Spirocycles, cyclization

The alkylpalladium intermediate 198 cyclizes on to an aromatic ring, rather than forming a three-membered ring by alkene insertion[161], Spirocyclic compounds are easily prepared[l62]. Various spiroindolines such as 200 were prepared. In this synthesis, the second ring formation involves attack of an alkylpalladium species 199 on an aromatic ring, including electron-rich or -poor heteroaromatic rings[l6.5]. 

In some instances the attack of the arene on the nitrilium salt occurs at the ipso carbon rather than the ortho carbon. For example, the Bischler-Napieralski cyclization of phenethyl amide 10 affords a 2 1 mixture of regioisomeric products 11 and 12. The formation of 12 presumably results from attack of the ipso aromatic carbon on the nitrilium salt 13 followed by rearrangement of the spirocyclic carbocation 14 to afford 15, which upon loss of a proton vields product 12. ... 

The third synthetic scheme is employed when the phenylthio substituent is in the a-position of the lactone function, which interferes with the cyclization (90JOC5894). Acetylenic ketone 194 (95% yield) is readily transformed to the acetal 195 (with potassium carbonate in methanol) however, under the above conditions neither its hydrolysis nor cyclization to the spiroketal occurs. The spirocyclic pyrone 197 is formed in quantitative yield on treatment of 195 with p-toluenesulfonic acid in a 4 1 THF-H2O mixture at reflux for 12 h. 

A series of interesting pyrazolo[3,4-(f pyrimidine derivatives was obtained by a thermal denitrocyclization reaction of hydrazones, e.g. 164 or 166, easily formed from the corresponding aldehyde or ketone hydrazones with halo-nitrouracil derivatives, e.g. 163 (71CC1442, 72CC298). Intermediates 164 or 166 can be isolated and their cyclization in suitable solvents (methanol, DMF, DMSO) provided high yields of the products. Aldehyde hydrazones yielded the corresponding l,7-dihydropyrazolo[3,4-J]pyrimidines, e.g. 165, whereas ketone hydrazones gave l,5-dihydropyrazolo[3,4-pyrimidine derivatives, e.g. spirocyclic compound 167 (Scheme 26). 

The electroreductive cyclization of the furanone 118 (R = -(CH2)4CH=CH— COOMe Scheme 36) using a mercury pool cathode, a platinum anode, a saturated calomel reference electrode, and a degassed solution of dry CH3CN containing -Bu4NBr as the electrolyte, gave the spirocyclic lactones 119 and 120 in a ratio 1.0 1.1 (Scheme 37)(91T383). 

A cyclization of / -keto sulfone 17 in the presence of a Lewis acid gives a spirocycles via a pinacol-type rearrangement in which the sulfone group serves as a leaving group (equation 10)9. 

An enantioselective variant of the diene cydization reaction has been developed by application of chiral zirconocene derivatives, such as Brintzinger s catalyst (12) [10]. Mori and co-workers demonstrated that substituted dial-lylbenzylamine 25 could be cyclized to pyrrolidines 26 and 27 in a 2 1 ratio using chiral complex 12 in up to 79% yield with up to 95% ee (Eq. 4) [ 17,18]. This reaction was similarly applied to 2-substituted 1,6-dienes, which provided the analogous cyclopentane derivatives in up to 99% ee with similar diastereoselectivities [19]. When cyclic, internal olefins were used, spirocyclic compounds were isolated. The enantioselection in these reactions is thought to derive from either the ate or the transmetallation step. The stereoselectivity of this reaction has been extended to the selective reaction of enantiotopic olefin compounds to form bicyclic products such as 28, in 24% yield and 59% ee after deprotection (Eq. 5) [20]. 

