Imidazoles Diels-Alder reactions

The distinction between these two classes of reactions is semantic for the five-membered rings Diels-Alder reaction at the F/B positions in (269) (four atom fragment) is equivalent to 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition in (270) across the three-atom fragment, both providing the 47t-electron component of the cycloaddition. Oxazoles and isoxazoles and their polyaza analogues show reduced aromatic character and will undergo many cycloadditions, whereas fully nitrogenous azoles such as pyrazoles and imidazoles do not, except in certain isolated cases. 

N-silylated imines 509 react with the Li salts of tosylmethylisonitriles to give 4,5-disubstituted imidazoles in moderate yields [93]. Acetylation of N-trimethylsilyl imines 509 with acetyl chloride and triethylamine affords 72-80% of the aza-dienes 510 these undergo readily Diels-Alder reactions, e.g. with maleic anhydride at 24 °C to give 511 [94] or with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate to give dimethyl pyridine-3,4-dicarboxylates [94] (Scheme 5.29). 

Similarly, /V-sulfonyl-protected vinylimidazole 597 reacts with PTAD to provide the cycloaddition reaction product 598 which easily undergoes the retro-Diels-Alder reaction upon heating or with acid treatment. The primary product is easily isomerized using a base to the aromatized condensed imidazole 599 (Scheme 95) <1998TL4561>. 

In 2002, Leadbeater and Torenius reported the base-catalyzed Michael addition of methyl acrylate to imidazole using ionic liquid-doped toluene as a reaction medium (Scheme 6.133 a) [190], A 75% product yield was obtained after 5 min of microwave irradiation at 200 °C employing equimolar amounts of Michael acceptor/donor and triethylamine base. As for the Diels-Alder reaction studied by the same group (see Scheme 6.91), l-(2-propyl)-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate (pmimPF6) was the ionic liquid utilized (see Table 4.3). Related microwave-promoted Michael additions studied by Jennings and coworkers involving indoles as heterocyclic amines are shown in Schemes 6.133 b [230] and 6.133 c [268], Here, either lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide (LiHMDS) or potassium tert-butoxide (KOtBu) was em-... 

An even more complex pathway involving inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder reactions between imidazoles and 1,2,4-triazines linked by a tri- or tetramethylene... 

Certain transition metal complexes can serve as templates for the synthesis of chelating NHC ligands. For example, 1-phenylphosphole complexes of pal-ladium(II) are attacked in a Diels-Alder reaction by 1-vinylimidazole. If 1,2-dichloroethane is used as the solvent the imidazole is alkylated in situ and then subjected to a spontaneous carbometallation reaction [Eq. (37)]. 

Reaction of l-azirine-3-methylaciylates (155) with imidazoles and pyrazoles under mild conditions results in the formation of 2-aza-1,3-dienes (156), which are useful as dienes in hetero Diels-Alder reactions with electron-deficient dienophiles <99JOC49>. When the related methyl 2-aryl-2ff-azirine-3-carboxylate (157) was used as fee substrate, reaction with an amine induced a ting opening by addition of the amino group onto fee C=N bond followed by cleavage to provide enediamine 158 <99JCS(P1)1305>. 

From 133-tiiazines 23 and 5-amino-4-imidazole-carboxylic acids 24 a variety of purines and purine nucleosides 25 have been prepared via an inverse electron demand Diels-Alder reaction <99JA5833>. 

The presence or absence of the dioxolane protecting group in dienes dictates whether they participate in normal or inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder reactions.257 The intramolecular inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder cycloaddition of 1,2,4-triazines tethered with imidazoles produce tetrahydro-l,5-naphthyridines following the loss of N2 and CH3CN.258 The inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder reaction of 4,6-dinitrobenzofuroxan (137) with ethyl vinyl ether yields two diastereoisomeric dihydrooxazine /V-oxide adducts (138) and (139) together with a bis(dihydrooxazine A -oxide) product (140) in die presence of excess ethyl vinyl ether (Scheme 52).259 The inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder reaction of 2,4,6-tris(ethoxycarbonyl)-l,3,5-triazine with 5-aminopyrazoles provides a one-step synthesis of pyrazolo[3,4-djpyrimidines.260 The intermolecular inverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder reactions of trialkyl l,2,4-triazine-4,5,6-tricarboxylates with protected 2-aminoimidazole produced li/-imidazo[4,5-c]pyridines and die rearranged 3//-pyrido[3,2-[Pg.460]

Imidazole-containing compounds have been utilized as reagents for various synthetic transformations. A convenient access to substituted allyl enol carbonates was established through the reaction of ketone enolates with the complex of allyl l//-imidazole-l-carboxylates 74 and boron trifluoride etherate <07JOC9372>. Relatively mild and highly efficient Cul-catalyzed /V-arylation procedures for imidazoles with aryl and heteroaryl bromides or chlorides have been developed in the presence of ligands 75 and cesium carbonate <07JOC2737>. a, -Unsaturated 2-acyl imidazoles 76 are an alternative and practical class of dienophiles for the DNA-based catalytic asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction in... 

