Quinazoline ring synthesis

Potassium ferric cyanide Carbolino-quinazoline ring synthesis... 

This method has been applied to a large-scale preparation of 6-bromoindole, which reacts with various arylboronic acids via the Suzuki reaction to afford 6-arylindoles (Eq. 10.50).64 6-Bromo-5-methoxyindole for use in the synthesis of marine bromoindole65 and 5-amino-7-ethoxycarbonylindole for use in synthesis of l//-pyrrolo[3,2-g]quinazoline ring system (Eq. 10.51)66 have been prepared from the appropriate o-nitrotoluene. 

Amidines 14 are cyclized to quinazolines 15 in lithium alkylamide or dialkylamide mediated reactions in which the construction of the quinazoline ring system and introduction of the amino substituent occur in the same reaction. Mechanistically, each fluorine of the trifluo-romethyl substituent of the amidine is displaced by a series of internal nucleophilic processes and the resulting quinazoline contains the amino function of the lithium reagent incorporated at the C4 position. The cyclization method is suitable for the synthesis of sterically congested quinazolin-4-amines and in syntheses of derivatives for which the corresponding chloroquinaz-olines are not readily available. ... 

Varano F, Catarzi D, Colotta V et al (2008) Novel AMPA and kainate receptor antagonists containing the pyrazolo[l, 5-c]quinazoline ring system Synthesis and structure-activity relationships. Bioorg Med Chem 16 2617-2626... 

Compound 267, containing condensed imidazole and quinazoline rings and also a 1,2,4-oxadiazole ring, was obtained by a two-stage synthesis [178]... 

Scheme 28.3.3 shows the synthesis of fenazaquin. The quinazoline ring is formed by the condensation of anthranilic acid with formamide and subsequent... 

Rossi et al. have utilized the tandem aza-Wittig/electrocychzation principle for synthesis of quinazoline ring (35) and (36) starting from hf-imidoyl iminophosphorane (34) [136,137] (Scheme 2). Other unique synthetic strategies with W-vinyliminophosphoranes by Nitta [138], Palacios [139], and benzotriazolyl derivatives by Katrizky [140] have also been developed demonstrating the maturity and excellent prospects of iminophosphorane-mediated syntheses. 

Staskun, B. and Wolfe, J. E, New approach to the Indolo(2,l-fo]quinazoline ring system by cycliza-tion of 3(o-chlorophenyl)-2-methyl-4(3Ff)quinazolinone and its m-isomer synthesis of the antibiotic tryptanthrin, S. Afr. J. Chem., 45, 5,1992. 

In many pyrimidine ring syntheses, it is possible or even desirable to isolate an intermediate ripe for ring-closure by the formation of just one bond. For example, ethyl 3-aminocrotonate (502) reacts with methyl isocyanate to give the ureido ester (503) which may be isolated and subsequently converted into 3,6-dimethyluracil (504) by the completion of one bond. However, viewed pragmatically, the whole synthesis involves the formation of two bonds and therefore is so classified. On such criteria, only two pyrimidine/quinazoline syntheses involve the formation of only one bond. 

Of greater versatility is an extension of Albert and Royer s acridine synthesis. The first successful use of this in the quinazoline series was for the removal of the chlorine atom in 2-chloro-4-phenylquin-azoline, although it had been used previously to prepare 8-nitro-6-methoxyquinazoline in very poor yield. The 4-chloroquinazoline is converted to its 4-(A -toluene-p-sulfonylhydrazino) quinazoline hydrochloride derivative which is decomposed with alkali in aqueous ethylene glycol at lOO C (Scheme 13). The yields are high (60-70%) when R is Me, Cl, OMe but low when R is NO2, and in the latter case it is preferable to use dilute sodium carbonate as the base. This reaction is unsatisfactory if the unsubstituted pyrimidine ring is unstable towards alkali, as in 1,3,8-triazanaphthalene where the pyrimi-... 

The same approach was readily adaptable to solid-phase synthesis. A small library of unnatural derivatives of 140 was prepared with variation of the configuration and nature of R1 and R4 and with substitution on the benzene ring <2000JC0186>. Three natural alkaloids, Verrucine A, B, and Anacine, were synthesized by a similar pathway and the pyrazino[2,l- ]quinazoline as opposed to the benzodiazepine structure of Anacine was proved <2001JNP1497>. Fiscalin B and other derivatives were prepared by solid-phase synthesis using polyethylene glycol (PEG) resin <2002USP6376667>. 

The linearly fused benzologues, pyrimido[2,l-A]quinazolines, are most frequently synthesized from a 2-amino- or 2-iminoquinazoline. Synthesis from [6+0] atom fragments by bond formation 7 to the ring junction nitrogen takes place when the 2-aminoquinazoline bearing a suitable substituent at N-3 is cyclized. The 2-iminoquinazoline-3-propionates 197 cyclized on treatment with alkali to give 198 (Scheme 31) <1997EPP0778258>. 

The same methodology can be applied to the synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant quinazolines and quinazolinones containing a fused alicyclic ring [45,46]. 

The synthesis of substituted quinazolin-4(. 7/)-ones and quinazolines via directed lithiation has been reviewed <2000H(53)1839>, and the topic has also been briefly discussed in a more general review on the synthesis of quinazolinones and quinazolines <2005T10153>. For example, the lithiation of 4-methoxyquinazoline 312 with LiTMP followed by reaction with acetaldehyde gave only a minor amount of the 2-substituted product 313, with the major product 314 being the result of lithiation at the 8-position in the benzene ring <1997T2871>. 

The synthesis of quinazolines from benzene substrates can be accomplished in two ways, either by cyclization of substrates already bearing appropriate substituents, or by treatment of functionalized benzene derivatives with synthons able to provide one or more of the ring atoms needed to complete the pyrimidine ring <1996HC(55)1>. 

However, perhaps the simplest route to quinazoline derivatives involves the heating of 2-aminobenzamides with formic acid to give 4(3//)-quinazolinones, where the formic acid provides the solvent, the C-2 synthon, and the acid catalysis of the ring-closure step. For example, in the synthesis of the imidazoquinazolinone 798, both the imidazo and pyrimidine rings were formed simply by heating the triamino amide 797 in formic acid for 2h <1996JME918>. 

The synthesis of quinazoline derivatives by the addition of N(3)-C(4) fragment units has not previously been a major synthetic route, but 2,4-dialkyl, alkyl/aryl, and diaryl quinazolines 865 are now readily available by a new procedure that involves activation of A -arylamides 864 with trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride and 2-chloropyridine, and subsequent addition of nitriles <2006JA14254>. Either normal or microwave heating can be used to perform the final ring-closure step. 

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