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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 76, Issue 20, Pages 8203-8214Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo2013516
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- National Institute of Health [15-GM086819]
- Camille & Henry Dreyfus start-up grant
- Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar Award
- Patchett Family Fund
- Patchett Foundation
- Council of Undergraduate Research summer fellowship
- Merck/AAAS Foundations
- Sigma Xi
- Rochester Academy of Sciences
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges' Provost Office
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A regiocontrolled synthesis of unsymmetrical 3,4-diaryl-3-pyrrolin-2-ones has been achieved in three steps from 1,2-diaryl-1-nitroethenes with pyrrole-2-carboxamides (pyrrole Weinreb amides) serving as the key linchpin intermediates. Two different methods for the preparation of the requisite nitroalkenes were investigated: (1) modified Henry reaction between arylnitromethanes and arylimines; and (2) Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction of 2-aryl-1-bromo-1-nitroethenes with arylboronic acids. Some difficulty was encountered in the preparation of arylnitromethanes, thus leading to the exploration of a cross-coupling strategy that proved more useful. A Barton-Zard pyrrole cyclocondensation reaction between 1,2-diaryl-1-nitroethenes and N-methoxy-N-methyl-2-isocyanoacetamide gave the corresponding pyrrole Weinreb amides, which were then converted into the desired 3-pyrrolin-2-ones in two steps. Overall, this method allowed for the construction of 3,4-diaryl-3-pyrrolin-2-ones with complete regiocontrol of the substituents with respect to the lactam carbonyl. The utility of this synthetic methodology was demonstrated by the preparation of eight unsymmetrical and symmetrical 3,4-diaryl-3-pyrrolin-2-ones including the N-H lactam analogue of the selective COX-II inhibitor, rofecoxib.
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