New fused 6,8a-dihydro-4/7-pyrrolo[l,2- ][l,2,5]oxadiazines 1176 and 5,7a-dihydro-37/-pyrrolo[l,2- ]imidazole 1-oxides 1177 were obtained via hetero-Diels-Alder reactions ([4-1-2] and 1,3-dipolar) adding 277-pyrrole 1174 to substituted nitrosoalkenes [CH2=C(R)N=0], generated in situ thorough base-mediated dehydrohalogenations of ot-bromooximes 1175 (Equation 268) <2002T1507>. 

Dibromoimidazoles were employed as precursors to syntheses of 6-substituted imidazol[4,5-d]pyridazin-7-ones <03H(60)1329>. 4-Vinyl imidazoles participated in intermolecular Diels-Alder reactions with V-phenylmaleimide <03H(60)1> and in intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions <03OL3623>. 

In contrast, treatment of the related 277-azirine-3-methylacrylate 785 with imidazoles and pyrazoles gave 2-aza-l,3-dienes 786 derived from a transient addition product (Scheme 189) <1999JOC49>. These dienes are useful in hetero-Diels-Alder reactions with electron-deficient dienophiles. 

Oxazoles represent the most widely recognized heteroaromatic azadiene capable of [4 + 2] cycloaddition reactions. The course of the oxazole Diels-Alder reaction and the facility with which it proceeds are dependent upon the dienophile structure (alkene, alkyne), the oxazole and dienophile substitution, and the reaction conditions. Alkene dienophiles provide pyridine products derived from fragmentation of the [4 + 2] cycloadducts which subsequently aromatize through a variety of reaction pathways to provide the substituted pyridines (Scheme 14). In comparison, alkyne dienophiles provide substituted fiirans that arise from the retro Diels-Alder reaction with loss of R CN from the initial [4 + 2] cycloadduct (Scheme 15,206 Representative applications of the [4 + 2] cycloaddition reactions of oxazoles are summarized in Table 14. Selected examples of additional five-membered heteroaromatic azadienes participatiitg in [4 + 2] cycloaddition reactions have been detailed and include the Diels-Alder reactions of thiazoles, - 1,3,4-oxadiazoles, isoxazoles, pyrroles and imidazoles. ... 

Another intere.sting example of the method involves making the 1,2-diamine by a Diels-Alder reaction. The 2-substituted imidazoles which result arc isolated in yields of 40-79% based on the diamine (Scheme 3.1.3) [11]. 

Imidazoles are electron-rich heterocycless and can undergo inverse electron demand Diels-Alder reactions. Particularly, amino-substituted imidazoles are good dienophiles and cyclize with electron-poor counterparts to provide cycloadducts. For example, intermolecular cycloadditions of 2-substituted imidazole 486 with various... 

Reaction of 5-amino-l -benzyl-4-imidazolecarboxylic acid 495 with 2,4,6-tris(ethoxycarbonyl)-1,3,5-triazine 496 at 80 °C in DMF led to 9-benzyl-2,6-bis(ethoxycarbonyl)purine 501 in 83% yield. Presumably, 5-amino-l-benzyM-imidazole 497 is generated siVu from the acid and is highly reactive for the cycloaddition. The cycloadduct 498 then spontaneously undergoes retro Diels-Alder reaction with the loss of ethyl cyanoformate 499 followed by the loss of ammonia and aromatization to produce the purine in a regioselective manner (Scheme 114) <1999JA5833, 2005JOC998>. 

Imidazole and 2-phenylimidazole undergo intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction with 1,2,4-triazines tethered between an imidazole nitrogen and the triazinyl C-3 position to produce tetrahydro-l,5-naphthyridines. The reaction proceeds by a cycloaddition with subsequent loss of N2, followed by a presumed stepwise loss of a nitrile. Addition of antioxidant BHT inhibits aromatization to greatly improve the yield of tetrahydronaphthyridine 504 (Scheme 115) <2004JOC7171, 1997TL7499>. 

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