reduction of the amide. There is another reaction involved—cyclization to an amide—but this occurs spontaneously. These reactions may be simple but they are important. 

The utility of urca.s and thioureas as substrates for making imidazoles is limited by the fact that the imidazole 2-substituent can only be an oxygen or sulfur function. Synthetic methods involving ureas and thioureas will also be discussed in Section 4.1, but some cyclizations of suitably functionalized species fall under the present heading. Appropriately substituted ureas and thioureas can be made from isocyanates and primary amines [36-38], from isocyanates and hydrazines [39] or thiocyanates and hydrazines [40], from or-aminonitrilcs and carbon dioxide [41] and by heating l,3,4-oxadiazol-2-oncs with amino acids [42]. Some of the substrates prepared in these ways, though, lead ultimately to reduced imidazoles such as hydantoins. Cyclizations arc usually acid catalysed, but they can also be thermal [43]. 

The main substrates that have been investigated as partners in cyclization reactions are phenols. As with reactions involving secondary amines, phenols react with aldehydes and primary amines principally ortho to the hydroxy group. A reaction of the first-formed secondary amine with a second molecule of aldehyde can therefore lead to the formation of a benzoxazine derivative. A wide range of phenols, includ-... 

The second method aimed to prepare 6,7-dihydroimidazo[l, 2-u]purin-9-ones 154 from a derivative of 2,3-dihydroimidazo[l,2-u]pyrimidine-5-one, the purine moiety being built up as follows the first step involved reaction of 2-(methylthio)-imidazolinium iodide with a convenient primary amine giving 2-(substituted amino)imidazoline 150 and then with ethyl oximinocyanoacetate and alkali produced 7-amino-2,3-dihydro-6-nitroso-R4,R6,R7-imidazo[l,2-u]pyrimidin-5(8T/)-one 151. Subsequent hydrogenation furnished the diamine 152, acylation and cyclization with boiling carboxylic anhydride originated the final 6,7-dihydro-R2,R4,R6,R7-imidazo[l, 2-u]purin-9(4f/)-one 154. The last two steps can be... 

Other monoaza-12-crown-4 derivatives were prepared by using the cyclization method developed by Calverley and Dale (14, 15). This method involves reaction between a primary amine and tetraethylene glycol diiodide. 

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