Diazonium salts Fischer indole synthesis

Unsaturated hydrazones, unsaturated diazonium salts or hydrazones of 2,3,5-triketones can be used as suitable precursors for the formation of pyridazines in this type of cyclization reaction. As shown in Scheme 61, pyridazines are obtainable in a single step by thermal cyclization of the tricyanohydrazone (139), prepared from cyanoacetone phenylhydrazone and tetracyanoethylene (76CB1787). Similarly, in an attempted Fischer indole synthesis the hydrazone of the cyano compound (140) was transformed into a pyridazine (Scheme 61)... 

The synthesis of cyclic ethers 137 was achieved by a Fischer indole synthesis starting from cyclic keto arylhydrazones generated in situ from 4-(hydroxy-methylene)-3,4-dihydrobenzo[ 7]oxepin-5(2H)-one 136 and the corresponding diazonium salt (Equation (20), 1993JHC1481). 

There is clearly a Fischer indole synthesis in the second step but the first step makes the usut. hydrazone in a most unusual way. The first reaction is diazotization so we have to combine fi diazonium salt with the enolate of the keto-ester. That creates a quaternary centre and the KC H deacylates it to give the aryl hydrazone needed for the Fischer reaction. 

Serotonin has been synthesised by several routes the method shown relies on a Fischer indole synthesis, the requisite aryl-hydrazone being constructed by a process known as the Japp-Klingemann reaction in which the enol of a 1,3-dicarbonyl compound is reacted with an aryl-diazonium salt, with subsequent cleavage of the 1,3-dicarbonyl unit. 

In the presence of copper, the diazonium salts 54 give the 2JF/-pyrroles 55 (Scheme 18) when R = COMe or C02Et.56 Successful cyclization apparently requires an electron-withdrawing group at the 3-position, for with 54 (R = Me) the reaction followed a different course. A spiro-2/f-pyrrole related to 55 was prepared recently under conditions for the Fischer indole synthesis.568... 

J.M. Cook et al. accomplished the enantiospecific total synthesis of the indole alkaloid tryprostatin A." The substituted indole nucleus was assembled at the beginning of the synthesis, and the necessary arylhydrazone was prepared via the Japp-Kiingemann reaction using the diazonium salt derived from m-anisidine and the anion of ethyl-a-ethylacetoacetate. The regioselectivity of the Fischer indoie synthesis favored the 6-methoxy-3-methylindole-2-carboxylate regioisomer in a 10 1 ratio. 

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