Piperidine enamines

Enamines are not easily formed from 17-ketones. A pyrrolidine enam-ine is obtained by acid catalysis accompanied by azeotropic removal of water whereas the morpholine and piperidine enamines do not form under these forcing conditions. 

Unlike the pyrrolidine enamine of 2-methylcyclohexanone (7), which consists predominantly of the trisubstituted isomer, the morpholine and piperidine enamines of 2-methylcyclohexanone (20 and 21) were shown by... 

The increase in the proportion of the tetrasubstituted isomer in the cases of the morpholine and piperidine enamines of 2-methylcyelohexanone has been ascribed to both steric and electronic factors. The authors propose that the overlap of the electron pair on the nitrogen atom and the v electrons of the double bond is much more important in the case of the pyrrolidine enamines and much less with the others. Support for this postulate was provided by the NMR spectra of these enamines, wherein the chemical shifts of the vinylic protons of the pyrrolidine enamines were at a higher field than those of the corresponding morpholine and piperidine enamines by 20-27 Hz. The greater amount of overlap or electron delocalization, in the case of pyrrolidine enamine, is in accord with the postulate of Brown et al. (7- ) that the double bond exo to the five-membered ring is more favored than the double bond exo to the six-membered ring. 

Schaeffer and Jain (19) have also reported the synthesis of optically active dehydrocycloheximide (24) by using optically active piperidine enamine derived from (+)-/ra 5-2,4-dimethylcyclohexanone. 

Reaction of the pyrrolidine enamine of cyclohexanone with phenyl vinyl sulfone afforded a 9 1 mixture of the tri- and tetrasubstituted isomers (2(5). The preference of the less substituted isomer in this case is in keeping with the greater overlap requirement between the n electrons of the double bond and the electron pair on the nitrogen atom, since the double bond exo to the five-membered ring is much more favored than the double bond exo to the six-membered ring. It is, however, hard to explain the formation of largely the trisubstituted isomer with the piperidine enamine of cyclohexanone, where both of the rings involved are six-membered. 

The basicity of the enamine has an overriding influence on the yield of product. Good yields are obtained from the pyrrolidine enamines, poor yields from the piperidine enamines, and the morpholine enamines fail to... 

Aldehyde enamines react with aromatic diazonium salts in two ways, depending on the degree of substitution at the enamine earbon (130). Thus the piperidine enamine of butyraldehyde (60) reacted with p-nitrophenyl-diazonium chloride to give the p-nitrophenylhydrazone of the a-keto aldehyde (190). 

Reaction of the morpholine or piperidine enamine of cyclopentanone, however, gives an unstable adduct which rearranges under the reaction conditions and an aqueous work-up to give the ring expanded ketone 2-chloro-2-cyclohexen-l-one (203) (138,139). 

Azides can use enamines as dipolarophiles for ],3 cycloadditions to form triazolines. These azides can be formate ester azides (186), phenyl azides (187-195), arylsulfony] azides (191-193,196), or benzoylazides (197,198). For example, the reaction between phenyl azide (138) and the piperidine enamine of propionaldehyde (139) gives 1 -phenyl-4-methy l-5-( 1 -piperidino)-4,5-dihydro-l,2,3-triazole (140), exclusively, in a 53% yield (190). None of the isomeric l-phenyl-5-methyl product was formed. This indicates that the... 

The formation of bicyclic imines (263,264) from piperidine enamines and y-bromopropyl amines may appear at first sight to be a simple extension of the reactions of enamines with alkyl halides. However, evidence has been found that the products are formed by an initial enamine exchange, followed by an intramolecular enamine alkylation. Thus y-bromodiethylamino-propane does not react with piperidinocyclohexene under conditions suitable for the corresponding primary amine. Furthermore, the enamine of cyclopentanone, but not that of cyclohexanone, requires a secondary rather than primary y-bromopropylamine, presumably because of the less favorable imine to enamine conversion in this instance. 

The reactions of dichlorocarbene with morpholine and piperidine enamines derived from cyclopentanone and cyclohexanone have been reported to lead to ring expanded and a-chloromethylene ketone products (355,356). Similarly a-chloro-a, -unsaturated aldehydes were obtained from aldehyde derived enamines (357). Synthesis of aminocyclopropanes (353,359) could be realized by the addition of diphenyldiazomethane (360) and the methylene iodide-zinc reagent to enamines (367). 

Treated with ZnBr2 followed by enamines, phenyl thioethers 829 derived from aryl aldehydes are converted to (l-(phenylthio)alkyl ketones or aldehydes 830 in moderate to good yields (Equation 19). Enamines used in these syntheses are (1) morpholine enamine derived from diethyl ketone, (2) diethylamine enamine of propiophenone, (3) piperidine enamine derived from isovaleraldehyde, and (4) pyrrolidine enamine of cyclohexanone <2000H(53)331>. 

From a preparative point of view, the acylation of ketones via enamines is of particular interest. In comparison with pyrrolidine and piperidine enamines, the less reactive morpholine enamines give better yields, as found by Hiinig et al.2iZ j8-Diketones are the products of acylation with an acyl halide followed by acid hydrolysis, whereas with ethyl chloroformate, /J-ketoesters are obtained.212 Hiinig and his collaborators242-247 have used the acylation of 1-morpholino-l-cyclopentene and 1-morpholino-l-cyclohexene to lengthen the chains of acids by five and six carbon atoms, respectively. The reaction may... 

Two other nucleophilic substitution reactions of pyridine iV-oxides deserve mention and further study to determine the effects of substituents. Pyridine N-oxide, benzoyl chloride, and the piperidine enamine of cyclohexanone give a good yield of 2-(2 -pyridyl)cyclo-hexanone (155) (63%).360 When W-methoxy-4-picolinium methyl... 

Illustrated in Table II are the effects of different optically active acids used for producing the piperidine enamine salt of a-phenylpropionaldehyde. Based on the rate of hydrolysis and the asymmetric transformation of the recovered substances, a strong acid is most effective. 

Table II. Results of Acid Hydrolysis to Form the Piperidine Enamine Salt of a-Phenylpropionaldehyde (1)...

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