Enamines salt formation

Experimental evidence, obtained in protonation (3,6), acylation (1,4), and alkylation (1,4,7-9) reactions, always indicates a concurrence between electrophilic attack on the nitrogen atom and the -carbon atom in the enamine. Concerning the nucleophilic reactivity of the j3-carbon atom in enamines, Opitz and Griesinger (10) observed, in a study of salt formation, the following series of reactivities of the amine and carbonyl components pyrrolidine and hexamethylene imine s> piperidine > morpholine > cthyl-butylamine cyclopentanone s> cycloheptanone cyclooctanone > cyclohexanone monosubstituted acetaldehyde > disubstituted acetaldehyde. 

The halogenation of enamines is formally analogous to protonation with salt formation. Thus the steroidal enamine (164) undergoes bromination (7/5) to give the j8-bromo iminium bromide (165), which is readily hydrolyzed to the /5-bromo aldehyde (166). 

Dehydrogenation of amino alcohols of type 40 affords even bicyclic compounds 41, the formation of which can be explained by nucleophilic attack of the hydroxyl group on the formed enamine salt (133,134). 

Enamines are also reduced with formic acid (247). Distillation of 1,2-dimethyl-.d -pyrroline formate (156) affords 1,2-dimethylpyrrolidine (248). The reaction is usually carried out by heating of the enamine salt with... 

Reactions of Enamine Salts with OrganometalUc Compounds Organolithium and organomagnesium compounds react with enamine salts to give amines substituted on the ix-carbon atoms. The treatment of. -dehydroquinolizidinium perchlorate (163) with alkylmagnesium halides gives 9-alkylated quinolizidines (164) (252,256). Formation of... 

The formation of adducts of enamines with acidic carbon compounds has been achieved with acetylenes (518) and hydrogen cyanide (509,519,520) (used as the acetone cyanohydrin). In these reactions an initial imonium salt formation can be assumed. The addition of malonic ester to an enamine furnishes the condensation product, also obtained from the parent ketone (350,521). 

Carbonyl alkylation and condensation reactions are always of great value in synthesis, and the formation of o-ANIS ALDEHYDE via 4,4-dimethyl-2-oxazoline, 2,2-DIMETHYL-3-PHENYLPROPION-ALDEHYDE via alkylation of the magnesio-enamine salt and threo-4-HYDROXY-3-PHENYL-2-HEPTANONE via a directed aldol... 

With the (S)-PGA enamine-amide route, sitagliptin was prepared in 65% overall yield from 2,4,5-trifluorophenylacetic acid (9) in 4 chemical steps [18]. Two addi-honal crystallization steps are required for enanhomeric purity upgrade and final salt formation. The (S)-PGA enamine-amide hydrogenahon approach eliminated the ester hydrolysis and amide formation steps of the (S)-PGA enamine-ester route by incorporating the newly developed Meldrum s acid chemistry, which enabled direct amidahon with triazole 3. 

The study of the enamine structure may be associated, to a certain degree, with the problem of the so-called pseudobases an instructive, but somewhat specialized, review of these compounds was contributed by the late Professor Beke 47 to the first volume of this series. The name pseudobases was given by Hantzsch,48 towards the end of the last century, to those a-aminocarbinols which undergo a structural change during salt formation and yield salts with the loss of one molecule of water. The liberation of pseudobases from their salts is accompanied by rehydration. This behavior has been observed with a,/3-unsaturated heterocyclic compounds and, to a certain degree, with aromatic heterocyclic pyridine derivatives. As formulated by Gadamer,49 the pseudobases represent a potential tautomeric system of three components, the quaternary hydroxide A, the carbinolamine B, and the open-chain amino-carbonyl derivative C, in which all three components exist in a mobile equilibrium ... 

For an immonium structure of the enamine salt, protonation of the polarized mesomeric form on the j3-carbon atom is necessary. The behavior of dienamines shows59-61 that primary formation of an... 

If other groups capable of conjugation are adjacent to the enamine system, they can also participate in the salt formation. Thus, in 8-amino-a,j8-unsaturated ketones, in addition to possible protonation at the a-carbon and the nitrogen, protonation could also occur on the carbonyl oxygen.200-202... 

In addition to the synthesis of /1-dicarbonyl compounds3,25, the acylation of enamines also gives access to a wide variety of acyclic, carbocyclic and heterocyclic systems. The course of the reaction is often critically dependent upon the type of enamine used, on the substituents present in the two reagents, and on the experimental conditions, such as temperature, solvent, presence of added tertiary amine, etc. In contrast to alkylation, A-acylation is readily reversible. Since enamines are stronger bases than the C-acylated enamines, half an equivalent of the enamine is lost by salt formation in their reaction with acid chlorides. This can be avoided by addition of a tertiary amine179, but this in... 

Formation of allylic amines 93 and enamines 94 is expected by oxidative amination of alkenes via aminopalladation and jS-H elimination using Pd(II) salts. Formation of allylic amines is favored. 

A domino process of enamine 136 formation, N-allylation, aza-Claisen rearrangement and a final Mannich condensation was introduced by Florent [22g]. Aldehyde 135 was subsequently treated with pyrrolidine and allyl iodide 137 to give an E/Z mixture of the ammonium salts 138. Heating to 80 °C induced the Claisen rearrangement. The newly formed iminium ions 139 underwent intramolecular Mannich cycUzations. The final amine eUmination delivered the spiro ketones 140 with 38% yield as a 2 1 mixture of diastereomers. The formed material should serve as a key compound in diverse cyclopentenone prostaglandine total syntheses (Scheme 10.30). 

