Syntheses and Reactions of Some Cyclopropyl-Substituted Imines. Part 1.
作者:Pål Songe、Per Kolsaker、Christian Rømming、Margareta Törnqvist、Yngve Stenstrøm、Ruo-Hua Zhang、Kurt V. Mikkelsen、Alexander Senning
DOI:10.3891/acta.chem.scand.52-0790
日期:——
Quenching the reaction solution from cyclopropanecarbonitrile and cyclopropylmagnesium bromide in tetrahydrofuran (THF) with anhydrous NH3 gave an about equimolar mixture of dicyclopropyl ketimine (3) and 1,1-dicyclopropane-carboximidoylcyclopropane (4). Reactions of the ketimines 3 and 4 with some nucleophiles are described. Thus, reaction of 4 with malononitrile gave a good yield of 2-amino-3-cyano-5-(3,3-dicyanopropyl)-4,6-dicyclopropylpyridine (6). Neat 4, catalysed by MgCl2, gave a self-condensation product, 1,3,5,7-tetracyclopropyl-2,6,9-triazadispirobicyclo[3.3.1]nona-2,6-diene-4,1':8,1 "-dicyclopropane} (7), while an equimolar mixture of neat 3 and 4 with catalytic amounts of MgCl2 gave a mixed condensation product, 2',2',4',6',-tetracyclopropylspiro[cyclopropyl-1 ,5'-(1',5'-dihydropyrimidine)] (8). Hydrolysis of 4 at medium pH gave a mixture of 7 and the partly hydrolysed 4: 1-cyclopropanecarbonyl-1-cyclopropanecarboximidoylcyclopropane (10). Reaction of 3 with cyclopropylamine gave N-cyclopropyldicyclopropyl ketimine (11). Gas phase FTIR-spectra of 4 and 10 indicated intramolecular hydrogen bonds. The structures of 7 and 8 were established by single-crystal X-ray analyses. In the bicyclic compound 7 the apical nitrogen atom is pyramidal, making the structure asymmetric (both enantiomers present in the unit cell), as confirmed by solid-state C-13 NMR spectroscopy. On the other hand solution C-13 NMR shows a high degree of symmetry, explainable by rapid inversion at the apical nitrogen atom.