Enamines pyrroles

Pyrroles. Enamines of an a-amino acid such as (1) react rapidly with tri-fluoroacetic anhydride at 0° to form pyrrole derivatives (2). ... 

Again, it is noteworthy that 4-substituted 5-hydrdxythiazoles (24) react like 5-hydroxy-THISs with alkynes to give pyrroles and sometimes with alkenes to give exo-cycloadducts (Scheme 22). In the latter case other processes compete with the cycloaddition, becoming dominant when 24 is treated with azo-compounds, enamines, or heterocumulenes (31). 

These compounds typically react with electrophiles on carbon and in this respect they resemble enamines, enol ethers and enol thioethers. For example, both pyrrole and 1-pyrrolidinocyclohexene can be C-acetylated (Scheme 4). 

The addition of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds to /3-chloroazoalkenes is the basis of a pyrrole synthesis (Scheme 70a) 81TL1059). Pyrroles are also obtained by the reaction of enamines with azoalkenes (Scheme 70b) (79TL2969,81TL1475), and the copper(II) chloride catalyzed addition of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds to arylazoalkenes (Scheme 70c) (82JOC684). 

The exploration of the chemistry of azirines has led to the discovery of several pyrrole syntheses. From a mechanistic viewpoint the simplest is based upon their ability to behave as a-amino ketone equivalents in reactions analogous to the Knorr pyrrole synthesis cf. Section 3.03.3.2.2), as illustrated in Schemes 91a and 91b for reactions with carbanions. Parallel reactions with enamines or a-keto phosphorus ylides can be effected with electron-deficient 2//-azirines (Scheme 91c). Conversely, electron-rich azirines react with electron deficient alkynes (Scheme 91d). 

The formation of five- (362) and six- (581) membered vinylogous lactams and pyrroles by intramolecular enamine acylations has been accomplished in some examples by formation of the cyclization precursor through an initial enamine exchange (362). 

These reactions are related to the formation of pyrroles and quinolines from aminocarbonyl compounds and acetylenes (582,583) and may be contrasted with the formation of pyran derivatives by electrophilic attack on an enamine, followed by addition of an oxygen function to the imonium carbon (584-590). 

A mechanism has been formulated, starting with a condensation to give the imine 4, that can tautomerize to the corresponding enamine 5. The latter can be isolated in some cases, thus supporting the formulated mechanism. A cyclization and subsequent dehydration leads to the imine 6, which tautomerizes to yield the aromatic pyrrole 3 ... 

The salicylic acid functionality incorporated in a rather complex molecule interestingly leads to a compound that exhibits much the same activity as the parent. The 1,4 diketone required for formation of the pyrrole ring can be obtained by alkylation of the enamine from 2-tetralone (38) with phenacyl bromide. Condensation of the product, 39, with salicylic acid derivative 40 leads to the requisite heterocyclic system (41). The acid is then esterified (42) and the compound dehydrogenated to the fully aromatic system (43). Saponification affords fendosal (44). ... 

Another pyrrole synthesis based on intramolecidar subsdnidon of the nitro group by amino funcdon is presented in Eq. 10.7, in which the Michael addidon of enamines to nitroalkenes is... 

In the first step, the fairly acidic proton on CIO of the red biladiene-ac salt 6 is abstracted and, even in solution in polar solvents, the salts are converted into the corresponding yellow bilatriene-u/ic salts 7. With a base such as piperidine, the salts 7 form the green bilatriene-a/>e free base. For further reaction to the porphyrin it is important that the salts 7 are oxidized to the bilatriene enamines 8 which cyclize via the electrophilic carbon of the terminal pyrrole ring by the loss of the leaving group X to 9. Porphin (10) is finally obtained by the loss of... 

An approach to isobacteriochlorins1 ln-e makes use of Pd(II) or metal-free bilatrienes 1 as starting materials. Cyclization of the corresponding bilatriene derivatives is induced by base in the presence of palladium(II) or zinc(II) which exercise a template effect. Zinc can be readily removed from the cyclized macrotetracycles by acid whereas palladium forms very stable complexes which cannot be demetalated. Prior to the cyclization reaction, an enamine is formed by elimination of hydrogen cyanide from the 1-position. The nucleophilic enamine then attacks the electrophilic 19-position with loss of the leaving group present at the terminal pyrrole ring. 

In a process related to the Knorr pyrrole synthesis, condensation of p-amino alcohols 10 with p-dicarbonyl compounds 11 affords p-hydroxy enamines 12 which are then oxidized to the pyrroles 13 <96TL9203>. 

It is interesting to note that condensation of the N,N-bis(silylated) enamine 538 with a variety of chalcones such as benzalacetophenone 735 proceeds, via 539 and subsequent cyclization and oxidation, to pyridines such as 540 [106, 108] whereas persilylated co-amino ketones such as the 2-substituted pyridine 541 cyclize, via 542, in 29% yield, to the pyrrole 543 [109] (Scheme 5.36). 

