5-Membered rings Grignard reagents

This method of preparation has been developed primarily by Lukes (103,104). N-Methyl lactams (117) with five- and six-membered rings plus Grignard reagents yield the l-methyl-2-alkyl pyrroUnes (118, = 1) and l-methyl-2-alkylpiperideines(118, n = 2), respectively, plus 2,2-dialkylated bases (119) as by-products (103). For example, l,3-dimethyl-2-piperidone... 

Lukes studied the reaction of N-methyl lactams with Grignard reagents. With the five- (39-42) and six-membered (43-47) rings, 2,2-dialkylated bases (16, = 1,2) are formed as by-products in addition to the l-methyl-2-alkyl pyrrolines (15, = 1) or l-methyl-2-alkyl piperideines (15, =2). Aromatic Grignard reagents afford only the unsaturated bases, probably because of steric factors (48,49). Separation of enamines and 2,2-dialkylated amines from each other can be easily achieved since the perchlorates of the enamines and the picrates of 2,2-dialkylated bases crystallize readily. Therefore enamines can be isolated as crystalline perchlorates and the 2,2-dialkylated bases as crystalline picrates. Some authors who repeated the reactions isolated only pyrrolines (50,57) or, by contrast, 2,2-dialkylated bases (52). This can be explained by use of unsuitable isolation techniques by the authors. 

N-Methyl-2-phenyl-A2-tetraJiydropyridine and similar compounds have previously been prepared by the hydrolysis and decarboxylation of a-benzoyl-N-methyl-2-piperidone3 and by the addition of phenyl Grignard reagents to N-methyl-2-piperidone followed by dehydration.4 Both of these methods require that a heterocyclic ring already be present in the system. In contrast, this procedure offers a new flexible route to the construction of five- or six-membered heterocyclic rings which may easily be incorporated into a larger polycyclic product. Several examples of this process that can be cited to demonstrate this utility are... 

An analogue of amitriptyline which contains an additional double bond in the central seven membered ring shows much the same activity as the prototype. Treatment of dibenzocycloheptanone 7 with N-bromosuccinimide followed by triethyl amine serves to introduce the additional double bond by the bromination-dehydrohalogenation sequence. Reaction of the carbonyl group with the Grignard reagent from 3-chloropropyl-N,N-dimethyl amine serves to introduce the side chain (73). Acid catalyzed dehydration affords the antidepressant compound cyclobenzaprine (74). ... 

The reaction has broad scope 5-, 6-, and 7-membered ring metallated enol ethers participate equally well as do organocuprates derived from MeLi, PhLi, sec-BuLi, tert-BuLi, MejSnLi, and PhMejSiLi among others. The reaction also works with Grignard reagents. Some examples are given in the Table. 

However, if a tetrasubstituted pyrylium ion possessed one or two condensed six-membered carbocyclic rings, then only 4//-pyrans 191, 192, 27, and 193 are isolable (35 to 92%) after reaction with PhCH2MgCl236 or with other Grignard reagents RMgX.210... 

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