Nucleophilic substitution nitrogen nucleophile cyclization

Chloro-3-methylthio-l,2,4-thiadiazol-2-ium salts 51 have undergone nucleophilic displacement with a variety of nitrogen and carbon nucleophiles to give bicyclic compounds such as 52. The substitution reaction and cyclization... 

An alternative substrate design, in which the alkene radical cation is substituted only at the internal position, forces the nucleophilic cyclization into the endocyclic mode, leading overall to bicyclic systems with a bridgehead nitrogen (Scheme 31) [139,140]. 

Other interesting regioselective reactions are carried out within the synthesis of nitrofurantoin. Benzaidehyde semicarbazone substitutes chlorine in chloroacetic ester with the most nucleophilic hydrazone nitrogen atom. Transamidation of the ester occurs with the di-protic outer nitrogen atom. Only one nucleophilic nitrogen atom remains in the cyclization product and reacts exclusively with carbonyl compounds. 

Intramolecular nucleophilic displacement of the bromo group by an azine-nitrogen occurs in the cyclization of A-2-quinaldyl-2-bromo-pyridinium bromide (248) to give the naphthoimidazopyridinium ring system. The reaction of 2-bromopyridine and pyridine 1-oxide yields l-(2-pyridoxy)pyridinium bromide (249) which readily undergoes an intramolecular nucleophilic substitution in which departure of hydrogen as a proton presumably facilitates the formation of 250 by loss of the JV-oxypyridyl moiety. 

Nucleophilic aromatic substitution of the anthranilic acid derivatives, 72, on ortho-bromonitrobenzene affords the diphenyl-amine, 73. The ester is then saponified and the nitro group reduced to the amine (74). Cyclization of the resulting amino acid by heat affords the lactam (75). Alkylation on the amide nitrogen with 2-dimethylaminoethyl chloride by means of sodium amide affords dibenzepine (76). ... 

Another type of dehalogenation occurs in xenobiotic metabolism, namely halide elimination with cyclization. These intramolecular nucleophilic substitutions are discussed in Sect. 11.4.2 (nitrogen mustards) and 11.8. 

A direct aza-Wittig cyclization to triazolotriazine 176 (Scheme 67) takes place when triazinone 174 is treated with diphenylthiourea, the latter being substituted on the nitrogen. Elimination of triphenylphosphane sulfide from 175 makes 1,2,4-triazole accessible [86JCS(P1)2037]. When the nucleophilic attack continues on the sulfur, thiadiazoles are formed [86JCS(P1)2037]. 

Other nitrogen nucleophiles such as hydrazines, hydrazides, and Schiff bases have affected ring opening of oxazolones. Most often, hydrazine or substituted hydrazines are used. For example, hydrazinolysis of 525 affords the corresponding hydrazides 526 that, depending upon the substituents and the reaction conditions, can cyclize in the reaction medium to the aminoimidazolone 527 (Scheme 7.167 ... 

The intramolecular nucleophilic attack of a nitrogen atom on an allylpalladium complex was also used to construct a five and a six membered heterocycle in the same step. TV-substituted 2-iodobenzamides bearing an allene function in the appropriate distance from the iodine underwent cyclization through the carbopalladation of the allene moiety by the arylpalladium complex, formed in the first step of the catalytic cycle. The intermediate allylpalladium complex, part of a nine membered ring, cyclized readily to give the pyrroloisoquinolone derivative in excellent yield (4.23.). The nature of the added ligand and the solvent both had a marked influence on the efficiency of the transformation.26... 

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