Diazides synthesis

Quino[3,2-c][l,8]naphthyridine — see 4,5,12-Triazabenz[a]anthracenes Quinone, a-tocopheryl-synthesis, 3, 734 o-Quinone allides synthesis, 3, 741 o-Quinone diazides reactions... 

In the 1980 s three monographs were published that cover parts of the present book, namely Quinone Diazides, by Ershov, Nikiforov, and de Jonge (1981), Aromatic Diazo Compounds, by Saunders and Allen (1985), and Williams Nitrosa-tion (1988). The book of Saunders and Allen which is actually the third edition of Saunders original book (1936, 1949), focuses on synthesis and preparative methods. The other two books emphasize rather the mechanistic and physical organic aspects of their subjects. 

The general applicability of this type of synthesis of quinone diazides is nevertheless limited since, depending on the type and number of substituents in the 2-, 4-, and 6-positions of benzenediazonium ions, either hydroxy-de-diazoniation (reaction A in Scheme 2-20) or nucleophilic substitution of one of the groups in the 2-, 4-, or 6-position (reaction B) will predominate. It is difficult to predict the ratio of the two reactions in a specific case. This is exemplified by two investigations carried... 

Bis(diazo)-l,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetraone (4.5) may be regarded as a derivative of a double 1,2-quinone diazide. Its X-ray analysis was reported by Ansell (1969). The synthesis, properties, and structure of this interesting compound will be discussed in the forthcoming book on aliphatic diazo compounds (Zollinger, 1995, Secs. 2.3 and 5.2). 

Photo-de-diazoniation has found relatively little application in organic synthesis, as is clearly evident from the annual Specialist Periodical Reports on Photochemistry published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Since the beginning of these reports (1970) they have contained a section on the elimination of nitrogen from diazo compounds, written since 1973 by Reid (1990). In the 1980s (including 1990), at least 90% of each report is concerned with dediazoniations of diazoalkanes and non-quinon-oid diazo ketones, the rest being mainly related to quinone diazides and only occasionally to arenediazonium salts. 

The reaction of carbenes 1, generated either thermally or photochemically from the corresponding quinone diazides 2, with pyridine results in the formation of the deeply colored betaines which can be isolated in substance from the reaction mixture.73,62 This alternative synthesis of the betaines opens a general route to pyridine ylides unsubstituted at the pyridine ring. 

The procedure has been extended to the synthesis of 7V,7V -substituted diamines 166 from the diazides 164 and dichloroboranes 165177. Primary amines protected by the t-butoxycarbonyl group are obtained by the action of trialkylboranes R3B (R = Bu, s-Bu, CsHn or cyclohexyl) on the lithium or potassium salt of t-butyl 7V-(tosyloxy)carbamate (equation 62)178. 

Boyer and Gunasekaren reported the synthesis of the furazan-based heterocycle NOTO (44), which contains 50 % by mass of nitrogen and is a liquid at room temperature. The flve-step synthesis of NOTO (44) starts from the diazotization of 4,4 -diamino-3,3 -azoxyfurazan (DAAF) (27), followed by reaction with sodium azide to form the diazide (42). Heating the diazide (42) as a solution in acetonitrile induces cyclization to the triazole (43) and this is followed by reduction and oxidation of the remaining azide group to complete the synthesis of NOTO (44). 

The dediazoniation reaction is mainly dependent on the temperature, especially in the case of 4-aminophenol at low temperature 4-hydroxybenzenediazonium fluoride loses hydrogen fluoride to deliver a stable quinone-diazide which gives fluorophenol at 140°C only.93 The mechanisms involved in the synthesis of 4-fluorophenol are summarized in Scheme 5.93... 

The light-induced reaction of o-quinone diazides finds occasional use in the synthesis of a large number of compounds which are used in photography.273,277 Photolysis of diazoindauoues (CCVIII and CCX) provides a new synthetic route to cyclobutene carboxylic acid derivatives CCIX and CCXI, respectively.117 A good demonstration that ketenes are actually involved in the photodecomposition of o-quinone... 

The stereoselective synthesis of (+)-polyoxin J is accomplished by Gosh in 24 steps and 3 % overall yield. The key intermediates are protected thymine polyoxin C 8 and the 5-Ocarbamoyl polyoxamic acid 2, which were synthesized from D-ribose and dimethyl L-tartrate. Key steps are two different epoxidation reactions, one carried out with MCPBA and the other under Sharpless conditions with the D-(-)-tartrate. Both epoxides are opened with diisopropoxytitanium diazide. The coupling of the two fragments was realized with the BOP reagent 37. This synthesis provides an easy access to the synthesis of various (+)-polyoxin J analogs for biological evaluation. 

Table 30 Synthesis of tetrazoles from ketones and SiCI4-NaN3 via geminal diazide 520 <1995TL7337>...

Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry (PHC) Volume 8 reviews critically the heterocyclic literature published mainly in 1995. The first two chapters are review articles. Chapter 1 by T. Kappe deals with Geminal Diazides of Heterocycles, and Chapter 2 by M. Sibi and J. Ji provides extensive coverage of the important emerging area of Radical Methods in the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds. The unusual length of the latter contribution attests to the rising power of this methodology in heterocycle construction. 

The synthesis of fluorinated diisocyanates are described in references [3, 73], Perfluorotrimethylene diisocyanate was prepared by the Curtius degradation of perfluoroglutaryl diazide ... 

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