Lactams Domino-Heck Reactions

Keywords Alkynyl lactams, Heck reaction, Domino-Heck type reaction, rearrangement... 

A recent paper explored the 1,2-functionalization of the allene moiety in monocyclic P-lactam allenynol derivatives under palladium-catalyzed reaction conditions <02CEJ1719>. Remarkably, a novel domino process, namely allene cyclization/intramolecular Heck reaction... 

A similar approach was used by the Alcaide group [183] in the synthesis of tricyclic (3-lactams 6/1-391 from 6/1-390 (Scheme 6/1.99). In this domino process the primarily obtained it-allyl-Pd-complex reacts with the N-nucleophile of the urethane moiety to form a C-N-bond and a vinyl halide. The final step is then an intramolecular Heck-type reaction of the vinyl halide with the alkyne moiety and re-... 

As part of the total synthesis of the neurotoxin (-(-pumiliotoxin C [69], Minnaard and coworkers [70] used a domino Mizoroki-Heck/Tsuji-Trost reaction as the key step to prepare the perhydroquinoline 124 in 26% yield from 122 and 123 after hydrogenation (Scheme 8.31). Similarly, acyclic tosyl amides with vinyl bromides have been used to give the corresponding lactams in 49-82% yield [71]. 

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