Reactions of Nitrile Imines

3-Dipolar cycloadditions of nitrile imines with alkenes lead to 2-pyrazolines. Moderate select vities are observed in reactions with the acrylate of (/ )-pantolactone. 

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Intramolecular reactions of nitrile imines as a fruitful source of heterocycles 98H(47)541. 

Bcnzotriazepincs 10 are produced in the reaction of nitrile imines 9 with 2-phenyl-benzazctc.379... 

An alternative strategy for generating 4,5-dihydropyrazoles is to perform 1,3-dipo-lar cydoaddition reactions of nitrile imines and alkenes. Langa and coworkers have... 

Thus in the N-silyl substituted series, 17 and 18, which rearrange thermally to the corresponding diazo compounds, the stability increases through the series R=Me, Ph, i-Pr. As discussed below, these compound undergo the usual cycloaddition and electrocyclization reactions of nitrile imines and are not simply overstabilized curiosities. The usefulness in synthesis of those with P—C bonds is probably limited since these bonds are not easily broken, but products derived from those with C—Si and C—B bonds (e.g., 21 and 22) should be capable of further... 

Extensive studies on diastereoselectivity in the reactions of 1,3-dipoles such as nitrile oxides and nitrones have been carried out over the last 10 years. In contrast, very little work was done on the reactions of nitrile imines with chiral alkenes until the end of the 1990s and very few enantiomerically pure nitrile imines were generated. The greatest degree of selectivity so far has been achieved in cycloadditions to the Fischer chromium carbene complexes (201) to give, initially, the pyrazohne complexes 202 and 203 (111,112). These products proved to be rather unstable and were oxidized in situ with pyridine N-oxide to give predominantly the (4R,5S) product 204 in moderate yield (35-73%). 

The reactions of nitrile imines with nucleophilic reagents in which the addition is followed by cyclization of the primary product, provide a useful route to heterocycles. In most of these reactions, the experiments were carried out by the treatment of hydrazonyl chlorides, as nitrile imine precursors, with triethylamine in the presence of the nucleophilic reagent. The originators generally made the assumption that it was nitrile imines rather than the hydrazonyl chlorides that were the reacting species. 

The reactions of nitriles, imines, nitroso and nitro compounds show some parallels to carbonyl chemistry. 

In the literature, several methods have been reported for the synthesis of 5-amino p5rrazole derivatives. Hasseneen and coworkers [18] have prepared pyrazole derivatives by the reaction of nitrile imine with fumaronitrile. Jachak and co-workers [19] also reported the synthesis of 4-cyano pyrazole derivatives by starting with cyanoacetaldehyde, DMF-DMA (N,N-Dime-thylformamide dimethyl aceta) and hydrazines. 

The regioselectivity and reactivity of the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of nitril-imines with acrylonitrile and methyl acrylate have been investigated. The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of nitrilimines with isatin imines yielded spiro[indolin-3,3 -1,2,4-triazol] derivatives under classical and microwave conditions/ An extensive study of the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of nitrilimines with a,/ -unsaturated lactones, thiolactones, and lactams has been presented. In all cases, regioisomeric mixtures were obtained with the 5-substituted pyrazole as the major cycloadduct. me5 o-Tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)porphyrin (51) reacts with iminonitriles (52) yielding pyrazolin-fused chlorines (53) via a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction (Scheme 17). ... 

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