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Methyl 4-trimethylsilyl-3-dialkylaminocrotonate is synthesized by the silylation of methyl 3-dialkylaminocrotonate. It reacts with carbonyl electrophiles at its (gamma)-position. The unusual regiochemistry of this reaction is studied and rationalized. It reacts with enamines derived from acyclic ketones or cycloketones of large ring size (of 12 and 15 membered rings) to give aromatic compounds in a 3C + 3C combination and with enamines derived from cycloketones of 5-8 membered rings to give aromatic compounds in a 4C + 2C combination. The mechanism of this cycloaromatization reaction is investigated. / meta-Cyclophanes with a morpholino substituent are synthesized by the above cycloaromatization reaction. These meta-cyclophanes possess planar chirality and are successfully resolved. / A number of metacyclophanes with alkyl substituents at the intraannular position are synthesized. Depending on the ring size and the steric size of the alkyl group, some of them are also resolved. The rotation process of meta-cyclophane is studied through their temperature dependent ('1)H NMR.

The reaction of the pyrrolidine enamine of cyclohexanone with several malonic acid derivatives gave good yields of the corresponding Knoevenagel adducts when one of the activating substituents was a cyano group. The above enamine, after alkylation at the 2-position with methyl acrylate, gave similar yields of Knoevenagel products. Reaction of the alkylated enamine with lithioacetonitrile gave, after acidification, an annulated product by internal Knoevenagel reaction. The latter product was also obtained by a Dieckmann ring closure reaction. The Michael reaction of the substituted Knoevenagel products was examined and found to be facile with several nucleophiles. However, no ring closure products resulting from further reaction of the intermediate dicyanomethine anions were detected.Ball State UniversityMuncie, IN 47306

Chiral aromatic nitrogen heterocycles are finding many applications in asymmetric organic synthesis, particularly as ligands in the preparation of chiral metal complexes. Since camphor-based chiral auxiliaries are known to be especially effective, a number of pyridines fused to the camphor skeleton have been reported. It is well known that nicotinic acid and its derivatives exhibiting qualitatively the biological activity of nicotinamide, which acts as an electron acceptor in many biological redox reactions. In connection to our works, we attempted to develop short and convenient way to prepare various camphorderived chiral pyridine or nicotinic acid derivatives. Here we report our results obtained from the annulation of (+)-&amp / #946 / -hydroxymethylenecamphor as the feasible chiral pool with various enamines derived from active methylene compounds. (+)-&amp / #946 / -Hydroxymethylenecamphor prepared from cheap and easily available natural (+)-camphor and enamines were transformed into chiral camphor-based pyridine derivatives via tandem condensation reaction in good yields.

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Direct generation of enantioenriched mono-α-alkylated aldehydes by intermolecular nucleophilic substitution is a general and long-standing problem in synthesis, and is of importance due to the diverse reactions such aldehydes undergo for introducing asymmetry into molecules. The work described in this thesis initially details the development of the first lithium amide capable of efficiently converting terminal epoxide into enamine functionality, where the latter also demonstrates effective C-alkylation activity. Not only addition to Michael acceptors, but more notably substitution using activated organohalides (α-bromoacetates, benzyl, allyl and propargyl bromide) gave the corresponding α-substituted aldehydes in good to excellent yields. Alkylation with propargyl bromide yielded only the propargyl-substituted aldehyde with none of the corresponding allene observed; this result shows that N-alkylation followed by [3,3] sigmatropic rearrangement is not occuring. Importantly, a range of short-, longer-chain and secondary unactivated alkyl iodides also proved viable. Significantly, with chiral lithium amides, the corresponding chiral enamines could be alkylated with strongly electrophilic benzyl, allyl and propargyl (no allene seen) bromides in very good yields, and with short chain alkyl iodides – MeI and EtI in satisfactory yields, to provide the first direct access to α-alkylated aldehydes with high asymmetric induction by intermolecular nucleophilic substitution.

