Chinese Chemical Letters  2016, Vol. 27 Issue (5): 714-720   PDF    
[bmim]OH: An efficient catalyst for the synthesis of mono and bis spirooxindole derivatives in ethanol at room temperature
Swapnil A. Padvi, Yogesh A. Tayade, Yogesh B. Wagh, Dipak S. Dalal     
School of Chemical Sciences, North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon 425001, MS, India
Abstract: A rapid and efficient, one pot synthesis of spirooxindole derivatives has been attempted by threecomponent reaction of isatin, malononitrile and carbonyl compound possessing a reactive α-methylene group by using task specific ionic liquid, 1-butyl-3-methyl imidazolium hydroxide [bmim]OH as a catalyst. The important features of this methodology are straight forward route in short reaction time at room temperature and avoid any hazardous organic solvent, toxic catalyst, tedious purification step. Interestingly, this protocol is not only limited to mono-systems but also to the synthesis of newer bisspirooxindole system. The separation of the product and reusability of the catalyst are easy with excellent yield. The [bmim]OH catalyst system could be reused up to five recycles without appreciable loss of activity.
Key words: Task specific ionic liquid [bmim]OH     Isatin     Spiro compounds     Green synthesis    
1. Introduction

Ionic liquids have attracted explosive research interest in the framework of green chemistry at recent time as environmental caring solvents due to their favorable properties like nonflammability,non-volatile,high thermal stability and easy to recycle [1]. Initially,ionic liquids are used as potential ‘‘green’’ alternative to volatile organic solvent because of their unique chemical and physical properties [2]. Recently,many attempts have been made to seek out functional ionic liquids through inclusion of additional functional groups as a part of the cation and/or anion i.e. task-specific ionic liquids [3]. The inclusion of functional groups can impart a particular ability to the ionic liquids i.e. solvent as well as catalyst or both [4]. Task-specific ionic liquids are extensively used as a catalyst for many type of reaction [5].

The efficient construction of highly biological active heterocyclic compounds without use of hazardous organic solvents and toxic catalyst is one of the most important tasks in the field of synthetic medicinal and green chemistry [6]. Multicomponent reactions (MCRs) have been proved to be a powerful and useful tool in modern synthetic chemistry as it provides rapid building of complex structure in a convergent and atom economical way [7]. Therefore developments of multicomponent reactions (MCRs) have attracted much attention from the advantage point of combinatorial chemistry [8]. In contrast,a multi step reaction involves a catalyst which may be highly toxic and may at times be difficult to be removed from the reaction mixture. A multi step reaction may require purification at each individual step [9].

The indole nucleus is a vastly resourceful heterocyclic scaffold present in various types of natural product and medicinal agent [10]. Isatin and its derivatives also have shown a variety of biological properties and are present in many natural products [11]. In addition it has been reported that biological activity could be enhanced to a greater extent by sharing indole 3-carbon atom in the formation of spiroindoline derivatives [12]. The spirooxindole systems (Fig. 1) are consequently found in many pharmacological agents and natural alkaloids with highly pronounced biological properties [13]. Moreover,spirooxindole derivatives is very important in synthetic medicinal chemistry due to showing a variety of pharmacological and biological activity such as anti-HIV [14],anti-tubercular [15],anti-cancer [16],anti-tumor [17] etc. therefore,for such synthesis and application of the compounds causing widespread concern.

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Fig. 1. Representatives of spirooxindole containing compounds.

Survey of literature data shows that several new pathways have been developed in the past few years for related of isatin, malononitrile and various types of carbonyl compound possessing a reactive α-methylene group in one pot multicomponent synthesis [18]. In this context,some catalysts have been recently reported to promote these condensations such as Mg(ClO4)2 [19] chitosan [20], meglumine [21],piperidine [22],NaBr [23],carbon-SO3H [24a].However,few methods have been develope dwithout catalyst such as water [25],propanol [26] glycerol [27] DMSO [28] at reflux temperature. Some of these methodologies are quite satisfactory, some of them require long reaction time to achieve reasonable yield.

On the other hand,there have been few reports about the synthesis of spirooxindole derivatives in ionic liquids such as bmim(OH)/chitosan/EtOH [29] (TBA acetate) [30] Ch- OSO3H]3W12PO40 [31],(H3N + CH2CH2OH) (HCOO-) [32],(SBDBU)Cl [33],EDDF-PEG60 [34],[BMIm]BF4 [35],DES [36]. Though these reported ionic liquids show good results,still the search for new task-specific ionic liquid is progressively in demand.

