Vinylogous salts

The salts (29) condense with quartenary salts of heterocycHc bases containing an activated methyl group to yield the polycarbocyanines (30), where = 4 or 5 (73). Higher vinylogous dyes (30), hexa- and heptacarbocyanines (n = 6 or 7), have been synthesized by analogous methods (106). 

The vinylogous 3,5-hexadien-2-one (16) adds in a 1,4 cycloaddition with zl -dehydroquinolizidine (17) to form compound 18 (26). A similar 1,4-cycloaddition reaction takes place between pyrylium salts and the pyrrolidine or morpholine enamines of cycloalkanones (26a). 

Sodium borohydride reduction of 4-substituted isoquinolinium salts led to vinylogous cyanamides, ureas, and urethanes, as well as the corresponding tetrahydroquinolines (640). Hydrogenation of /8-acylpyridinium salts (641) to vinylogous ureas was exploited in syntheses of alkaloids (642), leading, for instance, to lupinine, epilupinine, and corynantheidine (643, 644). Similarly, syntheses of dasycarpidone and epidasycarpidone were achieved (645) through isomerization of an a,/0-unsaturated 2-acylindole and cyclization of the resultant enamine. 

Alkylation of enamines with epoxides or acetoxybromoalkanes provided intermediates for cyclic enol ethers (668) and branched chain sugars were obtained by enamine alkylation (669). Sodium enolates of vinylogous amides underwent carbon and nitrogen methylation (570), while vicinal endiamines formed bis-quaternary amonium salts (647). Reactions of enamines with a cyclopropenyl cation gave alkylated imonium products (57/), and 2-benzylidene-3-methylbenzothiazoline was shown to undergo enamine alkylation and acylation (572). A cyclic enamine was alkylated with methylbromoacetate and the product reduced with sodium borohydride to the key intermediate in a synthesis of the quebrachamine skeleton (57i). 

The addition of isocyanides and azide to aldehyde-derived enamines has led to tetrazoles (533,536). On the other hand the vinylogous amide of acetoacetic ester and related compounds reacted with aldehydes, isocyanides and acids to give a-acylaminoamides (534). Iminopyrrolidones and imino-thiopyrrolidones were obtained from the addition of cyclohexylisocyanide and isocyanates or isothiocyanates to enamines (535). An interesting method for the formation of organophosphorus compounds is found in the reactions of imonium salts with dialkylphosphites (536). 

From the same point of view, 4-pyrones (8a) or 2-pyrones are anhydro bases of 4-hydroxypyrylium (9) or 2-hydroxypyrylium salts. Vinylogs (10) and phenylogs (12) (violones, after Dilthey and Burger ) of these systems are known, whose conjugate acids are monocyclic pyrylium salts (11 and 13). 

Reduction of unsaturated carbonyl compounds to the saturated carbonyl is achieved readily and in high yield. Over palladium the reduction will come to a near halt except under vigorous conditions (73). If an aryl carbonyl compound, or a vinylogous aryl carbonyl, such as in cinnamaldehyde is employed, some reduction of the carbonyl may occur as well. Carbonyl reduction can be diminished or stopped completely by addition of small amounts of potassium acetate (i5) to palladium catalysts. Other effective inhibitors are ferrous salts, such asferroussulfate, at a level of about one atom of iron per atom of palladium. The ferrous salt can be simply added to the hydrogenation solution (94). Homogeneous catalysts are not very effective in hydrogenation of unsaturated aldehydes because of the tendencies of these catalysts to promote decarbonylation. 

The condensation of aromatic aldehydes with anhydrides is called the Perkin reaction When the anhydride has two a hydrogens (as shown), dehydration always occurs the P-hydroxy acid salt is never isolated. In some cases, anhydrides of the form (R2CHC0)20 have been used, and then the hydroxy compound is the product since dehydration cannot take place. The base in the Perkin reaction is nearly always the salt of the acid corresponding to the anhydride. Although the Na and K salts have been most frequently used, higher yields and shorter reaction times have been reported for the Cs salt. Besides aromatic aldehydes, their vinylogs ArCH=CHCHO also give the reaction. Otherwise, the reaction is not suitable for aliphatic aldehydes. ... 

Our own research group [11] has been interested in using vinylogous iminium salt derivatives for the preparation of highly functionalized pyrroles, thereby providing another alternative to the synthesis of lukianol A. 

The 2-substituted l,3-thiazin-6-thiones 33 and 34 and 160 and 161 are accessible by reacting 3,3-dichloroprop-2-ene iminium salts (vinylogous Viehe salts) with thiobenzamide or WA -disubstituted thioureas (Scheme 11) <1997S573>. The ring closure occurs with loss of amine as the hydrochloride salt and the thiones are generated after a reaction with another thioamide molecule. 

Scheme 29). Presumably, the two additional carbons come from 1 equiv of Meldrum s acid and the hydrogens derive from the solvent. A similar Meldrum s acid with two conjugated exocyclic double bonds was obtained from the reaction of Meldrum s acid with vinylogous Viehe salt in 93% yield <1997S573>. A polymer-bonded Meldrum s acid for solid-phase synthesis was also reported <2004CHJ212>. 

Only very few papers report the oxidation of 4-substituted pyridinium salts (58CPB615 59JOC196 70JPC2027). Substituents in positions 2 and 4 might be expected to react similarly due to their vinylogous relationship to each other. This was, however, not confirmed for most of the numerous compounds studied (82UP1). 

The reaction of indolizines with aldehydes and ketones in the presence of acids yields coloured salts, two of which (43 and 44) are given here for illustration. The salts (45) and (46) have been obtained from the reaction of the pertinent indolizines with formaldehyde and glyoxal respectively. Polymethine dyes, some of which have found application in photography, have been prepared from indolizines and malondialdehyde derivatives or vinylogous dialdehydes (47) was prepared from 1,2-dimethylindolizine and /3-ethoxy-acrolein diethyl acetal (48). 

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