Indolones => anilines

R = Ph) is the most widely investigated of these compounds and serves as a suitable reference compound. Kalb and Bayer3 reported the methanol, ammonia, aniline, and sodium bisulfite adducts of this compound. The reactivity of the indolone increases when the electron density at the 2-position is reduced. In these cases (158 R = 4-nitrophenyl, 2-pyridyl, C02alkyl),49,61,62,91 the indolone adducts (175 Nu = OH, OEt) are stable and isolable the free indolones do not exist. The 2-alkylindolones (158 R = alkyl), in which the conjugation of the azomethine group is less extensive, are also very reactive. They too are only isolated as adducts (175 R = alkyl Nu = OH) with the exception of 158 (R = 1-Bu, Section IV,A,2). 

Aryl radicals participate in radical cyclization reactions when the aromatic ring has an alkene or alkyne substituent. o-Iodo aryl allyl ethers cyclize to benzofuran derivatives, for example, when treated with AIBN, aqueous H3PO2 and NaHCOs in ethanol. Cyclization of an o-bromo-A-acyl aniline (a methacrylic acid derivative) with AIBN/BusSnH gave an indolone under the typical conditions used for cyclization of alkenes. 

When applied to olefinic anilines, this type of process leads to fused lactams. While o-vinyl anilines selectively yield indolones (Scheme 55), o-allyl anilines afford complex mixtures of five-, six-, and seven-membered rings. 

Aniline derivatives have been used to synthesize the indoline system. A large variety of indoline alkaloid substructures are available in a very efficient way. Enamine derivatives such as 39 bearing electron withdrawing substituents on the olefinic double bond were transformed in high yields (Scheme 7). Two syn/anti isomers 41 and 42 were isolated. The isomeric ratio of the final products was influenced by a photostationary equilibrium between the substrates 39 and 40. The reaction was applied to the synthesis of a variety of derivatives of the alkaloid aspidospermidine." In this context, the cyclization products 43 were transformed into the polycyclic indole derivatives 44,45, and 46. Polycyclic indolone compounds 48 have been successfully produced by cyclization of enaminone derivatives 47 carrying a quinoline substituentIn these cases and contrary to the examples 41,42, and 43, the products 48 resulted from an oxidation of the cyclization product (also compare the formation of 30 in Scheme 5). 

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