Efficient Synthesis of Benzo...
Efficient Synthesis of Benzo...
Efficient Synthesis of Benzo...
DOI: 10.1002/jhet.4459
ARTICLE
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Department of Chemistry, Karpagam
Academy of Higher Education, Abstract
Coimbatore, India The use of CuI as a promoter to examine amination in the reaction of
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Department of Chemistry, PSG College of aminocarbazole (1) and 2-methyl-4-chloroquinoline (2) resulted in a
Arts and Science, Coimbatore, India
functionalized series of substituted naphthylamino carbazole. After cyclization
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Department of Chemistry, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
with polyphosphoric acid and benzoic acid/p-toluic acid, new isomeric
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Department of Chemistry, Bharathiar ellipticine derivatives of linear benzo[h]carbazol[3,2-b][1,6]naphthyridines
University, Coimbatore, India were obtained in high yield. The current method has the advantages of a
straightforward methodology, a clean and mild reaction, a broad substrate
Correspondence
Rajendra Prasad Karnam Jayarampillai, range, and a high yield.
Department of Chemistry, Bharathiar
University, Coimbatore-641046, India.
Email: [email protected]
Funding information
Indian Institute of Science; the Indian
Institute of Technology Madras
H3CCOO
N N N N
H CH3 H H CH3 H CH3
CH3
attention. Tandem annulations, a unique combination of aim to prepare various substituted quinolinocarbazoles, the
copper(I)iodide, and dimethylformamide have piqued inter- precursor 3-amino-9-ethylcarbazole (1) was reacted with
est due to their ease of use and strong reactivity [13,14]. 2-methyl-4-chloroquinoline (2) using CuI as a promoter
In our research lab, we have developed various hetero- (Scheme 1). On the basis of its IR and NMR spectra, the
annulated carbazoles as well as naphthyridines [12,13,15]. product was identified as 3-(N-(2-methylquinolin-4-yl)
In continuation of that, herein, we report the synthesis of amino)-9-ethyl-9H-carbazole (3).
ellipticine analog, carbazolobenzonaphthyridines from After obtaining the potential precursor 3, we focused
3-amino-9-ethylcarbazole via N-(quinolin-4-yl)-3-amino- our attention on reacting it with benzoic acid and p-toluic
9-ethylcarbazoles using Bernthsen reaction conditions. It acid thereby anticipating to obtain benzo[h][1,6]naph-
should be noted that the Bernthsen reaction yield surpris- thyridine derivatives. As a result, 3a was exposed to the
ingly, only linear product benzo[h]carbazol[3,2-b][1,6] Bernthsen reaction with benzoic acid in the presence of a
naphthyridine at a higher temperature. catalyst such as polyphosphoric acid (PPA). This reaction
was performed at two different temperatures, 60 and
100 C. Under both conditions, the reaction failed. Upon
2 | R ES U L T S A N D D I S C U S S I O N gradually raising the temperature the reaction proceeds
smoothly at 160 C, but even and after long hours (24 h)
Our research began with the creation of quinolinocarbazole- unreacted starting material 3a remains. Increasing the
based moieties suitable for the Bernthsen reaction. With the amount of benzoic acid from a 1 to a 1.5 molar ratio led
R2 R2
H
H3C N H3C N
Cl R1 R1
NH2
NH N
R1
CuI/DMF
N N CH3 K2CO3 N
N
R2
1 2 3
PPA, 160oC
R3COOH
8 hours
4,5 6,7
to complete consumption of the starting material within product of the predicted compound, 12-benzoyl-9-ethyl-
8 h at 160 C (Scheme 1). Despite the availability of two 2,6-dimethyl-7-phenyl-9H-benzo[h]carbazol[3,2-b][1,6]
active sites where cyclization could occur, either at the naphthyridine (4a). The identities of the additional
C2 position, yielding a linear product, or at the C4 posi- compounds 4b & 4c were determined in a similar manner,
tion, yielding an angular carbazole, the only formed with all spectroscopic data easily assignable. Finally, a
product was assigned as the linear isomer namely, single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis confirmed the
12-benzoyl-9-ethyl-2,6-dimethyl-7-phenyl-9H-benzo[h] structure of one of the series members, 4a (Figure 2).
carbazol[3,2-b][1,6]naphthyridine (4a) on the basis of The aforesaid annulation reaction sequence was also
its lower melting point [16]. Benzoylation initially applied to substituted benzoic acid, namely p-toluic acid,
takes place in a more feasible C6-position of the carba- which yielded identical results 5a-c (Table 1). The reac-
zole moiety and then with an excess of benzoic acid, tion time should be significantly reliant on the benzoic
the reaction proceeds at the C3-position of quinoline to acid substituent. The presence of a methyl group at the
form the linear product [17]. Finally, the structure is para position of the phenyl ring aided reaction rate and
confirmed by crystallographic studies (Figure 2). increased product yield significantly.
