Pyrroles dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate

In some instances, the azaquadricyclane is nonisolable and photolysis of the pyrrole-dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate cycloadduct or of analogous cycloadducts gives directly the 1 //-azepine. For example, 3.6-dichloro-l-tosyl-l//-azepine (10) is produced in excellent yield by photolysis of the [4 + 2] cycloadduct 9.22 Interestingly, dichloroazepine 10 is found (by H NMR spectroscopy) to be in equilibrium with a small amount (1 % at — 67 C) of its bicyclic valence tautomer 11. 

As illustrated in Scheme 8.1, both 2-vinylpyrroles and 3-vinylpyiroles are potential precursors of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydroindolcs via Diels-Alder cyclizations. Vinylpyrroles are relatively reactive dienes. However, they are also rather sensitive compounds and this has tended to restrict their synthetic application. While l-methyl-2-vinylpyrrole gives a good yield of an indole with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate, ot-substitiients on the vinyl group result in direct electrophilic attack at C5 of the pyrrole ring. This has been attributed to the stenc restriction on access to the necessary cisoid conformation of the 2-vinyl substituent[l]. 

The reactions of pyrroles with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD) have been extensively investigated. In the presence of a proton donor the Michael adducts (125) and (126) are formed. However, under aprotic conditions the reversible formation of the 1 1 Diels-Alder adduct (127) is an important reaction. In the case of the adduct from 1-methylpyrrole, reaction with a further molecule of DMAD can occur to give a dihydroindole (Scheme 48) (82H(19)1915). 

Methyl pyrrole-l-carboxylate (14) and hot dimethyl acetylenedi-carboxylate give trimethyl pyrrole-1,3,4-tricarboxyIate (15) and acetylene, presumably through the addition-elimination sequence shown. Dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate and 1-methylpyrrole com-... 

Methyl pyrrole-l-carboxylate and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate combine at 170°-200°C, giving trimethyl pyrrole-1,3,4-tricarboxylate (46) and acetylene. This reaction probably proceeds through the... 

Methylpyrrole and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate interact at 0°C to give a 1 2 adduct which is now known " to have structure (48). It is formed by addition of the ester across the 2,5-positions of the pyrrole yielding (47), which was not isolated but combined with a second molecule of the ester across the 2,7-positions accompanied by scission of the 4,7-bond as indicated. This adduct (48) was oxidized by bromine in methanol to trimethyl l-methylindole-2,3,4-tricarboxyl-ate and reacted further with hot dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate. 

When the original reaction between the 1-methylpyrrole and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate was carried out on a larger scale with inadequate cooling, an exothermic reaction took place and none of the dihydroindole (48) could be detected among the products. However these included the mellitic ester (49) and the pyrrole (50), indicating that some of the dihydroindole (48) had formed and had combined with more of the acetylenic ester as already described. A decomposition product of the dihydroindole as yet unidentified, tetramethyl l-methylindole-2,3,6,7-tetracarboxylate (52), and tetramethyl prehnit-... 

Pyrroles can also be prepared by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of C-trimethylsilyl amides such as 1497 with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate in boihng toluene to give, via the azomethinimide 1498, 78% 1499 [45]. On employing a threefold excess of dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate the cycloadduct 1499 is obtained in nearly quantitative yield [45] (Scheme 9.26). 

At higher temperatures retro-Diels-Alder reaction may also occur in the opposite sense to addition, as in the reaction of methyl pyrrole-1-carhoxylate with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate at 200°, which affords acetylene and the pyrrole triester (56). The decomposition of the suspected intermediate Diels-Alder adduct (11) at 170° has been separately established. Compounds 19 and 20 are intermediates in similar addition-elimination reactions leading to pyrrole-l,3,4-triesters, in which removal of acetylene from the system makes the reaction sequence effectively irreversible. 

