4-phenyl-5- -2-substituted oxazoles

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. 

Diels-Alder reactions of oxazoles afford useful syntheses of pyridines (Scheme 53) (74AHC( 17)99). A study of the effect of substituents on the Diels-Alder reactivity of oxazoles has indicated that rates decrease with the following substituents alkoxy > alkyl > acyl >> phenyl. The failure of 2- and 5-phenyl-substituted oxazoles to react with heterodienophiles is probably due to steric crowding. In certain cases, bicyclic adducts of type (359) have been isolated and even studied by an X-ray method (87BCJ432) they can also decompose to yield furans (Scheme 54). With benzyne, generated at 0°C from 1-aminobenzotriazole and lead tetraacetate under dilute conditions, oxazoles form cycloadducts (e.g. 360) in essentially quantitative yield (90JOC929). They can be handled at room temperature and are decomposed at elevated temperatures to isobenzofuran. 

Sec. II.B] NITRATION OF PHENYL-SUBSTITUTED HETEROCYCLES 239 5. Oxazoles and Isoxazoles... 

The highly reactive intermediate isoimides of the type 209 have actually been obtained as reaction products when fused-ring oxazoles are employed as substrates. For example, the photosensitized autoxidation of the phenyl-substituted oxazole 211 in methanol yields the iV-benzoylimino anhydride (212 ).126-362 Further studies on the reaction of oxazoles with singlet oxygen... 

Oxazole, 2-dimethylamino-4-phenyl-nitration, 6, 190 Oxazole, 2,5-diphenyl-irradiation, 6, 189 nitration, 6, 190 oxidation, 6, 187 reduction, 6, 194 synthesis, 6, 222 Oxazole, 4,5-diphenyl-mercuration, 6, 190 2-substituted... 

The aldehyde functionality present in 3-phenyl-2H-azirine-2-carbox-aldehyde reacts selectively with amines and with Qrignard and Wittig reagents to give a variety of substituted azirines. These azirines have been used, in turn, to prepare a wide assortment of heterocyclic rings such as oxazoles, imidazoles, pyrazoles, pyrroles, and benzazepins. ... 

Oxazoles have attracted considerable interest due their presence as subunits of several biologically active compoimds or as rigid mimetics of a peptidic ring. A first synthesis of 2-phenyl-4,5-substituted oxazoles 54 [47] was described by microwave-assisted reaction of enolizable ketones with benzoni-trile in the presence of mercury(II) p-toluenesulfonate (Scheme 17). 

It is of interest to note that these were not the first benzoates substituted in the ortho position with a heterocyclic ring to show effects in plants. Invariably, however, in these earlier cases the heterocyclic ring was an aromatic one such as a pyrazole or oxazole substituted with a phenyl group ( -4). 

Because of the presence of the extra phenyl substituent in the present case, further enolization is prevented, and therefore ring closure to an oxazole cannot occur. Thus, prevented from further reaction, the adduct undergoes a slow breakdown to reproduce the original enolate, and the 2-oxazole anion, which is then able to react irreversibly with the benzaldehyde to produce the observed 2-substituted oxazole product. 

Reaction of 232 with 4-substituted l,3-oxazol-5(4/7)-one 247 led to diacylhydrazines 248 or to imidazole derivatives 249 depending on the reaction temperature (Scheme 24). l,2,4-Triazole-3-thione 250 was obtained by a two-step sequence from 232 with phenyl isothiocyanate and subsequent base-catalyzed cyclization of thiosemicarbazide 251. The effects of hydrazones 241-246 on inhibition of photosynthetic electron transport in spinach chloroplasts and chlorophyll content in the antialgal suspensions of Chlorella vulgaris were investigated <2005CEC622>. 

Conjugate addition to (35 ,7a/ )-3,7a-dihydro-3-phenyl-l//,5f/-pyrrolof1,2-r ]oxazol-5-onc (8) yields the saturated -substituted bicyclic lactams 9 with complete diastereoselectivity13. Treatment of the latter with 2.2 equivalents of lithium diisopropylamide in tetrahydrofuran at — 78 °C, followed by alkylation with a haloalkane, furnishes the a,/i-dialkylatcd products 10 with excellent selectivity (d.r. >98.5 1.5, determined by H and 13CNMR)13. In this case the major diastereomer has the cw-relationship between the newly introduced substituent (R2) in the pyrrolidine ring and the fused oxazolidinc ring rcsiduc13. 

Photolysis of l-ethoxycarbonyl-5,5-dialkoxytriazolines bearing a 4-alkyl substituent has been found to proceed via 1,3-diradicals, whereas a 1,5 pathway prevails in the absence of 4-substitution.268 Photolysis of the 4-phenyl compound (see Scheme 68) leads to an oxazole.404... 

Ferrini and Marxer65 have recently shown that vinylene carbonate reacts with primary amides, in the presence of polyphosphoric acid, to yield 2-substituted oxazole derivatives. Yields are low (2-34%), and phenoxy- and phenyl-acetamide, p-methylbenzamide, and salicylamide do not give oxazole derivatives. Although the reaction has been interpreted according to Scheme 3, the nucleophilic attack of a nitrile molecule (from the amide dehydration), with a nitrilium salt as intermediate (Scheme 4), cannot be excluded.06... 

The UV and fluorescence characteristics of simple substituted oxazoles have been discussed in the early review, which also made mention of the utility of 2,5-diaryl derivatives as scintillators (3). Among the natural products, the 2,5-diaryl compounds halfordinol (16), halfordine (17), O-isopentenylhalfordinol (19), balsoxin (25), O-methylhalfordinoI (22), compound 24, texamine (26), and texa-line (27) reportedly display a high intensity (log e 3.61-4.63) band in the range 323-354 nm (Table III). In the 2-pyridyl-5-phenyl derivatives this band undergoes a bathochromic shift of 17-23 nm on acidification (Table III), which may be rationalized by the formation of the pyridinium salt (e.g., 204) for O-isopentenylhalfordinol (19). In 204 the 2-pyridinium substituent is obviously... 

Attempts to carry out substitution reactions on oxazoles in acid media, such as nitration with nitric and sulfuric acids or chlorosulfonation, fail because the highly electron-deficient oxazolium cation is involved. Phenyloxazoles are nitrated at the para positions of the phenyl groups 2,5-diphenyloxazole affords 5-(4-nitrophenyl)-2-phenyloxazole, as expected. Nitrooxazoles are now available by the action of dinitrogen tetroxide on the corresponding iodo compounds (81JHC885). Benzoxazoles are nitrated at the benzene ring thus 2-methyl-benzoxazole gives a mixture of 5- and 6-nitro derivatives. 

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