Arenium cation as the key intermediate of the electrosynthesis of <Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis>-(2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)azoles. A new approach to the synthesis of <Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis>-(dimethoxyphenyl)azoles

Data on the effect of the acid-base properties of the medium on the yield and composition of the products of N-dimethoxyphenylation of azoles (pyrazole, triazole, their substituted derivatives, and tetrazole) upon galvanostatic electrolysis of azole—1,4-dimethoxybenzene mixtures in nucleophilic (MeOH) and neutral (MeCN) media were considered and the trends of this process were discussed. The generation of arenium cations (1,4-dimethoxy-1-azolylbenzenium in MeCN and 1,1,4-trimethoxybenzenium in MeOH) as the key intermediates of electrosynthesis of N-(dimethoxyphenyl)azoles, was proved experimentally. A new approach to the synthesis of N-(dimethoxyphenyl)azoles through electrosynthesis of 1,1,4,4-tetramethoxycyclohexa-2,5-diene by electrooxidation of 1,4-dimethoxybenzene in MeOH as the first step and the reaction of this quinone diketal with azoles as the second step was suggested. The efficiency of this route to N-(dimethoxyphenyl)azoles is comparable with the efficiency of the purely electrochemical one-step process. Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp. 2101–2109, November, 2007.     

15N-NMR Spectra of Azoles with Two Heteroatoms

The ¹⁵N-NMR spectra of azoles, with natural isotope abundance, have been measured under different experimental conditions, and chemical shifts are reported for imidazoles, pyrazoles, oxazoles, isoxazoles, thiazoles, and isothiazoles. General trends of substituent effects in this heterocyclic series are discussed based on the data of 67 substituted azoles, dihydro- and tetrahydroazoles. ¹⁵N, ¹H spin-coupling constants have been determined from spectra obtained by [¹H] → ¹⁵N polarizationtransfer experiments, i.e. an application of INEPT and DEPT pulse sequences. Two-bond and three-bond coupling constants are fully assigned and are discussed in terms of the specific pathways in azoles. The potential of structural applications of the new data is illustrated for isomeric nitro-imidazoles and highly-substituted pyrazoles, and in the case of ring-chain tautomerism of 2-substituted tetrahydrooxazoles.     

One‐pot acid‐free ferrocenylalkylation of azoles with α‐ferrocenyl alcohols: ferrocene‐based plant growth regulators and herbicide safeners

α‐Ferrocenylalkylation of azoles or S‐nucleophiles with FcCH(R)OH (Fc = ferrocenyl) can be accomplished under acid‐free conditions as one‐pot process via an intermediate formation of the α‐ferrocenylalkyl carbonates FcCH(R)OC(O)OEt. The reaction allows the alkylation of acid sensitive substrates like imidazole derivatives or sodium N,N‐diethyldithiocarbamate. The reaction with ambident azoles proceeds as the N‐alkylation. Some α‐ferrocenylalkyl azoles were found to exhibit plant growth stimulating or herbicidal effects on corn seeds or act as the herbicide safeners against sulfonylurea herbicides.     

Stereoselective Formation of Triphenylene Ketals

The oxidative trimerization of catechol ketals by MoCl₅ or MoCl₅/TiCl₄ mixtures leads preferentially to the all‐syn stereoisomer of the corresponding triphenylene ketal. The concomitant metal salts of the oxidative coupling most probably form a multinuclear template that directs the diastereoselectivity in a subsequent isomerization step under electrophilic conditions. Several functionalities can serve as coordination sites for the multinuclear metal chloro clusters. Suitable functional groups have to be stable towards the strong electrophilic and oxidizing conditions. Therefore, esters, nitriles, nitro derivatives, triazoles, and pyridines are successfully employed. Based on the flexibility and size of the substrate, different reagent mixtures lead to the stereoselective formation of the all‐syn derivatives.     

Regio‐ and Enantioselective Iridium‐Catalyzed N‐Allylation of Indoles and Related Azoles with Racemic Branched Alkyl‐Substituted Allylic Acetates

Cyclometallated π‐allyliridium C,O‐benzoates modified with (S)‐tol‐BINAP, which are stable to air, water, and SiO₂, catalyze highly enantioselective N‐allylations of indoles and related azoles. This reaction complements previously reported metal‐catalyzed indole allylations in that complete levels of N versus C3 and branched versus linear regioselectivity are observed.     

