Checked by Jacob P. Sorrentino and Neil Garg
1. Procedure (Note 1)
A.
(4-Methoxyphenyl)sulfamic acid (2). A flame-dried 500 mL three-necked (24/40 joint) round-bottomed flask is equipped with a 4 cm x 1 cm teflon-coated magnetic stir bar. The necks are then equipped with a thermometer, a glass stopper, and a three-way glass stopcock, which is then connected to a Schlenk line (Figure 1A). To this flask is added
4-methoxyaniline (
1) (12.32 g, 100 mmol, 2 equiv) (
Note 2). The flask is then evacuated for 5 min and backfilled with N
2 three times before
dichloromethane (100 mL) (
Note 3) is added in two portions using a 60 mL syringe. The flask is then lowered into a 0 °C ice-water bath and allowed to cool for 10 min. A separate flame-dried 50 mL pear-shaped flask (14/20 joint) is sealed with a rubber septum and connected to a nitrogen inlet line by an 18 gauge x 1.5 in needle, providing a positive pressure of N
2, before being charged with
chlorosulfonic acid (3.32 mL, 50 mmol, 1 equiv) (
Note 4) and
dichloromethane (25 mL) by syringe. The 500 mL flask and 50 mL flask are connected via an 18 gauge x 18 in cannula needle, and the 500 mL flask is additionally equipped with an exhaust bubbler via an 18 gauge needle (Figure 1A). This solution of
chlorosulfonic acid in
dichloromethane is added dropwise by positive pressure via cannula into the solution of
1 in
dichloromethane over a period of 30 min. The reaction mixture is stirred (600 rpm) for another 30 min at 0
oC after which the flask is removed from the ice water bath (Figure 1B). After stirring for an additional 1 h at room temperature, the reaction mixture is then diluted with
diethyl ether (50 mL) and filtered through a medium porosity sintered glass funnel (
Note 5). The solid residue is washed with
dichloromethane (4 x 50 mL) (
Note 3) (Figure 1C) before collecting the solid material retained on the filter and drying under high vacuum for 1 h (
Note 6). The solid material is then washed with
acetone (4 x 50 mL). The solid material retained on the filter is collected and dried under high vacuum (~760 mm Hg) to yield
(4-methoxyphenyl)sulfamic acid (
2) (9.35 g, 46 mmol, 92%) as a light purple solid (Figure 1D) (Notes 7, 8, and 9), which is used directly in the next step without further purification.
Figure 1. (A) Reaction set-up for Step A; (B) Reaction after ice-water bath removal; (C) Initial filtration of crude reaction mixture; (D) Compound 2 after filtration and drying (photos provided by checkers)
C.
(E)-Hex-3-en-1-yl (4-methoxyphenyl)sulfamate (
5). A flame-dried three-necked 250 mL round-bottomed flask is equipped with a 4 cm x 1 cm Teflon coated magnetic stir bar, and the necks are then equipped with a thermometer, a glass stopper, and a three-way glass stopcock which is then connected to a Schlenk line (Figure 3A). The flask is evacuated for 5 min and backfilled with N
2 three times, and the flask is charged with
3 (15 g crude mixture diluted in 10 mL of
dichloromethane).
Dichloromethane (90 mL) is added by syringe. To this mixture is added
(E)-hex-3-en-1-ol (
4) (3.68 mL, 30 mmol, 1 equiv) (
Note 13) by dropwise addition over 3 min, and the flask is then immersed in a 0 °C ice-water bath and allowed to stir for 10 min.
