Unsaturated lactam

A potential advantage of the Schmidt reaction is illustrated by the conversion of progesterone to the 17j5-acetylamino derivative, without affecting the A-ring. A 35 % yield is obtained when 1 mole of sodium azide in polyphos-phoric acid is used. With excess azide the A-ring is transformed into an a,jS-unsaturated lactam ... 

The hydroxamic acid function in most alicyclic and aromatic compounds is stable to hot dilute acid or alkali, and derivatives cannot undergo normal base-catalyzed Lessen rearrangement. Di Maio and Tardella," however, have shown that some alicyclic hydroxamic acids when treated with polyphosphoric acid (PPA) at 176°-195° undergo loss of CO, CO.2, or H2O, in a series of reactions which must involve earlj fission of the N—0 bond, presumably in a phosphoryl-ated intermediate. Thus, l-hydroxy-2- piperidone(108) gave carbon monoxide, 1-pyrroline (119), and the lactams (120 and 121). The saturated lactam is believed to be derived from disproportionation of the unsaturated lactam. 

The bicyclic compound (76) gave carbon dioxide, the saturated amine (122), and the unsaturated lactam (123). 

Diels-Alder reaction of dienophiles, N-allylic enamides and a,/l-unsaturated lactam derivatives with open chain and inner ring dienes is promoted by iodine [98]. Thus the cycloaddition of N-benzyl-N-methallyl acrylamide 147 with cyclo-pentadiene (1) proceeds smoothly in DMF at —78 °C in the presence of I2 (2 eq.) to give a prevalence of endo adduct l Vd) in 88% yield (Equation 4.17). 

The use of (TMSlsSiH with acyl selenides can also yield new C-C bond formation, as shown with the a,/l-unsaturated lactam ester (Reaction 67). The resulting ketone can be envisaged as potentially useful for the synthesis of 2-acylindole alkaloids. Both the effects of H-donating ability and steric hindrance by the silicon hydride are evident. 

Direct elimination of toluene-/>-sulfenic acid (/>-TolSOH) from 210 occurred during its purification using column chromatography on silica gel, to give the unsaturated lactam 211 (Scheme 26) <1990CL1547>. 

The application of olefin metathesis to the synthesis of piperidines continues to be widely employed. The use of ring closing metathesis (RCM) in the synthesis of fluorovinyl-containing a,P-unsaturated lactams 148 and cyclic amino acid derivatives 149 is shown below. A key improvement in these reactions is the addition of the Grubbs 2nd generation catalyst (G2) in small portions during the reaction to compensate for catalyst decomposition that occurs at elevated reaction temperatures <06EJOl 166>. 

The chiral reduction of -substituted a,/3-unsaturated lactams with PMHS in the presence of (S)-/ -Tol-BINAP as the chiral ligand with a copper catalyst results in -substituted lactams in excellent yield and with greater than 90% ee.599 This method has been applied in an efficient enantioselective synthesis of the antidepressant (-)-paroxetine (Eq. 356). 

Table 33. asymmetric organosilane reduction of a,p-Unsaturated Lactams... 

The [3+2] cycloaddition of trimethylenemethane (TMM) on the unsaturated lactam 288 worked efficiently with the use ofPd[P(0 Pr)3]4 (generated in situ from palladium(n) acetate (20mol%) and triisopropyl phosphite (160mol%)). The reaction proceeded cleanly in refluxing toluene to afford exclusively the desired cycloadduct 290 in 80% isolated yield (Equation 48) <2003TL5033>. 

The silyloxypyrrole 309 was prepared in 91% yield from the ,/3-unsaturated lactam 308 with TBDMSOTf and 2,6-lutidine (Equation 54) <1999TL2525>. Alternatively, the pyrrolo[l,2-f]oxazoles derivatives 311 were prepared by reaction between the stable bcnzotriazol-1 -yl(l //-pyrrol-2-yl)methanone 310 and various ketones (Equation 55) <2004JOC9313>. These two examples are the rare representatives of the pyrrolo[l,2-r ]oxazole ring system described in the literature to date. 

