Intermolecular reactions nitrogen nucleophile attacks

Acyl derivatives of azoles containing two different environments of nitrogen atoms can rearrange. For example, 1-acyl-1,2,3-triazoles are readily isomerized to the 2H-isomers in the presence of triethylamine or other bases the reaction is intermolecular and probably involves nucleophilic attack by N-2 of one triazole on the carbonyl group attached to another (74AHC(16)33). 

Hydroamination of olefins is also possible with gold catalysts. In this reaction, the attack comes Ifom a nitrogen nucleophile as a carbamate,a urea, an amide, or a sulfonamide. In the latter case, the reaction can be carried out intermolecularly. While the carbamates, ureas, and amides give only products of intramolecular anunations, the sulfonamides can perform the intermolecular addition. Only the addition of ureas (equation 146) takes place at room temperature, and in the rest of the additions heating is required. The catalysts of choice in all these reactions are cationic gold(I)-species stabilized by phosphines or NHC ligands. The reaction times have been reduced by the use of microwave irradiation. The mechanism of the hydroamination reaction has been studied in detail theoretically. ... 

An intermolecular reaction, again with overall syn Sn substitution, was successfully applied in a synthesis of the carbocyclic nucleoside analog aristeromycin to introduce the nitrogen base stereoselectively (equation 21), although with heteronucleophiles, unlike the case of carbon nucleophiles, a lower propensity for attack distal to oxygen to give the 1,4-product with vinyloxiranes exists. 

In step 2, a DNA nucleophile conducts an intermolecular nucleophilic attack, which breaks the aziridine ring and alkylates DNA. Although guanine is the preferred nucleic acid base involved in the alkylation reaction, adenine also is known to react. Of critical importance is the fact that the lone pair of electrons on the mustard nitrogen is regenerated when the aziridine ring cleaves. 

Examples of palladium- and rhodium-catalyzed hydroaminations of alkynes are shown in Equations 16.90-16.92 and Table 16.9. The reaction in Equation 16.90 is one of many examples of intramolecular hydroaminations to form indoles that are catalyzed by palladium complexes. The reaction in Equation 16.91 shows earlier versions of this transformation to form pyrroles by the intramolecular hydroamination of amino-substituted propargyl alcohols. More recently, intramolecular hydroaminations of alkynes catalyzed by complexes of rhodium and iridium containing nitrogen donor ligands have been reported, and intermolecular hydroaminations of terminal alkynes at room temperature catalyzed by the combination of a cationic rhodium precursor and tricyclohexylphosphine are known. The latter reaction forms the Markovnikov addition product, as shown in Equation 16.92 and Table 16.9. These reactions catalyzed by rhodium and iridium complexes are presumed to occur by nucleophilic attack on a coordinated alkyne. 

A survey of the many examples of Lewis acid-promoted Passerini-type reactions, finds that most are characterized by one of four distinct processes a) nucleophilic attack of an additional equivalent(s) of isonitrile to form oligomeric products " (17) b) nitrogen dealkylation to give cyanohydrin-type products (18) c) intramolecular capture of tethered-nucleophiles to form cyclic products (19) and d) intermolecular capture of other weakly-basic nucleophiles such as dissociable counterions of the Lewis acid (20) such as the chloride ion for TiCk. 

C.ii.b. Intramolecular Attack by Nitrogen Nucleophiles. The nitrogen nncleophiles, which are compatible with the reaction conditions (HOAc and 1,4-benzoquinone), consist of electron-deficient ones such as amides, carbamates, ureas, and sulfonamides. Because of the low nucleophilicity of these, no intermolecular 1,4-additions involving C—bond formation is known. However, if the nitrogen is tethered to the diene, a cyclization takes place in good yields. 

Early on, Heck and co-workers found that intra- and intermolecular coupling reactions of haloalkenes with alkenes in the presence of secondary amines gave allylamines.t t Apparently, an intermediate 7r-allylpalladium complex is formed by rearranganent of the (7-homoallylpalladium intermediate (see above, B.ii) and in turn attacked by the nitrogen nucleophile. Excellent yields of tertiary aUylamines are obtained in this three-component coupling (Scheme As far as the outcome is concerned, analogous inter-intra- as well as fully intramolecular processes have been estabhshed (Scheme 30 see Table... 

Sargeson and his coworkers have developed an area of cobalt(III) coordination chemistry which has enabled the synthesis of complicated multidentate ligands directly around the metal. The basis for all of this chemistry is the high stability of cobalt(III) ammine complexes towards dissociation. Consequently, a coordinated ammonia molecule can be deprotonated with base to produce a coordinated amine anion (or amide anion) which functions as a powerful nucleophile. Such a species can attack carbonyl groups, either in intramolecular or intermolecular processes. Similar reactions can be performed by coordinated primary or secondary amines after deprotonation. The resulting imines coordinated to cobalt(III) show unusually high stability towards hydrolysis, but are reactive towards carbon nucleophiles. While the cobalt(III) ion produces some iminium character, it occupies the normal site of protonation and is attached to the nitrogen atom by a kinetically inert bond, and thus resists hydrolysis. 

Although A -acyloxaziridines are known, a systematic examination of their reactions with basic reagents has not been made. In the case of Af-(A -phenylcarbamyl)-oxaziridines, nucleophiles appear to attack at nitrogen either intermolecularly or intramolecularly by way of diaziridinone formation. This work has recently been summarized. ... 

An interesting tandem intermolecular/intramolecular hydroamination reaction of cycloheptatriene with substituted anilines has been developed by Hartwig for the synthesis oftropene derivatives [34]. As shown in Eq. (1.14), the coupling of 30 with 31 provided 32 in 73% yield. The mechanism of this transformation is believed to involve acid-assisted formation of an q -pentadienylpalladium complex 33, which is then captured by the aniline nucleophile to afford the allylpalladium intermediate 34. Intramolecular attack of the aniline nitrogen on the allylpalladium moiety affords the observed heterocycle. 

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