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Article

DBU Catalyzed Phospho-Aldol-Brook Rearrangement for Rapid Preparation of α-Phosphates Amide in Solvent-Free Conditions

by
Shunhong Chen
†,
Shengxin Guo
†,
Feng He
,
Yingxia Zhang
,
Zengxue Wu
and
Jian Wu
*
State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Huaxi District, Guiyang 550025, China
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
Equal contribution to this manuscript.
Catalysts 2020, 10(12), 1445; https://doi.org/10.3390/catal10121445
Submission received: 7 November 2020 / Revised: 1 December 2020 / Accepted: 5 December 2020 / Published: 10 December 2020
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Abstract

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The 1,8-diazabicyclo [5.4.0] undec-7-ene DBU-catalyzed Phospho-Aldol-Brook Rearrangement reaction of α-ketoamide and dialkyl phosphites was developed under solvent-free at room temperature. The novel α-Phosphate Amide derivatives could be obtained with good yield (86–96%), which also exhibited good tolerance of various dialkyl phosphites and α-ketoamide, including isatins. In addition, the reaction was conducted in both gram-scale and mol-scale, and the title compounds could also be obtained in excellent yield (more than 91%) within 5 min.

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1. Introduction

Organophosphorus compounds (OPs) play an important role in the pesticides industry and drug discovery; their preparation and application have attracted increasing attention [1,2]. Phosphates are a type of organophosphorous and play a unique part in drug design due to their broad spectrum of biological activities and versatility in chemistry synthesis [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]. An increasing number of approaches for the synthesis of phosphates derivatives have been reported recently [11,12,13,14,15]. For example, along with the formation of C-P bone between different carbonyl and dialkyl phosphites (Pudovik reaction) or trialkyl phosphites (Abramov reaction), α-hydroxyphosphates could be widely synthesized and used as agrochemical [16,17,18] or medical agents [19,20]. Moreover, some literature proposes that α-hydroxyphosphates could be transformed to phosphate derivatives via the Phospho-Aldol-Brook Rearrangement in the presence of specific base [21,22,23,24]. For instance, Nakamura and coworkers reported the preparation of α-phosphonyloxy esters by the reaction of α-ketoesters with phosphates by using cinchona alkaloids and Na2CO3 as catalysts in the solvent of cyclopentyl methyl ether (Figure 1) [25]. More recently, a large number of catalysts have been used to catalyze the Phospho-Aldol-Brook Rearrangement smoothly, such as strong Brønsted base [26], NEt3 [27,28], NaH [28], n-butylamine [29], K2CO3/KOH [30], NaOEt [31], and t-BuOK [32,33]. Many of the strategies have been studied to synthesize novel phosphates effectively through Phospho-Aldol-Brook Rearrangement. However, the majority of these catalysts are also associated with harsh reaction conditions, such as high temperature, high pressure or toxic regents as solvent, long reaction time and lower product yield. Hence, development of an eco-friendly and economical strategy with high efficiency to prepare novel phosphates is still desirable and in demand.
In organic synthesis, most of the organic reactions require solvents as the medium. These solvents are usually volatile organic compounds and unsafe for both human beings and the environment [34]. In contrast, the removal of solvents from chemical reactions generally leads to cleaner, more efficient and more economical processes [35]. Consequently, solvent-free protocols have become increasingly prevalent in recent years [34,35,36]. Furthermore, solvent-free conditions are considered to be a favored sustainable method owing to the low energy consumption and expedited transformations in a short reaction time [36].
In this work, we performed a rapid protocol for synthesis of α-Phosphates Amides under solvent-free conditions. Desirably, α-Phosphate Amide derivatives could be easily obtained in excellent yields through the reaction of α-ketoamides with dialkyl phosphites within 5 min using 1,8-diazabicyclo [5.4.0] undec-7-ene (DBU) for solvent-free catalysis (Figure 1). To our best knowledge, this is the first time that α-Phosphates Amides derivatives could be obtained using DBU as a catalyst in solvent-free conditions.