Silylation-promoted oxidationA new method for oxidation of 4-aza-3-ke-tosteroids (3) to the unsaturated lactams 4 involves DDQ (1 equiv.) as the oxidant and a silylating reagent (4 equiv.) such as bis(trimethylsilyl)trifluoroacetamide (2, BSTFA).2 An initial reaction at 20° results in an adduct of DDQ and 3, which on... 

Reductions of alkyl pyridones with lithium aluminum hydride or alane are very complex and their results depend on the position of the substituents and on the reducing reagent. Since the pyridones can be viewed as doubly unsaturated lactams with a,/J- and )i, -conjugated double bonds, the products result from all possible additions of hydride ion 1,2,1,4 or 1,6. Consequently the products of reduction are alkylpiperidines and alkylpiperideines with double bonds in 3,4 or 4,5 positions [449, 7755]. 

The use of the second-generation Grubbs catalyst or the Grubbs-Hoveyda catalyst (cat. Gr. H.) (Scheme 37) enables the synthesis of benzo-fused lactams 148 (09TA1154), 149 (05JOC5519), and a-amino-a, -unsaturated lactam 150a (08TL5141). 

On the other hand, a-aminolactam ester 399 is converted, by the decomposition of a-diazolactam intermediate 401, to unsaturated lactams 402a and b that finally yield epimeric mercaptomethyl inhibitors 403b and 404b (90TL815). 

Six years later, the same authors reported an improved version of their earlier synthesis of ellipticine (228) (527) (Scheme 5.197) by using the l-(p-methoxybenzyl)-5,6-dihydropyridone (1197) as 3,4-pyridyne surrogate (702,703). Thus, the dimethyl-furoindole 544 was treated with the unsaturated lactam 1197 (prepared from 5-valerolactam in three steps) in the presence of trimethylsilyl triflate (TMSOTf) to afford the carbazole 1199 as a single product in 40% yield. The low yield is presumably a consequence of decomposition of the intermediate adduct 1198 during... 

Cycloaddition to endocyclic unsaturation has been used by many researchers for the preparation of isoxazoUdinyl adducts with y-lactams derived from pyrogluta-minol and is discussed later in this chapter as a synthesis of unusual amino acids (Scheme 1.20, Section 1.6) (79,80). A related a,p-unsaturated lactam has been prepared by a nitrone cycloaddition route in the total synthesis of the fungal metabolite leptosphaerin (81). A report of lactam synthesis from acyclic starting materials is given in the work of Chiacchio et al. (82) who prepared isoxazolidine (47) via an intramolecular nitrone cycloaddition reaction (Scheme 1.11). 

In an interesting fragmentation reaction, the hexahydroazocine (23) is formed by solvolysis of (22) in the presence of NaBHt in 94% yield (75TL2613). A related compound (24) can be prepared from 4-cycloheptenone oxime tosylate via the unsaturated lactam (25) (79JOC287). Whereas (25) adds bromine to the double bond, (24) undergoes a transannular reaction to give a 1-substituted pyrrolizidine (26). The latter type of reaction also occurs... 

Similarly, five-membered unsaturated lactams,80 lactones81 84 and thiolactones85 afford 3-heterabicyclo[3.2.0]heptan-2-ones 27. 

Likewise, an unsaturated lactam afforded an oxepin 5 on gentle heating.69... 

IR spectra of the crystalline state and of carbon tetrachloride solutions can also give information about the structure of tautomers. In the crystalline state, the lactim structure is characterized by the vC=N band at 1620 cm-1 and the region between 3200-2100 cm-1 with partial maxima in carbon tetrachloride, vOH appears at 3525 cm-1. In compounds annellated with a benzene ring (except for 9), it is possible that the crystalline state consists of a mixture of the lactam and lactim tautomers (unsaturated lactam band at vC=0 1630-1640 cm-1 and vC=N at 1620 cm-1) however, these bands usually are not distinct. 

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