Directed metalation of tertiary benzamides.

Directed metalation of tertiary benzamides.

Tetrahedron Letters,Vol.23,No.l6,pp Printed in Great Britain DIRECTED 1647-1650,1982 METALATION SHORT SYNTHESES M. 0040-4039/82/161647-04$03.00/O...

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Tetrahedron Letters,Vol.23,No.l6,pp Printed in Great Britain

DIRECTED

1647-1650,1982

METALATION

SHORT SYNTHESES M.

0040-4039/82/161647-04$03.00/O 01982 Pergamon Press Ltd.

OF TERTIARY

OF HYDRANGENOL

BENZAMIDES.

AND PHYLLODULCIN

Watanabe,*aM. Sahara,aS. Furukawa,aR. Billedeau, b and V. Snieckus*b a Faculty of Pharmaceutical Bunkyo-machi, b

Guelph-Waterloo University

Sciences, Nagasaki,

Centre

852

for Graduate

of Waterloo,

Nagasaki Japan

Work

Waterloo,

in Chemistry,

Canada

Summary: Brief syntheses of isocoumarin natural products hydrangenol via ortho-lithiated benzamide intermediates are described. '?? The directed construction

benzoquinones,

subsequent methods.

of tertiary

of polysubstituted

verse alkaloids,

of Cl-units

metalation

aromatics,

naturally-occurring

and polycyclic

at various

states

has evolved

phthalides,

anthraquinones,

aromatic

oxidation

chain extension

benzamides

hydrocarbons

several

condensed

and ring elaboration

phyllodulcin

($, major constituent ($, sweet principle

offer advantages

of brevity

of Hydrangea of H. serrata

and efficiency

(3) and phyllodulcin

classes

carbocyclic

Seringe

Stend var. otakusa

to those previously

1

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expedient

var. thunbergii

R1=OH,R2=H (Hydrangenol)

2

R1=OMe,R2=OH (Phyllodulcin)

394

L allows

by classical

syntheses

of

Maxim)3'4a

Sugimoto)

reported.

2

introduction

intermediates

to systems not easily prepared

opuloides

di-

and heterocyclic

The regiospecific

provides

for the

of biogenetically

ortho-lithiated

In this Letter, we show that such methodology

hydrangenol

N2L 361

as a useful strategy

(PAH's)."~

into substituted

University,

and

3,4b-d,'

which

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LDA

1.

t THF/-78OC Mel

2.

THF/-78OC

6

,$

R=H

5

R=Me

[#I&J;]

Hk:;MkR2

I?'

7 Ah

Me0

2

R'=OMe,R'=H

2

R' = OMe, R* = CH20Ph

0

1. 50% aq NaOH/EtOH

BBr2/CH2Cl2 *Cl

O

2.H+

R2

\ I @xx

/

212 -78OC

I?'

R'=OMe,R*=H

s

-

11 R' = OMe , R* = 0CH2Ph Mm The syntheses lithiation

of hydrangenol

(2) and phyllodulcin equiv. TMEOA/THF/-78°C)

(2.4 equiv I-BuLi/2.4

by treatment

with methyl

iodide

(2.0 equiv./-78°C)

lation of $ with LDA (1.6 equiv. of a burgundy-red

solution

with e-anisaldehyde, converted

into the isocoumarin

in 35% overall yield.

n-BuLi/l.6

of the metalated

provided

(2) are outlined

g7

of g

gave the g-toluamide

ortho-toluamide

by base-catalyzed

The preparation

of N-methyl-g-anisamide

equiv. _i-Pr*NH/THF/-78OC)

the amide alcohol ?J 8.

in m.

t6 followed

$, in 80% yield.7 resulted

Meta-

in the formation

species ,8 7 which, when quenched

Compound ,Q was not isolated hydrolysis

was abbreviated

Ortho

but directly

(50% aq. NaOH/EtOH/reflux

by a one-pot

sequence

8 h)

as follows.

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Compound

and the resulting

MeI),

(1.2 equiv. s-BuLi/l.2

2 was lithiated'

excess methyl

solution

iodide, cooled

1.6 equiv. i-Pr2NH/TMEDA), isolated

hydroxyamide

45% overall

yield.

(,$), mp 181-182°C Application mediacy

in 45% yield. These

(lit.3 mp 181°C)

starting

u

(excess to remove

treated with LDA (1.6 equiv. s-BuLi/

(1.6 equiv).

