PREPARATION AND ELECTROPHILIC TRAPPING OF 7-LITHIATED BENZOXAZOLES GENERATED VIA BENZYNE CYCLIZATION
PREPARATION AND ELECTROPHILIC TRAPPING OF 7-LITHIATED BENZOXAZOLES GENERATED VIA BENZYNE CYCLIZATION
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DOI:
10.1021/jo00135a031
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
CAROON, JM
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作者:
CLARK, RD;CAROON, JM
Treatment of IV-pivaloyl-m-fluoroaniline (1) with excess n-butyllithium (2.5 equiv) in tetrahydrofuran-hexane so-lution at-20 C smoothly generated the lithio species 4 (Scheme I). Addition of a variety of electrophiles gave the 7-substituted 2-tert-butylbenzoxazoles 7-10. The powerful activating effect of the m-fluoro group on the ortho lithiation6 is an important feature of the facile benzyne formation. Under the same reaction conditions, the corresponding IV-pivaloyl-m-bromoaniline was con-verted to 4 at a much slower rate, and even after 12 h at room temperature starting material was not completely consumed. 7 Thus, the IV-pivaloyl-m-bromoaniline ap-parently required approximately the same conditions for ortho lithiation as did the parentIV-pivaloylaniline. 8 Conversion of IV-(ferf-butoxycarbonyl)-m-fluoroaniline (2) to the 7-lithiated benzoxazole 5 required either 2.5 equiv of tert-butyllithium or sequential treatment with 1 equiv of n-butyllithium and 1.5 equiv oftert-butyllithium at low temperature. Excess n-butyllithium does not effect this transformation. This is in accord with the report that ortho lithiation of the parent IV-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)-aniline can be achieved only with tert-butyllithium. 9 Addition of electrophiles to 5 gave adducts which were hydrolyzed upon mild acidic workup to afford the 7-sub-stituted 2-benzoxazolinones 11-14. Since 2-benzoxazolinones can be converted to aminophenols, this synthesis gives access to 6-substituted 2-aminophenols. This (6) Wakefield, BJ “The Chemistry of Organolithium Compounds”; Pergamon Press: Oxford, 1974; p 39.(7) The formation of 4 and the disappearance of the N-pivaloyl-mbromoaniline were monitored by TLC analysis. After 12 h a considerable amount of starting material remained, and the formation of several by-products was noted (possibly derived from transmetalation processes). The rate-limiting step in the conversion of the bromo compound to 4 is most likely the ortholithiation rather than elimination of LiBr although this has not been rigorously demonstrated.(8) Führer, W.; Gschwend, H. W. J. Org. Chem. 1979, 44, 1133. Gschwend, HW; Rodriguez, H. R. Org. React. 1979, 26, 45.(9) Muchowski, J. M.; Venuti, M. C. J. Org. Chem. 1980, 45, 4798.