Reductive cyclization 2- acrylonitrile

Reductive coupling of carbonyls to alkenes Titanium(IV) chloride-Zinc, 310 of carbonyls to pinacols Titanium(III) chloride, 302 Titanium(IV) chloride-Zinc, 310 of other substrates Samarium(II) iodide, 270 Reductive cyclization 2-(Phenylseleno)acrylonitrile, 244 Tributylgermane, 313 Tributyltin hydride, 316 Triphenyltin hydride, 335 Trityl perchlorate, 339 Reductive hydrolysis (see Hydrolysis) Reductive silylation Chlorotrimethylsilane-Zinc, 82... 

Catalytic reduction of the o-(o-nitroaryl)acrylonitriles (Xl-84) over a palladium catalyst at room temperature gave the amine (XI-8S). Reduction with iron in boiling acetic acid yielded the indole XI-83, however. In an earlier work by Walker, catalytic (palladium, 80°) reduction of the corresponding -phenylacrylonitriles (XI-86) caused reductive cyclization of the nitrile to give the indole XI-87. An attempt was made to apply Walker s method to the 2-pyridyl isomer of XI-84 but the expected indole was not isolated. The mechanism proposed for the cyclization of XI-84 to the indole (XI-83 Py = 2-Pyridyl) involves an intramolecular Michael addition of a hydroxylamino group to the double bond rather than attack by an amino group. Support for... 

The protic catalytic conditions are also compatible with trapping of the radicals formed after cyclization with acrylates or acrylonitriles prior to their reduction with Cp2TiCl . In this manner highly substituted alkenes for the potential preparation of modified steroids can be accessed (Scheme 19) [97]. 

Vitamin B12 derivatives are also effective catalysts for the electroreductive cyclization of bromoalkenes in conductive microemulsions,299 300 or for ring-expansion reactions in cyclic a-(bromomethyl)-(3-keto esters in DMF.301 Vitamin Bi2 attached to an epoxy-polymer has been used in electrosynthesis of valeronitrile by reductive coupling of iodoethane and acrylonitrile.302... 

A remarkably simple fused indole devoid of the traditional side chains is described as an antidepressant agent. Michael addition of the anion from indole ester 119 to acrylonitrile affords the cyanide 120. Selective reduction of the nitrile leads to the ami noester 121. This is then cyclized to the lactam (122). Reduction of the... 

Sorm and Beranek39 used an intramolecular acylation in their synthesis of l-azoniumtricyclo[3.3.3.0]undecane (66). Condensation of nitromethane with acrylonitrile in the presence of an alkaline catalyst resulted in the formation of tris-(2-cyanoethyl)nitromethane (60), which afforded the triethyl ester 61 on hydrolysis followed by esterification. The ester was reduced catalytically to give a pyrrolidone (62). The derivative (62) gave rise to 8-(j8-carboethoxyethyl)-3,5-dioxo-pyrrolizidine (63) on heating. Reduction of 63 resulted in the formation of 8-(y-hydroxypropyl)pyrrolizidine (64). Replacement of the hydroxy group by bromine (65), followed by cyclization, afforded the tricyclic compound 66. 

An alternate route to substituted tetrahydrobenzazepines (Scheme 33) commenced with the Michael addition of the ester 351 to acrylonitrile in the presence of Triton B, and the intermediate cyanoester was converted to 352 by reduction of the ester function with lithium borohydride and O-benzylation (168). Base-induced hydrolysis of the nitrile group of 352 delivered the corresponding acid, which was transformed to 353 via a Curtius rearrangement. Subjection of 353 to a modified two-step Tschemiac-Einhom reaction involving AMiydroxymethyla-tion and subsequent acid-catalyzed cyclization gave 354. 

In a more recent study Co(dppe)I2 was used as a catalyst for reductive additions of primary, secondary, and tertiary alkyl bromides or iodides 249 to alkyl acrylates, acrylonitrile, methyl vinyl ketone, or vinylsulfone 248 in an acetonitrile/water mixture using zinc as a stoichiometric reducing agent [305]. The yields of the resulting esters 252 were mostly good. The authors tested radical probes, such as cyclopropylmethyl bromide or 6-bromo-1-hexene (cf. Part 1, Fig. 8). However, the latter did not cyclize, but isomerized during addition, while the former afforded complicated mixtures. On this basis the authors proposed a traditional two-electron mechanism to be operative the results do not, however, exclude a radical-based Co(I) catalytic cycle convincingly (Fig. 61). 

We end this chapter with a simple commercial synthesis of a drug molecule described as a dopaminergic antagonist. It uses four reactions that you have met conjugate addition of an enolate to acrylonitrile reduction of CN to a primary amine alkylation and reduction of the amide. There is another reaction involved—cyclization to an amide—but this occurs spontaneously. These reactions may be simple but they are important. 

Acrylonitrile (2) has also been used for heterocycle formation from p-diketone substrates. Conjugate addition of 185 to acrylonitrile produced 186 with previously reported conditions,2 and cyclization under hydrolytic conditions generated the corresponding lactam 187 (Scheme 15).65 Dissolving metal reduction provided the trans ring fused product 188, which was subsequently converted to 189. Reduction of 189 completed the synthesis of the Lycopodium alkaloid ( )-Na-methyl-A p-acetylphlegmarine (190) as a mixture of 4 diastereomers. 

Chlorophenylmagnesium bromide attacked only the ketonic carbonyl group of isatin (426) to give the oxindole (427). Michael addition to acrylonitrile followed by reduction gave the saturated primary amine (428) which in refluxing xylene containing 4-toluene sulphonic acid cyclized to ciclazindol (429) Scheme 5.101.). The intermediate (428) can also be... 

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