Effect of Remote Polyene Bridge Methyl Substituent onPhysical Properties of Dipolar Chromophores with Conformationally and Configurationally Locked Polyene Bridge
Godson C.Nwokogu*, Samuel Simpson
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668, USA
*Corresponding author:Godson C. Nwokogu, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668, USA. Tel: +17577275276; Email:godson.nwokogu@hamptonu.edu
Received Date: 28 January, 2019; Accepted Date:11February, 2019; Published Date:19 February, 2019
Citation:Nwokogu GC, Simpson S (2019) Effect of Remote Polyene
Bridge Methyl Substituent On Physical Properties of Dipolar Chromophores with
Conformationally and Configurationally Locked Polyene Bridge. Curr Res Bioorg Org Chem
2:119.DOI:10.29011/2639-4685.100019
Abstract
The effect of a C-2 substituent on the success of Knoevenagel condensation of the cycloalkenone moiety,which is usually the final stepinthe multi-step synthesis of conformationally and configurationally locked polyene bridged Donor -p- Acceptor chromophores, has been investigated. In addition, the possibility of a two-pot synthesis of polyene bridges with more than two annulated cyclohexenylrings and the effect of a polyene bridge methyl substituent on the planarity of the chromophore have been investigated. The results of these studies show that a C-2 on the terminal cycloalkenone of the polyenone must not be substituted for successful Knoevenagel condensation in the modular synthesis of Donor-p-Acceptor dipolar chromophores. It is also demonstrated that three new rings can be annulated in a two-pot reaction sequence. A significant blue shift in lmax of prepared rigid polyene bridge chromophores indicates that a remote methyl substituent on the polyene bridge has a dramatic effect on the planarity of the chromophore.
Keywords
Blue Shift; Chromophore; Donor-p-Acceptor;
Knoevenagel Condensation; Poly-Michael Addition; Polyene Bridge; Poly-Aldol;
Remote Methyl Substituent.
Introduction
The electro-optic applications of polymeric devices are based on the second order Non-Linear Optical (NLO) properties of low molar mass dipolar chromophores incorporated into the polymeric material either by physical mixing or through covalent linkage. These dipolar small molecules often have a donor-p polyene bridge-acceptor (D - p - A) motif. Unlike inorganic analogs, the NLO- and other physical properties of organic dipolar molecules can be optimized synthetically. Synthesis has been applied to improve properties of organic dipolar chromophores such as the thermal stability at processing temperatures above 200oC [1], the length of the polyene bridge that connects the electron-donating and electron-withdrawing moieties [2]and the strength of the electron-donating and electron-withdrawing groups [3]. Loss of asymmetry during normal assembly of non-linear optical organic polymers was overcome by electric poling of molten NLO-endowed polymer and allowing to solidify under poling electrical voltage [4].
Synthesis has demonstrated that incorporating the polyene bridge into annulated cycloalkenyl rings leads to improvements in various characteristics of the dipolar chromophores such as: (a) electrostatic stacking [4c](b) thermal stability which allows electrical poling and device fabrication, [4b, c, 5] (c) transparency of polymeric filmsendowed with dipolar chromophores, and (d) chemical stability of the polyene bridge to conjugate addition [4c, 6].Shu et al compared the decomposition temperatures of ring-rigidified polyene bridged against analogous open chain polyene bridged chromophores and found dramatic improvement in the thermal stability of the rigidified polyene bridged when compared with identical open chain polyene bridgedanalogs [6-8].Another intriguing result of the work reported by Shu et al comes from the analysis of solid-statestructures of the fused cyclic and the open chain polyene bridge chromophores by X-ray crystallography. Their analyses determined thatthe two types of polyene bridged compounds have nearly planar structure, with the electron-donating phenyl and the electron-withdrawing dicyanogroups showing a 4o twist angle for the annulated bridge and 11otwist angle for the open chain analog respectively [6]. These results show that the chromophore with annulated polyene bridge is closer to planar than the open chain bridge analog. A closer toplanar conjugated dipolar molecule implies better electron delocalization of the p-system of the push-pull molecule. The minor effect of enclosing the polyene bridge into annulated rings on planarity was consistent with the small (10 - 12 nm) blue shift in the lmax values determined for the rigidified bridge chromophores relative to their open chain analogswith same number of alternating double/single bonds [6].To our knowledge, there has been no reported inquiry into the effect of substitution on the annulated polyene bridge on the planarity and electron delocalization in such dipolar chromophores. There has been no study on how a significant shift in planarity of the annulated polyene bridge would affect transparency and other properties as the bridgeis elongated because a shorter synthetic scheme for such chromophores has not been investigated till now.
The most rigidified polyene bridge chromophores should have all the polyene bridge C=C bonds incorporated into annulated cyclohexenyl rings except the double bond connecting the bridge to the electron-withdrawing group. To achieve this maximum rigidization, the reported synthetic scheme usually starts with a1,3-cyclohexanedione.Shu et al. [6] have prepared bicyclic and tricyclic polyenones starting with 5,5-dimethyl-1,3-cyclohexanedione. In the reported scheme, each additional ring annulation was achieved by repetitive two-step schemes each starting with the generation of the kinetic enolate of the cyclohexenone, followed by Michael addition to methyl vinyl ketone. The resulting Michael adduct was isolated and then subjected to intra-molecular aldol condensation under basic condition. We considered that poly-Robinson annulation in a two-pot reaction sequence involvingpoly-Michael addition followed by a poly-intra-molecular aldol condensation would dramatically reduce the number of reaction steps for the preparation of elongatedannulated polyene bridge systems.
All currently reported annulated polyenones that have successfully undergone Knoevenagel condensation in the final step of the modular synthesis of annulated chromophores have involved polycyclic polyenones with no substitution on the sp2-carbon that isa to the carbonyl carbon [4-8].A literature search also showed that reported cyclohexenone analogs that have so far successfully undergone Knoevenagel condensation have no substituent at the C-2 carbon of the cyclohexenone moiety [9]. Since the low reactivity of enones has already been acknowledged as a bottleneck in the successful conclusion of any scheme for the modular assembly of push-pull chromophores [4b], it would be advantageous to establish the effect of a substituent on the C-2 carbon of cyclohexenones on the ability to effect their Knoevenagel condensation. Certainty in the success of the Knoevenagel condensation is especially necessary before embarking onthe multi-step synthesis of any elongated annulated polyenone that would require 2(n-1) reaction steps to create the (n-1)annulated rings of the rigidified polyene bridge, where n is the number of six-membered rings of the polyene bridge.In this report, we present results from our examination of the following questions related to the optimization of the synthesis and properties ofD- p - A chromophores with ring-locked polyene bridges: (a) what is the effect of aC-2 substituent on the success of the Knoevenagel condensation used to connect cyclohexenones and annulated poly-cyclohexenonesto the electron-withdrawing moiety of the chromophore in the last step of a modular synthesis? (b) will poly-annulation be possible in one sequence of one-pot multiple Michael addition reactions, followed by one-pot multiple intra-molecular aldol condensation reactions instead of the current repetitive sequence that annulates each additional ring in two reactions? and(c) how will a remote substituent on the annulated polyene bridge affect planarity of the chromophore and subsequently, itsproperties such as melting point (mp), thermal and chemical stability, lmaxand transparency?
Results and Discussion
Two pathways for the modular synthesis of
completely annulated polyene bridges are given in Scheme 1. Pathway A has been used by Shu et al.[6] to
prepare bicyclic and tricyclic annulated polyene bridgedchromophores.
Scheme 1: Two Routes for the Modular Synthesis of Conformationally and Configurationally Locked or Rigidified Push-Pull Polyene Chromophores.
a Reagents: (i) HC(OCH3)3, Amberlite IR-120(plus), abs. MeOH; (ii) RLI or RMgBr; (iii) LDA, MVK, -78oC; (iv) t-BuOK, t-BuOH/THF, 25oC; (v) malononitrile or thiobarbituric acid, CCl4, azeotropic distillation.
In this pathway, the polyenone bridge is constructed first as an elongated vinylogous ester. The Electron-Donating Group (EDG) is attached to the carbonyl carbon of the ether-polyenone by nucleophilic addition. Unmasking of the ether ring carbon as a carbonyl group, followed by the attachment of the Electron-Withdrawing Group (EWG) to the polyenone by Knoevenagel condensation completes the synthesis of the push-pull chromophore. We have developed pathway B because the early attachment of a strong electron-donating group is expected to increase the donor character of the kinetic enolate of the cyclohexenone in the subsequent Michael addition. It should be noted that the locations of the EDG and EWG in pathway A are opposite in pathway B in terms of the starting and ending cyclohexene rings of the annulated polyene bridge.