Catalyst 70 is very effective for the reaction of terminal alkenes, however 1,1-disubstituted olefins provide hydrosilylation products presumably, this is due to steric hindrance [45]. When a catalyst with an open geometry (78 or 79) is employed, 1,1-disubstituted alkenes are inserted into C-Y bonds to give quaternary carbon centers with high diastereoselectivities (Scheme 18). As before, initial insertion into the less hindered alkene is followed by cyclic insertion into the more hindered alkene (entry 1) [45]. Catalyst 79 is more active than is 78, operating with shorter reaction times (entries 2 and 3) and reduced temperatures. Transannular cyclization was possible in moderate yield (entry 4), as was formation of spirocyclic or propellane products... 

MgS04, the tetracycles 2-648 were obtained with excellent diastereoselectivity in reasonable yield. The reaction presumably starts with a condensation of the aldehydes 2-645 with the benzyl-protected amine moiety of 2-644 to give an iminium ion which can subsequently cyclize to afford the spirocyclic intermediates 2-646. A [3,3] sigmatropic Cope rearrangement then forms the nine-membered cyclic enamines 2-647 which, after protonation, act as the starting point for another indole iminium cyclization to provide the tetracycles 2-648 via 2-647. 

Reaction of the spirocyclic imidazoline 316 with glyoxal and sodium hydrogen sulfite results in hydrolysis of the aminal and subsequent double condensation to give the tetrazolopyridopyrazine 317 (Equation 109) <1999JHC117>. The pyridopyridazinylhydrazine 318 can be cyclized to the fused triazole 319 by reaction with formic acid (Equation 110) <1998SC2871>. 

As part of a study on the synthesis of the anticancer natural product camptothecin, alcohol 96, was synthesized (Scheme 11) <1997T10953>. Conversion of the hydroxyl group under standard conditions resulted in 97 which subsequently underwent intramolecular cyclization due to the better leaving ability of the halide. The quaternary spirocyclic product 2 was formed on standing. 

For example, amine 140 was treated with 1,5-dibromopentane 141 to give the azoniaspirocycle 142 <1999RCB1696>. Carrying the reaction out under similar conditions with 1,2-dibromoethane gave the bis-addition species 143 as the major product rather than a spirocycle (Equation 32). There is always the need to pick reactants and conditions carefully to favor cyclization over k-addition. 

The epimerization likely occurs through an enamine retro-aAAol reaction after formation of the initial cyclized product (92) (Scheme 6.16) [47]. First, a ring opening of 92 forms the enamine-aldehyde (93a). Rotation about the C-C a-bond in 93a provides intermediate 93b in which enamine addition to the aldehyde to reclose the ring would give 93c. After protonation of the enolate, 91 would result with an overall epimerization of the spirocyclic carbon. In addition to the 2D NMR data, we also planned a complement of experiments to support the epimerization assignment. 

Asymmetric induction has also been achieved in the cyclization of aliphatic alcohol substrates where the catalyst derived from a spirocyclic ligand differentiates enantiotopic alcohols and alkenes (Equation (114)).416 The catalyst system derived from Pd(TFA)2 and (—)-sparteine has recently been reported for a similar cyclization process (Equation (115)).417 In contrast to the previous cases, molecular oxygen was used as the stoichiometric oxidant, thereby eliminating the reliance on other co-oxidants such as GuCl or/>-benzoquinone. Additional aerobic Wacker-type cyclizations have also been reported employing a Pd(n) system supported by A-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands.401,418... 

In a more complex elaboration of the hydrogen atom abstraction/nucleo-philic cyclization route to tetrahydrofurans (Scheme 20), a carbohydrate-based N-alkoxy phthalimide was converted to a spirocyclic acetal in excellent yield and diastereoselectivity (Scheme 33) [136]. In this cyclization, nucleophilic attack takes place from the endo face of the trioxabicyclo [3.3.0] octane... 

The first cyclization of a-hydroxyalkoxyallenes goes back to the pioneering experiments of Brandsma, Hoff and Arens, who found that dihydrofuran derivatives 102 are formed by treatment of 101 with KOtBu in DMSO (Scheme 8.26) [12c], This reaction protocol was successfully applied by others [61, 63, 64, 80-83], for example in the preparation of spiro compound 104 (Eq. 8.19) [83] and in the cyclization of 64 leading to a-amino acid-derived dihydrofurans 105 (Scheme 8.27) [61, 63], Acidic hydrolysis of dihydrofurans furnished 3(2H)-dihydrofuranones, which could be used again as carbonyl components in the repetitive addition of lithiated methoxyal-lene 42. This concept was employed in syntheses of racemic [82] and enantiomeri-cally pure [64] primary helical spirocycles. 

