Piperazine-2,6-diones

The preparation and reactions of piperazine-2,S-diones has been much discussed in the reviews mentioned above and in papers by Sammes and co-workers (314, 314a, 1066-1068, 1078,1127,1128, 1616). 

Some preparations are described in Section 1C(1) and additional preparative data are as follows. Aminoacetonitrile with hydroxylamine gave 2,5-bishydroxy-iminopiperazine (92) (465), which was hydrolyzed with dilute hydrochloric acid to the monoxime in contrast, nitrous acid converted the dioxime (92) into piperazine-2,5-dione (465). fV-(Aminoacyl)aminoacetonitrile with hydroxylamine formed 5-hydroxyiminopiperazin-2-one (1619). Reduction of diethyl hydroxy-iminomalonate in ethanol with hydrogen over palladium-charcoal gave diethyl aminomalonate and 3,6-diethoxycarbonylpiperazine-2,5-dione (821) and heating of diethyl A -methylaminomalonate formed 3,6-diethoxycarbonyl-l,4-dimethyl-piperazine-2,5-dione (1620), which with sodium hydride in dioxane followed by treatment with sulfur monochloride gave 3,6-epidithio- (93) and 3,6-epitetrathio- 

6-diethoxycarbonyl-l,4-dimethylpiperazine-2,5-dione (1620). Reduction of 2,5-dihydroxy-3,6-diisobutylpyrazine with hydrogen over platinum gave 3,6-diisobutyl-piperazine-2,5-dione (99), and treatment of 2-bromo-5-hydroxypyrazines with zinc dust and aqueous acetic acid produced piperazine-2,5-diones (113c, 113e). 

Sterically pure piperazinediones have been prepared from formate salts of dipeptide methyl esters (1622). The conformation of piperazine-2,5-diones has been reviewed (1623). 

Reactions of piperazine-2,5-diones with phosphorus pentachloride and phosphorus pentabromide have been described in Sections V.ID and V.IF, respectively. Aromatic aldehydes condense with 3-methylpiperazine-2,5-dione in the presence of acetic anhydride to form mainly mono-A -acetyl derivatives of trans-3-arylidene-6-methylpiperazine-2,5-diones (e.g., 96, R = Ac) (1066). In these products the acetyl group was shown to be attached to position 1 and the 4,5-amide group was found to be sterically hindered. Photolysis formed the cis isomers. Both isomers were deacetylated with methanolic potassium hydroxide (1066). Condensation of 1,4-diacetylpiperazine-2,5-diones with aldehydes has been applied to the synthesis of unsymmetrical 3,6-diarylidenepiperazine-2,5-diones and the reaction has been extended to l,4-diacetyl-3,6-dimethylpiperazine-2,5-diones (1624). Treatment of (96, R = H) with triethyloxonium tetrafluoroborate in dichloromethane gave the monoimino ether, 5-benzylidene-6-ethoxy-3-hydroxy-2-methyl-2,5-dihydropyrazine (97) (1066). l-Methylpiperazine-2,5-dione similarly treated gave 5-ethoxy-l-methyl-2-oxo-l,2,3,6-tetrahydropyrazine (which was condensed with anthranilic acid at 150° to 2-methyl-l,2-dihydropyrazino[2,l-fi]quinazoline-3(4/0.6-dione (98) (1625), and l,4-dimethylpiperazine-2,5-dione gave 5-ethoxy-l,4-dimethyl-2-oxo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrazine and 5,5-diethoxy-l,4-dimethylpiperazin-2-one (1626). 

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The formation of a second ring, based on the generation of a six-membered carbanion followed by alkylation with a difunctional electrophile and further cyclization, was also exploited in the synthesis of hexahydropyrrolo[l,2-tf]pyr-azine-l,4-dione 235 starting from alkoxycarbonyl piperazine-2,5-dione 233. When the key precursor was treated with 2equiv of NaH and 1,3-dibromopropane, the bicyclic compound 234 was obtained in acceptable yield and further transformed into compound 235 by deprotection and decarboxylation (Scheme 30) <2005T8722>. 

PIPERAZINE-2,5-DIONE FORMATION FROM ESTERS OF DIPEPTIDES... 

FIGURE 6.24 The cis and trans forms of the amide bond of a dipeptide ester and cyclization of the compound to the piperazine-2,5-dione. The tendency to cyclize is greater when the carboxy-terminal residue is proline or an IV-methylamino acid. In these cases the predominating form is cis, which places the amino and ester groups closer together. 

Once it is part of a cyclic dipeptide, the prolyl residue becomes susceptible to enantiomerization by base (see Section 7.22). The implication of the tendency of dipeptide esters to form piperazine-2,5-diones is that their amino groups cannot be left unprotonated for any length of time. The problem arises during neutralization after acidolysis of a Boc-dipeptide ester and after removal of an Fmoc group from an Fmoc-dipeptide ester by piperidine or other secondary amine. The problem is so severe with proline that a synthesis involving deprotection of Fmoc-Lys(Z)-Pro-OBzl produced only the cyclic dipeptide and no linear tripeptide. The problem surfaces in solid-phase synthesis after incorporation of the second residue of a chain that is bound to the support by a benzyl-ester type linkage. There is also the added difficulty that hydroxymethyl groups are liberated, and they can be the source of other side reactions. 

