Oxazoles amides

An iterative oxazole assembly via a-chloroglycinates 152, obtained from primary amides by treatment with glyoxylate esters and SOCI2, has been reported. Compounds 152 reacted rapidly with dimethylaluminium acetylides to give oxazoles 153. This technique allows polyoxazole construction and has been exploited for the total synthesis of (-)-muscoride A 155, by application of the same sequence to the intermediate oxazole amide 154 <03AG(E)1411>. 

In a different approach, microwave-mediated oxazole synthesis utilizing ji-ketoesters bound to a novel polymeric resin has been described [57]. The desired polymer support was prepared by transesterification reactions between tert-butyl j5-ketoesters and hydroxybutyl functionalized Janda/el resin, and subsequent standard diazo transfer. The resulting a-diazo j5-ketoesters have been used for synthesis of an array of oxazoles (Scheme 16.34). Because of the thermal sensitivity of the Burgess reagent used, the temperature was kept rather low, but irradiation for 15 min at 100 °C furnished satisfactory results [57]. Cleavage from the solid support was achieved by diversity-introducing amidation this led to the corresponding oxazole amides in reasonable yields. 

Chattopadhyay and Pattenden first demonstrated the viability of such a synthetic strategy in a model system designed to construct the basic tris-oxazole core. The oxazole amino alcohol 1573 was prepared from Gamer s acid " 1572 in four steps (Scheme 1.401). Serine benzyl ester was the starting material for 2-(acetoxymethyl)-4-oxazolecarbonyl chloride 1574. Acylation of 1573 with 1574 produced the bis-oxazole amide 1575. The differentially functionalized model tris-oxazole 1576 was then prepared from 1575 in two straightforward steps. 

Oxazoles are also obtained by the reaction of a-halogenoketones (78) with primary amides (the Bliimlein-Lewy synthesis), and this method is particularly appropriate for oxazoles containing one or more aryl groups as in (79). Formamide may also be used in this process, resulting in a free 2-position in the oxazole, and when a urea derivative (80) is used, 2-aminooxazoles (81) are formed (80ZOR2185, 78IJC(B)1030, 78JIC264). Numerous applications of these procedures are described in Chapter 4.18. 

ROBINSON - GABRIEL OxazoleSynthesis Oxazole synthesis from amides of a-aminoketones... 

Dewar and Turchi carried out similar rearrangements of secondary and tertiary alkyl and aryl oxazole-4-carboxamides (5a-e) to the corresponding secondary and tertiary 5-aminooxazoles (6a-e). For example, they realized yields > 90% when the amide nitrogen is part of a heterocyclic ring system. 

In 1949, Comforth showed that preparation of 2,5-disubstituted oxazoles was not limited to diaryloxazoles through condensation of aldehydes (benzaldehyde, n-hept-aldehyde) with a-hydroxy-amides (lactamide). The intermediate oxazolidone 13 were converted into oxazoles 14 on warming with phosphoryl chloride. ... 

Wasserman demonstrated with 0 labeling studies that the amide carbonyl oxygen is incorporated into the oxazole ring upon cyclization... 

Wipf and Miller have reported side-chain oxidation of 3-hydroxy amides with the Dess-Martin periodinane, followed by immediate cyclodehydration with triphenylphosphine-iodine, which provides a versatile extension of the Robinson-Gabriel method to substituted oxazoles. Application of this method was used to prepare the oxazole fragment 10 in 55% overall yield from 3-hydroxy amide 8. 

More recently, Williams has described the one pot synthesis of 2-substituted oxazoles 11 by the thermolysis of triazole amides 9 the reaction does not proceed photo-chemically.<92TL1033> Although the reaction does not involve addition to a nitrile, it is an interesting application of a diazo compound since the proposed zwitterionic intermediate 10 is a resonance form of a diazo imine, so formally the reaction may be thought of as a thermal decomposition of a diazo imine (Scheme 6). 

To date most of the nitriles studied have been simple alkyl or aromatic derivatives with little other functionality. We recently attempted to extend the reaction to iV-protected a-aminonitriles, derived by dehydration of a-aminoacid amides (Path A, Scheme 25), but this proved unsatisfactory, and therefore we investigated an alternative diazocarbonyl based route in which the order of steps was reversed, i.e. a rhodium catalysed N-H insertion reaction on the amide followed by cyclodehydration to the oxazole (Path B, Scheme 25). 

Furthermore, oxazoles of type 9-82 bearing a secondary amino functionality can be converted into pyrrolo[3,4-b]pyridines 9-86 by reaction with appropriate acid chlorides 9-83 in a triple domino process consisting of amide formation/hetero Diels-Alder reaction and retro-Michael cycloreversion via 9-84 and 9-85 (Scheme 9.17). The pyrrolo[3,4-fc]pyridines can be obtained in even higher yields when the whole sequence is carried out as a four-component synthesis in toluene. Here, 1.5 equiv. NH4C1 must be added for the formation of the now intermediate oxazoles [56b]. 

In NRPs and hybrid NRP-PK natural products, the heterocycles oxazole and thiazole are derived from serine and cysteine amino acids respectively. For their creation, a cyclization (or Cy) domain is responsible for nucleophilic attack of the side-chain heteroatom within a dipeptide upon the amide carbonyl joining the amino acids [61]. Once the cyclic moiety is formed, the ring may be further oxidized, to form the oxazoline/thiazoline, or reduced, to form oxazolidine/thiazolidine (Figure 13.20). For substituted oxazoles and thiazoles, such as those... 

