2-Pyridone coupling

Hydroxy-4-(p-methoxyphenyl ) (V-phenyL-2-pyridone, coupling with diazonium salts, 818... 

The pyridone coupling components (4-8), which came into use in the 1960s chiefly for the preparation of greenish yellow disperse and reactive dyes, are made by the condensation of an alkylamine with ethyl acetoacetate and ethyl cyanoacetate. Coupling occurs at the position indicated by the arrow in Scheme 4-13. 

Hydroxy-4-(p-methoxyphenyl)-I-phenyl-6-pyridone couples with diazonium salts to give colored products XII-696. ... 

Ah. the heterocychc coupling components that provide commercially important azo dyes contain only nitrogen as the hetero atom. They are indoles (31), pyrazolones (32), and especially pyridones (33) they provide yeUow to orange dyes for various substrates. 

The Boekelheide reaction has been applied to the synthesis of non-natural products with the preparation of quaterpyridines serving as an example. The sequence began with the 2,4-linked bipyridyl-N-oxide 25. Execution under the typical reaction conditions produced the expected bis-pyridone 26. Treatment with POCI3 afforded the corresponding dichloride that was submitted to a palladium-catalyzed coupling with 2-stannyl pyridine to produce the desired quaterpyridine 27. 

Pyridones can also be converted to 2-chloropyridines by exchanging the carbonyl functionality using phosphoroxychloride (POCI3) [72]. A combination of N-halosuccinimides and triphenylphosphine has also been applied to introduce halogens in this position [73]. The carbonyl functionality in 2-pyridones makes these systems reactive towards nucleophiles as well, which add in 1,4-reactions with displacement of halides [74]. The use of transition metal mediated couplings like Heck, and Suzuki have also been successfully applied on halogenated 2-pyridones (d. Scheme 10) [36,75]. 

Halogen-substituted 2-pyridones are key intermediates for further metal-catalyzed coupling reactions and the halogenation of these scaffolds has already been described in previous sections. In the following section, a variety of C - C and C - N cross-coupling reactions under microwave-assisted conditions are described with some illustrative examples. 

Palladium-catalyzed aminations of aryl halides is now a well-documented process [86-88], Heo et al. showed that amino-substituted 2-pyridones 54 and 55 can be prepared in a two-step procedure via a microwave-assisted Buchwald-Hartwig amination reaction of 5- or 6-bromo-2-benzyloxypyri-dines 50 and 51 followed by a hydrogenolysis of the benzyl ether 52 and 53, as outlined in Fig. 9 [89]. The actual microwave-assisted Buchwald-Hartwig coupling was not performed directly at the 2-pyridone scaffold, but instead at the intermediate pyridine. Initially, the reaction was performed at 150 °C for 10 min with Pd2(dba)3 as the palladium source, which provided both the desired amino-pyridines (65% yield) as well as the debrominated pyridine. After improving the conditions, the best temperature and time to use proved... 

One other, perhaps even more dramatic and common example concerns compounds like 2 and 4 hydroxy- and amino-pyridines. These compounds exhibit tautomeric behaviour and tend to exist in solution as the corresponding pyridone and imine. This reduces the familiar pyridine-like properties of the ring system, accentuating the effects of these substituents (in terms of induced chemical shifts) and at the same time, radically increasing the expected couplings 2 -3 couplings. 

The Liebeskind group cross-coupled 4-chloro-2-cyclobutenone 69 with 2-tribuylstannyl-benzothiazole to synthesize a-pyridone-based azaheteroaromatics [48], The adduct 70 underwent a thermal rearrangement to afford a transient vinylketene 71, which then intramolecularly cyclized onto the C—N double bond of benzothiazole, giving rise to thiazolo[3,2-a]pyridin-5-one 72. In another case, 2-acetyl-4-trimethylstannylthizaole (73) was coupled with an acid chloride 74 to form the desired ketone 75 [49]. 

These dyes are invariably monoazo compounds with the reactive system attached to the diazo component, owing to the ready availability of monosulphonated phenylenediamine intermediates. Pyrazolone couplers are most commonly used, as in structure 7.82 (where Z is the reactive grouping), and this is particularly the case for greenish yellow vinylsulphone dyes. Catalytic wet fading by phthalocyanine or triphenodioxazine blues is a characteristic weakness of azopyrazolone yellows (section 3.3.4). Pyridones (7.83), barbituric acid (7.84) and acetoacetarylide (7.85 Ar = aryl) coupling components are also represented in this sector, with the same type of diazo component to carry the reactive function. 

The synthesis pathway of quinolizidine alkaloids is based on lysine conversion by enzymatic activity to cadaverine in exactly the same way as in the case of piperidine alkaloids. Certainly, in the relatively rich literature which attempts to explain quinolizidine alkaloid synthesis °, there are different experimental variants of this conversion. According to new experimental data, the conversion is achieved by coenzyme PLP (pyridoxal phosphate) activity, when the lysine is CO2 reduced. From cadeverine, via the activity of the diamine oxidase, Schiff base formation and four minor reactions (Aldol-type reaction, hydrolysis of imine to aldehyde/amine, oxidative reaction and again Schiff base formation), the pathway is divided into two directions. The subway synthesizes (—)-lupinine by two reductive steps, and the main synthesis stream goes via the Schiff base formation and coupling to the compound substrate, from which again the synthetic pathway divides to form (+)-lupanine synthesis and (—)-sparteine synthesis. From (—)-sparteine, the route by conversion to (+)-cytisine synthesis is open (Figure 51). Cytisine is an alkaloid with the pyridone nucleus. 

The main aromatic amines used as diazo components are substituted anilines or naphthylamines and the coupling components substituted iV-aUcylanilines, phenols, naphthylamines and naphthols. Heteroaromatic diazo and coupling components are widely used in commercial azo dyestuffs. The main heterocyclic conpling components are pyrazalones (2.6) and, especially, pyridones (2.8). These are nsed to prodnce bright yellow and orange monoazo dyes, such as Cl Acid Yellow 72 (2.7) and Cl Disperse Orange 139 (2.9). ... 

Furo[2,3- ]pyridines can be synthesized from alkynylpyridones and iodonium sources (Scheme 31) <20060L1113>. Iodine proved to be much more effective at promoting the iodocyclization reaction than other iodonium sources (ICl, A -iodosuccinimide (NIS)). The pyridinium triiodide salt, 104, can be converted into the corresponding pyridinone by treatment with an external source of iodide. In a variation of the reaction, a one-pot synthesis of the furopyridine derivatives 105 can be achieved, with overall yields of 79-92%, by treatment with iodine followed by sodium iodide without isolation of the triiodide salt. Another similar one-pot synthesis involves 3-iodo-2-pyridones, terminal alkynes, and organic halides in a series of two palladium cross-coupling reactions (Equation 45) <20030L2441>. This reaction could also be carried out in a two-step sequence, but the overall reaction yields were typically improved for the one-pot method. 

The angular annelation of the pyridine and pyrazine rings in 28 have been confirmed by a large coupling constant (9 Hz), and this is believed to be attributable to oz/,4o-interaction of the protons. The same configurations on the 4-pyridone and pyrazine analogue 20 shows Vs 9 = 6Hz and Jz,3 = 1.8 Hz, respectively <2000M293>. 

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