Vilsmeier-Haack

Vilsmeier-Haack conditions have been used most frequently for formylation but are also applicable to longer acyl chains[3]. Reactions with lactams generate 3-(iminyl)indoles which can be hydrolysed to generate co-aminoacyl groups as in equation 11.6 [4]. 

Section C of Table 11,5 gives some examples of Friedel-Crafts and Vilsmeier-Haack acylations of indoles. 

Acylation. Acylation is the most rehable means of introducing a 3-substituent on the indole ring. Because 3-acyl substituents can be easily reduced to 3-aLkyl groups, a two-step acylation—reduction sequence is often an attractive alternative to direct 3-aLkylation. Several kinds of conditions have been employed for acylation. Very reactive acyl haUdes, such as oxalyl chloride, can effect substitution directiy without any catalyst. Normal acid chlorides are usually allowed to react with the magnesium (15) or 2inc (16) salts. The Vilsmeier-Haack conditions involving an amide and phosphoms oxychloride, in which a chloroiminium ion is the active electrophile, frequentiy give excellent yields of 3-acylindoles. 

Acylthiophenes. Manufacturing methods introducing the carboxaldehyde group into the 2- or 5-positions of thiophene and alkylthiophenes utilise the Vilsmeier-Haack reaction. To synthesize 2-thiophenecarboxaldehyde (Table 5), a controlled addition of phosphoms oxychloride to thiophene in /V, /V- dim ethyl form am i de is carried out, causing the temperature to rise. Completion of the reaction is followed by an aqueous quench, neutralization, and solvent extraction to isolate the product. 

The most useful general method for the C-acylation of pyrroles is the Vilsmeier-Haack procedure in which pyrrole is treated with the phosphoryl chloride complex (55a, b) of an AiA-dialkylamide (54). The intermediate imine salt (56) is hydrolyzed subsequently under mildly alkaline conditions to give the acylated pyrrole (57). On treatment of the imminium salt (56 R =H) with hydroxylamine hydrochloride and one equivalent of pyridine and heating in DMF, 2-cyanopyrrole (58) is formed (80CJC409). 

No significant amounts of diacylated products are obtained under Vilsmeier-Haack conditions an indirect method for preparing pyrrole-2,5-dicarbaldehydes is outlined in Scheme 16 (78S295, 82CJC383). 

Furan can also be acylated by the Vilsmeier-Haack method. Acylation of furans can also be carried out with acid anhydrides and acyl halides in the presence of Friedel-Crafts catalysts (BF3-Et20, SnCU or H3PO4). Reactive anhydrides such as trifluoroacetic anhydride, however, require no catalyst. Acetylation with acetyl p-toluenesulfonate gives high yields. 

Thiophene is also readily acylated under both Friedel-Crafts and Vilsmeier-Haack conditions and similarly to pyrrole and furan gives 2-acylated products. An almost quantitative conversion of thiophene into its 2-benzoyl derivative is obtained by reaction with 2-benzoyloxypyridine and trifluoroacetic acid. The attempted preparation of 2-benzoylthiophene under standard Friedel-Crafts conditions, however, failed (80S139). 

Substituted pyrazoles are formylated (Vilsmeier-Haack reaetion) and aeetylated (Friedel-Crafts reaction) at C-4 (B-76MI40402). Both hydroxy and amino substituents in positions 3 and 5 facilitate the reaetion (80ACH(105)127,80CHE1), but the heteroatoms eompete with the C-substitution. For instanee, when the amino derivative (91 R = = Ph, R = H)... 

The stabilized phosphonium ylide (601) reacts with aromatic aldehydes to give N-phenacylpyrazoles (602) in good yields (73CC7). Ketone semicarbazones and ketazines react with two moles of phosphorus oxychloride-DMF, the Vilsmeier-Haack reagent, with the formation of 4-formylpyrazoles (603 R = H or PhC=CH2) (70JHC25, 70TL4215). 

Isoxazoles are presently known to undergo hydrogen exchange, nitration, sulfonation, halogenation, chloroalkylation, hydroxymethylation, Vilsmeier-Haack formylation, and mercuration. The Friedel-Crafts reaction on the isoxazole nucleus has not yet been reported. 

Friedel-Crafts acylation usually fails (72AHC(14)43), but 3-substituted l-methyl-2,1-benzisothiazole 2,2-dioxides can be acetylated at the 5-position (73JHC249). l-Methyl-2,1-benzisothiazol-3-one can be chlorsulfonated at the 5-position (78JHC529). Vilsmeier-Haack formylation causes cleavage of the isothiazole ring (80JCR(S)197). 

Benzisothiazole, 3-methyl-bromination, 6, 155 nitration, 6, 154 synthesis, 6, 171, 172 Vilsmeier-Haack reaction, 6, 149, 152... 

Vilsmeier-Haack formylation, 4, 222 Indole, dimethyl- C NMR, 4, 172 Indole, 1,2-dimethyl-bis-allylation, 4, 357 Indole, 1,3-dimethyl-nitration, 4, 211 reactions... 

UV spectroscopy, 4, 178, 179 vertical resonance energy, 4, 191 Vilsmeier-Haack formylation, 4, 221, 222 3H-Indoles... 

Vilsmeier-Haack formylation, 6, 26 Isoxazole, 3-anilino-nitration, 6, 22... 

Vilsmeier-Haack formylation, 6, 26 Isoxazole-3-thiol, 5-phenyl-reactions, 6, 57 Isoxazolethiols reactions, 6, 57 Isoxazole-3-thiols synthesis, 6, 57, 88 Isoxazole-5-thiols synthesis, 6, 88... 

Vilsmeier-Haack formylation, 4, 222 Pyrrole, 3-acetyl-oxidation, 4, 289 protodeaeetylation, 4, 208 synthesis, 4, 218... 

VILSMEIER - HAACK - VIEHE Reagent Formylation of aremalics, alkenes, activated H compounds by MeaN -CHCI Cl (Vilsmeier-... 

The classical Vilsmeier-Haack reaction is one of the most useful general synthetic methods employed for the formylation of various electron rich aromatic, aliphatic and heteroaromatic substrates. However, the scope of the reaction is not restricted to aromatic formylation and the use of the Vilsmeier-Haack reagent provides a facile entry into a large number of heterocyclic systems. In 1978, the group of Meth-Cohn demonstrated a practically simple procedure in which acetanilide 3 (R = H) was efficiently converted into 2-chloro-3-quinolinecarboxaldehyde 4 (R = H) in 68% yield. This type of quinoline synthesis was termed the Vilsmeier Approach by Meth-Cohn. ... 

Gupta et al. reported that the Vilsmeier-Haack cyclisation of acetanilides 20 using supported reagents and microwave-irradiation in solvent-free conditions is rapid and efficient. Reaction yields are good, although only a few activated derivatives have been investigated. 

An interesting variation of this procedure relies upon the formation of malondialdehyde precursors in situ. Vinylogs of Vilsmeier-Haack intermediates (60), formed from dimethylaminoacroleins (59) and phosgene, undergo reaction with 2,4,6-triaminopyrimidine to yield 6-alkyl- and 6-aryl-substitutcd 2,4-diaminopyrido[2,3-d]-pyri-midines (61). Dimethylaminoacroleins were found to be unsatisfactory. ... 

Vilsmeier-Haack and Friedel-Crafts reactions, bromination, debromination, debenzylation in indole series and their synthetic application 99YZ35. 

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