Heterocycles sulfonation

Brian Einsla was born in Wilkes-Barre, PA, in 1978. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 2000 in Chemistry at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is currently a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Macromolecular Science and Engineering program at VPI SU. His research interests have centered around sulfonated heterocyclic copolymers for fuel cell applications, including polyimides, polybenzoxazoles, and polybenzimidazoles. 

In 1998, Kociensky et al. proposed a variation of this method that obviated the use of Barbier-type conditions and made this sequence more compatible with complex aldehydic substrates [137]. They also extended the range of sulfone heterocycles to l-isoquinohnoyl, l-methyl-2-imidazoyl, 4-methyl-2-imidazoyl, 4-methyl-l,2,4-triazol-3-yl, and l-phenyl-lH-tetrazol-5-yl (hereafter denoted PT), with the latter system being the most promising. Among the various trends that they observed from 96 comparative experiments, it was deduced that the -alkyl PT-sulfones gave better yields than their BT-substituted counterparts (suggesting that PT sulfones are less prone to self-condensation). Moreover, careful combination of the solvent and the counter ion proved to have a profound effect on the yield and the stereochemical outcome of the elimination. 

For the sulfonamides, the best activity is found where R is heterocycHc, but it can also be isocycHc or acyl. For the sulfones, R can be phenylene or a heterocycle the parent dapsone, where R is phenyl, is the most active. 

There is a large variety of chloro or fluoro substituted heterocyclic rings which undergo X displacement by cell-0. Vinyl sulfones are usually generated under alkaline conditions from P-sulfatoethjisulfones,... 

No simple electrophilic substitution, for example nitrosation, nitration, sulfonation or halogenation of a C—H bond, has so far been recorded in the pteridine series. The strong 7T-electron deficiency of this nitrogen heterocycle opposes such electrophilic attack, which would require a high-energy transition state of low stability. 

Thiophene, which is more stable to acid, is readily sulfonated by shaking with concentrated sulfuric acid at room temperature. Benzene is not reactive under these conditions and this is the basis for the purification of benzene from thiophene contamination. With all three heterocycles, if the a-positions are blocked, then sulfonation occurs at the /3-position. 

In compounds with a fused benzene ring, electrophilic substitution on carbon usually occurs in the benzenoid ring in preference to the heterocyclic ring. Frequently the orientation of substitution in these compounds parallels that in naphthalene. Conditions are often similar to those used for benzene itself. The actual position attacked varies compare formulae (341)-(346) where the orientation is shown for nitration sulfonation is usually similar for reasons which are not well understood. 

Sulfonation of 2- and 3-pyrazolin-5-ones occurs at position 4. Thus 3-methyl-1-phenyl-pyrazolin-5-one with 20% oleum at 10-15 °C yields the corresponding 4-sulfonic acid (304) (64HC(20)l). Higher temperatures cause sulfonation not only of the heterocycle but also of the phenyl group. Antipyrine treated with sulfuric acid and acetic anhydride yields (305). 

In the section dealing with electrophilic attack at carbon some results on indazole homocyclic reactivity were presented nitration at position 5 (Section 4.04.2.1.4(ii)), sulfon-ation at position 7 (Section 4.04.2.1.4(iii)) and bromination at positions 5 and 7 (Section 4.04.2.1.4(v)). The orientation depends on the nature (cationic, neutral or anionic) of the indazole. Protonation, for instance, deactivates the heterocycle and directs the attack towards the fused benzene ring. A careful study of the nitration of indazoles at positions 2, 3, 5 or 7 has been published by Habraken (7UOC3084) who described the synthesis of several dinitroindazoles (5,7 5,6 3,5 3,6 3,4 3,7). The kinetics of the nitration of indazole to form the 5-nitro derivative have been determined (72JCS(P2)632). The rate profile at acidities below 90% sulfuric acid shows that the reaction involves the conjugate acid of indazole. 

