Lactams, reaction with aldehydes

Schemes 51-54) - (xiii) a-metallovinyl selenoxides (Scheme 179) (xiv) a-metalloalkyl selenones (Schemes 55 and 56) i29,i30,i38,206 gjjjj v) a-selenometalloenolates derived from esters (Scheme 10), lactones (Scheme 38), lactams - including B-lactams (Scheme 42, a Scheme 99), and nitroalkanes (Scheme 41). Most of the organometallics listed produce the corresponding alcohols by reaction with aldehydes and ketones and further hydrolysis of the resulting alcoholates. 

Reactions of allylboronates with imines [119,120] and oximes [119,121-123] have also been documented. These reactions are attractive because they lead to homoallylic amines as products. They are much slower than similar reactions with aldehydes and the additions are often less selective. Prediction of their stereochemical outcome is complicated by the possibilities that they may proceed via boat-like transition states, and the imine or oxime substrate might undergo E-Z isomerization under the harsh conditions of the additions. Wuts and co-workers, however, observed that (E)-3-tri-alkylsilyl-substituted reagents like 85 are particularly effective for additions to N-ben-zyl imine derivatives (Equation 44) [124]. A few examples of enantioselective additions have been reported [125,126], one of the more successful being the addition of the 2-carboxyester allylboronate 86 to imine 87, yielding exo-methylene y-lactam 88 as a pure enantiomer (Equation 45) [127]. 

Abstract The photoinduced reactions of metal carbene complexes, particularly Group 6 Fischer carbenes, are comprehensively presented in this chapter with a complete listing of published examples. A majority of these processes involve CO insertion to produce species that have ketene-like reactivity. Cyclo addition reactions presented include reaction with imines to form /1-lactams, with alkenes to form cyclobutanones, with aldehydes to form /1-lactones, and with azoarenes to form diazetidinones. Photoinduced benzannulation processes are included. Reactions involving nucleophilic attack to form esters, amino acids, peptides, allenes, acylated arenes, and aza-Cope rearrangement products are detailed. A number of photoinduced reactions of carbenes do not involve CO insertion. These include reactions with sulfur ylides and sulfilimines, cyclopropanation, 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions, and acyl migrations. 

In Section 5.1.3 the conversion of aldehydes 491 and 494 into N-silylated Schiff bases and their in-situ reaction with allylmagnesium bromide into unsaturated secondary amines 493 and 495 is described. Likewise, reactions of the N-silylated Schiff bases such as 489 with the lithium enolate of methyl isobutyrate 498 to give yS-lactams such as 499 are also discussed in Section 5.1.3. 

As a final example in this section, the mechanistically interesting transformation of a, 3-unsaturated aldehydes containing a chloro or bromo atom in the 3-position into five-membered lactams or lactones is mentioned. In this transformation, which was developed by Riick-Braun and coworkers, an intermediate iron compound is formed by reaction with [C5H5(CO)2Fe]Na, which yields the products either by adding a primary amine and TiCl4 or a metalorganic alkane as RMgX or RLi [483],... 

Reactions with imines also occur under similar conditions leading to the formation of difluorinated /1-lactams [196,197]. Formally, this reaction corresponds to a [2+ 2]-cycloaddition across an imine there is also an isolated report of a difluoroketene reaction, shown in Eq. (63) [198]. Useful chemistry of a silyl difluoroketene acetal was reported recently Eq. (64) shows the efficient asymmetric reaction between this reactive carbon nucleophile and aldehydes catalysed by chiral Lewis acids [199]. 

Barbas et al. [113] have published the asymmetric synthesis of spiro-p-lactams 171 (Scheme 39) using proline-catalyzed Mannich reaction with branched aldehyde donors. The Mannich reactions of a,a-disubstituted aldehydes 168 with... 

Reactions of 5f/-2-methyl-l,2,4-triazepino[2,3- ]benzimidazol-4-one 71, prepared by reaction of 1,2-diaminobenz-imidazole 72 with acetoacetic ester 73, with different reagents was described, in the search of new heterocycles with biological activity <2002CHE598>. When lactam 71 was treated with aromatic aldehydes in boiling 1-BuOH with addition of piperidine 74, 577-3-arylidene-2-methyl-l,2,4-triazepino[2,3- ]benzimidazol-4-ones 75a-c were obtained (Scheme 7). Coupling lactam 71 with phenyldiazonium chloride 76 in dioxane afforded the 3-phenylazo-substituted tricycle 77. When 71 was treated with phosphorus pentasulfide 78 in boiling dioxane or pyridine, its thio analog 79 was obtained. The reaction proceeded most efficiently when lactam 71 was refluxed with twofold excess of 78 in dry dioxane. These thiones 79 react with ammonia and amines by nucleophilic substitution. When 79 was refluxed with ammonia, benzylamine, piperidine, or morpholine, the 4-amino-substituted tricycles 80a-d were obtained. All the described compounds were identified by NMR, mass spectrometry, and IR spectroscopy. 

The diversity of the products obtained by the three-component domino-Knoevenagel-hetero-Diels-Alder reaction can be further increased by a different work-up of the formed cycloadduct 141. Thus, hydrogenolytic removal of the Cbz-group in 141 led to 151 with a lactam and an aldehyde moiety by reaction of the formed secondary amine with the lactone moiety followed by elimination of benzyl alcohol. Reduction of 151 with lithium aluminum hydride gave benzoquinolizidine 152 (Scheme 5.30). Alkaloids of this type have so far not been found in nature, but it can be assumed that they might exist, since they could easily be formed from deacetylisopecoside 153, which is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of emetine 111. 

Dihydropyran-4-ones are formed with good enantiomeric excess by a chiral Lewis acid catalysed reaction of aldehydes with Danishefsky s diene and cyclisation of the initial aldol product. The overal process equates to a hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition (95JOC5998). Lactams also react with the electron rich diene under the influence of a Lewis acid, yielding 7-aza-l-oxaspiroalkenones (95JOC7724). 

Employing a similar strategy, y-lactams could be synthesized by addition of the homoenolate equivalent to an appropriate imine (Scheme 9.20) [61]. A variety of functionalized a,/ -unsaturated aldehydes 62 and N-4-methoxybenzenesulfonyl imines 70 produced disubstituted y-lactams 71 in good yields and with a preference for the cis diastereomer. One crucial point is the reversibility of the addition of the catalyst to the imine to enable a reaction with the aldehyde. N-Aryl, N-alkyl, N-tosyl and N-phosphinoyl imines where either unreactive or inhibited any catalytic reaction due to the formation of a stable adduct with the catalyst. 

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