Finally,to prominent the efficiency and features of the present protocol in the synthesis of mono and newer bis spirooxindole derivatives; it was compared with some of the previously reported catalyst including some ionic liquids summarized results in Table 1. These reported protocols find certain merits of their own. All of them work on only mono-system,some of them required additional energy (i.e.,heating,ultrasonication or microwaves),some of them require long reaction time to achieve reasonable yield.

Table 1
Comparison with some reported methods.

This comparison clearly highlights the present method is definitely advantageous to several of the others in terms of ionic liquid as reusable catalyst,reaction at room temperature,short reaction time,simple work up with high product yield and high purity,no solvent extraction used.

Considering the above importance and continuation of our work in organic synthetic methods [37],we report herein the synthesis of mono and newer bis spirooxindole derivatives in EtOH using [bmim]OH as a catalyst. The present protocol is a rapid and green methodology for the synthesis of mono spirooxindole derivatives using isatin,malononitrile and a-methylene carbonyl compounds (Scheme 1). In addition to that we are reporting a newer bis spirooxindoles derivative from 1,10-(butane-1,4-diyl)- bis(indoline-2,3-dione),1,10-(1,4-phenylenebis(methylene))bis(indoline-2,3-dione),malononitrile and a-methylene carbonyl compounds using task specific ionic liquid as a green,efficient and recyclable catalyst (Scheme 2).

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Scheme. 1. Synthesis of spirooxindoles.

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Scheme. 2. [bmim]OH catalyzed one-pot synthesis of various bis spirooxindoles (7a-d) at room temperature.

2. Experimental

All the chemicals were commercially available (Isatin,malononitrile,3-methyl-1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-one,dimedone purchase from Spectrochem India). Reactions were monitored by thin-layer chromatography (TLC) using silica gel-coated plates (Merck) and EtOAc/hexane solvent as the mobile phase. Spots were visualized under UV light. Melting points were recorded in open glass capillary method and are uncorrected. 1H NMR and 13C NMR were recorded on Bruker Avance-II spectrophotometer operating at 400 MHz and 100 MHz. The mass spectra were recorded under ESI mode with Waters micromass equipment (model Q-TOF MICROMASS). The ionic liquid [bmim]OH was synthesized according to the literature [38].

General experimental procedure for synthesis mono and bis spirooxindole derivatives (5a-f,6a-e and 7a-d) by a mixture of isatin (1 mmol),malononitrile (1 mmol) and the ionic liquid [bmim]OH (1 mmol) was stirred at room temperature. A solid product was observed. Then 2 mL of ethanol was added and stirred for 2 min after which carbonyl compound possessing a reactive amethylene group (1 mmol) was added. Immediately solid product was disappearedandthereactionmixturewas stirredfora periodof timeuntilthe completionofthe reaction (checked byTLC). The solid was observed during the reaction and filtered to get the crude productandwashedsuccessivelywith2 mLofethanoltoaffordpure product in good to excellent yield. The ionic liquid remained in the ethanol and reused up to five runs without further purification. Although this procedure was optimized with a 1 mmol,2 mmol and 5 mmol scale reactions and obtained same results.

