Solvent-free condensations

Another series of pyrroles, structurally related to amino acids, was obtained in a microwave-assisted solvent-free condensation of a-amino acid methyl esters with chloroenones, which provided the four-carbon unit of the pyrrole. The reaction was carried out by mixing the reagents on silica gel and irradiating for 2-6 min inside a multimode microwave cavity (Scheme 7). The authors reported higher yields and cleaner products when microwaves were used instead of conventional heating [34],... 

An eco-friendly synthesis of 3, as shown in Scheme 14.10, commences with the solvent-free condensation of (S)-aminobutanol (32) and y-butyrolactone (35), affording the condensed alcohol 36 in quantitahve yield with water as the only by-product [31]. Potassium permanganate (KMnO4) mediated or ruthenium chloride (RUCI2) catalyzed (in combination with sodium hypochlorite) oxidahon of the resulting alcohol 36 afforded intermediate 37. Ammonia gas treatment of the mixed anhydride of acid 37 yielded the API 3 in comparable yields to those obtained in the first-generahon synthesis. 

This modification involves the two component solvent-free condensation of substituted lactams and isatoic anhydride (Scheme 3.52)82. 

N-Substituted phthalimides are easily synthesized via solvent-free condensation of phthalic anhydrides with amines or via coupling methods [3]. The phthalimide moiety has a reversible reduction potential in dimethylformamide (DMF) which is... 

Gross Z, Galili N, Simkhovich L, Saltsman I, Botoshansky M, Blaeser D, Boese R, Goldberg I (1999) Solvent-free condensation of pyrrole and pentafluorobenzaldehyde a novel synthetic pathway to corrole and oligopyrromethenes. Org Lett 1 599-602... 

Solvent-free condensation of malonic acid or cyanoacetic acid and ureas in the presence of acetic anhydride under MW irradiation conditions affords functionalized uracil derivatives such as 6-hydroxy or 6-amino uracils in high to excellent yields (Scheme 8.76) [188]. 

Along with the attempts to reduce environmental pollution and economic problems, solvent-free reactions, as a characteristic of green chemistry, are preferred by the scientific community. The solvent-free condensation of an equimolar mixture of aldehyde (1) with 2,4-thiazolidinedione/rhodanine (124) in the presence of nano-ZnO involving the Knoevenagel condensation reaction has been documented (Scheme 9.39) (Suresh and Sandhu 2012). After completion of the reaction, the reaction mass was cooled and stirred with ethanol. This was followed by centrifugation... 

Condensation ofDianhydrides with Diamines. The preparation of polyetherknides by the reaction of a diamine with a dianhydride has advantages over nitro-displacement polymerization sodium nitrite is not a by-product and thus does not have to be removed from the polymer, and a dipolar aprotic solvent is not required, which makes solvent-free melt polymerization a possibiUty. Aromatic dianhydride monomers (8) can be prepared from A/-substituted rutrophthalimides by a three-step sequence that utilizes the nitro-displacement reaction in the first step, followed by hydrolysis and then ring closure. For the 4-nitro compounds, the procedure is as follows. 

In practice a few iodine crystals are usually placed on the bottom of a dry, closed trough chamber. After the chamber has become saturated with violet iodine vapor the solvent-free plates are placed in the chamber for 30 s to a few minutes. The iodine vapor condenses on the TLC layers and is enriched in the chromatogram zones. Iodine vapor is a universal detector, there are examples of its application for all types of substances, e.g. amino acids, indoles, alkaloids, steroids, psychoactive substances, lipids (a tabular compilation would be too voluminous to include in this section). 

Fewer procedures have been explored recently for the synthesis of simple six-membered heterocycles by microwave-assisted MCRs. Libraries of 3,5,6-trisubstituted 2-pyridones have been prepared by the rapid solution phase three-component condensation of CH-acidic carbonyl compounds 44, NJ -dimethylformamide dimethyl acetal 45 and methylene active nitriles 47 imder microwave irradiation [77]. In this one-pot, two-step process for the synthesis of simple pyridones, initial condensation between 44 and 45 under solvent-free conditions was facilitated in 5 -10 min at either ambient temperature or 100 ° C by microwave irradiation, depending upon the CH-acidic carbonyl compound 44 used, to give enamine intermediate 46 (Scheme 19). Addition of the nitrile 47 and catalytic piperidine, and irradiation at 100 °C for 5 min, gave a library of 2-pyridones 48 in reasonable overall yield and high individual purities. 

With a similar approach, Dave and Shah have developed a simple, fast, solvent-free and high-yielding, variant of the Gould-Jacob type synthesis of thieno[3,2-e]pyrimido[l,2-c]pyrimidines. In this example the conventional condensation between 4-aminothieno-2,3-dyrimidines and diethyl ethoxymethylenemalonate via acyclic intermediates (usually performed in 5-6 h) was compared with a solvent-free single-step microwave procedure (7-10 min) applying a multimode microwave oven (BPL 700T, Mumbai, India) [7], Scheme 6. 

Thiazolines (2,3-dihydrothiazoles) were also prepared under microwave irradiation. Hamelin and coworkers have described the alumina-supported solvent-free synthesis of various 4-iminothiazolines by condensation of disymmetric thioureas and a-chloro ketone (Scheme 10). The experiments... 

One of the first published microwave-assisted synthesis of benzothiazoles is the condensation of a dinucleophile such as 2-aminothiophenol, with an ortho-ester (neat) in the presence of KSF clay in a mono-mode microwave reactor operating at 60 W under a nitrogene atmosphere [ 12] (Scheme 12). Traditional heating (oil bath, toluene as solvent and KSF clay) gave the expected products in similar yields compared to the microwave experiments but more than 12 h were required for completion. Solvent-free microwave-assisted syntheses of benzothiazoles was also described by attack of the dinucleophiles cited above on benzaldehydes and benzaldoximines [13] (Scheme 12). This methodology was performed in a dedicated monomode microwave reactor... 

