Isocyanates, aryl-, reaction with

Carboxyhc acids react with aryl isocyanates, at elevated temperatures to yield anhydrides. The anhydrides subsequently evolve carbon dioxide to yield amines at elevated temperatures (70—72). The aromatic amines are further converted into amides by reaction with excess anhydride. Ortho diacids, such as phthahc acid [88-99-3J, react with aryl isocyanates to yield the corresponding A/-aryl phthalimides (73). Reactions with carboxyhc acids are irreversible and commercially used to prepare polyamides and polyimides, two classes of high performance polymers for high temperature appHcations where chemical resistance is important. Base catalysis is recommended to reduce the formation of substituted urea by-products (74). 

Phosgene reacts with a multitude of nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and carbon centers. Reaction with primary alkyl and aryl amines yield carbamoyl chlorides which are readily dehydrohalogenated to isocyanates. Secondary amines also form carbamoyl chlorides. 

There are actually three reactions called by the name Schmidt reaction, involving the addition of hydrazoic acid to carboxylic acids, aldehydes and ketones, and alcohols and alkenes. The most common is the reaction with carboxylic acids, illustrated above.Sulfuric acid is the most common catalyst, but Lewis acids have also been used. Good results are obtained for aliphatic R, especially for long chains. When R is aryl, the yields are variable, being best for sterically hindered compounds like mesi-toic acid. This method has the advantage over 18-13 and 18-14 that it is just one laboratory step from the acid to the amine, but conditions are more drastic. Under the acid conditions employed, the isocyanate is virtually never isolated. 

An alternative strategy for the synthesis of these tricyclic compounds involves the reaction of the azidoalkenyl-functionalized furo[3,2-A]pyrrole 30, which reacts with triphenylphosphine to give the corresponding iminophos-phoranes 31 these upon reaction with aryl isocyanates give the pyrrolo[2, 3 4,5]furo[3,2-r-]pyridines 32, via the corresponding carbodiimides which are not isolated < 1994H(37) 1695, 1992M807> (Scheme 9). 

I.3.4.2.4. Heterocumulenes The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of substituted ben-zonitrile oxides to the C=N group of chlorocarbonyl isocyanate C1C(0)N=C=0 gives 3-aryl-4-chlorocarbonyl-5-oxo-4,5-dihydro-l,2,4-oxadiazoles 172 in 75%-80% yield (340). A similar reaction with chlorosulfonyl isocyanate, C1S02N=C=0, affords 4-unsubstituted oxadiazolinones 173 (341). 

If the ring nitrogen atom forms a secondary amine, its reaction with aryl isocyanate can yield substituted ureas and this transformation is strongly related to a N-acylation. In this respect, a publication by Saczewski and Nasal <1995APH237> should be mentioned here these authors described the transformation of 119 with a number of arylisocyanates to the urea 120 in medium to high yields (49-82%) (Scheme 17). 

Alkyl and glycosyl isocyanates and isothiocyanates are produced in good yield under phase-transfer catalytic conditions using either conventional soluble catalysts or polymer-supported catalysts [32, 33]. Acyl isothiocyanates are obtained under similar conditions [34]. A-Aryl phosphoramidates are converted via their reaction with carbon disulphide under basic conditions into the corresponding aryl isothiocyanates, when the reaction is catalysed by tetra-n-butylammonium bromide [35]. 

It has been shown that, in the presence of lithium diethylamide at —70 °C, bromoben-zoic acids form arynes which may react with arylacetonitriles to yield, predominantly, 2-cyanobenzoic acids. The reaction of alkyl and aryl isocyanides with benzyne may yield benzamide derivatives, showing their ability to act as charge-reversed equivalents to isocyanates. The generation and cyclization of a benzyne-tethered alkyllithium have been reported, and lead to a convenient synthetic route for 4-substituted indans. ... 

An aza-Wittig reaction with carbonyl electrophiles, accessible from im-inophosphorane (177) and aldehydes, gives 5-alkyl- or 5-aryl-lf/-l,2,4-triazoles (Scheme 69) (85S304). The reaction of 177 with isocyanate generates two different products, both of which occur from primary adduct... 

The pyrimido[4,5- ]-l,2,4-triazines 19 were synthesized from the 5-amino-l,2,4-triazine-6-carboxylate 128 upon reaction with an aryl isocyanate in the presence of pyridine, with the appropriate aryl isocyanate acting as a source of two of the ring atoms, as shown in Equation (18) <2003ARK98>. 

On prolonged reaction with aryl isocyanates, the pyrido [ 1,2-a]pyrimidines (262) give pyrido[l,2-a]-s-triazines (266) in poor yield.328 The suggested pathway is the addition of the aryl isocyanate to form the 3,3-disubstituted product (263), which eliminates the ketene (265) the residual part of the molecule (264) reacts with an additional mol of aryl isocyanate to give 266. The ketene (265) forms the quinoline (267), by ring closure, which gives 268 by aryl isocyanate addition. The quinoline (267 R = CH2Ph, X = H) could be isolated. 

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