Thiazole 2-amino-, ring synthesis

Thiamin is synthesized in bacteria, fungi, and plants from 1-deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate (Eq. 25-21), which is also an intermediate in the nonmevalonate pathway of polyprenyl synthesis. However, thiamin diphosphate is a coenzyme for synthesis of this intermediate (p. 736), suggesting that an alternative pathway must also exist. Each of the two rings of thiamin is formed separately as the esters 4-amino-5-hydroxy-methylpyrimidine diphosphate and 4-methyl-5-((i-hydroxyethyl) thiazole monophosphate. These precursors are joined with displacement of pyrophosphate to form thiamin monophosphate.92b In eukaryotes this is hydrolyzed to thiamin, then converted to thiamin diphosphate by transfer of a diphospho group from ATP.92b c In bacteria thiamin monophosphate is converted to the diphosphate by ATP and thiamin monophosphate kinase.92b... 

The thiazolium-mediated three-component reaction of thiazolium salts 201, aryl aldehydes and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate provides a facile synthesis of 2-amino-2-arylfurans 202 <05OL1343>. The reaction pathway may involve the sequential nucleophilic addition of thiazol-2-ylidene 203 with the aldehyde and DMAD to form the spirocyclic intermediate 204 through the simultaneous formation of two C-C bonds and a C-O bond Selective ring opening of the spirocyclic intermediate 204 followed by hydrolysis leads to 3-aminofuran 202 via 205. 

Simple examples of this strategy, which for the synthesis of thiazoles is known as the Hantzsch synthesis, are shown below the syntheses of 2,4-dimethylthiazole where the heteroatoms are provided by thioacetamide, " and 2-aminothiazole, in which 1,2-dichloroethyl ethyl ether is utilised as a synthon for chloroethanal and the heteroatoms derive from thiourea. " The use of thioureas as the sulfur component with 2-chloroacetamides as the second unit gives rise to 2,4-diaminothiazoles. " Conversion of 1,3-diketones into their 2-phenyliodonium derivatives and reaction of these with thioureas produces 2-amino-5-acylthiazoles. The first step in such ring syntheses is 5-alkylation. " A useful variant is the use of an a-diazo ketone in place of the a-halocarbonyl component. " ... 

Thiamin was first synthesised in 1937. It is widely used as a feed/food additive and in pharmaceutical preparations. A modern synthesis of thiamin utilised an a-keto-thiol the C-2 carbon was neatly delivered as the carbon of an amidine, one of the nitrogens providing the thiazole ring nitrogen and the other being the eventual amino group of the substituent pyrimidine. 

A general procedure for Ihe solution phase synthesis of amino-13-thiazolcs has been described. It is based on the condensation of amidines 70 or thiouronium salts 71, with isothiocyanates 72, affording amidinothioureas 73 and thiouriedothiourcas 74. Subsequent treatment with a-bromoketones 75 led to the S-alkylated intermediates 76 and 77 which yielded 13-thiazoles of types 78 and 79 via a base catalysed ring closure. This reaction sequence could conveniently be performed in one pot without isolation of the intermediates, allowing for the efficient generation of combinatorial libraries <01T153>. 

Kaupp et al. employed ball-milling technique to transform thioureas 79 by reaction with phenacyl bromide to 2-amino-4-phenyl-thiazole-hydrobromides 80 in quantitative yields from stoichiometric mixtures of the reagents at room temperature (Scheme 4.21) [14]. In soUd-state conditions, base catalyst was not needed. The water formed in the reaction does not hydrolyze phenacyl bromide under applied mild conditions and was removed by heating at 80°C in vacuo. When the same reaction was performed in a melt at 110°C, partial hydrolysis occurred, which diminishes yield, while yields obtained in solntion were lower (80-90%). This Hantzsch thiazole synthesis starts with nucleophilic snbstitution on snlfur and formation of the carbon-sulfur bond (S-alkylation), followed by further reaction cascade which results in heterocychc ring. 

The synthesis of thiazolo[4,5-d]pyrimidines has been successfully accomplished by various methods. 4-Amino-5-ethoxycarbonylthiazole derivative has been cyclized to thiazolo[4,5-d]pyrimidine by its reaction with phenyl isothiocyanate [87], Many 4-amino-5-carbamoylthiazole derivatives have been cyclized to the corresponding thiazolo[4,5-d]pyrimidines using triethyl orthoformate/acetic anhydride mixture [88-91], Moreover, 4-amino-5-cyano thiazoles have been used to prepare the same fused ring system via their reaction with triethyl orthoformate, followed by treatment of the intermediate with hydrogen sulfide, guanidine, amines, and isothiocyanates [92, 93], Other thiazolo[4,5-d]pyrimidines have been obtained from 4-amino-5-cyano, carbamoyl, or ethoxycarbonyl thiazoles via cyclization with acetic anhydride [94] or formic acid [95],... 

Among other condensed thiazole ring systems, imidazo[2,l-6]thiazoles (tetramisole is a member of this class), thiazolo-pyrimidines, and thiazolo-pyridines continue to attract the most interest. Attention is concentrated on synthesis and biological activity. Unexpectedly, dihydrothiazolo[3,2-a]pyridinium bromide is readily brominated when the pyridine ring has a 3-nitro-substituent but not when it has a 3-amino-substituent. 

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