Synthesis of:
3-Substituted Cyclohexenoneswith and Without C-2 Methyl Substituents:
The vinylogous esters 2a (R1 = H) [10] and 2b(R1 = CH3) [10]were prepared in high yields from 1,3-cyclohexanedione 1a and 2-methyl-1,3-cyclohexanedione 1b respectively by stirring at room temperature with trimethyl orthoformate in anhydrous methanol in the presence of Amberlite IR-120(plus) as catalyst [11b].Treatment of the vinylogous esters with n-butyllithium oreither the Grignard or the lithium derivative of p-N, N-dimethylaminophenylbromide produced the3-n-butyl and the 3-(p-N, N-dimethylaminophenyl)substituted cyclohexenones3a (R = H; EDG = n-butyl) [12], 3b (R = H; EDG = p-N, N-dimethylaminophenyl), 3c (R = CH3, EDG = p-N, N-dimethylaminophenyl) respectively in good yields after acid work-up. In our hands, the organolithium reagents gave better reactions than their Grignard analogs. The 3-alkylsubstituted cycloalkenones werecandidates for the investigation of the effect of C-2 substituent onthe success of Knoevenagel condensation of cycloalkenones only, whereas the enones with the electron-donating p-N, N-dimethylaminophenyl substituent werealso candidate compounds for the investigation of the effect of a polyene bridge methyl substituent on the properties of rigidified bridge push-pull chromophores.
Annulated Polycyclohexenones with and Without a Methyl Substituent on the PolyeneBridge:
The bicyclic fused ring polyenones 4a(R, = H, EDG = p-N, N-dimethylaminophenyl) and 4b (R= CH3; EDG = p-N, N-dimethylaminophenyl) were prepared by Michael addition of methyl vinyl ketone to the kinetic enolates of 3-substituted cyclohexenones3a and 3b followed by intra-molecular aldol condensation of the respective products using t-BuOK in a mixture of t-BuOH and THF at room temperature. In contrast to the way this reaction has been run by others [6,8] we have used the procedure reported by Reusch and co-workers [13] which requires removal of the amine formed in the enolate generation step before the conjugate addition reaction step. This procedure was proposed to eliminate reaction of the amine with the Michael acceptor which would decrease the yield of the desired product. The tetracyclic polyenone 5b (R = CH3; EDG = p-N, N-dimethylaminophenyl) was obtained in low yield as a red solid according to Scheme 2 when four equivalents of methyl vinyl ketone were used in the Michael addition step. The material isolated after the Michael addition was a viscuos oil which we assumed to be the trimer intermediate in Scheme 2. The trimer was isolated but not characterized before being subjected to a one-pot, multiple annulations to give the tetracyclic polyenone 5b whose structure was confirmed by standard methods.
A tricyclic annulated polyene bridge is the longest that has been reported before [6]. The tricycle was assembled in four steps involving two repetitive sequences of conjugate addition of methyl vinyl ketone to the kinetic enolate of a cyclohexenone followed by intra-molecular aldol condensation of the Michael adduct. The two-pot synthesis of a tetracyclic annulated polyene bridge illustrated in Scheme 2 would have otherwise taken six steps by the usual method. The result reported here suggests that multiple annulated rings can be achieved in a highly abbreviated manner. It also raises the possibility that the number of newly annulated rings can be controlled by the amount of Michael acceptor and reaction condition used.
Scheme 2: Abbreviated Triple Annulation
Effect of a C-2 Methyl Substituent on the Knoevenagel Condensation of Cyclohexenones:
The Knoevenagel condensation [9c,14] is a useful reaction for creating a C=C bond between the carbonyl carbon of an aldehyde or ketone and the methylene carbon of activated methylene compounds. The reaction works best with aldehydes but has been found to be less successful with ketones. Similar trend is observed with a,b-unsaturated aldehydes and ketones. The extension of this condensation to polyenic aldehydes [5a, 6,8] and cyclicpolyenic ketones [4b, 5a, 6,7] has become an important last step in the modular synthesis of push-pull chromophores. The modular synthetic scheme for push-pull moleculesby pathway B (Scheme 1) consists of three modules: 1) connecting an EDG to a cyclohexenone by nucleophilic addition, 2) elongating the EDG bearing cyclohexenone into annulated polyenone bridge by series of Michael addition followed by intra-molecular aldol condensation and 3) attaching the EWG to the polyenone by Knoevenagel condensation.The reported examples of successful Knoevenagel condensation with cycloalkenonesso far have used mostly 3-alkylcycloalkenones [9] where the C-3 substitution was probably intended to block conjugate addition of the nucleophile generated from the activated methylene compound. These cycloalkenones possess no substituent on the vinyl C-2-carbon and there is no report on the effect of C-2 substituent on the feasibility of Knoevenagel condensation with cycloalkenones.
In the synthetic optimization of the NLO-properties of push-pull chromophores, it is of interest to identify the scope of Knoevenagel condensation of cyclohexenone and its derivatives which can be the last step ina multi-step, modular assembly of push-pull chromophores. We therefore undertook a study of the effect of C-2 substitution on the success or failure of the Knoevenagel condensation of cycloalkenones. To investigate this scope, we prepared variouscyclohexenone derivatives aswell as annulated cyclic polyenones (Table 1) with and without.
C-2 methyl substituent. These cyclohexenones were then subjected to Knoevenagel condensation under various reaction conditions to determine how C-2 substitution might affect the success of the last step in the multi-step modular synthesis of a poly-annulated polyene bridge chromophores such as 7and 8 (Scheme.1). The result of this investigation will inform on the structural requirement for the efficient introduction of the electron-withdrawing group in the final step of the modular synthesis of push-pull chromophores with conformationally [6-8] and configurationally[5a,6]locked polyene bridges. Incorporation of the polyene bridge into annulated rings imparts rigidity to the bridge and locks it in the s-trans conformation and the (E) configuration.
The two activated methylene compounds used in our study are 2- thiobarbituric acid, C and malononitrile D (Figure 1), which introduce the corresponding electron-withdrawing group after condensation with the cyclohexenones.
2-Methylcyclohexenone 3b(Table 2) failed to condense with 1,3-diethyl-2-thiobarbituric acid C in alcohols, benzene ormethylene chloride. Use of various amine/glacial acetic acid combinations or simple amine salt catalysts at temperatures ranging from the boiling point of the reaction solvent up to 160oC did not lead to condensation. No conjugate addition product was isolated from the reaction mixture after each attempted reaction. Even in the case of 2-methylcyclopentenone10, [15] which does not possess a C-3substituent, neither Knoevenagel condensation nor conjugate addition products were identified from the attempted condensation reaction (Table 2). In these experiments, only unreacted cycloalkenone was recovered from the reaction mixture.
On the other hand, cyclohexenones 3a (R = H; EDG = n-butyl), 4a(R = H; EDG = p-N, N-dimethylaminophenyl), 4b(R = CH3; EDG = p-N, N-dimethylaminophenyl) and 5b(R = CH3; EDG = p-N, N-dimethylaminophenyl) which do not possess C2-substituent, reacted quite well and easily in carbon tetrachloride, chloroform or the ionic liquid,1-methyl-3-octylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, to produce the expected condensation products. The chromophores were less stable in chloroform and the ionic liquid. Isolation of the product from the ionic liquid also required a lot of solvent for product extraction. Most Knoevenagel condensation reactions were therefore run in CCl4. The cyclohexenone3a gave a quantitative yield of condensation product 6awith 1,3-N, N-diethyl-2-thiobarbituric acid(Equation 1) and a fair yield of6bwith malononitrile (Table 2).No adducts were formed when the cyclohexenone3b was reacted with either thiobarbituric acid or malononitrile. Table 2 summarizes the results of the attempted Knoevenagel condensation of the cycloalkenones with the two methylene.
compounds used in this study. The cyclopentenones 10 and 11 in Table 2
illustrate that the observed trend is not limited to cyclohexenones. The
progress and completion of the Knoevenagel condensation of enones and
polyenones with the activated methylene compounds can be monitored using 1H
cyclohexenone moiety from between 6.00 – 7.00
ppm to up to 9.00 ppm for the thiobarbituric acid adduct and up to 7.20 ppm for
the malononitrile adduct (Figure 2).
Condensation reactions can therefore be run until proton
Table 2 Cont’d
spectrum shows either total disappearance or just trace of the enone C-2 proton in the crude reaction mixture, especially when CCl4 is used as reaction solvent.
These Knoevenagel condensation results lea to the conclusion that the terminal cyclohexenone ring of an annulated polyenone must not be substituted at C-2 for successful Knoevenagel condensation under the reaction conditions used in this study. Remote substituents on the fused ring polyene do not appear to hamper the condensation reaction as illustrated by the successful condensation of polyenones 4b and 5b. Thus, assembly of the annulated polyenone bridge must be terminated through a final Robinson annulation using methyl vinyl ketone as the Michael acceptor in order to form the desired terminal C-2 unsubstituted cyclohexenone ring.
