Sulfone, Cyclopropyl

A large number of cyclopropanes have been synthesized from cyclopropyl sulfones, cyclopropyl sulfoxides and cyclopropyl sulfides by taking advantage of the acidity of the cyclopropyl proton a to the C-S bond. Butyllithium is used almost exclusively as the base. The cyclopropyl anions obtained are capable of reacting with alkyl halides, aldehydes, enamines, epoxides, esters. 

Substitution of the -methyl group of penicillanic acid sulfone has also been extensively investigated. The cyclopropyl sulfone (25, R = R = H,... 

Fonnation of allylic products is characteristic of solvolytic reactions of other cyclopropyl halides and sulfonates. Similarly, diazotization of cyclopropylamine in aqueous solution gives allyl alcohol. The ring opening of a cyclopropyl cation is an electrocyclic process of the 4 + 2 type, where n equals zero. It should therefore be a disrotatory process. There is another facet to the stereochemistry in substituted cyclopropyl systems. Note that for a cri-2,3-dimethylcyclopropyl cation, for example, two different disrotatory modes are possible, leading to conformationally distinct allyl cations ... 

Aryl 3-chloropropyl sulfones 231 were shown to cyclize to aryl cyclopropyl sulfones upon treatment with t-BuOK in r-butanol283 or with sodium amide in 1,2-dimethoxyethane284. Bird and Stirling285 investigated the reaction of aryl 3-chloropropyl... 

Bromo-l-propenyl phenyl sulfone (104) can serve as a Michael acceptor to Grignard reagents to give cyclopropyl phenyl sulfones in good yields, (equation 85)70. Cyclopropanes prepared by this method are listed in Table 8. However, with methyl, ethyl or t-butyl... 

Grignard reagents, no detectable amount of cyclopropyl sulfones is formed. 

TABLE 8. Preparation of cyclopropyl sulfones from 104 and Grignard reagents70... 

Cyclopropyl sulfones were shown to be obtained either by cyclization of y-p-tosyloxy sulfones 232 with base or by treatment of phenylsulfonylacetonitrile 233a or ethyl phenyl sulfonyl acetate 233b with 1,2-dibromoethane in the presence of benzyltriethyl-ammonium chloride (BTEA) and alkali in good yields. Chang and Pinnick synthesized various cyclopropane derivatives 234 upon initial treatment of carbanions derived from cyclopropyl phenyl sulfone with either alkylating agents or a carbonyl compound and subsequent desulfonylation, as shown below. 

In comparison to sulbactam, penam sulfones 12a and b exhibited excellent activity against TEM-1 and AmpC enzymes, respectively, with over 2500-fold improvement against the class C enzyme. Within the same series, 12a and 12b are appreciably more potent than their corresponding diastereomers. In particular, they are potent against the AmpC enzyme suggesting the stereochemical preference of the alkoxy substituent of the cyclopropyl ring, which plays a critical role in binding with the enzymes. Further, in vitro evaluations in a cell-based assay (MIC) established the effectiveness of 12a. hi... 

Numerous y-secretase inhibitors featuring sulfonamide- and sulfone-based scaffolds have been disclosed. Bicyclononane thiophene sulfonamide 40 reduced brain Ap in transgenic mice by 50% after a dose of 100 mg/kg [100]. High potency (A p IC50 = 0.5 nM) and improved oral activity (ID50 = 17 mg/kg) was found in a series of related sulfamides represented by 41 [101]. Tetrahydroquinoline (42) and piperidine (43-44) sulfonamides have been developed [102-104]. Elaboration of the piperidine series with the cyclopropyl substituent present in 44 improved in vitro potency (Aft IC50 = 2.1 nM in membrane assay) and in vivo activity in transgenic mice (plasma Ap = 2% of control after oral dose of 30 mg/kg). Reductions of A p in the cortex were reported to be comparable to those observed in plasma. 

For example, the fact that ions of m/z [90 + R]+ and [104 + R]+ arise directly from the molecular ions of sulfones (Scheme 5.20) confirms a transformation with a new C-C bond formation between carbon atoms of the small ring and of the second benzene ring prior to the fragmentation of the M+. In this case the cyclopropyl moiety (maybe iso-merized) retains the charge and unpaired electron and attacks the second aromatic ring by a nucleophilic or radical mechanism. 

Sulfuryl chloride isocyanate with 1 gave the expected )5-lactam 177 only as a minor product, the principal product being the y-lactam derivative 178. It is reasonable to assume that the 1,4-zwitterionic intermediate 176 is responsible for the formation of 177 and 178 (Scheme 39) [104,130]. Sulfonation of 1 with SO3 also proceeds with ring opening of one of the cyclopropyl groups to give quantitatively the spirocyclopropane-y-sultone 179 (Scheme 39) [76,132]. 

Substituted cyclopropyl rings conjugated with a triple bond system have recently received attention as C5 building blocks. The procedure described here is a modification of the decarboxylation-elimination reaction for the preparation of a.3 acetylenic acids from enol sulfonates of acyl malonates. Addition of aqueous alkali to the enol sulfonate of diethyl cyclopropyl carbonyl malonate gives cycl opropyl propiol ic acid, but the yield is 1 ow. 

Optically pure methylenecyclopropanes 59 were synthesized from cyclopropyl sulfones 58 and the carbenoid, iodomethylmagnesium chloride, in moderate to good yields (equation 15). ... 

The synthesis of cyclopropyl compounds containing the olefin replacement for the amide bond but without the additional primary chiral amino substituent were prepared by modified Julia olefination procedures. Addition of the benzothiazole sulfone 44 to aldehyde 39 gave trityl protected olefins in a 1 1 ratio. These... 

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