1.3.4- Thiadiazol-2-ones, mesoionic

Contrasting with the reported formation of fused [l,3,4]thiadiazole rings in the course of the reaction of 3-substituted-4-amino-5-thio-47/-[l,2,4]triazoles 83 with various isothiocyanates (cf. Section 11.07.8.3, Table 3), the reactions with methyl isothiocyanate and with phenylisocyanate afford 3,7-disubstituted-6,7-dihydro-57/-[l,2,4]triazolo[4,3-f] [l,2,4]triazole-6-thiones 110 and -triazole-6-ones 111, respectively (Equation 29) <1986MI607, 1992IJB167>.The same reaction of 4-amino-l-methyl-3,5-bis(methylthio)[l,2,4]triazolium iodide 112 with aryl isothiocyanates yields the mesoionic compounds 113 (Equation 30) <1984TL5427, 1986T2121>. 

In the case of thiazoline-2(3//)-thiones, the mesoionic thiazolo[2,3-h][l,3,4]thiadiazoles are obtained by two different routes (Scheme 65). On the one hand, thione 166 reacts with isothiocyanate via intermediate 167 and with a second equivalent isothiocyanate to afford the mesoionic 168 on the other hand, in the presence of isocyanate, the thione preferentially dimerizes 167 with the open-chain carbodiimide 169 to give the mesoionic 170. Addition of acid with removal of an amine group converts 170 into the symmetric heteroaromatic amine (171) (88CB1495 92T1285). The related transformation of an imidazoline into 1,3,4-thiadiazoles has also been described (90T4353). 

Sulfur monochloride and N - (26) or N - (27) substituted amides of 2-aminoacids afforded different 1,2,5-thiadiazole derivatives l,2,5-thiadiazol-3(2H)-ones 28 (1979NLP7712033,1992CHP680220,1994JPP06306063) and mesoionic 1,2,5-thiadia-zolium-3-olates 29 (1981JCS(P1)1033 Scheme 15). 

The x-ray structure of 1,2,3-benzothiadiazole complexed with AsFj (9) shows that the arsenic binds at N3 <86CJC849>. When Fe2(CO)9 reacted with (10) one of the products was (11), for which x-ray diffraction revealed the unusual feature of the nitrogen and sulfur joined by an iron atom (Equation (2)) <890M296l>. The mesoionic structure (13) is formed by methylation of 1,2,3-thiadiazole (12). It can best be described as a resonance hybrid of structures (13a) and (13b) and this was corroborated by the x-ray data (Scheme 1) <91jhC477>. 

Thiadiazoles having one or two thio groups in the 2- and/or 5-positions react with metals to form bidentate ligands they are widely used as antioxidants. An interesting reaction of mesoionic (95) with acetylene dicarboxylate is the formation of thiophene (97) via the intermediate (96) (Scheme 15) <84CHEC-I(4)545>. 

Substituted 2H-l,2,5-thiadiazol-3- -ones are formed. bThe products are mesoionic 5-alkyl-4-aryl-l,2,5-... 

Thiadiazolidines can be obtained from aliphatic aldehydes or ketones and disubstituted hydrazine derivatives (Scheme 29). A typical preparation of a mesoionic compound consists in the reaction of 1-methylthioacylhydrazine and phosgene (Scheme 31a). Syntheses by three-bond formation are rare for example, a one-pot reaction of an aldehyde with hydrazine and sulfur. A typical ring transformation reaction is the irradiation of 1,3,4-oxadiazoles to yield 1,3,4-thiadiazoles. 

The Wittig-type reactions of iminophosphoranes with isocyanates and related compounds have also been extensively used in heterocyclic synthesis. Examples include the preparations of the mesoionic [l,3,4]thiadiazolo[2,3-c][l,2,4]triazines (210) from (209), 0 bicyclic guanidines, e.g. (212), from (211), naphthypyridines (215), (216), and (217) from (213) and (214), 2 pyrido[l,2-f]pyrimido-[4,5-d)pyrimidines (218), 7H-pyrido-[4,3-c]- (219) and 10H-pyrido[3,4-b]- (220) carbazoles, tricyclic fused 2,4-diimino-l,3-diazetidines (222) from the bisiminophosphorane (221), benzotriazepines (225) from (223) and (224), 6 and mesoionic thiazolo-[2,3-b]-1,3,4-thiadiazoles (227) and N,N-bisheteroarylamines from the iminophosphorane (226), derived from 3-amino-4-phenylthiazole-2(3H)-thione. The carbodiimides (229), prepared from the iminophosphorane (228), can be converted into quinolines or a-carboline derivatives depending on the nature of the isocyanate used in the reaction with (228) and the reactions of iminophosphoranes (230) and (231) with aryl and styryl isocyanates provide one-pot syntheses of quinoline, a-carboline, and quinindoline derivatives. 9... 

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