Precursor quinoline

The use of sodium tribromoacetate as the dibromocarbene precursor has been investigated and found to provide the Ciamician-Dennstedt product in higher yield than the traditional alkoxide/alcohol reaction conditions. Deprotonation of bromoform with sodium ethoxide in ethanol and reaction of the resultant carbene with 6 provides quinoline 9 in 9% yield thermolysis of sodium tribromoacetate in the presence of 6 furnishes 9 in 20% yield (Scheme 8.3.3). 

Ozonolysis of 5,8,9-trihydroxy-2,3-dihydro-l//-pyrimido[l, 2-n]quinoline-3-carboxylic acid (420), obtained from isopyoverdin isolated from Pseudomonas putida BTPl by acidic hydrolysis, gave l-2,4-diaminobutyric acid, which confirmed the hypothesis that heterocyclic chromophores 1 and 4 of pyoverdin and isopyoverdin, respectively, could have the same precursor, and the configuration at C(3) should be 5 (97ZN(C)549). 

Due to their successful synthesis of 2-(4 -chlorophenyl)-4-iodoquinoline from the corresponding precursor acetylene, Arcadi et al. (99T13233) developed a one-step synthesis of 2,4-disubstituted quinolines via palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions. An example is the Heck reaction of 4-iodoquinoline (131) with a-acetamidoacrylate (132). This one-pot synthesis yielded adduct 133 in 50% overall yield after purification via flash chromatography. 

Quinoline 2-thiols are excellent precursors for construction of this ring system. Thus, allylation or vinylation of quinoline thiol 640 gave 2-vinylthioquinolines 641 or 2-allylthioquinolines 642 which were... 

Hie reactions of 4-chloropyridines and quinolines 17 with benzotriazoles 18 in a modified Graebe-Ullman synthesis give excellent yields of Y arbolines and their benzo-fused derivatives 20. Excellent yields for preparation of the penultimate benzotriazole precursors 19 are reported as well. In the optimized one-pot conditions, the combined neat substrates are heated with microwave irradiation (MW) for short (7-10 min) durations. The crude 19 is treated with H4P2O7 and irradiated futher (4-6 min). The resultant y-carbolines 20 were methylated to form the quaternary salts. These were tested and found to lack DNA intercalation properties <96JOC5587>. 

This arrangement of subgroups is due to the hypothetical biosynthetic sequence. It assumes that precursors for these alkaloids are the Af-methylphth-alideisoquinolinium salts, whose presence in plants is well documented. Enol lactones may be the initial degradation products formed in a Hofmann-type jft-elimination process. They could be hydrated to the keto acids and in the next step oxidated in air to the diketo acids. Diketo adds may undergo further oxidative cleavage to yield simple alkaloids of the fumariflorine (87) type 85,86), which seem to be the final products of the metabolism of phthalideiso-quinoline alkaloids. 

Pyrido[l,2,3- ][l,4,2]benzoxazasilin-4-ium chloride 208, the benzo derivative of pyrido[l,2-rf][l,4,2]oxazasiline ring system, was synthesized starting from the quinoline precursor. Thus, reacting compound 206 with chloromethyl-dimethylsilyl chloride afforded the tricycle 208 via the intermediate 207, but no yields were reported (Scheme 31) <1996ZOB1949>. 

The specific ortho functionalization of arylamines is obviously important in quinoline synthesis (cf. the rc-allyl procedure devised for the preparation of o-allylanilines used as indole and quinoline precursors).76 Recently acetanilides have been subjected to orthopalladation and the ensuing complexes converted into useful precursors of 2-substituted quinoline derivatives (Scheme 143).215... 

Synthetic a-carbolines have also attracted interest as antitumor agents. For example, Chen and coworkers [97] prepared a series of indolo[2,3-fr] quinoline derivatives, the most active of which was 154, which had a mean GI50 value against three cancer cell lines of 0.78 iM. This compound was prepared by methylation of 153 with dimethyl sulfate (Fig. 43), and was isolated in 12% yield, along with isomeric 155, which was isolated in 40% yield, but had significantly lower cytotoxicity. Precursor 153 itself was found to be inactive. 

