1,3,4-Oxadiazoles, from acylhydrazones synthesis

Table 2 Representative examples of the synthesis of oxadiazole derivatives 122 from acylhydrazones 110a...

The 1,3,4-oxadiazole 113 is formed from the azo compound 112 by the action of triphenylphosphine <96SL652>. A general synthesis of 1,3.4-oxadiazolines consists in boiling an acylhydrazone with an acid anhydride (e.g., Scheme 18) <95JHC1647>. 2-Alkoxy-2-amino-l,3,4-oxadiazolines are sources of alkoxy(amino)carbenes the spiro compound 114, for instance, decomposes in boiling benzene to nitrogen, acetone and the carbene 115, which was trapped as the phenyl ether 116 in the presence of phenol <96JA4214>. 

Substituted acylhydrazones (95), formally derivatives of 1,2-diacylhydrazines (75), also cyclize to oxadiazoles (76), with loss of HX. Imidol ethers (95a R2 = H), prepared from acylhydrazines R1CONHNH2 and ortho esters HC(OR)3, cyclize on heating to monosub-stituted oxadiazoles (76 R1 = H). This reaction is an important synthesis of monosubstituted... 

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