Versatile 2‐aminothiazoles,building blocks for highly functionalised heterocycles

The reactions of quantitatively available 4‐phenyl‐ and 4‐(4‐antipyrinyl)‐2‐aminothiazole [“4‐antipyrinyl‐” is used as a short‐term for “4‐(1,5‐dimethyl‐3‐oxo‐2‐phenyl‐2,3‐dihydro‐1‐H‐pyrazol‐4yl)‐”] with chloroacetyl chloride, acetic anhydride, ethyl cyanoacetate and carbon disulphide are reported. The products are transformed further by Knoevenagel condensations and coupling reactions with aromatic diazonium salts. The latter occur both at the thiazole ring and at the active methylene sites. The tautomerism of these products is studied on the basis of density functional theory calculations at the B3LYP/6‐31G* level.     

Waste-Free Solid-State Organic Syntheses: Solvent-Free Alkylation, Heterocyclization, and Azo-Coupling Reactions

Solid-state techniques allow for waste-free quantitative syntheses. The solid–solid reactions of α-haloketones with several pyrazolones and with thiosemicarbazones were shown to afford the corresponding pyrazolyl ethers and 4-substituted 2-(arylidenehydrazino)thiazoles. The product yields are quantitative in all cases and the products do not require purifying workup. Therefore, these reactions are truly solvent-free, sustainable, and no wastes are produced. A diazonium nitrate is quantitatively accessible by gas–solid reaction of the corresponding amine with NO₂ gas. It is a useful material for environmental synthesis of azo dyes through solid-state coupling with a variety of coupling compounds, as e.g. β-naphthol, acetoacetanilide, pyrazolones, and barbituric acid.     

Cathodic reduction of diazonium salts in aprotic medium

Cathodic reduction of diazonium salts in acetonitrile led to the formation of azobenzenes, in good to moderate yields, and diarylamines as minoritary products. The reactions were carried out at the second reduction potential of the diazonium salts, involving aryl anions in the formation of the products.     

Waste-Free Solid-State Organic Syntheses: Solvent-Free Alkylation,Heterocyclization, and Azo-Coupling Reactions

Summary. Solid-state techniques allow for waste-free quantitative syntheses. The solid–solid reactions of α-haloketones with several pyrazolones and with thiosemicarbazones were shown to afford the corresponding pyrazolyl ethers and 4-substituted 2-(arylidenehydrazino)thiazoles. The product yields are quantitative in all cases and the products do not require purifying workup. Therefore, these reactions are truly solvent-free, sustainable, and no wastes are produced. A diazonium nitrate is quantitatively accessible by gas–solid reaction of the corresponding amine with NO₂ gas. It is a useful material for environmental synthesis of azo dyes through solid-state coupling with a variety of coupling compounds, as e.g. β-naphthol, acetoacetanilide, pyrazolones, and barbituric acid.     

Fast dye salts provide fast access to azidoarene synthons in multi-step one-pot tandem click transformations

This study examined whether commercially available diazonium salts could be used as efficient aromatic azide precursors in one-pot multi-step click transformations. Seven different diazonium salts, including Fast Red RC, Fast Blue B, Fast Corinth V and Variamine Blue B were surveyed under aqueous click reaction conditions of CuSO₄/Na ascorbate catalyst with 1:1 t-BuOH/H₂O solvent. Two-step tandem reactions with terminal alkyne and diyne co-reactants led to 1,2,3-triazole products in 66-88% yields, while three-step tandem reactions with trimethylsilyl-protected alkyne and diyne co-reactants led to 1,2,3-triazole products in 61-78% yields.     

The Dinitramide Anion, N(NO(2))(2)(-)

The infrared and Raman spectra of the NH(4)(+), K(+), and Cs(+) salts of N(NO(2))(2)(-) in the solid state and in solution have been measured and are assigned with the help of ab initio calculations at the HF/6-31G and MP2/6-31+G levels of theory. In agreement with the variations observed in the crystal structures, the vibrational spectra of the N(NO(2))(2)(-) anion are also strongly influenced by the counterions and the physical state. Whereas the ab initio calculations for the free N(NO(2))(2)(-) ion indicate a minimum energy structure of C(2) symmetry, Raman polarization measurements on solutions of the N(NO(2))(2)(-) anion suggest point group C(1) (i.e., no symmetry). This is attributed to the very small (<3 kcal/mol) N-NO(2) rotational barrier in N(NO(2))(2)(-) which allows for easy deformation.     

