Three component condensation, synthesis ketones

Linking the ketone and carboxylic acid components together in an Ugi reaction facilitates the synthesis of pyrrolidinones amenable to library design. The three-component condensation of levulinic acid 30, an amine and isocyanide proceeds under microwave irradiation to give lactams 31 [65]. The optimum conditions were established by a design of experiments approach, varying the equivalents of amine, concentration, imine pre-formation time, microwave reaction time and reaction temperature, yielding lactams 31 at 100 °C in poor to excellent yield, after only 30 min compared to 48 h under ambient conditions (Scheme 11). 

Three component condensation reactions (Gewald reaction) between an activated nitrile, ketone or aldehyde, and sulfur has been utilized to prepare a variety of a-aminothiophenes. Recent examples utilizing this condensation reaction include the synthesis of 4,5-dialkyl-2-... 

Boehm [363] has described for the first time the synthesis of oxygen-bridged tetrahydropyridones by a three-component condensation among coumarin-3-carboxylic acid, ketones, and primary amines. A solid-phase version of this reaction has recently been reported [364]. 1,3-Propylenediamine was immobilized onto chloro-trityl polystyrene resin (loading of 0.65 mmol g ). The supported amine (470) was then treated with coumarin-3-carboxylic acid and 8 different ketones in NMP/THF... 

It should be pointed out that this is the only effective method for the synthesis of amino quinoxahnes that can compete with any method based on the three-component condensation of 1,2-DAB, an aldehyde or ketone, and an isocyanide in the presence of a catalytic amount of p-TsOH, proposed and developed by Shaabani (2008) (see Sect. 2.2.11). 

Our own group is also involved in the development of domino multicomponent reactions for the synthesis of heterocycles of both pharmacologic and synthetic interest [156]. In particular, we recently reported a totally regioselective and metal-free Michael addition-initiated three-component substrate directed route to polysubstituted pyridines from 1,3-dicarbonyls. Thus, the direct condensation of 1,3-diketones, (3-ketoesters, or p-ketoamides with a,p-unsaturated aldehydes or ketones with a synthetic equivalent of ammonia, under heterogeneous catalysis by 4 A molecular sieves, provided the desired heterocycles after in situ oxidation (Scheme 56) [157]. A mechanistic study demonstrated that the first step of the sequence was a molecular sieves-promoted Michael addition between the 1,3-dicarbonyl and the cx,p-unsaturated carbonyl compound. The corresponding 1,5-dicarbonyl adduct then reacts with the ammonia source leading to a DHP derivative, which is spontaneously converted to the aromatized product. 

In 1961, Gewald and co-workers published the synthesis of poly-substituted thiophenes involving condensation of cyanoacetate and elemental sulphur with ketones or aldehydes in a three-component reaction (Scheme 5.9). Beyond their industrial use in dyes and conducting polymers, 2,5-substituted thiophenes have shown extensive potential in the pharmaceutical industry. Most published Gewald thiophene synthetic procedures require reaction times between 8 and 48 h for the condensation step. Hoener and... 

List gave the first examples of the proline-catalyzed direct asymmetric three-component Mannich reactions of ketones, aldehydes, and amines (Scheme 14) [35], This was the first organocatalytic asymmetric Mannich reaction. These reactions do not require enolate equivalents or preformed imine equivalent. Both a-substituted and a-unsubstituted aldehydes gave the corresponding p-amino ketones 40 in good to excellent yield and with enantiomeric excesses up to 91%. The aldol addition and condensation products were observed as side products in this reaction. The application of their reaction to the highly enantioselective synthesis of 1,2-amino alcohols was also presented [36]. A plausible mechanism of the proline-catalyzed three-component Mannich reaction is shown in Fig. 2. The ketone reacts with proline to give an enamine 41. In a second pre-equilib-... 

The Gewald reaction involves synthesis of 2-aminothiophenes via multicomponent condensation of a-methylene carbonyl compounds, cyano compounds, and sulfur. Recently, Tayebee et al. (2013) have successfully accomplished a rapid and efficient synthesis of 2-aminothiophenes (105) from ketones or aldehydes (103), malononi-trile (16), and sulfur (104) via a one-pot three-component Gewald reaction in the presence of a catalytic amount of ZnO nanoparticles (Scheme 9.31). The catalyst required for the reaction was synthesized through sedimentation of zinc acetate dihydrate in ethanol. 

An inherent advantage of the Petasis borono-Mannich reaction is the ability to conduct reactions in a three-component fashion, since the imine or iminium ion intermediates can be formed in situ from the condensation of either primary or secondary amines with the corresponding aldehydes or ketones. The operational advantages of such a three-component coupling approach, combined with the practical benefits outlined above, render the Petasis borono-Mannich reaction particularly desirable for parallel synthesis applications and in the generation of combinatorial libraries. In-... 

Sc(OTf)3 was found to be a versatile catalyst for multicomponent reactions such as Biginelli condensation [55] for the three-component synthesis of a-amino phosphonates [56], and benzothiazoline [57, 58]. A Catalytic amount of Sc(OTf)3 was sufficient for condensation of o-phenylenediamines with ketones to give 2,3-dihydro-IH-1,5-benzodiazepine derivatives in excellent yields under solvent-free conditions (Scheme 12.26) [59]. 

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