Triethylamine (4.6 mL, 33 mmol, 1.1 equiv) (
Note 14) is then added dropwise over 5 min to this reaction mixture using a 10 mL Luer-lock plastic syringe with constant stirring (~600 rpm). The reaction flask is then lifted from the ice-water bath and allowed to warm to room temperature (23 °C) over a period of 3 h. Following this time, the flask is immersed in a 0 °C ice-water bath for 10 min before the reaction mixture is quenched by careful dropwise addition of 1M
aqueous HCl (60 mL) over 10 min (
Note 15). The reaction mixture is diluted with additional
dichloromethane (50 mL) and transferred to a 500 mL separatory funnel. The organic layer is removed, and the remaining aqueous layer is extracted with
dichloromethane (3 x 60 mL each time). The organic fractions are pooled, dried with
anhydrous sodium sulfate (3 g) (
Note 16), filtered, and concentrated under reduced pressure on a rotary evaporator (30 °C, 150 mmHg) to yield a dark brown oil (Figure 3B). This brown oil is mixed with silica gel (22 g) (
Note 17) and
dichloromethane (15 mL), and the mixture is evaporated to dryness. This dried silica is added to the top of a chromatography column (60 cm (length) x 4 cm (width) column containing an additional 90 g of silica gel (silica height 20 cm), and the product purified by column chromatography (
Note 18) using
hexanes and
ethyl acetate (
Note 19) as the eluents to yield
5 as a light brown oil (3.24 g, 11.4 mmol, 38%) (Figure 3C) (Notes
20,
21, and
22).
Figure 3. (A) Reaction set-up for Step C; (B) Thin-layer chromatography (4:1 hexanes/ethyl acetate) visualized by anisaldehyde stain (Note 18). Starting material (4) has Rf = 0.36 and product (5) has Rf = 0.31; (C) Compound 5 after purification (photos provided by checkers)
D.
(E)-3-(4-Methoxyphenyl)-4-(prop-1-en-1-yl)-1,2,3-oxathiazinane 2,2-dioxide (6). A flame-dried 250 mL round-bottomed flask is equipped with a 2 cm x 0.6 cm Teflon-coated magnetic stir bar and charged with
(E)-hex-3-en-1-yl (4-methoxyphenyl)sulfamate (5) (2.85 g, 10 mmol, 1 equiv),
Pd2dba3 (1.37 g, 1.5 mmol, 0.15 equiv) (
Note 23) and
Cu(OAc)2 (1.82 g, 10 mmol, 1 equiv) (
Note 24), followed by
acetonitrile (200 mL for a final concentration of 0.05 M) (
Note 25). The round-bottomed flask is sealed with a rubber septum, which is then equipped with an exhaust bubbler via an 18 gauge needle (Figure 4A). A balloon is inflated with O
2 and affixed with a disposable needle (
Note 26). The reaction mixture is stirred (600 rpm), and the needle is lowered into the reaction solution and O
2 is bubbled for 10 min. Following this time, the balloon is raised such that the needle is slightly above the reaction solution and the 18 gauge needle connected to the exhaust bubbler is removed from the rubber septum. The reaction vessel is then submerged in an oil bath preheated to 55 °C and kept at this temperature for 17 h (Figure 4B). Following this time, the reaction flask is lifted from the oil bath and allowed to cool to room temperature over a period of 20 min. The reaction mixture is vacuum-filtered through a 2 cm pad of silica gel (
Note 17) prepared on a medium-porosity sintered glass funnel (
Note 27) to remove residual Pd and Cu salts (Figures 4C and 4D). The filter cake is rinsed with
ethyl acetate (100 mL) (
Note 19). After concentrating this solution under reduced pressure using a rotary evaporator (30 °C, 90 mmHg), the resulting brown oil (Figure 4b) is purified by column chromatography on silica (Notes
17 and
28) to yield
((E)-3-(4-methoxyphenyl)-4-(prop-1-en-1-yl)-1,2,3-oxathiazinane 2,2-dioxide (
6)
as a light yellow solid (2.34 g, 8.3 mmol, 83%) (Figures 5A and 5B) (Notes
29,
30, and
31) as 6:1 mixture of
trans/cis isomers.
