Benzodiazepine, triazolo-fused

Reactions of 4,5-disubstituted triazoles with appropriate substrates provide very useful methods for building triazolo fused bicyclic or tricyclic systems. 5-Azido-1,2,3-triazoles bearing an appropriate substituent (e.g., CHO, CN, CO2R) at the 4-position can be transformed with active methylene nitriles into tricyclic heterocycles (e.g., (368)) <86BSB679,87BSB587). A new tricyclic system, 5//-1,2,3-triazolo[5,l-c][l,4]benzodiazepine (e.g., (370) and (371)), is prepared by the intramolecular ring closure of triazoles (369) <89JHC1605). 

In an exploration of multi-component reactions for the synthesis of a diverse array of heterocyclic scaffolds Martin et al. demonstrated a cascade reaction involving the imine, formed from the condensation of 2-azidobenzaldehyde 97 with propargylamine, acetyl chloride and ketene acetal 98 to furnish the triazolo-fused benzodiazepine 99 via an intramolecular [3+2] cycloaddition <07OL4223>. 

New synthetic methods for benzodiazepine synthesis involving Ugi-type multicomponent/post-Ugi cyclization reactions continue to be of interest. Ugi reactions of indole-2-carboxaldehydes, isocyanides, amines, and 2-iodobenzoic acid derivatives led to intermediates which, with copper(I) catalysis, underwent intramolecular indole N-arylation to produce indolo-fused benzodiazepinones, such as 134 (13CC2894). 2-Azido-benzaldehyde, isocyanides, propargylamines, and nitrophenols underwent Ugi-type reaction, Smiles-type rearrangement, and intramolecular azide-alkyne cyclization to afford triazolo-fused benzodiazepinones such as 135... 

In contrast to the relatively limited number of non-fused 1,2,4-triazole syntheses that were reported in 1996, the preparation of several ting-fused 1,2,4-triazole-containing structures were published. For example, the frrst practical synthesis of fused[a]triazolo[l,4]benzodiazepine-5,11-diones 16 via the hydrazone IS was reported (Y = H, Cl, Me R = H, Me, Ph X = O, S) <96JHC275>. Oxidative cyclization of N-heteroarylamidines allowed the preparation of... 

The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azidoalkylphosphonates to enamines afforded A2-1,2,3-triazoles which are further converted to the 1,2,3-triazoles [95H(40)543] fused triazoles are similarly obtained when a cyclic enamine was employed. Fused 1,2,3-triazole (88), a xanthine oxidase inhibitor, was prepared by the reaction of an alkyl azide with cyanoacetamide with further elaboration of intermediate (87) by treatment with HMDS in xylene [95FES257]. The fused 4H-l,2,3-triazolo[l,5- ][l,4]benzodiazepin-6(5H)-one (90) was obtained from propargylamide (89) via an intermediate azide [95S647]. 

Diastereoselective intramolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions were deftly exploited in the synthesis of a number of enantiopure pyrazolo-pyrrolo- and triazolo-pyrrolo-fused 1,4-benzodiazepine systems <05S2246>. 

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