Intramolecular Boger pyridine synthesis

Several examples of intramolecular Boger reactions toward the synthesis of pyridine-containing heterocyclic systems were reported by the Taylor group and the Snyder group, For instance, intramolecular cyclization of triazine 219, after loss of nitrogen, afforded 220. Alternatively, triazine 221 generated bicyclic systems 222, which was then oxidized to 223. ... 

The Diels-Alder reaction with inverse electron demand has been one of the most intensively studied reactions of 1,2,4-triazines. In this reaction 1,2,4-triazines behave as electron-deficient dienes and react with electron-rich dienophiles to give, generally, pyridines (see Houben-Weyl, Vol. E7b, p 471 ff). [4 + 2] Cycloadditions of 1,2,4-triazines have been observed with alkenes, alkynes, strained double bonds, electron-rich double and triple bonds, but in a few cases also with electron-deficient alkynes C—N double and triple bonds can also be used as dienophiles. In addition to intermolecular Diels-Alder reactions, intramolecular [4 + 2] cycloaddition reactions of 1,2,4-triazines have also been studied and used for the synthesis of condensed heterocyclic systems. A review on the intermolecular Diels-Alder reaction was published by Boger and Weinreb 14 Sauer published a review on his studies in 1992,381 and E. C. Taylor published a summary of his own work on intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions in 1988.382... 

In 1980s, Boger et al. reported pioneering work on carbazole synthesis by using palladium-mediated intramolecular N-arylation. The reaction of 4-(2-bromophenyl)pyridin-3-ylamines 6 in the presence of stoichiometric palladium complex gave P-carboline 7 (Scheme 23.3) [6]. This synthetic strategy was applied to the syntheses of other carbazole derivatives, 8 and 9, which were the synthetic intermediates for neuropeptide Y Y1 antagonists and clausenamine A, respectively (Scheme 23.3) [7]. 

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