1.2.4- Oxadiazoles thermolysis

Oxadiazoles. Thermolysis of the oxadiazoline (453) yields the carbonyl ylide (454) as an unstable intermediate,which rearranges to the olefin... 

Nitrosation of hetaryl acetic hydrazide 249 gives azide 250, which on thermolysis affords furazan 251 and 1,2,4-oxadiazole 252 (Scheme 165) (79JHC689). Depending on the solvent, different ratios of 251 and 252 were obtained. A higher proportion of furazan 251 (up to 70%) was formed in CHCI3. 

A more versatile approach is the thermolysis of tetrazolides, which leads to oxadiazoles in excellent yield [142],[143]... 

The major fragmentation in mass spectra of 1,2,5-oxadiazoles is attributed to the loss of nitrile and nitrile oxide or expulsion of NO. The conversion of 3,4-dicyano-l,2,5-oxadiazole-2-oxide (3,4-dicyanofuroxan) 10 to cyanogen iV-oxide 11 (Equation 5) was investigated under the conditions of collisional activation (CA) and neutralization-reionization (NR) mass spectrometry. Flash vacuum thermolysis mass-spectrometry (FVT-MS) and flash vacuum thermolysis infra-red (FVT-IR) investigations of furoxans 10, 12, and 13 reveal that small amounts of cyano isocyanate accompany the formation of the main thermolysis product 11 <2000J(P2)473>. 

Acyl nitroso compounds react with 1, 3-dienes as N-O heterodienophiles to produce cycloadducts, which have found use in the total synthesis of a number of nitrogen-containing natural products [21]. The cycloadducts of acyl nitroso compounds and 9,10-dimethylanthracene (4, Scheme 7.3) undergo thermal decomposition through retro-Diels-Alder reactions to produce acyl nitroso compounds under non-oxidative conditions and at relatively mild temperatures (40-100°C) [11-14]. Decomposition of these compounds provides a particularly clean method for the formation of acyl nitroso compounds. Photolysis or thermolysis of 3, 5-diphenyl-l, 2, 4-oxadiazole-4-oxide (5) generates the aromatic acyl nitroso compound (6) and ben-zonitrile (Scheme 7.3) [22, 23]. Other reactions that generate acyl nitroso compounds include the treatment of 5 with a nitrile oxide [24], the addition of N-methyl morpholine N-oxide to nitrile oxides and the decomposition of N, O-diacylated or alkylated N-hydroxyarylsulfonamides [25-29]. 

Thermolysis of tetrazole oximes (478) in a suitable hydrocarbon solvent, or pyrolysis without it, produces 3,5-disubstituted 1,2,4-oxadiazoles (480) (Scheme 75) (81BSB193 87BSB675 91MIP137367). in the case of 5-unsubstituted tetrazoles (478 R = H), the reaction goes by two concomitant pathways, which imply elimination of hydrazoic acid or nitrogen. 

The dimethoxymethanofullerene 335 has been synthesized via the corresponding carbene, which was prepared in situ upon thermolysis of the oxadiazole 334 in 32% yield (Scheme 4.68) [113],... 

Tetrazoles (130) and nitrile oxides form mixtures of isomers (131) and (132) (Scheme 59). While thermolysis of (132) (R H) gives 1,2,4-oxadiazoles (134) via azides (133) almost quantitatively, compounds (131) decompose to mixtures of products (Scheme 59) <87BSB675>. 

Muchall et al. (98CC238) have recently investigated the gas-phase thermolysis of 2,5-dihydro-2,2-dimethoxy-2,5,5-trimethyl-l//-l,2,4-oxadiazole (75) by PE spectroscopy. Decomposition of 75 was induced by means of a continuous wave (CW) C02 laser as directed heat source at 26 W, which corresponds to a temperature of 500 50°C. When the PE spectra of acetone, tetramethoxyethene, and dimethyl oxalate were subtracted from the pyrolysis spectrum, a sim-ple spectrum remained that could be identified as that of dimethoxycarbene. Thermolysis in solution (94JA1161) had shown formation of tetramethoxyethene, and FVP experiments (92JA8751) gave dimethyl oxalate, both of which arise from the common precursor, dimethoxycarbene. Thermolysis of oxadiazolines similar to 75 in solution affords dialkoxycarbenes via an intermediate carbonyl ylide (94JOC5071). 