Figure 4. (A) Reaction set-up for Step D, sparging the system with O2; (B) Reaction flask in 55 °C oil bath; (C) SiO2 plug for filtration; (D) SiO2 plug after filtration; (E) Thin-layer chromatography (4:1 hexanes/ethyl acetate) visualized by anisaldehyde stain. The starting material (5) has Rf = 0.29 and the product (6) has Rf = 0.21 (photos provided by checkers)
Figure 5. (A) Cyclization product 6 (photo provided by submitter);
(B) Close-up image of product 6 (photo provided by checkers)
2. Notes
1. Prior to performing each reaction, a thorough hazard analysis and risk assessment should be carried out with regard to each chemical substance and experimental operation on the scale planned and in the context of the laboratory where the procedures will be carried out. Guidelines for carrying out risk assessments and for analyzing the hazards associated with chemicals can be found in references such as Chapter 4 of "Prudent Practices in the Laboratory" (The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2011; the full text can be accessed free of charge at
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12654/prudent-practices-in-the-laboratory-handling-and-management-of-chemical. See also "Identifying and Evaluating Hazards in Research Laboratories" (American Chemical Society, 2015) which is available via the associated website "Hazard Assessment in Research Laboratories" at
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/about/governance/committees/chemicalsafety/hazard-assessment.html. In the case of this procedure, the risk assessment should include (but not necessarily be limited to) an evaluation of the potential hazards associated with
4-methoxyaniline,
chlorosulfonic acid,
diethyl ether,
acetone,
toluene,
phosphorus pentachloride,
(E)-hex-3-en-1-ol,
triethylamine,
aqueous HCl,
anhydrous sodium sulfate, silica gel,
hexanes,
ethyl acetate,
anisaldehyde,
ethanol,
concentrated H2SO4,
potassium permanganate,
Pd2dba3,
Cu(OAc)2,
dichloromethane,
acetonitrile, and
oxygen, as well as the proper procedures for handing molecular
oxygen.
2.
4-Methoxyaniline (
p-anisidine) was purchased from Sigma Aldrich (99%) and used without purification.
3.
ichloromethane was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (≥99.5%, ACS reagent grade) and was used without further purification.
4.
Chlorosulfonic acid (ClSO
3H) was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (99%) and was used without further purification.
5. Medium Porosity: 10 to 15 µm size; the funnel capacity was 300 mL.
6. The material quickly decomposes into an uncharacterized brown oil if washed with
acetone prior to drying under high vacuum for at least one hour.
7.
(4-Methoxyphenyl)sulfamic acid: mp = 125 °C,
1H NMR
pdf (300 MHz, DMSO) δ: 9.29 (s, 1H), 7.24 - 7.05 (m, 2H), 7.05 - 6.85 (m, 2H), 3.74 (s, 3H).
13C NMR
pdf (126 MHz, DMSO) δ: 156.9, 128.2, 122.3, 114.8, 55.4. IR (film): 3065, 2838, 1506, 1172, 1020, 878, 822, 596 cm
-1. HRMS [M - H] calcd for C
7H
8NO
4S: 202.0180. Found: 202.0178.
8. The purity of
2 was determined to be >97 wt% by qNMR
pdf using 1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene (Alfa Aesar 99%) as the internal standard.
9. A second reaction performed by the checker at half scale provided 4.57 g (90%) of the product.
10.
Toluene was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (≥99.5%, ACS reagent grade) and was used without further purification.
11. Phosphorous pentachloride (PCl
5) was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (reagent grade, 95%) and used without further purification.
12. Due to its instability, compound
3 was used directly in the next step without further purification. Compound
3 was prepared following a procedure modified from that of Kloek and Leschinsky.
2 These authors note the marked instability of phenylsulfamoyl chlorides during any sort of purification procedure; we have independently noted this, as well. A second reaction performed on half-scale provided 7 g of the crude product.
13.
trans-3-Hexen-1-ol was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (97%, stabilized) and was used without further purification.
14.
Triethylamine was newly purchased from Oakwood Chemicals and was used directly without further purification.
15.
Hydrochloric acid (Certified ACS Plus, 36.5 to 38%) was purchased from Fisher chemical. A 1M solution was prepared by carefully adding 83 mL of this to 917 mL of deionized H
2O.
(Caution! This is significantly exothermic and should be performed in a fume hood with considerable care.)
16.
Sodium sulfate (anhydrous)) was purchased from Oakwood Chemicals and was used directly without further purification.
