Ring oxindoles

J. D. Phillipsok, and D. Gupta The effect of methoxy substitution and configuration on thin layer chromatographic behaviour of some closed E ring oxindole. alkaloids. J. Chromatog. 32, 704 (1968). 

Irradiation of 4-hydroxy- and 4-alkoxy-3-pyrazolin-5-one derivatives (163 R = OH, OR) leads to ring cleavage with the formation of /3-diamides (165) 69TL271). The methylene blue sensitized rearrangement of the same pyrazolinone (R = H) to the oxindole (166) also... 

In the presence of tetramethyltin, 1-bromonauclefine reacts with CO in a Pd-catalyzed carbonylation to give the alkaloid naucletine [202], Dong and Busacca effected a new synthesis of tryptamines and tryptophols via a Rh-catalyzed hydroformylation of functionalized anilines that are prepared by a standard Heck reaction, as shown for the preparation of tryptamine sulfonamide 325 [423]. This reaction is applicable to ring-substituted tryptamines (Cl, Br, F. OMe, CF3). Likewise, the Rh-catalyzed carbonylation of o-alkynylanilines, which were prepared by a Pd-catalyzed Sonogashira coupling, leads to oxindoles (60-86% yields) [424],... 

Diazo-2-oxindole (21c) reacted with benzyne and dimethyl acetylene-dicarboxylate in dichloromethane at 41°C to give polycyclic ring systems of type 265 (73TL1417) (Scheme 78). The intermediate spiro adducts 264 could not be detected, but it is reasonable to suppose that the final products were obtained by [1,5]sigmatropic rearrangement of the carboxamido moiety. 

In the other example CO insertion was used to introduced a nC-labelled amide function onto a series of aryl and hetaryl rings including oxindole and the y -carboline skeleton (8.35.), In the latter cast the trapping efficiency of 11 CO was 98% and the isolated yield of the labelled product was also good46... 

Isatin reacts with secondary heterocyclic amines to give 3,3-diamino-oxindoles such as, for example, 164.460-462 Such compounds can also be prepared by reaction of secondary amines with isatin-3-anils.461 These secondary amines can also react with isatin with ring opening to give 165.461... 

The C-2 and C-3 hydroxy derivatives of pyrrole are special in the sense that the tautomeric equilibria favor the pyrrolinone structures (see Section 3.04.6.2). Furthermore, the general synthetic methods are not usually applicable so that we will call attention in this section not only to the methods of directly introducing these substituents, which are rare, but also to those ring construction processes which specifically give the pyrrolinones and indolinones. The indole derivatives have widely used trivial names, oxindole (5) for indolin-2-one and indoxyl (6) for indolin-3-one, Carbocyclic hydroxy substituents in indole and carbazole, on the other hand, for the most part act as normal aromatic phenolic groups. These compounds are usually prepared by application of the standard ring syntheses. 

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