Effect of a Polyene Bridge Vinyl Methyl Substituent on Planarity and Some Physical Properties of the Push-Pull Chromophores:
Shu et al. [6,8] studied the planarity of unsubstituted open chain and annulatedpolyene bridged push-pull chromophoresby X-ray crystallography and concluded that enclosing the polyene bridge into fused cyclohexenyl rings did not significant decrease the planarity andeffective electron delocalizationof the p-bridge. This conclusion is in agreement with both the ~ 10 nm blue shift in the lmaxand the almost identical Bond Length Alternation(BLA) [16] values determined for open chain and annulated/rigid structures that have the same number of double bonds in the polyene bridge. In this study, we examined the effect of a polyene bridge methyl substituent on the planarity of annulated polyene bridge D-p-Achromophores based on lmaxvalues. We found that the blue shift in the lmaxvalues of annulated bridges that differ only inthe presence of a methyl substituent on the cyclohexenyl ring bearing the electron-donating aromatic ring was71 nm for the thiobarbituric acid derivatives 7a( R = H; EDG = p-N,N-dimethylaminophenyl; EWG = thiobarbituric acid) versus7c ( R= CH3; EDG = p-N,Ndimethylaminophenyl; EWG = thiobarbituric acid) and 45nm for the malononitrile analogs 7b ((R = H; EDG = p-N,N-dimethylaminophenyl; EWG = malononitrile moiety) versus7d(R = CH3; EDG = p-N,N-dimethylaminophenyl; EWG = malononitrile moiety) ( Table 3).
Based on the lmaxvalues reported by Shu for the malononitrile adducts of the bicyclic and tricyclic chromophores, we estimated that the unsubstituted tetracyclic analog 8a ((R = H; EDG = p-N, N-dimethylaminophenyl; EWG = malononitrile moiety), which has not yet been prepared, will have a lmaxof ~ 540 nm. When this estimated value is compared with our measured lmaxvalue for 8d(R = CH3; EDG = p-N, N-dimethylaminophenyl; EWG = malononitrile moiety) of 496 nm, the methyl substituent is estimated to induce a blue shift of ~ 44 nm which is similar to the observed blue shift for our prepared bicyclic analogs. These significant blue shifts in the absorption maxima of methyl-substituted annulated polyene bridges lead to the conclusion that a remote (up to four rings away from the electron-withdrawing group) methyl substituent on the annulated polyene bridge significantly reduces its planarity and electron delocalization.
There are alsotrends observed in the thermal properties of bridge-substituted vs bridge-unsubstitutedrigidified chromophores that depend on both the number of annulated rings and the nature of the electron-withdrawing moiety. Whereas the melting point increases as the number of rings increases for unsubstituted rigidified bridges as demonstrated by Shu et al [6], we found that melting point decreases immensely as the number of rings increases when a remote methyl substituent is present. For example, in the bridge-unsubstituted polyene bridges, mp increases from 204.5oC for the monocyclic adduct 6d (R = H; EDG = p-N, N-dimethylaminophenyl; EWG = malononitrile moiety) to 235.7oC for the bicyclic adduct 7b (R = H; EDG = p-N, N-dimethylaminophenyl; EWG = malononitrile moiety) respectively. But the mp of the bicyclic methyl-substituted analog7d ismuchlower at 183oC than the monocyclic chromophore. For thethiobarbituric acid chromophores, the same trend was observed. Themp values are 225.8oC for the unsubstituted monocyclic6c, 262.3oCfor the unsubstituted bicyclic 7a but 184.7oC for the methyl-substituted bicyclic chromophore7crespectively. One factor whichmaycontribute to this observation maybe the reduced planarity of the methyl substituted analogs which would result in less compact packing of molecules in the solidstate. It was also notedthat even though the thiobarbituric acid adducts of rigidified chromophores usually have significantly higher melting points than their malononitrile analogs for the unsubstituted bridge chromophores (~ 20o or more between 6c vs 6d; 7a vs 7b), the melting points of methyl-substituted thiobarbituric acid and malononitrile adduct chromophores with the same polycyclic bridge length differ by less than 2oC (see the mp of 7c vs 7d and 8c vs 8d in Table 3).
Conclusion
We have examined the effect of a C-2 substituent on the success of Knoevenagel condensation of cycloalkenone moiety in the final step of the multi-step synthesis of conformationally and configurationally locked polyene bridged donor – p– acceptor chromophores. In addition, the possibility of a two-pot synthesis of polyene bridges with more than two annulated rings and the effect of a substituent on the polyene bridge on the planarity of the chromophore have also been investigated. The results of the studies reported here show that the C-2 on the terminal cycloalkenone of the polyenone must not be substituted for successful, final step, Knoevenagel condensation to complete the synthesis of the dipolar chromophores. We also demonstrated that three new rings can be annulated in a highly abbreviated two-pot reaction sequence. Measurements of the lmaxof prepared rigid polyene bridge chromophores indicate that a remote methyl substituent on the polyene bridge has a dramatic effect on the planarity of the chromophore bridge. This conclusion is based on the observed significant blue shifts in lmax. The results of the three related studies reported herein represent important contributions to the knowledge base for the synthetic optimization of the properties of chromophoricorganic materials that bear on their important role in electro-optic devices. Monomers and polymers endowed with such optimized properties are important for the development of improved fabrication components for materials science and technology.
Experimental Section
General methods: Reagents were purchased from Aldrich
Chemical Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. and used as received. Tetrahydrofuran (THF) and diethyl ether were
dried by distillation over sodium benzophenone ketyl. Ionic liquid, 1-methyl-3-octylimidazolium
tetrafluoroborate was purchased from Fluka.
1H and 13C spectra were recorded on JEOL ECS-400
NMR spectrometer using CDCl3 containing 0.03% of tetramethylsilane
(TMS) as internal reference. EM Science
silica gel 60 (70 -230 mesh ASTM) or EM Science neutral alumina (70-230 mesh
ASTM, Brockman Activity III) was used for chromatographic separations. UV-Vis absorption spectra were recorded on a
Beckman DU-600 or Varian Associates Cary 50-BIO UV-Vis spectrophotometer in
spectrophotometric grade CH2Cl2 or CHCl3. Nominal mass spectra were run on a VG-7070
E-HF spectrometer and exact mass spectra were run on an Agilent TOF 6220
spectrometer. Melting points were
determined on a TA Instruments DSC 2920 Modulated DSC at a heating rate of 10oC
per minute. Elementary analyses were
performed by Galbraith Laboratories Inc. of Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.
3-Methoxy-2-cyclohexen 1-one,
2a10: 21.57 g of
Amberlite IR-120(plus) was stirred for 24 h in absolute methanol. After the methanol was decanted from the
Amberlite, it was replaced with 160 mL of fresh absolute methanol. Into the reaction flask were then added 62.33
g (556.52 mmol) of 1,3-cyclohexanedione and 80 mL of anh. trimethyl
orthoformate. The mixture was stirred
for 24 h at room temperature under nitrogen during which time a dark brown suspension was formed.
The solution was decanted from the Amberlite and excess trimethyl orthoformate and methanol were
distilled off under vacuum on an oil bath.
The residual liquid from the distillation was extracted with hexane
until a dark gummy residue was left. The
hexane extract was rotary evaporated to 61 g of orange oil. This oil was subjected to column
chromatography on silica gel starting with 10% of ethyl acetate in hexane. 1H NMR spectrum of the eluted
fraction showed that it contained trimethyl orthoformate. Changing the eluent to a mixture of 50% ethyl
acetate in hexane gave 56.16 g (80%) of the product after rotary evaporation
which was confirmed by 1H NMR (CDCl3): d 1.99(quintet, J = 7 Hz, 2H); 2.37(two
almost coincident triplets, J = 7 Hz, 4H); 3.71(s, 3H); 5.38(s, 1H).
3-Methoxy-2-methyl-2-cyclohexen-1-one,
2b10: Amberlite IR-120(plus)(20.95 g) was stirred for 24 h in absolute methanol. The alcohol was decanted and replaced with
100 mL of fresh absolute methanol.
2-Methyl-1,3-cyclohexanedione(50.66 g, 402.06 mmol), purified by rinsing
with absolute ether, and 50 mL of anh. trimethyl orthoformate were added. The suspension was sealed with a rubber
septum and stirred at room temperature for five days. The reaction mixture was transferred to a
flask and solvents were rotary evaporated until no more distillation was
occurring at 100oC bath temperature.
The residual liquid was extracted several times with hexane until a
loose precipitate of unreacted 2-methyl-1,3-cyclohexanedione weighing 10.64 g
was left. The combined hexane extracts
was rotary evaporated to obtain 45.91g (82%) of the product; 1H NMR
(CDCl3): d 1.60 (t, J = 1.60 Hz, 3H); 2.00(quintet, J = 7.16 Hz,
2H); 2.34(t, J = 7.16 Hz, 2H); 2.56(t, J = 7.16 Hz, 2H); 3.83(s, 3H).
3-n-Butyl-2-cyclohexen-1-one, 3a12
This compound
was the major product from the use of anh. ether as solvent in attempted
synthesis of 3-(p-N,N-dimethylaminophenyl)cyclohexenone, 3b through the generation of p-N,N-dimethyaminophenyllithium from the corresponding aryl bromide and
n-BuLi. The aryl bromide was very
insoluble in ether, even after the suspension was warmed up to 0oC.
When 3-methoxycyclohexenone was added, the unreacted n-BuLi reacted with it as
the only nucleophile present. Much of
the aryl bromide was recovered.
Arylation of the vinologous ester in THF worked because of the better
solubility of aryl bromides in THF at low temperatures which allowed the
formation of the aryllithium nucleophile.
