Zinc compounds cyclization

Aminoalkenes, oxidative cyclization, 10, 710-711 Aminoalkoxides, on zinc compounds, 2, 371 a-Aminoalkylallenes, cycloisomerizations, 10, 720 a-Aminoalkylcuprates, preparation, 9, 519-520 -Aminoalkylidynes, diiron carbonyl complexes with cyclopentadienyl ligands, 6, 248 Aminoalkynes, hydroamination, 10, 717 a-Aminoallenes, activation by gold, 9, 574 Amino r]5-amides, in Ru and Os half-sandwich rf3-arenes,... 

A variety of l,2,3,4-tetrahydro-j8-carbolines have been prepared from 3-piperidone phenylhydrazone derivatives. Used initially to obtain pentacyclic derivatives (35) related to the yohimbe alkaloids, this route was later extended to the synthesis of tetracyclic compounds (36). l-Methyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-j8-carboline (37) was prepared in low yield by heating cyclohexanone 2-methyl-3-pyridylhydrazone with zinc chloride, a synthesis probably based on the similar preparation of the tetracyclic compound 38 starting from the corresponding quinolylhydrazine. Abramovitch and Adams extended this approach to the cyclization of cyclohexanone 3-pyri-dylhydrazone (39) itself. The main product was 6,7,8,9-tetrahydro-8-carboline (40), a smaller amount of the j8-isomer (41) also being obtained. This provides a convenient and readily reproducible route to the otherwise difficultly accessible 8-carboline ring system. The favored attack at carbon-2 over carbon-4 of the pyridine nucleus... 

Reaction of aniline derivatives with 4-chlorobutyroyl chloride followed by cyclization with sodium ethoxide and subsequent thionation promoted by sonication gave the corresponding A -arylpyrrolidine-2-thiones 126. Zinc-mediated condensation of diethyl bromomalonate with 126 using iodine as activator gave the vinylogous urethanes 127 whose cyclization with PPA gave the tricyclic compound 128 which upon hydrolysis afforded the acid 129 (96TL9403). 

The alternative product from pyridine-3,4-diamine and ethyl acetoacetate, compound 12, is obtained by the base-catalyzed cyclization of the ester 11, which is formed from the diamine and ethyl acetoacetate in the presence of zinc(II) chloride.298... 

Reductive cyclization of 2-formyl-2 -nitrobiaryl compounds gives phenanthridine derivatives.136 The Stille coupling of nitroarylstannanes with 2-bromobenzaldehyde are used for the preparation of the requisite 2-formyl-2 -nitrobiaryls. Subsequent treatment of biphenyl derivatives with zinc dust in acetic acid gives the phenanthridine derivatives as shown in Eq. 10.80.137... 

The concept of five-membered ring heterocyclic synthesis by transformation of the initial adduct of the ADC compound and substrate is not limited to cyclization of substitution products. l,3,4-Oxadiazol-2-ones (30, Scheme 3) result from heating the initial DEAZD-dichlorocarbene adduct.72 Treatment of the Diels Alder adducts 96 with zinc in acetic acid gives pyrroles in good yield (Eq. 17).151 The reaction has been extended to the synthesis of dipyrroles from the appropriate Diels-Alder adduct (96, R = pyrrol-2-yl). 

Isomerization of allylic amines is another example of the application of the BINAP complex. Rh BINAP complex catalyzes the isomerization of N,N-diethylnerylamine 40 generated from myrcene 39 with 76-96% optical yield. Compound (R)-citronellal (R)-42. prepared through hydrolysis of (R)-41, is then cyclized by zinc bromide treatment.49 Catalytic hydrogenation then completes the synthesis of (—)-menthol. This enantioselective catalysis allows the annual production of about 1500 tons of menthol and other terpenic substances by Takasago International Corporation.50... 

The requisite hydroxylamine function for such cyclizations can also be generated from a precursor having a nitro group. This novel route has provided access to hitherto unknown l-hydroxy-6-allyl-, and -6,6-bisallyl-piperazine-2,5-diones (91UP1). The starting material is an W-nitroacetyl amino acid ester that can be either mono-or bis-allylated at the methylene adjacent to the nitro group. Reduction of the N02 to NHOH using zinc/ ammonium chloride, followed by cyclization, leads to the desired products (Scheme 76). Compound (215) is unique in that it possesses a chiral center at C-3 and a quaternary carbon at C-6 on a l-hydroxypiperazine-2,5-dione system. 

