Enamines, reaction with ring opening

Ruthenium complexes mediate the hydroamination of ethylene with pyridine.589 The reaction, however, is not catalytic, because of strong complexation of the amine to metal sites. Iridium complexes with chiral diphosphine ligands and a small amount of fluoride cocatalyst are effective in inducing asymmetric alkene hydroamination reaction of norbomene with aniline [the best enantiomeric excess (ee) values exceed 90%].590 Strained methylenecyclopropanes react with ring opening to yield isomeric allylic enamines 591... 

Iminium salts (182) were starting materials in reactions with enamines (93CB133 94CB1437), which proceed by two different pathways with the formation of bicyclic ketones (183) and with the formation of substituted pyridines. The authors assume that the reaction takes place by a double electrophilic attack of the salt (182) in the /3-positions of the enamine and the resulting immonium cations undergo a retro-Mannich type of reaction with the opening of one of the piperidine rings. 

Interestingly, enamines attack the terminal olefinic carbon of l,l-bis(ethoxycarbonyl)-2-vinylcyclopropane (42), with ring opening of the cyclopropane ring, in contrast to sodiomalonic ester which attacks the more substituted cyclopropane carbon. With diethyl cyclopropylmethylideneraalonate (43) reaction occurs at the jff-carbon and the cyclopropyl ring remains intact (Scheme 27). Titanium tetrachloride catalyses the highly diastereoselective addition of enamines to 2,2-dimethoxyethyl crotonate. ... 

Benzoyl-l-phenyl-5-methoxycarbonyl-2,3-dihydro-pyrrole-2,3-dione was reacted with 5/5-dimethyl-3-p-methoxyphenylamino-2-cyclohexen-l-one in boiling benzene to afford 6,6-d imethyl-1 -p-methoxyphenyl-2,4-dioxo-2,3,4,5,6,7-hexahydro-lH-indole-3-spiro-2-(3-benzoyl-5-oxo-4-phenyl-amino-2,5-dihydrofuran) in high yield. The reaction proceeded by the enamine addition to the 2-carbonyl group with ring opening, followed by double cyclization (06RJOC772). 

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). 

In a similar process, tertiary enaminones react with alkynylcarbene complexes to give the corresponding pyranylidene complexes following a reaction pathway analogous to that described above. First, a [2+2] cycloaddition reaction between the alkynyl moiety of the carbene complex and the C=C double bond of the enamine generates a cyclobutene intermediate, which evolves by a conrotatory cyclobutene ring opening followed by a cyclisation process [94] (Scheme 49). 

Intermolecular [4C+2S] cycloaddition reactions where the diene moiety is contained in the carbene complex are less frequent than the [4S+2C] cycloadditions summarised in the previous section. However, 2-butadienylcarbene complexes, generated by a [2+2]/cyclobutene ring opening sequence, undergo Diels-Alder reactions with typical dienophiles [34,35] (Scheme 59). Also, Wulff et al. have described the application of pyranylidene complexes, obtained by a [3+3] cycloaddition reaction (see Sect. 2.8.1), in the inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder reaction with enol ethers and enamines [87a]. Later, this strategy was applied to the synthesis of steroid-like ring skeletons [87b] (Scheme 59). 

The ring-opening process leading to 164 (route a) is analogous to that which has been demonstrated to follow the cycloadditions of tosyl azide to certain enamines . Similar results have been reported for the reaction of 2,3-diphenylcyclopropenone with 2-diazopropane . Other 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions with thiirene dioxides could also be affected (see below). 

