Morpholine enamines

Another synthesis of Lyral (51) consists of the reaction of myrcene with acrolein to give the myrac aldehyde [37677-14-8] (52). The aldehyde group, which is sensitive to acid hydration conditions with strong acids, has to be protected by formation of the morpholine enamine. The enamine is then hydrolyzed on workup after the acid-catalyzed hydration to produce Lyral (93—95). 

Since the overlap requirements with the piperidine and morpholine enamine are much less stringent, the steric in terference in the tetrasubstituted... 

Morpholine enamine of 2- -propylcyclohexanone has been shown (16) by NM R spectroscopy to be a 2 3 mixture of tri- and tetrasubstituted isomers. 

The tetrasubstituted isomer of the morpholine enamine of 2-methyl-cyclohexanone (20) because cf the diminished electronic overlap should be expected to exhibit lower degree of enamine-type reactivity toward electrophilic agents than the trisubstituted isomer. This was demonstrated to be the case when the treatment of the enamine with dilute acetic acid at room temperature resulted in the completely selective hydrolysis of the trisubstituted isomer within 5 min. The tetrasubstituted isomer was rather slow to react and was 96% hydrolyzed after 22 hr (77). The slowness might also be due to the intermediacy of quaternary iminium ion 23, which suffers from a severe. 4< strain 7,7a) between the equatorial C-2 methyl group and the methylene group adjacent to the nitrogen atom, 23 being formed by the stereoelectronically controlled axial protonation of 20. 

That the methyl group in the less substituted isomer of the enamine (20) is axial was borne out by the work of Johnson et al. (18) in the total synthesis of the glutarimide antibiotic //-dehydrocycloheximide (24). The acylation of the morpholine enamine of 2,4-dimethylcyclohexanone (25) with 3-glutarimidylacetylchloride (26), followed by the hydrolysis of the intermediate product (27) with an acid buffer, led to the desired product in 35 % yield. The formation of the product in a rather low yield could most probably be ascribed to the relatively low enamine-type aetivity exhibited by the tetrasubstituted isomer, which fails to undergo the acylation reaction, and also because in trisubstituted isomer one of the CHj groups is axial. Since the methyl groups in the product are trans to each other, the allylic methyl group in the less substituted isomer of the enamine should then be in the axial orientation. 

The presence of 1,3-diaxial interaction between the C-2 alkyl group and the C-4 axial hydrogen atom is reflected in the rate of enamine formation of 2-substituted cyclohexanone. It has been shown by Hunig and Salzwedel (20) that even under forcing conditions, the yield of pyrrolidine and morpholine enamines of 2-methylcyclohexanone does not exceed 58%, whereas the C-2 unsubstituted ketones underwent enamine formation under rather milder conditions in better than 80 % yield. 

Risaliti et al. (22), have shown that in the addition of the electrophilic olefins to the enamines of cyclohexanone, the formation of the less substituted enamine is favored when a bulky group is present at the electrophilic carbon atom. For instance, the reaction of (8-nitrostyrene with the morpholine enamine of cyclohexanone gave only the trisubstituted isomer (30) with the substituent in the axial orientation (23). The product on hydrolysis led to the ketone (31) to which erythro configuration was assigned on the grounds illustrated in Scheme 3 (24). 

In a similar manner the addition of ethyl azodicarboxylate to the morpholine enamine of cyclohexanone furnished the less substituted isomer (34) with the substituent in the axial orientation (2, 26). 

However, when the bulky substituent is no longer present at the electrophilic carbon atom, the addition of the olefin to the morpholine enamine of cyclohexanone leads largely to the tetrasubstituted isomer. For instance the reaction of this enamine with phenyl vinyl sulfone gave a 1 3 mixture of... 

Risaliti et al. (2J) have also studied the addition of 2-nitropropene, which also lacks any substituent at the electrophilic carbon atom, to the morpholine enamine of cyclohexanone. The product, as expected, was the tetrasubstituted isomer, the formation of which may be envisioned via the transition state (42). 