二苯胺-4-偶氮磺酸盐及其树脂的制备和光、热分解性质

从二苯胺 4 重氮盐(DS)和3 甲氧基二苯胺 4 重氮盐(MDS)以及重氮树脂(DR)和硝基重氮树脂(NDR)与亚硫酸钠反应,在水溶液中制备了相应的二苯胺 4 偶氮磺酸盐DSS和MDSS(简称偶氮磺酸盐)及相应的重氮树脂的偶氮磺酸盐DRS和NDRS(简称偶氮磺酸盐树脂).对它们在水溶液和固相膜中的光、热反应进行了研究.结果表明偶氮磺酸盐与偶氮磺酸盐树脂有很好的感光性能,而热稳定性比相应的重氮盐和重氮树脂好很多,其中二苯胺上有硝基取代的偶氮磺酸盐树脂具有突出的热稳定性,其水溶液在70℃加热6h,其固相膜在100℃加热11天几乎观察不到分解.对偶氮磺酸盐及偶氮磺酸盐树脂的光、热分解机理作了初步分析.     

Solvent-free Knoevenagel condensations and Michael additions in the solid state and in the melt with quantitative yield

Numerous Knoevenagel condensations of solid or liquid aromatic aldehydes are performed with four barbituric acids, Meldrum's acid, dimedone, cyanoacetamide, malodinitrile and methyl cyanoacetate in stoichiometric mixtures of the solids or of stoichiometric melts. The product yields are quantitative in 23 reported cases and the products do not require purifying workup. Therefore, these reactions are truly solvent-free, atom economic and sustainable and no wastes are produced. They are highly superior to less productive so-called ‘solvent-free’ techniques using solid supports and microwave irradiation that require solvents for removal of the support or reagents or side products. Similarly, the solution reactions generally requiring catalysts suffer from low yields and purifying workup. The new techniques provide numerous common electron-poor alkenes very easily. These are valuable building blocks for example in Michael additions. Also the latter can be quantitatively obtained in stoichiometric melts in the absence of any auxiliaries or microwave irradiation and this is demonstrated with stable and rearranging/cyclizing Michael adducts using dimedone. The quantitative yields are most easily obtained if the products are formed in the solid-state or if they crystallize directly from the melt at the reaction temperature.     

Gas-phase reactions of nitronium ions with acetylene and ethylene: an experimental and theoretical study

A comparative study of the gas-phase reactions of NO2+ with acetylene and ethylene was performed by using FT-ICR, MIKE, CAD, and NfR/ CA mass spectrometric techniques, in conjunction with ab initio calculations at the MP2/6-31+G* level of theory. Both reactions proceed according to the same mechanism, that is, 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition, but yield products of different stability. The C2H2NO2+ adduct from acetylene has an aromatic character and hence is highly stabilized with respect to the C2H4NO2+ adduct from ethylene. Both cycloadducts tend to isomerize into O-nitroso derivatives, that is, nitrosated ketene and nitrosated acetaldehyde, which represent the thermodynamically most stable products from the addition of NO2+ to acetylene and ethylene, respectively. As prototypal examples of the reactivity of free nitronium ions with most simple pi systems, the reactions investigated are useful starting points to model the mechanism of aromatic nitration.     

Chemical effects induced by γ-irradiated alkali halides in aqueous binary mixtures of nitrates and iodides

Dissolution of -irradiated chlorides of sodium and potassium in a solution of NaNO₃ and KI results in the formation of NO ₂ ^– and iodine as stable products. The variation in the yields of the products with the amount of irradiated salts is studied. The effect of photoannealing of the irradiated salts on the yields of nitrate and iodine in the mixture is discussed on the basis of photoannealing reactions of the colour centres.     

