ISSN:
0018-019X
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Organic Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The [4 + 2] cycloadditions of 2-oxobut-3-enenitrile (1a), 2-oxopent-3-enenitrile (1b), and ethyl 4-cyano-4-oxobut-2-enoate (1c) with 1,3-dimethyluracil (2), 1,3, 6-trimethyluracil (9), or 1,3,5-trimethyluracil (16) were investigated. The reactions of 1a with 2 or with 9 lead to bicyclic adducts 3 and 10, respectively. These hexahydro-cis-pyranopyrimidines undergo ring opening under acidic conditions, restoring in 4 and 11, respectively, an uracil system comprising 2-hydroxybut-2-enenitrile as a side chain at C(5). The surprisingly stable enols tautomerize slowly to the corresponding acyl cyanides 6a and 13a, respectively. Reacting 1b or 1c with 2 and with 9 does not afford cycloadducts; instead the uracil derivatives 6b, c and 13b, c, respectively, show up, carrying at C(5) α-oxobutanenitrile side chains. Cleavage of the acyl cyanide functions in 6a-c and 13a-c with nucleophilic agents produces various acids, esters, or amides, i.e. derivatives 8a-c and 15-c, respectively. The methyl esters 8a (X = MeO, R = H) and 15a (X = MeO, R = H) are also formed directly from the adducts 3 and 10, respectively, with acid or base catalysis in presence of MeOH. The cycloadducts 17a and 17c, resulting from the reaction of 1a and 1c with 16, respectively, have a Me group at the ring junction C(4a) and are stable. The structure of 17c proves that this hetero-Diels-Alder addition of inverse electron demand follows the endo-mode.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hlca.19930760510
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