Tricycle ring system

There are three classes of such tricyclic ring system that can be included under this heading of azetoquinolines. However, examples of only one of them have been reported. 

The fusion of four membered-heterocycles with two heteroatoms onto face a of the quinoline offers two isomeric combinations of the tricyclic ring system l,2-heterocyclo[2,3-a]quinoline and l,3-heterocyclo[3,2-a]quinoline. The later one of these two ring systems is the only one that examples of it namely, l,3-thiazeto[3,2-a]quinoline have been reported. Moreover, examples of those fused on faces ij or j are not known (Fig. 3). 

This tricyclic ring system was prepared from the functionalized pyrazo[l,5-n]pyridines. Thus, pyrazo[l,5-n]pyridine-3-carboxylate 462 gave 465 upon mesylation and subsequent reaction with 2-ethoxy-2-lithioxyethy-lene, whose cyclization afforded 466 (94AP435). Intramolecular aldol... 

Scheme 10.1 gives some representative examples of laboratory syntheses involving polyene cyclization. The cyclization in Entry 1 is done in anhydrous formic acid and involves the formation of a symmetric tertiary allylic carbocation. The cyclization forms a six-membered ring by attack at the terminal carbon of the vinyl group. The bicyclic cation is captured as the formate ester. Entry 2 also involves initiation by a symmetric allylic cation. In this case, the triene unit cyclizes to a tricyclic ring system. Entry 3 results in the formation of the steroidal skeleton with termination by capture of the alkynyl group and formation of a ketone. The cyclization in Entry 4 is initiated by epoxide opening. 

Another example of an efficient domino RCM is the synthesis of the highly functionalized tricyclic ring system 6/3-72 by Hanna and coworkers [252], which is the core structure of the diterpene guanacastepene A (6/3-73) (Scheme 6/3.21) [253]. Reaction of 6/3-71 in the presence of 10 mol% of Grubbs II catalyst 6/3-15 led to 6/3-372 in 93 % yield. Interestingly, the first-generation Ru-catalyst 6/3-13 did not allow any transformation. 

The reactivity of fully conjugated tricyclic ring systems has been described throughout CHEC(1984) and CHEC-11(1996). The following reports aim to illustrate the range of reactivities illustrated by these systems. 

Aldehydes attached to the tricyclic ring system can be readily reduced on standard treatment with sodium boro-hydride as illustrated in (Equation 18) for the conversion of aldehyde 88 to alcohol 89 <1997JME2196>. 

This ring system is represented by tricyclic ring system 533 (76JHC1249). Reaction of 3-hydrazino[l,2,4]triazin-5-ones 531 with 3-imi-nobutyronitrile afforded 6-methyl- (or phenyl-) 3-[3-methyl-5-aminopyra-zolyl]-2,5-dihydro[l,2,4]triazin-5-ones 532A, which may exist in tautomeric form 532B. Its reaction with diethoxymethyl acetate (DEMA) or ortho-esters afforded the tricyclic compounds 533. 

A total synthesis of the sesquiterpene ( )-illudin C 420 has been described. The tricyclic ring system of the natural product is readily quickly assembled from cyclopropane and cyclopentene precursors via a novel oxime dianion coupling reaction and a subsequent intramolecular nitrile oxide—olefin cycloaddition (463). 

These chlorobenzocycloheptapyridines display pronounced selectivity for FTase over GGTase I. They show improved in vivo anti-tumor activity and pharmacokinetic profiles in mice when administered orally and inhibit H-Ras processing in Cos monkey kidney cells [43,44]. Extensive variation of the substituents on the piperidine moiety and the tricyclic ring system led to the devel-... 