The condensation between enaminones and cyanoacetamide is a well-established method for the synthesis of 2-pyridones (see c, Scheme 2, Sect. 2.1), and the use of malonodinitrile instead of the amide component has also been shown to yield 2-pyridones [39-41]. Recently, Gorobets et al. developed a microwave-assisted modification of this reaction suitable for combinatorial synthesis, as they set out to synthesize a small library of compounds containing a 2-pyridone scaffold substituted at the 3, 5, and 6-positions [42]. The 2-pyridones were prepared by a three-component, two-step reaction where eight different carbonyl building blocks were reacted with N,N-dimethylformamide dimethyl acetal (DMFDMA) to yield enaminones 7 (Fig. 2). The reactions were performed under solvent-free conditions at el-... 

The potential for solvent-free synthesis is relatively large, with examples of many well-known reaction types proceeding quite well under this type of regime these include transesterification, condensation and rearrangement reactions. Many workers have moved away from conventional thermal sources for providing the energy needed for these reactions -... 

A similar steric effect was observed in the reaction of benzyl carboxylate (44). When 44a-d were treated with Bu OK under solvent-free conditions at around 100 °C for 30 min, the corresponding condensation products 45a (75%), 45b (66%), 45c (64%), and 45d (84%) were obtained in the yields indicated [9] (Scheme 6). When the same reactions of 44a-d and Bu OH were carried out in toluene under reflux for 16 h, no condensation product was obtained and 44a-d were recovered unchanged. In solution reactions, exchange of the alkoxy group occurs among the substrate, reagent, and solvent. Therefore, the alkoxy groups of the ester, metal alkoxide, and alcohol used as a solvent should be identical. 

The cross-condensation reaction of benzyl benzoate (46) and 44 was carried out under solvent-free conditions. Treatment of a 1 1 mixture of 46 and 44a with Bu OK at 120 °C for 1 h gave the cross-condensed product 47a in 42% yield (Scheme 7). Similar reaction of 46 with 44b gave 47b in 45% yield. Because heating of46,44, and Bu OK in toluene under reflux for 16 h did not give any product, it is clear that the solvent-free reaction is again effective for the cross-condensation. In these cases, self-condensation of 44 itself did not occur probably because of the high reactivity of 46 [9]. 

Scheme 6.186) [347]. The condensation of O-allylic and O-propargylic salicylalde-hydes with a-amino esters was carried out either in the absence of a solvent or - if both components were solids - in a minimal volume of xylene. All reactions performed under microwave conditions rapidly proceeded to completion within a few minutes and typically provided higher yields compared to the corresponding thermal protocols. In the case of intramolecular alkene cycloadditions, mixtures of hexa-hydrochromeno[4,3-b]pyrrole diastereoisomers were obtained, whereas transformations involving alkyne tethers provided chromeno[4,3-b]pyrroles directly after in situ oxidation with elemental sulfur (Scheme 6.186). Independent work by Pospisil and Potacek involved very similar transformations under strictly solvent-free conditions [348]. 

The condensation of enantiomerically pure amino alcohols (derived from amino acids) with aldehydes to furnish 1,3-oxazolidines was studied by Kuhnert and Danks in 2001 (Scheme 6.212) [382], Under solvent-free conditions, microwave irradiation of equimolar mixtures of the amino alcohol and the aldehyde for less than 3 min provided high isolated yields of 1,3-oxazolidines with excellent diastereoselectivity. In the case of (-)-ephedrine, prolonged microwave irradiation (3 min) produced quantitative conversions and high diastereoselectivities. For shorter irradiation times (80 s) mixtures of the two diastereomers were obtained with moderate conversions. 

A solvent-free synthesis of substituted spiroindolinonaphth[2,l-fo][l,4]oxazines through condensation of 2-methylene-l,3,3-trimethylindoline derivatives with 1-nitroso-2-naphthol under microwave irradiation has been described by Fedorova and colleagues (Scheme 6.263) [453], In a typical reaction, an equimolar mixture of the two starting materials was irradiated at 65-110 °C for 15 min to produce the desired spiroindolinonaphth[2,l-fo][l,4]oxazines, which are useful as photochromic compounds. In a related procedure, addition of morpholine to the reaction mixture led to the formation of the corresponding 6 -amino-functionalized spiroindolino-naphth[2,l-fo][l,4]oxazines, which exhibit a strong hypsochromic color shift (not shown) [453]. 

The very first report on the use of ionic liquids as soluble supports was presented by Fraga-Dubreuil and Bazureau in 2001 [102]. The efficacy of a microwave-induced solvent-free Knoevenagel condensation of a formyl group on the ionic liquid (IL) phase with malonate derivatives (E1CH2E2) catalyzed by 2 mol% of piperidine was studied (Scheme 7.89). The progress of the reaction could be easily monitored by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy, and the final products could be cleaved from the IL... 

Imidazole has been condensed via a 1,4 Michael addition with ethyl acrylate by use of basic clays (Li+ and Cs+ montmorillonites) under solvent-free conditions with microwave irradiation [77] (Eq. 24). 

One-pot syntheses of diaryl-a-tetralones by Michael condensation and subsequent Robinson annulation reactions of isophorone with chalcones were performed efficiently in a solvent-free PTC system under the action of MW irradiation. Compared with conventional heating substantial rate enhancements were observed, within very short reaction times, by use of microwaves (Eq. 59 and Tab. 5.31). They were far better than those achieved by the classical method (NaOEt in EtOH under reflux for 24 h 40-56%). 

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