S E L F - C O N D E N S A T I O N O F A N N - A C Y L - a - A M I N O K E T O N E

T O 2 - (N-.A C Y L A M I N O M E T H Y L ) P Y R R O L E

S. [. Z a v ' y a l o v , N. I . A r o n o v a , a n d I . F . M u s t a f a e v a

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Fo r the f i r s t t ime we have observed the abi l i ty of an N - a c y l - a - a m i n o k e t o n e to se l f -condense to 2- (N-acylami:aomethyl)pyrrole under the influence of an amine, enamine, or an a - a m i n o acid. For example, t r ea tmen t of N-ace ty laminoace tone {I) with excess piper idine in the p re sence of mo lecu la r s ieves or 1- p iper idinocyclohexene in benzene (at 20 ~ for 150 h) and subsequent vacuum dist i l la t ion at 3 m m gave ~40% of a mix tu re of 2 - (N-ace ty laminomethy l ) - -4 -me thy lpyr ro le (II) and i ts 1 -ace ty l de r iva t ives (II1), the s t r u c - tu res of wb~:.ch were proved by e l e m e n t a r y ana lys i s , Er l ich tes t s , the alkal ine hydro lys i s of III to II, as well as by the UV, IR, and PIV[R spec t ra .

CH3 \

2 CHaCONHCH2COCHa---~ I II/CH2NHCOCHa

(I) "~N / R

R=H(II), CHACO (III)

In i ts s t ruc tu ra l specif ic i ty , the convers ion of I to II and III that we accompl ished is s im i l a r to the biosynthesi~ of porphobil inogen f r o m 5-aminolevul inic acid [1].

L I T E R A T U R E C I T E D

1. G. Bc~zold, G. Muller , and O. Mul ler , Angew. Chemie , 79, 905 (1967).

N. [ ' . Zel instdi Inst i tute of Organic Chemis t ry , Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Trans la ted f r o m Izves t iya A~tdemi i Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, p. 1674, July, 1972. Original a r t i c l e sub- mit ted March 23, 1972.

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