Although the enamine (30) underwent addition reaction with ethyl azido-dicarboxylate, it failed to add another mole of jS-nitrostyrene. In a similar manner the morpholine enamine of 2-methylcyclohexanone also failed to react with this olefin, i.e., jS-nitrostyrene, which is undoubtedly due to the 1,3-diaxial interaction between the methyl group and the incoming electrophile in the transition state. 

The reaction of morpholine enamine of cyclohexanone with 1 mole of phenyl isocyanate has been reported (30,31) to give the monoadduet (49), consisting largely of the trisubstituted isomer, and with 2 moles of phenyl isocyanate, the bis adduct (50). That the bis adduct is a dicarboxyanilide rather than a urea derivative (32) such as 51 was shown by its mild hydrolysis to the ketone (52). Reaction of the morpholine enamine of 2-methylcyclo-... 

The reaction of the morpholine enamine of cyclohexanone with phenyl isothiocyanate led only to the tetrasubstituted isomer of the monoadduct (54), which failed to add any more of the phenyl isothiocyanate. The formation of only the tetrasubstituted isomer has been attributed by Hunig et al. (37) to the stronger conjugation of the C=S group with the enamine double bond than that of the C=0 group in the enamine (49). 

In their original communication on the alkylation and acylation of enamines, Stork et al. (3) had reported that the pyrrolidine enamine of cyclohexanone underwent monoacylation with acid chlorides. For example, the acylation with benzoyl chloride led to monobenzoylcyclohexanone. However, Hunig and Lendle (33) found that treatment of the morpholine enamine of cyclopentanone with 2 moles of propionyl chloride followed by acid hydrolysis gave the enol ester (56), which was proposed to have arisen from the intermediate (55). 

Campbell and Jung (34) have reported that the reaction of 2 moles of o-halo-substituted benzoyl chloride with the morpholine enamine of cyclohexanone gave the corresponding 2,2-dibenzoyI derivative (57). 

Lochte and Pitman (44) have reported the cyanoethylation of the pyrrolidine enamine of 3-methylcycIopentanone (84), the product being a mixture of C-2 and C-5 cyanoethylated ketones (85 and 86). Hunig and Salzwedel 20) have obtained a mixture of C2- and C5-acylated products from the reaction of morpholine enamine of 3-methylcyclopentanone with propionyl chloride. 

Anotheranalogy between the enolate anions derived from a,)3-unsatura ted ketones and the corresponding enamines is encountered in their alkylation reactions (57), which proceed by the kinetically controlled attack at the a-carbon atom. For instance, Stork and Birnbaum (51) found that the alkylation of the morpholine enamine of /J -octalone-2 (117) with methyl iodide gave the C-1 methylated derivative (118). 

Mimk and Kim (60) have reported the preparation of the enamines of several acyclic ketones by refluxing the ketone with the amine for 66 hr to 76 days. For example the morpholine enamine of 2-pentanone was found to consist only of 121. 

Morpholine enamine of methyl isopropyl ketone prepared by this method was found to be a 3 7 mixture of di- and tetrasubstituted isomers (126 and 127). 

Information regarding the position of the substituents can be obtained from the mass spectra of the enamines of cyclic ketones. For instance in the case of the morpholine enamine of 3-methylcyclohexanone, which is shown to be a 2 1 mixture of/ and isomers by NMR spectroscopy, the fragmentation of the radical ion from the /) isomer results in the loss of a methyl radical from the C-3 position. The d isomer gives a complicated spectrum due to the loss of the hydrogen radical. 

The piperidine, pyrrolidine, and morpholine enamines of cyclohexanone substituted in the 3-position by methyl, phenyl, and l-butyl have been prepared (49). The complexity of the NMR spectra in the ethylenic hydrogen region indicated a mixture of isomeric enamines. Estimation of the per cent of each isomer by examination of the NMR spectra was not possible, nor were the isomeric enamines separable by vapor-phase chromatography. 

The basicity of the enamine has an overriding influence on the yield of product. Good yields are obtained from the pyrrolidine enamines, poor yields from the piperidine enamines, and the morpholine enamines fail to... 

