Pyrrolidines, cycloaddition

Three specific examples from Gin, Sorenson, and Baran highlight the power of the standard intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction. Gin developed a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition and dienamine-Diels-Alder reaction sequence for the synthesis of nominine. The dipolar cycloaddition delivered the precursor to dienone 128 which generates dienamine 129 on exposure to hot pyrrolidine. Cycloaddition of 129 provides desired target 130, which is easily converted into nominine. ... 

Aldehydes take part in the cycloaddition to give the methylenetetrahydrofuran 178 by the co-catalysis of Pd and Sn compounds[115]. A similar product 180 is obtained by the reaction of the allyl acetate 179, which has a tributyltin group instead of a TMS group, with aldehydesfl 16]. The pyrrolidine derivative 182 is formed by the addition of the tosylimine 181 to 154[117]. 

Benzo[b]furan, 3-(pyrrolidin-1 -yl)-cycloaddition reactions, 4, 636 synthesis, 4, 648 Benzo[b]furan, tetrahydro-synthesis, 4, 671... 

The present preparation illustrates a general and convenient irethod for ring contraction of cyclic ketones. The first step is the usual procedure for the preparation of enamines. The second step involves 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of diphenyl phosphorazidate to an enamine followed by ring contraction with evolution of nitrogen. Ethyl acetate and tetrahydrofuran can be used as a solvent in place of toluene. Pyrrolidine enamines from various cyclic ketones smoothly undergo the reaction under similar reaction conditions. Diphenyl (cycloalkyl-1-pyrrolidinylmethylene)phosphoramidates with 5,6,7, and 15 members in the ring have been prepared in yields of 68-76%. 

The vinylogous 3,5-hexadien-2-one (16) adds in a 1,4 cycloaddition with zl -dehydroquinolizidine (17) to form compound 18 (26). A similar 1,4-cycloaddition reaction takes place between pyrylium salts and the pyrrolidine or morpholine enamines of cycloalkanones (26a). 

The similarity between the reactions of alkenes and cyclopropanes is further demonstrated by the reactions of electrophilic cyclopropanes and cyclopropenes with enamines. Cyclopropylcyanoester74, when treated with the pyrrolidine enamine of cyclohexanone, undergoes what would be a 1,2 cycloaddition in the analogous alkene case, but is actually a 1,3 cycloaddition here, to form adduct 75 (90). A similar reaction between the... 

The reaction of methyl propiolate (82) with acyclic enamines produces acyclic dienamines (100), as was the case with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate, and the treatment of the pyrrolidine enamines of cycloheptanone, cyclooctanone, cycloundecanone, and cyclododecanone with methyl propiolate results in ring enlargement products (100,101). When the enamines of cyclohexanone are allowed to react with methyl propiolate, rather anomalous products are formed (100). The pyrrolidine enamine of cyclopentanone forms stable 1,2-cycloaddition adduct 83 with methyl propiolate (82). Adduct 83 rearranges to the simple alkylation product 84 upon standing at room temperature, and heating 83 to about 90° causes ring expansion to 85 (97,100). 

A pseudo 1,2 cycloaddition (actually a 1,3 cycloaddition, but may be considered a 1,2 type if a three-membered ring is considered analogous to an alkene) is observed when the pyrrolidine enamine of cyclohexanone is allowed to react with N-carbethoxyaziridine (129) to produce octahydro-indole 130 91). Octahydroindoles and pyrrolidines can also be produced through the intramolecular alkylation of the enamines of certain halo-ketourethanes 176a). 

Nitrilimines can be produced by treating halogenated hydrazones with a base such as triethylamine. These nitrilimines undergo 1,3 cycloaddition with enamines to form pyrazoles (181-183). This is shown by the reaction of the pyrrolidine enamine of cyclohexanone with diphenyinitrilimine to... 

Other advances include the construction of seven- and nine-membered rings via the analogous [4-1-3] and [6-1-3] cycloadditions with dienes and trienes respectively. Heterocycles, such as tetrahydrofurans and pyrrolidines, are accessible using carbonyl compounds and imines as substrates. The following discussion is organized around these recent discoveries. It serves to illustrate the versatility and the high degree of selectivity which are some of the distinctive features of the Pd-TMM chemistry. 

