Imines Diels-Alder reaction

Recently, Sisko and Weinreb have developed a new, in situ procedure for effecting A -sulfonyl imine Diels-Alder reactions. The method consists of treating an aldehyde with an A -sulfinyl sulfon-amide/boron trifluoride etherate in the presence of a diene (Scheme 3). Under these conditions the IV-sul-finyl sulfonamide reacts with the aldehyde to produce an /V-sulfonyl imine. This reaction, developed by Kresze, has been used previously for preparing imines from simple, non-enolizable aldehydes (c/. 1,2), but had not been applied to more complex aldehydes. As can be seen from the scheme, the cycload-... 

Imines, Diels-Alder reaction of, in synthesis of N-heterocycles ... 

Intramolecular cycloaddition leads to the formation of 2-azabicyclo [4.3.0] nonane 207 (equation 106). When AT-sulfmyl-2-(trimethylsilyl)ethanesulfonamide (208) is used in the imine Diels-Alder reaction, the 2-(trimethylsilyl)ethanesulfonyl group of 210 can be readily removed by cesium fluoride in DMF (equation 107). 

Asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction of imines. Diels-Alder reactions of imines generally require an acyl or tosyl activating group on nitrogen, but can be effected in the presence of trifluoroacetic acid (1 equiv.) and a catalyst such as BF3 etherate or water (0.03 equiv.). Under these conditions, the imine BzlN=CHCOOR, formed from benzylamine and an alkyl glyoxylate, reacts with simple dienes to form derivatives of pipecolic acid in high yield (equation I). This aza-Diels-Alder reaction has been used... 

Chiral oxazaborolidine catalysts were applied in various enantioselective transformations including reduction of highly functionalized ketones/ oximes or imines/ Diels-Alder reactions/ cycloadditions/ Michael additions, and other reactions. These catalysts are surprisingly small molecules compared to the practically efficient chiral phosphoric acids, cinchona alkaloids, or (thio)ureas hence, their effectiveness in asymmetric catalysis demonstrates that huge substituents or extensive hydrogen bond networks are not absolutely essential for successful as5unmetric organocatalysis. 

It is noteworthy that, in the corollary intramolecular imino Diels-Alder reaction reported by Weinreb et al where A-acyl imines are employed as heterodienophiles [21], exclusive preference for boat-like transition states is observed, wherein the carbonyl group is restrained in the s-cis conformation within the A-acyl imine and approach is endo to the diene (Scheme 2.8). For example, in the intramolecular acyl imine Diels-Alder reaction en route to the synthesis of the quinolizidine alkaloids epi-lupinine (56) and lupinine (57) ... 

Catalytic enantioselective addition to imines, in particular, aza-Diels-Alder reaction 99CRV1069. 

Reaction of 2-aminopyridines with formaldehyde and electron rich styrenes 383 permitted the synthesis of 3,4-dihydro-2//-pyrido[l,2-n]pyr-imidines 384 (96TL2615). First imines 382 formed they are involved in a formal aza-Diels-Alder reaction to give compounds 384. 

Catalytic enantioselective hetero-Diels-Alder reactions are covered by the editors of the book. Chapter 4 is devoted to the development of hetero-Diels-Alder reactions of carbonyl compounds and activated carbonyl compounds catalyzed by many different chiral Lewis acids and Chapter 5 deals with the corresponding development of catalytic enantioselective aza-Diels-Alder reactions. Compared with carbo-Diels-Alder reactions, which have been known for more than a decade, the field of catalytic enantioselective hetero-Diels-Alder reactions of carbonyl compounds and imines (aza-Diels-Alder reactions) are very recent. 

Polymer-supported BINOLs thus prepared were treated with Zr(Ot-Bu)4 to form polymer-supported zirconium 20. In the presence of 20 mol% of various zirconium 20, the model aza Diels-Alder reactions of imine Id with Danishefsky s diene (7a) were performed results from selected examples are shown in Table 5.8. Whereas the 4-t-butylphenyl group resulted in lower enantiomeric excess (ee), higher ee were obtained when 3,5-xylyl, 4-biphenyl, 4-fluorophenyl, and 3-tri-... 

The basic concept of activation in hetero-Diels-Alder reactions is to utilize the lone-pair electrons of the carbonyl and imine functionality for coordination to the Lewis acid. The coordination of the dienophile to the Lewis acid changes the FMOs of the dienophile and for the normal electron-demand reactions a decrease of the LUMO and HOMO energies is observed leading to a better interaction with... 

Bronsted-acid-catalyzed Diels-Alder reactions are not frequent because of the proton sensitivity of many dienes and cycloadducts, especially when long reaction times and high temperatures are required. Examples in aqueous medium involving imines activated by protonation as dienophiles and a proton-promoted Diels-Alder reaction of glyoxylic acid with cyclopentadiene are considered in Section 6.1. 

Simple imines are poor dienophiles and must be activated by protonation or by attaching an electron-withdrawing group to the nitrogen atom. Scheme 6.10 illustrates the Diels-Alder reactions of benzyliminium ion 25, generated in situ from an aqueous solution of benzylamine hydrochloride and commercial aqueous formaldehyde, with methylsubstituted 1,3-butadienes [22]. This aqueous Diels-Alder reaction combines three components (an aldehyde, an amine... 

Lanthanide triflates catalyze the Diels-Alder reaction of imines, generated from anilines and aldehydes, with both dienes and alkenes [26]. Thus N-benzyl-ideneaniline in the presence of Yb(OTf)3 (Scheme 6.16) reacts in organic solvent with open-chain dienes, such as Danishefsky s diene, to give tetrahy-dropyridine derivatives, while with cyclopentadiene and vinylethers and vinylthioethers it works like azadiene in both organic solvent and aqueous medium, affording tetrahydroquinoline derivatives. 

In contrast LP-DE gives disappointing results for intramolecular imino Diels-Alder reactions, even in the presence of CSA. This is due to the fact that weak acids become strong acids in highly polar media such as 5.0m LP-DE and the protonation of diene, with concomitant diene isomerization, competes with cycloaddition [42]. This observation was supported by using trifluoroacetic acid (TEA). The imine 33 (Scheme 6.21) in LP-DE at room temperature in the presence of TEA gave a 1 1 mixture of cycloadduct 34 and the isomerized diene 35 within the unreacted imine 33. No Diels-Alder cycloadduct 36 was detected. 

Keywords aza-Diels-Alder reactions, imines, aidimines, chirai Lewis acids, asymmetric synthesis... 

Keywords imines derived from formylphosphonate undergo Diels-Alder reactions only in those cases which carry a strongly electron-withdrawing N-substituent. Lewis acidity, solvent effect, lithium perchlorate in diethyl ether... 

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