The products of the thermolysis of 3-phenyl-5-(arylamino)-l,2,4-oxadiazoles and thiazoles have been accounted for by a radical mechanism.266 Flash vacuum pyrolysis of 1,3-dithiolane-1-oxides has led to thiocarbonyl compounds, but the transformation is not general.267 hi an ongoing study of silacyclobutane pyrolysis, CASSF(4,4), MR-CI and CASSCF(4,4)+MP2 calculations using the 3-21G and 6-31G basis sets have modelled the reaction between silenes and ethylene, suggesting a cyclic transition state from which silacyclobutane or a trcins-biradical are formed.268 An AMI study of the thermolysis of 1,3,3-trinitroazacyclobutane and its derivatives has identified gem-dinitro C—N bond homolysis as the initial reaction.269 Similar AMI analysis has determined the activation energy of die formation of NCh from methyl nitrate.270 Thermal decomposition of nitromethane in a shock tube (1050-1400 K, 0.2-40 atm) was studied spectrophotometrically, allowing determination of rate constants.271... 

C6o reacts with diazomethane to yield fulleroids [97,99,100,234], Carbene generated from the thermolysis of precursors such as diazirines, sodium trichloroac-etate, cyclopropene, oxadiazole, and tosylhydrazone [60,235] adds onto C6o leading to methanofullerenes [12,15,236], Recently, Akasaka et al. described the photochemical reaction of diazirine with C6o [237], Irradiation of a benzene solution of 2-adamantane-2,3 -[3H]-diazirine 58 and C6o with a high pressure mercury lamp (cutoff <300 nm) at 15°C in a Pyrex tube resulted in the formation of mixture of the isomers 59a and 59b in a ratio of 51/49 (Scheme 24). 

An interesting but not synthetically useful reaction has been reported by Mloston and co-workers <2002CEJ2184>. The treatment of 2,2,4,4-tetramethylcyclobutan-l,3-dithione with dimethoxycarbene, generated by thermolysis of 2,2-dimethoxy-5,5-dimethyl-2,5-dihydro-[l,3,4]oxadiazole, led to the formation of 4-isopropyl-idene-3,3-dimethyl-thietane-2-thione in trace amounts (2% yield), together with other products (Equation 23). 

Carbon dioxide is lost on thermolysis of 4-ethoxycarbonyl-2-phenyl-A2-l,3,4-oxadiazo-line-5-thione. Migration of the ethyl group from oxygen to sulfur leads to the product, 5-ethylthio-2-phenyl-l,3,4-oxadiazole (78IJC(B)146). 

Cyclization in phosphorus oxychloride of semicarbazides (79 X = NHR) yields aminooxadiazoles (81) whereas thermolysis leads to loss of ammonia (when X = NH2) and formation of an oxadiazolinone (80). Cyclization to aminooxadiazoles (81) occurs when thiosemicarbazides (82) are heated with an oxidizing agent such as lead oxide. This reaction has been widely applied to the synthesis of aminooxadiazoles, sometimes in low yields, and has been used to prepare 2-amino-l,3,4-oxadiazole (81 R1 =R2 = H). 5-Methyl ethers of thiosemicarbazides (82) cyclize, with loss of methanethiol, to aminooxadiazoles (81) on heating, but in PPA cyclization to 2-methylthio-l,3,4-oxadiazoles occurs. 

The thermolysis of 2-methyl-5-phenyl-l,3,4-oxadiazol-2-(3H)-one 106 produces a nitrile imine intermediate 105 which rearranges to the carbodiimide 107. The same carbodi-imide is obtained in the thermolysis of 2-methyl-5-phenyltetrazole 104. 

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