Sodium hydride in methylations

A simple variant of this strategy has been applied to the successful synthesis of ( )-hippeastrine (180) (Scheme 20) (140). In the event, vigorous hydrolysis of the urethane ester 61 followed by the carbodiimide-induced cyclization of the resulting amino acid and N-methylation with sodium hydride in methyl iodide furnished the lactam 207. Conversion of 207 to 208 was achieved by chloromethylation followed by reaction of the intermediate chloromethyl compound... 

Methylquinazolin-4(3//)-one was obtained in over 62% yield by reacting the phosphorane (25) with sodium hydride in methyl cyanide. The phos-phorane was readily formed from anthranilamide and prop-2-ynyltriphenyl-phosphonium bromide. When anthranilamide was fused with benzoin and a trace of acid at 150°C, it gave 2-phenylquinazolin-4(3H)-one together with o-iV-(a-benzoyl benzyl)aminobenzamide. The latter was cyclized, with ethyl orthoformate, to l-(a-benzoylbenzyl)quinazolin-4-one. If anthranilamide and benzoin were boiled in benzene with azeotropic removal of water, then the Schiff base (26) was formed. This gave 2-phenylquinazolin-4(3Jf/)-one and benzoic acid on heating alone at 150°C or with ethyl orthoformate. The mechanism of this reaction is not clear unless a retro-benzoin condensation and oxidation are occurring. 

D. M. W. Anderson and Cree reported the successful methylation of a variety of polysaccharides with sodium hydride in methyl sulfoxide, and their method has been used by others. Alkylations have also... 

The Reissert compound obtained from phthalazine and potassium cyanide in the presence of benzoyl chloride can be converted with methyl iodide and sodium hydride in DMF into... 

An example of this is found in the synthesis of a crown containing a mefa-xylylene unit (see also Sect. 3.5) and a convergent methoxyl group. 4-Methyl-2,6-bishydroxymethyl-anisole was treated with pentaethylene glycol and sodium hydride in THF solution to afford the crown (mp 71—73°) shown in Eq. (3.52) in 59% yield. 

Attempts to methylate the 6,11-diketone (12) under the conditions described above or with sodium hydride in benzene were unsuccessful. However, addition of methyl iodide to a refluxing suspension of sodium hydride in a solution of (12) in xylene affords the 5 -methyl compound (13) in about 37 % yield. ... 

Alkylation at the ind-N of l,2,3,4-tetrahydro-j8-carbolines has been carried out with alkyl halide after treatment with sodamide in the usual manner. Cyanoethylation of a p /r-V-substituted tetrahydro-jS-carboline in the presence of Triton B yields the corresponding 9-cyanoethyl derivative. Similarly, treatment of p / -V-methyl-l,2,3,4,4a,9b-hexahydro-y-carboline with sodamide, followed by benzyl chloride, leads to the ind-A -benzyl-substituted derivatives. l-Oxo-l,2,3,4-tetrahydro-j8-carboline yields the ind-A -methyl derivative directly with dimethyl sulfate.Prolonged treatment with sodium hydride, followed by methyl iodide, yields the 2,9-dimethyl derivative. Heating with sodium hydride in acetone followed by the addition of dimethyl sulfate gives rise to the ind-V-methyl derivative. ... 

We now tum our attention to the C21-C28 fragment 158. Our retrosynthetic analysis of 158 (see Scheme 42) identifies an expedient synthetic pathway that features the union of two chiral pool derived building blocks (161+162) through an Evans asymmetric aldol reaction. Aldehyde 162, the projected electrophile for the aldol reaction, can be crafted in enantiomerically pure form from commercially available 1,3,4,6-di-O-benzylidene-D-mannitol (183) (see Scheme 45). As anticipated, the two free hydroxyls in the latter substance are methylated smoothly upon exposure to several equivalents each of sodium hydride and methyl iodide. Tetraol 184 can then be revealed after hydrogenolysis of both benzylidene acetals. With four free hydroxyl groups, compound 184 could conceivably present differentiation problems nevertheless, it is possible to selectively protect the two primary hydroxyl groups in 184 in... 