Valence Isomerization of the 2-Thiabicyclo[3.2.0]heptadiene Moiety In principle, a valence isomerization of thiabicyclo[3.2.0]heptadiene skeleton would lead to a thiepin ring system. Wynberg et al. 23) reported that the photochemical adduct (28) from benzo[6]thiophene and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate was not thermally stable. When heated in diglyme, it loses sulfur to give dimethyl 1,2-naphthalenedicarboxylate. This reaction presumably proceeds via ring opening of 28 to 2,3-dimethoxycarbonylbenzo[6]thiepin (29) which readily eliminates sulfur. This synthetic route was successfully applied to the reaction of electron-deficient acetylenes with enamines of 2,3-dihydrobenzo[fe]thiophen-3-ones in which the enamine moiety constitutes part of a thiophene system. When 3-pyrrolidin-l-yl-benzo[6]thiophene (30) was allowed to react with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate... 

The epimerization likely occurs through an enamine retro-aAAol reaction after formation of the initial cyclized product (92) (Scheme 6.16) [47]. First, a ring opening of 92 forms the enamine-aldehyde (93a). Rotation about the C-C a-bond in 93a provides intermediate 93b in which enamine addition to the aldehyde to reclose the ring would give 93c. After protonation of the enolate, 91 would result with an overall epimerization of the spirocyclic carbon. In addition to the 2D NMR data, we also planned a complement of experiments to support the epimerization assignment. 

A novel ring opening reaction of isoxazoles led to the formation of functionalized pyrroles <06S1021>. For example, treatment of isoxazole 52 with DBU led to the formation of pyrrole 53. A solid-phase synthesis of 3-amino-2,5-dicarboxylates was accomplished by transformation of pyrrol-3-one 54 <06JCC177>. The reaction between 54 and secondary amines led to the corresponding resin-bound aminopyrroles after enamine formation and loss... 

Several reactions of enamines with acetylenic esters are reported. " In general, [2 + 2] mode of addition leads to cyclobutene intermediates, which undergo ring opening, yielding dienamines. (V,A(-Dimethyl-isobutenylamine (227) with DMAD, for example, gives the dienamine... 

A Piperidine acts both as a nucleophile and as a base. First it combines with the pyrylium cation at C-2, forming an adduct which then ring opens, deprolonates and tautomerizes to an enamino ketone (Schema 4.3), This product cyclizes through an intramolecular reaction between the enamine unit and the carbonyl group, followed by dehydration to form the phenylpiperidine. 

The reaction of a,/3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds with enamines also leads to dihydropyrans, although it is not always possible to isolate these since they react further to give either ring-opened by-products or bicyclic derivatives arising from a Stork annelation. There has been considerable discussion on the mechanism of this reaction, although the initial nucleophilic attack of the enamine on the /3-carbon of the diene is not in doubt (63JA207). It is possible that a zwitterionic species is involved, either as an intermediate or merely in equilibrium with the dihydropyran (67JCS(C)226). 

Interest in the use of pyrylium salts in synthesis continues. 2-Methylpyridinium salts are converted into the 2-arylpyridinium compound on reaction with 2,4,6-triarylpyrylium salts in the presence of base. The methylpyridinium salt is deprotonated to the anhydrobase which behaves as an enamine, attacking the pyrylium salt at C-2, promoting a ring opening - ring closure sequence which culminates in the effective arylation of the pyridinium salt. 

Moreover, a reaction of the Mannich type has been observed with heterocyclic enamines, e.g. in the treatment of 1,2-dimethyl-A2-piperideine with formaldehyde as described by Lipp and Widn-mann.350 In the condensation, the ring-opened form, viz. 1-methyl-amino-5-hexanone, is presumably involved. Recrystallization of the intermediate Y-hydroxy methyl derivative then gives the final 1-methyl-3-acetylpiperidine (121). 

The ring-chain tautomerism of oxazolidines is discussed in Section 4.18.2.5.2. Oxazolidines form unstable salts which are easily hydrolyzed (equation 80) (77RRC1413). IV-Substituted oxazolidines react with enamines in the presence of trifluoroacetic acid to yield 1,4-oxazepines in a ring-opening 1,5-cycloaddition reaction (equation 8,1) (80LA1573). 

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