Tetrahedron Letters
Gold(I)/(III)-catalyzed synthesis of 2-substituted piperidines; valency-
controlled cyclization modes
⇑
Nobuyoshi Morita , Tomonori Tsunokake, Yuji Narikiyo, Mayuka Harada, Tatsuyuki Tachibana,
⇑
Yuta Saito, Shintaro Ban, Yoshimitsu Hashimoto, Iwao Okamoto, Osamu Tamura
Showa Pharmaceutical University, Machida, Tokyo 194-8543, Japan
a r t i c l e i n f o
a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Strategic use of hard gold(III) and soft gold(I) catalysts provides facile access to two types of 2-substituted
Received 7 August 2015
Revised 24 September 2015
Accepted 25 September 2015
Available online xxxx
piperidines from propargylic alcohols. Thus, heating propargylic alcohols in the presence of AuBr
in cyclization to furnish piperidines having an acetylenic moiety, due to activation of the propargylic
hydroxyl group by coordination of gold(III). On the other hand, the catalyst [Ph PAuNTf PhMe induces
Meyer–Schuster rearrangement of propargylic alcohols to give ,b-unsaturated ketones, which undergo
3
results
3
2 2
]
a
intramolecular aza-Michael addition to afford piperidines bearing a carbonyl group, due to activation of
the triple bond by coordination of gold(I).
Keywords:
Oxophilic gold(III) catalyst
Ó 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
p-Philic gold(I) catalyst
Cyclization
Meyer–Schuster rearrangement
Aza-Michael addition
Piperidine1 is a structural component of many alkaloids, such
,2
OH
O
3
3
4
as (À)-coniine, (À)-sedamine and (+)-pelletierine (Fig. 1), as well
as a wide range of compounds with various pharmacological prop-
erties. Therefore, efficient synthesis of functionalized piperidines
remains an important topic in organic synthesis.5
Me
N
H
Ph
N
Me
N
H
Me
(-)-Coniine
(-)-Sedamine
(+)-Pelletierine
We recently reported that strategic use of hard gold(III) catalyst
and soft gold(I) catalyst enables divergent synthesis of cyclic ethers
from propargylic alcohols (Scheme 1).6 Thus, use of gold(III)
catalyst results in cyclization to furnish cyclic ethers 2 having an
acetylenic moiety, due to coordination of gold(III) to the oxygen
atom at the propargylic position (route A, Scheme 1). On the other
hand, treatment of propargylic alcohols 1 with soft gold(I) catalyst
Figure 1. Natural products containing 2-substituted piperidine structure.
followed by aza-Michael addition8 to furnish piperidines bearing
a carbonyl group (route B, Scheme 2).
Based on our previous results on cyclic ether formation, we
started our study by examining the reaction of model substrate
1a in the presence of various oxophilic gold(III) catalysts in
induces Meyer–Schuster rearrangement to afford
ketones 3, which undergo intramolecular oxa-Michael addition to
furnish cyclic ethers bearing carbonyl group (route B,
a,b-unsaturated
4
a
ClCH
2
CH
2
Cl (DCE) (Table 1). Treatment of propargylic alcohol 1a
) afforded the desired product
Scheme 1). In order to extend our strategy, we turned our attention
to the use of nitrogen nucleophile in place of oxygen nucleophile
and explored the synthesis of piperidines from propargylic alco-
hols bearing a nitrogen functionality at the terminal position
with gold(III) catalyst (5 mol% AuBr
3
2a in 57% yield (entry 1). During optimization of the reaction
conditions, we found that heating the reaction solution dramatically
accelerated cyclization. Thus, the reaction of propargylic alcohol 1a
(Scheme 2). Here, we report a hard gold(III)-catalyzed cyclization
with 5 mol% AuBr
yield within 10 min (entry 2). Other gold(III) catalysts (AuCl
HAuCl O) also enabled the cyclization, affording 2a in 35%
Á3H
and 77% yields, respectively (entries 3 and 4). Cationic gold species
generated from 5 mol% AuBr and 15 mol% AgNTf gave a complex
3
at 50 °C gave the desired product 2a in high
3
or
to give piperidines having an acetylenic moiety (route A, Scheme 2)
7
and
a
soft gold(I)-catalyzed Meyer–Schuster rearrangement
4
2
3
2
mixture (entry 5). Furthermore, although the scope and limitation
of gold(III)-catalyzed cyclization about substituents at the position
of alkyne were researched, the reaction with propargylic alcohol
⇑
(
O. Tamura).
040-4039/Ó 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
0