Pyrrolo[l,2-a]azepin-5-one (11), prepared by cyclization of methyl 5-(pyrrol-2-yl)penta-2,4-dienoate (10) with sodium hydride in toluene, in trifluoroacetic acid solution forms the diatropic 5-hydroxypyrrolo[1,2-a]azepinium ion 12.216 6-Methyl-5//-pyrrolo[l,2-tf]azepin-5-one(mp41 -43 C), formed in low yield (20%) by the action of [(ethoxycarbonyl)methylene]triphenylphos-phorane on 4-(pyrrol-2-yl)but-3-en-2-one, behaves similarly. 

An interesting reaction of dimsyl anion 88 is the methylation of polyaromatic compounds. Thus naphthalene, anthracene, phenanthrene, acridine, quinoline, isoquinoline and phenanthridine were regiospecifically methylated upon treatment with potassium t-butoxide and DMSO in digyme or with sodium hydride in DMSO123-125. Since ca. 50% of D was found to remain in the monomethyl derivative 93 derived from 9-deuteriophenanthrene 92, the mechanistic route shown in Scheme 2 was suggested125. 

Similar ring systems were prepared <97JHC1693> by Coppo and Fawzi from the reaction of substituted ethyl 5-[methyl(methylsulfonyl)amino]-l 7/-pyrazole-4-carboxylates 119 with sodium hydride. This gave the 7-substitued 1,7-dihydro-l-methylpyrazolo[3,4-c][l, 2]thiazin-4(37/)-one 2,2-dioxides 120 in fair to good yield (Scheme 30). They also extended this synthesis by treating methyl 2-[methyl(methylsulfonyl)amino]-6-(trifluoromethyl)-3-pyridinecarboxylate 121 with sodium hydride in dimethylformamide to yield l-methyl-7-(trifhioromethyl)-l//-pyrido[2,3-c][l,2]thiazin-4(3//)-one 2,2-dioxide 122 in 79% yield (Scheme 31) <98JHC499>. 

Methyl a-D-glucopyranoside may be converted,271 in a remarkably selective reaction, into its 2,4,6-tribenzyl ether (in 62% yield) on treatment with three molar equivalents of sodium hydride in benzyl chloride at 110°, a substitution pattern that might have been predicted in view of the low, relative reactivity of HO-3 towards alkylation in the mechanistically related, Haworth procedure.268 Similar, selective benzylations have also been achieved on partially substituted derivatives of methyl a- and /3-D-galactopyranoside272 and on methyl 6-deoxy-a-L-galactopyranoside62 in all of these, an unexpectedly high relative-reactivity of HO-4 (ax) compared to that of HO-3 (eq) was noted, indicating that steric factors are not the sole influence on reactivity in these cases. Nevertheless, the primary hydroxyl... 

Octa-O-methylsucrose has been prepared by treating sucrose with either dimethyl sulfate-sodium hydroxide, or sodium hydride and methyl iodide in A/,A/-dimethylformamide.35... 

Dimethyl malonate was first treated dropwise with phenyl isothiocyanate in the presence of sodium hydride in N,7V-dimethylacetamide at 0°C. The reaction mixture was stirred at ambient temperature for 1.5 hr and then cooled to 0°C, and methyl iodide was added dropwise. After stirring for 4 hr at room temperature, (methylthio)(phenylamino)methy-lenemalonate (341) was obtained in 79% yields (69T4649). 

The reaction of 5-chloro-6-methyl-3-phenyl-l,2,4-triazine and diethyl malonate in the presence of sodium hydride in THF at ambient temperature for 12-24 hr gave malonate (489) in 65% yield (87H3259). 

Dimethyl malonate was added to a suspension of sodium hydride in THF at room temperature, and after 10 min, 2-methylthio-l-methylquinolinium iodide was added. The reaction mixture was stirred for 1.5 hr at ambient temperature to give dimethyl (1 -methyl-1,2-dihydro-2-quinolinyIidene)ma-lonate in 95% yield [81 H( 15)277]. 

