Ortho esters aminal ester synthesis

A number of new conditions and catalysts have been used for the synthesis of quinazolinones 50 from anthranilic acids, amines and ortho esters, including bismuth trifluoroacetate with an ionic liquid <06TL3561>, lanthanum nitrate or tosic acid under solvent-free conditions at room temperature <06TL4381> and Nafion-H <06SL2507>. 

Amino groups react very easily with aldehydes or ketones, and with aldehydes in the presence of amines, they can be acylated by the usual acylating agents, and they react with amidacetals, Vilsmeier reagents and nitroso compounds (Scheme 12). As mentioned earlier, alkylation leads mainly to AT(2)-alkylated products. The hydrazino group reacts in the same way as the amino group with aldehydes or ketones, with acyl chlorides or carboxylic anhydrides, with sulfonyl chlorides, ortho esters, carbon disulfide and with nitrous acid. The last three reactions have mainly been used for the synthesis of condensed 1,2,4-triazines. 

With respect to the synthesis from amines, C02 and alkyl halides, the synthesis of carbamates from amines, C02 and alcohols (Equation 6.10) is not only a phosgene-free, but also a halogen-free process. Moreover, water forms as the only reaction coproduct. Whilst these features make the route very attractive from the point of view of environmental sustainability, unfortunately the reaction suffers from both thermodynamic and kinetics limitations. Kinetic impediments make necessary the use of a suitable catalyst which, moreover, must be water-tolerant in order to avoid deactivation by cogenerated H20. Several strategies have been explored to overcome these restraints, based mainly on the use of alcohols in a dehydrated form (for instance, as ortho esters or ortho carbonates) [63], or on the use of dehydrating agents [64, 65]. 

Augustamine, [109]. The stannylated inline 353 utilised in the synthesis of (-)-amabiline (346) also served as the advanced intermediate for the preparation (Scheme 65) of (-)-augustamine (493) [93,94]. Thus, treatment of the mixture of the lithium salts 355 and 356 with iodomethane furnished a 43 1 mixture of the two tertiaiy amines 494 and 495 respectively. The cij-diol, obtained on acid hydrolysis of the former was converted into the ortho ester 496, which on exposure to methanesulphonic acid underwent cyclisation via the carbenium ion 497 to (-)-augustamine (493) in 76% yield. 

Regiochemical synthesis of 1-substituted imidazole-4-carboxylates can be achieved by treatment of a (Z)-)3-dimethylamino-of-isocyanoacrylate with an alkyl or acyl halide (see Section 2.1.1 and Scheme 2.1.8), by cyclization of 3-alkylamino-2-aminopropanoic acids with triethyl orthoformate followed by dehydrogenation of the initially formed imidazoline (see Section 3.1.1 and Scheme 3.1.2), by condensation of 3-arylamino-2-nitro-2-enones with ortho esters in the presence of reducing agents (see Section 3.1.1 and Scheme 3.1.4), by reaction of an alkyl A -cyanoalkylimidate with a primary amine (see Section 3.2 and Scheme 3.2.1), the poor-yielding acid-catalysed cyclization of a 2-azabutadiene with a primary amine (see Section 3.2 and Scheme 3.2.3), the cyclocondensation of an isothiourea with the enolate form of ethyl isocyanoacetate (see Section 4.2 and Scheme 4.2.5), and from the interaction of of-aminonitrile, primary tunine and triethyl orthoformate (see Chapter 5, Scheme 5.1.5, and Tables 5.1.1 and 5.1.2). 

On the other hand, the Gong group reported the enantioselective [l,5]-hydride transfer/cyclization reaction between ortho tertiary amine substituted aromatic keto esters 33 and aromatic amines 34 catalyzed by chiral bisphosphoric acid (1 ,1 )-C8, developed in their own group (Scheme 4.16). In this reaction, the in situ formed a-imino esters 36 act as the hydride acceptors, allowing the efficient synthesis of cyclic aminals 35 in high stereoselectivity (up to 14 1 dr, 90% ee). 

Microwave-assisted synthesis of 4(3H)-quinazolinone derivatives has been developed by Dabiri et al. (2004) via a one pot condensation reaction of isatoic anhydride, primary amines, and ortho esters in the presence of catalytic amounts of p-toluenesulfonic acid. 

With the nitrogen already at the oxidation level of amine, but carrying a t-butoxycarbonyl group to assist the ortho-methy (alkyl) lithiation, reaction with oxalate as in the classical sequence and final removal of the A-substituent with acid, again leads to an indole-2-ester. The synthesis of 2-unsubstituted indoles is achieved by reaction of the A,C-dilithiated species with dimethylformamide. °... 

Figure 9.15 Synthesis of oligoimide 31 precursor of polyimide 32 by thermal polycondensation of self-condensable monomers 30a and 30b carrying amine and ortho-acid-ester groups on the same molecule.

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