Michael addition/cyclocondensation approach

The biselectrophilic reactivity motif of alkynones is also present in 3-substituted alkyl propiolates 2. Utilizing the previously described Michael addition/cyclocondensation approach with various binucleophiles allows the introduction of oxo/hydroxyl substituents to the heterocycle. An example of the concept is the copper(I)-catalyzed carboxylation of terminal alkynes, which allows the convenient synthesis of 3-substituted alkyl propiolates 2 a by trapping the intermediary carboxylate with methyl iodide. This one-pot procedure can be expanded to a three-component process by adding binucleophiles such as amidines 36 and hydrazines 20 to furnish the corresponding 2,6-disubstituted pyrimidin-4(3fl)-ones 54 and 1,5-disubsti-tuted 3-hydroxypyrazoles 55 in a one-pot fashion. The incorporation of nontoxic, abundant and economical carbon dioxide provides an environmentally benign access to interesting heterocyclic structures (Scheme 33) (2014ASC(356)3135). 

A novel one-pot approach for the synthesis of 2,4-disubstituted 3//-benzo[h] [1, 5]diazepines 115 has been disclosed by Muller and co-workers [163]. The compounds were obtained in good yields by the reaction of an acyl chloride, a terminal alkyne and a benzene-1,2-diamine via a consecutive one-pot, three-component Sonogashira coupling/Michael addition/cyclocondensation sequence, under micro-wave irradiation (Scheme 89). 

MUller reports a four component, one-pot synthesis of pyridines <02TL6907>. For example, aryl halide 15 and propargylic alcohol 16 were combined in the presence of copper and palladium to afford enone 17. The addition of cyclic enamine 18 led to Michael addition and the subsequent cyclocondensation was achieved by adding ammonium chloride and acetic acid (19—>20). Other multicomponent approaches to substituted pyridines have been reports by Litvinov <02RCBIE362>, Elkholy <02SC3493> and Veronese <02T9709>. 

Alkynones are potent Michael acceptors in heterocyclic chemistry and many five-, six-, and seven-membered heterocycles can be synthesized from reactive, bifunctional three-carbon building blocks such as alkynones by classical heterocyclic chemistry [32]. Taking into account the mild, catalytic access to alkynones the coupling-addition-cyclocondensation sequence for multicomponent approaches to five-, six-, and seven-ring heterocycles lies at hand (Scheme 19). 

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