Guanidines substitution reactions

Changing the nature of the triazine substitution pattern to the l,3,5-triazine-2,4-dione system leads to another series of herbicides, of which the best example is hexazinone (1) (75USP3902887). It is built up from cyanamide which is converted in several steps to the guanidine (2). Reaction with cyclohexyl isocyanate then gives an intermediate which can be cyclized to hexazinone (Scheme 2). 

Guanidines. Substituted thioureas are converted to guanidines by reaction with primary amines under the influence of the chloropyridinium salt in the presence of EijN. 

Substitution reactions that generally display poor atom economy are omitted from this discussion. For example, guanidine-catalysed asymmetric fluorination or trifluoromethylation are important reactions, but fluorination and trifluorination reagents typically have high negative contributions to atom economy e.g. fluorine constitutes just 5.4% of Selectfluor s molecular weight). 

The use of guanidine for cyclization gives amino substituted derivatives (e.g. 212) (52CB1012), and in this case o-aminonitriles may be used to furnish diamines (e.g. 8UOC1394). An unusual reaction involving nitriles occurred during the preparation of nicotinonitrile from the amide and ammonium sulfamate, when a 60% yield of the dimeric by-product (213) was formed via the nitrile (69BSB289). Similar products have been obtained from... 

Amidines and related systems such as guanidines react with a-halogenoketones to form imidazoles. a-Hydroxyketones also take part in this reaction to form imidazoles, and a variety of substituents can be introduced into the imidazole nucleus by these procedures. Reaction of the a-halogenoketone (73) with an alkyl- or aryl-substituted carboxamidine (76) readily gave the imidazole (77) (01CB637, 48JCS1960). Variation of the reaction components that successfully take part in this reaction process is described in Chapter 4.08. 

When cyanogen bromide was used instead of CS2, the corresponding guanidines 169 were obtained under analogous conditions [108]. Moreover, differently substituted guanidines 171 could be obtained in very good yields when the isothiourea 168 was alkylated with Mel under microwave irradiation and the product treated with a primary amine. An intramolecular version of this reaction was also described for the preparation of structure 172 present in several important natural products (Scheme 61). 

In an approach toward substituted guanidines, Louwrier and co-workers observed an unusual reaction whereby reaction of the /3-ketoester 310 with bis-BOC-thiourea 311 in the presence of HgCl2 and triethylamine gave the tricyclic product 312 in excellent yield <1996T2629>. The mechanism that the authors suggest to account for this product, via intermediates 314-316, is outlined in Scheme 23. 

The 1,2,4-oxadiazole dioxolanes 144 react with hydroxylamine and hydrazines to form the 5-pyrazole- and isoxazole-substituted 1,2,4-oxadiazoles 146 via the dioxolane ring-opened intermediates 145 (Scheme 17). Reaction of compounds 144 with amidine or guanidine salts allows access to pyrimidine substituted analogues 147, via intermediate 145 (X = C(NH)R1), albeit in lower yield <1996JHC1943, 1998JHC161>. 

Interaction of iV-pentafluorophenylcarbonimidoyl dichloride with benzonitrile and aluminium trichloride leads to l-pentafluorophenyl-4,6-diphenyl-13 -triazin-2-one along with urea derivatives . Reaction of perfluoro-5-azanon-4-ene with a range of bidentate nitrogen nucleophiles (urea, substituted amidine hydrochlorides and guanidine), in the presence of triethylamine or potassium hydroxide, effectively provides fluorinated 1,3,5-triazines 16-19 <00JFC(103)105>. 

The reaction may be carried out successfully by the conventional fusion-technique. In the course of the s5mthesis of numerous aryl- and alkyl-biguanides by this procedure, the substituted guanidine rather than the biguanide was occasionally formed in a side reaction. In such cases the biguanide first formed may be cleaved partially by way of an intramolecular hydrogen-bonded form (602) (cf. section VI, B3). 

The required Grignard reagents are formed from the substituted guanidines and ethyl magnesium halide in ether [59), with simultaneous evolution of ethane. Their assigned structure (XLV) accounts satisfactorily for their reactions, although their true structure will obviously be essentially ionic and exhibit resonance effects. 

Other interesting examples of intermolecular N-C-N transfragment replacement are the ones being found when 1,3-dimethyluracil (113, R = R" = H) and several of its C-5/C-6 mono-substituted or C-5,6 di-substituted derivatives react with different 1,3-ambident nucleophiles (77JHC537 84H(2)89). Reaction of (113, R = R" = H) with guanidine gives isocytosine 115 (R = R = H) in reasonable-to-good yields. 

Going one step beyond, the reaction of these n-donor-substituted Group 6 allenylidenes with bifunctional N,N- or W, 5-dinucleophiles opened up a fruitful route for the synthesis of an extensive family of N- or 5-heterocyclic carbenes. Thus, treatment of complex [Cr =C=C=C(NMe2)Ph (CO)5] with benzamidine, guanidine or thioacetamide has been reported to yield the a,(3-unsaturated carbenes 54 (Scheme 16) [62], arising from nitrogen attack at Cy, subsequent HNMe2... 

Guanidines have been prepared by the reaction between an amine, or an amine salt, and a host of other reagents, such as a thiourea in the presence of lead or mercuric oxide [83, 157, 158], carbodi-imides [140, 174, 175],calcium cyanamide [176, 177], isonitrile dichlorides [178—180], chloroformamidines [181], dialkyl imidocarbonates [182], orthocarbonate esters [183], trichloro-methanesulphenyl chloride [184], and nitro- or nitroso-guanidines [185-188]. Substituted ureas can furnish guanidines, either by treatment with amines and phosphorus oxychloride [189], or by reaction with phenylisocyanate [190] or phosgene [191]. 

Some substituted guanidines have been obtained [457] by reaction of amines with the disulphide H2N(HN )C S S C( NH)NH2. Papers on the structure and p/fa s [458], and the synthesis [458, 459] of acylguanidines have been published. Reaction of guanidine with alkyl-, alkenyl-, and benzyl-halides, followed by distillation under basic conditions, is reported to give useful yields of amines [460]. A novel electrophilic substitution of benzene to give A -methyl-A -phenyl-guanidine amongst other products has been published [461 ]. 

Ishikawa and co-workers also reported a class of structurally modified guanidines for promotion of the asymmetric Michael reaction of ierf-butyl-diphenylimino-acetate to ethyl acrylate [124,125]. In addition to a polymer support design (Scheme 69), an optical resolution was developed to achieve chiral 1,2-substituted ethylene-l,2-di-amines, a new chiral framework for guanidine catalysis. The authors discovered that incorporating steric bulk and aryl substituents in the catalyst did improve stereoselec-tivitity, although the reactivity did suffer (Scheme 70, Table 4). 

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