Kairui Rao†
Fuchao Yu- Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China
A transition-metal-free method for the construction of 3-substituted or 3,4-disubstituted quinolines from readily available N,N-dimethyl enaminones and o-aminobenzyl alcohols is reported. The direct oxidative cyclocondensation reaction tolerates broad functional groups, allowing the efficient synthesis of various quinolines in moderate to excellent yields. The reaction involves a C (sp3)-O bond cleavage and a C=N bind and a C=C bond formation during the oxidative cyclization process, and the mechanism was proposed.
Introduction
Quinolines represent an important class of heterocyclic compounds, which widely occur as a core structural motif in natural products (McCormick et al., 1996; Subbaraju et al., 2004; McCauley et al., 2020), pharmaceuticals (Gorka et al., 2013; Kokatla et al., 2013; Jentsch et al., 2018), functional materials (Tong et al., 2003; Kim et al., 2005; Zhang et al., 2014), organocatalysis or ligands (Biddle et al., 2007; Zhang and Sigman., 2007; Esteruelas et al., 2016), and valuable building blocks (Wan et al., 2016; Duan et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2019; Ankade et al., 2021). Due to their great importance, considerable efforts have been focused on the development of efficient synthetic methods to their structures and modifications over the past years. Classical methodologies (Bharate et al., 2015; Li et al., 2017; Harry et al., 2020), such as Camps, Combes, Conrad–Limpach, Doebner, Friedländer, Knorr, Pfitzinger, Pavorov, Skraup synthesis, and others, are known for the construction of quinoline rings; however, these reactions usually suffer from some limitations, such as harsh reaction conditions, tedious workup procedures, and special substrate designs (prefunctionalized anilines). Recently, many elegant strategies toward quinolone rings, such as using new building blocks (Jin et al., 2016; Tiwari et al., 2017; Wu et al., 2017; Trofimov et al., 2018) and multicomponent reactions (Chen et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2018; Zhao et al., 2019; Yang and Wan., 2020), have been developed to construct substituted quinolines. Despite these advances, the development of easy and efficient approaches for the construction of substituted quinolines remains to be explored.
Recently, o-aminobenzyl alcohols are versatile intermediates which have attracted increasing attention in organic synthesis owing to their high reactivity in the construction of N-heterocycles (Makarov et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2018; Xie et al., 2018; Yang and Gao., 2018), especially quinolines. In this regard, two strategies have been developed to construct the quinoline framework from o-aminobenzyl alcohols: acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling (ADC) reactions and [4 + 2]-cycloaddition reactions. The types of ADC reactions of o-aminobenzyl alcohols with ketones or secondary alcohols or nitriles to the construction of quinolines by the release of H2 and H2O as only by-products have been well-developed (Scheme 1). However, such attractive synthetic strategies required expensive transition-metal (TM) pincer complexes, such as Ir (Wang et al., 2016; Genc et al., 2019), Ru (Maji et al., 2018; Wan et al., 2019), Ni (Das et al., 2018; Das et al., 2018; Singh et al., 2018), Mn (Mastalir et al., 2016; Barman et al., 2018; Das et al., 2019), Cu (Tan et al., 2018), or Re (Wei et al., 2019) complexes. In addition, aza-ortho-quinone methides (aza-o-QMs), in situ generated from o-aminobenzyl alcohols as short-lived and highly reactive diene species, have been extensively investigated and applied in organic synthesis (Huang and Kang., 2017; Mei et al., 2017; Lee et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2021). In 2016, a KOH-promoted regioselective synthesis of quinolones via [4 + 2]-cycloaddition of aza-o-QMs with internal alkynes was disclosed by Verma and co-workers (Saunthwal et al., 2016) (Scheme 1b). In 2018, Shi and co-workers established chiral phosphoramide catalytic asymmetric [4 + 2]-cycloaddition of aza-o-QMs with o-hydroxystyrenes to afford chiral tetrahydroquinolines (Li et al., 2018) (Scheme 1c). This [4 + 2]-cycloaddition protocol enriched the partners of aza-o-QMs to construct quinolones. In spite of these powerful works, there is still a demand for new protocols for generation of quinolines from o-aminobenzyl alcohols. As our ongoing interest in quinoline synthesis (Lu et al., 2017; Zhou et al., 2018) and enaminone chemistry (Yu et al., 2011; Yu et al., 2013; Xu et al., 2016; Zhou et al., 2017; Fu et al., 2020; Chen et al., 2021; Huang and Yu., 2021; Yu et al., 2021; Zhang et al., 2021; Fu et al., 2022; Liu et al., 2022; Ying et al., 2022), herein, we report a transition-metal-free direct oxidative cyclocondensation strategy of o-aminobenzyl alcohols with N,N-dimethyl enaminones to synthesize 3-substituted or 3,4-disubstituted quinoline derivatives in moderate to excellent yields (Scheme 1d).
SCHEME 1. Synthesis of quinolines from o-aminobenzyl alcohols.
Results and discussion
Our investigation started with the reaction of readily available N,N-dimethyl enaminone 1a with o-aminobenzyl alcohol 2a as model substrates in (Table 1). We carried out the model reaction in the presence of AcOH in DMSO at 100°C, but the desired product 3a was not obtained (entry 1). Various acids were screened, such as pivalic acid (PivOH), ZnCl2, trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), 10-camphorsulfonic acid (CSA), and p-toluenesulfonic acid (TsOH), which suggested that TsOH was the most suitable acid for this reaction in 32% yield. A series of oxidants show positive effects for the reaction (entries 7–13). To our delight, K2S2O8 was found to be the most effective one to give the desired quinolone 3a for greatly increasing the yield to 82% (entry 13). Further experiments showed that DMSO was the first choice for solvents; other solvents, such as DMF, toluene, MeCN, 1,4-dioxane, EtOH, and water, were inferior (entries 14–19). With respect to the acid and oxidant loading, 1.0 equiv of TsOH and 1.0 equiv of K2S2O8 were found to be optimal (entries 20–23). The reaction temperature was also screened, and the results showed that 100°C was still with giving the best yield (entries 24–25).
