Synthesis 2019; 51(02): 564-572
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1609940
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Synthesis of Aryl-Substituted 3,3a,4,5-Tetrahydropyrrolo[1,2-a] quinolin-1(2H)-ones and 2,3,4,4a,5,6-Hexahydro-1H-pyrido[1,2-a]quinolin-1-ones

Field M. Watts
,
Richard A. Bunce*
Department of Chemistry, Oklahoma State University, 107 Physical Sciences, Stillwater, OK, 74078, USA   Email: rab@okstate.edu
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F.M.W. wishes to acknowledge the NSF for REU funding (CHE-1559874) during the summer of 2017 and the Wentz Foundation for an Undergraduate Research Scholarship during the 2017–2018 academic year. The authors are also grateful for support from the NSF (BIR-9512269), the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, the W. M. Keck Foundation, and Conoco, Inc. that established the Oklahoma State-wide NMR facility. The authors also thank the Oklahoma State University College of Arts and Sciences for funds that allowed the Chemistry Department to purchase a new 400 MHz NMR for this facility.
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Publication History

Received: 10 June 2018

Accepted after revision: 07 August 2018

Publication Date:
05 September 2018 (online)


Abstract

A new route to the title benzo-fused angular tricyclic amides 3,3a,4,5-tetrahydropyrrolo- and 2,3,4,4a,5,6-hexahydro-1H-pyrido[1,2-a]quinolin-1-ones is reported from 1-(tert-butyl) 6-ethyl 3-oxohexanedioate and 1-(tert-butyl) 7-ethyl 3-oxoheptanedioate. Alkylation of these β-keto diesters with a series of 2-nitrobenzyl bromides followed by acid hydrolysis and decarboxylation gives ethyl 6-(2-nitrophenyl)-4-oxohexanoates and ethyl 7-(2-nitrophenyl)-5-oxoheptanoates, respectively. Reductive amination under hydrogenation conditions followed by ester hydrolysis and condensative ring closure affords the final lactam products. The reactions proceed cleanly and only two chromatographic purifications are required.

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