Mesoionic compounds

The thiazolyl-2-thioglycollic acid (119) undergoes intramolecular ring closure to give mesoionic compound 120 under treatment with acetic anhydride and triethylamine (Scheme 60) (192). The parent acid (119) can be recovered from 120 by hydration with hot 50% aqueous sulfuric add. Compound 120 affords monohydrate of bis(-cyclopentenothiazolyi-2-thio)acetone (121) (192). 

The 4-Hydroxy-thiazoles are characterized by infrared absorption near 1610 cm (KBr) (3) or 1620 to 16.S0cm (CCI4) (8), indicating a strongly polarized carbonyl group. H-5 resonates near 5.6 ppm in the NMR spectrum like similar protons in other mesoionic compounds (3). Two fragmentations of the molecular ion are observed in the mass spectra. The first involves rupture of the 1,2 and 3,4 bonds with loss of C2R 0S . In the second, the 1,5 and 3,4 bonds are cleaved with elimination of C2R 0. ... 

Mesoionic compounds undergo a variety of photochemical fragmentations. Examples are shown in which CO2 or PhNCO is extruded (Schemes 3 and 4, respectively) (76AHC(i9)l). 

Mesoionic compounds of the type designated (76AHC(19)l) as A are capable of isomerism. In one case in the 1,2,4-triazole series, isomerism of the pair (64) (65) has been demonstrated (67TL4261). 

Enamines and enolate anions react with benzofuroxan to give quinoxaline di-A -oxides (Scheme 38) (69AHC(10)1). Sydnones (274) with phenyl isocyanate give 1,2,4-triazoles (275) (76AHC(19)l), and from (276) the intermediate adduct (277) can be isolated (73JA8452). This is one of the few instances in which such primary cycloadducts have been isolated in the oxazole series of mesoionic compounds. 

The mesoionic compounds are derived from pyrazolium salts (22) when R is replaced by a negatively charged heteroatom, like the anhydro-4-hydroxypyrazolium hydroxide (28). According to Ollis and Ramsden (76AHC(l9)l) they belong to the mesoionic class B type. 

Pyrazolino[2,3-c][l,2,3]triazoles, 5, 702 Pyrazolium hydroxide, l,2-dimethyl-3,5-diphenylanhydro-4-hydroxy-IR spectra, 5, 201 Pyrazolium salts dequatemization, 5, 269 H NMR, 5, 185 hydrogen exchange at ring carbon, 5, 245 mesoionic compounds, 5, 171 nitrodebromination, 5, 237 reactivity, 5, 217 reduction, 5, 68, 243 synthesis, 5, 156 UV spectra, 5, 199 Pyrazolium salts, amino-reactions, 5, 262 Pyrazolium salts, bromo-nucleophilic displacements, 5, 266 Pyrazolium salts, 1,2-dimethyl-deuteration, 5, 175, 245 hydrogen exchange, 5, 71 acid-catalyzed, 5, 239 reactions... 

The mesoionic compound 3-phenylsydnone (10) (see Houben-Weyl, Vol. E8c, p 398ff) reacts with benzocyclobutadiene (9), generated by the action of zinc on /ra x-l, 2-dibrotno-l, 2-dihy-drobenzocyclobutadiene(8), to give 3-phenyl-3//-2,3-benzodiazepine(13). The process involves sequential 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition to give 11, decarboxylation to 12 and, finally, valence... 

The reaction of N-amino heterocycles 759 and 760 with diaryl carbodii-mide gave triazolotriazine 761 in good yield. In some cases the intermediate guanidines are isolated which by thermal or basic treatment cyclized (86H3363 89H1607) to neutral or mesoionic compounds. 

Mesoionic compounds are heterocyclic compounds that cannot be represented by any uncharged formula but only as a hybrid of dipolar structures (1. 2). 

Mesoionic Compounds.These compounds cannot be satisfactorily represented by Lewis structures not involving charge separation. Most of them... 

Tetrazolium ylides are quite reactive and are easily alkylated.168 The mesoionic tetrazolium thiolate 117 readily adds bromine to yield 174 which can then react with a number of active methylene compounds to give mesoionic compounds, e.g., 175.293,294 They also undergo 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with olefins and acetylenes to yield bicyclic tetrazolo-thiazolines... 

Methyl 3-acyl-l-diphenylmethyleneamino-4,5-dioxo-4,5-dihydro-l//-pyrrole-2-carboxylates 489 are formed from 488 and oxalyl chloride in good yields. Preparative thermolysis of these compounds at 130-140°C gives mixtures of dipyrazolo[l,2- l,2- [l,2,4,5]tetrazines 491 as major products and pyrazoles 492 as minor hydrolytic by-products. The intermediacy of mesoionic compound 490 is expected (Scheme 83) <2004T5319>. 

Thiolactams 622 treated with carbon suboxide provide mesoionic compounds 623. Their 1,4-dipolar cycloaddition reaction with highly reactive PTAD gives compounds 624, formed by the cycloaddition followed by extrusion of COS, in quantitative yield (Scheme 100) <1995T6651, 1995H(41)1631>. 

