Other Five-Membered Heterocycles

4-trifluoroacetyl-2,3-dihydropyrroles 820 with hydrazines provided entry to trifluoromethylated pyrazoles 821 bearing a /3-aminoethyl side-chain (Equation 183) 1999TL2541 . The addition of hydrazine to functionalized furans led to a variety of 4,4 -bipyrazoles depending on the structure of the starting materials 2006TL8965 . 

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The conversion of furans by oxidative acetylation or methoxylation to 2,5-diacetoxy- or 2,5-dimethoxy-2,5-dihydrofurans respectively, and their subsequent hydrogenation to the corresponding tetrahydrofurans, provides a useful source of protected 1,4-dicarbonyl compounds capable of conversion inter alia into the other five-membered heterocycles [Pg.142]

Furans, thiophenes and pyrroles have all been obtained by addition of alkynic dienophiles to a variety of other five-membered heterocycles, as illustrated in Scheme 104. As the alkynic moiety provides carbons 3 and 4 of the resulting heterocycle, this synthetic approach provides an attractive way of introducing carbonyl containing substituents at these positions, especially as many of the heterocyclic substrates are readily generated. Such reactions do... 

A Hiickel model used for calculating aromaticity indicated that the isoxazole nucleus is considerably less aromatic than other five-membered heterocycles, including oxazole and furan. SCF calculations predicted that isoxazole is similar to oxazole. Experimental findings are somewhat difficult to correlate with calculations (79AHC(25)147). PRDDO calculations were compared with ab initio values and good agreement for the MO values was reported... 

Prototropic tautomerism of isoxazole derivatives has been well studied over a number of years and has recently been reviewed in context with similar behavior in other five-membered heterocycles (70C134, 76AHC(Sl)l, 79AHC(25)147, p. 202). Several generalizations are summarized below. 

The application of spectroscopic methods to the study of tautom-erism proved especially fruitful. The tautomerism of hydroxy and amino derivatives of isoxazole is of great interest to the chemistry of isoxazole this subject, as well as the tautomerism of functional derivatives of other five-membered heterocycles, has been reviewed by Katritzky and Lagowski. We shall therefore only... 

As mentioned in CHEC-II(1996), three main routes have been reported for the formation of furazan rings (1) the dehydrative cyclisation of 1,2-dioxims (2) the deoxygenation of furoxans and (3) the Boulton-Katritzky rearrangement of other five-membered heterocyclic systems <1996CHEC-II(4)229>. In this section the recent publications on the synthesis of furazans published after 1996 are discussed. 

Other five-membered heterocyclic enones used in [2 + 2] photocycloadditions are 1//-pyrrole-2,3-diones86-88 and derivatives of maleic anhydride. Some cycloadducts of dimethylmaleic anhydride and unsaturated acid esters have been used as monomers for condensation polymers.89... 

Carbon-heteroatom bond forming reactions are also efficient in introducing amines onto other five membered heterocycles. 2-, and 3-bromothiophene were both coupled with diphenylamine using the highly active palladium-PlBih catalyst system. The reactions furnished the desired products in both cases, although the yield varied significantly with the substitution pattern (6.75.),106... 

Numerous other five-membered heterocycles have been found to produce herbicidal effects (74ZN(C)232), such as pyrazolones, thiadiazolones, polyhaloimidazoles and 1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-ones, an important example of which is oxadiazon (14) (68BRP1110500). This is synthesized by cyclization of the 2-(pivaloyl)phenylhydrazine (15) with carbonyl chloride (Scheme 5). 

Other five-membered heterocycles such as thiophenes, thiazoles and oxazoles have been successfully annellated in the anthraquinone series. For example, the yellow dye (12) may be prepared from 2,6-diaminoanthraquinone by condensation with benzotrichloride and sulfur. Similarly, the six-membered heterocycles acridines, quinoneazines, pyrazines, acridones and pyrimidines are frequently incorporated (B-52MI11201). In fact, the best known of the anthraquinone vat dyes are indanthrone (13) and flavanthrone (14). The former anthraquinoneazine, a beautiful blue, which was the first such structure to be manufactured on a large scale, may be prepared by alkali fusion of 2-aminoanthraquinone at 220 °C (27MI11200). Treatment of 2-aminoanthraquinone in nitrobenzene with antimony pentachloride yields the yellow flavanthrone (14), the structure being confirmed by Scholl (07CB1691). Both indanthrone and flavanthrone and their derivatives have attracted considerable commercial attention. 

The variety of aromaticity indices based upon structural or magnetic molecular properties along with their values for pyrrole, the other five-membered heterocycles, benzene and cyclopentadiene are summarized in Table 31 in Section 3.01.5.2. Of these indices, the majority predict the aromaticity order benzene >thiophen>pyrrole >furan, in agreement with resonance energy calculations (Section 3.01.5.2). 

Phenyl ethylenesulfonate, 241 Tin(IV) chloride, 300 Containing one sulfur 2,4-Bis(4-me thoxyphenyl)-1,3-dithia-2,4-diphosphetane-2,4-disulfide, 38 Titanium(IV) chloride-Zinc, 310 Other five-membered heterocycles Carbon dioxide, 65 Methanesulfonyl chloride, 176 Six-membered rings Containing one nitrogen—piperidines Dichlorotris(triphenylphosphine)-ruthenium(II), 107 Mercury(II) trifluoroacetate, 175 Tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)-palladium(O), 289... 

The synthesis of several complex l,4-(oxa/thia)-2-azole derivatives 260-262 from other five-membered heterocycles has been reported in CHEC-II(1996) <1996CHEC-II(4)535>. 

Table 7 Reactivities of Some Azoles and Other Five-membered Heterocycles in Acid-catalyzed Deuteriodeprotonation <74JCS(P2)399>...

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