Quantitative reaction cascades of ninhydrin in the solid state

Crystalline ninhydrin (1) undergoes waste-free solid-state cascade reactions with dimedone, L-proline, three o-phenylenediamines, o-mercaptoaniline, two ureas, three thioureas, and methyl 3-aminocrotonate. The yields are quantitative and give pure crystalline products without workup just by milling stoichiometric mixtures of the crystalline reagents. The structures of the new and the previously obtained products with lower yields from solutions are established or confirmed by spectroscopic data and density functional calculations at the B3LYP/6-31G* level. The success of 3- and 4-cascade reactions in the crystal without melting is unusual and of unmatched atom economy. They are mechanistically investigated with atomic force microscopy techniques (AFM) on six different faces of 1 when o-phenylenediamine was the reagent (substitution, elimination, cyclization, elimination) and interpreted on the basis of known crystal structure data. Strict correlations to the crystal packings are observed. The characteristic surface features grow to microm heights in some cases at distances of 0.5 mm from the contact edge of the reacting crystals. The waste-free and easy syntheses of highly functionalized (C=O; O-H; C=N) heterocycles or of a tetraketone are also of interest for synthetic use.     

Controlling the Scholl reaction

Guidelines for the application of the Scholl reaction were developed. Labeling experiments demonstrate that the Scholl reaction fails in small, unsubstituted oligophenylenes (e.g., o-terphenyl) due to oligomerization of the products (e.g., triphenylene). Incorporation of suitably placed blocking groups (e.g., t-butyl) suppresses oligomerization. The well-established directing group effects in electrophilic aromatic substitution predict the outcome of Scholl reactions of substituted substrates. Activating o,p-directing groups (e.g., MeO) direct bond formation o,p, either intramolecularly or intermolecularly. Deactivating o,p-directing groups (e.g., Br) also direct bond formation o,p but yields are lower. Deactivating m-directors (e.g., NO2) suppress reaction. MoCl5 and PhI(OOCCF3)2/BF3.Et2O are general and effective reagents for the Scholl oxidation. Calculations (B3LYP/6-31G(d)) predict the Scholl reaction in alkoxyarenes to proceed via arenium cations, not radical cations. Suzuki-Miyaura couplings were used to generate 12 substituted o-terphenyl derivatives.     

Evidence of reversibility in azo-coupling reactions between 1,3,5-tris(N,N-dialkylamino)benzenes and arenediazonium salts

The reactions between strongly electron-rich aromatic substrates (1,3,5-tris(N,N-dialkylamino)benzenes, neutral carbon super nucleophiles) and diazonium salts produce moderately stable sigma complexes (Wheland complexes). The reactivity of Wheland complexes with electrophiles (other diazonium salts, or 4,7-dinitrobenzofuroxan) produces exchange reactions in the electrophilic part: the better electrophile replaces the less powerful electrophile. In the same way, in Wheland complexes with the 1,3,5-tris(morpholinyl)benzene, the 1,3,5-tris(piperidinyl)benzene replaces the less powerful nucleophile 1,3,5-tris(morpholinyl)benzene. Evidence is reported here indicating that for the title system the reaction of the attack of the electrophilic reagent producing Wheland complexes is a reversible process. The final products of the diazo-coupling reactions undergo a further attack of some diazonium salts. From the final products of the double diazo-coupling reactions (diazo compounds), we collected evidence that is a clear instance of complete reversibility of the diazo-coupling reaction.     

Theoretical elucidation of kinetic and thermodynamic control of radical addition regioselectivity

The cyclizations of two structurally similar 2-oxo-5-hexenyl-type radicals have been investigated by ab initio and density functional (UB3LYP/6-31+G**//UHF/6-31G* and UB3LYP/6-31G*//UB3LYP/6-31G*) calculations. The origin of apparently contradictory reports of 6-endo and 5-exo cyclizations is determined. Kinetic control favors 6-endo cyclization, while thermodynamic control gives 5-exo cyclization, and the observation of different products from different research groups arises from the difference in experimental conditions used by the two groups. The outcome of a new cyclization reaction was predicted by using these theoretical techniques. Kinetic control is predicted to yield exclusively the products of 6-endo cyclization, while thermodynamic control would lead to an approximately equal mixture of one 6-endo and one 5-exo cyclized product. Experimental studies revealed that the reaction yields only the products of 6-endo cyclization through kinetic control.     

