Synthesis of the Novel Benzo[b]pyrrolo[2,3-e]azepinone and Benzo[b]pyrrolo[3,2-e]azepinone Ring Systems
Athanasios Kimbaris and George Varvounis*
Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, 45110, Ioannina, Greece
Recently we reported the synthesis of the novel 9,10-dihydro-10-oxo(or
thioxo)-12H-pyrrolo[2,1-e][1,3,6]benzotriazocine ring system by reaction
of 1-(2-aminophenyl)-2-amino-methylpyrrole with triphosgene and thiophosgene,
respectively1. Here we report, among others, the application of this
chemistry for the synthesis of benzo[b]pyrrolo[2,3-e]azepinone 7 and
benzo-[b]pyrrolo[3,2-e]azepinones 8 and 12 from
1-tosylpyrrole2 by a three step procedure.
Using essentially the method of Kakushima et al.3, Friedel-Crafts
acylation of 1-tosylpyrrole with o-nitrobenzoyl chloride and stannic chloride
as catalyst gave a mixture of compounds 1 and 2 in 56% and11% yield whereas with aluminium trichloride as catalyst the yield of
compounds 1 and 2 was 13% and52%, respectively. Catalytic
hydrogenation of nitro compounds 1 and 2 gave the corresponding
amino derivatives 3 and 4 in 96 and 93% yield. The latter were
reduced with sodium borohydride to the respective methylene compounds 5
(88%) and 6 (84%). Reaction of compounds 5 and 6 with
triphosgene in tetrahydrofuran containing triethylamine gave, via
intramolecular coupling, the novel tricycles 7 and 8 in modest
yield. By contrast treatment of compounds 5 and 6 with
thiophosgene under a variety of reaction conditions gave in each case a dark
intractable oil which on TLC showed to consist of several polar spots.
Compounds 3 and 4 were deprotected to the corresponding
methanones 9 and 10 by heating with a solution of 10% sodium
hydroxide in methanol. Isothiocyanate 11 was obtained in 93% yield by
treating 9 with thiophosgene at 0oC. Attempts to cyclise this
compound by heating in PPA or toluene containing p-toluenesulfonic acid,
failed. On the other hand, when compound 10 was reacted with
thiophosgene at 0oC
10-thioxo-1,4,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[b]pyrrolo[3,2-e]azepine-4-one 12 was
isolated in 55% yield.
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