2-Substituted 3-acyl pyrroles

Mild reaction conditions are apphed in this three-component sequence, which furnishes highly diverse 2-substituted 3-acyl pyrroles 16 in generally moderate to good yields. Each component is applied in a strictly equimolar ratio and upscaling to 20 mmol allows a reduction of the Pd-catalyst loading to 0.25 mol%. Since the alkynone 1 formation is highly dependent on the... 

Frontier orbital theory predicts that electrophilic substitution of pyrroles with soft electrophiles will be frontier controlled and occur at the 2-position, whereas electrophilic substitution with hard electrophiles will be charge controlled and occur at the 3-position. These predictions may be illustrated by the substitution behaviour of 1-benzenesulfonylpyr-role. Nitration and Friedel-Crafts acylation of this substrate occurs at the 3-position, whereas the softer electrophiles generated in the Mannich reaction (R2N=CH2), in formylation under Vilsmeier conditions (R2N=CHC1) or in formylation with dichloromethyl methyl ether and aluminum chloride (MeO=CHCl) effect substitution mainly in the 2-position (81TL4899, 81TL4901). Formylation of 2-methoxycarbonyl-l-methylpyrrole with... 

Acyl-pyrroles, -furans and -thiophenes in general have a similar pattern of reactivity to benzenoid ketones. Acyl groups in 2,5-disubstituted derivatives are sometimes displaced during the course of electrophilic substitution reactions. iV-Alkyl-2-acylpyrroles are converted by strong anhydrous acid to A-alkyl-3-acylpyrroles. Similar treatment of N-unsubstituted 2- or 3-acyIpyrroles yields an equilibrium mixture of 2- and 3-acylpyrroles pyrrolecarbaldehydes also afford isomeric mixtures 81JOC839). The probable mechanism of these rearrangements is shown in Scheme 65. A similar mechanism has been proposed for the isomerization of acetylindoles. 

A one-pot procedure from aldehydes, through Wittig olefmation and a subsequent epoxidation, was also reported. Aldehydes could be converted into a,P,y,8-unsaturated N-acyl pyrroles, which were epoxidized in the same pot to give N-acyl pyrrole-substituted vinylepoxides [32]. 

Electrophilic substitution of pyrrole can, however, be carried out under specialised conditions (e.g. acylation with (MeC0)20/BF3, sulphonation with a pyridine/S03 complex, C5H5N-S03, cf. (67)) leading to preferential attack at the 2-, rather than the 3-, position. This reflects the slightly greater stabilisation of the Wheland intermediate for the former (70) compared with that for the latter (71) ... 

JCS(P1)249>. In an interesting alternative to direct acylation of this heterocycle, Pierini and Rossi examined the photostimulated SrnI reaction of the enolate of 2-acetyl-1-methylpyrrole 36 with haloarenes (e.g., iodobenzene, 37) as well as neopentyl iodides to afford a-substituted acetyl pyrroles 38 <99JOC6487>. 

Acyl-pyrroles and -indoles have also been obtained from their dithioketals, which are produced by direct electrophilic substitution of the heterocyclic system using 2-substituted... 

The lithium derivatives of 1-substituted pyrroles and indoles provide another general route of access to 2-acyl pyrroles and indoles. The ketones can be obtained directly by reaction with aryl nitriles or acid halides but, at least for 1-benzenesulfonylindole, a two-step procedure involving reaction with an aldehyde followed by oxidation of the carbinol to the ketone is frequently more convenient (equation 179) (73JOC3324, 75JOC2613). This method is probably the most general route to 2-acylindoles, although many have also been prepared by direct Fischer cyclization (see Section 3.06.3.4.2). 

The reaction of ketocarbenoids with pyrroles leads to either substitution or cyclopropanation products, depending on the functionality on nitrogen. With N-acylated pyrrole (209) reaction of ethyl diazoacetate in the presence of copper(I) bromide generated the 2-azabicyclo[3.1.0]hex-3-ene system (210) and some of the diadduct (211 Scheme 44).162163 On attempted distillation of (210) in the presence of copper(I) bromide rearrangement to the 2-pyrrolylacetate (212) occurred, which was considered to proceed through the dipolar intermediate (213). In contrast, on flash vacuum pyrolysis (210) was transformed to the dihydropyridine (214). A plausible mechanism for the formation of (214) involved rearrangement of (210) to the acyclic imine (215), which then underwent a 6ir-electrocyclization. 

