Intramolecular addition reactions indolines

Intramolecular addition reactions of arenes and aryl olefins with secondary and primary amines have proven to be of broader scope than the analogous reactions with tertiary amines. The intramolecular addition of nonconjugated o-allylanilines 51 to yield the 2-methylindolines 52 was reported by Koch-Pomeranz et al. in 1977. Intramolecular electron transfer from the singlet aniline to the ground state alkene followed by N-H proton transfer to the alkene terminal carbon was proposed to account for the regioselective formation of indolines. Proton transfer to the internal carbon would yield tetrahydroquinolines, which were... 

Early examples of intramolecular aryl radical addition reactions to heteroatom containing multiple bonds included cyclizations on N=N and C=S moieties [52, 53]. Recently, cyclizations to imines have been used as part of a new enantio-selective approach to indolines (Scheme 8). In the first step of the sequence, the required ketimines 19 were obtained by phase-transfer catalyzed alkylation of 2-bromobenzyl bromides 20 with glycinyl imines 21 in the presence of a cincho-nidinium salt [54], Due to the favorable substitution pattern on the imine moiety of 19, the tributyltin hydride mediated radical cyclization to 22 occurred exclusively in the 5-exo mode. The indoline synthesis can therefore also be classified as a radical amination. 

Photoexcited acetone has been used previously to generate aromatic compounds from dihydroaromatic compounds by hydrogen abstraction. Further studies14 have revealed the limitations of this procedure, and shown that other products are often formed from ketyl and hydroaromatic radical coupling. Only the conversion of indoline into indole occurs in reasonable yield (46%). Hydrogen abstraction by excited acetone also appears to be responsible for an unusual reaction on irradiation of friedelin (13) in ether-acetone.16 The known intramolecular reaction which occurs in the cyclohexanone ring gives a keten (Scheme 2), but this is followed by addition of a ketyl radical and subsequent reduction to produce an hydroxycarbonyl compound (14). 

In a same area, an efficient and simple method for the enantioselective synthesis of indolines, isoindolines, tetrahydroquinolines and tetraisoquino-lines was achieved by means of the organocatalytic intramolecular aza-Michael reaction of the corresponding aniline and benzylamine derivatives. " This process was catalysed by a diarylprolinol silyl ether used in the presence of benzoic acid as an additive, which provided the Michael adducts in good yields and excellent enantioselectivities of up to 99% ee (Scheme 1.85). This methodology was applied to the synthesis of the biologically active tetra-hydroquinoline alkaloid (-l-)-angustureine. 

In 2012, Chen and coworkers developed the palladium-catalyzed intramolecular amination of C(sp )-H at y and 5 positions to synthesize a series of nitrogen-containing heterocycles [15], including azetidine (Scheme 2.11), pyrrolidines, and indolines. With the optimal conditions, using catalytic Pd(OAc)2, an oxidant (PhI(OAC)2, 2.5 equiv.) and an acid additive (AcOH) in toluene at llO C, Chen tested them on other picolinamide substrates bearing primary y-C(sp )-H bonds surprisingly, the seemingly unfavorable four-membered azetidine was obtained as the major product. It is possible that a Pd(IV) intermediate was formed via PhI(OAC)2 oxidation of the palladacycle intermediate because the subsequent C-N and C-O reductive elimination pathways would lead to the formation of the cyclized and acetoxylated product. It was also noteworthy that no P H elimination product was detected under the aforementioned reaction conditions. 

A ruthenium-catalyzed intramolecular olefin hydrocarbamoylation for the regiodivergent synthesis of indolin-2-ones and 3,4 dihydroquinolin-2-ones was disclosed by Chang and coworkers (Eq. (7.3)) [8]. The reactions underwent smoothly without requiring external CO atmosphere. In the presence of combined catalysts of Ru3(CO)i2/Bu4NI, a 5-exo-type cyclization proceeds favorably to form indolin-2-ones as a major product in good to excellent yields in DMSO/toluene cosolvent (catalytic system A). When the reaction was conducted in the absence of halide additives in NAf-diniethylacetamide (DMA)/PhCl (catalytic system B), 3,4-dihydroquinolin-2-ones were obtained in major in moderate to high yields via a 6-endo cyclization process. An excellent level of regioselectivity was observed with a variety of substrates to deliver 5-exo- or 6-endo-cyclized lactams. 

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