Oxindoles, reaction with dimethyl

Winterfeldt and Nelke have shown that oxindole reacts with DMAD in presence of sodium hydride to give dimethyl oxindolylidine-3-succinate (204). However, when the reaction is carried out in the absence of any base, at around 200°, the products formed are the azepine derivative 205, the carbazole 206, and the furan 207 (Scheme 32). Similarly, the reaction of iV-methyloxindole with DMAD in presence of sodium methoxide gives rise to AT-methyloxindolylidine-3-succinate. ... 

Oxindoles are prepared using a solid-phase Pummerer reaction. Thus, the immobilized amide 182 undergoes the Pummerer rearrangement on treatment with TFAA and boron trifluoride diethyl etherate (BF3 Et20) (Equation 118). Cleavage of the oxindole from the linker is achieved using samarium iodide and 1,3-dimethyl-3,4,5,6-tetrahydro-2(lH)-pyrimidinone (DMPU) <2003CC2380>. 

The total synthesis of d/-21-oxo-gelsemine reported by Hart and collaborators (107) features two free radical cyclizations (C-5-C-16 bond formation in gelsemine) to construct both a tricyclic substructure 314 in the terpene part of gelsemine and the spiro-oxindole moiety. The synthesis was initiated with the Diels-Alder reaction between A-methylmaleimide and the diene 302, followed by treatment of the crude cycloadduct with 2,2-dimethyl-l,3-propanediol and a catalytic amount of p-toluenesulfonic acid, to give the perhydro-isoindole 304 in 43% yield. By application of the Grieco dehydra-... 

The synthetic and kinetic regularities of the amino-Claisen rearrangement were studied for the transformation of 2,5-dimethyl-Af-(pent-3-en-2-yl)aniline." The products are obtained via conversion of a binary r-complex formed by the reaction of N-alkenylaniline hydrochloride with the hydrochloride of the solvent (2,5-dimethylaniline). Spirocyclic oxindoles have been prepared from iodoindoles via a sequential intramolecular Ullmann coupling and Claisen rearrangement." Nucleophilic ort/io-propargylation of aryl sulfoxides has been reported to occur by intermolecular delivery of the nucleophile to sulfur followed by an intramolecular relay to carbon in a... 

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