Heterocyclic compounds alkenyl derivatives

The reactions of 1-vinyl- (R = H) and Tprop-2-enyl- (R = Me) substituted tetrahydroindoles 690 with tetracyano-ethylene in equimolar amounts in DMSO afforded 3-tricyanovinyl-substituted derivatives 691 as the only products (Equation 166) <2001ARK37>. Hence, the iV-alkenyl substituent in the pyrroles does not react with tetracyanoethy-lene according to the [2-1-2] cycloaddition mechanism typical of other 1-vinyl-substituted heterocyclic compounds. 

Other reactions of synthetic utility can be observed when suitable nucleophiles are added to the reaction system. Typical examples of these nucleophiles are azide, cyanate, thiocyanate, and cyanide anions and thioanisole. Reactions using these nucleophiles provide a reaction path to functionalized vinyl derivatives. The transformations are successfully achieved by using triaryl-substituted alkenyl halides. The reactions with such nucleophiles provide an efficient path to heterocyclic compounds, among others. Some examples, such as the pyrroHnes, isoxazoHnes, isoquinolones, and thio derivatives, are prepared by this method and are shown in Equation 11.11. 

When only one heteroatom of the dinucleophile possesses a hydrogen substituent, the reactions lead instead to alkenyl complexes rather than carbene compounds. Effectively, treatment of diphenylallenylidenes 1 and 6 with pyrazoles yields the heterocyclic derivatives 61 (Scheme 2.25) [76]. Interestingly, the dissymmetric 3-methylpyrazole (R=H, R = Me) provides only one regioisomer, in which the methyl group points towards the metal. This process, which formally corresponds to the addition of two nitrogen nuclei at C and Cy and a hydrogen atom at Cp, is assumed to take place through an initial nucleophilic attack at the Ca position. 

The Pd-catalyzed coupling reactions of alkenyl bromides with heterocyclic alkynes (40) under the above phase-transfer conditions have been employed to prepare a large number of heterocyclic alkyne derivatives, including some naturally occurring compounds (Scheme 28). The experiment conditions... 

Butyllithium is also used for the stereoselective a-Uthiation of chiral sulfonyl compounds/ chiral 2-alkenyl carbamates, various heterocyclic amine derivatives with chiral auxiliaries appended on the nitrogen (e.g. oxazoline or formamidine ... 

The palladium(II)-assisted alkenylation of aromatic compounds has also been applied to the synthesis of heterocycles. A novel synthesis of pyrido[3,4-d] pyrimidines, pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidines and quinazolines was developed by Hirota et al. [18] employing the palladium(ll)-promoted oxidative coupling of uracil derivatives and alkenes. l,3-Dimethyluracil-6-carboxaldehyde dimethylhydrazone (22), 6-dimethylaminomethylenamino-l,3-dimethyluracil (24) and ( )-6-(2-dimethylaminovinyl) uracil (26) all reacted with methyl acrylate in the presence of stoichiometric Pd(OAc)2, producing pyrido[3,4-ii]pyrimidine 23, pyrido[2,3-if]pyrimidine 25 and quinazoline 27, each apparently arising from direct arylation, 6ti electrocycliza-tion, and elimination of dimethylamine, in 67%, 89% and 64% yields respectively (Scheme 9.3). 

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