Pyrrole Chemistry. XV. The Chemistry of Some 3,4-Disubstituted Pyrroles

1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 1089-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kington Groves ◽  
Niven Eddy Cundasawmy ◽  
Hugh John Anderson

The syntheses of a variety of 3,4-disubstituted pyrroles including the antimitotic agent Verrucarin E are described. 3,4-Pyrroledicarboxylic esters were prepared through a Diels–Alder reaction. Partial hydrolysis of the diesters gave the 4-ester-3-acids which were modified to achieve the synthesis of a variety of unsymmetrically 3,4-disubstituted pyrroles. Raney nickel reduction of a thiolester gave hydroxymethyl under conditions which left acyl or carbalkoxy substituents unaffected. Pyrrole reactions involving carbanionic reagents are complicated by 1-proton abstraction. Therefore, when necessary, the nitrogen was protected by an N-benzyloxymethyl substituent which can be cleaved to the N-hydroxymethyl derivative by aluminum chloride or by hydrogenolysis. Subsequent treatment with benzyltrimethylammonium hydroxide gave back the pyrrole.

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Gomes ◽  
Juliana Pereira ◽  
João Ravasco ◽  
João Vale ◽  
Fausto Queda

The Diels-Alder (DA) reaction of biomass derived furans is an emerging technology for the preparation of new molecular entities and “drop-in” commodity chemicals. In this work we address the challenge of the direct use of electron-poor furanic platforms as dienes through the use of an unexplored chitin derived furan, 3-acetamido-5-acetylfuran (3A5AF). The 3-acetamido group promoted a remarkable increase in the kinetics of the DA allowing for the preparation of 7-oxanorbornenes (7-ONB) at 50 ºC. Partial hydrolysis of the enamide to hemi-acylaminals was possible upon fine tuning of the reaction conditions, disabling retro-DA processes. Finally, DA reaction of the reduced form of 3A5AF allowed quantitative formation of 7-ONB in aqueous condition after 10 minutes. Certanly these are the first steps for expanding the toolbox of chitin derived 3A5AF as diene.


1983 ◽  
Vol 36 (12) ◽  
pp. 2473 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Moursounidis ◽  
D Wege

Diels-Alder reaction between furan and α-chloroacrylonitrile gives a mixture of exo-2-chloro-and endo-2-chloro-7-oxabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-5-ene-2-carbonitrile (4) and (5). Mild hydrolysis affords the corresponding α-chloro acid mixture, from which the endo carboxylic acid may be removed through iodo lactone formation. Catalytic hydrogenation of (4) and (5) followed by hydrolysis, acyl azide formation, Curtius rearrangement, and hydrolysis of the resulting mixture of a-chloro isocyanates yields 7-oxabicyclo[2.2.l]heptan-2-one (1) in preparatively useful amounts. Reduction of (1) gives only endo alcohol, and Baeyer-Villiger reaction proceeds with exclusive bridgehead atom migration. Thermal decomposition of the sodium salt of the p-toluenesulfonylhydrazone of (1) affords 7-oxatricyclo[2.2.1 .02,6]heptane.


1970 ◽  
Vol 48 (9) ◽  
pp. 1472-1474 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Bansal ◽  
A. W. McCulloch ◽  
A. G. McInnes

Aluminum chloride accelerates the Diels–Alder reactions of 2- or 2,5-substituted N-carbomethoxypyrroles with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate, and also catalyzes rearrangement of the N-carbomethoxy-7-azanorbornadiene adducts to 6- and 4,6-substituted dimethyl N-carbomethoxy-3-aminophthalates. Aromatization of the corresponding adduct of N-carbomethoxypyrrole only occurs on prolonged treatment with BF3. The procedure promises to be a convenient route for the synthesis of polysubstituted anilines.


1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 974-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. H. Werstiuk ◽  
S. Yeroushalmi ◽  
Hong Guan-Lin

A group of bicyclic ketones and thiones have been synthesized for homenolization studies. Bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-2,5-dione (6) undergoes unusually rapid tetramethylation giving 3,3,6,6-tetramethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-2,5-dione (1) in good yield. Treatment of 1 with P2S5 in xylene gave 3,3,6,6-tetramethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-2,5-dithione (2) and 3,3,6,6-tetramethyl 15-oxo-bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-2-thione (3), which was converted into 4 with Raney nickel. Bicyclo[2,2,2]octane-2,5-dione (7), prepared via a Diels–Alder reaction between 2-trimethylsilyloxy-1,3-cyclohexadiene and and α-acetoxyacrylonitrile followed by a one-step desilylation/hydrolysis, also undergoes facile tetramethylation giving 3,3,6,6-tetramethylbicyclo[2.2.2]octane-2,5-dione (5) in good yield. AM1 calculations were carried out on the α-enolates of bicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one, 6, 5-methylidenebicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one, and 4-acetylbicyclo[2.2.1]-heptan-2-one in an attempt to gain information on the source of the enhanced acidity of the C-3 hydrogens of 6 and 7. Keywords: bicyclic ketones, thiones, synthesis.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Kirchhof ◽  
Andrea Strasser ◽  
Hans-Joachim Wittmann ◽  
Viktoria Messmann ◽  
Nadine Hammer ◽  
...  

