Gold-catalyzed oxycyclization of allenic carbamates: expeditious synthesis of 1,3-oxazin-2-ones

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1Grupo de Lactamas y Heterociclos Bioactivos, Departamento de Química Orgánica I, Unidad Asociada al CSIC, Facultad de Química, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain
2Instituto de Química Orgánica General (IQOG), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006-Madrid, Spain
3Departamento de Química Orgánica I, Facultad de Química, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain
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This article is part of the Thematic Series "Gold catalysis for organic synthesis II".
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Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 818–826. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.9.93
Received 08 Feb 2013, Accepted 26 Mar 2013, Published 26 Apr 2013
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Abstract

A combined experimental and computational study on regioselective gold-catalyzed synthetic routes to 1,3-oxazinan-2-ones (kinetically controlled products) and 1,3-oxazin-2-one derivatives (thermodynamically favored) from easily accessible allenic carbamates has been carried out.

Keywords: allenes; computational chemistry; gold; gold catalysis; heterocycles; reaction mechanisms

Introduction

The search for new synthetic routes to 1,3-oxazin-2-one derivatives [1] is of interest because of the biological activity of these molecules [2-7]. Carretero and colleagues have published the Au(I)-catalyzed cyclization of N-Boc-3-butyn-1-amines to afford six-membered 2-oxazinones, namely, 6-methylene-1,3-oxazinan-2-ones involving a 6-exo-dig cyclization [1]. This interesting method avoids complicated prefunctionalization of starting materials and minimizes the formation of byproducts; however, it is used just for the preparation of four simple examples. 1,3-Oxazin-2-ones are also used as valuable intermediates in organic synthesis [8-14]. Recently, allenes have attracted much attention as they have been used for the preparation of both biologically relevant drugs as well as advanced materials [15-27]. However, regioselectivity problems are significant (endo-trig versus endo-dig versus exo-dig versus exo-trig cyclization). Great effort is currently being made in the search for a variety of reactions promoted by gold salts due to their impressive catalytic properties [28-41]. The Boc protective group has been widely used in allene chemistry, being an inert and recommended partner in gold- and palladium-catalyzed aminocyclizations of allenes [42]. On the other hand, reports of gold-catalyzed cyclizations leading to heterocycles that contain more than one heteroatom are rare [43-48]. Besides, it has been reported very recently that the Au(I)-catalyzed cyclization of a N-phenethyl-N-Boc-protected allenamide failed [49]. Despite the above precedents, but in continuation of our interest in heterocyclic and allene chemistry [50-55], we decided to examine the gold-catalyzed cyclization of N-Boc-allenes with the aim of establishing a protocol for the synthesis of 1,3-oxazin-2-one derivatives in which the carbamate group should serve as the source of CO2.

Results and Discussion

To explore the effects of various substrates on gold-catalyzed oxycyclization reactions, a number of new allenic carbamates were synthesized as shown in Scheme 1. Starting materials, tert-butyl (prop-2-ynyl)carbamates 1a–j, were obtained both in the racemic form and in optically pure form by using standard methodologies. Thus, alkynylcarbamates 1a–g were prepared through reductive amination of the appropriate aldehyde with propargylamine, followed by Boc2O treatment of the corresponding N-substituted prop-2-yn-1-amine. Alkynylcarbamate 1h was prepared from Garner’s aldehyde following a literature report [56,57]. Alkynylcarbamate 1i was readily accessed from (S)-prolinol by using a modified known procedure [58]. Alkynylcarbamate 1j was achieved through the reaction of 3-bromo-1H-indole-2-carbaldehyde with the Ohira–Bestmann reagent followed by the addition of Boc2O. Terminal alkynes 1 were conveniently converted into allenic carbamates 2 by treatment with paraformaldehyde in the presence of diisopropylamine and copper(I) bromide (Crabbé reaction) [59,60].

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Scheme 1: Preparation of allenic carbamates 2a–j. Reagents and conditions: (i) Propargylamine, MgSO4, CH2Cl2, rt, 15 h. (ii) NaBH4, MeOH, rt, 0.5 h. (iii) Boc2O, Et3N, CH2Cl2, rt, 2–15 h. (iv) (CH2O)n, iPr2NH, CuBr, 1,4-dioxane, reflux, 1 h. (v) Ohira–Bestmann reagent, K2CO3, MeOH, rt, 15 h. (vi) Boc2O, DMAP, CH3CN, rt, 2 h. (vii) Dess–Martin periodinane, CH2Cl2, rt. PMP = 4-MeOC6H4.

