Carbonyl imines from oxaziridines: generation and cycloaddition of N-O=C dipoles.
Carbonyl imines from oxaziridines: generation and cycloaddition of N-O=C dipoles.
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来自氧氮丙啶的羰基亚胺:N-O=C 偶极子的生成和环加成。
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10.1002/anie.200905801
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2010
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Yoon,TehshikP
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Partridge,KatherineM;Guzei,IliaA;Yoon,TehshikP
Cycloaddition reactions of nitrones, i azides, ii and related 1, 3-dipolar species iii have become recognized as powerful tools for the construction of compounds with great utility in organic synthesis, chemical biology, and materials science. The conceptual model that underpins our understanding of this broad class of reactions was first formalized by Huisgen in 1963. iv This seminal contribution to organic chemistry provided chemists with a unified framework for understanding the structure and reactivity of 1, 3-dipolar compounds, and also predicted the structures of several elementary 1, 3-dipoles that were unknown at the time. Subsequent research has identified cycloaddition reactions of many of these predicted 1, 3-dipolar species. v However, carbonyl imines (eg, 3, Scheme 1) have remained elusive in the halfcentury since Huisgen’s initial prediction. Although these unusual dipoles have been postulated to be intermediates in the photochemical decomposition of nitroarenes, vi no compounds resulting from dipolar cycloadditions of carbonyl imines have previously been reported. In this communication, we demonstrate that carbonyl imines can be efficiently generated by Lewis acid-catalyzed rearrangement of N-sulfonyl oxaziridines and trapped by cycloaddition with a variety of dipolarophiles.We recently reported that TiCl4-catalyzed rearrangement of N-sulfonyl oxaziridinesvii (“Davis oxaziridines”, eg, 1) produces a new class of electron-deficient N-sulfonyl nitrones (2). viii These highly unstable nitrones can be efficiently intercepted in situ by cycloaddition with a variety of styrenic olefins, affording 1, 2-isoxazolidines with very high levels of cis selectivity (5, Table 1, entry 1). In the course of investigations probing this novel reactivity, we made the surprising observation that a variety of other Lewis acid catalysts (entries 2–5) produce a side product that we identified as the regioisomeric and diastereomeric 1, 2-isoxazolidine 4. ix The production of 4 suggested that Lewis acid-catalyzed rearrangement of 1 could generate either N-sulfonyl nitrones or N-sulfonyl carbonyl imines, and that the partitioning between these two 1, 3-dipoles could be controlled by the identity of the catalyst. Intrigued by this observation, we initiated an investigation to develop conditions that would result in exclusive formation of carbonyl imine cycloadduct 4, which would enable us to explore this reactivity in greater detail.