Alkaline

as described

hydrolysis

above afforded + RT) produced

BBr3/CH2CL2/-78°C

of the un-

compound

&Q in

(+)-hydrangenol

in 94% yield." on Q using o-benzylisovanillin

(32% overall

yield).7

with the dimethylamide

demethylation

2 by the one-pot

and debenzylation

lh * RT/l2 h) to provide

Isocoumarin

(+)-phyllodulcin

of u

12 a

gave, via the interwas also obtained

procedure

was achieved

(2), mp 128-130°C

described

in

for

with BBr3 (2 equiv/ (lit.4 130-132°C)

11

constitute

the utility

References

(8 equiv.

short routes to hydrangenol

respectively further

Demethylation

methylated

(6O'C) under a stream of nitrogen

and sequentially

,Q under the same conditions

Selective

CH2CL2/-78"C,

(-6O"C),

of the same sequence

yield

hydrangenol.

of { was warmed

and p-anisaldehyde

of 2, the isocoumarin

21% overall

equiv. TMEDA/THF/-90°C),

(<) and phyllodulcin

the most efficient

of the directed

syntheses

metalation

(2) in 42% and 14% overall yields

of these natural

reaction

in synthesis.

products

and augment

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and Footnotes

1. Snieckus,

V. Heterocycles,

l%,

l4_, 1649.

2.

'I,

103, 4247.

3. a) Structure: Asahina, Y.; Asano, J. Chem. Ber. ls, 62, 171, ibid. lm, Absolute configuration: Arakawa, H. Bull.Chem. Sot. Jpn. la, 33_, 200.

63, 429; b)

4. Synthesis:

a) Naoi, Y.; Higuchi, S.; Nakano, T.; Sakai, K.; Nishi, A.; Sano. S. Qn. (~6% overall yield); b) Takeuchi, N.; Ochi, K.; Murase, M.;ToEnaqa, lw, 593 (14% overall yield); c) Takeuchi, N.; Murase, M.; Ochi; K.;Tobinaga, S. Chem. Pharm. Bull. Jpn. la, 28, 3013 (0.5% overall yield); d) Naoi, Y.; Higuchi, S.; Ito, H.; Nakano, T.; Sakai, K.; Matsui, T.; Wagatsuma, S,; Nishi, A.; Sano, S. Org. Prep. Proc. Int. la, 7, 129 (11% overall yield).

5. Japanese name: Amacha (sweet tea). This is served during the Hanamatsuri(Flower Festival). Phyllodulcin is 400 x as sweet as sucrose: Yamato, M.; Hashigaki, K.; Mite, K.; Koyama, T. Chem. Pharm. Bull. Jpn. 9, 2&, 2321. 6. Faust, J.A.;

Jules,

L.H.; Sahyun,

M. J. Amer.

Pharm. Assoc.

lz,

45, 514.

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7. All new compounds show analytical and spectral data in accord with their structures. Only salient physical and spectral features follow: : bp 95-97"C/O.l mm; IR (neat) v max 1630 cm-'; NMR (CD&) 6 2.2, 2.43, 3.08, 3.73 Ji4 x s, 12 H);MS m/e 193 (M+). 1 : mp + 5 Hz), 152'C (lit3a 151'C); IR (KBr) v max 1725 cm-'; NMR (CDCk3) 6 2.93 (q, 1 H, J = 6, 3.30 (q, 1 H, J = 10, 15 Hz), 5.33 (q, 1 H, J q 6,lO Hz); MS m/e 284 (M+). 1 : mp l&J121“C; IR (KBr) v max 1723 cm-'; NMR (CDCI13) 6 2.95 (q, 1 H, J = 5,16 Hz), 3.+ 8 (q, 1 H, J = 12,16 Hz), 5.27 (q, 1 H, J = 5,12 Hz); MS m/e 390 (M+). 8. Deprotonation of methyl groups ortho to other directed metalation functions is a protocol deserving greater exploitation: Gschwend, H.W.; Rodriguez, H.R. Org. Reactions, m, 3, 1 (see p. 17); Wakefield, B.J. "The Chemistry of Organolithium Compounds" Pergamon Press, New York, 1974, p. 30. 9. Since N,N-dimethylbenzamidessuffer displacement of Me2NH by s-BuLi'O, N,N-diethylbenzamides The successful ortho metalation have been always used to generate ortho metalated species. of 5 (first achieved bv M. Iwao. these laboratories) suaaests a steric effect to nucleo__ phi%; attack from the"OMe group. 10.

Iwao,M.; Reed, J.N.; Snieckus, V., unpublished R.A. J. Org. Chem. lx, 42, 1823.

observations.

See also Beak, P.; Brown,

and awere shown to be identical (IR, NMR, MS) with authentic 11. Synthetic samples hydrangenol and (+? -phyllodulcin kindly provided by Professor M. Yamato, Okayama University. 12. Robinson,

R.; Sugasawa,

S. J. Chem. Sot. 12,

(+I-

3163.

13. We are grateful to NSERC of Canada for financial support (to R.B., V.S.) and to Professor M. Yamato for copies of spectra of (+)-hydranqenol and (+)-phyllodulcin.

(Received in USA 5 January 1982)