Synthetic path

Another category Ic indole synthesis involves cyclization of a-anilino aldehydes or ketones under the influence of protonic or Lewis acids. This corresponds to retro.synthetic path d in Scheme 4.1. Considerable work on such reactions was done in the early 1960s by Julia and co-workers. The most successful examples involved alkylation of anilines with y-haloacetoacetic esters or amides. For example, heating IV-substituted anilines with ethyl 4-bromoacetoacetate followed by cyclization w ith ZnClj gave indole-3-acetate esterfi]. Additional examples are given in Table 4.3. 

Important synthetic paths to azirines and aziridines involve bond reorganization, or internal addition, of vinylnitrenes. Indeed, the vinylnitrene-azirine equilibrium has been demonstrated in the case of trans-2-methyl-3-phenyl-l-azirine, which at 110 °C racemizes 2000 times faster than it rearranges to 2-methylindole (80CC1252). Created in the Neber rearrangement or by decomposition of vinyl azides, the nitrene can cyclize to the p -carbon to give azirines (Scheme 4 Section 5.04.4.1). 

Formal Diels-Alder additions of dienesters (111,332-335) and dien-ketones (336) to enammes have provided synthetic paths which may be applied to some natural products syntheses. However, a reaction of tetra-cyclone (330) gave only the cyclopentenone, rather than a Diels-Alder adduct. 

For the preparation of compounds with an aromatic isoxazole system, two synthetic paths are of high importance first the condensation to form the 1—5 and the 2—3 bonds of the isoxazole ring (I—>2) and second that to form the 1—5 and 3—4 bonds of this... 

The CpCo complexes, on the other hand, should be more stable due to the presence of the robust and bulky Cp-shield. Unfortunately, however (tetraiodo-cyclobutadiene)CpCo is not available, and there is no obvious synthetic path to make it. But maybe another way to produce CpCo-stabiHzed tetraethynylated cyclobutadiene complexe exists It is known, that 22 a undergoes a rearrangement to 22 d when subjected to the conditions of flash vacuum pyrolysis at elevated temperatures [24]. The driving force behind this rearrangement is twofold first, the steric strain between the two adjacent TMS groups is removed in 22d and second, the TMS groups in 22d are not bound to an -hybridized center but to an sp-hybridized one, which is a more favorable situation from a thermodynamic point of view. 

By minimizing inventories of hazardous material, for example through just in time production the consequences of any accident will inevitably be reduced. As discussed above, storage of MIC was responsible for Bhopal and its use could have been avoided by using an alternative synthetic path phosgene, however, is required in both routes. Sometimes it is impossible (with current knowledge) to eliminate the use of a highly... 

The procedures described in this symposium by Brooks and by Dailey represent new synthetic paths with several advantages for scaled-up synthesis. The procedures described by Pepperman outline improvements or modifications in a path suggested by Sih (5). 

The first effective strategy is the introduction of axial assistant coordination ligands to the central metal atoms of Pcs [25-48]. The synthetic paths of this type of... 

Protonation of the carbonyl oxygen is as yet only recognized in a couple of cases (34,35). Even though O-alkylation and perhaps 0-protonation open up useful synthetic paths in metal carbonyl chemistry, their main interest for the purposes of this survey is their intermediacy in the further reduction of CO. 

Impressive, highly ordered centimetre-sized fibres are obtained whose synergistic growth mechanism based on the kinetic cross-coupling of a dynamical supramolecular self-assembly and a stabilizing silica mineralization may well be the basis of the synthetic paths used by Nature to obtain its materials with well-defined multiscale architectures in biological systems. 

Obviously the determination of nd can be of help in the synthetic path. It is interesting to note that the substitution of the central benzene ring in dendrimers of the type illustrated in Scheme 7 for a [Fe( 5-C5H5) (>76-C6R6)]+ group affords dendrimers of the type illustrated in Scheme 8.49... 

A number of synthetic methods are useful for tropoids fused to different heterocyclic rings. These will be comprehensively treated in Sections II,A and II,C, where preference is given structurally simple examples. Sections II,B and II,D, respectively, will contain special synthetic paths to individual fused heterocyclic rings. 

Many studies have been published in which new synthetic paths for 1,3-oxazinium and 3-azapyrylium salts as well as novel transformations of these compounds have been described. Such results permit one to consider the chemistry of 1,3-oxazinium cations to be a productive research field that deserves the attention of synthetic chemists. 

Schmidt 90) succeeded in 1968 in preparing S7, the first sulfur ring with an odd number of atoms. The synthetic path employed for preparing Sg and S12 does not provide high yields, thus a new method had to be found. The reaction... 

The main advances in analysis of organolithium compounds are related to their structural characterization by instrumental methods. These rely heavily on NMR spectroscopy and, when possible, on crystallographic methods, although other spectroscopic and physicochemical techniques are occasionally employed. A modern approach to the solution of complex analytical problems involves, in addition to the evidence afforded by these experimental techniques, consideration of quantum mechanical calculations for certain structures. The results of such calculations support or deny hypothetical assumptions on structural features of a molecule or possible results of a synthetic path. The following two examples illustrate these proceedings. 

The critical evaluation of the different synthetic paths is difficult if the chemical nature of the systems is not further specified. However, some simple rules may be formulated, remembering that the edges in systems A—J represent relatively long chains. These rules are, of course, not absolute, and exceptions may be found under various circumstances. 

The synthetic paths of fluorinated porphyrins (fluorine atoms or fluoroalkyl chains) are numerous and depend on the fluorination site (periphery or meso position). These syntheses are performed through the use of fluoroalkylated pyrroles, through DAST fluorination, or through direct perfluoroalkylation. Some examples are given next. 

Reports on the new syntheses of six-membered ring systems with two oxygen and/or sulfur atoms in 1,2-positions are rather limited and are covered already in Section 8.10.9. Often, only one really successful synthetic path has been described or the derivatives obtained were simply by-products. Thus, a comparison of various synthetic strategies for obtaining certain dioxane/oxathiane/dithiane derivatives is not meaningful. 

Similarly, the mixed homodetic/heterodetic bicyclic structures containing a disulfide bridge are preferably produced as monocyclic compounds that are then typically oxidized in solution adopting standard procedures as described in Section 6.1.1 (Scheme 23, path Bl). If even disulfide formation is performed on resin by the procedures reported in Section 6.1.2, an additional level of selective protection is required for the cysteine thiol functions. The synthetic paths Bl and B2 are also applicable for the synthesis of type II and III bicyclic peptides, independent of whether only lactam bridges are produced or mixtures of lactam/ disulfide bridges. 

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