The importance of the solvent, in many cases an excess of the quatemizing reagent, in the formation of heterocyclic salts was recognized early. The function of dielectric constants and other more detailed influences on quatemization are dealt with in Section VI, but a consideration of the subject from a preparative standpoint is presented here. Methanol and ethanol are used frequently as solvents, and acetone,chloroform, acetonitrile, nitrobenzene, and dimethyl-formamide have been used successfully. The last two solvents were among those considered by Coleman and Fuoss in their search for a suitable solvent for kinetic experiments both solvents gave rise to side reactions when used for the reaction of pyridine with i-butyl bromide. Their observation with nitrobenzene is unexpected, and no other workers have reported difficulties. However, tetramethylene sulfone, 2,4-dimethylsulfolane, ethylene and propylene carbonates, and salicylaldehyde were satisfactory, giving relatively rapid reactions and clean products. Ethylene dichloride, used quite frequently for Friedel-Crafts reactions, would be expected to be a useful solvent but has only recently been used for quatemization reactions. ... 

Synthesis of thiols, selenols, sulfides, selenides, sulfoxides, sulfones, and se-lenones of heterocyclic series 98JCS(P1)1973, 99JCS(P1)641. 

Reactions of sulfonic acid A-sodium A-chloroamides with heterocycles in organic synthesis, in particular in synthesis of natural compounds 99ZOR503. 

Heterocyclic sulfone derivatives with anti-HIV activity 97F321. 

The reaction of 3-methoxy-1,2,4-triazine 1-oxide 20 with the carbanion generated from chloromethyl phenyl sulfone proceeds as the vicarious nucleophilic substitution (VNS) of hydrogen (Scheme 1, path B) via addition of the carbanion at position 5 of the heterocycle. Following base-induced elimination of HCl and protonation, 3-methoxy-5-phenylsulfonyl-1,2,4-triazine 4-oxides 65 result (88LA627). 

A heterocyclic ring may be used in place of one of the benzene rings without loss of biologic activity. The first step in the synthesis of such an agent starts by Friedel-Crafts-like acylation rather than displacement. Thus, reaction of sulfenyl chloride, 222, with 2-aminothiazole (223) in the presence of acetic anhydride affords the sulfide, 224. The amine is then protected as the amide (225). Oxidation with hydrogen peroxide leads to the corresponding sulfone (226) hydrolysis followed by reduction of the nitro group then affords thiazosulfone (227). ... 

The chemistry of pyrrole is similar to that of activated benzene rings. In general, however, the heterocycles are more reactive toward electrophiles than benzene rings are, and low temperatures are often necessary to control the reactions. Halogenation, nitration, sulfonation, and Friedel-Crafts acylation can all be accomplished. For example ... 

The first member of the three-membered ring sulfones was synthesized about 70 years ago5, and its unsaturated analogue has been known for only 20 years6. Since the midsixties, an explosive expansion in the chemistry of some of these small- to middle-sized sulfone and sulfoxide heterocycles has taken place. 

Similarly, only selected cyclic systems containing more than one sulfoxide or sulfone groups have been included and discussed here, primarily in the thietane (i.e. 1,2- and 1,3-dithietanes) and thiane (i.e. 1,2-, 1,3- and 1,4-dithianes) series. The criterion for the inclusion of these multifunctional heterocycles was their contribution to the understanding of the physical properties and chemical reactivity of cyclic sulfones and sulfoxides, and the effects of these groups on either their immediate vicinity or on the behavior of the whole molecule. 

When a mixture of p-anisaldehyde and dimethyl sulfone was treated with excess potassium t-butoxide in DMF at 60-65 °C, bis-unsaturated sulfone 277 was obtained. In the reaction at 50 °C using a small amount of base, the main product was a heterocyclic compound, i.e., 2,4-di-p-methoxyphenyl-l,4-oxathiane 4,4-dioxide 278358. 

Ethyleneimine reacts with (p-tolylsulfonyl)acetylene to give only the (Z)-product 115 via trans addition (equation 91), while primary and secondary aliphatic amines afford ( )-products76. With nonterminal acetylenes such as l-(ethylsulfonyl)-l-propyne, the reactions of ethyleneimine, n-propylamine and f-butylamine give mixtures of ( )- and (Z)-adducts. The double conjugate addition of sodium sulfide, selenide and telluride to bis(l-propynyl)sulfone (116) produces heterocycles (117) as illustrated in equation 9277. 

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