The ene reactions of nitroso compounds involve polarized diradical intermediates

The ene reactions of nitroso compounds were studied with B3LYP/6-31G* geometry optimizations and energy calculations, along with single point energy evaluations using CASPT2/6-31G** and UCCSD(T)/6-311+G* methods. Reactions of HNO with propene and of MeNO and p-NO2C6H4NO with propene or substituted alkenes were also studied. The reaction mechanism is stepwise and involves a polarized diradical intermediate. The electronic structure of this intermediate is between that of a closed shell polar species and that of a pure diradical, and it is stabilized by polar solvents. A weak C-N bonding interaction combined with a CH-O hydrogen bond leads to heightened barriers to rotation about formally single bonds compared to conventional diradicals. Consequently, rotation is slower than hydrogen abstraction and cyclization to form an aziridine N-oxide. This aziridine N-oxide does not lead to ene products without subsequent ring opening but provides a mechanism for the RNO moiety to translate from one end of the alkene to the other. B3LYP calculations are also able to reproduce kinetic isotope effects and regioselectivity.     

Alkyl- and arylthiodediazoniations of dry arenediazonium o-benzenedisulfonimides. Efficient and safe modifications of the stadler and ziegler reactions to prepare alkyl aryl and diaryl sulfides

The reaction between dry arenediazonium o-benzenedisulfonimides 1 and sodium thiolates in anhydrous methanol represents an efficient and safe procedure, of general validity, for the preparation of unfunctionalized or variously functionalized alkyl aryl and diaryl sulfides. As a rule, the reaction temperature was maintained at 0-5 degrees C for the alkylthiodediazoniations and at room temperature (20-25 degrees C) for the arylthiodediazoniations. The sulfide yields are generally high; of the 63 considered examples, 43 gave yields greater than 80% and 13 were between 70% and 80%. Lower yields were obtained only when sterically hindered diazonium salts or thiols were used. A good amount of the o-benzenedisulfonimide (8) was always recovered from the reactions and could be reused to prepare salts 1. The copious experimental data collected in homogeneous conditions have offered several starting points for the study of the mechanism of these reactions.     

Photochemical Sandmeyer-type Halogenation of Arenediazonium Salts

Trihalide salts were found to efficiently promote photochemical dediazotizing halogenations of diazonium salts. In contrast to classical Sandmeyer reactions, no metal catalysts are required to achieve high yields and outstanding selectivities for halogenation over competing hydridodediazotization. Convenient protocols are disclosed for synthetically meaningful brominations, iodinations, and chlorinations of diversely functionalized derivatives.     

Cyclizing Radical Carboiodination,Carbotelluration, and Carboaminoxylation of Aryl Amines

Radical carboiodination of various aryl amines is reported. Aryl diazonium salts, generated in situ from the corresponding aryl amines, are reacted with Bu₄NI to provide the corresponding aryl radicals which undergo 5‐exo or 6‐exo cyclization. Iodine abstraction eventually affords the carboiodinated products in good to excellent yields. If TEMPO is added, the cascade provides the cyclized carboaminoxylation products. Running the reaction in the presence of PhTeTePh affords the phenyltellurated cyclized products.     

Syntheses of terminally functionalized polyisobutylene derivatives using diazonium salts

A new strategy for the synthesis of end‐functionalized polyisobutylene (PIB) oligomers is detailed. Commercially available vinyl‐terminated PIB oligomers were modified to form aniline‐terminated PIB via an aromatic electrophilic substitution reaction. The PIB‐bound aryl amines so formed were then converted into diazonium salts using isopentyl nitrite and an acid in methylene chloride. These salts served as versatile intermediates in synthetic reactions affording azo dye‐containing PIB derivatives and other terminally‐functionalized PIB derivatives not readily available by other reactions. The advantages and limitations of various name reactions including diazo couplings, Sandmeyer reactions, dediazoniations, and Heck reactions are discussed. The kinetics of polar substitution reactions at the termini of these nonpolar oligomers and the effects of solvent on these reactions were also examined. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2011     

Achieving functional group diversity in parallel synthesis: solution-phase synthesis of a library of ureas, carbamates, thiocarbamates, and amides using carbamoylimidazolium salts

A convenient protocol for the parallel solution-phase synthesis of a library of thiocarbamates, ureas, carbamates, and amides from carbamoylimidazolium salts has been developed. The crystalline carbamoylimidazolium salts are readily synthesized from secondary amines, CDI and iodomethane, and act as stable carbamoylation reagents. A common set of reaction conditions and a straightforward non-chromatographic liquid-liquid extraction purification protocol were developed for reactions with thiols, amines, phenols, and carboxylic acids, giving the products with high purities and yields. The resultant library incorporates diversity arising from the choice of reaction partners and the functional group linkage generated in the couplings.