Manipulating sensitivities of planar oxadiazole-based high performing energetic materials

Nitrogen-rich energetic materials based on five-membered azoles, such as tetrazoles, triazoles, oxadiazoles, pyrazoles, and imidazoles, have garnered significant attention in recent years due to their environmental compatibility while maintaining high performance. These materials, including explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics, are designed to release energy rapidly and efficiently while minimizing the release of toxic or hazardous byproducts and have attracted potential applications in the defense and space industries. The presence of extensive N C, N N, and NN high energy bonds in azoles provides high enthalpies of formation and facilitates intermolecular interactions through π-stacking which may help with reducing sensitivity to external stimuli. Now, we report on the synthesis and energetic properties of N-(5-(1H-tetrazol-5-yl)-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)nitramide ( 5 ) and its energetic salts. These new high nitrogen–oxygen-containing materials have attractive feature applications of insensitivity and increased performance.     

Reaction of substituted sulfenes with N,N-disubstituted α-amino-methyleneketones. II. Synthesis of N,N-disubstituted cis and trans 4-amino-3-chloro-3,4,5,6,7,8-hexahydro-1,2-benzoxathiin 2,2-dioxides,and 4-amino-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-1,2-benzoxathiin 2,2-dioxides

The polar 1,4-cycloaddition of chlorosulfene (generated in situ from chloromethanesulfonyl chloride and triethylamine) to N,N-disubstituted (E)-2-aminomethylenecyclohexanones I gave mixtures of N,N-disubstituted cis and trans 4-amino-3-chloro-3,4,5,6,7,8-hexahydro-1,2-benzoxathiin 2,2-dioxides III and IV, except for N,N-diphenyl enaminone which did not react. Only compounds IV could be separated from these mixtures by silica gel chromatography, with the exception of the piperidino adducts (III + IV)d, from which also IIId could be obtained pure. Compounds IV or mixtures III + IV were dehydrochlorinated with DBN in refluxing benzene to afford N,N-disubstituted 4-amino-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-1,2-benzoxathiin 2,2-dioxides V in satisfactory yields. Structural and conformational features of compounds III, IV and V were determined from uv, ir and nmr spectral data.     

Basicity of azoles. IV. Empirical relationships between basicity and ionization potential for aromatic five membered rings containing nitrogen or oxygen

A plot of pK_a values for eleven azoles and benzazoles vs the experimental ionization energy of the nitrogen lone pair shows the existence of three groups of compounds: simple unsubstituted azoles (imidazole, pyrazole, oxazole, isoxazole), unsubstituted benzazoles (benzimidazole, 1H-indazole and benzoxazole, including imidazo [1,2-a]pyridine) and benzazoles carrying a methyl group α- to the basic centre (2-methylbenzimidazole, 2-methylindazole and 2-methylbenzoxazole).     

A 15N NMR study of some azoles

¹⁵N NMR data are reported for 42 azoles, taken mostly at a standard concentration and in a common solvent (0.5 M dimethyl sulfoxide with a 0.01 M increment of Cr(acac)₃ for each nitrogen atom present). Signal assignments were assisted by comparison with ¹⁴N line widths, the use of ²J(¹⁵N¹H) couplings, and shielding calculations obtained by the INDO/S–SOS approach. The generally large differences in nitrogen-shielding changes permitted rather facile shift assignments.     

Electrosynthesis of N-Arylazoles by Electrolyzing a Mixture of Azole and 1,4-Dimethoxybenzene in a Diaphragmless Cell

An analysis is performed and data are compared on the electrosynthesis of N-arylazoles and regularities of this process in conditions of a diaphragmless galvanostatic electrolysis (Pt, MeCN, Bu₄NClO₄) of a mixture of 1,4-dimethoxybenzene (DMB) with azoles (pyrazole, triazole, their derivatives, tetrazole). Electrolysis of an azole/DMB mixture leads to the formation of products of an ortho-substitution—1,4-dimethoxy-2-(azolyl-1)benzenes—and, simultaneously, hydrolytically unstable products of an ipso-bis-attachment—1,4-dimethoxy-1,4-di-(azolyl-1)cyclohexa-2,5-dienes. The overall yield of these compounds increases upon adding a base (collidine) or an acid (AcOH) into the initial mixture, and the basicity of initial azoles substantially affects the electrosynthesis results. New notions on the nature of nucleophilic species interacting with radical cation of DMB are considered. The species in question are complexes of azoles with one another or with collidine generated at the expense of the hydrogen bond, rather than azolate ions. Furthermore, the cathodic process is largely connected not with the generation of azolate ions (as a result of the reduction of initial azoles) but with the deprotonation of onium compounds (BH⁺)—products of the interaction of azoles or collidine with protons. The mechanism of electrosynthesis of N-arylazoles is discussed. The key stages of the synthesis are the attack of a nucleophile on the ipso- and, possibly, ortho-positions of the benzene ring of radical cation of DMB, as well as the rearrangement of the intermediate cation of 1,4-dimethoxy-1-(azolyl-1)arenonium into the cation of 1-(azolyl-1)-2,5-dimethoxyarenonium, which affects both the yield and ratio of final products of the reaction mixture.     