After this observation, this compound was prepared in 89% yield by
treating 3-methoxycyclohexenone in anh.ether with n-BuLi by mixing the
reactants at -78oC and warming to 0oC. It was purified by column chromatography on
silica gel using 20% ether in hexane as eluent. 1H NMR(CDCl3): d 0.90 – 0.94(t, J = 7.32 Hz, 3H); 1.29
– 1.38(sextet, J = 7.32 Hz, 2H); 1.45 – 1.52(quintet, J = 7.32 Hz, 2H); 1.95 –
2.02(quintet, J = 6.40 Hz, 2H); 2.20 – 2.23(t, J = 7.32 Hz, 2H); 2.27 – 2.30(t,
J = 5.96 Hz, 2H); 2.34 – 2.37(t, J = 5.96 Hz,2H); 5.87(s, 1H); 13NMR(CDCl3): d CH3: 13.83; CH2:
22.33, 22.72, 29.02, 29.65, 37.35, 37.76; vinyl CH: 125.62; vinyl C with no
attached H: 166.76; carbonyl C: 200.00.
3-[(p-N,N-Dimethylamino)phenyl]-2-cyclohexen-1-one, 3b
A 250 mL
3-necked round bottom flask was flame dried under nitrogen. After cooling to room temperature, the flask
was charged with 20.27 g (101.35 mmol) of
p-N,N-dimethylaminobromobenzene and appropriate necks of the flask were
sealed with rubber septa. Then, 90 mL of
tetrahydrofuran (THF) dried over sodium benzophenone ketyl, was added with a
syringe. After the reaction mixture has
been cooled to-78oC, 74 mL of 1.6 M n-BuLi in hexane was added
drop-wise over 10 min. The reaction
mixture turned into awhite slurry that was difficult to stir. The slurry was stirred at -78oC
for 4.5 h and then, 12 g (95.24 mmol ) of freshly distilled
3-methoxycyclohexenone in 20 mL of dried THF was added drop-wise by syringe. By
the time the ether solution was added to the reaction mixture, the slurry had
turned to a yellow solution with a small amount of white solid suspension. The
reaction was allowed to warm up to 0oC in 3 h. The reaction mixture was re-cooled to -30oC
using dry ice/acetone and then, 25 mL of saturated NH4Cl(aq) was
added. After warming up to room
temperature, the cake which was formed thawed and stirring resumed. The THF was distilled off on a rotary
evaporator and to the residual suspension was added 10 mL of conc. HCl acid
diluted to 40mL with distilled water.
The reddish solution formed was refluxed at 80oC, bath
temperature, for 6 h and left to cool to room temperature. The aqueous solution was carefully
neutralized with solid NaHCO3 and the thick brown suspension was
suction-filtered. The solid product was
rinsed with small portions of water after which it was dissolved in CH2Cl2. The CH2Cl2 was dried
over anhydrous MgSO4. Rotary
evaporation of the dried, filtered product solution gave 18.74 g of the crude
product. The crude product was applied
to a silica gel column as a hot solution in CCl4. The upper part of the column was kept warm
with a heat gun to avoid crystallization of the product during its application
on the column. Elution with 10% ethyl
acetate in hexane was continued until eluate was blank by TLC. Then the column was eluted with CH2Cl2
to obtain 16.00 g (78%) of the expected product as a yellow solid. Mp:
133.7 oC; 1H NMR(CDCl3): d 2.12(quintet, J = 6.44 Hz, 2H); 2.46(t, J = 6.44 Hz, 2H);
2.74(t, J = 6.44 Hz, 2H); 3.02(s, 6H);
6.42(s, 1H); 6.69 and 6.72(d, J = 9.16
Hz, 2H, aromatic); 7.50 and 7.52(d, J = 9.16 Hz, 2H, aromatic); 13NMR(CDCl3):
CH2: 22.78, 27.43, 37.22; N-CH3: 40.12; aromatic and
vinyl CH: 111.68, 121.35, 127.48; aromatic and vinyl C with no attached H:
125.07, 151.65, 159.50; carbonyl C: 200.01; MS(M/z): 215(M+, 94); 187(100); 159(75); 115(68); UV-Vis:
lmax = 371.0 nm; e= 4.60 x 104 M-1cm-1 Elemental analysis: Calculated: C = 78.10%; H = 7.96%;
N = 6.51%; Found: C = 77.78%; H = 8.06%; N = 6.39%.
2-Methyl-3-[(p-N,N-dimethylamino)phenyl]-2-cyclohexen-1-one,
3c:
Magnesium turnings (20 g, 823 mmol) was stirred vigorously under nitrogen at room temperature for 24 h to break up the turnings into smaller pieces and uncover metallic surfaces. To the dark colored chips, 90 mL of anh. THF was added by syringe. Then, p-N,N-dimethylaminobromobenzene (60.11 g, 299 mmol), dissolved in 90 mL of anh. THF was added through a pressure equalizing addition funnel in t10 min. The stirred reaction mixture was refluxed using an oil bath for 24 h during which time the reaction mixture turned from light blue to dark. After cooling to -15oC with an ice-salt bath, 3-methoxy-2-methylcyclohexenone, 2b (28.00 g, 200 mmol) in 90 mL of anh. THF was added to the Grignard reagent using an addition funnel over a period of 1 h. The bath temperature was maintained between -15oC and -10oC during the addition of the vinylogous ester. The reaction mixture was stirred for 42 h during which time, it warmed up to and remained at room temperature. The reaction solution was decanted from excess Mg chips into another round bottomed flask. After cooling to -10oC, a solution of 20 g of NH4Cl in 50 mL of distilled water was added to the reaction mixture. The resulting yellow suspension was stirred 24 h as it warmed to room temperature. The insoluble solids were suction-filtered and rinsed with THF until washings were colorless. The combined THF solution was rotary evaporated to a dark liquid. The dark liquid was cooled to -10oC and 30 mL of 12 M HCl acid, cooled to 0oC was added in portions to the stirred crude product. A dark yellow cake formed at the bottom of the reaction flask which re-dissolved after it was broken up and stirred at room temperature. The aqueous acid solution was heated at 80oC for complete dehydration of the alcohol intermediate. After cooling to room temperature, the aqueous acidic solution was carefully neutralized with solid sodium bicarbonate until basic to litmus paper. The product precipitated out of solution as an ash-colored cake. The cake was broken up and suction-filtered. The resulting solid was rinsed with hexane to remove an oily component. The dark gray solid product weighed 40.55 g after vacuum drying. An additional 1.95g of product was obtained from column chromatography of the ether extracts of the aqueous layer on silica gel using a 9:1 ratio of hexane : ethyl acetate respectively. Total mass of product was 42.50 g (93%). Use of n-BuLi to generate the nucleophile resulted in a 77% yield of product. Mp: 97.6 o C; 1H NMR(CDCl3): d 1.82(s, , 3H); 2.03 – 2.06(quintet, J = 6.40 Hz, 2H); 2.47 – 2.50(t, J = 6.44 Hz, 2H); 2.62 – 2.65(t, J = 5.96 Hz, 2H); 2.99(s,6H); 6.70 and 6.72(d, J = 8.72 Hz, 2H, aromatic); 7.15 and 7.17(d, J = 9.16 Hz, 2H, aromatic); 13NMR(CDCl3): d CH3: 13.33; CH2: 22.64, 32.69, 37.81; N-CH3: 40.30; aromatic and vinyl CH: 111.48, 128.86; aromatic and vinyl C with no attached H: 128.57, 130.63, 150.10, 156.83; Carbonyl C: 200.29; MS(M/z): 229(M+, 100); 185(52); 158(35); UV-Vis: lmax = 343 nm, e = 2.24 x 104 M-1cm-1; Elemental analysis: Calculated: C = 78.60%; H = 8.30%; N = 6.11%; Found: C = 78.56%; H = 8.44%; N = 6.10%.
7-[(p-N,N-Dimethylamino)phenyl]-2,3,4,4a,5,6-hexahydro-2-naphthalenone,
4a
This compound
was prepared using the same procedure as 4b. Crude product was purified by column
chromatography on neutral alumina (Brockman activity III). A 36% product yield was obtained in one
run. Analytical sample was obtained by
recrystallization with a mixture of chloroform and ethyl acetate. Mp: 206.1oC; 1H NMR(CDCl3): d 1.49 – 1.61 and 1.70 –
1.81(unresolved multiplets, 2H); 2.05 – 2.21(unresolved multiplet, 2H); 2.43 –
2.67(broad and unresolved multiplet, 4H); 2.80 – 2.81 and 2.84 – 2.85(broad and
unresolved multiplets, 1H); 3.01(s, 6H); 5.86(s, 1H); 6.60(s, 1H); 6.69 –
6.71(d, J = 9.28 Hz, 2H); 7.46 – 7.49(d, J = 9.28 Hz, 2H); 13C NMR(CDCl3): d CH2: 27.90, 29.80, 30.18, 37.91; methine C:
35.50; N-CH3: 40.20; aromatic and vinyl CH: 111.86, 120.98, 122.67,
126.68; aromatic and vinyl C with no attached H: 140.19, 150.84, 160.11,
189.30; carbonyl C: 199.99. MS (M/z):
267 (M+, 100), 239 ( 36 ); 210 ( 17); 165 (13); 104 ( 12). UV-Vis: lmax = 398 nm ( e = 5.66 x 104 M-1cm-1),
277 nm (e
= 1.93 x104
M-1cm-1); Elemental
analysis: Calculated: C = 80.86%, H = 7.92% and N = 5.24%. Found:
C = 80.34%, H = 8.03% and N = 5.11%.