2. Results

Based on our previous work [37], α-ketoamides (substrate A), was firstly prepared. Applying the reaction of N-cyclohexyl-2-oxo-2-phenylacetamide (A) and diethyl phosphite (B), a model reaction was constructed to screen the best reaction conditions, including the reaction time, solvent, catalyst and temperature, which are shown in Table 1. Several organic solvents including EtOH, CH2Cl2 and THF were firstly investigated; the yields of products were 81%, 83% and 89%, respectively (Table 1, entries 1–3). We also investigated the effect of water on this reaction. Unfortunately, only a trace product of the model was provided in water (Table 1, entry 4). Surprisingly, we found that the reaction could be conducted smoothly (92% yield) in resent DBU (pKb = 2) in solvent-free conditions (Table 1, entry 5). In order to screen more suitable alkali, different alkalis including 4-dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP, pKb = 4.8), triethylamine (TEA, pKb = 4.25), K2CO3, NaOH were then investigated (Table 1, entries 6–10). Unfortunately, the inorganic alkalis (NaOH or K2CO3) shewed low catalytic capability due to low solubility in dialkyl phosphite (Table 1, entries 6, 7). Under the same conditions (solvent-free, 50 °C, 60 min), the reaction catalyzed by TEA could provide 5% yield of the product (Table 1, entry 8). Desirably, the yield could be enhanced (yield, 78%) by using 10 mol% DMAP at room temperature (rt) within 5 min (Table 1, entry 9). However, the yield (up to 92%) could be improved by DBU (Table 1, entry 10). For these three organic alkalis, both DMAP and DBU show better nucleophilicity than that of TEA. In addition, DBU shows much stronger alkalinity than DMAP and better capability to capture the proton from dialkyl phosphite than that of DMAP. Hence, the catalytic capability of DBU is the best one in these alkalis. Moreover, the reaction time, amount of DBU, and the reaction temperature were also investigated. Higher reaction time (Table 1, entries 11 and 13), higher temperature (Table 1, entries 13 and 15) and more dosage of DBU (20 mol%, entry 12) could not clearly increase the yield of products. However, the yield of the product was sharply reduced by decreasing the amount of DBU (Table 1, entry 14). Hence, the optimized reaction conditions for the preparation of α-Phosphates Amide could be concluded as follows: solvent-free, 10 mol% DBU as catalyst, and room temperature.
Having established the optimized conditions, an exploration of the scope of substrates A and B was carried out using various α-ketoamides and dialkyl phosphites, which are summarized in Table 2. When R2 and R3 were tert-butyl and ethyl respectively, the yields of products are also over 90% (Table 2, entries 12–14). Specifically, the position of methyl on benzene slightly affected the yields of products (Table 2, entries 13, 14). When R2 and R3 are cyclohexyl and methyl, respectively, the yields of products varied from 89% to 95% (Table 2, entries 15–19). When R1 is 2-nitro or 3-methoxy, the yields of products are all 89% (Table 2, entries 18, 19), which are slightly lower than that of hydrogen, 3-methyl and 4-bromine (Table 2, entries 15–17). When R2 and R3 are confirmed to be tert-butyl and methyl, respectively, methyl substituting at different position of benzene could provide yields of 91% (Table 2, entries 21, 22). 3-Chlorine substituting in benzene could slightly decrease the yields of products from 93% to 90% (Table 2, entries 20, 23). Moreover, when R2 and R3 are confirmed to be cyclohexyl and isopropyl respectively, the yields of products vary from 88% to 91% (Table 2, entries 24–28). Among them, the 3-methyl substituting in benzene ring could provide slightly lower yield of 88% than other substituent (Table 2, entry 26). When R2 and R3 are tert-butyl and isopropyl respectively, non-substituent and methyl substituting in benzene ring provided the yields of 92% and 91%, respectively (Table 2, entries 29, 30). When R2 and R3 are cyclohexyl and isobutyl respectively, the yields are all less than 90% (Table 2, entries 31–34). Among them, 3-methoxyl substituting in the benzene ring obtained the lowest yield of 86% (Table 2, entry 33). When R2 and R3 are tert-butyl and isobutyl respectively, four substituents all provided the same yield of 90% (Table 2, entries 35–38). Undesirably, when the substrate B is diphenyl phosphonate, only trace product could be obtained because of the steric effect [38] (Table 2, entry 39). Generally, as shown in Table 2, the proposed strategy in this work could be well tolerated with different α-ketoamides and dialkyl phosphites. The physicochemical properties, NMR data and spectra for these compounds can be found in Supplementary Materials.
The scope of substrate A was further investigated for the proposed strategy considering the rich biological activities of isatin-based derivatives [39,40,41,42]. Provirus work reported that the Phospho-Aldol-Brook Rearrangement reaction could conduct between isatin and dialkyl phosphite in THF [43]. Various substituted isatins were chosen as substrate A for the Phospho-Aldol-Brook Rearrangement reaction under solvent-free conditions. As shown in Table 3, the proposed strategy owned a broad substrate scope for the preparation of α-Phosphate Amide derivatives via Phospho-Aldol-Brook Rearrangement, the reactions could proceed quite well from the materials of isatins (substrate A) and various dialkyl phosphites (substrate B) under the optimized conditions, which could provide yields beyond 93% (Table 3). Particularly, when R2 and R3 are hydrogen and methyl respectively, the yields (Table 3, entries 1, 4) could be enhanced by hydrogen or 5-methyl (refer to R1) and up to 96%. More details for the physicochemical properties and NMR spectra of these compounds are also shown in Supplementary Materials.
Based on the reported literatures [22,25,26], a plausible mechanism of the reaction is predicted as Scheme 1. At first, and triggered by DBU, a rapid deprotonation of dialkyl phosphites (A) was carried out, releasing an intermediate 2 to generate intermediate 1. The intermediate 1 then attack the carbonyl carbon of α-ketoamide (substrate B) to give alkoxide 3 [26]. Subsequently, the 1,2-rearrangement of the dialkylphosphono group from carbon to oxygen yields intermediate 4. Finally, protonation of intermediate 4 by the conjugated acid 2 of the DBU proceeds to afford final product and DBU for next circle [26].
To investigate the rearrangement under the solvent-free conditions, a gram-scale (Scheme 2a) and mol-scale (Scheme 2b) synthesis were randomly selected to indicate the feasibility of this strategy on a preparative scale. The result indicated the reactions could be conducted smoothly in both gram-scale and mol-scale. The yields of the selected reactions were more than 91%.

