Piperidine-2,6-diones: synthesis

Table 6 Piperidine dione synthesis from N-protected /3-amino acids (Equation 166)...

Piperidine-2,6-dione, 3-methyIene-polymers, 1, 285 Piperidine-2,4-diones as sedatives, 1, 165 synthesis... 

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. 

This synthesis involves Michael cycloaddition reaction of the readily available 4-hydroxycoumarine 1 with a cyanocrotonitrile 2 in ethanolic piperidine to afforded 2-amino-3-cyano-4-methyl-4H, 5H-pyrano-benzopyran-5-one (3). Treatment of 3 with acetic anhydride for 0.5 h and/or 3 h under reflux afforded N-acetyl and [l]benzopyrano[3/,4/ 5,6]pyrano(2,3-d) pyrimidine-6,8-dione derivatives (4) and (5a), respectively. Also, interaction of 3 with benzoyl chloride or formic acid gave the corresponding pyrimidine derivatives (5b,c) while its treatment with formamide afforded the aminopyrimi-dine derivative (6). 

The synthesis of these heterocycles was approached using two similar strategies. Fmoc-amino acid-derivatized Wang resins were N-deprotected (87) and coupled with either o-nitrobenzoic acid or N-Fmoc-anthranilic acid (88 and 89). Reduction of the nitro group with 2 m Sn( l, /DMF or Fmoc cleavage with piperidine/DMF, respectively, produced 90, which was cyclized with NaOtBu/THF at 60 °C. Extraction of the crude materials yielded 11 different l,4-benzodiazepine-2,5-diones 91 in yields of 45-80% with an average purity of 90% (Scheme 24) [39]. 

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