Cyclization vinylogous

Fig. 63. Simultaneous cyclization-vinylogous aminomethylation reaction involving dihydro-...

The general method for preparation of heterocyclic enamino ketones, amide vinylogs, consists of a cyclization reaction (Scheme 6). The most convenient technique involves heating the starting substance in acetonitrile in the presence of silver perchlorate 137-139). 

Sodium borohydride reduction of 4-substituted isoquinolinium salts led to vinylogous cyanamides, ureas, and urethanes, as well as the corresponding tetrahydroquinolines (640). Hydrogenation of /8-acylpyridinium salts (641) to vinylogous ureas was exploited in syntheses of alkaloids (642), leading, for instance, to lupinine, epilupinine, and corynantheidine (643, 644). Similarly, syntheses of dasycarpidone and epidasycarpidone were achieved (645) through isomerization of an a,/0-unsaturated 2-acylindole and cyclization of the resultant enamine. 

The alkylation of enamines with nitroolefins, which gives intermediates for reductive cyclization (6S2), also provided an example of a stable cycliza-tion product derived from attack of the intermediate imonium function by the nitro anion (683). A previously claimed tetrasubstituted enamine, which was obtained from addition of a vinylsulfone to morpholinocyclohexene (314), was shown to be the corresponding cyclobutane (684). Perfluoro-olefins also gave alkylation products with enamines (685). Reactions of enamines with diazodicarboxylate (683,686) have been used diagnostically for 6-substituted cyclohexenamines. In a reaction of 2-penten-4-one with a substituted vinylogous amide, stereochemical direction was seen to depend on solvent polarity (687). 

While esters do not usually react with enamines and can, in fact, be substituents in the azeotropic preparation of enamines, they can be used in acylation reactions when these involve intramolecular cyclizations. Such reactions have been observed even at room temperature when they lead to the formation of five- and six-membered vinylogous lactams (362). Applications to precursors for azasteroids (40S) and alkaloids (309,406) are key steps in synthetic sequences. 

The formation of five- (362) and six- (581) membered vinylogous lactams and pyrroles by intramolecular enamine acylations has been accomplished in some examples by formation of the cyclization precursor through an initial enamine exchange (362). 

The formation of 3-acylpyridinium compounds (59/) from primary amines and l-methoxybutene-3-one can be regarded as the enamine alkylation of a vinylogous amide followed by cyclization and loss of methanol and water. 

Cyclization of 6-diethylaminohex-3-en-5-yn-2-one (375), an ynaminoketone vinylog, with hydrazine yields 3-diethylamino-7-methyl-5//-l,2-diazepine (375) (97DIS). 

Reaction of aniline derivatives with 4-chlorobutyroyl chloride followed by cyclization with sodium ethoxide and subsequent thionation promoted by sonication gave the corresponding A -arylpyrrolidine-2-thiones 126. Zinc-mediated condensation of diethyl bromomalonate with 126 using iodine as activator gave the vinylogous urethanes 127 whose cyclization with PPA gave the tricyclic compound 128 which upon hydrolysis afforded the acid 129 (96TL9403). 

Benzoisobacteriochlorin 14 can be prepared from nickel(II) chlorin 12 by vinylogous Vilsmeier reaction to give 13 and subsequent acid-induced cyclization.22 The chlorin 12 is, as expected, alkylated in a meso position adjacent to the reduced pyrrole ring. 

Acid-induced cyclization of the appropriate (hydroxypropenyl)pyrroles 30, which can be easily derived from a-unsubstituted pyrroles by vinylogous Vilsmeier reaction followed by reduction of the formyl function, yields the corresponding expanded porphyrinogens 31. The... 

The starting materials for annulative cyclization are cycloalkenones that contain the allylsilane side chain in the 4-position. Such starting materials can easily be prepared from vinylogous esters40. Furthermore, reactions of 3-alkoxy-2-cyclohexenones with functionalized iodides in the presence of lithium diisopropylamide provides an excellent route to such precursors41 34 35. 

Although the exact mechanism of the Tschitschibabin cyclisation has not been elucidated, it is reasonable, as shown in Scheme 4, to assume a series of reversible steps from the vinylogous ylide (or methylide) to a methine and an enol-betaine intermediate and then finally an irreversible dehydration to the indolizine nucleus. The reaction might be related to the modern electrocyclic 1,5 dipolar cyclization. 

Roush and coworkers developed a new one-pot sequence consisting of an intramolecular Diels-Alder- and an intramolecular vinylogous Morita-Baylis-Hillman-cyclization for the synthesis of spinosyns [31]. These compounds are poly-ketide natural products possessing extraordinary insecticidal activity. 

For a Lewis-acid-mediated cyclization reaction of a tryptamine-derived vinylogous amide that affords the Aspidosperma skeleton, see Huizenga RH, Pandit UK (1991) Tetrahedron 47 4155 1164... 

CAN). Fortunately, using CAN [30] with vinylogous amide 54 under short reaction times provided the desired, cyclized product 53 (in yields ranging from 45 to 58 %, Scheme 6.11). 

Photo-irradiation of the tryptamine (166) produces an intermediate diradical cation that leads to the formation of an azonino[c f]indole. This is the first example of a vinylogous Witkop cyclization. 

In model studies directed towards the synthesis of ( )-gelsemine, 5-exo-trig cyclization of an aryl radical, derived from the vinylogous uretane 58, onto a methoxymethyl enolether resulted in partial fragmentation of the intermediate... 

An example of an intriguing ring-size dependency of the reaction pathway is that of the cyclization of vinylogous urethanes 328a-c with cinnamaldehyde (08T883). Pyrrolidine- and azepane-based esters 328a and c, respectively, give via aza-[3+3] annulation the expected... 

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