Pyridines from 1,5-dicarbonyl compound

The reaction of diketosulfides with 1,2-dicarbonyl compounds other than glyoxal is often not efficient for the direct preparation of thiophenes. For example, the reaction of diketothiophene 24 and benzil or biacetyl reportedly gave only glycols as products. The elimination of water from the P-hydroxy ketones was not as efficient as in the case of the glyoxal series. Fortunately, the mixture of diastereomers of compounds 25 and 26 could be converted to their corresponding thiophenes by an additional dehydration step with thionyl chloride and pyridine. 

The Hantzsch pyridine synthesis involves the condensation of two equivalents of a 3-dicarbonyl compound, one equivalent of an aldehyde and one equivalent of ammonia. The immediate result from this three-component coupling, 1,4-dihydropyridine 1, is easily oxidized to fully substituted pyridine 2. Saponification and decarboxylation of the 3,5-ester substituents leads to 2,4,6-trisubstituted pyridine 3. 

As depicted in the following scheme, in the presence of sodium iodate and pyridine, several 5,6-dihydroxylated benzofuran derivatives were synthesized via an oxidation-Michael addition of P-dicarbonyl compounds to catechols in a one-pot procedure <06TL2615 06JHC1673>. A novel additive Pummerer reaction of 2-benzo[fc]furan sulfilimines with carbon nucleophiles derived from P-dicarbonyl compounds was also employed to the synthesis of 2,3-disubstituted benzo[b]furans <06TL595>. 

In the presence of bis(acetylacetonato)nickel, a-dicarbonyl compounds readily add at the nitrile group of 4-R-substituted l,2,5-oxadiazole-3-carbonitriles 219 to form enaminofurazans 220. The adducts obtained from 4-amino-3-cyanofurazan underwent intramolecular cyclization upon heating with acetic acid in ethanol to give furazano[3,4- ]pyridine 221 derivatives in high yields (Scheme 51) <2001RCB1280>. 

Our own group is also involved in the development of domino multicomponent reactions for the synthesis of heterocycles of both pharmacologic and synthetic interest [156]. In particular, we recently reported a totally regioselective and metal-free Michael addition-initiated three-component substrate directed route to polysubstituted pyridines from 1,3-dicarbonyls. Thus, the direct condensation of 1,3-diketones, (3-ketoesters, or p-ketoamides with a,p-unsaturated aldehydes or ketones with a synthetic equivalent of ammonia, under heterogeneous catalysis by 4 A molecular sieves, provided the desired heterocycles after in situ oxidation (Scheme 56) [157]. A mechanistic study demonstrated that the first step of the sequence was a molecular sieves-promoted Michael addition between the 1,3-dicarbonyl and the cx,p-unsaturated carbonyl compound. The corresponding 1,5-dicarbonyl adduct then reacts with the ammonia source leading to a DHP derivative, which is spontaneously converted to the aromatized product. 

Acid treatment of (6) furnishes products (13) including minor quantities of tricyclic condensation products, which result from the reaction of (13) with excess (6). This side reaction may be extended to become a synthesis of double anellated pyridines when (6) is fused with cyclic 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds. As expected, the spatial requirement of the acyl substituent R affects the yield of (15) (87TH1). (See Fig. 7.) Dipyrrolo[3,4-b 3, 4 -e]-pyridinediones of type (15a) were synthesized by Snyder et al. starting... 

Michael-type condensation of cyanoacetohydrazide (NCCH2CONHNH2, CAH) with 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds gave pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridines under certain conditions. With l,l,l-trifluoropentane-2,4-dione in the presence of piperidine a 1 3 mixture of pyrazolone 92a and the expected aminopyridone 91a was obtained.15 The bicycle was also obtained from hydrazone (90) or by thermal reaction between its two precursors.32 Reaction of CAH and / -keto aldehydes gave good yields of only bicyclic products 92b,20 whereas ethyl benzoylacetate in the presence of piperidine gave bicycle 92c (Ar = Ph)... 

Kocevar et al.236 cyclized 3-aminopyrazolo[3,4-h]pyridine to the tricycles 267, using 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds. Similar products were obtained from... 

The imidazole part of the IQ-compounds suggests creatinine as a common precursor. The remaining parts of the IQ-compounds could arise from Maillard reaction products, e.g., 2-methylpyri-dine or 2,5-dimethylpyrazine. These two compounds could be formed through Strecker degradation. In Maillard reactions, this is induced by a-dicarbonyl compounds derived from carbohydrates, which are thereby converted to pyrroles, pyridines, pyrazines, etc. (8). 

