Petasis microwave assisted

See, for instances (a) S. Santra, R R. Andreana, Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 5035-5038. A one-pot, microwave-influenced synthesis of diverse small molecules by multicomponent reaction cascades, (b) M. Presset, Y. Coquerel, J. Rodriguez, Org. Lett. 2009, 11, 5706-5709. Microwave-assisted domino and multi-component reactions with cyclic acyUcetenes expeditious syntheses of oxazinones and oxazindiones. (c) W.-J. Hao, B. Jiang, S.-J. Tu, X.-D. Cao, S.-S. Wu, S. Yan, X.-H. Zhang, Z.-G. Han, F. Shi, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2009, 7,1410-1414. A new mild base-catalyzed Mannich reaction of hetero-arylamines in water highly efficient stereoselective synthesis of 3-aminoketones under microwave heating, (d) P. Nun, J. Martinez, F. Lamaty, Synthesis 2010, 2063-2068. Microwave-assisted neat procedure for the Petasis reaction. 

A Petasis reaction (Scheme 2.22) under microwave irradiation is used to prepare Qxs in two steps [121]. The microwave-assisted Petasis reaction is followed by the acid-mediated unmasking of the amino group followed by cyclocondensation to give the Qxs in good to excellent yields. 

Boronic acids bearing strong electron-poor aromatic groups (such as pyridinyl) were reported to lack reactivity in the Petasis-Akritopoulou reaction, using standard conditions (dichloromethane, room temperature) [54]. Boronic esters were also studied [57] and the authors reported that the mechanism of formation of the boronate species was different from that with phenylboronic acid derivatives. Piettre and coworkers considered the use of hexafluoro-iso-propyl alcohol (HFIP), which is an alcohol with higher ionizing power, as the solvent in the Petasis-Akritopoulou reaction with boronic esters (Scheme 6.43). Compared to the use of methanol as solvent and microwave-assisted irradiation (MW), the yields were much higher (a maximum of 99% yield was obtained ) [58]. 

Microwave acceleration of reactions is a valuable tool for organic synthesis [39], and various specialized instruments are now commercially available. Tye and co-workers have reported the microwave-assisted Petasis borono-Mannich reaction of arylboron-ic acids and primary or secondary amines with either glyoxylic acid or salicylaldehyde [40]. Optimized reaction conditions employed didiloromethane as solvent, and microwave assisted heating at 120 °C for 10 min. Products were obtained in generally modest yields (10-83%), in part due to incomplete reaction conversion imder the reported conditions. 

Microwave-assisted Petasis borono-Mannich reactions of arylboronic acids, secondary amines and salicylaldehyde have been carried out in CH2CI2 at 120 °C for 10 min [40], The main problem encountered here was incomplete conversions, resulting in modest adduct yields (23-76%). The reaction of a primary amine (p-ani-sidine) under the same conditions failed to produce the desired adducts, giving instead only the imines (cf. reactions with glyoxylic acid). 

Petasis reagent was also effective for the methylenation of aldonolactones, 96" and 98."" Petasis olefmation of unsymmetrical oxalates and oxalate monoesters or monoamides 100 under microwave-assisted, provides pyruvate-based enol ethers and enamines 101 in higher yields... 

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