Synthesis of Polycyclic Lactams and Sultams by a Cascade Ring-Closure Metathesis/Isomerization and Subsequent Radical Cyclization

Cyril Bressy; Christine Menant; Olivier Piva

doi:10.1055/s-2005-862386

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Synthesis of Polycyclic Lactams and Sultams by a Cascade Ring-Closure Metathesis/Isomerization and Subsequent Radical Cyclization

Cyril Bressy, Christine Menant, Olivier Piva*
Université Claude Bernard LYON I, UMR 5181 CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique-Photochimie et Synthèse, Bat Raulin, 43, Bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
Fax: +33(4)72448136; e-Mail: piva@univ-lyon1.fr;

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Starting from readily available substrates, a new one-pot procedure has been devised to prepare polycyclic lactams and sultams. 2-Pyrrolines obtained from N,N-bisallylamides by ring-closure metathesis and subsequent isomerization promoted by ruthenium hydride complexes can undergo radical cyclization to furnish polycyclic lactams in good yields. The process was successfully conducted on bisallylsulfonamides to give the corresponding sultams.

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polycyclic lactams - 2-pyrrolines - ring-closure metathesis

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Preparation of the N , N -Bisallylamides 2.
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Metathesis and Isomerization of Amides 2, Typical Procedure.
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Radical Cyclization of Amides 7, Typical Procedure Described from Amide 7a.
A solution of amide 7a (100 mg, 0.4 mmol) in toluene (40 mL) containing small amounts of AIBN (7 mg, 0.04 mmol) was bubbled by a dried stream of nitrogen for 10 min and heated to reflux. A solution of tristrimethylsilylsilane (140 µL, 0.44 mmol) in toluene (10 mL) was carefully added drop by drop in 15 min. The reaction was heated for additional 6 h. The solvent was removed by concentration and the crude mixture was purified by flash chromatography on silica (eluent: EtOAc-hexanes 50:50) and gave lactam 10a.
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Compound 12c (62%): white solid; mp 103-109 °C. ¹H NMR (CDCl₃): δ = 1.40-1.85 (m, 4 H), 2.03 (dt, J = 11.3, 3.0 Hz, 1 H), 2.28 (dd, J = 3.0, 11.3 Hz, 1 H), 3.02 (dt, J = 3.2, 11.3 Hz, 1 H), 3.86 (dt, J = 10.2, 2.7 Hz, 1 H), 4.20 (dd, J = 3.2, 11.3 Hz, 1 H), 7.37 (dd, J = 1.1, 7.5 Hz, 1 H), 7.50 (t, J = 7.5 Hz, 1 H), 7.58 (dt, J = 1.1, 7.5 Hz, 1 H), 7.79 (d, J = 7.5 Hz, 1 H). ¹³C NMR (CDCl₃): δ = 23.9, 24.3, 30.5, 40.4, 58.8, 121.4, 123.2, 129.3, 132.8, 135.4, 138.8. IR: 3080, 2955, 2850, 1645, 1450, 1285, 1170, 1130 cm^-1. HRMS: m/z calcd [MH⁺]: 224.07452; found: 224.07453.

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Tandem Process from Amides 2a,d, Typical Procedure.
To a solution of amide 2a (140 mg, 0.5 mmol) in toluene was added first generation Grubbs’ catalyst (11 mg, 2.5% mol). After stirring at r.t. for 1 h and complete disappearance of the starting material, NaH (7 mg, 1.5 mmol) was added at once and the mixture was heated to reflux. A new addition of both Grubbs’ catalyst (11 mg, 2.5% mol) and NaH (7 mg, 1.5 mmol) was performed after 12 h of heating and this sequence was repeated three times more. After cooling to r.t., AIBN (8 mg, 0.05 mmol) was added. The mixture was bubbled with a dried nitrogen stream and next heated. A solution of TTMSS (320 µL, 1 mmol) in toluene (10 mL) containing AIBN (8 mg, 0.05 mmol) was slowly added to the reaction mixture in 10 min. After heating at 130 °C for 6 h, the mixture was cooled to r.t., and the solvent removed by concentration under vacuum. The products were purified after flash chromatography on silica.