Domino-Knoevenagel-hetero-Diels-Alder-type Reactions

Domino-Knoevenagel-hetero-Diels-Alder-type Reactions 

Mechanistically it is proposed that the reaction proceeds via an initial Knoevena-gel condensation of the aldehyde with Meldrum s acid followed by a Diels-Alder reaction of the resulting arylidene Meldrum s acid with an in situ generated chiral dienamine, which is formed in the reaction of the enone with the aminocatalyst. 

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Domino-Knoevenagel-hetero-Diels—Alder-type Reactions I 291... 

So far, only those domino Knoevenagel/hetero-Diels-Alder reactions have been discussed where the cycloaddition takes place at an intramolecular mode however, the reaction can also be performed as a three-component transformation by applying an intermolecular Diels-Alder reaction. In this process again as the first step a Knoevenagel reaction of an aldehyde or a ketone with a 1,3-dicarbonyl compound occurs. However, the second step is now an intermolecular hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of the formed 1 -oxa-1,3 -butadiene with a dienophile in the reaction mixture. The scope of this type of reaction, and especially the possibility of obtaining highly diversified molecules, is even higher than in the case of the two-component transformation. The stereoselectivity of the cycloaddition step is found to be less pronounced, however. 

Another class of alkaloids recently synthesized by Tietze and coworkers using a three-component domino Knoevenagel/hetero-Diels-Alder reaction included the Ipecacuanha alkaloids such as emetine (2-798) [402], and the Alangium alkaloids such as tubulosine (2-799) [403]. Both types belong to the group of tetrahydroi-soquinoline alkaloids, and are formed in Nature from dopamine and the monoter-... 

The diversity of the products obtained by the three-component domino-Knoevenagel-hetero-Diels-Alder reaction can be further increased by a different work-up of the formed cycloadduct 141. Thus, hydrogenolytic removal of the Cbz-group in 141 led to 151 with a lactam and an aldehyde moiety by reaction of the formed secondary amine with the lactone moiety followed by elimination of benzyl alcohol. Reduction of 151 with lithium aluminum hydride gave benzoquinolizidine 152 (Scheme 5.30). Alkaloids of this type have so far not been found in nature, but it can be assumed that they might exist, since they could easily be formed from deacetylisopecoside 153, which is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of emetine 111. 

This three-component reaction as the key step of this synthesis is called a domino-Knoevenagel-hetero-Diels-Alder reaction. Domino reactions are defined as processes of two or more bond forming reactions in which a subsequent transformation takes place by virtue of the functionalities introduced in a former transformation.2,16 The tetrahydrocarbolinaldehyde 11 first reacts in a Knoevenagel type condensation with Meldrum s acid 14 and ethyleneammonium diacetate 41 as the catalyst to oxabutadiene 44 which then undergoes a Diels-Alder reaction with enol ether 13. 

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