Fused aromatic amines

Primary aromatic amines (e.g., aniline) and secondary aliphatic-aromatic amines (e. g., 7V-methylaniline) usually form triazenes in coupling reactions with benzenedi-azonium salts. If the nucleophilicity of the aryl residue is increased by addition of substituents or fused rings, as in 3-methylaniline and 1- and 2-naphthylamine, aminoazo formation takes place (C-coupling). However, the possibility has also been noted that in aminoazo formation the initial attack of the diazonium ion may still be at the amine N-atom, but the aN-complex might rearrange too rapidly to allow its identification (Beranek and Vecera, 1970). 

Fig. 3.154. Electropherogram for the working solution of aromatic amines. Peaks 1 = 4,4 -diamin-odiphenylmethane 2 = 4,4 -oxidianiline 3 = benzidine 4 = aniline 5 = 2,4-diaminoanisole 6 = 2,4 -toluilendiamine 7 = o-toluidine 8 = 3,3 -dimethylbenzidine 9 = 3,3 -dimethoxyben-zidine 10 = p-cresidine 11 = 2-naphtylamine 12 = p-chloroaniline 13 = 4-aminodiphenyl 14 = 1-naphtylamine 15 = 4-chlorotoluidine all at 10 ng/jul. Conditions buffer = 50 mM phosphate 10 per cent methanol pH = 3.1 fused-silica capillary recovered with polyamide, 52 cm X 75 pm i.d. applied potential = +22 kV UV detection at 214 nm. Reprinted with permission from S. Borros et al. [195].

The stereoselective synthesis of c/.v-fused pyrano and furanobenzopyran can be achieved through the one-pot three-component reaction of o-hydroxy benzaldehyde, aromatic amines, and cyclic enolethers in the presence of catalytic amounts of Bi(OTf)3 (10 mol%) in air and the moisture-stable ionic liquid [bmim]PF6 [116]. The reaction of salicilaldehyde, aniline and 2,3-dihydrofuran furnishes the c/.v-fused furanochroman. In a similar fashion, various substituted salicilaldehydes and... 

The plausible mechanism of the reaction is shown in Fig. 25. The reaction probably proceeds through the activation of imine (formed in situ from the o-hydroxy benzaldehyde and the aromatic amine) by the catalyst followed by the addition and subsequent cyclization of the enol ether, resulting in the formation of the fused acetal. Ionic liquids are stable enough with amines and water and also effectively activate the imines to undergo cyclization. The recovered ionic liquid can be re-used with gradual decrease in the efficiency of the method. The hydro-phobic nature of the ionic liquid also helps in recovery of the catalyst. 

Although no new method for formation of simple pyridazino[3,4-f]pyridazines has appeared since the publication of CHEC-II(1996), a further method for the construction of benzo-fused derivatives has been described <1997CHE750>. Electrophilic attack of the diazonium salts formed from aromatic amines 5, with sodium nitrite in acetic acid, upon the neighboring methoxyarene results in formation of pyridazino[3,4-f]cinnolines 1. 

Fortunately, there is now a comprehensive body of knowledge on the metabolic reactions that produce reactive (toxic) intermediates, so the drug designer can be aware of what might occur, and take steps to circumvent the possibility. Nelson (1982) has reviewed the classes and structures of drugs whose toxicities have been linked to metabolic activation. Problem classes include aromatic and some heteroaromatic nitro compounds (which may be reduced to a reactive toxin), and aromatic amines and their N-acylated derivatives (which may be oxidized, before or after hydrolysis, to a toxic hydroxylamine or iminoquinone). These are the most common classes, but others are hydrazines and acyl-hydrazines, haloalkanes, thiols and thioureas, quinones, many alkenes and alkynes, benzenoid aromatics, fused polycyclic aromatic compounds, and electron-rich heteroaromatics such as furans, thiophenes and pyrroles. 

Salicylaldehyde reacts with trimethylsilylketene dithioacetal in the presence of a Lewis acid to form the chroman 502, the product of a deoxygenative divinylation (Equation 208) <2001JOC3924>. This reaction can also be applied to salicylaldimines <2003JOC4947>. Treatment of 3,5-dibromosalicylaldehyde with methyl vinyl ketone (MVK) in the presence of DABCO leads to a chroman-4-ol as the major product <2002J(P1)1318>. A stereoselective one-pot synthesis of vy/z-fused chromans from salicylaldehydes, aromatic amines and cyclic enol ethers is carried out in the... 

A three component coupling reaction of A-acetyl-2-azetine, aromatic imines and aromatic amines allows a rapid stereoselective entry to 2,3,4-trisubstituted tetrahydroquinolines, via fused tricyclic azetidines 1 <02CC444>. Fused heterocycles 1 were formed through an aza Diels-Alder reaction between aromatic imines and A-acetyl-2-azetine, which acts as an enamide substrate. This strategy has been used for the formal synthesis of luotonin A <02TL5469>. 

The reaction between salicylaldehydes, aromatic amines and enol ethers, which yields 4-aminobenzopyran derivatives, is catalysed by PPhj.HCI04. The method is easily adapted to the synthesis of pyrano- and furano- cw-fused analogues <02T10301>. 

The diazotization of aromatic amines with a nucleophilic substituent at the ortho position is a common method of synthesis of benzo-fused heterocyclic compounds with two or more contiguous nitrogen atoms. Benzotriazoles (9), benzotriazinones (10), and benzothiadiazoles (11) are examples of heterocyclic ring systems that can be prepared in this way. 

Cyanopyrazine with concentrated aqueous ammonia was converted through 2-[A(-(C-imino-C-pyrazin-2-ylinethyl)amidino]pyrazine (43) to 2-carbamoylpyrazine (985), and 2-chloro-6-cyanopyrazine reacted similarly (985). 2-Ethoxy-6-(C-ethoxy-C-iminomethyl)pyrazine was found to be a by-product of the reaction of 2-chloro-6-cyanopyrazine with concentrated ethanolic ammonia and 2-ethoxy(or methoxy)-6-[C-ethoxy(or methoxy)-C-iminomethyl]pyrazine was obtained from 2-chloro-6-cyanopyrazine by the action of ethanol (or methanol) in the presence of triethylamine (985). 2-Cyanopyrazine treated in water with hydroxylamine hydrochloride and sodium carbonate at 70-75° gave 2-(C-amino-C-hydroxyiminomethyl)-pyrazine (62), and 2aluminum chloride at 140-220° gave 2-(C-anilino-C-iminomethyl)pyrazine (and similar preparations were carried out with other aromatic amines) (1334,1410). 

In their review of tumorigenic aromatic amines in which fused ring polycychc amines are discussed. Gamer et al. (1275a) neither mention nor hst quinoline as a tumorigenic compound... 

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