Enamine condensation

The syntheses shown in Scheme 26 (71CB1573) are based on dibenzo-/3-tropolone (108) and its enamines. Condensation of 108 and benzoin in the presence of ammonia affords pyrrole 109. The morpholino enamine gives pyrazole 110 via benzoylation, hydrolytic elimination of morpholine, and cyclization, whereas diazo-group transfer onto the anilino enamine leads to triazole 111. Dione 108 and p-nitrophenylazide in one step give predominantly the p-nitro derivative of 111 (92G249). 

Both enamine condensation and cyclisation occurred with 4-chlorophenol in the following reaction. A mixture of 1-(3,3-dimethyltetrahydro-2-furfurylidene)-... 

The nitrogen of the resulting enamine condenses intramolecularly with the carboxylic acid, giving a lactam. 

A similar conclusion can be drawn from an unexplained case of sonochemical switching (Fig. 29). The addition of primary aromatic amines to methyl pyruvate produces first the tautomeric imine-enamine condensation product. This step seems to be sonication independent. Under stirring at room temperature, the condensation goes on with the condensation of the enamine with the pyruvic ester to yield a lactone. In contrast, sonication under the same conditions... 

Semicorrins have been previously prepared as intermediates in the synthesis of corrinoid and hydroporphinoid compounds [12,13]. The classic route by iminoester-enamine condensation, devisal by Eschenmoser [12], is ideally suited for preparing chiral C2-symmetric semicorrins 1 (Scheme 1). Starting either from L-pyroglutamic acid (-)-3 or from the D-enantiomer, which are both commercially available at moderate prices, the crystalline, enantiomerically pure (S,Sy and (/ ,/ )-diesters (-)-la and (+)-la are readily synthesized in multigram quantities with an overall yield of 30-40 % (Scheme 2) [8,14]. The diesters can be converted to a variety of differently substituted semicorrins by selective trans-... 

This, the Darzens reaction, is useful in other circumstances (frames 280-1) but a nuisance here. We must use some means to make the ketone act as the nucleophile in the initial condensation. One effectiye way is to conyert it into an enamine. Draw a mechanism for this reaction. 

The condensation of aldehydes or ketones with secondary amines leads to "encunines via N-hemiacetals and immonium hydroxides, when the water is removed. In these conjugated systems electron density and nudeophilicity are largely transferred from the nitrogen to the a-carbon atom, and thus enamines are useful electroneutral d -reagents (G.A. Cook, 1969 S.F. Dyke, 1973). A bulky heterocyclic substituent supports regio- and stereoselective reactions. 

Difunctional target molecules are generally easily disconnected in a re/ro-Michael type transform. As an example we have chosen a simple symmetrical molecule, namely 4-(4-methoxyphenyl)-2,6-heptanedione. Only p-anisaldehyde and two acetone equivalents are needed as starting materials. The antithesis scheme given helow is self-explanatory. The aldol condensation product must be synthesized first and then be reacted under controlled conditions with a second enolate (e.g. a silyl enolate plus TiCl4 or a lithium enolate), enamine (M. Pfau, 1979), or best with acetoacetic ester anion as acetone equivalents. 

Mills and Smith (504) were the first, in 1922, to develop a systematic study of the reactivity of methyl groups fixed on nitrogen-containing heterocycles. While in alkylpyridines the 2- (or 6) and 4-positions are activated, only the 2-position in thiazole corresponds to an enhanced reactivity of the methyl groups in condensation with aldehydes 4- and 5-methylthiazoles bear inert methyl groups. Quatemization of the thiazole nitrogen enhances still further the reactivity of the methyl in the 2-position (cf. Chapter IX), but it does not increase the reactivity of a methyl group in the 4-position (504). The authors invoke the possibility for 2- (and 6) methylpyridine and 2-methylthiazole to pass, to some extent, into the reactive enamine form (245), while 4-methylthiazole could adopt such a structure only with the participation of an unusual formula such as 247 (Scheme 112). 

If the condensation is done with /S-aminocrotonic ester or (2-aminopent-2-en-4-one)enamine, intermediates 245b are also obtained then they are cyclized either to 2--aininothiazoles (243b) under the influence of alkalis or to A-4-thiazol-2-ones by acids (Scheme 125b) (728). 

Reductive Gyclizations. The Batcho-Leimgmber protocol involves condensation of an o-nitrotoluene with a dimethylformamide acetal to form a P-( nitrophenyl)enamine (27). A reducing agent then affects the reductive cycli2ation to an indole. 

Other methods of generating a-aminoketones in situ are common, if somewhat less general than the methods already described. 2-Nitrovinylpyrrolidine, which is readily available, yields 2,3-bis(3-aminopropyl)pyrazine on reduction and this almost certainly involves ring opening of the intermediate enamine to an a-aminoketone which then dimerizes under the reaction conditions (Scheme 59) (78TL2217). Nitroethylene derivatives have also served as a-aminoketone precursors via ammonolysis of the derived epoxides at elevated temperatures (Scheme 60) (76S53). Condensation of 1,1-disubstituted hydrazine derivatives with a-nitro-/3-ethoxyethylene derivatives has been used in the synthesis of l,4-dialkylamino-l,4-dihydropyrazines (Scheme 61) (77S136). 

The reaction of 6-amino-5-(l,2-diethoxycarbonylhydrazino)pyrimidines with enamines represents another convenient method for the preparation of pteridines. Fusion of 5-(l,2-diethoxycarbonylhydrazino)-2,4,6-triaminopyrimidine (281) with an excess of mor-pholinocyclohexene leads to 2,4-diaminotetrahydrobenzo[g]pteridine, and with the morpholinoenamine (282) from 17/3-hydroxy-5a-androstan-3-one regioselective condensation to the fused pteridine (283) takes place in almost quantitative yield (equation 101) (71CC83). 6-Amino-5-nitroso- and 6-amino-5-phenylazo-pyrimidines react similarly, imitating the Timmis-type reaction (72CPB1428). 

Synthesis at 4-chromanones by condensation of saiicylaldehydes or o-hydroxyaryi ketones with enamines or ketones. 

The original flask used for the enamine formation can be used after the attachment of a Y-shape tube fitted with a dropping funnel and a reflux condenser protected with a tube packed with a drying agent such as anhydrous calcium chloride. 

A nonbasic enamine is formed from decafluorocyclohexene and pyrrolidine L9J], whereas condensation of perfluorocyclobutene with excess hydrazine produces the tetrakishydrazone of cyclobutanetetrone [94] (equation 80). 

The synthesis and condensation reactions of 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl vinyl ketone with enamines and ketones were investigated [57J (equation 38) (Table 13). These reactions lead to the formation of 2-trifluoromethylcyclohexenones. 

Cook et al. 45) have studied the structure of the enamines of bicyclic ketones such as norbornanone. Acid-catalyzed condensation of norbornaiie withhexamethylenimineledto a 1 I mixture of the corresponding enamine (87) and its dihydro derivative (88),... 

Similar results were encountered by Bianchetti et al. (i52), who found that e ketal derivatives of //-alkyl methyl ketones with morpholine led to the enamines of the condensation products of these ketones. The authors have Suggested the following probable mechanism for the dienamine formation. 

Muiik and Kim (65) have shown that the acid-catalyzed condensation of desoxybenzoin with morpholine led only to the thermodynamically more stable CIS isomer of the corresponding enamine (128). 

Enamines from the Condensation of Aldehydes and Ketones with Secondary Amines. ... 

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