Bicyclic oxazolines, synthesis

Bromoamidation of cyclic olefins allowed the synthesis of bicyclic oxazolines. For instance, treatment of cyclohexene with A-bromoacctamidc as the halogen source and different nitriles at 0 °C, in the presence of SnCU or BF3 Et20 and water, led to oxazolines 128 through intermediate traw.v-bromoamides 127. The scope of the bromoamidation appears quite broad with regard to olefinic and nitrile components <06JA9644>. 

The DFT study of the 3 + 2-cycloaddition between ketene and TV-silyl-, IV-germyl-, and TV-stannyl-imines shows that the TV-germylimine reaction is a two-step process the TV-stannylimine reaction is a competition between two- and three-step processes whereas the TV-silyl process follows a three-step process44 A new and convenient synthesis of functionalized furans and benzofurans based on 3 + 2-cycloaddition/oxidation has been reported. The cyclization of cyclic 1,3-bis-silyl enol ethers (48) with l-chloro-2,2-dimethoxyethane (49), via a dianion, produced 5,6-bicyclic 2-alkylidenetetrahydrofurans (50), which are readily oxidized with DDQ to 2,3-unsubstituted benzofurans (51) (Scheme 13)45 The Evans bis(oxazoline)-Cu(II) complex catalyses the asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of a -hydroxyenones with nitrones to produce isoxazolidines.46 The... 

In a study of the synthesis of marine 2-aminoimidazole alkaloids, the aminal C-N bond of bicyclic 898 was cleaved regioselectively to form the allylic amine 899. Deuterium exchange results in H-1, H-2, and H-5, but not H-7 exchange, although the C(6)-C(7) double bond underwent isomerization 901. This is atributed to the assistance of the carbamoyl group that formed the oxazoline 900. Hydrolysis of the carbamate group of 899 under basic conditions affords either pyrrole 902 or pyridine 903 (Scheme 218) <2004OL3933>. 

These reactions are not limited to the simple oxazine and oxazolines described above. They are readily prepared from aldehydes and amino alcohols. Meyers used this methodology to prepare chiral precursors for use in asymmetric synthesis. When keto-acid 299 was treated with valinol (300), chiral bicyclic lactam 301 was... 

Particularly significant contributions have been made by Padwa and Schmid in the photochemical generation of benzonitrile methylides from 2//-azirines. For example (Scheme 21), photolysis of (67) in the presence of carbon dioxide as dipolarophile leads to 4-phenyl-3-oxazolin-5-ones (68), whereas the intramolecular dipolar cycloaddition reaction of (69) can afford a useful synthesis of the bicyclic product (70). ... 

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