7-[(p-N,N-Dimethylamino)phenyl]-8-methyl-2,3,4,4a,5,6-hexahydro-2-naphthalenone,
4b
A 500 mL
round bottom flask bearing a pressure equalizing addition funnel connected to a
nitrogen line was flame dried. After
cooling, 90 mL of anh. THF was added to the flask and cooled to -78oC
by immersion into a dry ice -acetone bath (a yellow color develops if the amine
is added to the THF at room temperature).
After 6.14 g (60.79 mmol) of diisopropylamine was added to the flask
with a syringe, 37 mL of 1.6 M n-BuLi solution in hexane was added in 11 min
through the pressure equalizing addition funnel. After 1 h at -78oC, the flask was
removed from the bath and allowed to warm up to 0oC. A colorless solution of lithium
diisopropylamide (LDA) was obtained. The
solution was re-cooled to-78oC and 7.55 g (32.97 mmol) of
2-methyl-3-(p-N,N-dimethylaminophenyl)cyclohexenone, 3c, dissolved in 60 mL of anh. THF was added over 20 min through
the addition funnel. The reaction
mixture developed a blue color during the addition. After 2 h 42min at -78oC, the
reaction flask was removed from the bath and allowed to warm up to room
temperature. The solvent and diisopropylamine formed during the generation of
the kinetic enolate were evaporated off using a vacuum pump with a cold finger
at -78oC. The resulting white
cake, under a stream of nitrogen gas, was dissolved in 210 mL of anh. THF and the
blue solution was re-cooled to -78oC. Methyl vinyl ketone (5.20 g, 74.29 mmol),
dissolved in 60 mL of anh.THF was introduced into the funnel and added to the
enolate in 27 min. As the addition
started, the enolate solution changed from blue to yellow. The reaction mixture was stirred overnight as
it warmed up to room temperature and the color had changed to orange.
After 20mL of
distilled water was added to the reaction mixture and stirred for 4 h, the
orange supernatant was decanted from the white solid component of the reaction
mixture. The solid was rinsed with ether
and the ether rinse was combined with the THF solution and the solvents were
removed by rotary evaporation. The
residue was extracted with ether (total volume 800mL) and the ether extract was
stirred with 20mL of 12 M HCl diluted to 240 mL with distilled water. After 30 min of vigorous stirring, a pink
aqueous and light yellow layers separated.
The aqueous layer was carefully neutralized by adding solid NaHCO3
and extracted with ether until new extract was colorless. All ether solutions
were combined, dried over anh. MgSO4,
suction filtered and rotary evaporated to obtain 13.80 g of an orange liquid.
This crude
Michael adduct was dissolved in 200 mL of anh.THF in a 500 mL round bottom
flask followed by the addition of 10 g (89.29 mmol) of t-BuOK. The flask was sealed
with rubber septum and the dark orange solution was stirred at room temperature
for 5 days. Then, 10 mL of distilled
water was added. The mixture was stirred
for 24 h; an equal volume of ether was added and stirring was continued for
another 24 h. After rotary evaporating off the organic solvents, the residue
was stirred with 800 mL of a 1:1 mixture of ethyl acetate: ether solvent
mixture. The organic layer was separated
and dried over anh. MgSO4 and the filtrate was rotary evaporated to
obtain 8.84 g (95%) of the product as a yellow solid. Sample for elemental
analysis was obtained by recrystallization from 10% ethyl acetate in
hexane. Mp: 175.3oC; 1H NMR(CDCl3): d 1.50 – 1.61(two almost coincident q;
J = 12.80 Hz, 1H); 1.70 – 1.82(broad unresolved multiplet, 1H); 1.84(s, 3H);
1.94 – 1.99 and 2.09 – 2.15(unresolved multiplets, 2H); 2.38 – 2.65(broad
unresolved multiplet, 5H); 2.99(s, 6H); 6.06(s, 1H); 6.70and 6.73(d, J = 9.20
Hz, 2H, aromatic); 7.10 and 7.08(d, J = 9.20 Hz, 2H, aromatic); 13NMR(CDCl3): d CH3: 16.04; CH2:
30.00, 30.65, 33.24, N-CH2: 37.56; methine C: 36.31; N-CH3:
40.40; aromatic and vinyl CH: 111.68, 120.97, 129.15; aromatic and vinyl C with
no attached H: 126.90, 130.36, 148.30, 149.71, 161.09; carbonyl C: 200.94; UV-Vis:
lmax: 366.1 nm; e = 3.10 x 104 M-1cm-1;
288.0 nm; e = 2.89 x 104 M-1c
m-1; MS(M/z): 281(M+, 100), 253 (19), 165(10); Elemental analysis: Calculated: C = 81.14%; H = 8.18%; N = 4.98%; Found: C = 80.82%; H = 8.41%; N = 4.78%
9-[(p-N,N-Dimethylamino)phenyl]-10-methyl-2,3,4,4a,5,5a,6,6a,7,8-decahydro-2-tetracenone, 5b
This compound
was prepared in 11% yield using the same procedure as 4b except that four times excess of methyl vinyl ketone, dissolved
in a 20 mL of absolute t-BuOH and 90mL of anh. THF was added instead of twice
the stoichiometric amount used to obtain 4b. When the Michael adduct product was subjected
to cyclization as in the procedure for 4b,
a red precipitate was formed in the reaction mixture. This red precipitate was filtered out,
dissolved in CHCl3 with heat and the solution dried over anh. MgSO4. Suction filtration and rotary evaporation of
the solvent gave the red solid which was triturated with ethyl acetate, a
solvent in which it is insoluble, to remove liquid product contaminants. The 1H
NMR and other analytical data confirmed the structure of the product. Examination of the liquid component of this
cyclization reaction product led to the conclusion that it was a complex
mixture of substances and was not processed any further. Mp:
300.5 oC; 1H NMR(CDCl3): d 1.18 – 1.31(quintet, J = 13.28 Hz,
2H); 1.44 – 1.51(broad quintet, 1H); 1.84(s, 3H); 1.70- 1,80 , 1.89 – 1.99 and
2.07 – 2.10(broad unresolved multiplets, 5H); 2.38 – 2.60(broad unresolved
multiplet, 7H); 2.97(s, 6H); 5.79(s, 1H); 6.09(s, 1H); 6.25(s, 1H); 6.70 and
6.72(d, J = 8.24 Hz, 2H, aromatic); 7.06 and 7.08(d, J = 8.24 Hz, 2H,
aromatic); 13NMR(CDCl3):
d
CH3:
16.08; CH2: 30.41, 30.57, 33.15, 37.09, 38.03, 38.10; methane C:
36.12, 36.15, 36.60;N-CH3: 40.60; aromatic and vinyl CH: 111.90,
121.38, 122.30,123.83, 129.31; aromatic and vinyl C with no attached H: 127.11,
131.34, 143.02, 147.73, 149.33, 150.92, 160.34;carbonyl C: 199.87;UV (CH2Cl2): lmax = 409 .0 nm ( e =
4.15 x 104 M-1cm-1);
HRMS: Calculated: 385.23986 amu;
Found: 385.23966amu.
5-(3-n-Butylcyclohex-2-enyliden)-1,3-diethyl-2-thioxohexahydro-4,6-pyrimidinedione:
6a
3-n-Butylcyclohexenone,
3a (7.64 g, 50.26 mmol) was mixed
with 14.08 g (70.40 mmol) of thiobarbituric acid, 1.70 g (22.08 mmol) of NH4OAc,
60 mL of anh. CCl4 and 2 mL of glacial acetic acid in a single neck
round bottom flask with a Dean-Stack trap, condenser and under positive nitrogen pressure. The
flask was heated to reflux. Distillate
was removed from the trap every time it filled up and replaced with fresh
solvent. The sequence of distillate
run-off followed by solvent replacement in the reaction flask was continued
until TLC of the reaction mixture on silica gel using 20% ether in hexane showed
no detectable unreacted cyclohexenone. Fresh CCl4(60 mL) was added
to the hot reaction mixture and the reaction flask was removed from the oil
bath and allowed to cool down to room temperature. The resulting suspension was transferred to a
separatory funnel with the help of additional rinsing of the flask with CCl4. The suspension was treated with distilled
water which put all solids into aqueous solution. The dark orange organic layer was separated
and its TLC showed presence of excess thiobarbituric acid. In order to remove unreacted thiobarbituric
acid, the organic layer was shaken with a 100 mL of water containing 3.0 g of
NaOH. After this treatment, TLC of the
CCl4 solution showed no residual 1,3-diethyl-2-thiobarbituric
acid. After the organic layer was dried
over anh. MgSO4, suction-filtered and rotary evaporated at up to 98oC,
13.30 g (79%) of product was obtained. Mp: 67.71 oC; 1H
NMR(CDCl3): d 0.92 – 0.95(t, J = 7.32 Hz, 3H); 1.25 – 1.31( two
overlapped t, J = 6.88 Hz, 6H); 1.31 – 1.40(sextet, J = 7.32 Hz, 2H); 1.50 –
1.57(quintet, J = 7.32 Hz, 2H); 1.79 – 1.85(quintet, J = 6.40 Hz, 2H); 2.28 –
2.35(quintet, J = 7.8 Hz, 4H); 3.13 – 3.17(t, J = 5.96 Hz, 1H); 4.47 – 4.54(two
overlapping quintets, J = 6.88 Hz, 4H); 7.99(s, 1H); 13NMR(CDCl3): d CH3: 12.50, 13.84; CH2:
22.34, 22.54, 29.74, 29.92, 30.65, 39.87; N-CH2: 43.44, 43.52; vinyl
CH: 124.58; vinyl carbons with no attached H: 112.02, 160.57,161.00, carbonyl
carbon: 168.89, 171.78; thiocarbonyl C: 178.37; MS(M/z): 334(M+ , 52), 301(100), 277(14); UV (CHCl3): lmax = 376.0 nm ( e = 3.93 x 104 M-1cm-1);
HRMS: Calculated: 334.171500 amu;
Found: 334.170700 amu.
