Aziridines rearrangements

The mixture 258 was converted to the unstable benzenesulfonyl aziridine 259 by treatment with an excess of benzenesulfonyl azide in benzene. Ace-tolysis of 259 with acetic acid and sodium acetate at room temperature for several days afforded the crystalline mixture of diastereoisomers represented by the formula 260. The aziridine rearrangement was regiospecific and 260 was the only product detected during this rearrangement. Lithium aluminium hydride reduction of 260 followed by acetylation yielded the mixture 261 in 85% yield. Selective hydrolysis of 261 afforded 262 in quantitative yield. The diastereoisomeric mixture 262 was converted into the diols 263 by hydrogenolysis. The diol mixture was oxidized with chromium trioxide... 

Further synthetic studies of diterpene alkaloids with the aziridine rearrangement as a key reaction have been reported and led to the synthesis of diterpene alkaloids chasmanine (234) and 13-deoxydelphonine (235). 

The reaction of the vinylcyclopropanedicarboxylate 301 with amines affords an allylic amine via the 7r-allylpalladium complex 302[50]. Similarly, three-membered ring A -tosyl-2-(l,3-butadienyl)aziridine (303) and the four-mem-bered ring azetidine 304 can be rearranged to the five- and six-membered ring unsaturated cyclic amines[183]. 

The rearrangement of fused triazole (493) produced a fused aziridine and a fused 4-isoxazoline (494) (75T831). 

Important synthetic paths to azirines and aziridines involve bond reorganization, or internal addition, of vinylnitrenes. Indeed, the vinylnitrene-azirine equilibrium has been demonstrated in the case of trans-2-methyl-3-phenyl-l-azirine, which at 110 °C racemizes 2000 times faster than it rearranges to 2-methylindole (80CC1252). Created in the Neber rearrangement or by decomposition of vinyl azides, the nitrene can cyclize to the p -carbon to give azirines (Scheme 4 Section 5.04.4.1). 

Addition of trichloromethide ion to azirine (210) generates aziridine (230). When this aziridine was treated with base, cyclization and rearrangement occurred and the azetidine (233) was isolated (73JA2982). 

Side chain modification has been carried out on several aziridines for example, various aziridine methanols have been prepared from 2-methoxycarbonylaziridines (70JOC3424). Aziridine methanols (296) react with thionyl chloride in the presence of base to give both rearranged (299) and unrearranged (298) chlorides (70JOC3428). The rearrangement product is thought to be formed via the azabicyclobutane intermediate (297). 

One of the more important approaches to 1-azirines involves a similar base-induced cycloelimination reaction of a suitably functionalized ketone derivative (route c. Scheme 1). This reaction is analogous to route (b) (Scheme 1) used for the synthesis of aziridines wherein displacement of the leaving group at nitrogen is initiated by a -carbanionic center. An example of this cycloelimination involves the Neber rearrangement of oxime tosylate esters (357 X = OTs) to 1-azirines and subsequently to a-aminoketones (358) (71AHC-(13)45). The reaction has been demonstrated to be configurationally indiscriminate both syn and anti ketoxime tosylate esters afforded the same product mixture of a-aminoketones... 

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Thermal rearrangement of 2-vinylaziridine 203, with an electron-withdrawing substituent on the nitrogen atom, at reflux in decalin predominantly yielded 2-pyr-roline 204 along with some 3-pyrroline derivatives 205 (Scheme 2.50) [79]. A similar reaction was also observed with l-alkyl-2-phenyl-3-vinylaziridines 206 [80]. From these observations, the nature of the products formed depends on the natures of the substituents on the aziridine ring if the ring carbon carries a phenyl substituent, the thermolysis in most cases preferentially yields 2-pyrrolines. 

Rearrangement with an Aryl Croup on the Aziridine Carbon... 

N-Acylaziridine-2-carboxylates readily rearrange to oxazolines under thennal, acidic, or nucleophilic conditions [91, 123-127]. Treatment of trans-aziridine-2-car-boxylate 176 (Scheme 3.63) with Nal in acetonitrile, for example, resulted in ring-expansion product 177 through the so-called Heine reaction. The reaction involves initial opening of the aziridine ring by iodide and subsequent oxazoline ring-closure by Sn2 displacement of the resultant iodide intermediate [127]. 

The (3-elimination of epoxides to allylic alcohols on treatment with strong base is a well studied reaction [la]. Metalated epoxides can also rearrange to allylic alcohols via (3-C-H insertion, but this is not a synthetically useful process since it is usually accompanied by competing a-C-H insertion, resulting in ketone enolates. In contrast, aziridine 277 gave allylic amine 279 on treatment with s-BuLi/(-)-spar-teine (Scheme 5.71) [97]. By analogy with what is known about reactions of epoxides with organolithiums, this presumably proceeds via the a-metalated aziridine 278 [101]. 

It should be noted that the sense of asymmetric induction in the lithiation/ rearrangement of aziridines 274, 276, and 279 by treatment with s-butyllithium/ (-)-sparteine is opposite to that observed for the corresponding epoxides (i.e. removal of the proton occurs at the (S)-stereocenter) [102], If one accepts the proposed model to explain the selective abstraction of the proton at the (R) -stereo-center of an epoxide (Figure 5.1), then, from the large difference in steric bulk (and Lewis basicity) between an oxygen atom and a tosyl-protected nitrogen atom, it is obvious that this model cannot be applied to the analogous aziridines. 

Note that the first example bears out the stereochemical prediction made earlier. Only the two isomers shown were formed. In the second example, migration can > continue around the ring. Migrations of this kind are called circumambulatory rearrangements. Such migrations are known for cyclopentadiene, pyrrole, and phosphole derivatives.[1,5] Hydrogen shifts are also known with vinyl aziridines." ... 

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