Issue 35, 2017

One-pot facile synthesis of 4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide derived Tröger's bases via a nucleophilic displacement approach

Abstract

We report here a novel one-pot synthetic strategy for the synthesis of a family of N-alkyl-1,8-naphthalimide based Tröger's bases via a nucleophilic substitution reaction of a common ‘precursor’ (or a ‘synthon’) N-aryl-1,8-naphthalimide Tröger's base heated at 80 °C in neat aliphatic primary amine, in overall yield of 65–96%. This methodology provides an efficient and one-step facile route to design 1,8-naphthalimide derived Tröger's base structures in analytically pure form without the use of column chromatography purification, that can be used in medicinal chemistry and as supramolecular scaffolds. We also report the formation of the corresponding anhydride, and the crystallographic analysis of two of the resulting products, that of the N-phenyl-4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide and the anhydride derived Tröger's bases.

Graphical abstract: One-pot facile synthesis of 4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide derived Tröger's bases via a nucleophilic displacement approach

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
25 Jul 2017
Accepted
14 Aug 2017
First published
14 Aug 2017

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2017,15, 7321-7329

One-pot facile synthesis of 4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide derived Tröger's bases via a nucleophilic displacement approach

S. Shanmugaraju, D. McAdams, F. Pancotti, C. S. Hawes, E. B. Veale, J. A. Kitchen and T. Gunnlaugsson, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2017, 15, 7321 DOI: 10.1039/C7OB01835E

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