A different mode of cycloaddition occurs with 7-azabicyclo[2.2.1]-heptadiene derivatives, in which the nucleophilicity of the nitrogen atom determines the point of attachment of the electrophilic dienophile. The addition depicted in 87, which may occur in two steps via a zwitterionic intermediate rather than by a concerted mechanism, accounts for the structures (88) of 1 2 adducts obtained with A-methyl- or A-benzyl-pyrrole and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate. At a higher temperature the reaction with A-methylpyrrole also afforded the indole tetraester... 

Pyrrole and its simple derivatives do not react easily as dienes. Pyrrole itself only combines with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD, dimethyl but-2-ynedicarboxylate) under high pressure and then it is by C-2 substitution. However, A-acylpyrroles, such as A-acetyl- and N- tert-butoxycarbonyl)pyrrole, do undergo Diels-AIder addition reactions. Here, internal resonance within the acyl group reduces the availability of the lone-pair electrons, formally on nitrogen, to delocalize into the ring, thus making the carbon unit more diene-like (Scheme 6.12). 

Possibly, the most common protocols used in the generation of azomethine ylides are those based on the in situ, fluorine-mediated desilyation of cyanoami-nosilanes developed by Padwa et al. (2). Typically, treatment of precursor 1 with AgF, in the presence of dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD), led to the formation of the intermediate cycloadduct 2, which was subjected to immediate DDQ oxidation to give pyrrole 3. The mechanistic rationale invokes fluoride-mediated desilyation to form the intermediate anion 4, which then undergoes loss of cyanide furnishing the corresponding azomethine yhde (Scheme 3.1). 

Munchnones 298 obtained in situ by N-alkylation of 5(4/f)-oxazolones undergo 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate to give Al-alkylpyr-roles 299. 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition of munchnones with triphenylvinylphos-phonium bromides affords tri- and tetrasubstituted pyrroles 300. In this case, the interaction of the phosphonium group with the carbonyl group leads to high levels of regioselectivity (Scheme 7.99 Table 7.27, Fig. 7.29). ... 

Wittig reactions with pyrrole-2-aldehyde led to the esters (79) which were cyclisized to 3a-azaazulen-4-ones (80).104,105 4-Methylene-3a-aza-azulenes (81) have been obtained from 80 with stabilized phos-phoranes.36 Reaction of dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate with 81 could not be achieved. A similar cycloaddition was successful in the synthesis of cycl[3,3,3]azines (2) (Section V). 

The intermediates which are assumed to be involved in the Knorr cyclization can also be prepared by addition of a-amino ketones to electrophilic alkynes (equation 77). This methodology has found use primarily with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate to form pyrrole-2,3-dicarboxylate esters (equation 77), but methyl propiolate is also reactive (68T1567,69T527, 64JA107, 62JOC3346). 

There are numerous studies on the synthesis of pyrrolizines from enam-ines. In these reactions, one of the step is the closure to a new hydrogenated pyrrole ring. In polar solvents, the reaction of enamines with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate follows two different pathways, the formation of cycloadducts (18) and Michael adducts (19) (81T3525). Subsequent studies of this reaction have demonstrated (by low-temperature NMR) that compounds of the type 20 are intermediates in this cyclization (83JA4775). On the basis of this information (83JA4775), the authors then studied this type of cyclization using dienamines (21). The reaction follows the scheme shown, with a [1,6] antarafacial hydrogen shift and the formation of a dipo-... 

The reaction mechanism involved the formation of highly reactive miinchnones 7 (Scheme 2.3) as intermediates. Evidence for the assigned mechanism was provided by trapping the miinchnones with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate. The initial 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition product eliminated CO2 to give pyrroles 8 (Scheme 2.3) [6b],... 

Various 4,5-diarylpyrrole-2-carboxylates were prepared by cyclocondensation of -nitrostyrenes and aryl thioimidates. Dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate and ethyl propiolate also gave pyrroles. 

Dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD) reacts with isoquinoline in the presence of ethyl bromopyruvate to yield pyrrole[2.1 -a]isoquinolincs in excellent yields <2006TL6037>. A zwitterionic mechanism is proposed, and implies an enolate intermediate (Scheme 22). The oxidation in the final step occurs spontaneously without addition of any reagent. 

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