Pyrido indoles cycloaddition

The intramolecular cycloaddition of nitrones derived from iV-allyl-2-indolecarbaldehyde was used to an entry to pyrrolo- and pyrido[ 1,2-a]indole skeletons . For instance, the cinnamyl-substituted aldehyde 157 upon treatment with benzylhydroxylamine affords to the nitrone 158, which upon heating in refluxing toluene leads to mainly the cycloadduct 159. 

By employing intramolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions, syntheses of pyrrolo-, pyrido[l,2-a]indol (140),a pyrrolizidine and indolizidine (140b) derivatives have been reported (Scheme 2.216). 

Other intramolecular cyclization reactions involving arylcarbodiimides with an ortho vinyl group to form 2-aminoquinolines and pyrido[2,3-b]indoles are listed in Table 3.1. The latter reactions involve a [2-1-4] cycloaddition in which the carbodiimide intermediate acts as an azadiene and the bond of the ortho vinyl group acts as the dienophile. Calculated transition states for electrocyclization and cycloaddition reactions show that the mode of reaction depends on substituents, stereoelectronic, eutropic and steric factors." ... 

A detailed account of condensation reactions used in heterocyclic chemistry can be found in Section 8.2.6, in Chapter 10 [97], and, for cycloaddition reactions, in Chapter 11 [98]. A previously unknown class of compounds, spiro[3H-indole-3,2 -[41-f] pyrido[3,2-e]-l,3-thiazine]-2,4 (ll-f) diones, can be synthesized by reaction of in situ-generated 3-indolylimine with 2-mercaptonicotinic acid under the action of MW in the absence of solvent. Both neat reactions and reactions on solid supports such as silica gel, alumina etc., effectively promote the reaction whereas reactions under thermal heating conditions failed to proceed (Scheme 8.31) [99]. 

The action of a solution of potash in amyl alcohol on rutaecarpine produces anthranilic acid and a second acid which, when boiled with hydrochloric acid, is readily decarboxylated to tryptamine (6, 25, 94, 134, 135, 169). A close relationship between rutaecarpine and evodiamine was demonstrated by fusion of isoevodiamine hydrochloride. Rutaecarpine was formed with liberation of chloromethane. A number of syntheses of (63) have been reported 101, 135, 161), including some under so-called physiological conditions. Some of the more recent examples will be mentioned. Kametani et al. 102,108) obtained (63) in 80% yield through a regiospecificH s+n s cycloaddition of a keteneimine (generated in situ by extrusion of sulfur dioxide from the sulfmamide anhydride of anthranilic acid) with 3,4-dihydro-p-carboline or with 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-l-keto-P-carboline 109) (also called 1,2,3,4-tetrahydronorharman-l-one or, as in Chemical Abstracts, 2,3,4,9-tetrahydro-lH-pyrido[3,4-b]indol-l-one) ac-... 

Annulation Reactions. Larock et al. have described the synthesis of different heterocyclic systems using a [3+2] annulation approach. For instance, pharmaceutically important pyrido[l,2-fl]indole derivatives such as 93 are easily accessible from 2-substituted pyridines and aryne precursors (Scheme 12.48) [83]. More recently, the 1/f-indazole skeleton has been accessed through a [3+2] annulation from arynes and hydrazones. The reaction with Al-arylhy-drazones leads to 1,3-disubstituted indazoles 94 through an annulation-oxidation process (Scheme 12.48). The use of iV-tosylhydrazones also affords 3-substituted-Ai(H)-indazoles, although probably via a [3+2] cycloaddition (see Scheme 12.18) with in situ generated diazo compounds [84]. 

The chiral holmium(III)-complex-catalysed Diels-Alder cycloaddition of siloxyvinylindoles (70) with e-deficient olefins (71) formed exo-substituted hydro-carbazoles (72) in up to 99% yield and 94% ee. Alkylation of these cycloadducts gave tricyclic compounds (73) with four continuous chiral centres (Scheme 20). The thermal 4-i-2-cycloaddition reaction of 7-substituted 4-styrylcoumarins with A-phenylmaleimide and tetracyanoethylene in nitrobenzene yielded 3,4-annulated coumarins. The thermal Diels-Alder cycloaddition of ( )-l,3-dihydro-3-phenacylidene-2//-indol-2-ones (74) with l,2-dihydro-2-oxospiro[3//-indole-3,2 -[2H,9a//-pyrido[2,l-fe][l,3]oxazines]] (75) produced complex dispirooxindoline fused [l,3]oxazines (76) with high regio- and stereo-selectivity (Scheme 21). " ... 

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