A third route to 3-vinylpyrrole complexes originates from 3-acyl-pyrrole complexes and readily provides access to alkoxy-substituted P-vinylpyrrole complexes. The carbonyl oxygen on these complexes is nucleophilic, and treatment of the 3-acetylpyrrole complex 38 with methyl triflate gives the methoxy-2-azafulvenium complex 143. Addition of DBU to 143 at low temperature results in deprotonation of the pendant methyl group on C-6 to give the methoxy-substituted P-vinylpyrrole complex 144 (Figure 26). 

At the conclusion, the total synthesis of rigidin (6) proceeded in nine steps and nearly 26% overall yield starting from 6-chlorouracil and ethyl 2,4-dimethoxybenzylglycinate. The utility of the acylative pyrrole annu-lation approach to a highly substituted pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine system was thus revealed. Next we chose to focus our attention on representative... 

Intramolecular radical substitution of pyrroles and indoles has been well studied this is exemplified in Schemes 90 <1997TL7937> and 91 <2000TL10181>. Intramolecular radical acylation of l-(-halogenoalkyl)-2-methylsulfonyl-5-substituted pyrroles leads to bicyclic ketones with displacement of the sulfonyl moiety <2000TL3035>. Similar cyclizations can be achieved using acyl selenide precursors to generate an acyl radical... 

To exploit the reactions of the C-lithio derivatives of N-unsubstituted pyrroles and indoles, N-protecting/masking groups such as ferf-butoxycarbonyl, terZ-biitylcarbamoyl, benzenesulfonyl, dimethylamino, and dimethylaminomethyl must be used. This is illustrated by a route to G-acylated pyrroles 441. Another very useful process involves N-lithiation, N-carbonation, and lithiation of the resulting indol-l-ylcarboxylate at C(2) reaction with an electrophile and loss of carbon dioxide during work-up give N-unsubstituted 2-substituted indoles, for example, 2-haloindoles in excellent yields. 

Similarly, pyrroles 363 reacted smoothly with a range of alkyl- and aryl-substituted acid chlorides to afford the corresponding 2-acyl pyrrole derivatives 364 (Equation 81). 

Reactions of Pyrroles. 1,3-Di-t-butylpyrrole forms the first stable protonated pyrrole, the salt (104). Electrophilic substitution of pyrrole with MeaC or Me FC in the gas phase occurs mainly at the j3-position, as does nitration and Friedel-Crafts acylation of l-phenylsulphonylpyrrole2 Pyrrole-2,5-dialdehyde has been prepared by Vilsmeier-Haack formylation of the ester (105), followed by hydrolysis. A similar method has been used to convert the di-acetal (106) into pyrrole-2,3,5-tricarbaldehyde. AT-Benzoyl-pyrrole reacts with benzene in the presence of palladium(II) acetate to yield a mixture of l-benzoyl-2,5-diphenylpyrrole, the bipyrrolyl (107), and compound (108). Treating lithiated A-methylpyrrole with nickel(II) chloride results in the polypyrrolyls (109 = 0-4). 2-Aryl-1-methylpyrroles are obtained by cross-coupling of l-methylpyrrol-2-ylmagnesium bromide with aryl halides in the presence of palladium(0)-phosphine complexes. ... 

Numerous substituted pyrrolizines have been obtained by this route from 2-acylated pyrroles and indoles respectively with substituted vinylphosphonium salts <84AHC(37)l>. 

In 2012, the site-, diastereo-, and enantioselective 1,6-conjugate addition to 8-substituted dienyl A -acyl pyrroles was reported for the first time (Scheme 2)... 

The synthesis will therefore normally produce a 2,4-substituted pyrrole, with in addition an ester group or an acyl group at the 3-position, if a keto ster or a diketone respectively has been employed, and an ester group or an alkyl (aryl) group at the 5-position, according to the nature of the amino-ketone. 

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