3-Substituted 2-pyridones, synthesis

Heterocycles. While several reports deal with formation of furan derivatives by reaction of 2-diazo-l,3-cyclohexanediones and alkynes which are substituted with electron-withdrawing or electron-donating groups, an a-pyridone synthesis based on an analogous reaction of Af-(a-diazoacyl)amides is applicable to the elaboration of the indolizidine skeleton, and accordingly, a synthesis of ipalbidine. ... 

Cycloaddition of maleic anhydride to A-substituted pyridones has been used in a synthesis of a 2-azabarrelene (Scheme 3). A key step is anodic oxidation of an intermediate dicarboxylic acid, which affords 2-azabarrelenone in 6—8%... 

Diphenyl-l,3,5-pentanetrione (45) was successfully used for the preparation of pyridone 48. 5-Benzoyl-2-phenyl-4(lH)pyridone (48) was prepared from l,5-diphenyl-l,3,5-pentanetrione (45) with 1 equivalent of DMFDMA in propyl acetate at room temperature followed by NH4CI. The product precipitated from the mixture. But the synthesis of N-substituted pyridones was not successful (Scheme 18). 

Due to the importance of substituted 2-pyridones, many preparative methods have been reported (see Sect. 2.1), and some of these, but for from all, have been further developed into methods suitable for microwave-assisted organic synthesis (MAOS). Here we describe mainly methods performed with instruments specially designed for MAOS, thus excluding synthesis per-... 

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-... 

Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Ring-Fused /V-Substituted 2-Pyridones... 

Nitroenamines and related compounds have been used for synthesis of a variety of heterocyclic compounds. Rajappahas summarized the chemistry of nitroenamines (see Section 4.2).140 Ariga and coworkers have developed the synthesis of heterocycles based on the reaction of nitropyridones or nitropyrimidinone with nucleophiles. For example, 2-substituted 3-nitro-pyridines are obtained by the reaction of l-methyl-3,5-dinitro-2-pyridones with ketones in the presence of ammonia (Eq. 10.82).141... 

Neo AG, Carrillo RM, Barriga S, Moman E, Marcaccini S, Marcos CE (2007) Multicomponent synthesis of highly substituted 2-pyridones. Synlett 2 327-329... 

Reactions involving the [4 + 1 + 1] principle, an example of which is shown in equation (136), are rather uncommon and of strictly limited utility [3 + 2 + 1] and [2 + 2 + 2] processes, on th,e other hand, are well known. Representative [3 + 2+1] three-bond formation processes are given in equations (137)—(141), from which it can be seen that the common situation is where ammonia, a substituted amine or formamide constitutes the one-atom fragment. Many [2 + 2 + 2] atom fragment syntheses are known and some are familiar reactions. Thus, the cobalt(I)-catalyzed condensation of nitriles and isocyanates with alkynes gives pyridines and 2-pyridones, often in excellent yield (e.g. equation 142), while the cyclotrimerizations of nitriles, imidates, isocyanates, etc., are well established procedures for the synthesis of 1,3,5-triazine derivatives (e.g. equation 143). Further representative examples are given in equations (144)-(147), and the reader is referred to the monograph chapters for full discussion of these and other [2 + 2 + 2] processes. Examination of the... 

The powerful 7V,7V-diethylcarbamate DMG serves admirably for the synthesis of substituted oxygenated pyridines. Thus, metalation of all isomeric pyridyl O-carbamates 317 with sec-BuLi/TMEDA followed by quench with numerous electrophiles affords diversely substituted products 318 in good to excellent yields (Scheme 96) (85JOC5436). Base-induced hydrolysis provides access to pyridones and hydroxypyridines. 

A synthesis of the monoterpene alkaloid ( )-actinidine has been accomplished through the intramolecular cycloaddition of a substituted pyrimidine (81JCS(P1)1909). Condensation of the diester (756) with formamidine provided the pyrimidine precursor (757) which when heated at its melting point (203 °C) underwent cycloaddition with elimination of isocyanic acid to produce the pyridone (758). Conversion of the pyridone into the chloropyridine was effected with phosphoryl chloride. The chlorine atom was then removed by hydrogenoly-sis over palladium on charcoal to afford the racemic alkaloid (759 Scheme 175). 

It is known that 3-aminobenzo[6]furan can be prepared from o-cyanophenols and a-halogenocarbonyl compounds with subsequent Thorpe cyclization (73JPR779). The extension of this synthesis to heteroatom substituted benzo[6]furans is straightforward (76JPR313). The reaction of potassium salts of 3-cyano-2-pyridones (e.g. 27) with a-halogenocarbonyl compounds (esters, ketones) yields 2-alkoxy-3-cyanopyridines which can be cyclized in the presence of sodium ethoxide to give 3-aminofuro[2,3-6]pyridines (Scheme 6). 

Numerous papers have been devoted to the synthesis of various derivatives of 2-pyridone, 4-pyridone, and aminopyridines based on enamines, di-enamines, dienediamines, and related compounds. For example, enamin-odiketones (153) can react with cyanoacetamide in tetrahydrofuran in the presence of sodium hydride with the formation of a substituted 3-cyano-2-... 

The aza-Diels-Alder reaction of Danishefsky s diene with imines provides a convenient method for the synthesis of 2-substituted 2,3-dihydro-4-pyridones, a compound class that has important synthetic applications. Kobayashi and co-workers have studied the reaction in detail using ytterbium (III) triflate as the Lewis acid30. Although the reaction is often run at low temperature (—78°C to 0°C) for a number of hours, we have found that the reaction also worked well at elevated temperatures (150°C) in the microwave for a few minutes (J. Westman and A. Hurynowics, unpublished results) (see Scheme 5.15). The imines could either be preformed prior to the addition of the Danishefsky s diene or the reaction could be performed as a multi-component protocol, where all components were added at once. 

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