Furoxan

Phototransformation of pyridazine 1,2-dioxides sharply contrasts with that of pyridazine 1-oxides. Pyridazine 1,2-dioxide derivatives give 3a,6a-dihydroisoxazolo[5,4- f]isoxazoles (53) through postulated bisiminoxyl radicals. 3,6-Diphenylpyridazine 1,2-dioxide gives, besides the corresponding bicyclic derivative (53), 3-phenylisoxazole (54) and 4,5-diphenyl-furoxan (55). The last two products can be explained by generation of the nitrile oxide from the intermediate (53) with subsequent dimerization to the furoxan (55 Scheme 18) (79T1267). 

The position of metalation of 4-substituted 3,5-dimethylisoxazole was determined to occur solely at the C-5 methyl group by examination of the products (760MR226). The C NMR for C-3 in 1,2-benzisoxazole IV-oxide occurred at 118p.p.m. (80CC421) the equivalent C signal in furoxans occurred at 114p.p.m. (760MR158). 

Extensive mass spectral and electron impact studies have been reported for 3-hydroxy-1,2-benzisoxazole and its ethers. Similar work was also carried out with the isomeric A-alkyl-l,2-benzisoxazol-3-one (71DIS(B)4483). 1,2-Benzisoxazole A-oxide showed a mass spectral pattern than more closely resembled furoxans. The loss of NO predominated over the loss of O (Aft intense, [M— weak, [Af-30]" strong). 

The rate of dimerization of nitrile A-oxides is strongly influenced by the nature of R. When R = Cl, Br, CO2 alkyl or COR, the nitrile A-oxide cannot be isolated nor obtained in solution for any appreciable time. Table 11 gives the approximate time required for complete dimerization of some nitrile A-oxides (335) to furoxans (336) in benzene solution at 18 °C (70E1169). Evidently, steric and electronic effects dramatically increase the stability... 

Table 11 Stability of Some Nitrile Af-Oxides, R—C=N—O, towards Dimerization to Furoxans <70EU69)...

Heterocycles which provide the NOC or CNO component synthon Isoxazoles can be prepared by the thermal or photolytic cleavage of a number of heterocycles, such as 1,3,5-dioxazolidone, furazans, furoxans and 1,3,2,4-dioxathiazole 2-oxides, in the presence of a reactive alkene or alkyne. 

Nitrile oxides react with a wide variety of alkenic compounds and this reaction may be complicated by dimerization of the nitrile oxide to furoxan in the presence of unreactive double bonds (Scheme 98). 

Acetonitrile oxide was generated from 3,4-dimethylfuroxan oxide by flash vacuum pyrolysis and trapped at -40 °C where its and NMR spectra were examined. Warming to room temperature in the presence of propane produced 3,5-dimethyl-2-isoxazoline (Scheme 108) (79TL2443). The oxide could also be generated by photolysis of furoxan (68CC977). 

Alkylnitro compounds when treated with acetic anhydride and triethylamine produced furoxans. With an alkene present, 2-isoxazolines are isolated (Scheme 120) (78MI41610). 

Furoxan, 3,4-dimethyl- O NMR, 6, 398 <61HCA865> l-(2-Furyl)ethyl acetate kinetic data, 4, 952 <77AHC(21)119)... 

C NMR, 6, 398 molecular dimensions, 6, 397 tautomerism, 6, 404 Furoxan-3-carbohydra2ide intramolecular hydrogen bonding, 6, 396 Furoxan-3-carboxamide intramolecular hydrogen bonding, 6, 396 Furoxancarboxylic acids reactions, 6, 413 with nucleophiles, 6, 406 Furoxan-3,4-dicarbaldoxime synthesis, 6, 409 Furoxanoaaines fused... 

Furoxans, aroylamino-synthesis, 6, 414 Furoxans, aryl-reactions, 6, 412 Furoxans, arylamino-synthesis, 6, 414 Furoxans, arylaminobutyl-synthesis, 6, 423... 

