Lactams imines, cyclic

Allene-substituted lactams or cyclic imines are useful intermediates in the synthesis of indolizine derivatives. While the former are stable and need a Pd(0) catalyst and the presence of phenyl iodide to react < 1997TL6275>, the latter are produced in situ and react immediately (Scheme 37) <2001JA2074>. 

Enediynes. A route to funct --e cross-coupling of chloroenynes s Insertion of C=0 into silacyek .tanes to form cyclic silyl enol etht a-Vinyl-fi-lactams. Imines i crcerated in situ from triallyl phospi... 

Mercuric acetatelEDTA Lactams from cyclic imines... 

Bromine/acetic acid Lactams from cyclic imines with bromination... 

Lactams from cyclic imines Replacement of halogen by hydrogen... 

The first /3 -lactam was produced by addition of a ketene to an imine and there are now many examples of this type of approach. The ketenes are most frequently generated in situ from acid chlorides by dehydrohalogenation, but have also been produced from diazo ketones, by heating of alkoxyacetylenes and in the case of certain cyanoketenes by thermolysis of the cyclic precursors (162) and (163). 

A wide variety of /3-lactams are available by these routes because of the range of substituents possible in either the ketene or its equivalent substituted acetic acid derivative. Considerable diversity in imine structure is also possible. In addition to simple Schiff bases, imino esters and thioethers, amidines, cyclic imines and conjugated imines such as cinnamy-lidineaniline have found wide application in the synthesis of functionalized /3-lactams. A-Acylhydrazones can be used, but phenylhydrazones and O-alkyloximes do not give /3-lactams. These /3-lactam forming reactions give both cis and /raMS-azetidin-2-ones some control over stereochemistry can, however, be exercised by choice of reactants and conditions. 

Induction of asymmetry into the /J-lactam-forming process was inefficient with acyclic imines having chiral groups on the nitrogen [19] but efficient with rigid, cyclic chiral imines (Table 3). One of these was used as a chiral template to produce highly functionalized quaternary systems (Eq. 5) [34]. 

Chromium aminocarbenes [39] are readily available from the reaction of K2Cr(CO)5 with iminium chlorides [40] or amides and trimethylsilyl chloride [41]. Those from formamides (H on carbene carbon) readily underwent photoreaction with a variety of imines to produce /J-lactams, while those having R-groups (e.g.,Me) on the carbene carbon produced little or no /J-lactam products [13]. The dibenzylaminocarbene complex underwent reaction with high diastereoselectivity (Table 4). As previously observed, cyclic, optically active imines produced /J-lactams with high enantioselectivity, while acyclic, optically active imines induced little asymmetry. An intramolecular version produced an unusual anti-Bredt lactam rather than the expected /J-lactam (Eq. 8) [44]. 

Dipolar cycloaddition of azides with olefins provides a convenient access to triazolines, cyclic imines, and aziridines and hence is a valuable technique in heterocyclic synthesis. For instance, tricyclic -lactams 273 - 276 have been synthesized using the intramolecular azide-olefin cycloaddition (lAOC) methodology (Scheme 30) [71]. 

Additions of aryl- or alkyllithium reagents to N-silylated formamides 508 give the imines 509 in 55-80% yield [90, 91] some of these imines can subsequently be converted into the corresponding //-lactams by reaction with enolates of alkyl butyrates [92]. Conversion of N-silylated butyrolactam 388 into cyclic Schiff bases such as 390, by reaction with methyl- or butyllithium, via O-silylated butyrolactam 389, is discussed in Section 4.8 (Scheme 5.28). 

Bode and co-workers have extended the synthetic ntility of homoenolates to the formation of enantiomerically enriched IV-protected y-butyrolactams 169 from saccharin-derived cyclic sulfonylimines 167. While racemic products have been prepared from a range of P-alkyl and P-aryl substitnted enals and substitnted imi-nes, only a single example of an asymmetric variant has been shown, affording the lactam prodnct 169 with good levels of enantioselectivity and diastereoselectivity (Scheme 12.36) [71], As noted in the racemic series (see Section 12.2.2), two mechanisms have been proposed for this type of transformation, either by addition of a homoenolate to the imine or via an ene-type mechanism. 

The lactam formation from the oxidation of cyclic amines (353, for example) probably proceeds via intermediate 364. The nitrogen-iodine bond dissociates to give imine 365, which reacts again with a second equivalent of iodosobenzene to give another intermediate 366. Finally, 366 on reductive... 

Bicyclic ester 100 forms in analogy to isomeric ester 65 (Section 2.4.1.1) (07JOC5608). /l-Phenylethylamine 101 undergoes palladium-catalyzed direct aromatic carbonylation, thus providing another synthesis of benzo-lactam 78b (06JOC5951). A stereoselective nitro-Mannich/lactamization cascade of y-nitro ester and cyclic imine affords polysubstituted lactam 102 (08OL4267). 

Copolymerizations between pairs of cyclic esters, acetals, sulfides, siloxanes, alkenes, lactams, lactones, /V-carboxy-a-amino acid anhydrides, imines, and other cyclic monomers... 

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