Aromatic oxazoles

The oxidation state of thiazolines and oxazolines can be adjusted by additional tailoring enzymes. For instance, oxidation domains (Ox) composed of approximately 250 amino acids utilize the cofactor FMN (flavin mononucleotide) to form aromatic oxazoles and thiazoles from oxazolines and thiazolines, respectively. Such domains are likely utilized in the biosynthesis of the disorazoles, " diazonimides, bleomycin, and epothiolone. The typical domain organization for a synthetase containing an oxidation domain is Cy-A-PCP-Ox however, in myxothiazol biosynthesis one oxidation domain is incorporated into an A domain. Alternatively, NRPSs can utilize NAD(P)H reductase domains to convert thiazolines and oxazolines into thiazolidines and oxazolidines, respectively. For instance, PchC is a reductase domain from the pyochelin biosynthetic pathway that acts in trans to reduce a thiazolyinyl-Y-PCP-bound intermediate to the corresponding thiazolidynyl-Y-PCP. ... 

A mild conversion of a simple class of substrates, the /V-propargy I carbox am ides, is possible with gold catalysts. With gold , the alkylidene oxazoles are formed with gold(III), the aromatic oxazoles are formed.31 The reactions readily proceed at room temperature, and there are numerous examples of this reaction (Scheme 12.15). 

Naturally occurring oxazoles are derived from enzymatic post-translational modifications of peptide-based precursors <1999NPR249>. The oxygen functionality on the side chain of A -acylated serines (R = H) and threonines (R = Me) 307 is capable of undergoing heterocyclization onto the preceding carbonyl group to create five-membered saturated heterocycles 308 (Scheme 86). Dehydration followed by two-electron oxidation results in aromatic oxazoles 309. 

Comparative studies have been undertaken between different heterocyclic series, especially the azoles, thiazoles. oxazoles. imidazoles, and selenazoles. In a large number of these studies, the heterocycles are condensed w ith aromatic nuclei. 

Many chemical compounds have been described in the Hterature as fluorescent, and since the 1950s intensive research has yielded many fluorescent compounds that provide a suitable whitening effect however, only a small number of these compounds have found practical uses. Collectively these materials are aromatic or heterocycHc compounds many of them contain condensed ring systems. An important feature of these compounds is the presence of an unintermpted chain of conjugated double bonds, the number of which is dependent on substituents as well as the planarity of the fluorescent part of the molecule. Almost all of these compounds ate derivatives of stilbene [588-59-0] or 4,4 -diaminostilbene biphenyl 5-membeted heterocycles such as triazoles, oxazoles, imidazoles, etc or 6-membeted heterocycles, eg, coumarins, naphthaUmide, t-triazine, etc. 

NMR data for 4-methyloxazole have been compared with those of 4-methylthiazole the data clearly show that the ring protons in each are shielded. In a comprehensive study of a range of oxazoles. Brown and Ghosh also reported NMR data but based a discussion of resonance stabilization on pK and UV spectral data (69JCS(B)270). The weak basicity of oxazole (pX a 0.8) relative to 1-methylimidazole (pK 7.44) and thiazole (pK 2.44) demonstrates that delocalization of the oxygen lone pair, which would have a base-strengthening effect on the nitrogen atom, is not extensive. It must be concluded that not only the experimental measurement but also the very definition of aromaticity in the azole series is as yet poorly quantified. Nevertheless, its importance in the interpretation of reactivity is enormous. 

The carbon atoms of azole rings can be attacked by nucleophilic (Section 4.02.1.6 electrophilic (Section 4.02.1.4) and free radical reagents (Section 4.02.1.8.2). Some system for example the thiazole, imidazole and pyrazole nuclei, show a high degree of aromati character and usually revert to type if the aromatic sextet is involved in a reaction. Othei such as the isoxazole and oxazole nuclei are less aromatic, and hence more prone to additio reactions. 

The distinction between these two classes of reactions is semantic for the five-membered rings Diels-Alder reaction at the F/B positions in (269) (four atom fragment) is equivalent to 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition in (270) across the three-atom fragment, both providing the 47t-electron component of the cycloaddition. Oxazoles and isoxazoles and their polyaza analogues show reduced aromatic character and will undergo many cycloadditions, whereas fully nitrogenous azoles such as pyrazoles and imidazoles do not, except in certain isolated cases. 

The 4- and 5-hydroxy-imidazoles, -oxazoles and -thiazoles (499, 501) and 4-hydroxy-pyrazoles, -isoxazoles and -isothiazoles (503) cannot tautomerize to an aromatic carbonyl form. However, tautomerism similar to that which occurs in hydroxy-furans, -thiophenes and -pyrroles is possible (499 500 503 504 501 502), as well as a zwitterionic... 

