Heterocycles from unsaturated alcohols

A very few examples of the use of aryl-tin,21 -lead,21 -lithium43 and -magnesium21143,44 derivatives as the source of the aryl group in vinyl substitutions have been reported. Tin derivatives have been used with palladium dichloride bis(benzonitrile) and a copper(II) chloride reoxidant in a regioselective synthesis of oxygen heterocycles from unsaturated alcohols.43... 

Cyclizations. A stereocontrolled synthesis of trisubstituted tetrahydropyrans by condensation of homoallylic alcohols with aldehydes is developed. Treatment of THP ethers derived from unsaturated alcohols with triflic acid leads to oxygen heterocycles. ... 

Effect of Phospholipids on Reaction Volatiles. As would be expected, the inclusion of phospholipids in the reaction mixtures produced many volatiles derived from lipid degradation these included hydrocarbons, alkylfurans, saturated and unsaturated alcohols, aldehydes and ketones. However, two other important observations were made. First, the concentrations of most of the hetero- cyclics, formed by the amino acid + ribose Maillard reaction, were reduced. For most of the major volatiles this reduction was of the order of 40 - 50%, but in the case of thiophenethiol and methyl- furanthiol the reduction was over 65%. This appears to support the findings that in meat and coconut, lipids exert a quenching effect on the amount of heterocyclic compounds formed in Maillard reactions during heat treatment (11,12). Second, and perhaps more important, the addition of phospholipid to the reaction mixtures resulted in the production of large amounts of compounds derived from the interaction of the lipid or its degradation products with Maillard reaction intermediates. 

Intramolecular additions of alcohols or amines to olefins are recognized as useful methods to provide heterocyclic compounds. Kozmin and Zhang have achieved a gold-catalyzed synthesis of heterobicyclic alkenes by double cyclization of alcohols or sulfonamides which have a 1,5-enyne moiety [175]. As a typical example, unsaturated alcohol (95) is smoothly converted to 6-oxabicyclo[3.2.1]octane (96) in 90% yield using a 5 mol% of AuCls catalyst (Scheme 18.34). Cyclic ethers are also available from homopropargylic ethers with pendant alcohols through gold-catalyzed... 

The thermal rearrangement of O-allyl trichloroacetimidates 1 affords the corresponding 7V-allyl amides 31 2, which have been cyclized with the aim of obtaining amino diols or amino alcohols different to those from the cyclization of the trichloroacetimidates. Cyclization of these latter substrates 1 leads to 4,5-dihydro-4-(l-iodoalkyl)oxazoles 2, while treatment of unsaturated trichloroacetamides 3 with /V-iodosuccinimide3 in chloroform affords the corresponding 4,5-dihydro-5-(l-iodoalkyl)oxazoles 4 in high yield. These heterocyclic products are protected forms of the corresponding amino alcohols. 

Three-component reactions of aldehydes, amines, and allyltributyltin also proceeded smoothly in micellar systems with Sc(OTf)3 as Lewis acid catalyst, to afford the corresponding homoallylic amines in high yields (Eq. 19) [68]. Not only aromatic aldehydes but also aliphatic, unsaturated, and heterocyclic aldehydes worked well. The procedure is very simple—merely mixing an aldehyde, an amine, and allyltributyltin in the presence of Sc(OTf)3 and SDS in water no homoallylic alcohol (an adduct between an aldehyde and allyltributyltin) was produced. It was suggested that imine formation from aldehydes and amines was very fast under these conditions, and that the selective activation of imines rather than aldehydes was achieved. 

We have reported a number of cyclization reactions. The one- and two-N containing five and six-membered, saturated and unsaturated heterocycles were synthesized from C to Cs aliphatics like alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, in presence of ammonia and other amines [11-33]. For example, 3,5-lutidine was synthesized from propionaldehyde or propanol, formaldehyde and ammonia over modified ZSM-5 catalysts. The yield of 3,5-lutidine was in the range of 40 to 65 wt% at 60-90% conversion of propionaldehyde over modified ZSM-5 catalysts at 400 C. In the reaction of ethanol, formaldehyde and ammonia over ZSM-5 catalyst pyridine and picolines were obtained. The reaction route or mechanism is shown in Fig. 2 and 3. In the reaction of acetaldehyde, formaldehyde and ammonia over ZSM-5 pyridine and 3-Picoline were obtained. On the other hand, 2- and 4-Picolines were obtained in the reaction of acetaldehyde and ammonia. 

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