Synthesis 2022; 54(12): 2894-2806
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1610793
paper

Pd-Catalyzed N–H or C–H Functionalization/Oxidative Cyclization for the Efficient Synthesis of N-Aryl-Substituted [3,4]-Fused Pyrrolo­coumarins

Thomas D. Balalas
a   Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece
,
Maria G. Kanelli
a   Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece
,
Catherine Gabriel
b   Center for Research of the Structure of Matter, Magnetic Resonance Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece
,
Eleni Pontiki
c   Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece
,
Dimitra J. Hadjipavlou-Litina
c   Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece
,
a   Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece
› Author Affiliations


Abstract

1-Aryl-2-methyl- or 3-methylchromeno[4,3-b]pyrrol-4(1H)-ones have been synthesized in excellent yields by the Pd-catalyzed intramolecular aza-Wacker-type cyclization of 3-allyl-4-arylaminocoumarins or C–H insertion/oxidative cyclization of N-allyl-N-aryl-4-aminocoumarins, respectively, in the presence of Cu(OAc)2 in acetic acid under heating. The starting allylcoumarins have been prepared by the allylation of 4-arylaminocoumarins with allyl bromide in CH3CN in the presence of Cs2CO3 at room temperature. Preliminary biological tests indicated interesting antioxidant activity and significant levels of inhibition of soybean lipoxygenase.

Supporting Information



Publication History

Received: 20 December 2021

Accepted after revision: 24 January 2022

Article published online:
09 March 2022

© 2022. Thieme. All rights reserved

Georg Thieme Verlag KG
Rüdigerstraße 14, 70469 Stuttgart, Germany

 
  • References

    • 1a Yu DL, Suzuki M, Xie L, Morris-Natsche SL, Lee KH. Med. Res. Rev. 2003; 23: 322
    • 1b Fylaktakidou KC, Hadjipavlou-Litina DJ, Litinas KE, Nicolaides DN. Curr. Pharm. Des. 2004; 10: 3813
    • 1c Lacy A, O’Kennedy R. Curr. Pharm. Des. 2004; 10: 3797
    • 1d Medina FG, Marrero JG, Alonso MM, González MC, Córdova-Guerrero I, García AG. T, Osegueda-Robles S. Nat. Prod. Rep. 2015; 32: 1472
    • 1e Kubrak T, Podgorski R, Stompor M. Eur. J. Clin. Exp. Med. 2017; 15: 169
    • 1f Li H, Yao Y, Li L. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 2017; 69: 1253
    • 1g Salehian F, Nadri H, Jalili-Baleh L, Youseftabar-Miri L, Abbas Bukhari SN, Foroumadi A, Küçükkilinç TT, Sharifzadeh M, Khoobi M. Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2021; 212: 113034
    • 2a Guiotto A, Chilin A, Manzini P, Dall’Acqua F, Bordin F, Rodighiero P. Farmaco 1995; 50: 479
    • 2b Reddy MV. R, Rao MR, Rhodes D, Hansen MS. T, Rubins K, Bushman FD, Venkateswarlu Y, Faulkner DJ. J. Med. Chem. 1999; 42: 1901
    • 2c Boger DL, Soenen DR, Boyce CW, Hedrick MP, Jin Q. J. Org. Chem. 2000; 65: 2479
    • 2d Kontogiorgis C, Litinas KE, Makri A, Nicolaides DN, Vronteli A, Hadjipavlou-Litina DJ, Pontiki E, Siohou A. J. Enzyme Inhib. Med. Chem. 2008; 23: 43
    • 2e Neagoie C, Vedrenne E, Buron F, Merour JY, Rosca S, Bourg S, Lozach O, Meijer L, Baldeyrou B, Lansiaux A, Routier S. Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2012; 49: 379
    • 2f Vronteli A, Hadjipavlou-Litina DJ, Konstantinidou M, Litinas KE. ARKIVOC 2015; (iii): 111
    • 2g Mukherjee S, Hazra S, Chowdhury S, Sarkar S, Chattopadhyay K, Pramanik A. J. Photochem. Photobiol., A 2018; 364: 635

