Oxido reaction with nucleophile

Hydroxyamino)benzodiazepine (90) is acylated on oxygen upon reaction with acid chlorides (acetyl or benzoyl chloride) or isocyanates (methyl isocyanate) in the cold. On heating with acetic anhydride at 100°C, there is an oxido-reductive rearrangement to give the 3-acetoxy-2-methylamino derivative (91) (Scheme 14). This is considered to proceed by isomerization of the nitronium ion formed by cleavage of the N—O bond to the 3-carbonium ion which is trapped by the nucleophile (acetate) <80AP(313)926>. A similar mechanism is used to explain the formation of the 3-(l-imidazolyl) derivative (92) on reaction of (90) with carbonyl diimidazole. 

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