Also, the intramolecular [3+2] cycloaddition approach can be used to generate several tricyclic ring systems 66-68 when the azide and the cyanamide functionalities are bonded to a carbocyclic ring <20010L4091> (Scheme 14). The relative stereochemistry of the starting materials is preserved in the products. While the yield of the m-fused 5-5-6 tricyclic ring system 66 is very high, the yield of the trans-fuseA products 67 and 68 is considerably lower as expected based on the unfavorable conformation for the cycloaddition process. The even lower yield for the tosylated and therefore activated derivative 68 was rationalized by its decreased thermal stability. 

The same research group has also published the synthesis of the related benzologue <2005BMC295>. The synthesis of this tricyclic ring system 157 has been accomplished in analogous way the indole-azine 156 was prepared first and was then reacted with isocyanates. 

Scheme 20.49 Formation of a strained tricyclic ring system.

FIGURE 8. MM2-85 calculated lp—N—C—H rotational potential curve (C in the tricyclic ring system) for 68, with a pseudoequatorial piperazine ring. The conformations A (dashed line) and B (solid line) are defined in Scheme 6. Reproduced with permission from Reference 108... 

The apparently latest total synthesis of a dolastane diterpene was published by Williams and coworkers in 1993 as a short communication (Fig. 16) [91]. (-)-Clavulara-l(15),17-dien-3,4-diol (129) was synthesized using a strategy that relied on the availability of the enantiomerically pure building block 162 from (+)-9,10-dibromocamphor (163) (Fig. 16). Cornerstones of the synthesis are a macrocyclization that afforded the 11-membered (A+B)C-ring (160) and a transannular cyclization that converted a bicyclic into a tricyclic ring system. Two of the seven chirality centres in the synthetic clavu-... 

The formal total synthesis of racemic guanacastepene (rac-187) from Snider and co-workers (Fig. 20) was submitted six months later than the completed synthesis of Danishefsky s group [116-118]. The shortest sequence developed by the Snider group utilized the sequential cuprate addition/enolate alkylation of 2-methylcyclopent-2-enone 90 previously exploited by Piers, Williams and Danishefsky (Schemes 15 and 31). As outlined in Figs. 19 and 20, the strategies of Danishefsky and Snider are closely related. Both rely on stepwise annulations to build up the tricyclic ring system. They differ only in respect to the particular reactions that converted the monocyclic starting material (90) via bicyclic hydroazulenes (207 vs 227) into the desired tricyclic 5-7-6-system (224). 

The key step employed a rhodium(l)-catalysed allenic Pauson-Khand reaction to generate the tricyclic ring system 276 from the allenyne 275. However, all attempts to introduced the missing methyl group by a 1,4-addition protocol failed to provide the completed neodolastane framework. Allenyne 275 was synthesized from the enone 274 by a multistep procedure. The quaternary atom was constructed by sequential enolate alkylations. 

In this series, three earlier reviews on carbazole alkaloids were published by Kapil (1), Husson (2), and Chakraborty (3) in the Volumes 13,26, and 44, respectively. The present chapter introduces a new classification of carbazole alkaloids and summarizes the recent synthetic efforts. The nomenclature of carbazole alkaloids used in this review is that of Chemical Abstracts. As shown in Scheme 1.1, the conventional tricyclic ring system of carbazole 1 is denoted by A, B, and C, and the numbering starts from ring A. The term carbazole generally refers to a 9H-carbazole. 

Another enantiospecific synthesis of longifolene was done starting with camphor, a natural product available in enantiomerically pure form (Scheme 13.26). The tricyclic ring system is formed in step C by an intramolecular Mukaiyama reaction. The dimethyl substituents are formed in the first step of sequence E by hydrogenolysis of the cyclopropane ring. The final step of the synthesis involves a rearrangement of the tricyclic ring system that is induced by solvolysis of the mesylate intermediate. 

Figure 4 Tricyclic ring systems present in compounds studied by X-ray diffraction.

In diastereomeric bi- and tricyclic ring systems containing three-membered rings, the 13C chemical shifts can vary considerably due to molecular orbital interactions with the cyclopropane electrons (see review s on this topic430,431). 

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