By adhering to these conditions, Kaupp and coworkers performed a remarkable one-pot synthesis of highly substituted pyrroles [21]. When primary or secondary enamine esters 10-58 were ground with trans- 1,2-dibenzoylethene 10-59 in a ball-mill, the pyrroles 10-60 were obtained in quantitative yield (Scheme 10.15). In contrast, when in solution the yields were much lower and the reaction also required higher reaction temperatures. 

Individual substitutions may not necessarily be true electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions. Usually it is assumed that they are, however, and with this assumption the furan nucleus can be compared with others. For tri-fluoroacetylation by trifluoroacetic anhydride at 75 C relative rates have been established, by means of competition experiments 149 thiophene, 1 selenophene, 6.5 furan, 1.4 x 102 2-methylfuran, 1.2 x 105 pyrrole, 5.3 x 107. While nitrogen is usually a better source of electrons for an incoming electrophile (as in pyrrole versus furan) there are exceptions. For example, the enamine 63 reacts with Eschenmoser s salt at the 5-position and not at the enamine grouping.150 Also amusing is an attempted Fischer indole synthesis in which a furan ring is near the reaction site and diverted the reaction into a pyrazole synthesis.151... 

An oxidative radical coupling promoted by tetra-ra-butylammonium cerium(IV) nitrate (TB ACN) between P-aminocinnamate 22 and enamine 23 provided pyrrole-3,4-dicarboxylate 24 <06T2235>. Dimerization of the P-aminocinnamates provided symmetrical pyrroles. 

A novel ring opening reaction of isoxazoles led to the formation of functionalized pyrroles <06S1021>. For example, treatment of isoxazole 52 with DBU led to the formation of pyrrole 53. A solid-phase synthesis of 3-amino-2,5-dicarboxylates was accomplished by transformation of pyrrol-3-one 54 <06JCC177>. The reaction between 54 and secondary amines led to the corresponding resin-bound aminopyrroles after enamine formation and loss... 

Ohta has developed a facile and efficient synthesis of pyrroles 42 that involves the Pd-catalyzed oxidative cyclization of hydroxy enamines such as 41 [41]. Fused pyrroles 43 and 44 were also synthesized in similar fashion. 

Reaction of the thia-amino acid 392 with trifluoroacetic anhydride gave the 2,2,2-trifluoro-l-[7-(trifluoromethyl)-l//-pyrrolo[l,2-c]-[l,3]thiazol-6-yl] ethanone pyrrole 395. The formation of the pyrrole can be rationalized by a sequence involving trifluoroacetylation of the enamine 392 affording dione 393 followed by loss of water and carbon dioxide to give the aromatic product 395. These decarboxylations afford fluorinated derivatives of heterocyclic skeletons known to exhibit interesting biological activity (Scheme 58) <2000T7267>. 

Examples of the coupling of enam-ines are rare [60]. In most cases, the enamines undergo methanolysis to form electroinactive aminoacetals prior to the coupling reaction. Enamino ketones or enamino esters, however, yield via dimerization of the radical cations and subsequent ring closure pyrrole derivatives... 

The reaction of 5(4H)-oxazolones (32) and miinchnones with triphenylvinylphos-phonium bromide (33) provides a mild synthesis of substituted pyrroles (34) (Scheme 11). The cycloaddition-elimination reactions of 5-imino-l,2,4-thiadiazolidin-3-ones with enamines and ester enolates produce 2-iminothiazolidines. " Chiral isomtinchnone dipoles show jr-facial diastereoselectivity with IV-phenyl- or A -methyl-maleimide in refluxing benzene. ... 

All this leads to the conclusion that the relative stabilities of the N- and C-protonated forms of enamines are not very different and that relatively minor structural differences or differences of medium favour one form over the other. 2-Alkyl substituents especially favour C-protonation (Hinman, 1968). They certainly greatly enhance the basicity of pyrroles which are C-protonated (see page 358). 

The following compounds are unaffected by bis(p-methoxyphenyl) telluroxide dithi-olanes, enamines, aldehydes, ketones, alcohols, pyrroles, indoles, amino acids, aromatic amines, monohydroxyarenes, esters, hindered thiocarbonates, isonitriles, oximes, arylhy-drazones, sulphides, and selenides. ... 

Pyrroles can also be obtained from aminocrotonates by oxidation. The transformation is actually a dimerization resulting from a two-electron oxidation of the enamine (Scheme 12) (83T793). 1,4-Addition of nitrometh-ane to the vinilogous ester of A A in presence of l,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]un-dec-7-ene (DBU) gave a 1 1 diastereomeric mixture of adducts which, upon reduction, spontaneously cyclized into a mixture of pyrrolidinones, formed in a ratio of 8 2 (Scheme 13) (93TL7529). 

The syntheses shown in Scheme 26 (71CB1573) are based on dibenzo-/3-tropolone (108) and its enamines. Condensation of 108 and benzoin in the presence of ammonia affords pyrrole 109. The morpholino enamine gives pyrazole 110 via benzoylation, hydrolytic elimination of morpholine, and cyclization, whereas diazo-group transfer onto the anilino enamine leads to triazole 111. Dione 108 and p-nitrophenylazide in one step give predominantly the p-nitro derivative of 111 (92G249). 

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