Thiocarbonyl ylides 1.3- addition reactions

When acrylonitrile or ethyl acrylate was used as the dipolarophile, the azomethine adducts (134) and (135) were formed no thiocarbonyl ylide addition products were isolable in refluxing toluene or xylene, although the isoindoles (136a) and (136b) derived from them were isolated. In contrast to the reactions with fumaronitrile or AT-phenylmaleimide, the azomethine adducts (134) and (135) were still present at higher reaction temperatures — almost 50% in toluene and 4-5% in xylene. Under the same reaction conditions other electron-deficient dipolarophiles like dimethyl fumarate, norbornene, dimethyl maleate, phenyl isocyanate, phenyl isothiocyanate, benzoyl isothiocyanate, p-tosyl isocyanate and diphenylcyclopropenone failed to undergo cycloaddition to thienopyrrole (13), presumably due to steric interactions (77HC(30)317). 

The benzo derivative (128) reacts as a thiocarbonyl ylide. Addition of N-(p-tolyl)maleimide gives a mixture of the exo (71%) and endo (16%) adducts (129 Ar=p-tolyl), which in hot acetic acid eliminate hydrogen sulfide giving the pyrido[l,2-a]benzimidazole (130 Ar=p-tolyl). Analogous 1 1 cycloadducts (131) are formed with dimethyl maleate, dimethyl fumarate, methyl crotonate and methyl acrylate. In contrast to the transformation (129) —> (130), treatment of the adducts (131 R = H, Me) with hot acetic acid gives the tetracyclic compounds (133) via the benzimidazole derivatives (132 R = H, Me). Reaction with alkynic 1,3-dipolarophiles gives pyrido[l,2-a]benzimidazole (134) by desulfurization of the primary adducts (80CL1369). 

Triphenylthieno[3,4-c]pyrazole (414) can be presented as a hybrid of dipolar-contributing azomethine imine ylide (415) or thiocarbonyl ylide canonical forms 416. Upon reacting this ylide with electron-poor olefins, it behaved like a thiocarbonyl ylide. Thus, with maleimide, a mixture of endo (419) and exo adducts (420) were obtained (74JA4276), which resulted from addition at the thiocarbonyl moiety. The reaction of 414 with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate gives the desulfurized indazole 418 in addition to the adduct 417 (Scheme 41). 

Some years later, the first stable thiocarbonyl ylides 9 and 10 were prepared by the reaction of thiourea with cyano-substituted oxiranes (19,20) or by addition of Rh-di(tosyl)carbenoid to benzo-l,2-dithiole-3-thione (21), respectively. Enhanced stability and the low reactivity of 9 and 10, which enables their isolation in crystalline form, results from the push-pull substitution at the two termini [cf. also (22)]. Another class of stable thiocarbonyl ylides that are also able to afford [3 + 2]-cycloaddition products are the mesoionic 1,3-dithiole-4-ones of type 11 (23,24). 

Acidic compounds of type R—XH, which are able to protonate thiocarbonyl ylides, also undergo 1,3-addition leading to products of S,S-, S,0-, or 5,A-acetal type (Scheme 5.20). Thiophenols and thiols add smoothly to thiocarbonyl ylides generated from 2,5-dihydro-l,3,4-thiadiazoles (36,38,86,98,99). Thiocamphor, which exists in solution in equilibrium with its enethiol form, undergoes a similar reaction with adamantanethione (5)-methylide (52) to give dithioacetal 53 (40) (Scheme 5.21). Formation of analogous products was observed with some thiocarbonyl functionalized NH-heterocycles (100). 

Phenols and alcohols also react with substituted thiocarbonyl ylides, although for the reaction with alcohols, acid catalysis is usually recommended (36,38,41,99). Some NH-azoles are sufficiently acidic to give 1,3-adducts without the addition of a... 

Treatment of 4,4-dimethyl-2-phenyl-l,3-thiazole-5(4//)-thione with ethyl diazoacetate gives, among other products, ethyl 1,3-thiazine carboxylate (179) (99). The formation of 179 has been rationalized by an acid-catalyzed addition of ethyl diazoacetate to the thiocarbonyl ylide 177 to first give intermediate 178, which undergoes a subsequent ring enlargement reaction via a Tiffeneau-Demjanov rearrangement. 

Thiocarbonyl ylides are both nucleophilic and basic compounds (40,41,86). For example, adamantanethione (5)-methylide (52) is able to deprotonate its precursor, the corresponding 2,5-dihydro-1,3,4-thiadiazole, and a 1 1 adduct is formed in a multistep reaction (40,86). Thioxonium ion (56) (Scheme 5.22) was proposed as a reactive intermediate. On the other hand, thiofenchone (S)-methylide (48) is not able to deprotonate its precursor but instead undergoes electrocyclization to give a mixture of diastereoisomeric thiiranes (41,87,88). The addition of a trace of acetic acid changes the reaction course remarkably, and instead of an electrocyclization product, the new isomer 51 was isolated (41,87) (Scheme 5.18). The formation of 51 is the result of a Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement of thioxonium ion 49. 

Calculations have shown that the HOMO in the [3,4-c]-annelated A,B-diheteropen-talenes is closely related to the nonbonding MO, thereby allowing ready reaction with electron-deficient dipolarophiles. In the case of the systems with two discrete ylide moieties as in thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole derivatives, it is not only the nature of the HOMO which directs the mode of addition, but also the thermodynamic stability of the adduct, leading to addition across the thiocarbonyl ylide at elevated temperatures and to the azomethine ylide at low temperatures (Section 3.18.4.2.1) (77T3203). 

Oxathietanes have not been synthesized, but they or their analogs have been suggested as intermediates in the addition of thiocarbonyl ylides (e.g., 493) to diphenylketene, in the decarboxylation of a-methylthiocarboxylic acids by iV-chlorosuccinimide, in the reaction (3-acylsulfinamides with triethylamine, in the thermolysis of l,2,3-oxadithiole-2-oxide, and in the decomposition of sulfoxide-substituted nitrosoureas. ... 

Reaction with thiocarbonyl ytides. Pyrolysis of the thiocarbonyl ylide precursors (la, lb) in hydrocarbon solvents in the presence of diphenylketene leads to the cycloadducts (3a, 3b) in 85-94% yield. The reaction, therefore, involves 1,3-addition of the... 

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