Protection and Deprotection.—An improved method for the formation of benzyl esters of a-amino-acids is first to protect the amino function as an enamine salt... 

Abrecht et al. also reported on an efficient process for the manufacture of carmegliptin by employing a combined approach of diastereomeric salt formation and racemization (Scheme 56.4). In their work, diastereomeric salt screening was first performed on several intermediates and the most promising results were found with enamine rac-ll. Further screening of chiral acids showed that dibenzoyltartaric acid... 

Reaction conditions depend on the reactants and usually involve acid or base catalysis. Examples of X include sulfate, acid sulfate, alkane- or arenesulfonate, chloride, bromide, hydroxyl, alkoxide, perchlorate, etc. RX can also be an alkyl orthoformate or alkyl carboxylate. The reaction of cycHc alkylating agents, eg, epoxides and a2iridines, with sodium or potassium salts of alkyl hydroperoxides also promotes formation of dialkyl peroxides (44,66). Olefinic alkylating agents include acycHc and cycHc olefinic hydrocarbons, vinyl and isopropenyl ethers, enamines, A[-vinylamides, vinyl sulfonates, divinyl sulfone, and a, P-unsaturated compounds, eg, methyl acrylate, mesityl oxide, acrylamide, and acrylonitrile (44,66). 

The enamines in which the protonation at the -carbon atom is not allowed due to the lack of coplanarity, or, in other words, the lack of electronic overlap, do not exhibit this characteristic absorption shift. For instance in the case of neostrychnine (134) where the overlap is not permitted since this would involve the formation of a double bond at the bridgehead, there is no appreciable difference in the C—C stretching region of the free amine and its perchlorate salt they absorb at 1666 cm and 1665 cm , respectively (70). 

Important for the hydrolysis is the observation (10) that protonation of enamines with hydrogen chloride does not immediately lead to immonium salts, but in most, if not all, cases first to the formation of the corresponding enammonium ions, which afterward rearrange more or less rapidly to the more stable immonium ions [Eq. (1)] ... 

These results have led to the conclusion (11) that the formation of enammonium salts is kinetically controlled, while the protonation on the 3-carbon atom is subject to thermodynamic control, t Only tertiary enamines will be considered,... 

It is noteworthy that only in the case of dehydroquinolizidine derivatives does monomethylation produce the N-alkylated product. The formation of dialkylated products can be explained by a disproportionation reaction of the monoalkylated immonium salt caused by either the basicity of the starting enamine or some base added to the reaction mixture (most often potassium carbonate) and subsequent alkylation of the monoalkylated enamine. Reinecke and Kray 113) try to explain the different behavior of zJ -dehydroquinolizidine and zJ -dehydroquinolizidine derivatives by the difference in energies of N- and C-alkylation transition states because of the presence of I strain. 

This method has been used for the reduction of l-methyl-2-alkyl-.d -pyrrolinium and l-methyl-2-alkyl-.d -piperideinium salts by Lukes et al. (42,249-251) and for the reduction of more complex bases containing the dehydroquinolizidine skeleton by Leonard et al. (252). The formic add reduction may be satisfactorily explained by addition of a hydride ion, or an equivalent particle formed from the formate anion, to the -carbon atom of the enamine (253), as shown in Scheme 13. 

Thus the reactions of cyclic or acyclic enamines with acrylic esters or acrylonitrile can be directed to the exclusive formation of monoalkylated ketones (3,294-301). The corresponding enolate anion alkylations lead preferentially to di- or higher-alkylation products. However, by proper choice of reaction conditions, enamines can also be used for the preferential formation of higher alkylation products, if these are desired. Such reactions are valuable in the a substitution of aldehydes, which undergo self-condensation in base-catalyzed reactions (117,118). Monoalkylation products are favored in nonhydroxylic solvents such as benzene or dioxane, whereas dialkylation products can be obtained in hydroxylic solvents such as methanol. The difference in products can be ascribed to the differing fates of an initially formed zwitterionic intermediate. Collapse to a cyclobutane takes place in a nonprotonic solvent, whereas protonation on the newly introduced substitutent and deprotonation of the imonium salt, in alcohol, leads to a new enamine available for further substitution. 

The formation of an enamine from an a,a-disubstituted cyclopentanone and its reaction with methyl acrylate was used in a synthesis of clovene (JOS). In a synthetic route to aspidospermine, a cyclic enamine reacted with methyl acrylate to form an imonium salt, which regenerated a new cyclic enamine and allowed a subsequent internal enamine acylation reaction (309,310). The required cyclic enamine could not be obtained in this instance by base isomerization of the allylic amine precursor, but was obtained by mercuric acetate oxidation of its reduction product. Condensation of a dihydronaphthalene carboxylic ester with an enamine has also been reported (311). 

While the oxidation of tertiary amines has been used extensively for the generation of enamines, an example of overoxidation with formation of an acetoxyimonium salt has been reported (484). 

The coupling of enamines with aromatic diazonium salts has been used for the syntheses of monoarylhydrazones of a-diketones (370,488-492) and a-ketoaldehydes (488,493). Cleavage of the initial enamine double bond and formation of the phenylhydrazone of acetone and acetophenone has been reported with the enamines of isobutyraldehyde and 2-phenylpropionalde-hyde. Rearrangement of the initial coupling product to the hydrazone tautomer is not possible in these examples. 

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