We employed three different gold salts in our initial screening of catalysts for the model system, allenic carbamate 2a. Initially, the use of AuCl3 and AuCl were tested, but both failed to catalyze the reaction. Fortunately, we found that [AuClPPh3]/AgOTf was an excellent catalyst for our purpose. To our delight, the reaction of allenic carbamate 2a at room temperature afforded 3-benzyl-6-methylene-1,3-oxazinan-2-one (3a) bearing an exocyclic double bond as the sole product (Scheme 2). Adding a catalytic amount of Brønsted acid (PTSA) into the reaction system did slightly improve the yield of 3a. Solvent screening demonstrated that dichloromethane was the best choice in the reaction.

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Scheme 2: Controlled oxycyclization reactions of allenic carbamates 2 to 1,3-oxazinan-2-ones 3 and 1,3-oxazin-2-ones 4 under selective gold-catalyzed conditions. Reagents and conditions: (i) 2.5 mol % [AuClPPh3], 2.5 mol % AgOTf, 10 mol % PTSA, CH2Cl2, rt, 3a: 6 h; 3b: 7 h, 3d: 6 h; 3e: 8 h; 3f: 7 h; 3g: 5.5 h; 3h: 5 h; 3i: 7 h; 3j: 2 h. (ii) 2.5 mol % [AuClPPh3], 2.5 mol % AgOTf, 10 mol % PTSA, CH2Cl2, sealed tube, 130 °C, 4a: 1.5 h; 4b: 2 h, 4c: 4 h; 4d: 6 h; 4e: 4 h; 4f: 0.5 h; 4g: 5.5 h; 4i: 2 h. (iii) 2.5 mol % [AuClPPh3], 2.5 mol % AgOTf, 10 mol % PTSA, CH2Cl2, sealed tube, 80 °C, 4j: 2 h. PMP = 4-MeOC6H4.

As revealed in Scheme 2, a variety of allenic carbamates 2 were also suitable for such heterocyclization reactions to afford 1,3-oxazinan-2-ones 3. To increase the molecular diversity by incorporating more 1,3-oxazin-2-ones in the molecule, compound 2g having two allenic carbamate units was used. Notably, bis(allenic carbamate) 2g also undergoes this interesting transformation to give bis(6-methylene-1,3-oxazinan-2-one) 3g through a two-fold cyclization. This product particularly underlines the power of the present cyclization reaction, as none of the conventional methods would allow its synthesis with such great ease.

Interestingly, as a first try, we were pleased to notice that the reaction of allenyl derivative 2a in dichloromethane at 90 °C, afforded 1,3-oxazin-2-one 4a bearing an endocyclic double bond as the major component, and 1,3-oxazinan-2-one 3a was also isolated as a minor component. Notably, starting from allenic carbamates 2a–j and performing the reaction in dichloromethane at 130 °C, a series of 6-methyl-3-substituted 3,4-dihydro-2H-1,3-oxazin-2-ones 4a–j were exclusively formed (Scheme 2) [61-68]. The observed regioselectivity is worthy of note, because under our reaction conditions only 1,3-oxazinan-2-ones 3 (arising from 6-endo-dig cyclization) or 3,4-dihydro-2H-1,3-oxazin-2-ones 4 (arising from 6-exo-dig cyclization) were achieved, with the nucleophilic oxygen attacking the central allene carbon atom in each case. This is an interesting result, because the available examples on related metal-catalyzed allene heterocyclizations usually lead to 5-exo-trig cyclization [69,70]; only Hashmi et al. have recently reported an attack at the central position of the allene in allenylamides [44].

Thus, it is possible to suppress the formation of the 1,3-oxazinan-2-one ring by performing the reaction at higher temperature, yielding the 1,3-oxazin-2-one as the exclusive product. A general trend can be deduced on the basis of these results: heterocycle 4 is the thermodynamically controlled product while heterocycle 3 is the kinetically controlled product [71-73]. Probably, double-bond migration in compounds 3 results in the formation of the 1,3-oxazin-2-one 4. In order to verify the role of the Au(I) catalyst in the double-bond migration process, we set up two experiments. Heating a mixture of 3a with Au(OTf)PPh3 at a loading of 2.5 mol % in dichloromethane for 1.5 h at 130 °C resulted in full conversion into 4a. Running the same reaction in the absence of any catalyst resulted in 30% conversion after two days, as determined by 1H NMR. Treatment of 1,3-oxazinan-2-one 3a with 5 mol % TfOH in CH2Cl2 at room temperature did not proceed to give an appreciable amount of 3,4-dihydro-2H-1,3-oxazin-2-one 4a after 2 h. This indicates that the Au(I) catalyst might participate in the double-bond migration process; being a possible intermediate, the π-allyl complex 5 is depicted in Scheme 3 [74]. Despite that, the isomerization process can be also viewed as an intramolecular 1,3-H shift assisted by gold.