Upon oxidation, a cyclization reaction using a 4-methoxyphenyl ring-derived substrate did not form any of the fused bicyclic product. Instead, a spirocyclic product was formed in direct analogy to the chemistry of Yamamura and Swenton (Scheme 37). In general, cyclization reactions having... 

Novel bridged spirolactones have been synthesized via tandem radical cycli-zations of enol ether radical. In Reaction (7.85) the first 5-exo spirocyclization is followed by a 6-endo cyclization to give the bridged derivative as a single diastereoisomer [96]. 

Rovis and Orellana have reported efforts toward the synthesis of FD-838 (Scheme 27) [103]. In four steps, the Stetter substrate 166 was obtained and underwent cyclization readily with aminoindanol derived pre-catalyst 75c to produce spirocycle 167 in good yield and 99% ee. 

Spirocyclic oxindole 60 was synthesized by [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement of the Af-phenyl-O-acylhydroxamic acid 58 (equation 19). The potassium enolate formed by treatment of 58 with potassium hexamethyldisilazide at low temperature rearranged to 59, which easily cyclized to the spirocyclic oxindole 60. Spirooxindoles were previously synthesized by Wolff and Taddei. The spirooxindole 60 was formed in 51% yield from cyclohexanecarboxylic acid after heating the preformed lithium salts of phenyl hydrazide 61 to 205-210 °C. 

In the context of the synthesis of naturally occurring product cardamom peroxide (7), radical spirocyclizations of the hydroperoxides 190, 193 and 196 were studied (Scheme 44) . It was found that the DBPO-induced oxidative cyclization of 190 follows the 5-exo-mode to give the spiroendoperoxide 191, which was subsequently converted... 

As part of a mechanistic and synthetic study of nucleophihc carbenes the spirocyclic 4(5/l)-oxazolone 18 has been obtained from benzoyl isocyanate (Scheme 6.1) Thermal extrusion of nitrogen from the 1,3,4-oxadiazoline 14 produced the carbonyl ylide 15 that fragmented via loss of acetone to the aminooxycarbene 16. Spectroscopic data [gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), infrared (IR), proton and C-13 nuclear magnetic resonance ( H and NMR)] of the crude thermolysate was consistent with 18. The formation of 18 was rationalized to result from nucleophihc addition of 16 to benzoyl isocyanate followed by cyclization of the dipolar intermediate 17. Thermolysis of 19 and 21 under similar reaction conditions afforded 20 and 22 respectively, also identified spectroscopically as the major products in the thermolysate. 

Other examples of spirocyclic 2-amino-4(5//)-oxazolones have been prepared and evaluated for their CNS activity and as potential antiviral agents. " In these reports, cyclization of the appropriate ot-hydroxy ester with guanidine afforded the novel analogues 93, albeit in low-to-modest yields. Representative examples are shown in Table 6.4 (Fig. 6.10). 

Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) chemists " prepared a novel series of spirocyclic 2,4-oxazolidinediones 243 derived from 7-substituted isatins (Scheme 6.54). The key intermediate a-acyloxy amides 242 were readily prepared from 241 in three steps. Base-catalyzed cyclization of 242 then afforded the target compounds that were reported to be potent inhibitors of aldose reductase. Pfizer chemists approached 5-substituted isatin spirocyclic analogues 243 via a-hydroxy esters 244 that were converted to the corresponding a-carbamyloxy esters 245 in good yield using chlorosulfonyl isocyanate. Cyclization of 245 with potassium ferf-butoxide then produced 243 in acceptable yield (Scheme 6.54 Table 6.10, Fig. 6.20). 

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