Synthesis and biological activity of bridgehead nitrogen heterocycles

The reaction of 3-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)-5-mercapto 1,2,4–1H-triazole with α-haloketones and with 1,2-dibromoethane leading to the formation of fused heterocycles were carried out and the orientation of cyclization was studied. The reaction of 3-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)-5-mercapto-4-amino-1,2,4-s-triazole with α-haloketones     

Synthesis of bridgehead nitrogen heterocycles from pyrylium salts and β-functionalized amines

β-Functionalized primary amines are converted by the 2-ethoxycarbonyl-4,6-diphenylpyrylium cation into the corresponding bicyclic salts 2 . The N-substituted 4,6-diphenylpyridine-2-thiones 6 undergo cyclization to the byciclic compounds 8 by action of methyl iodide.     

Synthesis of alpha-trifluoromethylated nitrogen heterocycles

The syntheses of various alpha-trifluoromethylated nitrogen heterocycles have been achieved from readily available alpha-(trifluoromethyl)homoallylamine through a ring-closing metathesis.     

Synthesis of heterocycles from molecular nitrogen as a nitrogen source

Nitrogen fixation is a very attractive process. We succeeded in nitrogen fixation using a TiCl₄‐ or Ti(O‐i‐Pr)₄‐Li‐TMSCl system. Nitrogen fixation proceeds at room temperature under 1 atmosphere pressure of nitrogen to give a mixture of titanium nitride complex 12 , titanium nitrogen complex 13 , and N(TMS)₄. Using the titanium nitrogen complexes 1 , various heterocycles were synthesized from the corresponding ketocarbonyl compounds. Nitrogen in air could be fixed using this method. The total syntheses of lycopodine and monomolin I were achieved from nitrogen in air as the nitrogen source. On the other hand, transmetalation of the nitrogen moiety of titanium nitrogen complexes 1 to a palladium complex was realized, and the non‐substituted anilines could be synthesized from ArX and N₂ in the presence of the palladium catalyst. Furthermore, amide could be synthesized from ArX, CO, and N₂ using the palladium catalyst.     

Dialkyl bicyclic heterocycles with a bridgehead nitrogen as purine analogs possessing significant cardiac inotropic activity

A number of 5,7-dialkyl-s-triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines and 5,7-dialkylpyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines and related heterocycles containing a bridgehead nitrogen have been prepared and studied as cardiovascular agents in the anesthetized dog. A number of these compounds have exhibited significant inotropic activity with little effect on heart rate. Especially active were 5,7-dialkyl-2-amino or 2-alkylthio-s-triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines. In contrast, highly polar purine analogs in these ring systems compounds such as 5,7-di-n-propyl-2-benzylthio-1,3,4-thiadiazolo[3,2-a]pyrimidine bromide 45 containing a charge on the bridgehead nitrogen, were inactive. The detailed structure activity relationship of the dialkyl derivatives of related ring systems are discussed. The presence of certain ring nitrogen atoms are vital to potent in vivo activity, presumably due to specific enzyme binding at these sites. Several of the compounds studied, showed oral activity and are excellent can-diates for further evaluation in man.     

Synthesis of nitrogen heterocycles by means of nitrenes

The intramolecular cyclization of heteroanalogs of 1,3-butadien-1-ylnitrenes, the expansion and contraction of the rings of hetarylnitrenes, the incorporation of nitrenes, and the intermolecular dipolar cycloaddition of acylnitrenes to unsaturated compounds, which leads to the formation of five-membered nitrogen heterocycles with several heteroatoms, are examined.See [1] for Part I.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 579–598, May, 1979.     

Synthesis of nitrogen heterocycles by means of nitrenes

The literature data on the synthesis of pyrroles, indoles, carbazoles, and other condensed systems containing a pyrrole ring and on their hydrogenated derivatives by means of nitrenes and potential precursors of the latter are correlated.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 291–305, March, 1978.     

Synthesis of bioactive nitrogen heterocycles from marine organisms

Recently many bioactive indole alkaloids have been isolated from marine organisms. Many of them have novel ring systems which are not found in the indole alkaloids isolated from higher plants and molds on the land. We have chosen β-carboline alkaloids, eudistomins and manzamines, as targets for total synthesis.     

Synthesis of nitrogen containing heterocycles over copper chromite

The reactions of 1,2-diaminopropane, 1-amino-2-propanol, 1-amino-2-ethanol and N-(-aminoethyl)-1,2-diaminoethane in the gas phase over copper chromite have been investigated with the objective of synthesising nitrogen containing heterocycles. At 240–360°C 1,2-diaminopropane gave principally methyl- and 2,5-dimethylpyrazine, whereas the basic reaction for 1-amino-2-propanol was dehydration to give 1-aminoethyl-2-methylaziridine (with a selectivity of up to 78%). The main cyclic product from the dehydration of 1-amino-2-ethanol was pyrazine, while piperazine was farmed together with pyrazine from N-(-amonoethyl)-1-2-diaminoethane.Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Riga, LV-1006. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 7, pp. 950–957, July, 1994.     

Synthesis of cryptands with one carbon and one nitrogen bridgehead atom

Two novel cryptands which each contains one carbon and one nitrogen atom at the bridgehead positions are synthesized and found to form strong complexes with lithium cations.     