In the IR spectra of 4a, the C=O and C=N groups, for In Scheme 2, the CuI catalyzed 2-methyl-
example, are responsible for the stretching frequencies at 4-chloroquinolines (2a–c) with aminocarbazole (1) are
1641 and 1600 cm1. The presence of 13-, 20 -, 60 -, 10-, and proposed as a mechanism. The oxidative addition of
4-position protons resulted in four doublets at 6.56 2-methyl-4-chloroquinolines (2a–c) with CuI is the first
(J = 2.0 Hz), 7.39 (J = 8.0 Hz), 7.57 (J = 8.0 Hz), and 8.98 step, which results in the intermediate A. Intermediate B
(J = 8.0 Hz) in its [1]H NMR spectrum. Three singlets is formed as a result of compound 1. Finally, compound
appeared at δ 8.14, δ 8.48, and δ 8.58 are because of the 3 is obtained by reductive elimination of intermediate B,
presence of 8-, 14-, and 1-position protons, respectively. and the catalyst is regenerated. In the same way, com-
The methylene and methyl protons of the ethyl group at pound 3 goes through a catalytic cycle [16].
N9 appear at δ 4.65 (J = 7.50 Hz) as a quartet and δ 1.62
(J = 7.50 Hz) as a triplet, respectively. At δ 2.86 and δ
2.53, two methyl protons emerged as two singlets. It has 2.1 | Single crystal X-ray analysis
a carbonyl carbon signal at 196.51 in its [13]C NMR spec-
trum. The molecular ion peak is located at m/z 555, and On a Bruker APEX II CCD diffractometer, diffraction
elemental analysis revealed the molecular formula to be data were collected at 100 K using monochromatic Mo K
C39H29N3O. The structure of the compound was con- radiation and the omega scan technique. To collect data
firmed by spectral and analytical data as the benzoylated for 4a, calculate its grid, then integrate and modify the
NH R1
Cl
R1 CuI
3
N CH3
H
R2 2 I N
Cl I Cu
Cu R 1
R1
N CH3
N CH3 R2 B
R2 A
NH2 HCl
K2CO3
1
data for absorption and other systematic errors, the Finally, crystallographic data demonstrated that cycli-
Apex2 suite of algorithms was employed [18]. SHELXS zation occurs at the C2-position, resulting in the forma-
was used to solve the structure [19], then Shelxl2018 was tion of compound 4a.
used to improve it by employing complete matrix linear
regression versus F2 including all reflections [20]. H
atoms attached to carbon and nitrogen atoms were geo- 2.2 | Experimental section
metrically positioned and restricted to ride on their par-
ent atoms with C–H bond lengths of 0.95 for alkene and Melting points (M.p.) were obtained using a Mettler FP
aromatic C–H, 0.99 and 0.98 for aliphatic CH2 and CH3 51 apparatus (Mettler Instruments, Switzerland). They
moieties, respectively. Methyl H atoms were allowed to are measured in degrees Celsius ( C). Using KBr pellets,
spin but not tip in order to completely fit the observed IR spectra were acquired using a Shimadzu FTIR-
electron cloud. The value of Uiso (H) was set to be a mul- 8201PC spectrophotometer (Shimadzu, Japan). At IIT,
tiple of Ueq (C), with 1.5 and 1.2 units for CH3 and C–H Chennai, 1H NMR spectra were acquired using tetra-
and CH2 units, respectively. The Cambridge Crystallo- methylsilane as an internal reference on a Bruker AMX
graphic Data Centre has received complete crystallo- 500 (500 MHz) spectrometer. Parts per million are used
graphic data in CIF format. The supplemental to express chemical changes (ppm). At Bharathiar
crystallographic data for this article may be found in University's Department of Chemistry, microanalyses
CCDC 848035. The Cambridge Crystallographic Data were done on a Vario EL III model CHNS analyzer
Centre provides these data for free at www.ccdc.cam.ac. (Vario, Germany). Thin-layer chromatography was used
uk/data request/cif (Table 2). to determine the purity of the products, which were
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Compound 4a
