1.3.4- Oxadiazoles reactions

Carboxylic acid hydiazides are prepared from aqueous hydrazine and tfie carboxylic acid, ester, amide, anhydride, or halide. The reaction usually goes poody with the free acid. Esters are generally satisfactory. Acyl halides are particularly reactive, even at room temperature, and form the diacyl derivatives (22), which easily undergo thermal dehydration to 1,3,4-oxadiazoles (23). Diesters give dihydtazides (24) and polyesters such as polyacrylates yield a polyhydrazide (25). The chemistry of carboxyhc hydrazides has been reviewed (83,84). 

In azole chemistry the total effect of the several heteroatoms in one ring approximates the superposition of their separate effects. It is found that pyrazole, imidazole and isoxazole undergo nitration and sulfonation about as readily as nitrobenzene thiazole and isothiazole react less readily ica. equal to m-dinitrobenzene), and oxadiazoles, thiadiazoles, triazoles, etc. with great difficulty. In each case, halogenation is easier than the corresponding nitration or sulfonation. Strong electron-donor substituents help the reaction. 

Oxazoles are easily cleaved. 2,5-Dialkyl-l,3,4-oxadiazoles (159) in aqueous solution with acid or base give hydrazides (if suitable substituents are present, further reaction can occur see Section 4.02.3.5.1). 3-Methyl-l,2,4-oxadiazole (160) is easily hydrolyzed to acetamidoxime (61CKL)292). 

Isoxazoles unsubstituted in the 3-position react with hydroxide or ethoxide ions to give )3-keto nitriles (243) -> (244). This reaction involves nucleophilic attack at the 3-CH group. 1,2-Benzisoxazoles unsubstituted in the 3-position similarly readily give salicylyl nitriles (67AHC(8)277), and 5-phenyl-l,3,4-oxadiazole (245) is rapidly converted in alkaline solution into benzoylcyanamide (246) (61CI(L)292). A similar cleavage is known for 3-unsubstituted pyrazoles and indazoles the latter yield o-cyanoanilines. 

In the 1,2,4-thiadiazole ring the electron density at the 5-position is markedly lower than at the 3-position, and this affects substituent reactions. 5-Halogeno derivatives, for example, approach the reactivity of 4-halogenopyrimidines. The 1,2,4-oxadiazole ring shows a similar difference between the 3- and 5-positions. 

Additional nitrogen atoms facilitate such reactions, particularly if they are a or y to the alkyl group, and, if a, act across a formal double bond. Thus, the 5-methyl group in 3,5-dimethyl-l,2,4-oxadiazole is much more reactive than the 3-methyl group in this compound or the methyl groups in 2,5-dimethyl-l,3,4-oxadiazole (76AHC(20)65). 

Reaction of a hydrazide (128) with phosgeneiminium chloride (115) led to the 2-dimethylamino-l,3,4-oxadiazole (129) in 90% yield (75AG(E)806). The 1,3,4-thiadiazole system was also obtained in an analogous reaction in which the dithioimidate (130) underwent reaction with the thiohydrazide (131). Depending on the nature of X in (131), the 2-substituent in the resultant 1,3,4-thiadiazole (132) may be varied (80ZC413). Although (130)... 

The reaction is illustrated by the conversion of the 1,2,4-oxadiazole oxime (504) into the 3-acylamino-l,2,5-oxadiazole (505). This irreversible rearrangement occurred on heating (504) in hydrochloric acid (81AHC(29)l4l). Isoxazoles also undergo this rearrangement and these are discussed in Chapter 4.16. 

Oxadiazole, 2-amino-5-aryl-biological activity, 6, 445 reactions, 6, 439... 

Oxadiazole, 2-phenyl-melting point, 6, 430 molecular diagrams, 6, 428 reactions... 

Hydrocarbon oxadiazoles do not readily undergo Diels-Alder reactions, but 2,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)-l, 3,4-oxadiazole reacts with a number of strained or elec-... 

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