Substituted TMMs also participate smoothly in imine cycloaddition to generate more structurally elaborate pyrrolidines. The regioselectivity of these reactions is similar to that of olefin addition, although subsequent isomerization of the initial adduct is often observed. For example, the cyano system produced the thermody-... 

Another example of a microwave-assisted 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition using azomethine ylides and a dipolarophile was the intramolecular reaction reported for the synthesis of hexahydrochromeno[4,3-fo]pyrrolidine 105 [70]. It was the first example of a solvent-free microwave-assisted intramoleciflar 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azomethine ylides, obtained from aromatic aldehyde 102 and IM-substituted glycinate 103 (Scheme 36). The dipole was generated in situ (independently from the presence of a base like TEA) and reacted directly with the dipolarophile present within the same molecifle. The intramolecu-... 

A family of interesting polycychc systems 106 related to pyrrolidines was obtained in a one-pot double intermolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition, irradiating derivatives of o-allyl-sahcylaldehydes with microwaves in toluene for 10 min in presence of the TEA salt of glycine esters [71]. A very similar approach was previously proposed by Bashiardes and co-workers to obtain a one-pot multicomponent synthesis of benzopyrano-pyrrolidines 107 and pyrrole products 108 (Scheme 37). The latter cycloadducts were obtained when o-propargylic benzaldehydes were utihzed instead of o-allyhc benzalde-hydes, followed by in situ oxidation [72]. 

Imidazole and its derivatives continued to play an important role in asymmetric processes. Optically active pyrroloimidazoles 26 were prepared by the cycloaddition of homochiral imidazolium ylides with activated alkenes <96TL1707>. This reaction was used in the enantioselective preparation of pyrrolidines <96TL1711>. A review of the use of chiral imidazolidines in asymmetric synthesis was published <96PAC531> and the preparation and use of a new camphor-derived imidazolidinone-type auxiliary 27 was reported < 6TL4565> <96TL6931>. 

Benzodiazepin-2-ones are converted efficiently into the 3-amino derivatives by reaction with triisopropylbenzenesulfonyl (trisyl) azide followed by reduction <96TL6685>. Imines from these amines undergo thermal or lithium catalysed cycloaddition to dipolarophiles to yield 3-spiro-pyrrolidine derivatives <96T13455>. Thus, treatment of the imine 50 (R = naphthyl) with LiBr/DBU in the presence of methyl acrylate affords 51 in high yield. 

It was possible to effect lOOC reaction leading to six-membered rings, e.g., 220 in low yield (ca. 20%) by heating the reaction mixture at 110 °C (Eq. 22) [59]. In fact, Oppolzer and Keller [60] had previously reported the lOOC reaction of 219 to 220 in 20% yield by heating at 110 °C. Furthermore, the scope of these oxime-olefin cycloadditions has been extended to ketoximes, e.g., 221. The latter was prepared by amination of a-bromoacetophenone with allylamine 214a. Heating of 221 at 110 °C for 8 h led to cycloaddition with formation of the fused pyrrolidine 222 in 88% yield. As in Scheme 25, only one... 

Pyrrolidines have been prepared by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of N-(benzyli-dene)trimethylsilylamine/TMSOf 20 and methyl acrylate, N-methylmaleimide, or dimethyl maleate [35]. More recently, methyl trans-3-cyanociruiamate 1479 was reacted with N-benzyl-N-(trimethylsilylmethyl)aminomethyl methyl ether 1480 and trifluoroacetic acid in CH2CI2 at 0°C and 24°C to afford, via 1481, the pyrrolidine derivative 1482 in high yield and MeOSiMe3 13a [35a] (Scheme 9.20). Several... 

Recently, the research groups of Enders (Eq. 8.38)61 and Barluenga (Eq. 8.39)62 reported on the cycloaddition of chiral 2-aminobutadiene and described elegant solutions to the stereochemistry problems (regio-, diastereo-, and enantioselectivity). The reaction of 2-[(5)-2-methoxymethyl]pyrrolidin-l-yl]buta-l,3-diene with various 2-aryl-1-nitroethenes produces after hydrolysis 5-aryl-2-methyl-substituted 4-nitrocyclohexanones in excellent enantiomeric purity (ee = 75-95%) and with high diastereoselectivity (ds = 75-95%).61... 

