Elucidation of the Mechanism for the S-N-type Smiles Rearrangement on Pyridine Rings
Elucidation of the Mechanism for the S-N-type Smiles Rearrangement on Pyridine Rings
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吡啶环S-N型微笑重排机制的阐明
DOI:
10.1071/ch08205
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发表时间:
2009-01-01
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
Wang, Lushan
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作者:
Li, Jinghua;Wang, Lushan
The Smiles rearrangement (SR) is an important strategy for synthesizing heterocyclic compounds. Many pyridine moiety-containing complexes are biologically active. Although the success has been archived in the development of the SR on the pyridine ring to obtain pyridine moiety-containing heterocyclic compounds, not much is known about the detailed SR mechanism. Here, we report a theoretical study on a typical S-N-type SR reaction involved in the synthesis of thiazinone-fused pyridines. We studied both the ipso-SR process and the direct nucleophilic substitution reactions on the ortho-positions to rationalize the experimentally observed ipso-SR product. The calculated results show the ipso-SR consists of two elementary steps, the intramolecular ipso-position substitution and subsequent ring closure, and the barrier for the rate-determining step is 65.98 kJ mol(-1) and the overall reaction is exothermic by 116.94 kJ mol(-1), confirming the reaction is kinetically feasible and thermodynamically favourable under mild experimental conditions (such as controlled microwave heating). The present results provide a clear picture for understanding the S-N-type SR on the pyridine ring to synthesize pyridine moiety-containing heterocycles.