Pyrrolines 1- formation

Enamines are also reduced with formic acid (247). Distillation of 1,2-dimethyl-.d -pyrroline formate (156) affords 1,2-dimethylpyrrolidine (248). The reaction is usually carried out by heating of the enamine salt with... 

Isomerization of vinylaziridines is widely used in organic synthesis. Six types of isomerization of vinylaziridines are shown in Scheme 2.40. Outlined in this section are i) azepine formation by aza-[3,3]-Claisen rearrangement of 1,2-divinyl- or 2,3-divinylaziridines 153 (Section 2.4.1), ii) pyrroline formation from 155 (Section 2.4.2), Hi) aza-[2,3]-Wittig rearrangement of anionic species 157 (Section 2.4.3),... 

Pyrroline formation through rearrangement of vinylaziridines was first reported with 1-vinylaziridine derivatives by Whitlock and Smith (Scheme 2.47) [73]. So-... 

Hudlicky and coworkers also reported a related 2-pyrroline formation from viny-laziridines [81], which are extremely useful for the synthesis of pyrrolizidine alkaloids such as the protected (+)-trihydroxyheliotridane 210 (Scheme 2.51). Since the pyrolysis of either diastereomer of 208 furnished the cyclized product 209 as a... 

A3-Pyrroline formation with carbonyl insertion also occurs during the reaction of /V-sulfinylarylamines with diphenylcyclopropenone in the presence of nickel carbonyl (Scheme 36).64 Phenyl isocyanate does not give a pyrroline product under these reaction conditions, hence the SO-CO exchange probably occurs within an intermediate metallocycle. The reaction... 

Photochemical rearrangements have also been reported, as shown in equation (53). " Transition metal catalyzed rearrangement [palladium(O)] of a dienylaziridine has been reported in one case, and a radical opening of a dienylaziridine led to pyrroline formation under the conditions of radical initiation with AIBN/PhsSnH (equation 54). For those vinylaziridines that contain additional unsaturation, the corresponding aza equivalent of a divinylcyclopropane Cope rearrangement is the usual pathwayThe subject of heterodivinylcyclopropane Cope rearrangement is covered in detail elsewhere." The... 

Pyrrolines, formation by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition 84BSB593. 2-Pyrrolines, synthesis via 1,5-dipolar cyclization 79CRV181. 

V-(l-Isopropyl-4-nitro-2-oxo-3-pyrrolin-3-yl)amine Formation/Cleavage ... 

A -Piperideine-N-oxide was obtained along with a dimeric product by oxidation of N-hydroxypiperidines with mercuric acetate or potassium ferricyanide (107-109). 2l -Pyrroline-N-oxide is formed by oxidation of N-ethylpyrrolidine with hydrogen peroxide with simultaneous formation of ethylene (110). 

The 1,2-, 1,2,5-, 1,3,4-, and 1,2,5-substituted pyrrolidines afford the corresponding pyrrolines very readily by oxidation with mercuric acetate. In the case of 1,2,2-trimethylpyrrolidine (35), the formation of a double bond... 

Five- (70, = 1) and six-membered (70, n = 2) enamines substituted in position 2 generally exist in the cyclic form. Lukes and co-workers observed that partial ring-opening occurs with the pyrroline 157) or piperideine 163,164) derivatives by atmospheric moisture. This leads to the formation... 

Reaction of 2-alkyl- -pyrrolines and 2-alkyl- -piperideines with acid chlorides leads to ring-opening and formation of N-acylated amino ketones (131, = 1, 2) (211-213). Ketene reacts with J -piperideine to form a tricyclic derivative (132) (214). 

Reactions of iminyl and related radicals in formation of pyrrolines and fused pyrrolines 96SL1148. 

Hydrogen shifts are often observed in thermal isomerizations of vinylaziridines. Heating of compounds 221 at 180 °C produced mixture of 3-pyrrolines 222 and hydrazones 223 (Scheme 2.54) [87]. The formation of 223 can be explained in terms either of a concerted hydrogen shift as depicted in 224 or of diradical intermediates 225, both of which would be followed by thermal isomerization of the (Z)-carbon-carbon double bonds to provide the ( ) isomers 223. 

In addition to a-additions to isocyanides, copper oxide-cyclohexyl isocyanide mixtures are catalysts for other reactions including olefin dimerization and oligomerization 121, 125, 126). They also catalyze pyrroline and oxazoline formation from isocyanides with a protonic a-hydrogen (e.g., PhCH2NC or EtOCOCHjNC) and olefins or ketones 130), and the formation of cyclopropanes from olefins and substituted chloromethanes 131). The same catalyst systems also catalyze Michael addition reactions 119a). 

In the case of 3-alkynylamines, IH proceeds exclusively in a S-Endo-Dig process to give substituted 1-pyrrolines. The best catalysts are palladium complexes (Eq. 4.69) the reaction fails for terminal alkyne owing to the formation of a stable palladium acetylide [278]. 

Independent work by Schmid93 and by Padwa94 on the photochemistry of 2H-azirines has shown that irradiation of such systems leads in the first instance to the formation of nitrile ylids (nitrilium betaines). Subsequent 1,3-addition to a variety of dipolarophiles affords five-membered heterocycles. These additions take place in a stereospecific and regioselective manner thus, irradiation of the diphenyl-2f/-azirine 117 in the presence of dimethyl maleate leads to the formation of the two isomeric 1-pyrrolines... 

Arylidene alkylamines and diphenyl cyclopropenone gave rise to products 397-399, whose formation can be interpreted by means of oxidative secondary reactions of the 5 H-A2-pyrrolin-4-one 396 (R2 = H) initially generated252. ... 

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