Nitrile ylides examples

The ring opening of 2//-azirines to yield vinylnitrenes on thermolysis, or nitrile ylides on photolysis, also leads to pyrrole formation (B-82MI30301). Some examples proceeding via nitrile ylides are shown in Scheme 92. The consequences of attempts to carry out such reactions in an intramolecular fashion depend not only upon the spatial relationship of the double bond and the nitrile ylide, but also upon the substituents of the azirine moiety since these can determine whether the resulting ylide is linear or bent. The HOMO and second LUMO of a bent nitrile ylide bear a strong resemblance to the HOMO and LUMO of a singlet carbene so that 1,1-cycloadditions occur to carbon-carbon double bonds rather than the 1,3-cycloadditions needed for pyrrole formation. The examples in Scheme 93 provide an indication of the sensitivity of these reactions to structural variations. 

Trapping of the intermediate acyl nitrile ylide with dimethyl acetylenedicar-boxylate leads to pyrroles in low yields (< 18%) [1250]. Representative examples of the preparation of oxazoles with carbene complexes are listed in Table 4.18. 

Many different types of 1,3-dipoles have been described [Ij however, those most commonly formed using transition metal catalysis are the carbonyl ylides and associated mesoionic species such as isomiinchnones. Additional examples include the thiocar-bonyl, azomethine, oxonium, ammonium, and nitrile ylides, which have also been generated using rhodium(II) catalysis [8]. The mechanism of dipole formation most often involves the interaction of an electrophilic metal carbenoid with a heteroatom lone pair. In some cases, however, dipoles can be generated via the rearrangement of a reactive species, such as another dipole [40], or the thermolysis of a three-membered het-erocycHc ring [41]. 

Several other examples of a thieno benzazepine synthesized from substituted thieno aryls through nitrile ylides have been reported (1994JCS(P1)1193). 

Like many other 1,3-dipoles (e.g., nitrile ylides, imines, and oxides) (7), thiocarbonyl ylides undergo head-to-head dimerization to give sterically crowded 1,4-dithianes. The first reported example involves the formation of 2,2,3,3-tetraphenyl-l,4-dithiane (18) from thiobenzophenone (5)-methylide (16) (17,28) (cf. Scheme 5.3). Other (5)-methylides are known to form analogous 1,4-dithianes (e.g., thiofluorenone (5)-methylide yields 172) (17). The (5)-methylides of 4,4-dimethyl-2-phenyl-l,3-thiazole-5(4//)-thione (105) and methyl dithiobenzoate (60,104) dimerize to give compounds 173 and 174, respectively. 

Another example of a stable nitrile ylide (2 R,R = alkyl) was generated by the thermal decomposition of 7-azido-l,3-disubstituted lumazines in xylene (2). The product is formed via a complex multistep process. As in the case of 1, the stability is attributed to strong resonance stabilization of the anionic moiety but it is notable that this is the first isolable nitrile ylide that does not also rely on the presence of a bulky substituent at the nitrihum carbon. 

The first example of the direct observation of a thermally generated nitrile ylide has been reported (3). This was achieved by studying the thermal flash vacuum pyrolysis (FVP) decomposition of the oxazaphospholes 3 (R = t-Bu, Ph) via the... 

A -Silylmethyl-amidines and -thioamides (42) (X=NR or S) undergo alkylation at X with, for example methyl triflate, and then fluorodesilylation to give the azomethine ylides 43 (identical with 38 for the thioamides) (25,26). Cycloaddition followed by elimination of an amine or thiol, respectively, again leads to formal nitrile ylide adducts. These species again showed the opposite regioselectivity in reaction with aldehydes to that of true nitrile ylides. The thioamides were generally thought to be better for use in synthesis than the amidines and this route leads to better yields and less substituent dependence than the water-induced desilylation discussed above. 

The imino carbene complexes of tungsten and chromium (e.g., 81) also serve as nitrile ylide synthons (40). The mngsten complexes gave higher yields of the adducts and were strongly regioselective for product 82. For example, for 81 (M=W R = Me, Ph R = Pr, Ph R" = H), the pyrrole 82 was produced in yields of 65-75% with <1% of 83. This route to pyrroles thus has clear advantages over... 

Confirmation was provided by the observation that the species produced by the photolysis of two different carbene sources (88 and 89) in acetonitrile and by photolysis of the azirine 92 all had the same strong absorption band at 390 nm and all reacted with acrylonitrile at the same rate (fc=4.6 x 10 Af s" ). Rate constants were also measured for its reaction with a range of substituted alkenes, methanol and ferf-butanol. Laser flash photolysis work on the photolysis of 9-diazothioxan-threne in acetonitrile also produced a new band attributed the nitrile ylide 87 (47). The first alkyl-substituted example, acetonitrilio methylide (95), was produced in a similar way by the photolysis of diazomethane or diazirine in acetonitrile (20,21). This species showed a strong absorption at 280 nm and was trapped with a variety of electron-deficient olefinic and acetylenic dipolarophiles to give the expected cycloadducts (e.g., 96 and 97) in high yields. When diazomethane was used as the precursor, the reaction was carried out at —40 °C to minimize the rate of its cycloaddition to the dipolarophile. In the reactions with unsymmetrical dipolarophiles such as acrylonitrile, methyl acrylate, or methyl propiolate, the ratio of regioisomers was found to be 1 1. 

The cyano-substituted nitrile ylides 123 have been generated via 1,1-elimination reactions. For example, the benzyhdene derivative 122 (R=Ph) eliminated benzene on vapor phase pyrolysis to give 123 (R=Ph), which reacted via 1,5-electrocycli-zation [see also (66)] to give the isoindole 124 (41%) (67). In a similar way, 122 [R=(CH2)3CH=CH2] gave the corresponding nitrile yhde that reacted via intramolecular cycloaddition to give the pyrroline derivative 126. 

Nitrile ylides, generated by the imidoyl chloride-base route, have been added to 1-azetines (185) (X = 0, S) to give the adducts 186 in moderate to good yields (42-68%) (94,95). These examples are among the first cycloadditions to 1-azetines. In the case where Ar = Ph, the NMR spectrum of the product showed only one set... 

These results are rationalized on the basis of the intermediate formation of thio-substituted nitrile ylides 58 that undergo regioselective 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions with the dipolarophiles. Some examples are shown in Scheme 7.15. If a dipolaro-phile is not present in the reaction mixture the nitrile ylides 58 (R2 = Me) isomerize to give the 2-aza-1,3-butadienes 59 that can be trapped in a Diels-Alder reac-... 

Phosphites and 2,2-bis(trifluoromethyl)-5(2//)-oxazolone 71 react with elimination of carbon dioxide to give 2-aza-4-phospha-l,l-bis(trifluoromethyl)-l,3-butadiene 72 that can be used as a synthon for the previously unknown hydrogen-substituted nitrile ylide 72a in [3 + 2]-cycloaddition reactions. Examples of cycloadditions of 72a with dipolarophiles to give heterocyclic compounds 12t-ll are shown in Scheme 7.18. 

It is rare that a year passes without a report on the cyclisation of triene-conjugated nitrile ylides from Sharp and co-workers, and this year is no exception. In this example. 

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