Solvent CH.CLMeCN (19 1). Solvent CH.Cl,r 5% azetidone and 58% Af-phenylacrylamide under liquid liquid two-phase conditions.4 Using Duolite A-109 (Cl- form). 64% piperazine-2,5-dione after 18 h. I 88% piperazine-2,5-dione. Solvent THF. 63% yield in CH,Cl, MeCN. > Solvent PhH. Using TEBA-CI. 

Azetidones (p-lactams) are generally obtained in high yield from (3-halopropion-amides (Table 5.18) and the low yield from the reaction of N-phenyl (3-chloropropi-onamide can be reconciled with the isolation of A-phenyl acrylamide in 58% yield [34]. The unwanted elimination reaction can be obviated by conducting the cyclization in a soliddiquid system under high dilution [35, 36]. Azetidones are also formed by a predominant intramolecular cyclization of intermolecular dimerization to yield piperazine-2,5-diones, or intramolecular alkylation to yield aziridones. Aone-pot formation of azetidones in 45-58% yield from the amine and P-bromocarboxylic acid chloride has also been reported [38]. 

In contrast, liquidiliquid phase-transfer catalysis is virtually ineffective for the conversion of a-bromoacetamides into aziridones (a-lactams). Maximum yields of only 17-23% have been reported [31, 32], using tetra-n-butylammonium hydrogen sulphate or benzyltriethylammonium bromide over a reaction time of 4-6 days. It is significant that a solidiliquid two-phase system, using solid potassium hydroxide in the presence of 18-crown-6 produces the aziridones in 50-94% yield [33], but there are no reports of the corresponding quaternary ammonium ion catalysed reaction. Under the liquidiliquid two-phase conditions, the major product of the reaction is the piperazine-2,5-dione, resulting from dimerization of the bromoacetamide [34, 38]. However, only moderate yields are isolated and a polymer-supported catalyst appears to provide the best results [34, 38], Significant side reactions result from nucleophilic displacement by the aqueous base to produce hydroxyamides and ethers. 

Kinetic studies of the unnatural 6-a -epimer of ampicillin, fi-ept-ampicillin (154), have revealed an intramolecular process not undergone by ampicillin (or other natural /3-substituted penicillins) At pH 6-9, intramolecular attack of the jS-lactam carbonyl group by the side-chain amino group of (154) yields a stable piperazine-2,5-dione derivative (155). Theoretical calculations show that the intramolecular aminolysis of 6-epi-ampicillin nucleophilic attack occurs from the a-face of the -lactam ring with an activation energy of 14.4kcalmor In other respects, the hydrolysis of the b-a-epimer is unexceptional. 

Although the formation of symmetric piperazine-2,5-diones is a well documented transformation (93AHC187), the unsymmetric -ones have been prepared from AAs or their amides with acyl halides, such as pyruvoyl chloride (81RTC73) and a-bromopropionyl bromide (91H923). 

When solid-phase peptide synthesis was initially being developed, the question of whether or not a separate neutralization step is necessary was considered. Since it was known from the work of others that the chloride ion promotes racemization during the coupling step in classical peptide synthesis, and since we were deprotecting the Boc group with HC1, it seemed advisable to neutralize the hydrochloride by treatment with TEA and to remove chloride by filtration and washing. This short, additional step was simple and convenient and became the standard protocol. Subsequently, we became aware of three other reasons why neutralization was desirable (1) to avoid weak acid catalysis of piperazine-2,5-dione formation, 49 (2) to avoid acid-catalyzed formation of pyroglutamic acid (5-oxopyr-rolidine-2-carboxylic acid), 50 and (3) to avoid amidine formation between DCC and pro-tonated peptide-resin. The latter does not occur with the free amine. 

Scheme 6 Piperazine-2,5-diones with R1 = R2 (Symmetric) and R1 / R2 (Asymmetric)...

Piperazine-2,5-diones can be symmetric or asymmetric. Symmetric DKPs are readily obtained by heating amino acid esters,1179-181 whereas asymmetric DKPs are obtained directly from the related dipeptides under basic or, more properly, acid catalysis, or by cyclocondensation of dipeptide esters.1182-185 As an alternative procedure hexafluoroacetone can be used to protect/activate the amino acid for the synthesis of symmetric DKPs or of the second amino acid residue for synthesis of the dipeptide ester and subsequent direct cyclocondensation to DKPs.1186 The use of active esters for the cyclocondensation is less appropriate since it may lead to epimerization when a chiral amino acid is involved as the carboxy component in the cyclization reaction. Resin-bound DKPs as scaffolds for further on-resin transformations are readily prepared using the backbone amide linker (BAL) approach, where the amino acid ester is attached to the BAL resin by its a-amino group and then acylated with a Fmoc-protected amino acid by the HATU procedure, N -deprotection leads to on-resin DKP formation1172 (see Section 6.8.3.2.2.3). 

Scheme 7 Interconversion of Cyclic Tripeptides into Cyclols and Piperazine-2,5-diones Dehydration to Acyl-imidamide is an Almost Irreversible Transformation1199-202-2031...

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