The preparation of 3-vinylpyrroles was investigated utilizing the Horner-Wads worth-Emmons reaction with 3-formyl-lV-tosylpyrrole <06S1494>. The intramolecular acylation of pyrrole-2-Weinreb amides provided access to novel indolizinone derivatives <06T6182>. The amidation of pyrrole-2-carbonyl chloride was utilized as a key step in the preparation of pyrrole-oxazole analogue 90 of the insecticide Pirate <06S1975>. 

Several new methods for the synthesis of the oxazole nucleus were published. A new consecutive three-component oxazole synthesis by an amidation-coupling-cycloisomerisation sequence was developed. The synthesis started from propargylamine 92 and acyl chlorides. To extend this process, a four component sequence involving a carbonylative arylation by substitution of one acyl chloride with an aryl iodide and a CO atmosphere was also performed <06CC4817>. 

The use of Zn(OTf)2 with a Ru complex, TpRuPPh3(MeCN)2PF6, proved useful for the cyclization of propargyl alcohols 99 with amides. The reaction proceeded through the intermediate 100 which was also isolated from the reaction mixture when only the Zn catalyst was used. Upon heating with the mixture of the two catalysts, compound 100 was completely converted into the final oxazole 101 <06JOC4951>. 

When l-[diazo(methoxycarbonyl)acetyl]-2-oxopyrrolidine derivative 231 was treated with Rh2(pfm)4 (pfm = per-fluorobutyro amidate) in the presence of W-phenylmaleimide, none of the desired dipolar cycloadduct was formed but instead the acidic proton at C-3 in the isomiinchnone intermediate 232 was transferred, and the fused oxazoli-dinone 3-oxo-2,3,5,6-tetrahydropyrrolo[2,l- ]oxazole-2,7-dicarboxylic acid dimethyl ester 233 was isolated in 77% yield (Scheme 33) <1997JOC6842>. 

The rhodium acetate complex catalyzed the intramolecular C-H insertion of (/ )-diazo-fR)-(phenylsulfonyl)acet-amides 359 derived from (f )-amino acids to afford in high yield the 6-benzenesulfonyl-3,3-dimethyl-7-phenyl-tetrahydro-pyrrolo[l,2-c]oxazol-5-one 360 (Equation 63) <2002JOC6582, 2005TL143>. 

In a similar way, carboxylic esters have been obtained stoichiometrically by ortho palladation of aromatic amides (Scheme 25) [147] and of phenyl-substituted isoxazoles or oxazoles [148] followed by alkoxycarbonylation. 

Corey s retrosynthetic concept (Scheme 9) is based on two key transformations a cationic cyclization and an intramolecular Diels-Alder (IMDA) reaction. Thus, cationic cychzation of diene 50 would give a precursor 49 for epf-pseudo-pteroxazole (48), which could be converted into 49 via nitration and oxazole formation. Compound 50 would be obtained by deamination of compound 51 and subsequent Wittig chain elongation. A stereocontroUed IMDA reaction of quinone imide 52 would dehver the decaline core of 51. IMDA precursor 52 should be accessible by amide couphng of diene acid 54 and aminophenol 53 followed by oxidative generation of the quinone imide 52 [28]. 

The preferential formation of ( )-alkene on Wittig reaction of phenyl 3-pyridyl ketones (bearing an oxazole carboxamide group at the / -position of the phenyl ring) with Ph3P=CH(CH2)4C02 K+ has been attributed to interaction between the amide (rather than oxazole) moiety and the carboxyl terminus during oxaphosphetane formation. ... 

Reaction of Ser-OMe with benzimino ethyl ester resulted in the formation of an oxazoline without racemization (Scheme 27) (85T2379). After forming an amide with 2-amino-l-phenylethanol, Af-phthalimido AAs were oxidized with CrOs and dehydrated by POCI3 to give substituted oxazoles (91JHC1241). 

Gamez-Montaho et al. described an Ugi variation where the carboxylic acid was replaced with an amide [68]. The amide oxygen is nucleophilic enough to effect ring closure to oxazole intermediates 44, which then undergo aza-Diels-Alder reaction with the double bond of the allylic amine component to form oxa-bridged heterocycles 45, which can either be isolated as a separate class of compounds or converted to pyrrolopyridines 46 by treatment with TEA (Scheme 8). 

In 2007, Tron and Zhu reported the multicomponent synthesis of 5-iminoox-azolines (42) starting from a,a-disubstituted secondary isocyano amides (41), amines, and carbonyl components (see Fig. 15) [155]. The reaction presumably follows a similar mechanism as in the 2,4,5-trisubstituted oxazole MCR (described in Fig. 11) however, because of the absence of a-protons at the isocyano amide 41, the nonaromatized product is obtained. As in the 2,4,5-trisubstituted oxazole MCR, toluene was found to be the optimal solvent in combination with a weak Brpnsted acid. The reaction was studied for a range of aldehydes and secondary amines. In addition, a variety of functionalities such as acetate, free hydroxyl group, carbamate, and esters are tolerated. Clean conversions were observed for this MCR as indicated by NMR analysis of the crude products (isolated yield 50-68%). The... 

The structural diversity (and complexity) of the products obtained by the MCR between tertiary isocyano amides, aldehydes, and amines could be increased to various heterocyclic scaffolds by combining the initial 2,4,5-tiisubstituted oxazole MCR with in situ intramolecular tandem processes (Fig. 17). Most tandem processes reported are based on the reactivity of the oxazole ring toward C=C or C=C bonds in hetero Diels-Alder reactions followed by ring opening reactions generating the rather complex heterocyclic products with high degrees of variation. 

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