Abdulrahman Al-Sumait University.: Heterocyclic Compounds (8-Membered Ring)
Abdulrahman Al-Sumait University.: Heterocyclic Compounds (8-Membered Ring)
Abdulrahman Al-Sumait University.: Heterocyclic Compounds (8-Membered Ring)
These are organic compounds that contain a ring structure containing seven carbon atom with
one hetero atom either sulfur, oxygen or nitrogen attached between two adjacent carbon atom.
Consider the example below;
8-Atom
Ring
These are heterocyclic compound with seven carbon and a hydrogen atom connected together in
aring structure.example of this compounds are azocine (unsaturated) and azocane(saturated)
The primary concern of this part is eight-membered azaheterocycles, azocines. Azocines are a
diverse class of compounds, that frequently occur as biologically active compounds as well as
being widely used in synthetic chemistry. Azocines have received more attention because of their
increasing usefulness both as synthetic intermediates and as therapeutic agents
Eight-membered rings with one nitrogen atom can be classified broadly into five categories:
unsaturated, partially saturated, fully saturated, bridge-head, and fused ring systems (l)-(5). The
most commonly used systematic nomenclature for eight-membered heterocyclic compounds is
the Hantzsch-Widman system. . According to this system,
the compound (1) with four noncumulative double bonds is named azocine, with the
prefix "aza" indicating the nitrogen atom,
followed by the stem "ocine" indicating the ring size and unsaturation. The nitrogen atom
takes the atom number one.
Partially saturated systems are expressed by the prefixes dihydro-, tetrahydro-,
hexahydro-, and octahydro- with azocine.
For example; (2) is named as 1,8-dihydroazocine. The fully saturated system (3) is named
"azocane" or "perhydroazocine
Synthesis of azocines embraces that of azepines and azonines in the use of general methods like
Beckmann rearrangement, Schmidt reaction, and intramolecular cyclization. Since azocines are a
diverse class of compounds, their preparative methods remain specific and often inefficient.
Synthesis of azocines
Generally hydroazocines are prepared via cycloaddition; but depending upon the degree of
unsaturation, the preparation can also be achieved by other routes. Consider the following;
Hexahydroazocines
i. Intramolecular cyclization of (76) in the presence of NaH gave exo (77) and endo (78)
products.
ii. An unstable enaminone azocine derivative (81) was formed after the desulfurization of
the bicyclic aminal (80), which in turn was synthesized from the Diels-Alder adduct,
dihydrothiopyranone (79).
Tetrahydroazocines
i. The [2 + 2] cycloaddition of tetrahydropyridine (88) with HC==CCO2Me gave
tetrahydroazocine (90)
ii. Cycloaddition of fulvene (91) with cyclic imine (92) gave the azocine (93)
Dihydroazocines
Perhydroazocines
Intramolecular cyclization of suitable starting materials with appropriate reagents afforded per-
hydroazocines. The secondary -styryl (N-methylamino) alkane (107) under- went
intramolecular photochemical addition to yield regioisomeric adducts in which C—N bond
formation had occurred either at the -carbon to give N-substituted azocine (109) or at the -
carbon to give N-substituted azepine (108).
Synthesis of benzazocines
The benzo-fused azocine derivatives are diverse, hence grouping them together and presenting
strategic synthetic routes becomes rather intricate. A desirable benzazocine can be easily
separated from other products by flash chromatography.
Intramolecular cyclization is one of the common methods used to obtain benzazocines base
catalyzation of N-phthalimido substituted -Ketoester provided benzazocine trione .
Cyclization of hydroxylamine derivative (122) in MeOH with NaBH3CN gave (123).
Hydroazocine lactams have been shown to also undergo acylation. Via modified Tiemann
rearrangement, cyclic amidoxime O-methanesulfonate has been transformed into cyclic
carbodiimides.
Perhydroazocines reactions
The -carbon of the lactam (34) was functionalized to obtain the racemic eight-
membered lactam (39). The racemic mixtures were resolved via its pyroglutamic salts.
Benzazocines reactions
Benzazocines can be easily alkylated by alkyl halides and acylated by acid chlorides.
Benzazonium ylide (52) with sodamide in liquid ammonia solely underwent the Stevens
rearrangement (1-2 migration) rather than the Sommelet-Hauser reaction (2-3 migration)
to afford one carbon ring enlargement product (53).formation of 9-membered ring.
When the nitrogen atom bears one methyl group and another methyl or ethyl group, (55)
afforded the ring-opened product, enamine (56).
Azocines
Benzazocines
Dibenzazocines