Nucleophiles ring closure, oxidative

The role of the 1,1-bielectrophile in ring closures of this type is to provide a one-carbon unit (or heteroatbm) to close the cycle. Thus, the synthesis of the four-atom precursor with two nucleophilic centers 1,4 to each other is an appreciable challenge, especially to obtain a heterocycle at the desired oxidation level. The examples below illustrate the way this approach to synthesis may be gainfully utilized. 

In the case of unsubstituted BFO 1 reacting with an enamine, the following mechanism is generally accepted in the literature. The first step is nucleophilic addition of an enamine 2 to electrophilic BFO 1 to form the intermediate 12. Ring closure occurs via condensation of the imino-oxide onto the iminium functionality to give 13. Finally, P-elimination of the dialkyl amine produces the quinoxaline-1,4-dioxide 4. 

The latest example of a Pdn-catalyzed Wacker/Heck methodology was published by Rawal and coworkers. During the total synthesis of mycalamide A, an inter-molecular Wacker oxidation with methanol acting as nucleophile and a subsequent ring closure via Heck reaction led to a tetrahydropyran moiety in a 5.7 1 diastereom-eric mixture [184]. 

An interesting variant involves the use of an allylic alcohol as the alkene component. In this process, re-oxidation of the catalyst is unnecessary since the cyclization occurs with /Uoxygen elimination of the incipient cr-Pd species to effect an SN2 type of ring closure. Both five- and six-membered oxacycles have been prepared in this fashion using enol, hemiacetal, and aliphatic alcohol nucleophiles.439,440 With a chiral allylic alcohol substrate, the initial 7r-complexation may be directed by the hydroxyl group,441 as demonstrated by the diastereoselective cyclization used in the synthesis of (—)-laulimalide (Equation (120)).442 Note that the oxypalladation takes place with syn-selectivity, in analogy with the cyclization of phenol nucleophiles (1vide supra). 

Another preparation employed the condensation of hydroxylamine with a substituted thiourea 239. In this example (Equation 30), no oxidation was required, since the central nitrogen atom is already in a higher oxidation state via its hydroxylamine derivative 240. Nucleophilic attack of the pyridine nitrogen atom resulted in ring closure, affording 241 accompanied by decarboxylation <2003S1649>. 

The selective oxidation of the activated aromatic ring, substituted with electron-donating hydroxy or methoxy groups, can be perfomed at relatively low electrode potential (Ep = 0.3-1.2 V vs SCE) and ring closure is the result of the intramolecular nucleophilic attack of an amino group on the oxidized aromatic ring. 

With [ N2]hydrazinium hydrogen sulfate and potassium hydroxide, the 2, 3, 5 -tri-0-acetyl-l-( N-amino) (3- N) inosine 54 is obtained (Scheme III.29). The reaction follows the same reaction pathway as described in Scheme III.28 addition of the nucleophile at C-6, ring opening between C(6) and N(l), and ring closure with elimination of nitrous oxide and water. This Sn(ANRORC) reaction provides us with an good entry to N-ring-labeled purines. 

In the first proposal of a mechanism for chemiluminescent luminol oxidation, Albrecht postulates a bicyclic endoperoxide as the high-energy intermediate. The endoperoxide is presumably formed by nucleophilic attack of hydrogen peroxide monoanion on one of the diazaquinone 27 carbonylic groups to form 28, followed, after deprotonation to 29, by ring closure to 30 (Scheme 21) . 

Quite analogous ring-closures occur when the 1-O-acetyl derivatives of the rhamnopyranose and talopyranose derivatives are treated with sodium azide in N,N-dimethylformamide. l-O-Acetyl-6-deoxy-2,3-0-isopropylidene-4-0-mesyl-a-L-mannopyranose is converted exclusively into l,4-anhydro-6-deoxy-2,3-0-isopropylidene-/3-L-talo-pyranose. In this instance, the azide nucleophile attacks the l-O-ace-tyl group, liberating an 0-1 oxide ion which reacts with inversion of C-4. The 4-epimeric, l-O-acetyl-6-deoxy-talose derivative gives 60% of the direct inversion product l,4-anhydro-6-deoxy-2,3-0-isopropyli-dene-a-L-mannopyranose, together with other products.50... 

When a-substituted JV,iV-dimethylacetamidines are used as the bidentate nucleophiles, the reaction proceeds according to Scheme 6. The primary attack occurs at an a position by the nucleophilic nitrogen to yield the zwitterionic adduct 77 (Amax = 506 nm) and is followed by intramolecular ring closure at the y position leading to a bicyclic adduct (78). In contrast, with the N-oxide of 3,5-dinitropyridine the points of attachment of the reagent are both a to the aza group. 

In the previous examples, the sulfur atom acted as a nucleophile. Electron-deficient sulfur species such as sulfenyl ion and its equivalents (e.g. disulfide/Lewis acid complexes, sulfenic acids, sulfenyl halides, sulfonium ions, sulfines, etc.), can also serve as an electrophile. Oxidative ring closure of enethiols (a-thioketocarboxylic acid) (124), which proceeds via disulfides, produces thiophenes (125) in good yields (86EUP158380, 88JHC367). 

A critical step in a synthesis of the benzoquinone antibiotic sarubicin A (5) is addition of a methyl nucleophile to the aldehyde group of 2. Reaction with CH3MgBr is very slow at low temperatures and the yield and stereoselectivity are low. In contrast, methyltriisopropoxytitanium reacts with 2 to give the desired triol 3 in 80% yield. Oxidative cyclization of 3 to 4 was carried out in two steps benzylic bromination followed by silver-catalyzed ring closure.5... 

High-energy irradiation of aqueous solutions of 5,6-dihydroxyindole (136) in the presence of azide ions yields the oxidized product (137) in equilibrium with the quinone (138). Reaction of the quinone (138) with azide leads to the trapped product (139) and subsequently to 6,7-dihydroxy-l,2,3-triazolo[4,5-6]indole (140). It appears that the driving force for this reaction (138)->(140) is the electrocyclic ring closure as the quinone (138) is unreactive towards other nucleophiles (Scheme 11) <92TL3045>. 

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