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Scheme 3: Possible explanation for the gold-catalyzed isomerization reaction of 1,3-oxazinan-2-one 3a into 1,3-oxazin-2-one 4a. Reagents and conditions: (i) 2.5 mol % [AuClPPh3], 2.5 mol % AgOTf, 10 mol % PTSA, CH2Cl2, sealed tube, 130 °C, 1.5 h.

A possible pathway for the gold-catalyzed achievement of heterocycles 3 from allenyl-tethered carbamates 2 may initially involve the formation of a complex 6 through coordination of the gold salt to the proximal allenic double bond. Next, chemo- and regioselective 6-endo-dig oxyauration of the carbamate carbonyl moiety forms species 7. Attack of the carbamate carbonyl group occurs as a result of the stability of the intermediate ammonium cation type 7. Loss of proton linked to 2-methylprop-1-ene release [75-78], generates neutral species 8, which followed by protonolysis of the carbon–gold bond affords 6-methylene-1,3-oxazinan-2-ones 3 with concurrent regeneration of the gold catalyst (Scheme 4, left catalytic cycle). In line with the above mechanistic proposal, the easy breakage of the tert-butyl group at species 7 is essential for the formation of 1,3-oxazinan-2-ones 3. Besides, the replacement of the tert-butyl group in allenic carbamates 2 by other alkyl functions, such as methyl, did not allow the preparation of heterocycles 3. In addition to the double-bond isomerization that transforms products 3 into the thermodynamically more favored compounds 4, a mechanistic scenario involving the initial coordination of the gold to the distal allenic double bond leading to complex 9, followed by a 6-exo-dig oxyauration is likely for the achievement of 1,3-oxazin-2-ones 4 from allenic carbamates 2 (Scheme 4, right-hand catalytic cycle).

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Scheme 4: Mechanistic explanation for the gold-catalyzed oxycyclization reactions of allenic carbamates 2 into 6-methylene-1,3-oxazinan-2-ones 3 or into 3-substituted-3,4-dihydro-2H-1,3-oxazin-2-ones 4.

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations (see Supporting Information File 1) have been carried out at the PCM-M06/def2-SVP//B3LYP/def2-SVP level to gain more insight into the reaction mechanism of the above discussed gold-catalyzed divergent oxycyclization reaction. The corresponding computed reaction profiles of the model allene 1M with the model gold catalyst AuPMe3(OTf) are shown in Figure 1, which gathers the respective free energies (computed at 298 K) in CH2Cl2 solution.

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Figure 1: Computed reaction profile for the reaction of AuPMe3+ and 1M. Numbers indicate the corresponding PCM-corrected ΔG298 energies (in kcal/mol) using dichloromethane as solvent. Bond distances are given in angstroms. All data have been computed at the PCM-M06/def2-SVP//B3LYP/def2-SVP level.

As initially envisaged, two different coordination modes of the metal fragment to the allenic double bond of 1M, i.e., distal versus proximal, are possible. Our calculations indicate that the distal coordination leading to INT1-B is favored over the proximal coordination mode, which forms INT1-A (ΔΔG = 3.8 kcal/mol). This is mainly due to the presence of a two-electron stabilizing interaction established by donation of electronic density from the lone pair of the oxygen atom of the carbonyl moiety to a vacant d atomic orbital of the gold atom in INT1-B [79]. Both complexes can undergo the corresponding oxyauration cyclization reaction. Thus, INT1-A is converted into INT2-A in a slightly exergonic process (ΔGR,298 = −0.4 kcal/mol) through the saddle point TS1-A, which is associated with the 6-endo-dig cyclization. Similarly, INT1-B is transformed into INT2-B in a slightly endergonic process (ΔGR,298 = +0.9 kcal/mol) via TS1-B, associated with the 6-exo-dig cyclization reaction.

