Pictet type ring closure

There can be little doubt that the crucial, acid-catalyzed step in these cyclization reactions, analogous to that in the Pictet-Spengler type ring closure, involves the charged species 64 (cf. 11). 

Pictet-Spengler type ring closure to l,2,3,4,6,7-hexahydrobenzo[a]quinolizines with preceding oxidative ring opening of isocyclics and subsequent oxidation of aldehydes to carboxylic acids... 

In one route, tidopidine (1) was assembled via Sn2 displacement of 2-chlorobenzyl chloride (9) with 4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-thieno[3,2-c]pyridine (8). " The nucleophile 8 was synthesized by heating 2-thiophen-2-yl-ethylamine (6) with 1,3-dioxolane in the presence of concentrated hydrochloric acid. 1,3-Dioxolone gave better yields than with formaldehyde, paraformaldehyde and 1,3,5-ttioxane. The interesting transformation 6 —> 8 first involved the formation of the corresponding Mannich base 7, which then underwent a Pictet-Spengler type reaction to afford the ring-closure product 8. It was of interest to note that a possible intramolecular aminomethylation did not take place. 

Asymmetric induction in ring closure reactions of central chiral ferrocene derivatives has been reported. Moderate diastereoselectivity was found in the ring closure of the enantiomeric 4-ferrocenyl-2-methyl-2-phenyl-butanoic acids by treatment with trifluoroacetic anhydride (Fig. 4-211) [10]. The diastereoisomeric ketones could be separated by chromatography. A higher induction was observed in an asymmetric Pictet — Spengler type cyclization of a reactive imine formed from enantiomerically pure 2-ferrocenyl-2-propylamine and formaldehyde, as only one isomer of the product was detected (Fig. 4-21 g) [135, 136]. 

Pyrrolo[l,2- >]-l,2,5-benzothiadiazepine 1,1-dioxide (105) has been obtained by cyclization of the A(-formamide derivative (104), derived from l-(2-aminobenzenesulfonyl)pyrrole (103) and acetic formic anhydride, with phosphorus oxychloride via a Bischler-Napieralski reaction in 47% yield, or by iron powder-acetic acid reduction of the nitro-aldehyde derivative (106) and subsequent ring closure of the resulting aminoaldehyde intermediate in 92% yield <94JHC1033>. The reaction of (103) with ethyl glyoxylate hemiacetal via a Pictet-Spengler type condensation afforded the benzo-thiadiazepine (107) in a high yield (94%) <94JHC867> (Scheme 17). 

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