Degradation of Diels–Alder hydrogels occurs by retro-Diels–Alder reaction followed by OH−-catalyzed ring-opening hydrolysis of maleimide groups to unreactive maleamic acid derivatives.


1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Rozek ◽  
Tomas Rozek ◽  
Dennis K. Taylor ◽  
Dennis K. Taylor ◽  
Edward R. T. Tiekink ◽  
...  

The boron triacetate assisted Diels Alder reaction between racemic 5,5-dimethyl-3-vinylcyclohex- 2-enyl acetate and 5-hydroxynaphthoquinone yields the racemic 11-hydroxy-3,3-dimethyl-7,12-dioxo- 1,2,3,4,6,6a,7,12,12a,12b-decahydrobenzo[a]anthracen-1-yl acetate as the sole stereoisomer by regio- and stereo-selective cis endo addition. Aromatization of the Diels Alder adduct followed by hydrolysis of the acetate and oxidation of the resultant 1-hydroxy group gives the target angucyclinone, 11-hydroxy-3,3-dimethyl-1,2,3,4,7,12-hexahydrobenzo[a]anthracene-1,7,12-trione, in an overall yield of 37% from 5-hydroxynaphthoquinone. The regio- and stereo-selectivity of the Diels Alder addition is confirmed by a combination of 13C n.m.r. spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.


1995 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 593 ◽  
Author(s):  
JH Buttery ◽  
J Moursounidis ◽  
D Wege

Alkylation of 2-furylmethanethiol (28) with propargyl chloride gave the thioether (22) which on methoxycarbonylation afforded the acetylenic ester (30). On heating, this material underwent an intramolecular Diels -Alder reaction to give the tricyclic compound (32). In the presence of 3,6- di (pyridin-2′-yl)-s- tetrazine , (32) afforded methyl 4,6-dihydrothieno[3,4-b]furan-3-carboxylate (38) by a sequence involving a further Diels -Alder reaction followed by two reverse Diels-Alder reactions. The ester (38) could be dehydrogenated to give methyl thieno [3,4-b]furan-3-carboxylate (40) while hydrolysis of (38), followed by decarboxylation and dehydrogenation delivered the parent thieno [3,4-b]furan (5). 3-Methyl-4,6-dihydrothieno[3,4-b]furan (46) and 3-methylthieno[3,4-b]furan (47) were prepared; a comparison of the 4JMe-C=C-H coupling constants in the 1H n.m.r . spectra of (46) and (47) suggests that an increase in the C2-C3 furyl bond order accompanies the (46) → (47) conversion. Methyl 4,6-dihydrofuro[3,4-b]furan-3-carboxylate (39), 4,6-dihydrofuro[3,4-b]furan (27) and methyl 4,6-dihydro-6-phenylfuro[3,4-b]furan-3-carboxylate (53) were prepared by an analogous tandem reaction sequence. These compounds could not be dehydrogenated to the fully conjugated furo [3,4-b]furan ring system.


1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (7) ◽  
pp. 995-1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Yates ◽  
N.K. Bhamare ◽  
Thierry Granger ◽  
T.S. Macas

Ethyl E-5-(4-ethyl-2-hydroxyphenyl)-2-pentenoate (7), prepared in four steps from m-ethylphenol (9), was converted via Wessely oxidation with lead tetraacetate followed by intramolecular Diels–Alder reaction in boiling xylene to ethyl 1-acetyloxy-6-ethyl-2,3,3a,4,5,7a-hexahydro-8-oxo-1,5-methano-1H-indene-anti-4-carboxylate (16). Hydrogenation of 16 followed by mild hydrolysis gave ethyl 6-ethyloctahydro-1-hydroxy-8-oxo-1,5-methano-1H-indene-anti-4-car-boxylate (24), which on oxidation with periodate gave 4-(ethoxycarbonyl)-6-ethyloctahydro-1-oxo-1H-indene-5-car-boxylic acid (26). Oxidative decarboxylation of this gave a mixture of ethyl 6-ethyl-2,3,3a,6,7,7a-hexahydro-1-oxo-1H-indene-4-carboxylate (31) and ethyl 6-ethyl-2,3,3a,4,7,7a-hexahydro-1-oxo-1H-indene-4-carboxylate (32); the latter was converted to the former by ethanolic sodium ethoxide. Hydrolysis of 31 with hot hydrochloric acid gave (±)-coronafacic acid (4).


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