Imino-dienes

Although several Lewis acids are known to catalyze the hetero-Diels-Alder reaction involving imino-dienes or imino-dienophiles (aza-Diels-Alder reaction), a large amount of the catalyst is often necessary. Bi(0Tf)3-xH20 showed higher activity than lanthanide triflates in catalyzing the reactions of imines with Danishefsky s diene (Scheme 15) [72]. 

Van de Weghe disclosed an intramolecular hetero Diels-Alder reaction with an imino diene as part of a synthetic strategy for the synthesis of uncialamycin. In the key Diels-Alder reaction, boron trifluoride promotes the cycloaddition followed by DDQ-mediated oxidation to afford aromatic product 70. ... 

The intramolecular aza Diels-Alder cycloaddition is also a valuable tool for the synthesis of alkaloids as demonstrated by the stereocontrolled synthesis of ( )-lepadifor-mine 137 (Scheme 41.29). This tricyclic alkaloid has been isolated from several species of Clavenia and Polycitoridae sea squirts and is moderately cytotoxic toward various tumor cell lines and effective to block potassium ion channels. Initial attempts to perform the aza Diels-Alder reaction with the racemic imino-diene t-butyl ester 134 in toluene at temperatures up to 165°C did not lead to the observation of any cycloadducts but to double bonds isomerization products. The corresponding free carboxylic acid only suffered decarboxylation. The addition of trifluoroacetic acid to generate an imminium species was also unsuccessful. 

Experimental procedure for the [4+2] cycloaddition of imino-diene 134 A solution of the cyclic imine 134 (29 mg, 0.08 mmol) in degassed (five freeze-thaw cycles) 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoropro-pan-2-ol (1.5 mL) in a sealed tube was placed under an atmosphere of argon and heated at 60 C for 9 days and then concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was purified hy flash chromatography on silica gel (9 1, CH2Cl2-MeOH) to give the cycloadducts 136h/136a (13 mg, 53%, 5 1 mixture diastereoisomers) as a pale yellow oil. 

For imines, a-imino esters with an N-p-methoxyphenyl substituent (21b) also reacted with Danishefsky s diene in the presence of 10 mol% of CUCIO4-T0I-BINAP to give the corresponding adduct in high yield with good enantiomeric excess (Scheme 5.10). Remarkably, reverse enantioselectivity was observed when the a-imino esters 21a and 21b were used. This notable selectivity was explained by as-... 

Aza Diels-Alder Reactions of a-Imino Esters with Dienes 203... 

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. 

As in the case of Diels-Alder reactions, aqueous aza-Diels-Alder reactions are also catalyzed by various Lewis acids such as lanthanide triflates.113 Lanthanide triflate-catalyzed imino Diels-Alder reactions of imines with dienes or alkenes were developed. Three-component aza-Diels-Alder reactions, starting from aldehyde, aniline, and Danishefsky s diene, took place smoothly under the influence of HBL4 in aqueous media to afford dihydro-4-pyridone derivatives in high yields (Eq. 12.46).114... 

Jorgensen s group reported the aza Diels-Alder reactions in the presence of several chiral catalysts.52 They found that chiral bis(oxazoline) ligands 81, 83, 103, 104, and 105, which were effective in asymmetric oxo hetero Diels-Alder reactions, induced the aza Diels-Alder reaction of a-imino ester with Danishefsky s diene with only poor to moderate enantioselectivity. Selected results are listed in Scheme 5-40. 

On the other hand, the combination of Tol-BINAP with CUCIO4 has been shown to be very effective for aza Diels-Alder reactions. As shown in Scheme 5-41, moderate yield and good to excellent enantioselectivity can be obtained in the reaction of a-imino ester with diene 91 or 100. 

Another example, in which the piperidine cycle is generated de novo, exploits a hetero Diels-Alder cycloaddition of 1 -/r-tolylsulfinyl-1,3-penta-diene 91 with benzylnitrosoformate, that generates an oxazine 92 with complete regioselectivity and 7i-facial diastereoselectivity.69 Osmilation of the double bond inserts stereoselectively two hydroxyl groups on the oxazine skeleton, protection and catalytic hydrogenation finally afforded the enantiomerically pure imino sugars 94 (Fig. 38). 

With the aid of a Knoevenagel condensation and a Staudinger reaction, 2-azidocyclopent-l-ene 1-carbaldehydes (195) can be converted into suitable products for a cyclopenta[b]pyridine synthesis [89JCS(P1)1369], as shown in Scheme 72. In order to bring the ester carbonyl function and the imino-phosphorane group into close proximity suitable for cyclization reactions, the 1,3-diene system 196 should possess the s-cis conformation. Furthermore, the exocyclic double bond should show a cis conformation. To achieve... 

Fig. 25. Photopotentials of systems amine/thionine (TH) as function of the number of amino or imino groups (A-groups) per molecule of the amine. [TH] = 10 5 mol/1 [A-groups] --= 5 10-3 mol/1 pH 8. DEA Diethylamine, DEen N,N -diethylethylene-diamine, dien Diethylenetriamine, trien Traethy-lenetetramine, tetraen Tetraethylenepentamine, PEI Poly(ethyleneimine)...