Furoxans, bis[(acetoxyalkyl)carbonyl]-synthesis, 6, 421 Furoxans, bisarylsulfonyl-synthesis, 6, 423 Furoxans, bis(dialkylamino)-synthesis, 6, 414 Furoxans, butylhexynyl-synthesis, 6, 423 Furoxans, decamethylenering cleavage, 6, 405 Furoxans, diacyl-thermolysis, 6, 81 synthesis, 6, 442 Furoxans, diadamant-1-yl-ring cleavage, 6, 404 Furoxans, dialkoxycarbonyl-synthesis, 6, 423 Furoxans, dialkyl-synthesis, 6, 423 Furoxans, diaryl-ozonolysis, 6, 405 Furoxans, diaroyl-isoxazoles from, 6, 82 Furoxans, dibenzoyl-synthesis, 6, 423 Furoxans, diethoxycarbonyl-synthesis, 6, 423... 

Furoxans, diethyl-synthesis, 6, 423 Furoxans, dihalo-synthesis, 6, 423 Furoxans, dimethyl-NMR, 6, 397 O NMR, 6, 398 Furoxans, diphenylring cleavage, 6, 404 synthesis, 6, 423 Furoxans, hydroxy-reactions, 6, 414 Furoxans, mercapto-reaotions, 6, 414 Furoxans, nitro-as explosives, 6, 426 reactions, 6, 413-414 reduction, 6, 423 Furoxans, phenyl-reactions... 

Naphtho[l, 2-c]furazans electrophilic reactions, 6, 410 synthesis, 6, 418 Naphtho[l, 2-c]furoxans eleetrophilic reactions, 6, 410 3-Naphthoic acid, 2-hydroxy-l-(2-thiazolylazo)-analytical uses, 6, 328 Naphtho[ 1,2-h]imidazoles oxidation, 5, 405... 

Dehydrochlonnation of cnfluoroacetohydroxamyl chlonde yields tnfluoro-acetorutnle oxide that dimenzes depending on the dehydrochlormatmg agents either to bis(trifluoromethyl)-l,l,2,5-dioxadiazine or to 3,4 bis(tn-fluoromethyl)furoxan [7] (equation 8)... 

The benzofuroxtin [benzofurazan oxide, 3,4-benzo-l,2,6-oxa-diazole-2-oxide, or 2,1,3-benzoxadiazole-l-oxide (1)] ring system has been reviewed briefly on several occasions, notably by Kaufman and Picard,Boyer, and Behr. The mqst recent of these covers the literature until 1959, and since that date there have been many advances in the subject. This, we feel, justifies the field being covered once more, and its separation from the monocyclic 1,2,5-oxadiazole oxides—the furoxans. We consider also other furoxano-fused compounds in this chapter, subject to the limitation that the ring adjacent to the furoxan is aromatic and six-membered. 

The benzo-annellated derivative naphtho[l,2-c]furoxan is numbered according to the system (2)] shown. In the literature the name 1,2-naphthofuroxan may often be found, with the same numbering as for a 1,2-disubstituted naphthalene. Although the latter method is perhaps a little clearer to follow, the more systematic scheme (2) will be adhered to in this chapter. 

Since the earlier reviewers, and Mallory and Wood, and, for the earlier literature, Hammick el al. have summarized the history of the structure problem fairly fully, and since it cannot in any case be treated properly in isolation from that of the monocyclic furoxans, we shall present only a brief outline here. The earliest formulas to be suggested (3 and 4), in connection with 1,2-naphthofuroxan, discovered by Koreff and von Ilinski in 1886, were open to the objections that the first is a peroxide structure, whereas the benzofuroxans... 

The tautomeric structure leads to ambiguities in the nomenclature of compounds in this series. Thus, 5-methyl- and 6-methylbenzo-furoxan denote two different molecules which, because of their interconversion, cannot be isolated separately at normal temperatures. Throughout this review, when we intend to refer to the ambiguous mixture, we shall use the system employing the lowest numbers. The above methyl derivative, for example, will be described as 6-methyl-benzofuroxan regardless of the form adopted in the crystal. When a... 

Linnett and Rosenberg have discussed the electronic structure of a number of nitroso and potential nitroso systems, including benzo-furoxans, using the non pairing approach. ... 

Further benzofuroxan spectra are reported by Gaughran, Picard, and Kaufman, who compare them with benzofurazans, by Boyer et al., who find similarities with furoxans and nitroso compounds, and by others. Hexanitrosobenzene was shown by IR and Raman spectroscopy to exist in the benzotrifuroxan structure. ... 

In general, two low-energy band systems appear, which in benzo-furoxan itself are strongly overlapping. In substituted compounds,... 

The first evidence for an unsymmetrical structure for the benzo-furoxan molecule and for the tautomerism of Eq. (3) was provided in 1961 by several groups of workers," using proton resonance... 

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