17. Silica Gel (Grade 60, 230-400 mesh) was purchased from Fisher Chemical.
18. The eluent used during purification by chromatography was 95:5
hexanes/
ethyl acetate (100 mL), 92:8
hexanes/
ethyl acetate (100 mL), 88:12
hexanes/
ethyl acetate (100 mL), 85:15
hexanes/
ethyl acetate (100 mL), 83:17
hexanes/
ethyl acetate (1000 mL). Fraction sizes of 14 mL were isolated. The column was monitored by thin-layer chromatography (4:1
hexanes/
ethyl acetate) using
anisaldehyde stain (Figure 6), which was prepared by mixing
ethanol,
concentrated H2SO4, and
anisaldehyde in a 20:1:1 ratio. The TLC was stained by quick submersion into the stain before heating until fully developed. Compound 5 was found in fractions 58-80.
Figure 6. Thin-layer chromatography (4:1 hexanes/ethyl acetate) visualized using anisaldehyde stain
19.
Hexanes (>98.5%) was purchased from Fisher Scientific and used as received.
Ethyl acetate was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (≥99.5%, ACS reagent grade) and was used without further purification.
20.
(E)-Hex-3-en-1-yl (4-methoxyphenyl)sulfamate (
5):
1H NMR
pdf (300 MHz, CDCl
3) δ: 7.20 (d,
J = 9.0 Hz, 2H), 6.91 (d,
J = 9.0 Hz, 2H), 6.50 (s, 1H), 5.60 (dtt,
J = 13.9, 6.3, 1.4 Hz, 1H), 5.33 (dtt,
J = 15.2, 6.8, 1.5 Hz, 1H), 4.20 (t,
J = 6.8 Hz, 2H), 3.84 (s, 3H), 2.42 (q, J = 6.8 Hz, 2H), 2.02 (qdd,
J = 7.4, 6.1, 1.2 Hz, 2H), 0.99 (t,
J = 7.5 Hz, 3H).
13C NMR
pdf (101 MHz, CDCl
3) δ: 157.6, 136.1, 128.9, 123.6, 122.7, 114.6, 71.3, 55.5, 32.0, 25.6, 13.5; IR (film): 3281, 2962, 2839, 1509, 1166, 920, 826, 648, 547 cm
-1. HRMS [M - H] calcd for C
13H
18NO
4S: 284.0962. Found: 284.0960.
21. The purity of
2 was determined to be >97 wt% by qNMR
pdf using 1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene (Alfa Aesar 99%) as the internal standard.
22. A second reaction performed by the checker at reduced scale provided 2.10 g (49%) of the product.
23.
Pd2(dba)3 was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (97%) and used without further purification.
24.
Cu(OAc)2(anhydrous) was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (98%) and used without further purification.
25.
Acetonitrile was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (≥99.5%, ACS reagent grade) and was used without further purification.
26. These needles (16 Gauge, Length of 4 in) were purchased from Grainger.
27. This pad of silica was made by wetting 10 g of silica gel (Note 17) with
hexanes on a medium porosity sintered glass funnel (Note 6).
28. The compound was mixed with silica gel (16 g) (Note 17) and
dichloromethane (15 mL) (Note 3). This suspension was evaporated to dryness, and the dried silica was added to the top of a chromatography column (60 cm (length) by 4 cm (width)) that contained an additional 90 g of silica gel. The column was eluted with 92:8
hexanes/
ethyl acetate (250 mL), 85:15
hexanes/
ethyl acetate (200 mL), and 82:18
hexanes/
ethyl acetate (200 mL). The eluent was changed to 80:20
hexanes/
ethyl acetate (950 mL), and fraction volumes of 16 mL were collected, which was continued as the eluent was changed to 78:22
hexanes/
ethyl acetate (250 mL). Thin-layer analysis (4:1
hexanes/
ethyl acetate), visualized using KMnO
4 stain, reveals product 6 was contained in fractions 38-60 (Figure 7).
Figure 7. Thin-layer chromatography analysis reveals product 6 is contained in fractions 38-60 (photo provided by checkers)
29.
