Disubstituted pyrroles rearrangement

Whereas the cycloaddition of arylazirines with simple alkenes produces A -pyrrolines, a rearranged isomer can be formed when the alkene and the azirine moieties are suitably arranged in the same molecule. This type of intramolecular photocycloaddition was first detected using 2-vinyl-substituted azirines (75JA4682). Irradiation of azirine (54) in benzene afforded a 2,3-disubstituted pyrrole (55), while thermolysis gave a 2,5-disubstituted pyrrole (56). Photolysis of azirine (57) proceeded similarly and gave 1,2-diphenylimidazole (58) as the exclusive photoproduct. This stands in marked contrast to the thermal reaction of (57) which afforded 1,3-diphenylpyrazole (59) as the only product. 

The thermal transformations observed with these systems can be rationalized in terms of an equilibration of the 1-azirine with a transient vinylnitrene which subsequently rearranges to the 2,5-disubstituted pyrrole (56). 

Disubstituted thiophenes 96 and 1,2,5-tri- and 2,5-disubstituted pyrrole derivatives 97 are available readily from m-3,6-disubstituted-3,6-dihydro-l,2-dioxins in a one-pot synthesis. The reaction proceeds by an initial Kornblum-de la Mare rearrangement of the 3,6-dihydro-l,2-dioxin to its isomeric 1,4-diketone followed by the condensation with Lawesson s reagent, ammonium carbonate, or a primary amine (Scheme 21) <2002TL3199>. 

Narasaka has utilized a Heck-type intramolecular aminopalladation of the olefinic moiety of r,5-unsaturated ketone 0-pentafluorobenzoyloximes 9 to afford 2,5-disubstituted pyrroles 10 (R = CH3, C02Et) <99CL45>. The use of the O-pentafluorobenzoyl group was found necessary to preclude competing Beckmann rearrangements. 

A gold(I)-catalyzed domino reaction sequence involving pentenynyl tosylamides led to the formation of 2,3-disubstituted pyrroles containing a quaternary center in the 2-substituent <07OL3181>. The mechanism of the reaction involved a 5-endo-dig cyclization followed by an aza-Claisen rearrangement. 

The photolysis of 2-methylfuran in the presence of a primary amine gives a 1,3-disubstituted pyrrole. This photolysis is assumed to proceed via a cyclopropenyl ketone, which reacts with the amine to form an imine. This imine rearranges to the pyrrole derivative (106)106). Couture and his coworker also found that the photo-... 

Duchene and Parrain developed a one-pot allylic amina-tion/palladium-catalyzed Sonogashira cross-coupling and heterocyclization process for the preparation of 1,2,4-trisub-stituted and 1,3-disubstituted pyrroles starting from diiodo-butenoic acid, a primary amine, and a terminal alkyne [49], Scheme 3.27 shows a plausible mechanism for this transformation. The initial C—N allylic amination, followed by a Sonogashira cross-coupling and an intramolecular hydroam-ination, affords a dihydroexoalkylidene pyrrole XIX, which rearranges into pyrrole 39. The reaction is influenced by the... 

Padwa and coworkers realized the synthesis of 2,4-disubstituted pyrroles using rearrangements of 2-fiiranyl carbamates via 5-methoxy-3-pyrrolin-2-one intermediates. 2-Furanyl carbamate 593 was treated with iodine and sodium bicarbonate followed by methyl iodide and silver oxide to give the N-substituted 5-methoxy-3-pyrrolin-2-one 595 via the iodinated intermediate 594 (Scheme 173 20090L1233). Padwa employed this method to synthesize 5-methoxypyrrol-2-ones, which were then treated with alkyl hthiates to give tricycHc products (2009T6720). 

Acyl-pyrroles, -furans and -thiophenes in general have a similar pattern of reactivity to benzenoid ketones. Acyl groups in 2,5-disubstituted derivatives are sometimes displaced during the course of electrophilic substitution reactions. iV-Alkyl-2-acylpyrroles are converted by strong anhydrous acid to A-alkyl-3-acylpyrroles. Similar treatment of N-unsubstituted 2- or 3-acyIpyrroles yields an equilibrium mixture of 2- and 3-acylpyrroles pyrrolecarbaldehydes also afford isomeric mixtures 81JOC839). The probable mechanism of these rearrangements is shown in Scheme 65. A similar mechanism has been proposed for the isomerization of acetylindoles. 

Syntheses from Phthalimidines Syntheses from Ortho-Disubstituted Benzenes Condensation of 1,4-Diketones with Amines and Pyrroles Other Reactions and Rearrangements Leading to Isoindoles IV. Properties of the Isoindole System A. Tautomerism... 

The reactions of 2-hydroxy-2-(3-indolyl)ethanoamides and of ethyl 2-hydroxy-2-(2-pyrrolyl) ethanoates with trialkyl ortho-esters follow similar routes with the initial formation of the enol ethers (295) and (297), followed by an ortho- Claisen rearrangement to give the 2,3-disubstituted indoles (296) and pyrroles (298) (79JOC1885,80TL4335). 

Polyalkylated 2- and 3-pyrrolenines (2H- and 3H-pyrroles) and 3-indolenines (3H-indoles) are formed by methylation of the parent 1H heterocycles (see Section 3.05.1.2.7), but the acid-catalyzed or thermal rearrangement of 2,2,5-trisubstituted 2H-pyrroles and of 3,3-disubstituted 3//-indoles yields the corresponding 2,3,5-trisubstituted IH-pyrroles and the 2,3-disubstituted l//-indoles, respectively (see Section 3.05.1.1). 

H- 1,2-Oxazines are stabilized as 4,4-disubstituted derivatives but 4H- and 6if-l,2-thiazines are almost unknown. Possibly the paucity of these compounds simply reflects a lack of interest, for 6if-l,2-oxazines are comparatively common, and 3,5-diphenyl-6if- 1,2-oxazine, for example, is a stable crystalline solid. Similarly, cyano-1,2-oxazines (6 R=alkyl) are formed by the photolysis of azidopyridine oxides (5). However in the case where R3 = H, these products rearrange to pyrroles (7) (81CC36). 

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