A number of reduction products of 2,8-dichloro-6,12-diphenyldibenzo[f>,/][l,5]diazocine (283) have been obtained (66JOC3356). LAH in ether gives mainly the frans-diphenyl-tetrahydro compound (282), whereas reduction in pyridine stops at the dihydro stage (284) (78%). Catalytic hydrogenation or zinc-acid reduction gives the tetracyclic indolo[3,2-6]indole system (286) which is readily oxidized back to the diazocine. Transannular cycliz-ation to (286) occurs on treatment of the dihydrodiazocine with NaH. Troeger s base derivatives, e.g. (287), were formed from the tetrahydro derivatives with formaldehyde. 

A more comprehensive study on the behavior of 5-acetylenic iodides in the presence of zinc was later reported21 and clearly revealed that when iodide 14 was treated with acid-washed zinc (pre-treated with Mel for activation and removal of traces of moisture) in a mixture of benzene and DMF, the acyclic organozinc iodide 21 and the cyclic vinyl iodide 22 were both produced. The amount of 22 increased significantly when the reaction mixture was sonicated rather than stirred or if a zinc-copper couple was used. The accumulation of compound 22 was consistent with its inability to be converted to an alkenyl organozinc species by reaction with metallic zinc under these conditions. However, no substantial cyclization of the open-chain organozinc 21 was observed. The formation of the five-membered ring compound 22 was attributed to a free-radical process... 

Both of the above approaches employed a metal ion as a template about which the corrin cyclization was performed, but the nickel or cobalt ions could not subsequently be removed. In order to obtain metal-free corrins, a new route was therefore devised (67AG865) which employed the novel principle of sulfide contraction (Scheme 22). Thus the sodium salt of the precorrin (284) (Scheme 23) was transformed into the thiolactam (285), and loose complexation with zinc(II) ions caused cyclization to give (286), which was treated with benzoyl peroxide and acid to give the ring-expanded compound (287). Contraction with TFA/DMF gave the corrins (288) and (289), and the major of these (289) was desulfurized with triphenylphosphine and acid to give (288). Finally, demetallation with TFA gave the required metal-free corrin (290), a source for a whole variety of metal derivatives. 

Thieno[3,2-c]pyridin-4-one (277) has been prepared by thermal cyclization of 2-thienyl-vinyl isocyanate (Scheme 73) (70BSB301). The derived chloro compound (278) can either be reduced by zinc-acetic acid to (260) or be readily converted into other derivatives by nucleophilic substitution of the halogen. The formation of 4-thiomethyl-6,7-dihydro-thieno[3,2-c]pyridine (280) by cyclization of the isothiocyanate (279) has also been reported (equation 23) (73GEP2318399). 

All four isomeric selenolopyridines which can be derived from benzoselenophene (423— 426 Scheme 123) have been described. Ethyl 3-hydroxyselenolo[2,3-fe]pyridine-2-carboxy-late (429) has been prepared as shown in Scheme 124 (73BSF704). Treatment of ethyl 2-chloropyridine-3-carboxylate with methaneselenol yields (427). Nucleophilic displacement of bromine in bromoacetic acid with subsequent loss of methyl bromide yields (428), which after esterification is cyclized under Dieckmann conditions to give (429). The parent compound (423 colorless oil with b.p. 92 °C/1 mmHg) is prepared either by cyclization of compound (430) and subsequent decarboxylation of the intermediate acid (equation 57) or by reduction of 2-nitroselenophene and subsequent condensation of the amino compound with malonaldehyde bis(diethyl acetal) in the presence of zinc chloride (equation 58) (76BSF883). Selenolo[3,2-6]pyridine (426 b.p. 127-129°C/10 mmHg m.p. 35.5-37.0°C) has been obtained in an analogous manner. 

Synthetically useful routes to dibenzo[c,e J[l,2]dithiins are normally based on cyclizations of biphenyI-2,2 -disulfonyl chlorides. A method applied successfully to the parent compound reduces the precursor with zinc in acetic acid to generate the bis thiol, which is then gently oxidized to the dithiin using iron(II) chloride (66HC(21-2)952). An alternative one-step reductive cyclization, which has been applied to the preparation of the 2,9- and 3,8-dinitro derivatives, involves reduction of the appropriate bis sulfonyl chlorides with hydriodic acid in acetic acid (68MI22600). Yet another reductive cyclization uses sodium sulfite followed by acidification, and these conditions lead to dibenzo[c,e][1,2]dithiin 5,5-dioxide. The first step of the reaction is reduction to the disodium salt of biphenyl-2,2 -disulfinic acid which, on acidification, forms the anhydride, i.e. dibenzo[c,e][l,2]dithiin 5,5,6-trioxide. This is not isolated, but is reduced by the medium to the 5,5-dioxide (77JOC3265). Derivatives of dibenzo[c,e] [1,2]dithiin in oxidation states other than those mentioned here are obtainable by appropriate oxidation or reduction reactions (see Section 2.26.3.1.4). 

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