Alkyl- or aryl-substituted pyrazole 1-oxides 94 can be obtained in acceptable yields by oxidative cyclization of O-silylated 3-oximimines like 1 -tert-hutyldimethyIsilyloxy-4-methylamino-1 -azab nta-1,3-diene 93 using copper(II) sulfate as the oxidant and pyridine and acetonitrile as the solvent. The oximimines are prepared from 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds 92 in a one-pot process. The method also gives access to 2-alkyl and aryl-pyrazole 1-oxides R=H devoid of substituents at the ring carbon atoms (94 Ri = R2=H) (1995JCS(P1)2773) (Scheme 27). 

The chromium trioxide-pyridine complex affords fair yields of dicarbonyl compounds by oxidation of suitably protected precursors 2,3 4,5-di-<3-isopropylidene-(2/f/e/n f/o-/l-D-(2ra/)/rtrt-hcxos-2-ulose-2,6-pyranose was thus prepared in 53% yield from 2,3 4,5-di-0-isopropylidene-/f-D-fructo-... 

On the basis of the above experimental facts, enaminones 42 are considered to be usable as the dinucleophilic reagents for the RTF reaction leading to 4-aminopyridine-3-carboxylic acid derivatives 41 (Table 11) [60]. Enaminones 42 are readily prepared by only mixing 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds 19 and amines without solvent. When enaminone 42i derived from ethyl ace-toacetate 19a and propylamine is used, the RTF reaction proceeds to afford ethyl AT-propyl-4-aminopyridine-3-carboxylate 41i in 88% yield. The amino group of 41 is easily modified by changing amine, and pyridine-3-carboxylic... 

Standard heterocyclic syntheses tend to have a name associated with them and it is simply not worth while learning these names. Few chemists use any but the most famous of them we will mention the Knorr pyrrole synthesis, the Hantzsch pyridine synthesis, and the Fischer and Reissert indole syntheses. We did not mention that the synthesis of furans from 1,4-dicarbonyl compounds is known as the Feist-Benary synthesis, and there are many more like this. If you are really interested in these other names we suggest you consult a specialist book on heterocyclic chemistry. 

In planning the synthesis of a pyrrole or a pyridine from a dicarbonyl compound, considerable variation in oxidation state is possible Tire oxidation state is chosen to make further disconnection of the carbon skeleton as easy as possible. We can now see how these same principles can be applied to pyrazoles and pyridazines. 

A synthesis of a set of 2-pyridylpyrroles has been described, involving annulation of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds with 2-(aminomethyl)pyridine under acidic conditions, as illustrated by the construction of compound 437 (Equation 121) <20020L435>. Likewise, pyrroles have also been obtained from reactions between 1,3-diaryl-l,3-dicarbonyl compounds and imines or oximes promoted by the TiCU/Zn-system <2004SL2239>. Yet another approach involves rhodium-catalyzed reactions of isonitriles with 1,3-dicarbonyl synthons, which enables for instance preparation of fluorinated pyrroles <20010L421>. 

Oxodiperoxymolybdenum-pyridine-hexamethylphosphoric triamide, MoOj CjHsN-HMPA (MoOPH), which is prepared from molybdenum trioxide, M0O3 [531,532], hydroxylates the enolates of ketones and esters in the a position with respect to the carbonyl groups [537, 532, 533] and, in the presence of mercuric acetate, converts acetylenes into a-dicarbonyl compounds [534]. 

Nitrosobenzene, CjHsNO, which is obtained by the oxidation of phenylhydroxylamine, and p>nitrosodimethylaniline, p-(CH3)2NCjH4NO, which is easily prepared by the nitrosation of dimethylaniline, are fairly specific oxidizing agents for the preparation of aromatic aldehydes from benzyl halides or tosylates and of a-dicarbonyl compounds from from a-halo ketones [984, 985]. Also, a methylene group flanked by two carbonyls can be oxidized to a carbonyl group by nitrosodimethylaniline [986]. Pyridine is frequently used to form quaternary pyridinium salts from reactive halides prior to their oxidation to aromatic aldehydes, a-ketoaldehydes, or a-diketones [984] (equations 22 and 23). 

A simple exercise on the synthesis of a pyridine from a masked dicarbonyl compound. 

In another series of experiments the mixture of ozonides was treated with hydriodic acid, whereby dicarbonyl compounds are formed. By reacting the dicarbonyl compounds with p-nitrophenylhydrazine, the corresponding p-nitrophenylosazones are obtained. These are isolated from pyridine by recrystallization and identified by mixed melting point. The quantitative analysis of the mixture of nitrophenylosazones is carried out by a chromatographic method. 

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