N-1-Naphthyl-3-oxobutanamide in Heterocyclic Synthesis: A Facile Synthesis of Nicotinamide,Thieno[2,3-b]pyridine,and Bi- or Tricyclic Annulated Pyridine Derivatives Containing Naphthyl Moiety

N-1-Naphthyl-3-oxobutanamide (1) reacts with arylidinecyanothioacetamide 2a–c in ethanol/piperidine solution under reflux to yield the pyridine-2(1H)-thiones 6a–c. Compound 6a reacts with α-haloketones 7a–e to give the 6-thio-N-1-naphthyl-nicotinamides derivatives 8a–e, which cyclized to thieno2,3-b]pyridine derivatives 9a–e. The reaction of compound 9a with hydrazine hydrate and formamide gives the thieno2,3-b]pyridine carbohydrazide derivative 10 and pyridothienopyrimidine derivative 11, respectively. Reaction of 9a with benzoyl isothiocyanate gave thiourea derivative 12. Compound 12, upon treatment with alcoholic NaOH, gave pyridothienopyrimidine 13. Saponifications of 9a gave the amino acid 15, which affords 16 when refluxed in Ac₂O. Treatment of compound 16 with AcONH₄/AcOH gave 17. Diazotization and self-coupling of 9b gave the pyridothienotriazine 18. Also, diazotization of the ortho-aminohydrazide 10 give the corresponding azide 19, which was subjected to Curtius rearrangement in boiling xylene to give imidazothienopyridine 20. Reaction of 10 with either formic acid or triethylorthoformate and phenyl isothiocyanate gave the corresponding pyridothienotriazepines 22 and 23, respectively. The interaction of 10 with acetylacetone furnished the pyrazolyl derivative 24. The structures of the synthesized compounds were established from their analytical and spectral data.