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• , . LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY LIBRARY AUTHOR/FILING TITLE :-- -__________ \tl_ L'=_1i !.~_)._~_f ______________ _ :-Ac:cEs-slor.. iicoPY--NO~---------------------------- . ! I 033,3/o'L. '-VOL~NO~------- -C-LASS-M-ARK------------- ------ [ ! . I Lo~ LE 0033731.020 111111111111111 1111111 1111I .. :' ~ ~ ~~ J;:~ \:··t~'f "':,;:~ ?". LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY NOVEL AMINOALKYLATION REACTIONS OF ELECTRON-RICH AROMATIC COMPOUNDS. by Robert F. Wilkins A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of: Doctor of Philosophy of the Loughborough University of Technology. Supervisor: Professor H. Heaney. © March 1990 Robert F. Wilkins. ~ L~ughbor~u;h' ~nJverslty i of Technol()QY l.lbrary 'r- - ! Date Oc.\.. '11) 11 Class il-.... ~-.~~------\l ~,~~~~--~:3~]}~L~.-1:- .. ~"I~\1~1'l To Mum, Dad and Jo, with love. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my sincere thanks to the following people for their help with this work: Professor H. Heaney for his guidance, encouragement and friendship during his supervision of my project: his enthusiasm was infectious; Mr. I. Downie for helpful discussions and occasional supervision; Dr. s.c. Eyley and Fisons p.1.c. (pharmaceutical Division) for spectroscopic services, elemental analyses and gifts of starting materials; Organic Specialities (Leicester) Ltd, for gifts of starting materials; Loughborough University for the project's financial backing; Mr. A. Daley, Mr. J. Kershaw and Mrs. H. Madha for technical support; Mr. M. Harris for 13C n.m.r. spectroscopic services; Mr. J. Greenfield for mass spectroscopic services; Julie. Mike and Joy for typing, and Mark for proof-reading this manuscript; George, Mark, Robin and Simon for their friendship and constant good humour; Jake and Elwood for their companionship whilst writing this manuscript; My wife Jo and my parents for their love. constant support and faith in my ability. ABSTRACT It has been shown that preformed methyleneiminium salts react readily with N-substituted pyrroles, and both furan and 2-methylfuran, to give Mannich bases in good yields. Furan itself has previously been reported not to undergo the Mannich reaction. Thus furan reacts with N,N-dimethyHmethyleneliminium chloride to give 2-<N,N-dimethyl aminomethyDfuran. Modification of these experimental methods has enabled Mannich reactions to be carried out in non-protic solvents whilst avoiding high concentrations of acid. Thus bis-<dialkylaminolmethanes <aminalsl and alkoxydialkyl aminomethanes <aminol ethers> were interacted with sulphur dioxide or chlorosilanes to generate reactive aminoalkylating species "in situ". Such species were then used to functionalise aromatic substrates. It has been demonstrated that a number of cyclic aminals and aminol ethers will function as Mannich reagents in "in situ" reactions. This type of reaction enables two functional groups to be simultaneously introduced into nucleophilic substrates. Thus 2-methylfuran will react with 1,3-dimethylimidazolidine in the presence of trichloromethylsilane to give N,N'-dimethyl-N-<5'-methyl-2'-furylmethyl)ethylene diamine which contains both secondary and tertiary amine groups. Similarly interaction of N-methylindole with 3-methyl-I,3-oxazolidine and a chlorosilane yields 3-<N'-2'-hydroxyethyl-N'-methylaminomethyD-N-methylindole, which has a tertiary amine substituent and a terminal alcohol functionality. The use of t-butylchlorodimethylsilane as the activating agent enables the said hydroxyl group to be simultaneously protected as its t-butyl dimethylsilylether. 5-methyl-2-<N-methylaminomethyl)furan was prepared by the removal of the hydroxyethyl substituent from 2-<N-2'-hydroxyethyl-N methylaminomethyD-5-methylfuran. The use of thionyl chloride as an activating reagent has enabled us to prepare methyl 2-<S'-methyl-2'-furyD-2-<N -2"-chloroethyl-N-methylamino) acetate, a racemic aryl glycine derivative, from 2-methoxycarbonyl-3-methyl- 1,3-oxazolidine, in a reaction with 2-methylfuran. CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE: Introduction 1 1.1 Scope of the Mannich Reaction 2 1.1.1 Mannich Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds 4 1.1.2 Mannich Reactions of Aliphatic Nitro-Compounds 11 1.1.3 Mannich Reactions of Acetylenes 12 1.1.4 Mannich Reactions of Cyc1opropanes 13 1.1.5 Mannich Reactions of Organometallic Substrates 15 1.1.6 Mannich Reactions of Phenols 15 1.1.7 Mannich Reactions of Arylamines 18 1.1.8 Mannich Reactions of Ferrocene 20 1.1.9 Mannich Reactions of Heterocyclic Substrates 20 1.2 Mechanism of the Mannich Reaction 26 CHAPTER TWO: Mannich Reactions Using Preformed Iminium Salts 33 2.1 Pyrroles 33 2.1. Mannich Reactions of Pyrroles 34 2.1.2 Preparation of Iminium Salts 40 2.1.2.1 From the Aminal 40 2.1.2.2 From the Aminol Ether 41 2.1.2.3 From the Amine Salt 42 2.1.3 Mannich Reactions of N-Methylpyrrole with Preformed Iminium Salts 44 2.1.4 Bis-aminoalkylation of