Methyl isothiocyanate 3+2 cycloaddition reactions

Despite the chemical diversity of the several hundred structures representing herbicidal activity, most reactions of herbicides fall within only a limited number of mechanistic types oxidation, reduction, nucleophilic displacements (such as hydrolysis), eliminations, and additions. "Herbicides", after all, are more-or-less ordinary chemicals, and their principal transformations in the environment are fundamentally no different from those in laboratory glassware. Figure 2 illustrates three typical examples which have received their share of classical laboratory study—the alkaline hydrolysis of a carboxylic ester (in this case, an ester of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, IX), the cycloaddition of an alcohol to an olefin (as in the acetylene, VI), and the 3-elimination of a dithiocarbamate which provides the usual synthetic route to an isothiocyanate (conversion of an N.N-dimethylcarbamic acid salt, XI, to methyl isothiocyanate). Allow the starting materials herbicidal action (which they have), give them names such as "2,4-D ester" or "pronamide" or "Vapam", and let soil form the walls of an outdoor reaction kettle the reactions and products remain the same. 

The [2+2] cycloaddition reaction of isothiocyanates with carbodiimides generally proceeds across the C=S bond of the isothiocyanate to give thiazetidine derivatives 218. However, in the reaction of methyl isothiocyanate with N-(4-dimethylaminophenyl)-N -methylcarbodiimide a mixture of the thiazetidine derivative 218 and the isomeric iminodi-azetidinethione derivative 219 is obtained. The structure of 219 was confirmed by X-ray crystallography. ... 

Carbodiimides also play a role as building blocks of numerous N-heterocycles. Examples are the cycloaddition reactions of carbodiimides. In the formation of [2-1-2] cycloadducts N-methyl-N -t-butylcarbodiimide is used as a marker to determine the mode of addition of isocyanates or isothiocyanates to carbodiimides. In these reactions addition across the C=N or the C=0 bond of the isocyanate or across the C=N or the C==S bond of the isothiocyanate can occur. Addition to the N-methyl-N -t-butylcarbodiimide always proceeds across the N-methyl double bond. Also, theretroreaction of the [2-1-2] cycloaddition reaction of carbodiimides can afford a different set of heterocumulenes. ... 

Cycloaddition and cyclization routes were used to access certain 1,3-diazines. The 4+2 cycloaddition reaction of 4-(N-allyl-N-aryl)amino-l,3-diaza-l,3-butadienes with vinyl-, isopropenyl-, and chloroketene led to pyrimidinone-fused pyrimidinones <97T13841>. Cis-cyclopenta[d]pyrimidines were derived from cis-2-amino-l-cyclopentanecarboxylates by cyclization with KOCN and KSCN <97JHC1211>. 2-Thioxopyrido[3, 2 4,5]thieno[3,2-r/]pyrimidin-4(3//)-ones 19 were prepared by cyclocondensation of 2-carbethoxy-3-amino-4-phenyl-6-substituted-thieno[2,3-/)]pyridines and isothiocyanates <97JHC937>. Thiazolyl-benzimidazoles derived from 2-cyanomethyl-l//-benzimidazole and 2,3-dihydrothiazole-2-(3//)-thiones were cyclized to the corresponding thiazolo[4,5-r/]pyrimidines <97PHA346>. Reductive cyclization of 6-cyanomethyl-5-nitropyrimidines afforded 7-alkyl-5//-pyrrolo[3,2-r/]pyrimidines and 6-amino-7,7-dialkyl-7//-pyrrolo[3,2-rf]pyrimidines <97T391>. 7-Methyl-5-alkyl-2-vinyl-pyrazolo[3,4-r/]pyrimidine-4,6(5//,7//)-diones arose from cyclization and alkylation of... 

On the other hand, isothiocyanate can ako undergo [4 + 2] cycloaddition reaction as a dienophile. The tetrahydroquinazoline derivative 441 is formed from the reaction of isatonic anhydride 439 and methyl isothiocyanate via ketene intermediate 440 (Scheme 136) (1963JCED454). 

Dithiocarboxylic acids (118) can be converted into 1,3-dithietans (119) by acid chlorides,iodine, HCl, DCCI, or upon standing for a long time, and they are formally thioketen dimers. The cycloaddition of two C=S groups yields thioketen dimers and (120) from methyl isothiocyanate. Derivatives (121) are prepared by the reaction of dithiocarboxylic acids (118) with phosgene. ... 

While the cycloaddition reaction of phenyl isothiocyanates with nitrones proceeds across its C=N bond, substituted phenyl isothiocyanates, methyl isothiocyanate and benzoyl isothiocyanate react across their C=S bonds. However, these cycloadducts are not stable and they undergo fragmentation with formation of thioamides and isocyanates . ... 

The [3+2] cycloaddition reaction of imidazoline 3-oxides 160 with methyl isothiocyanate proceeds regio- and diastereoselectively to give tetrahydroimidazo[1.5b][1.2.4]oxadiazol-2(l//)-thiones 161 in good yields... 

Another example of an isothiocyanate participating in a [4+2] cycloaddition reaction as a dienophile is the formation of the tetrahydroquinazoline derivative 183 from isatoic anhydride 182 and methyl isothiocyanate... 

The [2+2] cycloaddition reaction of bis-trifluoromethylthioketene also occurs across the C=S bond in isothiocyanates to give the four-membered ring cycloadducts In the reaction of bis-trifluoromethylthioketene with methyl isothiocyanate the initial cycloadduct 52 reacts with another two molecules of the thioketene to give the 3 1 cycloadduct 53. 

Thioacylketen dithioacetals participate with alkenes and sulphenes in 1,4-cycloaddition reactions. Thio-Claisen rearrangement of 1-allylthio-l-aminoalkenes to thioamides or isothiocyanates, and of 5 -allyl-5 -methyl-keten mercaptals to dithioesters, has been described. 

Oxathiazolidin-3-imine (93) possesses a thioimidate moiety similar to 4-methyl-5-phenyl-imino-l,2,3,4-thiatriazoline (70) and is capable of undergoing cycloaddition-elimination reactions with isothiocyanates to give identical products, however at a much higher rate. Acetone can therefore be used as solvent to catalyze this kind of reaction of thiatriazolines. 

A successful method for preparing 1,3-thiazetidines is the cycloaddition of carbodiimides with isocyanates. The cycloadduct 151 was derived by the interaction of carbodiimide 152 and tosyl isothiocyanate . Reaction of 152 with methyl or phenyl isothiocyanate preferentially leads to iminotriazine-thiones. Cycloaddition between aryl isothiocyanates and dicyclohexylcar-bodiimide produced 153. ... 

In the case of the reaction of 1 with COS the intermediate silathione dimerizes to the dithiadisiletane derivative III. In the reaction of 1 with RNCS the silathione does not dimerize, but it is trapped by the respective isothiocyanate in form of the formal [2+2] cycloaddition product IV. The intermediates Cp 2Si=X (X = O, S) (2) could not be isolated but derivatized by trapping reactions. In the presence of t-butyl methyl ketone the silanone (Cp 2Si=0) reacts in an ene-type reaction [9] to give the addition product 5 the silathione (Cp 2Si=S) is transformed in a first step to an addition product analogous to 5, in a further step this species reacts with 1 in an oxidative addition process to form the final product 4 (see Scheme 2). 

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