      For a review see:
    • 3a Bailly C. Mar. Drugs 2015; 13: 1105
    • 3b Imbri D, Tauber J, Opatz T. Mar. Drugs 2014; 12: 6142
    • 3c Zhang N, Wang D, Zhu Y, Wang J, Lin H. Asian Pac. J. Cancer Prev. 2014; 15: 9915
    • 3d Zhou X, Liu J, Yang B, Lin X, Yang X.-W, Liu Y. Curr. Med. Chem. 2013; 20: 953
    • 3e Fukuda T, Ishibashi F, Iwao M. Heterocycles 2011; 83: 491
    • 3f Chittchang M, Batsomboon P, Ruchirawat S, Ploypradith P. ChemMedChem 2009; 4: 457
    • 3g Fan H, Peng J, Hamann MT, Hu JH. Chem. Rev. 2008; 108: 264
    • 4a Thakur A, Thakur M, Khadikar P. Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2003; 11: 5203
    • 4b Colotta V, Cecchi L, Melani F, Filacchioni G, Martini C, Giannaccini G, Lucacchini A. J. Med. Chem. 1990; 33: 2646
  • 5 Dakshanamurthy S, Kim M, Brown ML, Byers SW. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2007; 17: 4551
  • 6 Vidadala SR, Waldmann H. Tetrahedron Lett. 2015; 56: 3358

    • Selected examples for the synthesis of ningalin B:
    • 7a Bullington JL, Wolff RR, Jackson PF. J. Org. Chem. 2002; 67: 9439
    • 7b Axford LC, Holden KE, Hasse K, Banwell MG, Steglich W, Wagler J, Willis AC. Aust. J. Chem. 2008; 61: 80
    • 7c Hasse K, Willis AC, Banwell MG. Aust. J. Chem. 2009; 62: 683
  • 8 Bashiardes G, Safir I, Barbot F, Laduranty J. Tetrahedron Lett. 2003; 44: 8417
  • 9 Yu H, Zhang L, Yang Z, Li Z, Zhao Y, Xiao Y, Guo H. J. Org. Chem. 2013; 78: 8427
  • 10 Khan MA, De Brito Morley ML. J. Heterocycl. Chem. 1978; 15: 1399
    • 11a Alberola Á, Álvaro R, Andrés JM, Calvo B, González A. Synthesis 1994; 279
    • 11b Somman SS, Thaker TH, Rajput RA. Chem. Heterocycl. Comp. 2011; 46: 1514
    • 11c Alberola A, Alvaro R, González-Ortega A, Sadaba ML, Sanudo MC. Tetrahedron 1999; 55: 13211
    • 12a Alberola A, Calvo L, González-Ortega A, Encabo AP, Sanudo MC. Synthesis 2001; 1941
    • 12b Liao Y.-X, Kuo P.-Y, Yang D.-Y. Tetrahedron Lett. 2003; 44: 1599
    • 12c Lin C.-H, Yang D.-Y. Org. Lett. 2013; 15: 2802
    • 13a Saha M, Pradhan K, Das AR. RSC Adv. 2016; 6: 55033
    • 13b Yang X, Jing L, Chen Z. Chem. Heterocycl. Comp. 2018; 54: 1065
    • 13c Yahyavi H, Heravi MM, Mahdavi M, Foroumadi A. Tetrahedron Lett. 2018; 59: 94
    • 14a Chen Z.-W, Hou J.-B, Dai Z.-R, Yang X.-F. Chin. Chem. Lett. 2016; 27: 1622
    • 14b Padilha G, Iglesias BA, Back DF, Kaufman TS, Silveira CC. ChemistrySelect 2017; 2: 1297
    • 14c Pandya MK, Chhasatia MR, Vala ND, Parekh TJ. J. Drug Delivery Ther. 2019; 9: 32
  • 15 Majumdar KC, Chattopadhyay B. Synthesis 2008; 921
    • 16a Majumdar KC, De N, Roy B. Synthesis 2010; 4207
    • 16b Ngo TN, Akrawi OA, Dang TT, Villinger A, Langer P. Tetrahedron Lett. 2015; 56: 86
    • 16c Chen L, Xu M.-H. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2009; 351: 2005
    • 16d Peng S, Wang L, Huang J, Sun S, Guo H, Wang J. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2013; 355: 2550

      Pd-Catalyzed synthesis of pyrroles:
    • 17a Wang Z, Chen W, Luo H, He C, Zhang G, Yu Y. Synthesis 2020; 52: 1659
    • 17b Santhini PV, Nimisha G, John J, Suresh E, Varma RL, Radhakrishnan KV. Chem. Commun. 2017; 53: 1848
    • 17c Torres GM, Quesnel JS, Bijou D, Arndsen BA. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016; 138: 7315
    • 17d Yu Y, Mang Z, Yang W, Li H, Wang W. Catalysts 2016; 6: 169
    • 17e Zheng J, Huang L, Huang C, Wu W, Jiang H. J. Org. Chem. 2015; 80: 1235
    • 17f Zhao M.-N, Ren Z.-H, Wang Y.-Y, Guan Z.-H. Org. Lett. 2014; 16: 608
    • 17g Trost BM, Lumb J.-P, Azzarelli JM. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011; 133: 740