From the data in Figure 1, it becomes obvious that the 6-endo-dig transformation is kinetically favored over the 6-exo-dig reaction in view of the computed lower activation barrier of the former process (ΔΔG≠298 = +7.4 kcal/mol). However, the cyclic reaction product INT2-B is thermodynamically more stable than the counterpart INT2-A (ΔΔG = 2.5 kcal/mol), which is in agreement with the experimental findings (see above). The next step of the process involves the TfO− promoted elimination of isobutene to form the corresponding INT3 complexes. The driving force of this process is clearly related to the thermodynamically favored release of isobutene (ΔGR,298 = −1.9 and −5.2 kcal/mol from INT3-A and INT3-B, respectively). Finally, the protonolysis reaction of the carbon–gold bond by TfOH renders the final products 3M and 4M regenerating the catalyst. This step occurs through the transition states TS2-A and TS2-B, respectively, in an exergonic transformation (ΔGR,298 = −4.5 and −3.0 kcal/mol from INT3-A and INT3-B, respectively). Again, the data in Figure 1 indicate that the final product 4M is thermodynamically more stable than 3M, which is in line with the experimentally observed conversion of 3a into 4a by heating in the presence and also in the absence of the gold-catalyst. From the computed reaction profile, it can be concluded that the observed divergent cyclization finds its origin in the initial 6-endo versus 6-exo oxyauration reaction steps, with the former being kinetically favored whereas the latter is thermodynamically favored. At this point, it cannot be safely discarded that the formation of the thermodynamically more stable 6-exo-dig products is the result of the simple thermally promoted isomerization of the less stable 6-endo-dig species.

Conclusion

In conclusion, efficient gold-catalyzed synthetic routes to 1,3-oxazinan-2-one and 1,3-oxazin-2-one derivatives from easily accessible allenic carbamates under mild conditions have been reported. The oxycyclization reactions were found to proceed with complete control of regioselectivity. The mechanism of these processes has additionally been investigated by a computational study showing that heterocycles 3 are the kinetically controlled products whereas heterocycles 4 are thermodynamically favored.

Experimental

General Information

1H NMR and 13C NMR spectra were recorded on 700, 500, 300, or 200 MHz spectrometers. NMR spectra were recorded in CDCl3 solutions, except were otherwise stated. Chemical shifts are given in parts per million relative to TMS (1H, 0.0 ppm) or CDCl3 (13C, 76.9 ppm). Low- and high-resolution mass spectra were taken on a QTOF LC–MS spectrometer using the electronic impact (EI) or electrospray modes (ES) unless otherwise stated. Specific rotation [α]D is given in 10−1 deg cm2 g−1 at 20 °C, and the concentration (c) is expressed in grams per 100 mL. All commercially available compounds were used without further purification.

Typical procedure for the Au(I)-catalyzed preparation of 1,3-oxazin-2-ones, 4

[AuClPPh3] (0.00475 mmol), AgOTf (0.00475 mmol), and p-toluenesulfonic acid (0.019 mmol) were sequentially added to a stirred solution of the allenic carbamate 2a (50 mg, 0.19 mmol) in dichloromethane (1.9 mL). The resulting mixture was heated in a sealed tube at 130 °C until disappearance of the starting material (TLC, 1.5 h). The reaction was allowed to cool to room temperature and filtered through a pack of celite. The filtrate was extracted with dichloromethane (3 × 5 mL), and the combined extracts were washed twice with brine. The organic layer was dried (MgSO4), concentrated under reduced pressure, and purified by flash column chromatography on silica gel (hexanes/ethyl acetate 4:1) to afford product 4a (27 mg, 70%) as a colorless oil. 1H NMR (300 MHz, CDCl3, 25 °C) δ 7.33 (m, 2H), 4.76 (m, 1H), 4.58 (s, 2H), 3.68 (dq, J = 3.2, 1.9 Hz, 2H), 1.86 (td, J = 1.9, 1.2 Hz, 3H); 13C NMR (75 MHz, CDCl3, 25 °C) δ 150.9, 148.1, 135.6, 128.7, 128.2, 127.9, 94.4, 52.1, 44.6, 18.3; IR (CHCl3) ν: 1685 cm−1; HRMS–ES (m/z): [M]+ calcd for C12H13NO2, 203.0946; found, 203.0952.

Supporting Information

Supporting Information File 1: Experimental details, analytical data of new compounds, copies of 1H NMR and 13C NMR spectra and computational details.
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Acknowledgements

Financial support from the MINECO [Projects CTQ2012-33664-C02-01, CTQ2012-33664-C02-02, CTQ2010-20714-C02-01, and Consolider-Ingenio 2010 (CSD2007-00006)] and Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid (Projects S2009/PPQ-1752 and S2009/PPQ-1634) are gratefully acknowledged. M. T. Q. thanks MEC for a predoctoral grant.

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