This thesis covers the development of catalytic methodologies for the mild and chemoselective hydrosilylation of amides. The first part describes the investigation of the Mo(CO)6-catalyzed reduction of carboxamides. It was found that the reduction could be controlled by tuning the reaction temperature and either amines or aldehydes could be obtained selectively. The system showed an unprecedented chemoselectivity and the amide reduction could take place in the presence of other reducible functional groups such as ketones, aldehydes, and imines. Moreover, the transformation could be performed on a preparative scale and was further employed in the synthesis of Donepezil, a pharmaceutical drug used in the treatment of Alzheimer´s disease. The third chapter concerns the development of the Mo(CO)6-mediated hydrosilylation protocol for the reduction of carboxamides containing acidic α-hydrogens. In this case, enamines were formed and a high level of chemoselectivity was observed. Enamines containing sensitive functional groups such as ketones, aldehydes and imines were generated. The enamines were not isolated but used in subsequent catalytic reductive functionalization of amides, which is described in the last part of the thesis (Chapters 4 – 7). The in situ formed enamines were reacted with a wide variety of electrophiles, generating heterocyclic compounds as triazolines, triazoles, 4,5-dihydroisoxazoles and pyrimidinediones. N-sulfonylformamidines as well as thioacrylamides could also be prepared with this approach. The protocols for the synthesis of triazolines, triazoles and N-sulfonylformamidines could additionally be performed on a preparative scale, showing the practicality of the methodology.

