Diazomethane reaction with enamines

Another interesting coupling reaction with enamines was recently observed with bis(methylsulfonyl)diazomethane 22... 

The determination of position of protonation by reaction with diazomethane was performed as follows The enamine was treated at —70° with ethereal hydrogen chloride and the suspension of precipitated salt was treated with diazomethane and allowed to warm slowly to —40°, at which temperature nitrogen was liberated. The reaction with lithium aluminum hydride (LAH) was carried out similarly except that an ether solution of LAH was added in place of diazomethane. The results from reaction of diazomethane and LAH 16) are summarized in Table 1. 

This is illustrated by the reaction of enamine, 113 with sulfene to produce adduct 114 in an 80 % yield (146). The product 114 was also observed in an 18% yield from the reaction of diazomethane, sulfur dioxide, and enamine 113 (153). It was demonstrated that this cyclization reaction must involve sulfene adding to the enamine directly and not acylation of the enamine by... 

Olefinic double bonds substituted with one or more electron-withdrawing groups show significant dipolarophilic activity in cycloaddition reactions with organic azides,43,276-278 similar to the electron-rich double bonds of enamines and enol ethers the reactivity is less pronounced in azide additions compared to that observed in diazomethane reactions.7 The first triazolines reported resulted by the action of aryl azides on benzoquinones.1,279-281 As a rule, stereospecific cis additions occur,32 which are usually unidirectional except in the case of methacrylic derivatives67 and certain alkenes bearing... 

A number of atypical reactions of enamines have been developed. For example, hydroboration-oxida-tion affords stereochemically defined, vicinal amino alcohols (equation 26). Similarly, enamines have been shown to undergo reaction with diazomethane to form substituted cyclopropanes. These materials can be further transformed to a alkylated ketones by thermolysis followed by hydrolysis (equation 27). ... 

Later, Fusco et al. (1963) used toluenesulfonyl azide for the addition to enamines. The expected dihydrotriazole was not observed, but diazomethane and an amidine were obtained, as shown for the reaction with a-(Ar-methylanilino)styrene (2.173) in (2-69). This route obviously corresponds to pathway C in Scheme 2-67. Dediazoniation products were also observed with toluenesulfonyl azide (Bianchetti et al., 1965 Huisgen et al., 1965). 

Since 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of diazomethane are HOMO (diazomethane)-LUMO (dipolarophile) controlled, enamines and ynamines with their high LUMO energies do not react (79JA3647). However, introduction of carbonyl functions into diazomethane makes the reaction feasible in these cases. Thus methyl diazoacetate and 1-diethylaminopropyne furnished the aminopyrazole (620) in high yield. 

Aminocyclopropanes were prepared from enamines by the addition of Simmons-Smith reagent (688) or best through the cuprous-chloride-promoted decomposition of diazomethane (689). The reaction of an enamine with chloroform and base and opening of the resultant aminocyclopropane to an ynamine was reported (690). 

Apart from the reaction of diazomethane with benzoyl chloride,5-6 diazoacetophenone has been prepared by the reaction of 2-aminoacetophenone hydrochloride with sodium nitrite,7 from the mixed anhydride of benzoic acid and ethyl carbonate with diazomethane,8 from benzoyl chloride and potassium methyldiazotate,9 by treating the enamine formed from 2-formylacetophenone and N-methylaniline with p-toluenesulfonyl azide,10 and from the reaction of the sodium enolate of 2-formylacetophenone with p-toluenesulfonyl azide.11... 

The diazoacetonitrile-imine reaction may be considered complimentary to azide addition to cinnamonitriles because in the latter case only triazoline thermolysis products result.284 The reversed order of reactivity of the diazoacetonitrile to that of diazomethane implies an electrophilic attack on the imine and is explained in terms of a LUMOdi MC lonit[ile-HOMOin,int controlled interaction. Thus electron-rich enamines, which do not react with diazoalkanes, may be expected to react with electron-poor diazo compounds. 

Palladium-based catalysts also bring about cyclopropanations in high-yield. With palladium acetate/CHjNj, styrene , unactivated terminal olefins strained olefins , 1,3-dienesan enamine , as well as a,3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds have been cyclopropanated (Table 1). Contrary to an earlier report, the reaction also works well with cyclohexene if the conditions are chosen appropriately it seems that the notniyst is rapidly deactivated in the presence of this olefin >. Trisubstituted a,p-unsaturated carbonyl compounds were found to be unreactive, and the same is true for the double bonds in diethyl fumarate, maleic anhydride, coumarin and 1,3-dimethyluracil. Whereas the latter two were totally unreactive, [3-1-2] cycloaddition of diazomethane gave pyrazolines in the former two cases. The last entry of Table 1 shows that an allyl alcohol function can still be cyclopropanated, but methylene insertion into the O—H bond is a competing process. 

Activation for the Michael reaction could be by COjEt group or enamine formation. Ring expansion of (16) to (14) is unambiguous as only the more substituted side chain migrates, as in the Baeyer-Villiger reaction (Chapter 27). We could simply treat (16) with diazomethane but a better method is to make the reaction intramolecular by converting (16) into the diazoketone (17)-... 

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