More recently the acylation of aldehyde enamines has been reinvestigated (75) and shown to proceed normally when the enamine is added to the acid chloride. The morpholine enamine of isobutyraldehyde (98), on being added to an ether solution of acetyl chloride, afforded the iminium salt (99), from which the ketoaldehyde (100) was obtained in 66% yield by hydrolysis (75). 

Tosyl azide reacts differently to give sulfonamide derivatives 134). The morpholine enamine from dibenzylketone (196) for instance reacted with tosylazide to give 197 and phenyldiazomethane (198), which was trapped with acetic acid giving benzyl acetate 134). 

The reaction of morpholine enamines of cyclic ketones with ethyl azodicarboxylate has also been demonstrated 56,136). The enamine (113) on reaction with ethyl azodicarboxylate can give the 2- or 2,6-bis(N,N di-carboxyhydrazino)cyclohexanones 199 and 200, respectively, on hydrolysis. 

The reaction of enamines derived from cyclohexanone with dichlorocarbene to give the 1 1 adducts is now well established (137-139). The morpholine enamine (113) reacted with dichlorocarbene at —10 to —20° in tetrahydrofuran to give the stable crystalline adduct (201). Thermal decomposition followed by an aqueous work-up gave an a,)3-unsaturated ketone identified as 2-chloromethylene-cyclohexan-l-one (202) (139). 

At higher temperatures the mixture of 10 and methyl vinyl ketone yields the 1,4-carbocyclic compound as described previously. Methyl isopropenyl ketone (5), ethyl acetylacrylate (d), 2-cyclohexenone (21), and 1-acetyl-1-cyclohexene (22) also undergo this type of cyclization reaction with enamines at higher temperatures. This cycloalkylation reaction occurs with enamines made of strongly basic amines such as pyrrolidine, but the less reactive morpholine enamine combines with methyl vinyl ketone to give only a simple alkylated product (7). Chlorovinyl ketones yield pyrans when allowed to react with the enamines of either alicyclic ketones or aldehydes (23). 

The vinylogous 3,5-hexadien-2-one (16) adds in a 1,4 cycloaddition with zl -dehydroquinolizidine (17) to form compound 18 (26). A similar 1,4-cycloaddition reaction takes place between pyrylium salts and the pyrrolidine or morpholine enamines of cycloalkanones (26a). 

Nitroolefins also offer the possibilities of 1,2 cycloaddition (37,57) or simple alkylation (57-59) products when they are allowed to react with enamines. The reaction of nitroethylene with the morpholine enamine of cyclohexanone led primarily to a cyclobutane adduct in nonpolar solvents and to a simple alkylated product in polar solvents (57). These products are evidently formed from kinetically controlled reactions since they cannot be converted to the other product under the conditions in which the other... 

Cyanoallene, when treated with the morpholine enamine of cyclohexanone, undergoes a 1,3-cycloaddition reaction to form 72 (89). The reaction between cyanoallene and diendiamine 73a produces di-1,2-cycloaddition adduct 73 (i 9). The 4a-azonioanthracene ion (73b) readily undergoes a 1,4-cycloaddition reaction with nucleophilic dienophiles such as enamines (89a). The cycloaddition is stereoselective so that the a- and... 

Adduct 100 is formed from the 1,4 cycloaddition of o-quinone (99) with the morpholine enamine of cyclohexanone (125). Treatment of styrene oxide with cyclic enamines at elevated temperatures (about 230°C) produces O.N-ketals possessing a furan nucleus (125a). 

The synthesis of a large number of y-pyrones and y-pyranols from enamines has been brought about through the use of a wide variety of bifunctional molecules. These molecules include phenolic aldehydes (126,127), phenolic Mannich bases (128), ketal esters (129), and diketene (120-132). All of these molecules have an electrophilic carbonyl group and a nucleophilic oxygen center in relative 1,4 positions. This is illustrated by the reaction between salicylaldehyde (101) and the morpholine enamine of cyclohexanone to give pyranol 102 in a quantitative yield (127). 

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