Synthesis of 2,3-Disubstituted Indoles via Palladium-Catalyzed Annulation of Internal Alkynes
作者:R. C. Larock、E. K. Yum、M. D. Refvik
DOI:10.1021/jo9803277
日期:1998.10.1
The palladium-catalyzed coupling of 2-iodoaniline and the corresponding N-methyl, -acetyl, and -tosyl derivatives with a wide variety of internal alkynes provides 2,3-disubstituted indoles in good-to-excellent yields. The best results are obtained by employing an excess of the alkyne and a sodium or potassium acetate or carbonate base plus 1 equiv of either LiCl or n-Bu4NCl, occasionally adding 5 mol % PPh3. The yields with LiCl appear to be higher and more reproducible than those obtained with n-Bu4NCl. The process is quite general as far as the types of substituents which can be accommodated on the nitrogen of the aniline and the two ends of the alkyne triple bond. The reaction is quite regioselective, placing the aryl group of the aniline on the less sterically hindered end of the triple bond and the nitrogen moiety on the more sterically hindered end. This methodology readily affords 2-silylindoles, which can be easily protodesilylated, halogenated, or reacted with alkenes and Pd(OAc)(2) to produce 3-substituted indoles, 2-haloindoles, or 2-(1-alkenyl)indoles, respectively. The presence of alcohol groups in the alkyne seems to have a particularly strong directing effect, perhaps due to coordination with palladium. This catalytic process apparently involves arylpalladium formation, regioselective addition to the C-C triple bond of the alkyne, and subsequent intramolecular palladium displacement.
Reactions of N-acylated indoles with singlet oxygen
作者:Xiaojun Zhang、Christopher S. Foote、Saeed I. Khan
DOI:10.1021/jo00053a014
日期:1993.1
Reactions of seven N-acyl indole derivatives with singlet oxygen have been investigated. 1-Acetyl-(1a) and 1-(chloroacetyl)-2,3-dimethylindole (1b) gave exclusively 1-acetyl-(2a) and 1-(chloroacetyl)-2-hydroperoxy-3-methyleneindoline (2b), respectively, in high yields via ene reaction on irradiation with oxygen in the presence of TPP sensitizer. 1-Acetyl-3-methylindole (1c) gave only 1-acetyl-2-hydroperoxy-3-methyleneindoline (2c) in low yield under the same conditions. In contrast, 1-acetyl-2-methyl-3-ethylindole (3a) and 1-acetyl-2-methyl-3-isopropylindole (3b) gave a mixture of ene products, 2-hydroperoxy- and 3-hydroperoxyindolines (4a and b and 5a and b), in addition to 2,3-bond cleavage products 6a and 6b, respectively. In the case of 1-acetyl-2-methyl-3-tert-butylindole (7), only the product of 2,3-bond cleavage (8) was obtained. A 1,2-dioxetane is intermediate in the cleavage and could be observed after photooxygenation of 7 at -5-degrees-C by NMR and was reduced by trimethylphosphite and dimethyl sulfide. The decomposition rate constant of 1,2-dioxetane 10 was measured by NMR; E(a) is 24.6 kcal/mol.
1,2-Dioxetane formation in photooxygenation of N-acylated indole derivatives
作者:Xiaojun Zhang、Christopher S. Foote
DOI:10.1021/jo00072a042
日期:1993.9
Eight N-acylated indole derivatives (1a-h) react with singlet oxygen at low temperature (-5 to -78-degrees-C) in methanol-d4 or methanol-d4-methylene chloride-d2 to afford 1,2-dioxetanes 2a-h, whose structures are characterized by low-temperature C-13 NMR and H-1 NMR spectra and chemical transformations. These strained 1,2-dioxetanes decompose smoothly and exclusively to dicarbonyl cleavage products 3a-h upon warming to room temperature.
Dimethyldioxirane oxidation of indole derivatives. Formation of novel indole-2,3-epoxides and a versatile synthetic route to indolinones and indolines