Since Huisgen s definition of the general concepts of 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition, this class of reaction has been used extensively in organic synthesis. Nitro compounds can participate in 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition as sources of 1,3-dipoles such as nitronates or nitroxides. Because the reaction of nitrones can be compared with that of nitronates, recent development of nitrones in organic synthesis is briefly summarized. 1,3-Dipolar cycloadditions to a double bond or a triple bond lead to five-membered heterocyclic compounds (Scheme 8.12). There are many excellent reviews on 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition, in particular, the monograph by Torssell covers this topic comprehensively. This chapter describes only recent progress in this field. Many papers have appeared after the comprehensive monograph by Torssell. Here, the natural product synthesis and asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition are emphasized.630 Synthesis of pyrrolidine and -izidine alkaloids based on cycloaddition reactions are also discussed in this chapter. 

Denmark and coworkers have found that methylaluminum bis (2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methyl-phenoxide) (MAD) or methylaluminum bis(2,6-diphenylphenoxide) (MAPh) is effective as the Lewis acid promoter for cycloaddition of 2,2-disubstituted 1-nitroalkenes (Eq. 8.100).158 Other Lewis acids such as SnCl4, TiCl4, and TiCl2(Oi-Pr)2 fail to promote the cycloaddition of 2,2-disubstituted 1-nitroalkenes. The products are converted into 3,3-disubstituted pyrrolidines via hydrogenolysis.158 Reductive cleavage of N-0 bonds produces oxime hemiacetals, which are further reduced to amido aldehydes and finally to pyrrolidines. This reaction provides a useful synthetic method for pyrrolidines, which is discussed later. 

Nitro compounds have been extensively used for synthesis of pyrrolidines as discussed in Chapter 4 on the Michael addition and Chapter 8 on cycloaddition. Tandem [2 + 4]/[2 + 3]... 

Sequential pyrrolidine and hydantoin ring-forming reactions via intramolecular [2+3] cycloaddition have been applied to the stereoselective solid-phase synthesis of conformationally constrained tricyclic triazacyclopenta [C]pentalene scaffold 43 < 1999JOC8342>. These novel compounds 43 share the structural complexity characteristic of certain alkaloid natural products, angular triquinanes. The retrosynthetic analysis is shown in Scheme 87. 

A spiro[pyrrolidine-2,3 -oxindole] library <1998TL2235> has been synthesized via a three-component 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition in the solution phase. Isatins 432 were treated with L-proline or L-thiaproline and chalcone 433 in a MeOH-H20, CH3CN-H20, or dioxane-H20 solution. Spiropyrrolidines 49 (Scheme 96) were obtained as the sole products in good yield and high purity (Table 15). 

The three-component reaction between isatin 432a, a-aminoacids 433 (proline and thioproline) and dipolarophiles in methanol/water medium was carried out by heating at 90 °C to afford the pyrrolidine-2-spiro-3 -(2-oxindoles) 51. The first step of the reaction is the formation of oxazlidinones 448. Loss of carbon dioxide from oxazolidinone proceeds via a stereospecific 1,3-cycloreversion to produce the formation of oxazolidinones almost exclusively with /razw-stereoselectivity. This /f-azomethine ylide undergo 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with dipolarophiles to yield the pyrrohdinc-2-r/ V -3-(2-oxindolcs) 51. (Scheme 101) <2004EJ0413>. 

More recently in 2001, Winkler and Kwak reported methodology designed to access the pyrrolidine core of the hetisine alkaloids via a photochemical [2+2], retro-Mannich, Mannich sequence (Scheme 1.3) [26]. In a representative example of the methodology, vinylogous amide 42 was photo-irradiated to give the [2+2] cycloaddition product 43. Heating cyclobutane 43 in ethanol provided enamine 44 via a retro-Mannich reaction. Exposure of enamine 44 to acidic conditions then effected a Mannich reaction, resulting in pyrrolidine 45. 

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