3. Materials and Methods

3.1. Materials and Methods

Unless otherwise stated, all the reagents and reactants were purchased from commercial suppliers, and used without further purification. Melting points (uncorrected) were determined on a XT-4 binocular microscope (Beijing Tech Instrument Co, Beijing, China). The 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR and 31P-NMR spectra were recorded on a J Agilent 6890/5973 Inert (Agilent corporation, Palo Alto, USA) at room temperature operating on an AVANCE III HD 400M NMR (Bruker Corporation, Fällanden, Switzerland) using CDCl3 as solvents and TMS as an internal standard. Detection of High-resolution mass spectra (HRMS) was recorded by Orbitrap LC–MS instrument (Q-Exative, Thermo Scientific™, Waltham, USA). The course of the reactions was monitored by TLC. Analytical TLC was performed on silica gel GF 254.

3.2. Preparation of C1 and C46

Under solvent-free conditions, the α-ketonamide (0.65 mmol) and dialkyl phosphites (0.65 mmol) were added in one portion, which was stirred at room temperature. The reaction was monitored and completed within 5 min to provide crude products, which were purified by silica gel (200–300 mesh) column chromatography with using ethyl acetate/petroleum ether (1:3).

4. Conclusions

For the small scale Phospho-Aldol-Brook Rearrangement reaction, 1 mmol equivalent of 5-methylindoline-2, 3-dione and 1 mmol equivalent of dialkyl phosphites were required with the yield of 96%. Fortunately, the reaction was conducted in both gram-scale and mol-scale, and the title compounds could be obtained in excellent yield (more than 91%) within 5 min.
Herein, based on a quality of experiments, a facile strategy was successfully proposed to obtain a series of novel α-Phosphate Amide derivatives from various substituted α-ketoamide, including isatins and various dialkyl phosphites. Owing the characters of a low amount of metal-free catalyst (10 mol%), solvent-free, broaden scope of substrates (A and B), short reaction time (within 5 min), high yields (86–96%), high purity and mild reaction condition (rt), the current work provides a more environmentally friendly and economically available strategy for the green synthesis of α-Phosphate Amide derivatives.

Supplementary Materials

The following are available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4344/10/12/1445/s1, Materials information, experiment, the spectral data of title compounds, and the NMR spectra of products.

Author Contributions

S.C., contributed to the experiment and characterization. S.G., contributed to the drafting of the manuscript. F.H., Y.Z., and Z.W. Assisted S.C. to carry out relevant experiments. J.W., provided scientific guidance, supervision, visualization, project administration, funding acquisition. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21762012), Program of Introducing Talents to Chinese Universities (111 Program, D20023), and the S &T Planning Project of Guizhou Province (Nos. [2017] 1402, [2017] 5788).