2-(3-n-Butylcyclohex-2-enyliden)malononitrile:
6b
This compound
was prepared by condensing 3a with
malononitrile using 1-methyl-3-octylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate as
solvent. 1H NMR(CDCl3): d 0.92 – 0.95(t, J = 7.32 Hz, 3H); 1.30
– 1.39( sextet, J = 7.32 Hz, 2H); 1.47 – 1.54(quintet, J = 7.32 Hz, 2H); 1.84 –
1.90(quintet, J = 6.44 Hz, 2H); 2.28 – 2.34(two almost coincident q, J = 6.44
Hz, 4H); 2.71 – 2.74(t, J = 6.44 Hz, 2H); 6.60(weakly resolved quintet, 1H); 13NMR(CDCl3): CH3:
13.81; CH2: 21.55, 22.45,29.32, 29.46, 29.88, 38.79; vinyl CH:
120.85; vinyl C with no attached H: 112.42, 113.87166.21; nitrile C: 170.74; UV (CHCl3): lmax = 307.0 nm ( e =
2.09 x 104 M-1cm-1);
HRMS: Calculated: 200.12674
amu; Found: 200.13044 amu.
5-{3-[(p-N,N-Dimethylamino)phenyl]-2-cyclohexenyliden}-1,3-diethyl-2-thioxohexahydro-4,6-pyrimidinedione,
6c
3-(p-N,N-Dimethylaminophenyl)cyclohexenone 3b (9.66g, 44.93 mmol) was weighed into a 500mL round bottom flask followed by the addition of 15.00 g (75 mmol) of 1,3-diethyl-2- thiobarbituric acid, 1.71 g (22.08 mmol) of NH4Cl and 120 mL of anh. CCl4. Then, 2.5 mL of gl. AcOH was added and the mixture was heated to 110oC with a Dean Stark trap under nitrogen gas. After 2.5 h of reflux, the wet distillate collected in the trap was run off every time it filled up until a viscous dark mass was left in the reaction flask. The reaction mixture was then heated for 2 h as the bath temperature rose to 140oC. 300 mL of fresh CCl4 was added to dissolve some of the dark mass and thin layer chromatography of the solution on silica gel with 30% ethyl acetate in hexane showed that the cyclohexenone was no more present in detectable amount. The suspension was allowed to cool to room temperature. The suspension was stirred with a solution of 20 g of K2CO3 in 100 mL of distilled water to remove excess thiobarbituric acid. After the suspension was filtered, the dark solid product was rinsed with 600 mL of distilled water. The filtrate consisting of both aqueous and organic layers was reserved. The solid product was vacuum-dried for 2 days at room temperature and weighed 15.30 g. The CCl4 layer of the filtrate was separated and the aqueous layer was extracted with CCl4 after being saturated with solid NaCl. The combined CCl4 extracts was dried over anh. MgSO4. Rotary evaporation and stirring of the resulting solid with 50 mL of CCl4 at room temperature for 12 h led to an additional 2.37 g of product for a total of 17.67 g (~ 100%). Mp: 225.8o C; 1H NMR(CDCl3): d 1.32(t, J = 6.44 Hz, 3H); 1.92(quintet, J = 6.44 Hz, 2H); 2.77 – 2.80(t, J = 5.96 Hz, 2H); 3.07(s, 6H); 3.23 – 3.26(t, j = 6.40 Hz, 2H); 4.52 – 4.58 (multiplet, 4H); 6.69 and 6.71(d, J = 9.16 Hz, 2H aromatic); 7.71 and 7.74(d, J= 9.16 Hz, 2H, aromatic); 8.96(s, 1H); 13NMR(CDCl3): d CH3: 12.57; N-CH3: 40.05; CH2: 22.67, 27.53, 31.41; N-CH2: 43.47; aromatic and vinyl CH: 111.67, 121.64, 128.95; aromatic and vinyl C with no attached H: 109.71, 125.83, 152.38, 161.04, 161.20, 162.28; thiocarbonyl C: 173.25; carbonyl C: 178.02; MS(M/z): 397(M+, 55); 395(100); 364(45); 309(30);277(16); UV (CHCl3): lmax = 551.0 nm ( e = 4.58 x 104 M-1cm-1); HRMS: Calculated: 397.1823992 amu; Found: 397.183151 amu
2-[3-(p-N,N-Dimethylaminophenyl)cyclohex-2-enyliden]malononitrile, 6d
3-(p-N,N-Dimethylaminophenyl)cyclohexenone
3b (5.03 g, 23.40 mmol) was mixed in
a round bottom flask with 4.32 g (65.45
mmol ) of malononitrile, 0.93 g(12.08 mmol) of NH4Cl, 50 mL
of anh. CCl4 and 0.5 mL of gl. AcOH and the mixture was heated to
110oC with a Dean Stark trap under nitrogen gas. The process of
distillate removal/fresh solvent replenishment was continued until TLC on
silica gel with 20% ethyl acetate in hexane showed immensely diminished
unreacted cyclohexenone. CCl4
was first used to dissolve the residue in the hot reaction flask. The dark red solution was decanted into an
Erlenmeyer flask and the remaining solid in the flask was scraped with a
spatula and transferred into the flask and enough THF was added to put all
solid into solution. This organic solution of the product was stirred with
distilled water. After separating and
rotary evaporation of the organic layer, the solid residue was heated with
ethyl acetate. On decanting the red
solution and leaving to cool down, 0.64 g of pure product was obtained. The remainder of the crude solid product was
subjected to column chromatography on silica gel using a 7:3 (v/v) of ethyl
acetate-to-hexane respectively. Through
a series of extractions and
recrystallizations of the solid from chromatography using ethyl acetate,
a total of 3.25 g (53%) of purified product was collected. Mp:
204.5o C; 1H NMR (CDCl3): d 2.01(quintet, J = Hz, 2H); 2.81(t, J
= Hz, 4H); 3.11(s, 6H); 6.70 and 6.75(d,
J = Hz, 2H, aromatic); 7.18(s, 1H); 7.61
and 7.66(d, J = Hz, 2H, aromatic). 13NMR(CDCl3):
d CH2: 21.68, 27.51, 29.25;
N-CH3: 40.03; aromatic and vinyl CH: 111.69, 116.42, 128.22;
aromatic and vinyl C with no attached H: 114.05, 120.72, 123.96, 151.78,
157.70, nitrile C: 170.04; UV (CH2Cl2):
lmax = 469.0 nm ( e =
4.19 x 104 M-1cm-1);
Elemental analysis: Calculated: C =
77.57% ; H = 6.46%; N = 15.97%; Found: C = 76.93%; H = 6.42%; N = 15.99%.
5-{7-[(p-N,N-Dimethylamino)phenyl]-2,3,4,4a,5,6-hexahydro-2-naphthalenyliden}-1,3-diethyl-2-thioxohexahydro-4,6-pyrimidinedione, 7a
This compound
was obtained in quantitative yield by an identical procedure for other
1,3-diethyl-2-thiobarbituric acid adducts.
Heating at 110oC for 12 h was necessary for complete reaction
of the cyclohexenone as determined by TLC.
For this product, the aqueous layer was extracted and processed to
isolate additional product. Mp: 262.3oC; 1H NMR(CDCl3): d 1.29 – 1.32(t, J = 6.84 Hz, 6H); 1.43 – 1.63(broad
unresolved multiplet, 2H); 2.04 – 2.10(broad unresolved multiplet, 2H); 2.46 –
2.51(broad triplet, J = 12.38 Hz,1H); 2.61 – 2.68(broad unresolved triplet, J =
13.52 Hz, 1H); 2.83 – 2.95(broad unresolved multiplet, 2H); 3.05(s, 6H); 3.73
and 3.78(triplet of doublet, J = 18.80 Hz, 1H); 4.55(broad unresolved
multiplet, 4H); 6.68 and 6.70(d, J = 8.72 Hz, 2H,aromatic); 6.92(s, 1H); 7.54
and 7.56(d, J = 8.72 Hz, 2H, aromatic); 8.31(s, 1H); 13C NMR(CDCl3): d CH3: 12.56; CH2: 27.83, 29.72,
29.78, 32.15, 43.50; methine C: 35.71; N-CH3: 40.14; aromatic and
vinyl CH: 111.76, 123.01, 124.98, 127.44; aromatic and vinyl C with no attached
H:109.15, .126.10, 151.41, 152.77, 161.08, 164.83; thiocarbonyl C: 172.84;
carbonyl C: 177.92; MS (M/z): 449 (M+,
100), 416 (24), 361 (18); ; UV (CH2Cl2):
lmax = 572.0 nm ( e =
3.64 x 104
M-1cm-1). The
above proton and C-13 and MS spectra are consistent with the structure of the
condensation product formed between
thiobarbituric acid and the dienone 4a
whose structure was confirmed by elemental analysis before use.
