(Azido)ynamides were efficiently converted into indoloquinolines by the use of a gold catalyst. While ynamides bearing an allylsilane gave terminal alkenes, ynamides bearing a simple alkene gave cyclopropanes. This reaction proceeds through the formation of an α-amidino gold carbenoid.
A novel synthesis of 2-phenyl-4-[(triisopropylsilyl)methyl]quinazolines from monosubstituted arenes has been developed. Treatment of N-phenylbenzamidines with 5-nitro-1-[(triisopropylsilyl)ethynyl]-1,2-benziodoxol-3(1H)-one and K(2)CO(3) in the presence of a catalytic amount of CuBr in benzene gives 2-phenyl-4-[(triisopropylsilyl)methyl]quinazolines in moderate to good yields.
Gold catalysis enables direct construction of tetracyclic fused indolines through the migration of a propargyl substituent from an aniline nitrogen atom to the C3-position of an indole from 2-alkynyl-N-propargylanilines. This reaction provides rapid access to fused three-dimensional indolines in a single operation with the formation of four bonds and three rings.
Various N-propargyl ynamides were converted to bicylic and tricyclic pyrroles by the use of a cationic dual-activation gold catalyst. This reaction starts with the nucleophilic addition of a gold acetylide onto an ynamide triple bond at the β-position of the nitrogen atom. Thus, gold vinylidene is formed, and then a second cyclization takes place. The formation of the gold vinylidene is indicated by the evidence that not only aryl ynamides but also alkyl ynamides undergo C-H activation in these reactions.
Under the conditions of dual activation catalysis with oxygen nucleophiles, β‐substituted naphthalenes were obtained from 1,2‐diethinyl arenes. Mechanistic studies, which include isotope labeling experiments, support that dual activation leads to β‐substituted naphthalenes, whereas α‐naphthalenes are formed by π activation only, and no gold acetylide or dual activation is involved in the formation of the α‐substituted products. Additional experiments on substrates that led to dibenzopentalenes support these mechanistic insights.
Heterocycle-fused indoles or indolines
are distributed widely in
a variety of natural products, bioactive agents, and pharmaceuticals.
Herein, we describe the development of gold-catalyzed cascade reactions
of anilines with diynes to form eight-membered ring-fused indoles
and propellane-type indolines, both of which proceed through an intramolecular
5-endo-dig hydroamination followed
by an 8-endo-dig cycloisomerization.
Controllable formation of eight-membered ring-fused indoles and propellane-type
indolines was achieved through selection of the ligands and/or solvents.
Protic solvents such as alcohols or IPr ligand favored the formation
of eight-membered ring-fused indoles, whereas the use of Buchwald’s
type ligands and/or nonpolar solvents gave propellane-type indoline
predominantly. This reaction provides rapid access to two types of
fused nitrogen heterocycles from simple aniline derivatives.
New and interesting polycyclic compounds have been synthesized from non-conjugated diyne systems by dual gold catalysis. A quaternary carbon center in the backbone and the accompanying Thorpe-Ingold effect enabled the unprecedented insertion of sp(3) and sp(2) CH bonds that for the first time were incorporated within the backbone of the diyne system and allowed the construction of complex polycyclic carbon scaffolds inaccessible by previous approaches in which the CH bonds for the insertion were situated at the other end of the alkyne.
Electron-donating dihydrobenzindolocarbazoles (BICs) 1 a-c, which adopt planar disk-shaped geometries, were prepared by gold(I)-catalyzed cyclization as a key step. Due to the presence of a 1,4-phenylenediamine (PD) moiety in the framework, they undergo reversible one-electron oxidation to the corresponding Wurster's Blue (WB)-type species that exhibits NIR absorptions up to λ=1200 nm. In the case of the N,N'-dimethyl derivative, cation radical 1 c(+.) is stable enough to be isolated as a salt and X-ray analysis indicated paraquinoid-type bond alternation in the WB core unit, whereas the bond lengths in the peripheral benzene rings are identical to those in the neutral donor. Upon electrochemical interconversion, the redox pairs of 1 a-c and 1 a-c(+.) exhibited an electrochromic response in the UV/Vis/NIR region, which was accompanied by a drastic change in the fluorescence spectrum because only neutral donors 1 a-c are highly emissive (Φ(F) : 0.7-0.8).
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