Heterocycles from diketones

Syntheses of five- and six-member P-heterocycles from 1,4- and 1,5-diketones 98IZV1905. 

The classical Biginelli synthesis of heterocycles from /3-diketones, urea, and aldehydes has been extended by the replacement of the dione with a cycloalkanone.343 The... 

The Pfitzinger reaction provides a simple and convenient method for the synthesis of condensed polycyclic compounds containing a heterocycle from readily obtainable starting materials. Cyclic ketones and, more rarely, diketones are often used as starting compounds. 

Raghavan, S., Anuradha, K. Solid-phase synthesis of heterocycles from 1,4-diketone synthons. Synlett 2003, 711-713. 

Potassium acetate a-Diketone monothioketals from a-hydroxymethyleneketones Spiro-1,3-S,S-heterocyclics from bis(thiolsulfonates)... 

Amberlyst 15 O-Heterocyclics by cyclodehydration Furans from -diketones ... 

N-Condensed l,3-N,N-heterocyclic 1,1-iminoalcohols from diketones and o-diamines... 

Subst. adenines—4-Aminopteridines s. 74, 473 Condensed heterocyclics from cyclic a-diketones... 

The salicylic acid functionality incorporated in a rather complex molecule interestingly leads to a compound that exhibits much the same activity as the parent. The 1,4 diketone required for formation of the pyrrole ring can be obtained by alkylation of the enamine from 2-tetralone (38) with phenacyl bromide. Condensation of the product, 39, with salicylic acid derivative 40 leads to the requisite heterocyclic system (41). The acid is then esterified (42) and the compound dehydrogenated to the fully aromatic system (43). Saponification affords fendosal (44). ... 

The potential of such reaction sequences for the generation of molecular diversity was also demonstrated by the synthesis of a library of heterocycles. Epoxide ring-opening with hydrazine and subsequent condensation with (3-diketones or other bifunctional electrophiles gave rise to a variety of functionalized heterocyclic structures in high purity [34]. A selection based on the substrate derived from cyclohexene oxide is shown in Scheme 12.12. 

Tamariz and coworkers [42] have described a versatile, efficient methodology for preparing N-substituted-4,5-dimethylene-2-oxazolidinones 42 (Figure 2.5) from a-diketones and isocyanates and have also studied their reactivity in Diels-Alder reactions. This is a method for synthesizing polycyclic heterocyclic compounds. Some of the reactions of diene 42 are summarized in Scheme 2.18. The nitrogen atom seems to control the regiochemistry of the reaction. 

Addition of acyl anions generated from acylsilanes to a,(3-unsaturated ketones using N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) derived from thiazolium salts as catalyst produced 1,4-diketones, which cyclized to form the corresponding furans in good yields under an acidic condition <06JOC5715>. 

The imine 217, formed from acetophenone and the 1-aminoimidazole, has been transformed into the enamine 218 which is then cyclized to 219 in trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) (Equation 40) <1995SC3271 >. The diaminoimidazole 220 reacts with ynone 221 to form 222 (Equation 41) <1998CHE1189>. Bromochalcones and chalcone dibromides can also be used in place of the ynone. Similar reactions have been used to prepare the dihydro analogues of 222 <1999CHE1207>. The reaction between 1-aminoimidazoles and 1,3-diketones has been extended to prepare bis-heterocyclic compounds, for example, 223 as ligands for transition metals (Equation 42) <2005EJI4382>. 

Interesting reagents for such MCRs from the viewpoint of selectivity tuning are 5-aminopyrazoles containing carboxamide substituent. In the first article concerning the behavior of these aminozoles in the reactions with cyclic 1,3-diketone and aldehydes, it was found that only one direction of the treatment leads to tricyclic Biginelli-like heterocycles 61 (Scheme 30) [96]. 

Our own group is also involved in the development of domino multicomponent reactions for the synthesis of heterocycles of both pharmacologic and synthetic interest [156]. In particular, we recently reported a totally regioselective and metal-free Michael addition-initiated three-component substrate directed route to polysubstituted pyridines from 1,3-dicarbonyls. Thus, the direct condensation of 1,3-diketones, (3-ketoesters, or p-ketoamides with a,p-unsaturated aldehydes or ketones with a synthetic equivalent of ammonia, under heterogeneous catalysis by 4 A molecular sieves, provided the desired heterocycles after in situ oxidation (Scheme 56) [157]. A mechanistic study demonstrated that the first step of the sequence was a molecular sieves-promoted Michael addition between the 1,3-dicarbonyl and the cx,p-unsaturated carbonyl compound. The corresponding 1,5-dicarbonyl adduct then reacts with the ammonia source leading to a DHP derivative, which is spontaneously converted to the aromatized product. 

The double bonds in certain heterocyclic compounds, such as furans, Af-acylpyrroles and A-acylindoles are also susceptible to photoaddition of carbonyl compounds to form oxetanes (equation 106) (77JHC1777). A wide range of carbonyl compounds can be used, including quinones, a-diketones, acyl cyanides, perfluorinated aldehydes and ketones and esters. A remarkable case of asymmetric induction in oxetane formation has been reported from optically active menthyl phenylglyoxylate and 2,3-dimethyl-2-butene the oxetane product obtained after hydrolysis of the ester group had an optical purity of 53% (79AG(E)868). 

Ring synthesis from non-heterocycles by closure y to the heteroatom are reported. Sulfonium ylides (135) with active methylene compounds such as malononitrile give a C-phenacyl product (136) however, when reacted with /3-diketones and /3-ketonic esters they produce furans quantitatively (74CL101). In these cases O-phenacylation takes place followed by cyclization to give the 3-hydroxydihydrofuran (137), which is dehydrated to the furan (138) (Scheme 30). These furans differ from those formed by the reaction of the diketone or ketonic esters with phenacyl halides. The latter reaction takes place by C-phenacylation, yielding the isomeric furans (139). 

Excellent yields of adduct have been obtained from a variety of o-quinones, including o-benzoquinone, 1,2-naphthaquinone, phen-anthraquinone, 5,6-chrysenequinone, and many of their simple derivatives, including the heterocyclic quinone 326 benzo[A]quinoline-5,6-quinone. Lower yields are in general observed for aromatic diketones such as benzil,327 and the reaction does not appear to occur to any appreciable extent with aliphatic a-diketones. 

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