Reduction rearrangement

Until recently, pyridine-type bases have been commonly used to produce conjugated enones from 2-halo ketones yields are usually poor °° and these reactions are frequently accompanied by rearrangement, reduction and salt formation. Thus, Warnhoff found that dehydrobromination of (28) with 2,4-lutidine gave a mixture of (29), (30) and (31) in the ratio 55 25 20. Collidine gave a ratio of 38 25 37, whereas pyridine gave mainly the salt (32). 

FIGURE 18.29 Vitamin B19 functions as a coenzyme in intramolecular rearrangements, reduction of ribonucleotides, and methyl group transfers. 

Esters of diphenylacetic acids with derivatives of ethanol-amine show mainly the antispasmodic component of the atropine complex of biologic activities. As such they find use in treatment of the resolution of various spastic conditions such as, for example, gastrointestinal spasms. The prototype in this series, adiphenine (47), is obtained by treatment of diphenyl acetyl chloride with diethylaminoethanol. A somewhat more complex basic side chain is accessible by an interesting rearrangement. Reductive amination of furfural (42) results in reduction of the heterocyclic ring as well and formation of the aminomethyltetrahydro-furan (43). Treatment of this ether with hydrogen bromide in acetic acid leads to the hydroxypiperidine (45), possibly by the intermediacy of a carbonium ion such as 44. Acylation of the alcohol with diphenylacetyl chloride gives piperidolate (46). ... 

Neither the oxide nor the amidine function are in fact required for activity. Treatment of the oxime, 7, with chloro-acetyl chloride in the presence of sodium hydroxide proceeds directly to the benzodiazepine ring system (14)(the hydroxyl ion presumably fulfills a role analogous to methylamine in the above rearrangement). Reduction of the N-oxide function of 14 leads to diazepam (15). ... 

Scheme 1.49. Cationic domino rearrangement/reduction sequence of a-hydroxy epoxides.

Furoxans and benzofuroxans undergo thermal and photochemical ring cleavage, reactions with nucleophiles, Boulton-Katritzky rearrangement, reduction and deoxygenation, ring transformation, etc. (see also Section 5.05.6.2). 

Though the rearrangements of the reactants 10c delivered single regioiso-mers, the products 12c (R=nBu/R =H) were isolated as a mixture of diastereo-mers after the rearrangement reduction sequence. Likewise, the 3,3-sigma-... 

Co Vitamin B12 rearrangements, reduction, and C and H transfer reactions with glycols and ribose... 

The tetracyclic framework of homoberbine-like compound 210 was constructed by Beckmann rearrangement, reduction, and Pictet-Spengler cyclization (86JHC975). 

Nine-membered lactam rings can also be produced by the Beckmann rearrangement. The azonane ring 420 was selectively formed from an eight-membered cyclic ketone 419 by a rearrangement/reduction sequence (equation 175). 

A Beckmann rearrangement-reduction sequence has been used to access a number of substituted H- 1-benzazepine derivatives, with the required substituted a-tetralone precursors being prepared by a xanthate-based free radical cyclization process <2006BMC6165>. 

The adopted plan follows the different types of photochemical reactions [substitutions, additions, rearrangements, reduction, oxidation, photolabile protections] with the presentation of some typical synthetic examples and of some mechanistic aspects. 

Sigmatropic rearrangements the Wittig rearrangement Reduction of Alkynes... 

Backbone Rearrangements.—Reductive rearrangement of androst-4-ene-3,17-dione in HF-SbFs and in the presence of a hydrogen donor was dependent on the acidity. At high acidity the major products were the 6a-methyl-14/3-oestrane-diones (154) and (155) whereas at low acidity the major product was the... 

Benzyl azides undergo rearrangement-reduction tandem to afford A-methylary-lamincs-" on treatment with EtiSiH-SnCU. 

Stille and co-worker developed an attractive route to aza-Claisen precursors. Allylamine reacted with 2-methylpropanal (isobutyraldehyde), for example, to give allylimine 658. When this reacted with 2-methylpropanoyl chloride, N-acyl derivative 659 was produced (94% overall yield from allylamine) and reduction with LiAlH4 give a 98% yield of the tertiary amine, 660. Stille found that conversion of the amine to the ammonium salt by treatment with HCl led to clean conversion to 661 in 82% yield via a [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement (an aza-Claisen rearrangement). Reduction of the iminium salt led to an 81% yield of 662 from 661. Stille and co-workers also found that Lewis acids as well as HCl react with the allyl enamine precursor to facilitate the aza-Claisen rearrangement. 2... 

Indeed, both kinds of cycloaddition products (Type A and Type B) can be obtained in the presence of Ni(0) catalysts while Pd(0) catalysts exclusively lead to Type A codimers. The real course of these reactions however is somewhat more complicated. While distal ring-opening via Route a really leads to cycloaddition products of Type A, proximal ring-opening via Route b results only in an isomerization of methylenecyclopropane. Cycloaddition products of Type B are obtained indirectly via oxidative coupling of two alkene units with low-valent nickel followed by a cyclo-propylmethyl/3-butenyl rearrangement Reductive elimination terminates... 

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