Dipolarophiles nitrosobenzene

Nitroso compounds are seldom used as dipolarophiles for trapping reactions with thiocarbonyl ylides. However, Sheradsky and Itzhak (175) did report one example where nitrosobenzene reacts with a thioisomiinchnone to give 134 as the major product. 

Carbonyl compounds and other dipolarophiles containing heteroatoms react with miinch-nones. Thus benzaldehyde forms the betaine (245) which suffers ring-cleavage to yield the enamine (246 equation 65). Thiocarbonyl compounds and nitrosobenzene behave in an analogous manner. The action of dipolarophiles containing cumulative double bonds results in the formation of new mesoionic systems. Thus carbon disulfide and phenyl isothiocyanate afford a zwitterionic thiazole and imidazole, respectively (Scheme 25). 

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