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. The synthesis of novel phosphates derivatives via Phospho-Aldol-Brook Rearrangement. (a) Nakamura’s work [25]; (b). This work.
Figure 1. The synthesis of novel phosphates derivatives via Phospho-Aldol-Brook Rearrangement. (a) Nakamura’s work [25]; (b). This work.
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Scheme 1. Possible mechanism for the preparation of novel α-Phosphate Amide derivatives via Phospha-Brook Rearrangement.
Scheme 1. Possible mechanism for the preparation of novel α-Phosphate Amide derivatives via Phospha-Brook Rearrangement.
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Scheme 2. Preparative scale synthesis of α-Phosphate Amide under optimized reaction conditions, (a) Gram-scale synthesis of α-Phosphate Amide under optimized reaction conditions; (b) Mol-scale synthesis of α-phosphate amide under optimized reaction conditions.
Scheme 2. Preparative scale synthesis of α-Phosphate Amide under optimized reaction conditions, (a) Gram-scale synthesis of α-Phosphate Amide under optimized reaction conditions; (b) Mol-scale synthesis of α-phosphate amide under optimized reaction conditions.
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Table 1. Optimization for the reaction conditions (model reaction).
Table 1. Optimization for the reaction conditions (model reaction).
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EntryCatalystSolventTempe (°C)(min)Yield (%)
1DBU aEtOHrt581
2DBU aCH2Cl2rt583
3DBU aTHFrt589
4DBU bH2O60120trace
5DBU aSolvent-free50592
6NaOH aSolvent-free5060trace
7K2CO3 aSolvent-free5060trace
8TEA aSolvent-free5060<5
9DMAP aSolvent-freert578
10DBU aSolvent-freert592
11DBU aSolvent-freert3092
12DBU bSolvent-freert592
13DBU cSolvent-free501092
14DBU dSolvent-freert560
15DBU aSolvent-free80592
Letters a–d represent the amount of catalyst is 10 mol%, 15 mol%, 20 mol%, 5 mol%, and, respectively.
Table
Table 2. The synthesis of a series of α-Phosphate Amide derivatives a.
Table 2. The synthesis of a series of α-Phosphate Amide derivatives a.
Catalysts 10 01445 i002
EntryCompound NumberR1R2R3Yield (%)m.p (°C)
1C1H Catalysts 10 01445 i003Et9255–56
2C22- Cl Catalysts 10 01445 i003Et9279–80
3C34- Cl Catalysts 10 01445 i003Et9279–80
4C42- Br Catalysts 10 01445 i003Et9180–81
5C53- Br Catalysts 10 01445 i003Et9184–85
6C64- F Catalysts 10 01445 i003Et8972–73
7C73- CH3 Catalysts 10 01445 i003Et9155–57
8C84- CH3 Catalysts 10 01445 i003Et9173–74
9C93- NO2 Catalysts 10 01445 i003Et9281–82
10C104- NO2 Catalysts 10 01445 i003Et9090–92
11C113- OCH3 Catalysts 10 01445 i003Et9080–82
12C12H Catalysts 10 01445 i004Et9262–64
13C133- CH3 Catalysts 10 01445 i004Et9058–60
14C144- CH3 Catalysts 10 01445 i004Et9251–52
15C15H Catalysts 10 01445 i003Me9570–72
16C163- CH3 Catalysts 10 01445 i003Me9372–73
17C174- Br Catalysts 10 01445 i003Me91100–101
18C182- NO2 Catalysts 10 01445 i003Me8997–98
19C193- OCH3 Catalysts 10 01445 i003Me8978–80
20C20H Catalysts 10 01445 i004Me9375–76
21C213- CH3 Catalysts 10 01445 i004Me9167–69
22C224- CH3 Catalysts 10 01445 i004Me9168–69
23C233- Cl Catalysts 10 01445 i004Me9081–83
24C24H Catalysts 10 01445 i003i-Pr9176–77
25C252- OCH3 Catalysts 10 01445 i003i-Pr8976–78
26C263- OCH3 Catalysts 10 01445 i003i-Pr8879–80
27C274- F Catalysts 10 01445 i003i-Pr9084–85
28C284- Br Catalysts 10 01445 i003i-Pr8996–97
29C29H Catalysts 10 01445 i004i-Pr9267–68
30C304- CH3 Catalysts 10 01445 i004i-Pr9170–72
31C31H Catalysts 10 01445 i003i-Bu8871–73
32C322- OCH3 Catalysts 10 01445 i003i-Bu8775–77
33C333- OCH3 Catalysts 10 01445 i003i-Bu8681–82
34C344-NO2 Catalysts 10 01445 i003i-Bu8898–100
35C35H Catalysts 10 01445 i004i-Bu9068–70
36C363- Cl Catalysts 10 01445 i004i-Bu9074–76
37C374- Cl Catalysts 10 01445 i004i-Bu9082–84
38C384- CH3 Catalysts 10 01445 i004i-Bu9075–77
39C39H Catalysts 10 01445 i003Phtrace-
a Catalyzed by DBU (0.1 mmol), all reactions, were carried out between α-ketone amide (1 mmol) with various phosphites ester (1 mmol) in the absence of solvent at rt within 5 min.
Table
Table 3. The synthesis of isatin-based α-Phosphate Amide derivatives b.
Table 3. The synthesis of isatin-based α-Phosphate Amide derivatives b.
Catalysts 10 01445 i005
EntryR1R2R3Yield (%)m.p (°C)
1HHMe9695–96
24-BrHEt95132–133
35-ClHMe95117–118
45-MeHMe96116–117
55-NO2HEt94159–160
67-BrHMe95157–159
75,7-(CH3)2HEt93147–148
87-MeHIpr94112–114
b All reactions were carried out between isatin (1 mmol) with various dialkyl phosphites (1 mmol) catalyzed by DBU (0.1 mmol) in the absence of solvent at rt within 2 min.
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