Crystal data
Chemical formula C39H29N3O
Mr 555.65
Crystal system, space group Triclinic, P1
Temperature (K) 100
a, b, c (Å) 9.673 (2), 9.750 (2), 16.277 (5)
α, β, γ ( ) 81.525 (5), 72.744 (4), 80.511 (4)
3
V (Å ) 1438.1 (7)
Z 2
F(000) 584
Dx (Mg m3) 1.283
Radiation type Mo Kα
No. of reflections for cell measurement 3762
θ range ( ) for cell measurement 2.3–31.0
μ (mm1) 0.08
Crystal shape Plate
Color Orange
Crystal size (mm) 0.29 0.27 0.18
Data collection
Diffractometer Bruker AXS SMART APEX CCD diffractometer
Radiation source fine-focus sealed tube
Monochromator Graphite
Scan method ω scans
Absorption correction Multi-scan, Apex2 v2009.7–0 (Bruker, 2009)
Tmin, Tmax 0.680, 0.746
No. of measured, independent and observed [I > 2σ(I)] reflections 17,965, 7053, 5404
Rint 0.025
θ values ( ) θmax = 28.3, θmin = 1.3
1
(sin θ/λ)max (Å ) 0.667
Range of h, k, l h = 12 ! 12, k = 12 ! 12, l = 21 ! 21
Refinement
Refinement on F2
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)], wR(F2), S 0.046, 0.127, 1.05
No. of reflections 7053
No. of parameters 391
No. of restraints 0
H-atom treatment H-atom parameters constrained
Weighting scheme w = 1/[σ2(Fo2) + (0.0631P)2 + 0.370P] where P = (Fo2 + 2Fc2)/3
(Δ/σ)max <0.001
3
Δρmax, Δρmin (e Å ) 0.35, 0.25
covered with silica gel-G and developed with petroleum India, provided the 3-amino-9-ethylcarbazole. The X-ray
ether, ethyl acetate, and methanol. Aldrich, Bangalore, diffractometer was funded by NSF Grant CHE 0087210,
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Ohio Board of Regents Grant CAP-491, and by Youngs- 40 -CH3), 2.25 (s, 3H, 400 -CH3), 2.50 (s, 3H, 6-CH3), 2.84 (s,
town State University. 3H, 2-CH3), 4.65 (q, J = 7.0 Hz, 2H, 9-CH2CH3), 6.51 (d,
J = 2.0 Hz, 1H, 13-H), 6.72 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 2H, 30 & 50 - H),
7.27 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 2H, 20 & 60 - H), 7.31 (d, J = 8.0 Hz,
2.3 | General procedure for 2H, 300 & 5”-H), 7.52 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 1H, 11-H), 7.59 (d,
compounds 4/5 J = 8.0 Hz, 2H, 200 & 6”-H), 7.66 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 1H, 10-H),
7.85 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 1H, 3-H), 8.10 (s, 1H, 8-H), 8.43 (s,
A mixture of an appropriate 3-(N-(2-methylquinolin-4-yl) 1H, 14-H), 8.56 (s, 1H, 1-H), 9.01 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 1H, 4-H);
amino)-9-ethyl-9H-carbazole (7, 1 mmol) and benzoic MS: m/z (%) 583 (M+, 100); Anal. Calcd. for:
acid or toluic acid (1.5 mmol) was added to poly- C41H33N3O: C, 84.36; H, 5.70; N, 7.20%. Found: C,
phosphoric acid (1 g of P2O5 and 0.5 mL of H3PO4) and 84.32; H, 5.75; N, 7.27%.
heated at 160 C for 5 h. After the completion of the reac-
tion, the mixture was poured onto crushed ice and neu-
tralized with saturated sodium bicarbonate solution to 3 | CONCLUSION
remove the excess of benzoic acid. The crude product
thus obtained was purified by column chromatography To summarize, we synthesized benzo[h]carbazol
over silica gel using petroleum ether: ethyl acetate (95:5) [3,2-b][1,6]naphthyridines (4 and 5) from 2-methyl-
as the eluant to obtain yellow solids of corresponding 4-chloroquinolines with 3-aminocarbazole in the pres-
product 4 or 5. ence of CuI, resulting in intermediates that were then
cyclized using PPA with benzoic acid or p-toluic acid to
obtain linear naphthyridines. This approach has opened
2.3.1 | 12-Benzoyl-9-ethyl-2,6-dimethyl- up a new path for libraries of substituted naphthyridines,
7-phenyl-9H-benzo[h]carbazol[3,2-b][1,6] which might have a wide range of uses in the medical
naphthyridine (4a) arena.
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