With Cyanogen

When Finger and Zeh heated methyl anthranilate with ethyl cyanoform-imidate [NC—C(NH)OEt], they obtained a product352 that was later shown to be 2-ethoxyquinazolin-4-one.318 The 2-methoxy analog (185) was prepared similarly.353 

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Treatment of quinoline with cyanogen bromide, the von Braun reaction (17), in methanol with sodium bicarbonate produces a high yield of l-cyano-2-methoxy-l,2-dihydroquinoline [880-95-5] (5) (18). Compound (5) is quantitatively converted to 3-bromoquinoline [5332-24-1], through the intermediate (6) [66438-70-8]. These conversions are accompHshed by sequential treatment with bromine in methanol, sodium carbonate, or concentrated hydrochloric acid in methanol. Similar conditions provide high yields of 3-bromomethylquinoHnes. 

The N-oxides of isoquinolines have proved to be excellent intermediates for the preparation of many compounds. Trialkylboranes give 1-alkyl derivatives (147). With cyanogen bromide in ethanol, ethyl N-(l- and 4-isoquinolyl)carbamates are formed (148). A compHcated but potentially important reaction is the formation of 1-acetonyLisoquinoline and 1-cyanoisoquinoline [1198-30-7] when isoquinoline N-oxide reacts with metbacrylonitrile in the presence of hydroquinone (149). Isoquinoline N-oxide undergoes direct acylamination with /V-benzoylanilinoisoquinoline salts to form 1-/V-benzoylanilinoisoquinoline [53112-20-4] in 55% yield (150). A similar reaction of AJ-sulfinyl- -toluenesulfonamide leads to l-(tos5larriino)isoquinoline [25770-51-8] which is readily hydrolyzed to 1-aminoisoquinoline (151). 

Charge-transfer complexes occur with cyanogen iodide, tetracyanoethylene, and oxygen (63—65). 

Azoles can form stable compounds in which metallic and metalloid atoms are linked to nitrogen. For example, pyrazoles and imidazoles Af-substituted by B, Si, P and Hg groups are made in this way. Imidazoles with a free NH group can be Af-trimethylsilylated and Af-cyanated (with cyanogen bromide). Imidazoles of low basicity can be Af-nitrated. 

Degradation ol tertiary amines to secorxlary amines with cyanogen bronMe (BrCN). 

When the benzenesulfinates were substituted with electron-withdrawing groups, e.g., p-nitro- and p-cyanobenzenesulfinate, the yields were slightly improved when the reaction time with cyanogen chloride was lengthened to 1 hour. 

Whereas sulfonyl halides have been known for a long time and, especially the chlorides, have become of great synthetic value, sulfonyl cyanides were unknown until 1968. They were first prepared by van Leusen and co-workers from the reaction of sulfonylmethylenephos-phoranes with nitrosyl chloride. The same group also investigated part of their chemistry. Since then, two more, completely different, methods of synthesis were published from sulfinates with cyanogen chloride,and by the oxidation of thiocyanates. ... 

Dendrobine methiodide is convertible into the methohydroxide, m.p. 251° dec.). With cyanogen bromide cyanonordendrobine, m.p. 188°, was obtained, from which nordendrobine, m.p. 117-8°, — 21-6°... 

C. Reaction of Enamines of 3-Ketones with Cyanogen Azide... 

The pyrrolidine enamine of 2-tetralone (177) was converted to l-cyano-2-tetralone, which exists almost entirely in the enolic form (178), by reaction with cyanogen chloride (J23). Reaction of 177 with cyanogen bromide gave N-naphthylpyrrolidine (179), presumably via the unstable bromoenamine (180). The latter observation is in accord with the mode of reaction of the heterocyclic enamine (126) with cyanogen bromide, which resulted in the... 

Diaminopyrimidines (22) were also cyclized with cyanogen bromide (90JHC851) or phenyl isothiocyanate (97PHA753) to give the corresponding 2-amino- or 2-anilino-l,2,4-triazolo[l,5-c]pyrimidines 30 and 31 respectively (Scheme 15). 

A particularly interesting example of this method of synthesis is the cy-clrzation of the 4-amino-3-(2-aminophyenyl)-l,2,4-triazoloes 73 with cyanogen bromide. Primarily, this reaction was applied to synthesize the 6-amino-l,2,4-triazolo[4,3-d]benzodiazepine hydrobromides 74 the obtained products, however, were found to be the l,5-diamino-l,2,4-triazolo-[l,5-c]quinazolin-ium bromides 77. Structure elucidation of 77 was accomplished by direct... 

The hydroxy group of furazan 263 reacted with cyanogen bromide in glyme in the presence of Li2C03 to give cyanate 264 in 70-85% yield (97MI8). Upon treatment with Mc4NN3 and subsequently with a basic solution of hydroxylamine-0-sulfonic acid, /V-aminotetrazole 265 was obtained in 35% yield (Scheme 171). 

The proposed structure of 97 isolated from broiled sardines was confirmed by straightforward synthesis starting from5,6-diaminoquinolines. After reaction with cyanogen bromide it afforded the 2-amino-imidazo[4,5-/]quinolines 99 (R = H, Me), which was then converted into its 3-A-methyl derivative 100 by... 

Independent synthesis of IQ, eliminating the alkylating reaction step, involved the cyclizations of 7-R-5-amino-6-methylaminoquinolines with cyanogen bromide. When " C-labeled BrCN was used, the corresponding 2- " C-labeled analogues of IQ and MelQ were synthesized (83ACSI57). The diamines are available from 5-nitroderivatives, which in turn have been prepared by nitration of methylami-noderivatives (82CPB1857). 

The 6-methylacetylamino-l,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline, after nitration and separation of isomers, following reduction and deprotection, gave the 7-amino-6-methylamino derivative, which cyclized with cyanogen bromide. Alkylation of the cyclization products afforded inhibitors of thymidylate synthase, 5-substituted 2-amino-l//-l-methyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroimidazo[4,5-g]quinolines 136, designed for use in iterative protein crystal analysis (Scheme 42) (92JMC847). 

Similarly, the regiospecific 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of 1-methyl-1,2-dihydropyridines 41 with cyanogen azide (50a) and selected organic azides 50c and 50g afforded 2-methyl-2,7-diazabicyclo[4.1.0]hept-4-enes 57, which can be elaborated to 1-methyl-l,2,5,6-tetrahydropyridylidene-2-cyanamide (58) and 1-methyl-2-piperidylidenes 59a-d (85CJC2362). 

The prototype of this series is synthesized by first reacting morphine with cyanogen bromide. This reagent in effect serves to replace the methyl group by cyano. Hydrolysis of the intermediate (11) affords desmethylmorphine (12). Alkylation of the last with allyl bromide affords nalorphine (13). ... 

The key to clinical agents in this series, the secondary amine, 65, is obtained by a sequence analogous to that used to obtain desmethymorphine. Thus, the phenol (63) is first acetyl-ated (64), and then demethylated by treatment with cyanogen bromide hydrolysis gives the desired aminophenol (65). Alkylation... 

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