{7-[(p-N,N-Dimethylamino)phenyl]-2,3,4,4a,5,6-hexahydro-2-naphthalenyliden}malononitrle,
7b
The bicyclic
ketone 4a (0.10 g, 0.36 mmol),
malononitrile (0.21 g, 3.18 mmol), 2.14 g of the ionic liquid,
1-methyl-3-n-octylimmidazolium hexafluoroborate and 15 drops of pyridine were
sealed with a rubber septum in a 50 mL round bottom flask and heated on an oil
bath to 80oC for 3 h. Then
the bath temperature was raised to 98oC and maintained for 26
h. TLC of the reaction mixture showed
only trace amount of the ketone.
The reaction
mixture was extracted with ether continuously until extracts were
colorless. The solution was left in the
fridge for 12 h to force out from solution dissolved ionic liquid. After decanting the cold solution from a
small amount of viscous ionic liquid, the solvent was rotary evaporated. The
crude product was re-dissolved in chloroform and the solution was stirred with
aqueous solution of Na2CO3 to remove excess malononitrile. The organic layer was washed with distilled
water, dried over anh. MgSO4, suction-filtered and rotary evaporated
to obtain 0.14 g of a dark solid after two days on the vacuum pump at room
temperature. The crude product was subjected to column chromatographic
purification on silica gel with chloroform.
The recovered black solid from rotary evaporation and drying in a vacuum
pump weighed 0.09 g (76%). Mp: 235.7oC; 1H NMR(CDCl3): d 1.45 – 1.59 (broad unresolved multiplet, 2H); 2.06 –
2.12(unresolved multiplet of a doublet, J = 12.80 Hz, 2H); 2.44 –
2.69(unresolved multiplet, 3H);2.87 – 2.90, 2.92 – 2.94 and 3.02 –
3.08(unresolved multiplets, 2H); 3.04(s, 6H); 6.60(s, 1H); 6.69 and 6.71(d, J =
8.94 Hz, 2H, aromatic); 6.72(s, 1H); 7.52 and 7.50 (d, J = 8.94 Hz; 2H,
aromatic); 13C NMR(CDCl3): d CH2: 27.89, 28.83, 29.63,
29.73; methine C: 35.87; N-CH3: 40.25; aromatic and vinyl CH:
111.88, 119.38, 120.89, 127.25; aromatic and vinyl C with no H: 113.80, 114.52,
125.86, 151.32, 151.79, 159.45; nitrile
C: 169.92; UV (CH2Cl2):
lmax = 499.0 nm ( e = 4.58 x 104 M-1cm-1). The
proton and C-13 spectra are consistent with the structure of the condensation
product between malononitrile and the dienone 4a whose structure was confirmed by elemental analysis before
use.
5-{7-[(p-N,N-Dimethylamino)phenyl]-8-methyl-2,3,4,4a,5,6-hexahydro-2-naphthalenyliden}-1,3-diethyl-2-thioxohexahydro-4,6-pyrimidinedione, 7c
This compound
was prepared from dienone 4b in quantitative yield using the same
procedure as the 1,3-diethyl-2- thiobarbituric acid adduct of
3-(p-N,N-dimethylaminophenyl)cyclohexenone.
For this reaction, the temperature was raised to 130oC after
much of the solvent had distilled off through the Dean-Stark trap. TLC, on alumina with 20% ethyl acetate in
hexane, of the reaction mixture after 1 h at this temperature showed complete
disappearance of the cyclohexenone.
Stirring the CCl4 solution of the product with aqueous NaHCO3
yielded a product that required no further purification. Drying was carried out
with anh. Na2SO4 instead of anh. MgSO4 because
it did not retain some of the product. This compound has good solubility even
in hexane. Mp: 184.7 o C; 1H
NMR(CDCl3): d 1.25 – 1.32( two almost coincident triplets, J = 6.98 Hz.
6H), 1.42 – 1,59( sextet, J = 12.80 Hz, 2H); 1.75 – 1.83, 1.89 – 1.98 and 2.06
– 2.07(broad unresolved multiplets, 2H); 2.03(s, 3H);2.38- 2.89(broad
unresolved multiplet, 4H); 3.01(s, 6H); 3.70 – 3.75(triplet of doublet, J =
18.76 Hz, 1H); 4.44 – 4.63, multiplet with 12 lines, J = 6.88 Hz, 4H); 6.71 and
6.74(d, J = 8.72 Hz, 2H, aromatic); 7.13 and 7.15(d, J = 8.72 Hz, 2H,
aromatic); 8.47(s, 1H); 13NMR(CDCl3): d CH3: 12.58, 16.59; CH2: 29.71,
30.24, 31.84, 33.30; N-CH3: 40.34; N-CH2: 43.53; methine
C: 36.56; aromatic and vinyl CH: 111.53, 122.05, 129.50; aromatic and
vinyl C with no attached H: 110.91, 129.19, 149.82, 152.52, 160.91, 161.18,
164.39; thiocarbonyl C: 173.43; carbonyl C: 178.13; MS(M/z): 463(M+, 25), 430(7), 214(44), 200(89),
129(100); UV (CH2Cl2):
lmax =
501.0 nm ( e = 2.10 x 104
M-1cm-1); HRMS:
Calculated: 463.229349 amu; Found: 463.228394 amu.
{7-[(p-N,N-Dimethylamino)phenyl]-8-methyl-2,3,4,4a,5,6-hexahydro-2-naphthalenyliden}malononitrile,
7d
The bicyclic
ketone 4b (0.10 g, 0.36 mmol),
malononitrile (0.34 g, 5.15mmol), 2.23 g of ionic liquid and 10 drops of
pyridine were mixed in a 25 mL round bottom flask. The flask was sealed with a rubber septum and
heated in an oil bath. All solids
dissolved in the ionic liquid at 75oC and the bath temperature was
maintained at 98oC for 24 h after which time, TLC (silica gel, CHCl3)
of the reaction mixture showed only trace of the substrate ketone. The reaction mixture was extracted with ethyl
acetate and the extract was treated with aqueous Na2CO3
to remove excess malononitrile. The
organic layer was dried over anh. MgSO4, suction filtered and rotary
evaporated to yield 0.81 g of a red oil which TLC showed to contain product in
ionic liquid. Column chromatography on
alumina (Brockman Activity 1) with CHCl3 and solvent removal
produced an orange red oil. This red oil
was extracted with ether and rotary evaporation of the ether solvent left an
orange-red oily solid. The solid was stirred
with hexane, suction-filtered and vacuum-dried at room temperature to obtain
0.02 g (17%) of product. The elution on
alumina was slow and the column seemed to have retained much of the material
applied on the column. The alumina may also have been too active for the
compound and may have induced decomposition of much of the product before it
could elute from the column. Mp: 183.0oC; 1H NMR(CDCl3): d 1.47 – 1.60 (broad unresolved multiplet, 2H); 1.94(s,
3H); 1.95 – 1.99 and 2.06 – 2.12(unresolved multiplets, 2H);2.44 – 2.73(broad
unresolved multiplet, 4H); 3.0(s, 6H); 3.05 – 3.11(unresolved multiplets of a
doublet, J = 16.96 Hz, 1H); 6.70 and 6.73(d, J = 8.94 Hz, 2H, aromatic);
6.77(s, 1H); 7.09 and 7.12 (d, J = 8.94 Hz; 2H, aromatic); 13C NMR(CDCl3): d CH3: 16.19: CH2: 29.32,
29.43, 29.61, 33.20; methine C: 36.69; N-CH3: 40.31; aromatic and
vinyl CH: 111.52, 116.92, 129,59; aromatic and vinyl C with no H: 113.33,
114.16, 127.30; 129.59, 150.03, 152.27, 160.35;
nitrile C: 170.96; UV (CH2Cl2): lmax = 454.0 nm ( e = 2.26 x 104 M-1cm-1). The proton and C-13 spectra are consistent
with the structure of the condensation product between malononitrile and the
dienone 4b whose structure was
confirmed by elemental analysis before use.
