Phthalimide rearrangement

The Gabriel-Colman reaction has been used to prepare 3-alkyl isoquinoline 1,4-diols. Phthalimides 8 and 9 rearrange as expected when treated with alkoxides. Further treatment with sodium ethoxide results in decarboxylation and the expected isoquinolinone 1,4-diols 12 and 13. 

The synthesis of the benzazepinone portion of benazepril began with monobromination of 1-tetralone (35), followed by oxime formation to give 36 (Scheme 10.9). A Beckmann rearrangement mediated by polyphosphoric acid provided the ring-expanded lactam 37. Displacement of the a-bromine with potassium phthalimide installed the necessary... 

Other classical synthetic approaches to 2-furanamine have failed, including the Curtius method and Beckmann rearrangement of 2-benzoylfuran oxime. However, hydrazinolysis of AT-(2-furyl)phthalimide, obtained from phthalimide and 2,5-dimethoxy-2,5-dihy-drofuran, gives 2-furanamine which was not isolated but detected by GLC-MS and H NMR spectroscopy. The latter reveals the absence of imino tautomers (75AP713). The chemistry of 2-dialkylamino-5-phenylfurans is typical of enamines protonation occurs on carbon to produce iminium salts. They are stable to base but afford 5-phenylfuran-2(3//)-one on hydrolysis with dilute acid. 2-Morpholino-5-phenylfuran couples with diazonium salts and affords Diels-Alder adducts with maleic anhydride and IV-phenylmaleimide (73JCS(P1)2523). 

Treatment of perhydro-4-azaazulene (3) with mercuric acetate produces a mixture of dehydro derivatives 31a and 31b, which, with acids, yields homogeneous salts of structure 32 (56JOC344). The enamine 34, which was obtained by the same route from 33, served as a model compound in a study of the synthesis of cephalotaxine (72JOC3691). A reaction with ethyl y-bromo-acetoacetate surprisingly yielded the quinolizidine 36, which was formed by rearrangement of the intermediate annellation product 35 (Scheme 3) Phthalimides 38 were obtained from a Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of 4-azaazulen-3-ones 37 (77JOC1093). 

Phenylethylamine has been made by a number of reactions, many of which are unsuitable for preparative purposes. Only the most important methods, from a preparative point of view, are given here. The present method is adapted from that of Adkins,1 which in turn was based upon those of Mignonac,2 von Braun and coworkers,3 and Mailhe.4 Benzyl cyanide has been converted to the amine by catalytic reduction with palladium on charcoal,5 with palladium on barium sulfate,6 and with Adams catalyst 7 by chemical reduction with sodium and alcohol,8 and with zinc dust and mineral acids.9 Hydrocinnamic acid has been converted to the azide and thence by the Curtius rearrangement to /3-phenyl-ethylamine 10 also the Hofmann degradation of hydrocinnamide has been used successfully.11 /3-Nitrostyrene,12 phenylthioaceta-mide,13 and the benzoyl derivative of mandelonitrile 14 all yield /3-phenylethylamine upon reduction. The amine has also been prepared by cleavage of N- (/3-phenylethyl) -phthalimide 15 with hydrazine by the Delepine synthesis from /3-phenylethyl iodide and hexamethylenetetramine 16 by the hydrolysis of the corre-... 

Acetamido)phthalimide undergoes isomerization to form 2-methyl-4-oxo-3,4-dihydroquina-zoline-5-carboxylic acid when dissolved in hot, aqueous base and then acidified.Numerous 2-aryl-4-oxo-3,4-dihydroquinazoline-5-carboxylic acids 8 are prepared using this base-catalyzed rearrangement of 3-(aroylamino)phthalimides. ... 

A -[(Methanesulfonyl)oxy]phthalimide undergoes a ring-expansion reaction with aqueous ammonia at room temperature to afford quinazoline-2,4(l//,3/f)-dione via a Lossen rearrangement. 2-Ureidobenzamide can be isolated as an intermediate when the reaction is performed under mild conditions and further cyclized to quinazoline-2,4(l//,3//)-dione by heating (cf. p 12). 

In an extension of earlier work, Buigada et al. have also reported on the reaction of the cyclic phosphite (66) with dimethylacetylene dicarboxylate (58) in the presence of proton sources such as carboxylic acids, amide N-H bonds in succinimide or phthalimide and amine N-H bonds in p UTole or indole. With carboxylic acids (67) a mixture of the ylid (68) and the cyclic phosphorane (69) was obtained and in some instances (e.g. with 2,4,6- trimethylbenzoic and p-methoxybenzoic acids) the ylid and phosphorane were shown to be in equilibrium. With amides as the proton source, ylids were generally formed although with N-methylbenzamide (PhCONHMe)a signal attributed to (70) was observed at = - 52 p.p.m. which had disappeared by the end of the reaction through rearrangement to (71). With amines (e.g. pyrrole) the products were again a mixture of ylid (72) and phosphorane (73) and the entire set of results was rationalised in terms of HSAB theory and the symbiotic effect around phosphorus. 

Beckmann rearrangement of phthalimide derivative (46) is induced by aluminum chloride in benzene and terminated by electrophilic aromatic substitution, as shown in equation 21) ... 

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