Tetrahydroquinoline alkylation

Reduction. Quinoline may be reduced rather selectively, depending on the reaction conditions. Raney nickel at 70—100°C and 6—7 MPa (60—70 atm) results in a 70% yield of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline (32). Temperatures of 210—270°C produce only a slightly lower yield of decahydroquinoline [2051-28-7]. Catalytic reduction with platinum oxide in strongly acidic solution at ambient temperature and moderate pressure also gives a 70% yield of 5,6,7,8-tetrahydroquinoline [10500-57-9] (33). Further reduction of this material with sodium—ethanol produces 90% of /ra/ j -decahydroquinoline [767-92-0] (34). Reductions of the quinoline heterocycHc ring accompanied by alkylation have been reported (35). Yields vary widely sodium borohydride—acetic acid gives 17% of l,2,3,4-tetrahydro-l-(trifluoromethyl)quinoline [57928-03-7] and 79% of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-l-isopropylquinoline [21863-25-2]. This latter compound is obtained in the presence of acetone the use of cyanoborohydride reduces the pyridine ring without alkylation. 

In a similar addition to l-methyl-2-alkyl-J -piperideines, l-methyl-8-alkyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolines (134) were obtained (Scheme 10) (163). 

Reactions of 3- and 4-piperidone-derived enamines with a dienester gave intermediates which could be dehydrogenated to tetrahydroquinolines and tetrahydroisoquinolines (678). The methyl vinyl ketone annelation of pyrrolines was extended to an erythrinan synthesis (679). Perhydrophenan-threnones were obtained from 1-acetylcyclohexene and pyrrolidinocyclo-hexene (680) or alternatively from Birch reduction and cyclization of a 2-pyridyl ethyl ketone intermediate, which was formed by alkylation of an enamine with a 2-vinylpyridine (681). 

The 6-methylacetylamino-l,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline, after nitration and separation of isomers, following reduction and deprotection, gave the 7-amino-6-methylamino derivative, which cyclized with cyanogen bromide. Alkylation of the cyclization products afforded inhibitors of thymidylate synthase, 5-substituted 2-amino-l//-l-methyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroimidazo[4,5-g]quinolines 136, designed for use in iterative protein crystal analysis (Scheme 42) (92JMC847). 

Various l-alkyl-4-(benzotriazol-l-yl)-l,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolines have been prepared by condensation of V-alkylaniline with two equivalents of an aldehyde and one equivalent of benzotriazole <95JOC(60)7631>. Quinolones 66 were simply prepared in good yield by heating a mixture of the appropriate vinylogous amide 65 and NaHCOj in the presence of a catalytic amount of palladium(II) acetate and triphenylphosphine in DMF under a carbon monoxide atmosphere <96CC2253>. 

Kwong and Lee [39] prepared various chiral 2,2 6, 2"-terpyridines and tested them as copper ligands for the cyclopropanation of alkenes. High enantioselectivities were obtained, the presence of bulky alkyl groups at the 8-position of the tetrahydroquinoline ring being crucial (structure 29 in Scheme 17). Thus when = Bu, up to 90% ee for the trans and 94% for the cis isomer were obtained by performing the reaction at 0 °C (transIds = 69/31). 

The antibacterial agent flumequine 280 was synthetized in optically active form by starting with resolution of the two enantiomers of a suitably substituted racemic tetrahydroquinoline through formation of the (lf )-3-bromocamphor-8-sulfonates. After N-alkylation of the (2K)-tetrahydroisoquinoline enantiomer 277 with diethyl ethoxymethylene-malonate to give 278, the quinolizidine system 279 was formed by acylation onto the peri-position. This compound was finally hydrolyzed to afford 280 (Scheme 60) <1999TA1079>. 

The preparation of quinoline and tetrahydroquinoline derivatives from metal carbonyl-catalyzed reactions of Schiff bases with alkyl vinyl ethers in... 

Sridharan V, Avendano C, Menendez JC (2007) CAN-catalyzed three-component reaction between anilines and alkyl vinyl ethers stereoselective synthesis of 2-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolines and studies on their aromatization. Tetrahedron 63 673-681... 