(E)-3-(4-Methoxyphenyl)-4-(prop-1-en-1-yl)-1,2,3-oxathiazinane 2,2-dioxide (
6): mp = 118 °C,
1H NMR
pdf (300 MHz, CDCl
3) δ: 7.31 - 7.25 (m, 2H), 6.92 - 6.84 (m, 2H), 5.57 (dq,
J = 15.3, 6.5 Hz, 1H), 5.12 (ddq,
J = 15.3, 8.3, 1.7 Hz, 1H), 4.88 (td,
J = 12.4, 2.6 Hz, 1H), 4.66 (dd,
J = 5.0, 2.2 Hz, 1H), 4.58 - 4.51 (m, 1H), 3.83 (s, 3H), 2.27 (dddd,
J = 14.7, 13.5, 7.3, 4.2 Hz, 1H), 1.90 (dq,
J = 14.5, 2.7 Hz, 1H), 1.54 (dd,
J = 6.5, 1.6 Hz, 3H);
13C NMR
pdf (101 MHz, CDCl
3) δ: 159.4, 131.0, 130.6, 130.4, 128.1, 114.2, 71.5, 64.1, 55.4, 30.4, 17.6; IR (film): 2958, 2925, 2836, 1506, 1352, 1254, 1166, 1016, 885, 807, 779, 589, 554 cm
-1; HRMS calcd for C
13H
18NO
4S
+ calcd for C
13H
18NO
4S: 284.0951. Found: 284.0948.
30. The purity of
2 was determined to be >97 wt% by qNMR
pdf using 1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene (Alfa Aesar 99%) as the internal standard.
31. A second reaction was performed by the checker at reduced scale provided 1.11 g (78%) of the product.
3. Discussion
The
aza-Wacker cyclization is a very elegant but relatively under-explored alkene functionalization reaction.
3,4,5 Inspired by the early work of Åkermark, Bäckvall,
Zetterberg
6,7,8 and Hegedus
9,10,11 and contemporary investigations of Stahl,
12,13 Stoltz,
14,15 and Zhang,
16,17,18 we envisioned developing an
aza-Wacker cyclization of sulfamate esters as our entry into this field. To date, most
aza-Wacker protocols have been developed with alkenyl amines or amides, thus requiring the nitrogen functionality to be native to the molecule. In addition, examples of
aza-Wacker cyclization reactions that form rings >5 members remain very limited.
19,20,21 In our recently-disclosed reaction,
22 one large-scale example of which is described here, the sulfamate auxiliary can be appended to diverse alcohol containing substrates and oxidatively cyclized to form six-membered and larger rings (Table 1 and Table 2). The oxathiazinane moiety is a masked 1,3-amino alcohol, a motif found in a variety of biologically active compounds and is also an important synthetic intermediate (Scheme 1).
23,24,25,26,27 A highly unusual feature of our reaction is that it employs Pd (0) as a pre-catalyst; to our knowledge, all other disclosed protocols for
aza-Wacker cyclizations directly utilize Pd (II) salts. A variety of
N-alkyl and
N-aryl substituents are tolerated in our reaction, allowing for a fairly general method of oxidative sulfamate cyclization.
Table 1. N-Alkyl and N-aryl sulfamate esters engage productively
a isolated yield, unless otherwise mentioned b yield estimated by 1H NMR integration against an internal standard (1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene) c isolated as a 10:1 mixture of trans/cis isomers d isolated as a 5:1 mixture of trans/cis isomers
Table 2. Variety of alkenyl sulfamates
aisolated yield, unless otherwise mentioned b 1:1 mixture of cis/trans isomers c isolated as a 4:1 mixture of syn/anti diastereomers d 1:1 mixture of cis/trans isomers eisolated as a single diastereomer f Ar = Ph, 4.6:1 mixture of trans/cis isomers; Ar = p-FC6H5, 5.9:1 mixture of trans/cis isomers; Ar = 1,3-benzodioxole, 5:1 mixture of trans/cis isomers g isolated as a 1.6:1 mixture of trans/cis isomers
Scheme 1. Oxathiazinane heterocycles as synthetic starting materials
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