Four-membered heterocycles with one

The fusion of four membered-heterocycles with two heteroatoms onto face a of the quinoline offers two isomeric combinations of the tricyclic ring system l,2-heterocyclo[2,3-a]quinoline and l,3-heterocyclo[3,2-a]quinoline. The later one of these two ring systems is the only one that examples of it namely, l,3-thiazeto[3,2-a]quinoline have been reported. Moreover, examples of those fused on faces ij or j are not known (Fig. 3). 

One of the very few examples of a four-membered heterocycle with sulfur atoms substituted 1,2 was reported by Dupont workers (60JA1515,61JA3434). Its synthesis involves the high temperature reaction of fluorinated alkynes and elemental sulfur, probably via a diradical intermediate (Scheme 102). The chemistry of these 1,2-dithietenes has been reviewed (76RCR639). As discussed later, these dithietenes form complexes with a number of transition metals. 

The chemistry of cyclopentafurazans (cyclopen-ta-1,2,5-oxadiazoles) and furazans fused to five-membered heterocycles with one to four heteroatoms has been reviewed (95JHC371). Treatment of 3-amino-4-nitro-l,2,5-oxadiazole with dinitrogen pentoxide yields dinitro-1,2,5-oxadiazole 89 (95MC102). The latter reacts normally with benzenethiol to give the sulfide 90,... 

The acid-catalyzed Peterson olefination is presumably an E2-elimination, that is, a one-step reaction. On the other hand, the base-induced Peterson olefination probably takes place via an intermediate. In all probability, this intermediate is a four-membered heterocycle with a pentavalent, negatively charged Si atom. This heterocycle probably decomposes by a [2+2]-cycloreversion just like the oxaphosphetane intermediate of the Wittig reaction (Section 4.7.3). 

Section 3.1 is a brief overview Section 3.2 deals with six-membered heterocycles, including those with more than one heteroatom in the ring Section 3.3 deals with five-membered heterocycles with one heteroatom Section 3.4 deals with five-membered heterocycles with more than one heteroatom in the ring Section 3.5 covers small (three- and four-membered) and large (>six) ring heterocycles. 

With this large group of heterocycles, ring strain is of little or no importance. Ring-opening reactions are, therefore, rarer than in three- and four-membered heterocycles. The crucial consideration is rather whether a compound can be regarded as a heteroarene or whether it has to be classified as a heterocycloalkane or heterocycloalkene (see p 2). Various aromaticity criteria apply to heteroarenes, and as a consequence, different opinions have been expressed on this matter [1]. As will be shown by means of examples of the various systems, the nature and number of heteroatoms are the critical factors. The parent compound of the five-membered heterocycles with one oxygen atom is furan. 

The importance of five-membered heterocycles with one heteroatom, of the benzo and dibenzo condensed systems and of the partially or completely reduced compounds as natural products, pharmaceuticals, and starting materials or auxiliaries for syntheses is much greater than for three- or four-membered heterocycles, apart from oxirane. 

Other work on four-membered heterocycles containing one sulphur atom includes a study of the vacuum-u.v. photodecomposition of thietan 1,1-dioxide and the formation of a thietanone from a xanthate and diphenylketen, and reports of several thiets. There is evidence that photolysis of (107) in a matrix at 77 K leads to the o-thiobenzoquinone (108), which is interconvertible with the... 

Pyrrole is an aromatic five-membered heterocycle, with one nitrogen atom and two double bonds (Figure 16-12). Although it may seem that pyrrole has only four pi elec-trons, the nitrogen atom has a lone pair of electrons. The pyrrole nitrogen atom is sp ... 

Four-membered heterocycles are easily formed via [2-I-2] cycloaddition reac tions [65] These cycloaddmon reactions normally represent multistep processes with dipolar or biradical intermediates The fact that heterocumulenes, like isocyanates, react with electron-deficient C=X systems is well-known [116] Via this route, (1 lactones are formed on addition of ketene derivatives to hexafluoroacetone [117, 118] The presence of a trifluoromethyl group adjacent to the C=N bond in quinoxalines, 1,4-benzoxazin-2-ones, l,2,4-triazm-5-ones, and l,2,4-tnazin-3,5-diones accelerates [2-I-2] photocycloaddition processes with ketenes and allenes [106] to yield the corresponding azetidine derivatives Starting from olefins, fluonnaied oxetanes are formed thermally and photochemically [119, 120] The reaction of 5//-l,2-azaphospholes with fluonnated ketones leads to [2-i-2j cycloadducts [121] (equation 27)... 

Vacuum thermolysis (160°C) of the hemiaminal 11 generates the azaphos-phetane 65 in 85% yield.32 This product clearly results from the intramolecular insertion of the transient (amino) (phosphino)carbene 2h into the C-H bond of a diisopropylamino group bonded to phosphorus. Note that the four-membered heterocycle 65 is formed exclusively in spite of the ratio of six methyl-CH bonds to one methine-CH bond, and that only one of the two possible diastereomers is detected. The same regio- and diastereo-selectivity have already been observed with the di(phosphino)carbene 2g,74 but is in marked contrast to the exclusive formation of five-membered rings... 

The present review is concerned with four-membered heterocycles that contain one sulfur atom either alone or associated with another heteroatom. The classes of compounds that will be discussed are the thietanes (1) and thietes (2), the 1,2-oxathietanes (3), the / -sultines and -sultones (4 and 5), the 1,2- and 1,3-thiazetidines (6 and 7) and thiazetes (8), the 1,2- and 1,3-thia-phosphetanes (9 and 10), and the 1,3-silathietanes and 1,3-selenathietanes (11 and 12). 

The straightforward formation of five-membered heterocycles with three or four heteroatoms and at least one group III or IV metal is unknown. 

When a four-membered heterocycle is cis-fused on the side of another ring, as with syn-44, which we met in chapter 12, cyclisation of the syn-monotosylate 42 in base is very efficient as the, usually unfavourable, conformation 10 is now the only possible one and the nucleophile and electrophile are perfectly arranged 43 for cyclisation. This observation took on a new importance when the anti-cancer compound taxol was discovered as it also has a cis -fused oxetane.6... 

Diazetine. A four-membered ring with two adjacent nitrogen atoms and one double bond in the ring is called 1,2-diazetine 4 or, less commonly, 1,2-diazene. According to IUPAC nomenclature, 1,2-diazetine is named as A -l,2-diazetine or 3//.4//-diazctinc. Similarly, 1,3-diazetine is named as A2-l,3- diazetine or 1 //,4//-diazctine 5. When two nitrogen atoms are in 1 and 3 positions, the heterocycle is referred to as 1,3-diazetine 5 or commonly as uretine. The compound 6 is called a A3-l,2- diazetine or l//,4//-diazetine and compound 7 is called A2-l,2- diazetine or H,4H-diazetine. 

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