The mesoionic compound 78 adds to both PTAD and DEAZD as a 1,3-dipole to give 79 and 80, respectively, in high yield. The DEAZD adduct can be converted into 2,5-diphenyl-1,3,4-thiadiazole (Scheme 8).129... 

The mesoionic tetrazole dehydrodithizone is transformed by iron penta-carbonyl into 4-phenyl-2-phenylazo-A2-l,3,4-thiadiazolin-5-one, presumably by a mechanism of ring opening, complexation, carbonyl insertion and subsequent ring closure (Scheme 128).193 Unfortunately, analogous processes do not occur on other mesoionic compounds in the 1,2,3-oxadiazole, s-triazole or tetrazole series, and the scope of this unusual carbonylation is probably limited. 

Methyl- and 3-ethylsydnone have been used as aprotic solvents for electrolytes <2000MI20, 2002MI334>, whereas 3-phenylsydnone has been employed as a filter for recording the absorption spectra and refractive indexes of polymer films containing other mesoionic compounds <2002MI2290>. 

Benzothiadiazoles 3 have been extensively studied. Fully aromatic mesoionic compounds such as 4 continue to be synthesized. A number of examples of 4,5-dihydro-l,2,3-thiadiazole derivatives such as compound 5 <1993JOC82> and more recently the phenyl derivative 6 <2003RJ01501> have been reported. The corresponding 2,3-dihydro-l,2,3-thiadiazoles have also been reported and Hurd and Mori reported the N-Z phenylsulfonyl derivative 7. The electron spin... 

There are several examples of alkyl halides reacting with 1,2,3-thiadiazoles at nitrogen to yield either salts or mesoionic compounds <1996CHEC-II(4)289>. Similarly, with Meerwein s reagent, several substituted thiadiazoles yielded various 2- and 3-methylated 1,2,3-thiadiazoles (Scheme 4 Table 8) <1993JHC301>. The isomer ratios were determined by integrating the methyl singlets in the H NMR spectra and the compounds were further studied by 1SN NMR spectroscopy (Section 5.07.3.4). 

Mesoionic compounds (Section 5.07.1.3) are fully aromatic and usually have an exocyclic heteroatom bearing a charge attached to the ring. A new one-step method for converting the exocyclic oxygen of 3-phenyl-l,2,3-thiadiazolium-5-olate 52 into the exocyclic sulfur of 3-phenyl-l,2,3-thiadiazolium-5-thiolate 53 makes use of Lawesson s reagent (Equation 14) <1988BCJ2977>. 

The most familiar examples of 1,2,3-thiadiazoles bearing substituents on nitrogen are mesoionic compounds (Section 5.07.1.3) but little has been reported about these compounds since CHEC-II(1996) was published. 

The mesoionic compounds are represented by structures that cannot be properly described by Lewis forms not involving charge separation. Typical examples are the sydnones 80 the first example was obtained at the University of Sydney by the action of acetic anhydride on N-nitrosophenylglycine [75]. They were consequently named after the Australian town [76]. These structures are best approximated as resonance hybrids. They can be represented by any contributing mesomeric structure a, b, c or by the general structure d. 

When thioxo (or thiol) derivatives (as part of a thiourea function incorporated into the heterocyclic system) are present, effective. Y-alkylation is observed. Thus, the 3-heteroaryl-substituted [l,2,4]triazolo[3,4-/)][l,3,4]thiadiazole-6(5//)-thiones 37 dissolved in sodium hydroxide solution react with alkyl halides to afford the corresponding 6-alkylthio derivatives 38 (Equation 4) <1992IJB167>. The mesoionic compounds 39, inner salts of anhydro-7-aryl-l-methyl-3-methylthio-6-sulfonyl-[l,2,4]triazolo[4,3-A [l,2,4]triazolium hydroxides, are methylated with methyl iodide to give the corresponding quaternary salts 40 (Equation 5) <1984TL5427, 1986T2121>. 

Contrasting with the reported formation of fused [l,3,4]thiadiazole rings in the course of the reaction of 3-substituted-4-amino-5-thio-47/-[l,2,4]triazoles 83 with various isothiocyanates (cf. Section 11.07.8.3, Table 3), the reactions with methyl isothiocyanate and with phenylisocyanate afford 3,7-disubstituted-6,7-dihydro-57/-[l,2,4]triazolo[4,3-f] [l,2,4]triazole-6-thiones 110 and -triazole-6-ones 111, respectively (Equation 29) <1986MI607, 1992IJB167>.The same reaction of 4-amino-l-methyl-3,5-bis(methylthio)[l,2,4]triazolium iodide 112 with aryl isothiocyanates yields the mesoionic compounds 113 (Equation 30) <1984TL5427, 1986T2121>. 

The mesoionic compound 41 was further used in a reaction with dimethyl acetylene dicarboxylate (DMAD) to produce a nine-membered cycloadduct 44 which is formed by a reaction cascade of double addition of the alkyne and transannular ring opening of the intermediate 43 (Scheme 7) <20030BC978>. 

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