1.4- Dihydropyridine, oxidation

Silylcuprates have been reported to undergo reactions with a number of miscellaneous Michael acceptors [65]. Conjugate addition to 3-carbomethoxy acyl pyri-dinium salts [65a] affords 4-silyl-l,4-dihydropyridines. Oxidation with p-chlorand generates a 4-acyl pyridinium salt that gives the 4-silylnicotinate upon quenching with water, and methyl 4-silyl-2-substituted dihydronicotinates upon quenching with nucleophiles (nucleophilic addition at the 6-position). The stabilized anion formed by conjugate addition to an a, j8-unsaturated sulfone could be trapped intramolecularly by an alkyl chloride [65b]. 

CNS via pa.ssivc ub.sorption of the icniury amine, which on oxidation restricts the resulting pyridinium amide to the brain. Amide hydrolysis then delivers the active fomi of the drug at or near its site of action. The amide hydrolysis step may be slower than the dihydropyridine oxidation step, and thus a reservoir of pyridinium amide precursor may be available for conversion to the active drug species. 

Guengerich, F.P. and Kim, D.H. (1990) In vitro inhibition of dihydropyridine oxidation and aflatoxin B1 activation in human liver microsomes by naringenin and other flavonoids. 

Although electron-rich aromatics are most commonly employed in processes of this type, a nickel-catalyzed coupling of organozincs with electron-deficient heteroaromatics such as pyridines has been developed. This process likely involves initial catalyzed addition of the organozinc to the 2-position of the pyridine, followed by dihydropyridine oxidation to afford product. The authors demonstrated that dihydropyridine oxidation in the presence of organozincs proceeds even in the absence of nickel. 

Butyroin has been prepared by reductive condensation of ethyl butyrate with sodium in xylene, or with sodium in the presence of chloro-trimethylsilane. and by reduction of 4,5-octanedlone with sodium l-benzyl-3-carbamoyl-l,4-dihydropyridine-4-sulfinate in the presence of magnesium chloride or with thiophenol in the presence of iron polyphthalocyanine as electron transfer agent.This acyloin has also been obtained by oxidation of (E)-4-octene with potassium permanganate and by reaction of... 

According to the proposed mechanism for biological oxidation of ethanol, the hydrogen that is transferred to the coenzyme comes from C-1 of ethanol. Therefore, the dihydropyridine ring will bear no deuterium atoms when CD3CH2OH is oxidized, because all the deuterium atoms of the alcohol are attached to C-2. 

The Hantzsch pyridine synthesis involves the condensation of two equivalents of a 3-dicarbonyl compound, one equivalent of an aldehyde and one equivalent of ammonia. The immediate result from this three-component coupling, 1,4-dihydropyridine 1, is easily oxidized to fully substituted pyridine 2. Saponification and decarboxylation of the 3,5-ester substituents leads to 2,4,6-trisubstituted pyridine 3. 

The immediate outcome of the Hantzsch synthesis is the dihydropyridine which requires a subsequent oxidation step to generate the pyridine core. Classically, this has been accomplished with nitric acid. Alternative reagents include oxygen, sodium nitrite, ferric nitrate/cupric nitrate, bromine/sodium acetate, chromium trioxide, sulfur, potassium permanganate, chloranil, DDQ, Pd/C and DBU. More recently, ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) has been found to be an efficient reagent to carry out this transformation. When 100 was treated with 2 equivalents of CAN in aqueous acetone, the reaction to 101 was complete in 10 minutes at room temperature and in excellent yield. 

Marazano and co-workers have also applied the reactions of tryptamine with various Zincke salts, including 115 (Scheme 8.4.39), in the synthesis of pyridinium salts such as 116. This type of product is useful for further conversion to dihydropyridine or 2-pyridone derivatives. For example, in a different study, Zincke-derived chiral pyridinium salts could be oxidized site-selectively with potassium ferricyanide under basic conditions as a means of chiral 2-pyridone synthesis (117 —> 118, Scheme 8.4.40). 

Lavilla et al. have reported several stereocontrolled oxidative electrophilic additions to A-alkyl-l,4-dihydropyridines 34 leading to the synthesis of 3-halo-2-substituted-l,2,3,4-tetrahydropyridines 67 (98JOC2728). Adding a stoichiometric amount of iodine or NIS (A-iodosuccinimide) to a methanolic solution of 1 -methy 1-... 

Alkyl-1,4-dihydropyridines on reaction with peracids undergo either extensive decomposition or biomimetic oxidation to A-alkylpyridinum salts (98JOC10001). However, A-methoxycarbonyl derivatives of 1,4- and 1,2-dihydro-pyridines (74) and (8a) react with m-CPBA to give the methyl tmns-2- 2>-chlorobenzoyloxy)-3-hydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyridine-l-carboxylate (75) and methyl rran.s-2-(3-chlorobenzoyloxy)-3-hydroxy-l,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine-l-carboxylate (76) in 65% and 66% yield, respectively (nonbiomimetic oxidation). The reaction is related to the interaction of peracids with enol ethers and involves the initial formation of an aminoepoxide, which is opened in situ by m-chlorobenzoic acid regio- and stereoselectively (57JA3234, 93JA7593). 

The synthesis of 2,3-dihydro-5-oxaisothiazole[5,4-i]pyridme 321 was performed from monothiomalonamide (319) and methoxybutenone (85S861). 2-Thioxo-l,2-dihydropyridine-3-carboxamide 320 forming in the first stage (piperidine-acetate, EtOH, 10 h, yield 87 %) was further oxidized to isothiazolopy-ridine 321, yield 95%. 

A general method for the construction of a pyridine ring is the Hantzsch synthesis. A condensation reaction of two equivalents of a /3-ketoester 1 with an aldehyde 2 and ammonia leads to a 1,4-dihydropyridine 3, which can be oxidized to the corresponding pyridine 4—for example by nitric acid ... 

Pyridines are traditionally prepared using the Hantzsch reaction, a condensation between 2 mol of a 6-ketoester, 1 mol of an aldehyde and 1 mol of ammonia. The product of this reaction is a 1,4-dihydropyridine which can be further oxidized to the corresponding pyridine compound (as 155 in Scheme 54). A first report described the Hantzsch reaction carried out under microwave irradiation on Bentonite clay and ammonium nitrate as ammonia... 

The synthesis of 4-substituted pyridines via 1,4-addition of Grignard reagents to pyridinecarboxamides has been studied. After addition of Grignard reagents to pyridinecarboxamides 32, oxidation of the dihydropyridine intermediates with NCS or oxygen provides the substituted pyridines 33 in good yields <95T(51)9531>. 

Simpkins (Fig. 8) [64]. This approach is based on the observation that certain dihydropyridines fairly readily enter the brain, where they are oxidized to the... 

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