Hexahydro-1,4-diazepine

UsesIt can be used as organic and pharmaceutical synthesis intermediates, for example, being applied to the synthesis of fasudil hydrochloride. Homopiperazine acts as a corrosion inhibitor for iron. It has also been used in the preparation of potent H3 receptor antagonists for use as treatments for neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer disease.

Usespharmaceutical intermediate

UsesHomopiperazine is used to prepare 1,4-bis-(2-thiazolyl)-1,4-diazacycloheptane by reacting with 2-bromo-thiazole. It acts as an intermediate for repaglinide and fasudil hydrochloride. It is also used in the preparation of potent H3 receptor antagonists, which is used for the treatment of neurodegenerative conditions. Further, it is used in vesicant, cosmetic, emulsifier and energetic material. It acts as a corrosion inhibitor for iron. In pharmaceuticals, it is employed as antipyretic and reducing blood sugar, adiposity, calm, antipsychotic and anti-nervous.

PreparationHomopiperazine can be synthesized using amino compounds such as N-(2-cyanoethyl)-ethylenediamine, N-(β-hydroxy)-1,3-propanediamine, ethylenediamine as raw material so that homopiperazine has various kinds of synthetic routes according to different raw materials. With the development of China's petrochemical industry, for the synthesis of the starting raw material of homopiperazine, alcohols and ethylene diamine, it not only has low price but also can get high-quality product as well as extremely abundant source. Currently, though there are homopiperazine domestic manufacturers, but the technology is lagged behind, the quality is not high and the production output is limited, all the above points are in urgent need for being transformed and improved. From this perspective, it is imperative for accelerating the process of development of fine chemical products of homopiperazine with a wide range of application. Therefore, the market prospect of the homopiperazine is very broad. Using ethylenediamine as the raw material: the method uses the easily available ethylenediamine as the initial raw material, further goes through sulfonylation, cyclization, de-sulfonylation, 3-step reaction for synthesizing homopiperazine with the total yield being 78%. Within this synthetic method, during the first step of ethylenediamine sulfonylation, the addition of a phase transfer catalyst can significantly improve the product yield with the yield being 86%. During the second step of cyclization reaction, selection of NaH/ DMF reaction system can enable the completion of the cyclization reaction under milder reaction conditions. Finally, under HBr/HAc/PhOH reaction conditions, remove the sulfonyl group with a yield being 91% to give the final product homopiperazine. The results indicate that it is an excellent homopiperazine synthesis route of various kinds of advantages including easily available raw materials, simple operation and high yield with certain prospects for industrial application.