3. Results and discussion

In our initial study,we have carried out the reaction of isatin, malononitrile and 3-methyl-1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-one in ethanol to synthesized spirooxindoles in the absence of catalyst at room temperature. When the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 60 min,the product was obtained in very trace amount. Then, the reaction was investigated with different amounts catalyst (Table 2,entries 2-5). The best result was obtained,96% yield within 10 min,with 1 mmol of [bmim]OH (Table 2,entry 4). If the amount of catalyst was decreased from 1 mmol to 0.5 mmol and 0.1 mmol,the time of reaction is increase for conversion of 5a, while the use of 2 mmol of catalyst did not improve the yield and reaction time (Table 2,entry 5). The activity of the catalyst was tested with water (Table 2,entry 6) a solid was obtained which makes the separation of product very difficult. However,in EtOH- H2O (1:1) and MeOH,only the conversion of the starting materials is 66% (Table 2,entry 7) and 62% (Table 2,entry 8) into the product, respectively. It was also concluded that the use of EtOH as a reaction medium can greatly increase the rates of reactions with [bmim]OH due to its hydrophobic effects. We have tested some basic catalysts such as NaOH,Et3N,Piperidine,DBU; the moderate yield was obtained (Table 2,entries 9-12). We also compared [bmim]OH with the precursor [bmim]Br and the various ionic liquids such as [DBU[Ac] and [Et3NH][Ac] but we did not obtain satisfactory isolated yields. From optimization study,we conclude that hydroxide anion of the ionic liquid [bmim]OH plays a crucial role in the catalyst. We also compare with physical mixture of NaOH (0.1 mmol) with [bmim] Br (0.1 mmol) gave the trace amount of product after 24 h. If the amount of physical mixture was increases up to 1.00 mmol,the reaction time decreases and yield of spirooxindole increases up to 57%. However,when similar reactions with physical mixture of NaOH with [bmim]OAc were performed,the yield increased to 78% for 1.00 mmol. We constitute that result obtained by [bmim]OH promoted reaction better than others in terms of yields and reaction time. Therefore [bmim]OH is better than the above catalytic system. Hence,we decided to study the catalytic activity of the reaction system [bmim]OH:EtOH for the synthesis of 5a. After the separation of products,the catalyst containing ethanol was reused in the next run without further purification. The reaction medium can be reused up to five times without appreciable loss of activity with the excellent yields ranged from 96 to 84%,as shown in Fig. 2. The purity of recovered [bmim]OH further checked by FTIR,1H NMR,13C NMR and HPLC analysis (Figs. S1-S3 in Supporting information) and no changes found in the functional group of [bmim]OH.

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Fig. 2. Effect on product yield after each recycle and reuse of [bmim] OH/EtOH.

Table 2
Influence of different catalytic system for the synthesis of (5a) at room temperaturea.

Thus,under this optimized reaction conditions,we used various substituted isatin derivatives with malononitrile and 3-methyl- 1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-one gave the desired product 5a-f with excellent yields (Table 3). 5-chloro,5-bromo and N-alkylated isatins were smoothly converted in to product within same reaction time. Encouraged by the results obtained with 3-methyl-1H-pyrazol- 5(4 H )-one,we extended our intension to investigate on dimedone gave the corresponding product 6a-e with excellent yields without formation of any side products (Table 4). In addition to these,we take efforts to synthesis newer bis spirooxindole derivatives from 1,10-(butane-1,4-diyl)bis(indoline-2,3-dione),1,10-(1,4-phenylenebis(methylene))bis(indoline-2,3-dione),malononitrile,3-methyl-1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-one and dimedone (Scheme 2). No significant substituent effect was observed on the reaction time and yield of product. Slightly higher time (15 min) was required to complete the formation of 6b-c and 7a. The future work will focused on the biological investigation of newer bis spirooxindole derivatives.

Table 3
[bmim]OH catalyzed one-pot synthesis of various spirooxindole (5a–f) at room temperaturea.

Table 4
[bmim]OH catalyzed one-pot synthesis of various spirooxindole (6a–e) at room temperaturea.

The probable reaction mechanism for [bmim]OH catalyzed synthesis of spirooxindole derivative is proposed in Scheme 3,in which Knoevenagel adduct is formed by adding malononitrile and isatin. On the other hand,hydroxide anion of the ionic liquid [bmim]OH abstract a proton from active methylene group,which undergoes Michael-addition with Knoevenagel adduct,followed by intramolecular cyclization and imine-amine tautomerization provides the target spiro compounds. Many of these products were reported compounds and further identified by comparison of their spectroscopic data and melting points with authentic samples and are in good agreement with the reported values. Some of the new interesting compounds were completely characterized by their spectroscopic techniques (1H NMR,13C NMR,Mass and HRMS)

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Scheme. 3. Plausible mechanism of the reaction.

4. Conclusion

In conclusion,we have developed highly efficient and practical method for the one-pot three-component reaction of isatin, malononitrile and carbonyl compounds with reactive α-methylene group for the synthesis of spirooxindole derivatives using [bmim]OH as an environmentally benign catalyst at room temperature. This protocol is not only limited for improvements in the reaction rates,yields and purity,but also avoiding the hazardous catalysts or solvents,elevated temperature,traditional chromatographic purifications and recrystallization.

Appendix A. Supplementary data

Supplementary data associated with this article can be found,in the online version,at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2016.01.016.

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