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Les recherches effectuées au cours de ce travail de thèse sont centrées sur les dérivés cycliques de type 2-azahetaryl-3-énaminonitrile qui représentent une structure d'intérêt du fait de son nombre élevé de sites réactifs potentiels. La fonctionnalisation régiosélective de chaque site donne en effet accès à des une grande diversité structurelle de composés azoté et substitué par un azahétérocycle. Un atout majeur des 2-azahetaryl-2-(1-R-pyrrolidin-2-ylidene)acétonitriles est leur grande accessibilité à partir de matières premières simples et bon marché. Nous avons pu étudier leur emploi dans la synthèse des pyrazoles (isoxazoles). Ils jouent alors le rôle de diélectrophiles 1,3. L'action d'hydrazine (hydroxylamine) conduit à des 5-amino-4- azahetaryl-3-(ω-aminopropyl)-1H-pyrazole (isoxazole) formés avec une régiosélectivité complète et de bons rendements 50-85%. Ceci établit une approche en deux étapes efficace et facilement reproductible à des amino-pyrazoles substitués par des hétérocycles à partir d'acétonitriles hétérocycliques. Des transformations subséquentes ont été réalisées donnant accès à des polyamino-azoles dérivatisés régiosélectivement, à des composés tétracycliques jusqu'à un rendement global de 45% et à des pyrazoles arylés jusqu'à 71% de rendement par diazotation suivie d'une arylation par couplage croisé Suzuki-Miyaura ou C-H activation. Nous avons illustré une protection de l'azote efficace sous forme de nitrosamine pendant le couplage croisé catalysé par Pd. Nous avons également effectué la quaternarisation de l'azote de l'hétérocycle pour étudier l'effet d'une moitié cationique sur la régiosélectivité de la réaction de tels dérivés 2-azahetaryl-3-énaminonitrile avec des 1,2-binucléophiles. L'augmentation de la demande en électrons sur l'hétérocycle a induit un changement de chemin réactionnel qui a conduit à un produit issu de l'ouverture du cycle azole. Une différence de réactivité entre les dérivés du benzoxazole et du benzimidazole d'une part et du benzothiazole d'autre part a été observée. Alors que les premiers suivent la voie d'ouverture de cycle, le second suit une transformation "classique" puis une substitution nucléophile au centre C-2 du benzothiazole conduisant à la formation du cycle de l'azépine. Dans le cas des énaminonitriles substitués par un benzoxazolyle dans les mêmes conditions, les deux régioisomères sont formés. La réaction de formylation du 2-(benzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)-2-(pyrrolidin-2-ylidène) acétonitrile avec le N,N-diméthylformamide diméthylacétal (DMF DMA), suivie d'une amination et d'une cyclisation dans des conditions basiques a engendré à la pyrrolo[3,2-c]pyridine-6-imine, un composé qui présente un rendement quantique fluorescent élevé (Φ = 61%) et s'est révélé très sensible à la protonation. Les deux caractéristiques devraient être utiles pour développer un test de détection d'eau originaux pour les solvants aprotiques. Nous avons démontré qu'une telle méthode fluorométrique pour déterminer la teneur en eau dans le DMSO présente une limite de détection de 0,068%. / The research carried out in the course of this PhD work is centered on cyclic 2-azahetaryl-3-enaminonitrile derivatives which represent an attractive scaffold due to its high number of potential reactive sites. Regioselective functionalization of each site may give access to various structurally different Nitrogen-containing moieties featuring an azaheterocycle substituent. One first application in heterocyclic synthesis of 2-azahetaryl-2-(1-R-pyrrolidin-2-ylidene)acetonitriles, readily accessed from available and cheap starting materials, is their involvement in Knorr-type synthesis of pyrazoles (isoxazoles) where they play the role of the 1,3-dielectrophiles. Thus 4-azahetaryl-3-(ω-aminopropyl)-1H-pyrazole (isoxazole)-5-amines are formed with complete regioselectivity in good yields 50-85%. This establishes an efficient and easily reproducible two-step approach to heterocycle- substituted amino-pyrazoles from heterocyclic acetonitriles. Unprecedented subsequent transformations were carried out providing an access to regioselectively derivatized polyamino azoles, tetracyclic compounds in up to 45% overall yield and arylated pyrazoles in up to 71% yield through diazotization, followed by arylation through Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling or C-H activation. We illustrated the unprecedented but efficient nitrogen protection as a nitrosamine during the Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling. Also the possibility of pyrazoles C-H activation in order to get densely substituted pyrazoles was shown for the first time. We also performed the quaternarization of the nitrogen of the heterocycle to investigate the effect of a cationic moiety on the regioselectivity of the reaction of such azahetaryl-3-enaminonitrile derivatives with 1,2-binucleophiles. The increased electron demand on the heterocycle induced a reaction path shift that produced the azole ring- opened product. Derivatives of benzoxazole and benzimidazole form second way products straight away, while the one of benzothiazole undergoes the "classical" transformation pathway and subsequent nucleophilic substitution at C-2 center of benzothiazole leading to azepine cycle formation. In the case of benzoxazolyl substituted enaminonitriles under the same conditions both regioisomers are formed. Formylation reaction of 2-(benzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)-2-(pyrrolidin-2-ylidene) acetonitrile with N,N-dimethylformamide dimethyl acetal (DMF DMA), followed by further reamination and cyclization under basic conditions gave rise to pyrrolo[3,2-c]pyridine-6-imine, a compound that exhibits a high fluorescent quantum yield (Φ = 61%) and proved to be very sensitive to protonation. Both characteristics are expected to be useful to develop an unprecedented water detection test for aprotic solvents. We have demonstrated that such a fluorometric method for determining water content in DMSO presents a limit of detection of 0.068%. From other enaminonitriles reactions with DMF DMA provided either a mixture of methylated and formylated products, or only methylated products (few adducts also shown non reactivity). These observations prompted us to assume that the presence of easily accessible NH group is essential in formylation of the C-3 center of pyrrolidine allowing to propose a mechanism for this uncommon reaction. 2-Azahetaryl-2-(pyrrolidin-2-ylidene)acetonitriles and their 3-oxo-benzo- analogues were also used to create: a) visible spectrophotometric probes for Zn(II) b) water stable BF2-rigidified complexes that overcome the limitations of BODIPY-dyes and have Stokes shifts up to 9000 cm-1, emission at violet-blue range, fluorescence both in solution (Φ up to 90%) and crystalline state; c) films of polymeric composites exhibiting photovoltaic effect.