Under the optimized reaction conditions, we next investigated the substrate scope of this direct oxidative cyclocondensation reaction (Table 2). A wide range of N,N-dimethyl enaminones 1 bearing different substituents could be used in this transformation. For example, N,N-dimethyl enaminones bearing electron-rich (4-OMe, 4-Me, and 2-Me), electron-neutral (4-H), halogenated (4-Cl, 2-Cl, and 4-F), and electron-deficient (4-CF3 and 4-NO2) groups at the aryl ring were tolerated, affording the corresponding 3-substituted quinoline products in good to excellent yields (71–84%, 3a−3i). Subsequently, 4-biphenyl and 1-naphthyl N,N-dimethyl enaminones were also well compatible with the reaction, giving the expected product in excellent yields (81–84%, 3j−3k). Furthermore, various heteroaryl N,N-dimethyl enaminones, including 4-pyridyl, 2-furanyl, and 2-thienyl, were well tolerated in this reaction, affording the corresponding products in excellent yields (83–87%, 3l−3n). The phenylethyl enamamine worked well for the reaction, furnishing the corresponding quinoline product 3o in 61% yield. The o-aminobenzyl alcohol scope was also examined. Bearing halogenation (5-Cl) was well tolerated on the phenyl ring of the o-aminobenzyl alcohols, furnishing the corresponding 3-substituted quinoline products in good to excellent yields (78–89%, 3p−3x). Notably, 1-(o-aminobenzyl) ethanol and o-aminobenzhydrol were also employed, affording 3,4-disubstituted quinolines in moderate to excellent yields (68–91%, 3y−3c’). Moreover, the structure of 3j was unambiguously confirmed by X-ray crystallographic analysis (CCDC 1846910, Figure 1).
FIGURE 1. X-ray diffraction structure of 3j.
To further understand the reaction mechanism, some control experiments were carried out, and the results are presented in Scheme 2. When N,N-dimethyl enaminone 1b was reacted with o-aminobenzyl alcohol 2a in the absence of K2S2O8, the N-aryl enaminone intermediate product 4 was obtained in 68% yield by a transamination process (Scheme 2). Next, product 3b was obtained in 75% yield by the intramolecular cyclization reaction of intermediate 4 under optimized reaction conditions. However, the intramolecular cyclization reaction could also proceed smoothly without the addition of TsOH, affording product 3b in 73% yield (Scheme 2). When N,N-dimethyl enaminone 1b was reacted with 2-aminobenzaldehyde 5 under the standard conditions or in the absence of K2S2O8, product 3b was, respectively, isolated in 78 and 73% yields (Scheme 2). Additionally, the reaction was unaffected completely by adding the radical inhibitors Tempo and BHT (Scheme 2). These results revealed that N-aryl enaminone 4 and 2-aminobenzaldehyde 5 were important intermediates for this reaction, and the reaction was not a free-radical process.
SCHEME 2. Control experiments.
Based on the above results and previous studies (Zhou et al., 2018), a possible mechanism for this transformation is proposed (Scheme 3). N,N-dimethyl enaminones 1 reacted with o-aminobenzyl alcohols 2 promoted by TsOH to furnish the N-aryl enaminone intermediate 6 via a transamination process. Next, intermediate 6 underwent K2S2O8-assisted oxidation to form the ketone intermediate 7, which was then converted into intermediate 8 through intramolecular cyclization reaction. Finally, quinolone products 3 were obtained via elimination of a molecule of H2O and oxidative aromatization.
SCHEME 3. Proposed mechanism.
Conclusion
In conclusion, we have developed a concise protocol for the synthesis of 3-substituted or 3,4-disubstituted quinolines with moderate to excellent yields using readily available N,N-dimethyl enaminones and o-aminobenzyl alcohols promoted by TsOH/K2S2O8. This direct oxidative cyclocondensation reaction enriched the quinoline synthesis method from o-aminobenzyl alcohols.
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Author contributions
FY designed the project. KR, ZC, PZ, DL, and YS performed the experiments. FY supervised the work and prepared the manuscript. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.
Funding
This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21961018), the Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province (201901T070302 and 202202AG050008), and the Plan of Funding Outstanding Young Talents of Yunnan Province.
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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Supplementary material
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Keywords: quinolines, N, N-dimethyl enaminones, o-aminobenzyl alcohols, oxidative cyclocondensation reaction, transition-metal-free
Citation: Rao K, Chai Z, Zhou P, Liu D, Sun Y and Yu F (2022) Transition-metal-free approach to quinolines via direct oxidative cyclocondensation reaction of N,N-dimethyl enaminones with o-aminobenzyl alcohols. Front. Chem. 10:1008568. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2022.1008568
Received: 01 August 2022; Accepted: 09 August 2022;
Published: 21 September 2022.
Edited by:
Wen Chen, Yunnan University, ChinaReviewed by:
Jie-Ping Wan, Jiangxi Normal University, ChinaShen Xianfu, Qujing Normal University, China
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