Azimine IV. Kinetik und Mechanismus der thermischen Stereoisomerisierung von 2,3-Diaryl-1-phthalimido-aziminen

Azimines IV. Kinetics and Mechanism of the Thermal Stereoisomerization of 2,3-Diaryl-1-phthalimido-azimines¹) Mixtures of (1E, 2Z)- and (1Z, 2E)-2-phenyl-1-phthalimido-3-p-tolyl-azimine ( 3a and 3b , resp.) and (1E, 2Z)- and (1Z, 2E)-3-phenyl-1-phthalimido-2-p-tolylazimine ( 4a and 4b , resp.) were obtained by the addition of oxidatively generated phthalimido-nitrene (6) to (E)- and (Z)-4-methyl-azobenzene ( 7a and 7b , resp.). Whereas complete separation of the 4 isomers 3a, 3b, 4a and 4b was not possible, partial separation by chromatography and crystallization led to 5 differently composed mixtures of azimine isomers. The spectroscopic properties of these mixtures (UV., ¹H-NMR.) were used to determine the ratios of isomers in the mixtures, and served as a tool for the assignment of constitution and configuration to those isomers which were dominant in each of these mixtures, respectively. Investigation of the isomerization of the azimines 3a, 3b, 4a and 4b within the 5 mixtures at various concentrations by ¹H-NMR.-spectroscopy at room temperature revealed that only stereoisomers are interconverted ( 3a ? 3b; 4a ? 4b) and that the (1E, 2Z) ? (1Z, 2E) stereoisomerization is a unimolecular reaction. These observations exclude an isomerization mechanism via an intermediate 1-phthalimido-triaziridine (2) or via dimerization of 1-phthalimido-azimines (1) , respectively. The 3-p-tolyl substituted stereoisomers 3a and 3b isomerized slightly slower than the 3-phenyl substituted ones 4a and 4b , an effect which is consistent with the assumption that the rate determining step of the interconversion of (1E, 2Z)- and (1Z, 2E)-1-phthalimido-azimines (1a ? 1b) is the stereoisomerization of the stereogenic center at N(2), N(3), either by inversion of N(3) or by rotation around the N(2), N(3) bond. The total isomerization process is assumed to occur via the thermodynamically less stable (1Z, 2Z)- and (1E, 2E)-isomers 1c and 1d , respectively, as intermediates in undetectably low concentrations which stay in rapidly established equilibria with the observed, thermodynamically more stable (1E, 2Z)- and (1Z, 2E)-isomers 1a and 1b , respectively. At higher temperatures, the azimines 3 and 4 are transformed into N-phenyl-N,N′-phthaloyl-N′-p-tolyl-hydrazine (8) with loss of nitrogen.     

Metal-free cross-dehydrogenative C–N coupling of azoles with xanthenes and related activated arylmethylenes

A metal-free C(sp³)–H/N–H cross-coupling of azoles with xanthenes and related activated arylmethylenes is presented. Both the use of azoles and the activation pattern of C(sp³)–H sources are essential for this transformation. In the presence of 2.0 equiv of benzoyl peroxide (BPO), methylenes bearing a heteroatom-bridged bisaryl group reacted with various azolic N–H sources to afford C–N bond forming products in usually excellent or quantitative yields, and the diphenylmethane and methylenes coactivated by a phenyl group and an adjacent heteroatom are less reactive. Mechanistic investigations suggest that a radical/radical cross-coupling pathway might be involved.     

Photochimie d'hétérocycles azotés. IV. Transposition de type photo-fries des N-acétyl benzimidazolones

The photolysis of benzene or alcoholic solutions of N-acetyl-and N,N-diacetylbenzimidazolones gave mixtures of ortho- and para-rearrangements products accompanied to some extent with de-N-acylation. The different products have been identified by means of nmr, mass spectrometry and unambiguous synthesis.     