      Selective examples for the Pd-catalyzed synthesis of indoles:
    • 18a Thombal RS, Lee YR. Org. Lett. 2020; 22: 3397
    • 18b Chang Z, Ma T, Zhang Y, Dong Z, Zhao H, Zhao D. Molecules 2020; 25: 1233
    • 18c Savvidou A, Tzaras DI, Koutoulogenis GS, Theodorou A, Kokotos CG. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2019; 3890
    • 18d Ning X.-S, Wang M.-M, Qu J.-P, Kang Y.-B. J. Org. Chem. 2018; 83: 13523
    • 18e Zhou Q, Zhang Z, Zhou Y, Li S, Zhang Y, Wang J. J. Org. Chem. 2017; 82: 48
    • 18f Yu S, Qi L, Hu K, Gong J, Cheng T, Wang Q, Chen J, Wu H. J. Org. Chem. 2017; 82: 3631
    • 18g Nallagonda R, Rehan M, Ghorai P. Org. Lett. 2014; 16: 4786
    • 18h Nanjo T, Tsukano C, Takemoto Y. Org. Lett. 2012; 14: 4270
    • 18i Shi Z, Glorius F. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012; 51: 92
    • 18j Neumann JJ, Rakshit S, Droge T, Wurtz S, Glorius F. Chem. Eur. J. 2011; 17: 7298
    • 18k Wurtz S, Rakshit S, Neumann JJ, Droge T, Glorius F. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008; 47: 7230

      Selective examples for the intramolecular aza-Wacker reaction:
    • 19a Thomas AA, Nagamallqa S, Sathyamoorthi S. Chem. Sci. 2020; 11: 8073
    • 19b Kou X, Shao Q, Ye C, Yang G, Zhang W. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018; 140: 7587
    • 19c Bao X, Wang Q, Zhu J. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018; 57: 1995
    • 19d Gu Q.-S, Yang D. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017; 56: 5886
    • 19e He Y.-P, Wu H, Xu L, Su Y.-L, Gong L.-Z. Org. Chem. Front. 2014; 1: 473
    • 19f Lu Z, Stahl SS. Org. Lett. 2012; 14: 1234
    • 19g McDonald RI, White PB, Weinstein AB, Tam CP, Stahl SS. Org. Lett. 2011; 13: 2830
    • 19h Zhang Z, Tan J, Wang Z. Org. Lett. 2008; 10: 173
    • 19i Minatti A, Muniz K. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2007; 36: 1142
  • 20 Balalas T, Abdul-Sada A, Hadjipavlou-Litina DJ, Litinas KE. Synthesis 2017; 49: 2575
    • 21a Balalas TD, Theologis AK, Mazaraki K, Gabriel C, Pontiki E, Hadjipavlou-Litina DJ, Litinas KE. ARKIVOC 2020; (vi): 126
    • 21b Balalas TD, Kallitsakis MG, Fotopoulos I, Hadjipavlou-Litina DJ, Litinas KE. ARKIVOC 2019; (vi): 237
    • 21c Vlachou E.-EN, Gabriel C, Litinas KE. J. Heterocycl. Chem. 2019; 56: 99
    • 21d Balalas TD, Stratidis G, Papatheodorou D, Vlachou E.-EN, Gabriel C, Hadjipavlou-Litina DJ, Litinas KE. SynOpen 2018; 2: 105
    • 21e Vlachou E.-EN, Armatas GS, Litinas KE. J. Heterocycl. Chem. 2017; 54: 2447
    • 21f Symeonidis TS, Hadjipavlou-Litina DJ, Litinas KE. J. Heterocycl. Chem. 2014; 51: 642
    • 21g Symeonidis TS, Litinas KE. Tetrahedron Lett. 2013; 54: 6517
    • 21h Symeonidis TS, Lykakis IN, Litinas KE. Tetrahedron 2013; 69: 4612
    • 21i Litinas KE, Mangos A, Nikkou TE, Hadjipavlou-Litina DJ. J. Enzyme Inhib. Med. Chem. 2011; 26: 805
  • 22 Ivanov CI, Karagiosov SA, Simeonov MF. Liebigs Ann. Chem. 1992; 203
  • 23 Sosa DO, Almaraz K, Amezquita-Valencia M. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2019; 4682
    • 24a Jayaprakash RY, Chakravarthulla V. J. Heterocycl. Chem. 2015; 52: 1014
    • 24b Majumdar KC, Biswas A, Mukkopadhyay PP. Can. J. Chem. 2005; 83: 2046
    • 24c Majumdar KC, Basu PK, Roy B. Synth. Commun. 2003; 33: 3621
    • 24d Chattopadhyay SK, Maity S, Panja S. Tetrahedron Lett. 2002; 43: 7781
  • 25 Balabani A, Hadjipavlou-Litina DJ, Litinas KE, Mainou M, Tsironi C.-C, Vronteli A. Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2011; 46: 5894