N-Methylpyrrole 49 2.1.5 The Effect of Bulky N-Substituents on the Aminoalkylation of Pyrrole 50 2.2 Furans 53 2.2.1 Mannich Reactions of Furans 53 2.2.3 Mannich Reactions of Furans with Preformed Iminium Salts 56 CHAPTER 3: "In Situ" Mannich Reactions 67 3.1 Preparation of Aminol Ethers 68 3.2 "In Situ" Mannich Reactions Using Sulphur Dioxide 69 3.3 "In Situ" Mannich Reactions Using Silicon Reagents 71 3.4 "In Situ" Reactions of Aminol Ethers Derived from Acetic Acid 77 CHAPTER 4: Mannich Reactions of Oxazolidines 82 4.1 Preparation of 3-Substituted-l,3-oxazolidines 83 4.2 Furans 84 4.3 N-Methylpyrrole 87 4.4 Indoles 88 4.4.1 Mannich Reactions of Indoles 89 4.4.2 Reactions of Indoles Using 3-Substituted-I,3-oxazolidines 91 4.5 3-Substituted-l,3-oxazolidine from Ephedrine 93 4.6 Protection of the Alcohol Function 94 4.7 Conversion to the Secondary Amine 97 4.8 Mannich Reactions of 2-Substituted-3-methyl-I,3- oxazolidines 101 CHAPTER 5: Miscellaneous Mannich Reactions of Aromatic Species 109 5.1 Imidazolidines 109 5.2 Benzoxazines 113 5.3 Mannich Reactions of Aryltrialkylstannanes 116 5.4 Mannich Reactions Using Imines 124 EXPERIMENTAL 128 General Procedures 128 Chapter 2 Experimental 133 Chapter 3 Experimental 156 Chapter 4 Experimental 168 Chapter 5 Experimental 186 REFERENCES 204 ABBREVIATIONS. Ac Acyl Ar Aryl b.p. Boiling point Bu. Bun n-Butyl Bu' iso-Butyl But tert-Butyl CBz Benzyloxycarbonyl DBU 1.8-Diazabicyclol:5.4.Olundec-7 -ene DCM Dichloromethane DIBAL-H Di-iso-butylaluminium hydride DMAP 4-N,N-Dimethylaminopyridine DMF Dimethylformamide DMSO Dimethyl sulphoxide Et Ethyl HMPT Hexamethylphosphorus triamide hrs. Hours LA Lewis acid LDA Lithium di-iso-propylamide L.U.T. Loughborough University of Technology Me Methyl m.p. Melting point n.m.r. Nuclear magnetic resonance Pr l iso-Propyl Ph Phenyl p.p.m. Parts per million TBDMS tert-Butyldimethylsilyl THF Tetrahydrofuran TMS Tetramethylsilane p-TSA para-Toluenesulphonic acid CHAPTER ONE Introduction For many years, a -aminoalkylation has been recognised as an excellent method for introducing a single carbon atom into compounds containing an acidic hydrogen. The true potential of the reaction was first recognised by Mannich in the early 1900s, and hence this synthetic process bears his name. The widespread interest in the Mannich reaction stems from several aspects of the chemistry. In the reaction, a basic amine functionality is introduced, which, upon protonation or alkylation, yields a quaternary ammonium species, and thus confers solubility in hydroxylic solvents. Secondly, the Mannich bases thus formed have been shown to be quite reactive, and hence the amine may be readily converted into a wide variety of other functional groups. These processes may be performed chemically or biologically, and it is the latter area which has led to a thorough investigation of the pharmacological properties of Mannich bases. The Mannich reaction essentially consists of a condensation between an amine (or ammonia>, an aldehyde and a compound possessing one or more acidic hydrogens. Qassically, this type of reaction is carried out in water, alcohol or acetic acid, with the amine present in the form of its hydrochloride salt or free base. Formaldehyde (other aldehydes are rarelyusedHs introduced as an aqueous solutionor in one of its polymeric forms. A typical condensation is shown in Scheme 1. However, this type of methodology has serious drawbacks. A combination of long reaction times, high temperatures and high acid concentration often leads to reduced yields and unwanted side reactions. In recent years 1 i ii ) > Me-CO-CH2-CH2-NE~ 62-70%1 i. HCl, MeOH. reflux; ii. NaOH, H20. SCHEME 1 such problems have largely been overcome by the use of preformed iminium salts as aminoalkylating agents under relatively mild conditions. Reactions at lower temperatures in aprotic solvents have enabled highly functionalised substrates to undergo the Mannich reaction <Scheme 2). The increased selectivity of iminium salts as Mannich reagents has allowed certain transformations to be carried out regio- or stereo-specifically. 1.1 Scope of the Mannich Reaction The particular reaction which is reported to have led to Mannich's great interest in the aminoalkylation process is that between antipyrine salicylate (1), formaldehyde and ammonium chloride (Equation 1) 3. Since that time, a wide range of publications has given comprehensive coverage of the Mannich reaction, notably books by Reichert4 and by 5 6 Hellmann and Opitz , and a number of reviews by Blicke , Hellmann and 7 6 9 Opitz , Thompson and Tramontini • An overview of some of the more interesting work in this area since 1970 will appear in forthcoming reviewslO. 2 OH Me~yY0+O'r·Me i ) HOY····OHoy MeN N2 Cbz OH Me~yY0 H 0 ""Me ii ) HOY"OH O MeN +N Cbz 2 . Cbz ?H H MeNYYO ".·Me HOY"'OHO MeN Cbz SCHEME 2 In view of the considerable coverage which this work has enjoyed. this introduction will concentrate on giving a broad insight into the scope and mechanism of the reaction.