Quinolizidines, simple

The intramolecular cyclization of l-(4-bromobutyl)-3-methoxycarbonyl-l,4,5, 6-tetrahydropyridine (140) and l-(3-bromopropyl)-3-methoxycarbonyl-l,4,5,6-tetrahydropyridine (143) (89T5269) resulted in the synthesis of quinolizidine ring system 141 and indolizidine ring system 144 in 43% and 72% yields along with the reduced tetrahydropyridines 142 and 145 in 21% and 8% yields, respectively. All the cyclized products appeared to be (ran.s-fused indolizidines or quinolizidines. The (ran.s -fused simple indolizidines are known to be some 2.4 kcal mol more stable than the d.s-fused isomers (68TL6191). In the and-isomer the methoxycarbonyl substituent occupies an equatorial position. 

In an approach to simple Nuphar quinolizidine alkaloids, the piperidine compound 213 was converted to compound 214 that underwent one-pot detosylation, conjugate reduction, and cyclization to produce the quinolizidin-4-one 215... 

The Bischler-Napieralski reaction is one of the traditional methods for isoquinoline synthesis, and has been applied to the preparation of fused quinolizidine systems. One simple example is the transformation of compound 246 into a 9 1 mixture of diastereomers 247 and 248 by treatment with phosphorus oxychloride followed by sodium borohydride reduction of a nonisolated iminium salt resulting from the cyclization (Scheme 49) <2000BMC2113>. 

The intramolecular Pummerer reaction has been applied to the synthesis of simple quinolizidine alkaloids like lupinine <2000JOC2368>, and also to arenoquinolizine alkaloids. Thus, the 2-(2-piperidyl)indole 284 was converted to indolo[2,3- ]quinolizidine 287 following a protocol that has as the key step the regioselective cyclization onto the indole 3-position of a thionium ion generated by Pummerer reaction from the appropriately substituted compound... 

A simple cyclization was carried out to test the ability of chloro azidoalkene cyclization to generate quinolizidines. Reduction of 6-valerolactone to the corresponding lactol was followed by a Wittig reaction onto the carbonyl function employing an appropriate phosphonium salt, and the intermediate primary alcohol thus formed afforded the chloro... 

Alkaloid analytical methods were developed by applications based on different hypotheses, from the simple to the very complicated. Subsequently, corresponding instruments were developed. This development can be seen by considering the example of quinolizidine alkaloids. 

The stationary phase may be a solid or liquid on a solid support. The mechanisms responsible for distribution between phases include surface absorption, ion exchange, relative solubilities and steric affects . High performance liquid chromatography is a useful method for quinolizidine alkaloid analysis, especially when pure standards are available". This method was recently used for alkaloid metabolite extraction and analysis . A simple reversed-phase liquid chromatographic method has been developed for the simultaneous quantitation of four anticancerous alkaloids vincristine, vinblastine, and their precursors catharanthine and vindoline using a specific HPLC column . 

The quaternization of simple quinolizidine and related alkaloids has attracted much attention, directed primarily at the stereochemistry of the reaction. Methylation of trans-quinolizidine (545) affords the ra-fused 5-methylquinolizidinium salt (546) its isomer (548) is available only by the cyclization of piperidine derivative (547) (51JA3681). 

The 13C spectrum of emetine (112) (Fig. 23 and Table XXII) was examined by Wenkert and co-workers (69). The chemical shift assignments were made by comparison with the shifts recorded for the simple isoquinolines and pro-toberberine alkaloids such as tetrahydropalmatine (69) (6, 14), and with indolic analogues of emetine (69). The shifts of C-4 and C-6 are characteristic of a trans-quinolizidine conformation for this ring system by analogy... 

Although a number of alkaloids belonging to the simple arylquinolizidine class and the lactonic type had been synthesized, no successful synthesis of cyclophane alkaloids was accomplished until that of lythranidine (94), a unique alkaloid with a 2,6-trans disubstituted piperidine structure, was reported (28, 29). Quinolizidine metacyclophane alkaloids lythrancepines II (95) and III (96) have also been synthesized recently (30, 31). A review on the synthesis of lythranidine (94) is available in Japanese (32). 

The enzyme, i.e. lysine decarboxylase, that is required for the conversion of lysine into cadaverine, and thus the first step of alkaloid biosynthesis, has been isolated from chloroplasts of L. polyphyllus,28 Like the majority of amino-acid decarboxylases, this enzyme is dependent on pyridoxal 5 phosphate. Its activity was found not to be affected by the presence or absence of quinolizidine alkaloids. Control of the enzyme by simple product feedback inhibition therefore seems unlikely. The operational parameters of this enzyme resemble those of the 17-oxosparteine synthase. Co-operation between the two enzymes would explain why cadaverine is almost undetectable in vivo. 

Gercideae. (a) The occurrence of alkaloids. Key to branches leading to families that accumulate quinolizidines, pyrrolizidines (No. 1 see arrows) Erythrina (No. 3) indolizidines (No. 4) p-carbolines (No. 5) or simple indoles (No. 2) are marked. The rbcl sequences used (1400 bp) derived from Kass and Wink, 1997a,b Wink and Mohamed (2003). Trees were reconstructed with maximum parsimony. 

This review describes structural diversity, structural identification and biological activity of simple indolizidine and quinolizidine alkaloids, and covers the period from 1994 to 1999. A review of stereoselective methods for the synthesis of indolizidines and quinolizidines will be pubUshed in this series in the near future. 

The first comprehensive survey of simple indolizidine and quinolizidine alkaloids in this treatise was presented in Volume 28, which was published in 1986... 

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