Pyrrolidine amine oxide

Deprotonation of t-amine oxides LDA (excess) converts trimethylamine oxide into a reactive ylide (a) that dimerizes to the dimethylpiperazine (2). If a is generated in the presence of an alkene, pyrrolidines (3) are formed via a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. The ylide reacts with cyclic alkenes to form bicyclic pyrrolidines in 40-90% yield.2... 

Although in cyclic systems studied to date the N-oxide function has been for the most part incorporated into a six-membered ring system, there are several examples where pyrrolidine or dihydropyrrole A -oxides are the substrates. For instance, the reaction of amine oxide (55) with acetic anhydride at 0 C provides a convenient route to the 7V-alkylisoindole (56 equation 16). ... 

Pyrrolidines from ethylene derivs. and amine oxides O... 

Carbonylation of the tetrasubstituted bispropargyiic amine 23 using PdCP and thiourea under mild conditions affords the carboxylated pyrrolidine derivatives 24a and b in good yields. Thiourea is regarded as effective for the oxidative carbonylation of alkynes, but no oxidative carbonylation was observed in this case[21]. 

The cyclic thioketone, 3-oxotctrahydrothiophene (11), gives a mixture of enamines (12,13) when caused to react with a secondary amine such as piperidine or pyrrolidine (31). The enamine mixture can be reduced to the 3-aminotetrahydrothiophene using formic acid or oxidized to the 3-amino-thiophene using diisopentylsulfide. 

Another pathway for the aromatization of the cr -adducts was found in the reactions of 3-pyrrolidino-l,2,4-triazine 4-oxide 81 with amines. Thus the treatment of 1,2,4-triazine 4-oxide 81 with ammonia leads to 5-amino-1,2,4-triazine 4-oxides 54—products of the telesubstitution reaction. In this case the cr -adduct 82 formed by the addition of ammonia at position 5 of the heterocycle undergoes a [l,5]sigmatropic shift resulting in 3,4-dihydro-1,2,4-triazine 83, which loses a molecule of pyrrolidine to yield the product 54. This mechanism was supported by the isolation of the key intermediates for the first time in such reactions—the products of the sigmatropic shift in the open-chain tautomeric form of tiiazahexa-triene 84. The structure of the latter was established by NMR spectroscopy and X-ray analysis. In spite of its open-chain character, 84 can be easily aromatized by refluxing in ethanol to form the same product 54 (99TL6099). 

Nitrones can also be obtained in high yields by treating secondary amines with DMD (Scheme 2.8) (71). Oxidation of pyrrolidine (13) at 0°C with DMD (produced in situ from oxone and acetone Brik procedure ) leads to gem-bisphos-phorylated nitrone (14) (Scheme 2.8) (72). 

Pyrrolines. This diene undergoes a [4 + ljannelation with primary amines to form a pyrrolidine 2 that can be converted to a 3-(3-phenylsulfonyl)pyrroline (3) in high yield. These pyrrolines are oxidized by DDQ to pyrroles (4), which can be converted readily to 2,3-disubstituted pyrroles (5). 

In the DCA-sensitized reaction of silyl amino esters 46 (equation 16) the formation of pyrrolidines 48 must be obtained through a desilylmethylation. This process can be prevented by attaching an electron-withdrawing group to the amine that obviously reduces its oxidation potential (equation 17)48. 

Highly efficient and stereoselective addition of tertiary amines to electron-deficient alkenes is used by Pete et al. for the synthesis of necine bases [26,27], The photoinduced electron transfer of tertiary amines like Af-methylpyrrolidine to aromatic ketone sensitizers yield regiospecifically only one of the possible radical species which then adds diastereospecifically to (5I )-5-menthyloxy-2-(5//)-furanone as an electron-poor alkene. For the synthesis of pyrrazolidine alkaloids in approximately 30% overall yield, the group uses a second PET step for the oxidative demethylation of the pyrrolidine. The resulting secondary amine react spontaneously to the lactam by intramolecular aminolysis of the lactone (Scheme 20) [26,27]. 

After epoxidation of the terminal olefin in syn-89 the pyrrolidine 91 was formed by reductive cleavage of the Cbz-protection and concomitant Sn2 cyclization of the free amine to epoxide 90. In five additional steps (+)-preus-sin (2) was synthesized with an overall yield of 19%. After AT-methoxycar-bonylation and oxidation of the alcohol to an aldehyde the alkyl side chain was introduced by a Wittig reaction. 

Oxidation of cyclic secondary amines such as pyrrolidine (351) and piperidine (353) with iodosobenzene in water leads to lactams 352 and 354, respectively (88TL6913, 88TL6917) (Scheme 90). Similar oxidation of 2-piperidinecarboxylic acid and 2-pyrrolidinecarboxylic acid is accompanied by decarboxylation. Cyclic tertiary amines 355, 357, and 359 (Eq. 48) are likewise oxidized to the corresponding lactams. Other examples include phencyclidine (360) to A-(l-phenylcyclohexyl)piperidone (361), N-(cyanocyclohexyl)piperidine (362) to A-(l-cyanocyclohexyl)piperidone (363) (Scheme 91), and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline to 1,2,3,4-tetrahy-droisoquinolinone (Eq. 49). 

IV-acetyl pyrrolidines and -piperidines to the corresponding diones or ketones were similarly effected [405, 406], as were conversions of diacetyl and dibenzyl piperazines to diketo componnds by the same system (Table 5.1) [407]. Methylene groups adjacent to the N atom in tertiary polycyclic amines were oxidised by RuO /aq. NaCIO j/CCl (Fig. 5.5) [408]. A large-scale oxidation of l,4-bis(2-phenylethyl) piperazine to the dione was made by RnO /aq. Na(10 )/Et0Ac [409], and RuO /aq. Na(IO )/CCl converted dialkyl or diaryl A A -dimethyladenosines to the corresponding monoamido derivatives (Fig. 5.4) [410]. 

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