5-{9-[(p-N,N-Dimethylamino)phenyl]-8-methyl-2,3,4,4a,5,5a,6,6a,7,8-decahydro-2-tetracenyliden}-1,3-diethyl-2-thioxohexahydro-4,6-pyrimidinedione, 8c
The
tetracyclic tetraene-2-one, 5b (0.12
g, 0.34 mmol), 1,3-diethyl-2- thiobarbituric acid (0.67 g, 3.35 mmol), 2.3 g of
ionic liquid and 15 drops of pyridine were sealed in a 50 mL round bottom flask
with a rubber septum. The heterogeneous
mixture was stirred as bath temperature rose to 100oC. At this temperature, the reaction mixture
appeared to be a viscous solution. The
starting ketone was no more observable by TLC (silica gel, CHCl3)
after 6 h of reaction. The reaction mixture was extracted with a total of 400
mL of ether in portions until extract of the residue was colorless. The combined ether extracts was treated with
aqueous sodium bicarbonate to remove excess thiobarbituric acid. The resulting dark solid obtained after
drying, filtering and rotary evaporation of the ether solution was
chromatographed on silica gel with CH2Cl2 to obtain 0.12g
(67%) of adduct. Mp: 262.2 o C; 1H NMR(CDCl3): d 1.25 – 1.31(t, J = 6.88 Hz, 6H); 1.22
– 1.32(unresolved multiplet, 2H); 1.43 – 1.57(unresolved multiplet, 2H);
1.88(s, 3H); 1.91 – 2.05(broad unresolved multiplet, 4H); 2.52 – 2.66(broad
unresolved multiplet, 4H); 2.81 – 2.91(unresolved multiplet, 2H); 2.99(s, 6H);
3.71 – 3.75(two unresolved triplets, 1H); 4.54(broad singlet, 4H); 6.33(two
coincident singlets, 2H); 6.71 and 6.73(d, J = 8.46 Hz, 2H, aromatic); 7.08 and
7.10(d, J = 8.46 Hz, 2H, aromatic);
8.22(s, 1H); 13NMR(CDCl3): d CH3: 12.57, 16.14; N-CH3:40.45;
CH2: 29.80, 29.92, 30.42, 33.25, 37.04, 37.96; N-CH2:
43.49; methine C: 36.25, 36.78, 36.94; aromatic and vinyl CH: 111.81, 122,18,
125.14, 126.68, 129.38; aromatic and vinyl C with no attached H: 109.31,
127.52, 129.34, 131.00, 145.28, 149.51, 150.84,155.67, 164.59; carbonyl C:
172.22;thiocarbonyl C: 177.94; UV (CHCl3):
lmax = 574.0 nm ( e = 5.28 x 104 M-1cm-1);
HRMS: Calculated: 567.29126
amu; Found: 567.29066 amu.
{9-[(p-N,N-Dimethylamino)phenyl]-10-methyl-2,3,4,4a,5,5a,6,6a,7,8-decahydro-2-tetracenyliden}malononitrile,
8d
This reaction
was carried out using chloroform as solvent because the tetracyclic
tetraen-2-one 5b dissolved in this
solvent at room temperature. N-Methylpyrrolidine was used as amine base with
gl. acetic acid and the reaction mixture was refluxed with a Dean-Stark trap
for the usual take-off of distillate and replenishment of solvent. After 30 h as temperature rose from 100 -110oC,
the starting ketone was still observed in the TLC of the reaction mixture. The reaction mixture was transferred to a
separatory funnel and washed with saturated aqueous NaHCO3
solution. The organic layer was washed
with distilled water, dried over anh.MgSO4, suction-filtered and
rotary evaporated. The resulting dark
solid was chromatographed on silica gel with CHCl3 to obtain 0.16 g
(29%) of a shiny dark solid. Mp:
263.4 o C; 1H NMR(CDCl3): d 1.20 -1.31(octet, J = 7Hz, 2H); 1.47
– 1.54(broad unresolved multiplet, 2H); 1.87(s, 3H); 1.90 – 2.07(broad
multiplet, 4H); 2.50 – 2.60(unresolved multiplet, 6H); 2.98(s, 6H); 3.00 –
3.05(unresolved multiplet of a doublet, J = 18.36 Hz, 1H); 6.16(s, 1H); 6.30(s,
1H); 6.52(s, 1H); 6.70 and 6.72(d, J = 8.72 Hz, 2H, aromatic); 7.07 and 7.09(d,
J = 7.72 Hz, 2H, aromatic); 13NMR(CDCl3): d CH3: 16.14; CH2:
28.92, 29.69, 30.43, 33.19, 36.80; 37.91; methine C: 36.29, 36.43, 36.77;N-CH3:
40.56; aromatic and vinyl CH: 111.82, 119.10, 121.50, 124.04, 129.22; aromatic
and vinyl C with no attached H: 113.77, 114.56, 127.28, 130.93,144.90, 149.46,
150.25, 154.74, 159.48; nitrile C: 169.46; UV
(CH2Cl2): lmax = 496.0 nm ( e = 5.54 x 104
M-1cm-1); HRMS:
Calculated: 433.2521 amu; Found:
433.2521 amu.
5-(3-Methylcyclopenten-2-enyliden)-1,3-diethyl-2-thioxohexahydro-4,6-pyrimidinedione,
11a
This
thiobarbituric acid adduct was obtained by a procedure that is identical to the
preparation of the cyclohexenone analog 6a. This product was, however, purified by
vacuum-assisted (aspirator) filtration over a short bed of silica gel using a
10% mixture of ethyl acetate in CCl4 until only a red top layer was left on the
silica gel. Rotary evaporation of the
eluate, heating up to 1020C bath temperature, gave 12.12 g (80%) of
adduct as a yellow solid. Mp: 147.9oC;
1H NMR(CDCl3): d 1.27 – 1.31(two almost coincident t, J = 7.44 Hz, 6H);
2.27(s, 3H); 2.67 and 2.68(d, J = 3.68 Hz, 2H); 3.48 – 3.49(unresolved
multiplet, 2H); 4.51 – 4.57(two almost coincident q, J = 6.88 Hz, 4H); 8.02(s,
1H); 13C NMR(CDCl3):d CH3: 12.39, 12.41, 19.63; CH2:
37.92, 37.97; N-CH2: 43.28, 43.38; vinyl CH: 133.35; vinyl C with no
attached H: 108.05, 160.28, 161.01; Carbonyl C: 178.68, 181.54; thiocarbonyl C:
188.49; MS(M/z): 278(M+,
100); 245(99); 190(22); 120(56); UV (CHCl3):
lmax = 366.1.0 nm ( e = 4.68 x 104
M-1cm-1); HRMS:
Calculated: 278.108899 amu; Found: 278.109451 amu.
2-(3-Methylcyclopent-2-enylidene)malononitrile,
11b
The procedure
was identical to the procedure described for the maloninitrile adduct of
3-n-butylcyclohexenone 6b. But due to the better solubility property of
the adduct, extraction of the crude
product with ether produced 71% of pure product. THF solution of a gummy residue from the
ether extraction showed presence of additional product that could possibly be
isolated through column chromatography. But that was not explored. Mp: 89.2oC;
1H NMR(CDCl3): d 2.18 – 2.19 (d, J = 0.92 Hz, 3H); 2.77 – 2.79(broad
unresolved multiplet, 2H); 3.01 – 3.03(unsymmetrical t; 2H); 6.56(weak
splitting, 1H); 13NMR(CDCl3): d CH3: 18.88; CH2:
32.63, 37.91; vinyl CH: 128.62; vinyl C with no attached H: 112.94, 113.48,
176.09; nitrile C: 185.78; MS(M/z):
144(M+, 70); 129(58); 116(42); 79(100); UV (CHCl3): lmax = 301.0.0 nm ( e = 2.55 x 104
M-1cm-1); Elemental
analysis: Calculated: C = 74.98; H = 5.59; N= 19.43; Found: C = 75.16; H =
5.70; N = 19.32.
Acknowledgements
The authors thank the United States Office of Naval Research (ONR Grant # N00014-98-1-0486 and N00014-00-1-0864) and National Science Foundation (NSF MRI Grant # 0722510) for financial support for this work. We are grateful to Mr. Kim Harich of the Biochemistry Department and Dr. Mehdi Khorassani of the Chemistry Department, all at Virginia Polytechnic and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A. for both nominal and exact mass spectral analyses.
Figure
1:
Synthetic Equivalents of the Electron-withdrawing Group Synthons.
Figure 2: Effect of electron-withdrawing
group on the chemical shift of C-2 proton of adducts.
Scheme 2: Abbreviated Triple Annulation
Table1:
Structures, Yields and Melting Points of Cyclohexenones Prepared for This Study.
Table 2: Knoevenagel Condensation of Cycloalkenones with Activated Methylene Compounds.
Chromophore |
Melting Point(oC) |
lmax (nm) |
e/104(m-1
cm-1) |
6a |
68 |
376 |
3.93 |
6b |
Liquid |
307 |
2.09 |
6c |
226 |
551 |
4.58 |
6d |
205 |
486 |
4.19 |
7a |
262 |
572 |
3.64 |
7b |
236 |
499 |
4.58 |
7c |
185 |
501 |
2.1 |
7d |
183 |
454 |
2.26 |
8c |
262 |
574 |
5.24 |
8d |
263 |
496 |
5.54 |
11a |
148 |
366 |
4.68 |
11b |
89 |
301 |
2.55 |
Table3: Some Physical Properties of Prepared Dipolar
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