Grignard reagents, Mannich reactions

Scheme 11.14 Conjugate addition of Grignard reagent/Mannich reaction sequence [25a].

Reaction of the Mannich product (112) from acetophenone itself with the Grignard reagent from p-chlorobcnzyl chloride gives the carbinol, 113. Dehydration in this case gives the antihistamine pyrrobutamine (114). It is not immediately clear why dehydration does not occur in the other sense so as to afford the energetically more favored stilbene. 

Dibenzocycloheptenone (24-6) also serves as a starting material for the preparation of one of the few medicinal products that contains an acetylenic linkage. Reaction of (24-6) with the Grignard reagent from propargyl bromide leads to the alcohol (27-1). The free proton acetylene is sufficiently acidic for that center to take part in a Mannich reaction. Thus, reaction of (27-1) with formaldehyde and dimethylamine gives the adduct (27-2). Dehydration by means of thionyl chloride completes the synthesis of intriptyline (27-3) [28]. 

Euphococcinine and adaline (333) were synthesized from a 2-cyano-6-oxazolopiperidine [699], An anion at C(2) was condensed with 3-bromo-2-methoxy-l-propene, and after elimination of cyanide, the resultant iminium ion was alkylated with either a methyl- or pentyl-Grignard reagent to form the quaternary carbon. The second ring was closed with an intramolecular Mannich reaction. 

The synthesis is in this case also simple. It consists of the reaction between a Grignard reagent, derived from m-bromoanisole, and the Mannich base produced from dimethylamine, formaldehyde and cyclohexanone. 

Copper Conjugate addition of Grignard reagents to cyclic enones (249), catalysed by the Cu complex of Taniaphos (248), followed by Mannich reaction of the resulting chiral magnesium enolates with Af-protected imines, has been shown to produce the adducts (250) with <98% ee. Diastereoselectivity turned out to be dependent on the... 

Acid-catalyzed iminium ion 57 fonnation is followed by isocyanide 54 addition and capture of the remaining nitrilium ion 58 by the carboxylate of 56 to generate compound 59. A rapid O N acyl transfer takes then place in order to obtain dipeptide 60 as a mixture of epimers at C4. Although the control of the stereochanistry of the newly formed stereocenter still remains a problan of the Ugi reaction, it nicely demonstrates the force of the Ugi MCR, as all of the carbon atoms needed are successively assanbled in a single step [22], Mannich-type 4CR are often used for the synthesis of natural products. One example is the synthesis of the alkaloid ( )-roelactamine 65 (Scheme 6.6). The reaction of piperonal 61 with methylamine, Grignard reagent 62, and acid chloride 63 results in the formation of amide 64, which... 

A number of instances have already been mentioned of reactions in which both N- and G-substitution occur. These are reactions of pyrroles with acid anhydrides (p. 64), alkylation and alkenylation of metallic derivatives of pyrroles (p. 66) and ethoxycarbonylation of metallic derivatives (p. 66 see also below). Most of the reactions of pyrrole Grignard reagents result in G-substitution, but occasionally N-substitution is also observed (p. 106). The Mannich reaction does not cause N-substitution (p. 70). Deuteration proceeds most easily at the nitrogen atom (p. 75), and reactions with metals (p. 61) cause displacement of hydrogen from nitrogen. 

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