The procedure has also been applied for the hydroxylation of aromatic amines. Aniline and its /V-alkyl-substimted derivatives show similar behavior under similar conditions to afford the meta-substi tuted aminophenols as the major hydroxylated product.627 Product formation was interpreted by the attack of protonated hydrogen peroxide on the anilinium ion protected by /V-protonation from oxidation or degradation. Indoles, indolines, and tetrahydroquinoline have also been successfully hydroxylated with H202 in HF-SbF5 with the hydroxyl group meta to the nitrogen function.559,628 Hydroxylation of tryptophane and tryptamine derivatives affords pretonine and serotonine derivatives in 42% and 38% yields, respectively.629... 

The action of concentrated sulfuric acid at 0 °C on the geminal diazide 2 gives in high yield (> 90 %) the N-oxamoyl anthranilic acid 14 [72TH000], This compound can be further hydrolyzed to anthranilic acid 15 or converted into the ester 16. N-Alkyl derivatives of 2 behave in a similar manner cf. the conversion of 18 to 19. The latter compound may be easily degradated to 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline-l-carboxylic acid in the same way. Only the biphenyl derivative of 2 reacts differently and affords acridone 17 in 65 % yield. The cleavage of the C-3 - C-4 bond in these reactions is again noteworthy. 

Palladium chemistry has been used in the synthesis of tetrahydroisoquinolines. Different combinations of iodoaryl-amine-alkene can be used in these multicomponent reactions. For example, the metal-mediated o-alkylated/alkenyl-ation and intramolecular aza-Michael reaction (Scheme 109) give moderate yields of heterocycle <2004TL6903>, whereas the palladium-catalyzed allene insertion-nucleophilic incorporation-Michael addition cascade (Equation 172) produces good yields of tetrahydroisoquinolines in 15 examples <2003TL7445> with further examples producing tetrahydroquinolines (Scheme 110) <2000TL7125>. 

Because of the conjugation of the free electron pair on the nitrogen atom with the double bond, enamines react very readily with double bonds activated by electronegative groups. Addition of acrolein to l-methyl-2-ethylidenepyrrolidine, followed by dehydrogenation, led to 1,7-dimethylindole.260 In a similar addition to l-methyl-2-alkyl-d2-piperideines, l-methyl-8-alkyl-l,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolines (75) were obtained.38 In the reaction scheme, the starting bases are considered to react as the tautomeric l-methvl-2-alkvlidenepiperidines (74). 

These compounds usually show other reactions typical of their aliphatic analogues. 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroquinoline 575 (Z = NH) is an A-alkyl aniline chroman 575 (Z = 0) is an alkyl aryl ether. 

Figure 3-1. Structure of l-alkyl-6-cyano-l,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolines. In NTC6 (l-tertbutyl-6-cyano-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline), NMC6, and NME6, R = fBu, Me, and Et, respectively...

The Brpnsted acid catalyzed enantioselective hydrogenation of the corresponding readily available 2-substituted quinolines (for an interesting approach to 2-alkyl tetrahydroquinolines by an aza-xylene Diels-Alder reaction, see Steinhagen and Corey 1999 Avemaria et al. 2003), which we prepared by simple alkylation of 2-methylquinoline, generated the tetrahydroquinoline derivatives in excellent enantioselectivities and subsequent A-methylation gave the desired natural products in good overall yields (Fig. 5). 

Heald repeated the same reduction of 6-nitroquinoline (147) at a higher temperature and isolated 1-ethyl-l,2-dihydro-6-nitroquinoline (148), the product of reductive alkylation. With quinoline and NBH in carboxylic acids the Aralkyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline 149 is obtained. Use of sodium cyanoborohydride gives reduction but no alkylation (150). In the presence of acetone, l-isopropyl-l,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline (151) is the predominant compound. Quinoline W-oxides undergo deoxygenation, and some ring reduction with NBH. ... 

N.S. Mani and co-workers utilized the organoaluminum promoted modified Beckmann rearrangement during their efficient synthetic route to chiral 4-alkyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline. (4R)-4-Ethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline was obtained by rearrangement of the ketoxime sulfonate of (3R)-3-ethylindan-1-one. The resulting six-membered lactam product was reduced to the corresponding cyclic secondary amine with diisobutylaluminum hydride. 

Chelucci, G., Muroni, D., Pinna, G. A., Saba, A., Vignola, D. Chiral 2-(2-phenylthiophenyl)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroquinolines new N-S ligands for asymmetric catalysis. Palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation and copper-catalyzed cyclopropanation reactions. J. Mol. Catal. A Chemical 2003, 191, 1-8. 

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