A synthesis of ( )-tylophorine (213) has been based on the discovery that vanadyl trifluoride (VOF3) can be used to convert 1,2-diarylethylene into phenanthrenes in high yield. In the top sequence shown in Scheme 34, ring closure is accompanied by dehydrogenation (77CC826). In a second synthesis, ( )-tylophorine (213) is the result of an intramolecular version of a Diels-Alder cycloaddition of a conjugated diene with an imino dienophile (Scheme 34, lower sequence) (79JA5073). 

Metal binding to N6 of adenine and proton shift to N1 leads to a metalated form of the rare imino tautomer of adenine (cf. Section II. E. 9). The metal may adopt a syn or anti orientation with respect to N1 (168), or may be chelated to N6 and N7 (252). As outlined in Section II. E. 9, additional metal-binding patterns are known, but with only one exception (186) acid-base properties have not been studied. Reported pK. values for N1 protons are listed in Table IV. As can be seen, a number of these values are well in the physiological pH range, and a comparison of [(dien)Pt-(9-MeA -M6)]2+ (179a) with frani-[ a2Ptn-(l-MeC-A3) 2(9-MeA-A6,A7)]4+ (186) clearly reveals an additive effect of the second metal ion bonded to N7. 

Hydrolysis of the acyclic adducts formed when metallated 1-methylthiobuta-l,3-diene reacts with isothiocyanates using a stoichiometric amount of dilute acid results in electrocyclization to a 6-amino-2/7-thiopyran which tauto-merizes to the 2-imino-5,6-dihydro-2/7-thiopyran (Scheme 135) <1998TL2631>. 

Other imino derivatives arise, as by-products or in side reactions, on heterocyclization. Thus, the treatment of cinnamoyltropolones 75 with hy-droxylamine (Scheme 19) yields, in the case of the 5-nitro derivative, the corresponding isoxazolotroponeoxime (89JHC371). The formation of oximes and several hydrazones from 3-acetyltropolone or its derivatives has also been mentioned (Section II,A,3,c). Moreover, an azine was obtained in addition to quinoxalotropone 213 (Section II,B,2,c) a tropone immonium salt was isolated after an extremely complex diene reaction of an 6-amino-2-azaazuIene (93CB441). 

Intramolecular imino Diels-Alder cyclization is a useful method in alkaloid synthesis. The reaction is highly stereoselective but gives results opposite to those usually found in closely analogous all-carbon systems. Thus, the diene (284) on pyrolysis gives the single trans cycloadduct (286). The reaction is rationalized by assuming initial formation of the... 

The formation of tetrahydropyridines by reaction of a suitable diene with an imino dienophile is a reaction known since more than half a century [177] and has been intensively studied. In general, the imines react as the electron-deficient component and their reactivity strongly depends on the electron density which may be tuned by activating or deactivating moieties. However, exceptions from this rule are possible as found by Padwa et al. [178]. They described cycloadditions of imines to bis(phenylsulfonyl)-1,3-butadienes. 

Hetero Diels-Alder reactions with imino dienophiles have been employed as key step in several syntheses of naturally occuring alkaloids. With regard to stereoselective transformations, the approach to (S)-anabasin worked out by Kunz et al. impressively illustrates the high utility of natural carbohydrates as source of chirality in asymmetric synthesis [505]. The N-galactosyl imine 7-28 underwent a Lewis acid catalysed aza Diels-Alder reaction with Danishefsky s diene which proceeded with excellent induced diastereoselectivity to yield the adduct 7-29. A short sequence then afforded the desired alkaloid 7-30. This work also deals with the suitability of several other dienes and imino dienophiles for such transformations (Fig. 7-7). 

As a rule, cycloadditions with acyclic -acyl imino dienophiles are useful synthetic reactions which demonstrate excellent regio- and stereo-selectivity. A commonly used source of IV-acyl immonium dienophiles are bis-urethanes such as (13) (equation S), which upon treatment with a Lewis acid and a diene afford Diels-Alder adducts. In this case, (13) reacts with boron trifluoride etherate to afford immonium ion (14) which adds to diene (15), yielding tetrahydfopyridine (16). ... 

A number of diverse stmctural types of cyclic imino dienophiles have been used in cycloadditions. For instance, dehydrohydantoins are useful partners in hetero Diels-Alder reactions. Two methods have been developed for in situ generation of these species. In one tqjproach, methoxyhydantoins such as (24) (equation S) are heated or are treated with acid to promote elimination of methanol, affording dienophile (25).22- This intermediate can be trapped regio- and stereo-selectively with 1,3-dienes. For example, with 1,3-cyclohexadiene only endo adduct (26) is formed. There is no ambiguity in this case concerning the dienophile configuration, and thus product (26) clearly derives from an endo transition state. 

Recently, a few examples of imino Diels-Alder reactions using azetinones as dienophiles have been described in work aimed at synthesis of carbapenems. In one sequence of reactions, acetate (34) was treated with a Lewis acid in the presence of a siloxy diene to afford adduct (36) (equation ll). This transformation presumably involves imine (35) which reacts both regio- and stereo-selectively with the diene. Adduct (36) was converted in a few steps to carbapenem (37). 

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