Miki and Hachiken reported a total synthesis of murrayaquinone A (107) using 4-benzyl-l-ferf-butyldimethylsiloxy-4fT-furo[3,4-f>]indole (854) as an indolo-2,3-quinodimethane equivalent for the Diels-Alder reaction with methyl acrylate (624). 4-Benzyl-3,4-dihydro-lfT-furo[3,4-f>]indol-l-one (853), the precursor for the 4H-furo[3,4-f>]indole (854), was prepared in five steps and 30% overall yield starting from dimethyl indole-2,3-dicarboxylate (851). Alkaline hydrolysis of 851 followed by N-benzylation of the dicarboxylic acid with benzyl bromide and sodium hydride in DMF, and treatment of the corresponding l-benzylindole-2,3-dicarboxylic acid with trifluoroacetic anhydride (TFAA) gave the anhydride 852. Reduction of 852 with sodium borohydride, followed by lactonization of the intermediate 2-hydroxy-methylindole-3-carboxylic acid with l-methyl-2-chloropyridinium iodide, led to the lactone 853. The lactone 853 was transformed to 4-benzyl-l-ferf-butyldimethylsiloxy-4H-furo[3,4- 7]indole 854 by a base-induced silylation. Without isolation, the... 

The synthesis of anastrozole (Scheme 3.3) began with an 8 2 displacement of commercially available 3,5-fc (bromomethyl)toluene (19) using potassium nitrile and a phase-transfer catalyst, tetrabutylammonium bromide (Edwards and Large, 1990). The resulting fcw-nitrile 20 in DMF was then deprotonated with sodium hydride in the presence of excess methyl iodide to give the fc -dimethylated product 21. Subsequently, a Wohl-Ziegler reaction on 21 was carried out using A-bromosuccinamide (NBS), and a catalytic amount of benzoyl peroxide (BPO) as the radical initiator. Finally, an Sn2 displacement of benzyl bromide 22 with sodium triazole in DMF afforded anastrozole (2) as a white solid. 

This cycloaddition-reduction-hydrolysis sequence was also used in an approach to butyrolactones related to ribonolactone (71). These compounds are inducing agents of hunger and satiety in mammalians. Here, a subsequent aldol 1,3-diol reduction was used, and the required carboxy function was established by oxidation of the aromatic ring with ruthenium tetroxide. Cycloaddition of benzonitrile oxide to allyl alcohol afforded an enantiomeric mixture of isoxazolines 55 and 56, which were treated with sodium hydride and methyl iodide to achieve separation by chromatography on cellulose triacetate (71). 0-Demethylation, followed by... 

Condensation of the intermediates 146-151 with either ethyl 5-amino-l-methylpyrazole-4-carboxylate or ethyl 2-aminothiophene-3-carboxylate using sodium hydride in refluxing dioxane gave the corresponding 4-hydroxy-l-methyl-pyrazolopyridine or 4-hydroxythienylpyridine esters, respectively (Equation 52 Table 28) <2003BMC2991>. 

Menthyl isocyanopropanoate (5) has been alkylated by means of sodium hydride in tetrahydrofuran and subsequent addition of 3,4-dimethoxybenzyl bromide to give the product 6 in high yield115. The latter was transformed into a-methyl-(3,4-dimethoxy)benzylalanine hydrochloride (7, 85% overall yield from the propanoate) [a] 0 —0.8° (c = 7.5, CH3OH) mp 162-165 °C (decomp). The optically pure form has [a]p7 —8.8° (c = 0.84, CH3OH) and mp 169-171 °C (decomp). 

Methylthiomethyl has been used as the protecting group in the total synthesis of neoechinulin A (80TL2817). Cyclo(L-Ala-Gly) was treated with sodium hydride in DMF and N-alkylated with chloromethyl methyl thioether at room temperature, to give the bis(methylthiomethyl) derivative. After further chemical transformations, deprotection was achieved by treatment with methyl iodide in the presence of NaHC03 at 40°C for 3 days, followed by heating in dioxane at 100°C for 1 h. 

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