A. Cappelli et al., SYNTHESIS OF 4-SUBSTITUTED 1,2,3,4-TETRAHYDRO-5H-AZEPINO[3,4-B]QUINOLIN-5-ONE DERIVATIVES AS POTENTIAL PERIPHERAL BENZODIAZEPINE-RECEPTOR LIGANDS, Heterocycles, 38(6), 1994, pp. 1265-1272
The synthesis of semirigid analogs of PK 11195, the highly specific pe
ripheral benzodiazepine-receptor ligand, is reported. Compound (4) und
erwent the Wittig reaction with acetaldehyde to give olefin (7) which
after allylic bromination was aminated to give the omega-amino esters
(10a-c). These compounds were then hydrogenated and cyclized in boilin
g toluene with DMAP as catalyst. The standard procedure failed in the
case of compound (10b), thus other cyclization procedures were examina
ted.