Aromatic amidoximes

C. Nucleophilic Attack on Other Atoms.—Amidoximes have been shown to react with tris(dimethylamino)phosphine by displacing dimethylamine to give the phosphine oxides (52), but some N-substituted aromatic amidoximes give derivatives of (53). ... 

Andronik-Lion, V., Boucher, J. L., Delaforge, M., Henry, Y., Mansuy, D., Formation of nitric oxide by cytochrome P450-catalyzed oxidation of aromatic amidoximes, Biochem. 

Sheradsky has found that the hydroxyl function of a ketoxime such as acetophenone oxime can be made to react with DMAD when the reaction is carried out in methanol with a basic catalyst, to give mixture of the fumarate and maleate isomers (164) in the ratio 2 1. This mixture on heating undergoes a hetero-Cope rearrangement followed by cyclization and dehydration to give dimethyl 5-phenylpyrrole-2,3-dicarboxylate (168) (Scheme 25). Similarly, Heindel and Chun have reported that vinyl ether adducts (171), obtained by the condensation of arylamide oximes with DMAD, get thermally converted into oxa-diazolines (172) or imidazolinones (174), depending on the reaction conditions. A similar reaction occurs with aromatic amidoxime-methyl propiolate adducts to give imidazoles (170) (Scheme 26). 1,2,4-Dioxazoles have been reported to be formed in the reaction of hydrox-amic acids with DMAD. - ... 

In contrast, the oxidation of oxadiazolines (method S) can be used to synthesize oxadiazoles from aromatic amidoximes and aliphatic aldehydes. 

Highest yields are obtained when the reaction is carried out in boiling toluene until all water and ethanol are eliminated by azeotropic distillation. Other /S-ketocarboxylic esters such as ethyl benzoyl acetate, o-methoxybenzoyl acetate and ethyl acetonedicarboxylate react similarly with aromatic amidoximes (50). 

Disubstituted oxadiazolinones have been prepared from N-sub-stituted aromatic amidoximes and phosgene or ethyl chlbroformate... 

The reaction of the stable and readily available N-protected (a-aminoacyl)benzotriazoles 215 (Equation 36) with amidoximes 206 in ethanol gave the N-protected 5-amino-substituted 1,2,4-oxadiazoles 216 in high yield, under mild conditions and with good (>97%) retention of chirality <2005ARK36>. The method is also applicable to aromatic (V-acylbenzotriazoles, giving access to 5-aryl-l,2,4-oxadiazoles in 73-82% yield. 

Related (diisopropoxyphosphoryl)- and (diisobutoxyphosphoryl)formonitrile oxides (114), generated in basic media from the corresponding oximes react in situ with alcohols, phenols, alkanethiols, thiophenols, aliphatic and aromatic primary amines, hydrazines and hydrazides as well as 4-aminoantipyryne to give hydroxymates, thiohydroxymates, and amidoximes, respectively. It is important to note that the addition is stereoselective and gives E-adducts with the exception of (i-Pr0)2P(0)C( N0H)0Me, which is formed as a 1 1 mixture of E and Z isomers. 

Interesting examples of the addition of N-nucleophiles to nitrile oxides are syntheses of chelated Z-amidoxime, N-[2-(dimethylaminomethyl)phenyl]mesitylene-carboamidoxime (118), and pyranosyl amidoximes (119) from the respective nitrile oxides and amines. Aromatic aldoximes undergo unusual reactions with chloramine-T (4 equiv, in refluxing MeOH). N-(p-toly 1 )-N-(p-tosy 1 )benzamides are formed via addition of 2 equiv of chloramine-T to the intermediate nitrile oxide followed by elimination of sulfur dioxide (120). 

Aromatic oxadiazoles have been isolated from the reaction mixture resulting from the oxidation of some oxidized nitrogen compounds such as aromatic aldoximes and amidoximes. 

The reaction of amides35 with amidoxime salts is especially felicitous because no solvent is needed and recovery is simple. The two components are melted together at 160-180° for 10 minutes, and water is lost at the elevated temperature. Both aliphatic and aromatic (di- and monosubstituted) amidoximes give yields in the range 60-90%. Whether an O-acyl (or an TV-acyl) intermediate (4) is formed has not been determined. 

Regioselective functionalization of the N-3 of 125 with 1,2,4-oxadiazole as amide isostere using an IL-bound 125 with chloroacetonitrile afforded N-3 substituted 126 (Scheme 48). The nitrile group of 126 was transformed into amidoxime 127 with hydroxylamine hydrochloride. Addition of aliphatic carboxylic anhydrides or aromatic carboxylic acid to 127 furnished 129 via the 0-acylamidoxime intermediate 128, after cleavage from the IL (07TL1063) (Scheme 48). 

Oxadiazoles and 1,2,4-oxadiazoles are heterocyclic aromatic compounds that appear in many bioactive molecules. Previous methods for the synthesis of 1,2,4-oxadiazoles include the coupling of amidoximes with carboxylic acid derivatives, aerobic C—H oxygenation of amidoximes, or a cyclization of nitrile oxides to nitriles. Telvekar and Takale developed the preparation of 1,2,4-oxadiazoles from substituted diketone derivatives through a Beckmann rearrangement process tScheme S.3S1. When treated with diphosphorus tetraiodide in dichloromethane at room temperature, dioximes 150 formed the Beckmann products, 1,2,4-oxadiazoles 151, in excellent yields. 

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