Ring systems heterocyclic synthesis

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Reaction to the Synthesis of Homoerythrinan Ring System. Heterocycles 48 1599... 

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Despite considerable localization of tt-electrons at the nitrogen atoms of pyrimidine, the ring system is still sufficiently aromatic to possess substantial stability. This is a great advantage in the primary synthesis of pyrimidines, in the synthesis of pyrimidines from the breakdown or modification of other heterocyclic systems and in the myriad of metatheses required to synthesize specifically substituted pyrimidines. 

Examination of the pyrazino[2,3-rf]pyrimidine structure of pteridines reveals two principal pathways for the synthesis of this ring system, namely fusion of a pyrazine ring to a pyrimidine derivative, and annelation of a pyrimidine ring to a suitably substituted pyrazine derivative (equation 76). Since pyrimidines are more easily accessible the former pathway is of major importance. Less important methods include degradations of more complex substances and ring transformations of structurally related bicyclic nitrogen heterocycles. 

Table 1 lists some of the common binucleophiles utilized in heterocyclic synthesis, the numerical prefixes referring to the relative positions of the nucleophilic centers to each other. Higher order binucleophiles, e.g. 1,5-systems, come readily to mind and the above illustrative examples rapidly increase in scope when the incorporation of these structural elements into heterocyclic systems is considered. This last group offers many opportunities for ring annulations. 

Use of mesoionic ring systems for the synthesis of five-membered heterocycles with two or more heteroatoms is relatively restricted because of the few readily accessible systems containing two heteroatoms in the 1,3-dipole. They are particularly suited for the unambiguous synthesis of pyrazoles as the azomethine imine is contained as a masked 1,3-dipole in the sydnone system. An attractive feature of their use is that the precursor to the mesoionic system may be used in the presence of the cyclodehydration agent and the dipolarophile, avoiding the necessity for isolating the mesoionic system. 

Small unsaturated rings are usually very reactive undergoing ring opening in a number of ways, and this characteristic has been utilized in heterocyclic synthesis. In their role as dienophiles or dipolarophiles, the initial cycloaddition is usually followed by a valence tautomerism resulting in a six-membered or larger ring system. Several examples exist, however, where this does not occur, and these are described below. 

Utilization of carbenes in the synthesis of five-membered heterocycles with two or more heteroatoms has not been featured prominently in the synthetic strategies developed for these ring systems. The following illustrations show their considerable promise. 

The loss of one or two (or sometimes more) ring members from heterocyclics, concerted with or followed by formation of a new ring, is a highly versatile method for heterocyclic synthesis. Loss of N2, CO, CO2, S, SO, SO2, H2C=CH2, etc. is common. Diradical or dipolar intermediates are often encountered, and valence isomerization before the actual fragmentation is characteristic for some systems. 

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Carboxylic acids and their anhydrides acy late a variety of benzene derivatives, fused ring systems, and heterocyclic compounds. An improved procedure for the preparation of l,4-difluoroanthracene-9,10-dione involves reacting phthalic anhydride and 1,4-difluorobenzene to prepare an intermediate carboxylic acid [35] Intramolecular acylation in polyphosphonc acid completes the synthesis (equahon 24). 

Acridine is a heterocyclic aromatic compound obtained from coal tar that is used in the synthesis of dyes. The molecular formula of acridine is C13H9N, and its ring system is analogous to that of anthracene except that one CH group has been replaced by N. The two most stable resonance structures of acridine are equivalent to each other, and both contain a pyridine-like structural unit. Write a structural formula for acridine. 

Replacement of heterocyclic rings in nucleosides by ring systems which do not occur in nature represents another approach to compounds which may have activity against viral and neoplastic diseases. One of the early successes in this category involves replacement of a pyrimidine ring by a triazine. The synthesis starts with a now classical glycosidation of a heterocycle as its silylated derivative (146) with a protected halosugar (145), in this case a derivative of arabinose... 

The first synthesis of this heterocyclic ring system, 224, was carried out (86S71) by the amination of aminopyrazole 222 with H2N0S03H fol-... 

The intramolecular Hiyama reaction is excellently suited for the construction of carbocyclic and heterocyclic ring systems of different size. In most examples, problems of induced diastereoselectivity are involved (Sections 1.3.3.3.9.2.2. and D.2.3.). In the total synthesis of the antitumor germacranolide ( )-costunolide from ( ,.E)-farnesol, the correctly substituted ( , )-cyclodecadiene moiety was constructed by an intramolecular Hiyama reaction22. 

Roseophilin (273), a deeply red-colored pentacyclic compound isolated from the culture broth of Streptomyces griseoviridis, is a novel antitumor antibiotic. Compound 273 possesses a topologically unique pentacyclic skeleton, consisting of a 13-membered macrocycle incorporated in an ansa-bridged azafulvene, which in turn is linked to a conjugated heterocyclic ring system. The absolute stereochemistry of roseophilin, as depicted in Fig. 9, was unknown until the first total synthesis published by Tius and Harrington in 2001 [125]. All syn-... 

The synthesis of pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidines has attracted considerable interest in heterocyclic chemistry. This ring system constitutes a deaza-analogue of the pyrazino[2,3-d]pyrimidine heterocychc core of fohc acid, analogues which can exhibit a wide range of biological properties as folate antagonists. Thus, the synthesis of this motif by MCR imder microwave-assisted conditions has the potential to rapidly introduce diversity into a biologically relevant scaffold. 

This method has been extended to include imines other than A -thia-zolines, hence enabling the synthesis of multi ring-fused 2-pyridones (28,30, and 33, Scheme 8). Thus, by reacting dihydroisoquinoUnes 27 or /1-carboUnes 29 with acyl Meldrum s acid derivatives 24, a set of new ring-fused heterocycles was prepared in moderate to excellent yields (a and b. Scheme 8). These systems were prepared by using trifluoro acetic acid (TFA) as a proton source instead of solutions saturated with HCl (g). The switch of acid proved to be advantageous since it reduced the formation of by-products and increased the isolated yields. From a practical point of view, TFA is also su-... 

Phenylthio)nitroalkenes are also excellent intermediates for the synthesis of other heterocyclic ring systems. For example, tetrahydropyran carboxylic acid derivatives are formed by the intramolecular addition of oxygen nucleophile to l-(phenylthio)nitroalkene predominantly as the m-isomer (9.1 1) (see Eq. 4.40). The reaction may proceed via the chair-like transition state with two pseudo-equatorial substituents.50... 

Mathey F (2002) In Maas G, Regitz M (eds) Science of synthesis hetarenes and related ring systems fully unsaturated small-ring heterocycles and monocyclic five-membered eetarenes with one heteroatom, vol 9. Thieme, Stuttgart, p 553... 

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