Synthesis of Polynuclear Nonfused Azoles

Polynuclear blocks consisting of nonfused heterocycles of the azole series, connected through methylene bridges, were synthesized by successive addition of azole units via cycloaddition of organic azides to the triple bond of N-(2-propynyl)azoles, as well as via reaction of azide ion at the cyano group of cyanomethylazoles. Initial N-(2-propynyl)azoles were prepared by reaction of 2-propynyl bromide with 1,2,3-triazoles, benzotriazole, and tetrazoles; cyanomethylazoles were obtained by alkylation of azoles with chloroacetonitrile. An analogous scheme was used to add heterocyclic units to 2-phenyl-1,2,3-triazole-4-carbonitrile. In this case, the first two heterocyclic units are linked through the ring carbon atom.     

Gold(I) complexes of azoles

Summary (Dimethyl sulphide)AuCl reacts with azoles to give adducts [LAuX]₂ [L = N-methylimidazole (N-MeIm), N-ethylimidazole (N-EtIm), N-propylimidazole (N-PrIm), 2-methylbenzoxazole (2-MeBO) and 2,5-dimethylbenzoxazole (2,5-diMeBO); X = Cl or Br] which were characterized analytically and spectroscopically, including ¹H-n.m.r. I.r. and Raman studies showed that the compounds were binuclear with bridging halogen atoms. A nitrogen-containing ligand was coordinated to nitrogen N(3) atom of the azole ring in monodentate fashion.     

Chemistry of N,N‐Bis(silyloxy)enamines,Part 5

Aliphatic nitro compounds can be considered as good precursors of a wide variety of α‐azolyl‐substituted oximes. The double silylation of convenient aliphatic nitro compounds and the subsequent N,C‐coupling of the resulting N,N‐bis(silyloxy)enamines 3 with N‐silylated azoles 4 lead to the formation of the silylated α‐azolyl‐substituted oximes 6 , which can be smoothly desilylated to give the target α‐azolyl‐substituted oximes 5 . The mechanism of the key step of this process – N,C‐coupling – includes the generation of corresponding conjugated nitrosoalkenes 7 (Schemes 4 and 5). The contribution of the chain mechanism in the overall process is considered as well. The studies of the scope and limitations of this reaction, as well as the optimization of its conditions were accomplished. The configuration of the CN bond in oximes was established by NMR.     

Ferrocenylalkylation processes under electrospray ionization conditions

The electrospray ionization behavior of some ferrocenylalkylazoles CpFeC₅H₄CH(R)Az (AzH are derivatives of imidazole, pyrazole, triazole and their benzo analogs; R = H, Me, Et, Ph), ferrocenylalkanols CpFeC₅H₄CH(R)OH (R = H, Me), and mixtures of the latter with azoles was studied. The electrospray ionization mass spectra of these compounds, in addition to the molecular ion [M]^+·, the protonated molecule [M + H]⁺, and ferrocenylalkyl cation [FcCHR]⁺ peaks, exhibit also intensive peaks for the binuclear ions [(FcCHR)₂X]⁺ (X = Az or O), resulting from ferrocenylalkylation of the initial compounds with the ferrocenylalkyl cations. Electrospray ionization of an equimolar mixture of ferrocenylmethanol FcCH₂OH and imidazole gives the protonated ferrocenylmethylimidazole molecule [FcCH₂Im + H]⁺ and the [FcCH₂(Im)₂ + H]⁺ dimer, apart from the ions typical of each component, i.e., ferrocenylalkylation of azoles with the ferrocenylalkylcarbinols, known in the chemistry of solutions, takes place under electrospray conditions. Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1318–1321, August, 2006.     

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The titration of some substituted azoles in non-aqueous solution has been studied and their relative basic strengths determined. Differentiating titration of mixtures of substituted imidazoles is only possible when one of the imidazoles is substituted with a powerful electronegative substituent, e.g. a nitro group. Azolium halides may be titrated with perchloric acid in anhydrous acetic acid after addition of mercury(II) acetate, or dissolved in acetic anhydride without addition of mercury(II) acetate; dissolved in methanol, they may be titrated as acids with tetrabutylammonium hydroxide in benzene/methanol. The acidic and basic properties of some substituted pyrazol-5-ones have been compared.     

Weitreichende H,H-Kopplungskonstanten in N-methylierten Azolen

Long-range H,H-couplings in N-methylated azoles were studied.⁴ J couplings between N-methyl and adjacent ring protons could always be observed, whereas similar⁵ J couplings were not present. This result may be a useful tool for structure elucidation of isomeric N-methylated azoles.

     

Reactions with heterocyclic diazonium salts. Synthesis of several new azolylhydrazones

Several new stable azolylhydrazones could be synthesized via coupling of diazotised cycliuc amidines with active methylene reagents. The obtained compounds were utilised for synthesis of several, otherwise not readily accessible fused azoles.