A Hiickel model used for calculating aromaticity indicated that the isoxazole nucleus is considerably less aromatic than other five-membered heterocycles, including oxazole and furan. SCF calculations predicted that isoxazole is similar to oxazole. Experimental findings are somewhat difficult to correlate with calculations (79AHC(25)147). PRDDO calculations were compared with ab initio values and good agreement for the MO values was reported... 

The Fisher oxazole synthesis involves condensation of equimolar amounts of aldehyde cyanohydrins (1) and aromatic aldehydes in dry ether in the presence of dry hydrochloric acid. ... 

In 1896, Emil Fisher found that 2,5-diphenyloxazole hydrochloride was precipitated by passing gaseous hydrogen chloride into an absolute ether solution of benzaldehyde and benzaldehyde cyanohydrin. The oxazole hydrochloride can be converted to the free base by addition of water or by boiling with alcohol. Many different aromatic aldehydes and cyanohydrin combinations have been converted to 2,5-diaryloxazoles 4 by this procedure in 80% yield. ... 

Concerning the mechanism of this reaction, calculations suggest that, in the presence of aromatic substituents on the oxazole ring, the ICI mechanism might be favored (83JA1753). 

Oxazole is a five-membered aromatic heterocycle. Would you expect oxazoie to be more basic or less basic than pyrrole Explain. 

The diazotization of heteroaromatic amines is basically analogous to that of aromatic amines. Among the five-membered systems the amino-azoles (pyrroles, diazoles, triazoles, tetrazoles, oxazoles, isooxazoles, thia-, selena-, and dithiazoles) have all been diazotized. In general, diazotization in dilute mineral acid is possible, but diazotization in concentrated sulfuric acid (nitrosylsulfuric acid, see Sec. 2.2) or in organic solvents using an ester of nitrous acid (ethyl or isopentyl nitrite) is often preferable. Amino derivatives of aromatic heterocycles without ring nitrogen (furan and thiophene) can also be diazotized. 

Pyridino-oxazoles 198 were obtained in an analogous way starting from o-bromoaminopyridine 196, which was first acylated and then cyclized imder microwave irradiation at 165 °C in DMA via an aromatic nucleophilic substitution (Scheme 71) [126]. 

Much of the early work into the rhodium(II)-catalysed formation of oxazoles from diazocarbonyl compounds was pioneered by the group of Helquist. They first reported, in 1986, the rhodium(II) acetate catalysed reaction of dimethyl diazomalonate with nitriles.<86TL5559, 93T5445, 960S(74)229> A range of nitriles was screened, including aromatic, alkyl and vinyl derivatives with unsaturated nitriles, cyclopropanation was found to be a competing reaction (Table 3). 

To date most of the nitriles studied have been simple alkyl or aromatic derivatives with little other functionality. We recently attempted to extend the reaction to iV-protected a-aminonitriles, derived by dehydration of a-aminoacid amides (Path A, Scheme 25), but this proved unsatisfactory, and therefore we investigated an alternative diazocarbonyl based route in which the order of steps was reversed, i.e. a rhodium catalysed N-H insertion reaction on the amide followed by cyclodehydration to the oxazole (Path B, Scheme 25). 

Oxazoles and benzoxazoles are viable participants in the heteroaryl Heck reactions. In their monumental work published in 1992, Ohta and colleagues demonstrated that oxazoles and benzoxazoles, along with other rc-sufficient aromatic heterocycles such as furans, benzofurans, thiophenes, benzothiophenes, pyrroles, thiazole and imidazoles, are acceptable recipient partners for the heteroaryl Heck reactions of chloropyrazines [22b]. Therefore, treatment of 2-chloro-3,6-diethylpyrazine (27) with oxazole led to regioselective addition at C(5), giving rise to adduct 28. By contrast, a similar reaction between 2-chloro-3,6-diisobutylpyrazine (29) and benz[fc]oxazole took place at C(2) exclusively to afford pyrazinylbezoxazole 30. 

Aromatic pyrrolo[2,l- ]oxazoles are unknown compounds. Dihydro derivatives 228 and 229 have been obtained from the thermal rearrangement of dihydrooxazole 226 through intermediate 227 (Scheme 32) <2003EJ01438>. 

Aromatic pyrrolo[l,2-r(]oxazoles cannot be drawn, and the only structure that one can find in the literature is the l //,3/7-derivativcs. The derivatives 377,5/7 and 3 //.7// are unknown. All compounds described are dihydro and mainly oxo perhydro derivatives. 

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