Sulfonamides, acidity reductive cleavage

This procedure illustrates a general method for the preparation of amines by reductive cleavage of sulfonamides by hydrobromic acid in the presence of phenol.9 The present synthesis makes 1,3-dihydroisoindole readily accessible and is superior in certain respects to the other two practical methods of preparation. Thus the method here described is shorter and gives a higher overall yield than the three-step synthesis of Neumeyer,7 and obviates the special apparatus and careful control required by the electrochemical process of Dunet, Rollet, and Willemart.4... 

The reduction of sulfonamides has been investigated in methanol [154, 246], DMF [247,249], and MeCN [248] the reductive cleavage of A -tosyl amino acids and peptides has been studied in methanol at pH 11 at different electrodes lead was the preferred material for deprotection [256,257]. 

A synthesis of Agelastatin A by Weinreb and co-workers featured the use of a 13 bis[2-(trimethylsilyl)ethylsuifonyl] sulfodiimide 137 2 as an enophile in a two-step allylic amination reaction [ heme 8.137]. The initial ene reaction produced a dipolar intermediate 1373 that underwent a [2,3] Sigmatropic shift to afford the SES-protected allylic amine derivative 137,4. Reductive cleavage of the N-S bond followed by cleavage of the Boc group with trifluoroacetic acid gave the sulfonamide 1373 in 50-60% overall yield. Final deprotection of the SES group with TBAF returned the desired amine 137,6 in 90% yield. 

Reductive Cleavage of Phthalides and Sulfonamides. 3-ArylphthaUdes can be readily cleaved reductively by means of TMSI (in situ generated) to give corresponding 2-benzyIbenzoic acids (eq 57) or 2-(2-thienylmethyl)benzoic acids. " ... 

With these solid supports in hand, we turned our attention to a new route to the synthesis of our target molecule 23 (Scheme 8). The tricky reductive amination should be replaced by an N-alkylation. To that end, bromoacetic acid is attached to 24c using DIC and Hiinig s base followed by the nucleophilic substitution with the corresponding benzy-lamine in DMSO/toluene (1 1), which can be easily monitored by the Beilstein test, followed by sulfonamide formation in DCM using N-methylmorpholine as base. For the final cleavage, 2% TFA in DCM is used and the resulting solution is filtered in a saturated NaHCC>3 solution to neutralise the acid before evaporation of the solvent. The crude product was then crystallised from ethyl acetate/heptane to yield the desired product in 27% yield overall and 99A% HPLC purity (see Table 4). 

The presence of the ortho-riiXro group allowed nucleophilic cleavage to liberate the desired amine [6]. An amidine linker [7,8] provided a resin bound amine that was stable to oxidative, reductive, and alkylative conditions. The use of 2-chlorotrityl resin proved to be useful for the preparation of a secondary amine library [9] as well as hydroxamic acids [10]. Tertiary amines were prepared by 1,4 addition to a resin bound acrylate followed quatemization and a retro-Michael reaction [11]. The p-nitrophenyl carbonate linker has been shown to be useful for the inunobilization of ben-zamidines [12] and for the synthesis of sulfonamides [13]. Sulfonamides and amides were also prepared using a halogenated Wang resin [14]. 

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