Synthesis of annulated dihydroisoquinoline heterocycles via their nitrogen ylides

3,4-Dihydro-6,7-dimethoxyisoquinoline-1-acetonitrile reacts with some α-bromoketones in dry benzene to give the corresponding isoquinolinium salts, which undergo intramolecular cyclization to give pyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinolines. Cross-coupling of the latter compounds with some aryldiazonium chlorides resulted in the formation of 3-arylhydrazonopyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinolines, 3-arylazopyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinolines and 3-aryl-1,2,3-triazolo[5,1-a]isoquinolines, respectively. The structures of the products were established on the basis of their elemental and spectral analyses as well as X-ray single crystal studies.     

The electronic structure of some heterocycles with bridgehead nitrogen: photoelectron spectra and ab initio molecular orbital calculations

He(I) and He(II) photoelectron spectra are reported for the cycl[3,3,3]azine (1), cycl[3,2,2]azine (2), indolizine (6) and imidazo[1,2-a] pyridine (7), as well as He(I) spectra for related compounds (3–5). Ab initio molecular orbital calculations have been used to assign the spectra of 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7, and to give information about the nature of the π-electron energy levels. The first IP for 1 is singularly low (5.86 eV), and this has been interpreted in terms of occupancy of the 1a₁'' orbital which is normally vacant in related compounds. In the cyclazines, the nitrogen lone pair seems to be split into two π-levels.     

Diazabicycloalkanes with bridgehead nitrogen atoms

By heating 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)benzo[b]-1-azonium-4-azabicyclo-[2.2.2]octene halides in anhydrous solvents or via thermolysis, opening of the bicycle occurs with formation of the corresponding N-(2-hydroxyethyl)-N-(2-haloethyl)-1, 2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoxalines. In the presence of base, fission of the hydroxyethyl group principally occurs.For Communication 25, see [1].Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 8, pp. 1091–1094, August, 1992.     

Polycyclic nitrogen compounds. Part I. Synthesis of new heterotricyclic quinoxalinones with bridgehead nitrogen atoms

New tricyclic quinoxalinone skeletons with a fully-reduced ring ‘C’ -1,2,3,3a-tetrahydropyrrolo[1,2-α]quin-oxalin-4-one (I-II) and 7,8,9,10-tetrahydropyrido[1,2-α]quinoxalin-6-one (III-IV) derivatives were obtained by selective hydrogen transfer reductive cyclisation of N-(2-nitrophenyl)pyrrolidine-2-carboxylic acid esters and N-(2-nitrophenyl)piperidine-2-carboxylic acid esters (VIa,b and VIIIa,b), respectively.     

Synthesis and characterization of some nitrogen heterocycles from d-galactose derivatives

The tetrazoles 5-(6′-acetamido-6′-deoxy-1′,2′:3′,4′-di-O-isopropylidene-D-glycero-α-D-galactohexopyranos-6′-yl)tetrazole ( 1 ) and 5-(6′-acetamido-6′-deoxy-1′,2′:3′,4′–di-O-isopropylidene-L-glycero-α-D-galacto-hexopyranos-6′-yl)-tetrazole ( 2 ) were synthesized by the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of the epimeric α-acetamidonitriles 5 and 6 , respectively, with sodium azide. Reaction of tetrazole 1 with acetic anhydride in the presence of pyridine afforded the N-acetyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole derivative 3 and the N-acetylacetamido-1,3,4-oxadiazole derivative 7 . The N-acetylacetamido-1,3,4-oxadiazole derivative ( 8 ) was isolated when the tetrazole 2 was allowed to react under the same conditions. The physical and spectroscopic data of the five new compounds 1, 2, 3, 7 and 8 are presented.     

Hydroxypropyl substituted nitrogen bridgehead fused cyanopyridines

The reaction of 2-hetaryl-2-(tetrahydro-2-furanyliden)acetonitriles with substituted acetonitriles as C-nucleophiles has been investigated and the mechanism of the reaction has been suggested. A base promoted Michael addition of the substituted acetonitriles to 2-hetaryl-2-(tetrahydro-2-furanyliden)acetonitriles followed by ring transformations has provided novel convenient synthetic methods to nitrogen bridgehead fused cyanopyridines bearing hydroxypropyl side chain. The structures of obtained compounds have been established based on NMR spectroscopy investigation and X-ray diffraction data.     

S-demethylation of nitrogen heterocycles

When 3-chloro-4,5-diaminopyridazine ( 2 ) was treated with sodium methylmercaptide in refluxing N,N-dimethylformamide, two heterocycles were formed and isolated, neither of which was the expected 3-methylthio-4,5-diaminopyridazine ( 3 ). A thorough spectral analysis of these heterocycles showed them to be 4-methylthioimidazo[4,5-d]pyridazine ( 5 ) and imidazo[4,5-d]pyridazine-4-thione ( 6 ). N,N-Dimethylformamide was found to provide the one carbon unit required for the formation of 5. The origin of 6 was shown to be a result of S-demethylation of 5. S-Demethylation of 3 could also be effected with sodium methylmercaptide in methyl sulfoxide without the occurrence of annulation. In methyl sulfoxide the process of demethylation was accelerated and occurred at lower temperature.