Six-membered heterocycles with O and

Six-membered heterocycles with O and/or S atoms 97PF1C312, 98PF1C292, 99PHC299. 

Six-membered heterocycles with two heteroatoms are prepared by reaction of diketene with a substrate containing a C—O or C—N multiple bond. With carbonyl compounds diketene reacts in the presence of acids to give l,3-dioxin-4-ones. The best known is 2,2,6-trimethyl-4H-l,3-dioxin-4-one [5394-63-8] (15), the so-called diketene—acetone adduct, often used as a diketene replacement that is safer to handle and to transport, albeit somewhat less reactive than diketene itself (103,104), forming acetylketene upon heating. 

PyryHum salts are converted into other six-membered heterocycles by O-replacement with N-, S-, and P-nudeophiles ... 

Most ring syntheses of this type are of modern origin. The cobalt or rhodium carbonyl catalyzed hydrocarboxylation of unsaturated alcohols, amines or amides provides access to tetrahydrofuranones, pyrrolidones or succinimides, although appreciable amounts of the corresponding six-membered heterocycle may also be formed (Scheme 55a) (73JOM(47)28l). Hydrocarboxylation of 4-pentyn-2-ol with nickel carbonyl yields 3-methylenetetrahy-drofuranone (Scheme 55b). Carbonylation of Schiff bases yields 2-arylphthalimidines (Scheme 55c). The hydroformylation of o-nitrostyrene, subsequent reduction of the nitro group and cyclization leads to the formation of skatole (Scheme 55d) (81CC82). 

Fig. 16.17 Representative plot of the behavior of sulfa drugs obtained from photolysis on a turntable apparatus, under four Pyrex-filtered 175-W medium-pressure Hg-vapor lamps. Photodegradation of sulfamethazine in deionized H O ( ) and enhanced photodegradation in natural lake water ( ). Reprinted with permission from Boreen AL, Arnold WA, McNeil K (2005) Triplet-sensitized photodegradation of sulfa drugs containing six-membered heterocyclic groups identification of an S02 extrusion photoproduct. Environ Sci Technol 39 3630-3638. Copyright 2005 American Chemical Society...

The reaction of perfluoro-4-methyl-2-pentene with ethylene glycol also leads to 2-fluoro-2-trifluoromethyl-3-(2,2,2-trifluoro-1 -trifluoromethylethy-lidene)-l,4-dioxane 106 (96ZOB1995). The formation of the six-membered heterocycle occurs via generation of the intermediate carbanion and fluoride ion elimination from the y-position. Subsequent intramolecular nucleophilic cyclization involving the O-nucleophilic center and the internal double bond leads to a 1,4-dioxane derivative (route e). 

The reactions of o-dihalogenoazines and o-halogenonitroazines with various 1,4-dinucleophiles appear to be a very fruitful, most frequently applied method for achieving annelations of six-membered heterocycles to the azine ring. 

Dioxanes have been synthesized from l-O-allyl-l,2-diols by radical addition of per-fluoroalkyl iodides and subsequent nucleophilic cyclization.561 With sodium hydride, elimination occurs from iodides such as 1.3 other bases also give unsatisfactory results, whereas N-bromosuccinimide seems to be the reagent of choice for the cyclization to 1,4-dioxane 14. Similar results arc obtained with dibromodimethylhydantoin.561 Dihydrobenzofurans are synthesized by cyclodehydration utilizing the Vilsmeier reagent (chloromethylene)dimethylam-monium chloride is most practical.562 Nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions with catechol derivatives also give the six-membered heterocycles.563 564 1.4-Dioxan-2-ones arc pre-... 

Pyridopyrimidines and pyrimidines fused with five- or six-membered heterocycles can be prepared via the ring closure of intermediate ethynylpyrimidines, which are themselves obtained by the Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling of halopyrimidines with alkynic compounds (Scheme 34). ° ""° o-Alkynylanilines such as (51), which are made by Pd-catalyzed coupling reactions of alkynes with o-haloaniline precursors, are easily cyclized to the indoles in the presence of base (Scheme 35). " " Similar meth( s can be employed in the synthesis of isocoumarins," thienopyridines," furopy-ridines" and the marine alkaloid asptamine." ... 

This volume opens with an overview of tautomeric equilibria involving substituents (such as OH, NH2j SH) in six-membered heterocycles provided by B. Stanovnik and M. Tisler (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) together with O. Denisko (CAS, Columbus, Ohio) and your editor. The chapters update reviews which appeared in earlier volumes of this series and brings this complex and important subject up to date. 

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