Several heteroaromatic compounds can be hydrogenated by [Rh(COD) (PPh3)2]+ species. Thus, this cationic complex has been reported to be a catalyst precursor for the homogeneous hydrogenation of heteroaromatic compounds such as quinoline [32] or benzothiophene [33]. Detailed mechanistic cycles have been proposed by Sanchez-Delgado and coworkers. The mechanism of hydrogenation of benzothiophene by the cationic rhodium(III) complex, [Rh(C5Me5) (MeCN)3]2+, has been elucidated by Fish and coworkers [34]. 

Using as catalyst precursors the clusters Os3H2(CO)i0 and Os3(CO)12 [71, 72], Laine and coworkers found a deuteration pattern of quinoline hydrogenation similar to that shown in Scheme 16.16, except for the presence of more deuterium in the 4-position and less in the 2-position, which has been interpreted in terms of the occurrence of oxidative addition of the osmium cluster to C-H bonds in quinoline, and also 1,4-hydrogenation (Scheme 16.17). 

Other indoles that have been prepared using the Sonogashira coupling and cyclization sequence include 5,7-difluoroindole and 5,6,7-trifluoroindole [219], 4-, 5-, and 7-methoxyindoles and 5-, 6-, and 7-(triisopropylsilyl)oxyindoles [220], the 5,6-dichloroindole SB 242784, a compound in development for the treatment of osteoporosis [221], 5-azaindoles [222], 7-azaindoles [160], 2,2-biindolyls [223,176], 2-octylindole for use in a synthesis of carazostatin [224], chiral indole precursors for syntheses of carbazoquinocins A and D [225], a series of 5,7-disubstituted indoles [226], a pyrrolo[2,3-eJindole [226], an indolo[7,6-g]indole [227], pyrrolo[3,2,l-y]quinolines from 4-arylamino-8-iodoquinolines [228], optically active indol-2-ylarylcarbinols [229], 2-alkynylindoles [176], 7-substituted indoles via the lithiation of the intermediate 2-alkynylaniline derivative [230], and a variety of 2,5,6-trisubstituted indoles [231], This latter study employs tetrabutylammonium fluoride, instead of Cul or alkoxide, to effect the final cyclization of 215 to indoles 216 as summarized here. 

The natural extension of this series to the quinoline analog of AC 252,925 was then undertaken. The synthesis route used is based on the work of E. C. Taylor which employed anthranil as a precursor to a quinoline-2,3-dicarboxylic acid derivative (11). The sequence is shown in Scheme V. 

Mechanistically, the Brpnsted acid-catalyzed cascade hydrogenation of quinolines presumably proceeds via the formation of quinolinium ion 56 and subsequent 1,4-hydride addition (step 1) to afford enamine 57. Protonation (step 2) of the latter (57) followed by 1,2-hydride addition (step 3) to the intermediate iminium ion 58 yields tetrahydroquinolines 59 (Scheme 21). In the case of 2-substituted precursors enantioselectivity is induced by an asymmetric hydride transfer (step 3), whereas for 3-substituted ones asymmetric induction is achieved by an enantioselective proton transfer (step 2). 

Figure 13. L-anthranilic acid is a precursor of quinazoline, quinoline and acridine alkaloids.

Alkaloid biosynthesis needs the substrate. Substrates are derivatives of the secondary metabolism building blocks the acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA), shikimic acid, mevalonic acid and 1-deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate (Figure 21). The synthesis of alkaloids starts from the acetate, shikimate, mevalonate and deoxyxylulose pathways. The acetyl coenzyme A pathway (acetate pathway) is the source of some alkaloids and their precursors (e.g., piperidine alkaloids or anthraniUc acid as aromatized CoA ester (antraniloyl-CoA)). Shikimic acid is a product of the glycolytic and pentose phosphate pathways, a construction facilitated by parts of phosphoenolpyruvate and erythrose 4-phosphate (Figure 21). The shikimic acid pathway is the source of such alkaloids as quinazoline, quinoline and acridine. 

The indole nucleus can change during the synthesizing reaction into quinoline nucleus (Figure 32). Moreover L-tryptophan, the precursor, provides both /3-carboline and pyrroloindole nuclei. Iboga, Corynanthe and Aspidosperma nuclei also originate from L-tryptophan (Figure 32). Alkaloids with nuclei derived from this amino acid tend to be very active compounds with a relatively widespread provenance in nature (Table 10). 

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