Methyl isocyanate nitrite

Scheme 206 Use of MODD/t-butyl nitrite as methyl isocyanate precursor.

Cyanide antidotes such as sodium nitrite and sodium thiosulfate were not effective in combating methyl isocyanate poisoning (Bucher et al. 1987a,b Vijayaraghavan and Kaushik 1987). Atropine and ethanol were also ineffective. 

Several approaches to the 1,2,3-triazole core have been published in 2000. Iodobenzene diacetate-mediated oxidation of hydrazones 152 led to fused 1,2,3-triazoloheterocycles 153 <00SC417>. Treatment of oxazolone 154 with iso-pentyl nitrite in the presence of acetic acid gave 1,2,3-triazole 155, a precursor to 3-(W-l,2,3-triazolyl)-substituted a,P-unsaturated a amino acid derivatives <00SC2863>. Aroyl-substituted ketene aminals 156 reacted with aryl azides to provide polysubstituted 1,23-triazoles 157 <00HC387>. 2-Aryl-2T/,4/f-imidazo[43-d][l,2,3]triazoles 159 were prepared from the reaction of triethyl AM-ethyl-2-methyl-4-nitro-l//-imidazol-5-yl phosphoramidate (158) with aryl isocyanates <00TL9889>. 

Further variations for the synthesis of this ring system has been published by M. F. G. Stevens et al. (Scheme 12). Thus, the methyl-substituted cyclic carbamate 37 when treated with sodium nitrite in aqueous tartaric acid yielded temozolomide 9a in average yield (45%) <1997JOC7288>. Two other approaches also proved to be applicable to the synthesis of a great number of derivatives the diazoimidazole carboxamide 32 was reacted with various isocyanates to... 

The 3-imino group of 4-cyano-2-ethyl-3-imino-2,3,5,6,7,8-hexahydro-l//-pyrido[l,2-c]pyrimidine-l-thione was acylated with phenyl isocyanate (78MI1). The imino group of l-imino-4-cyano-3-methylthio-l//-pyrido[l,2-cjpyrimidine was alkylated and acylated with methyl iodide and acetic anhydride (75YZ13). Reaction of 3-amino-4-phenyl-4-[2-(A, N-di-n-pro-pylamino)ethyl-4,4 a,5,6,7,8-hexahydro-l //-pyrido[l, 2-c ]pyri midin-l-one with acetic anhydride in pyridine and with sodium nitrite in aqueous acetic acid afforded 3-acetamido and perhydro-l,3-dioxo derivatives, respectively (87USP4680295). 

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