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6a-w.[22] Then the 2-((8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-3-
yl)thio)-thiazole derivatives (10a-w) were produced through sub-
stitution reaction by using intermediate 8 and 9a-w.
Two categories of azabicyclo[3.2.1]octane derivatives bear-
1
ing a thiazole moiety were identified by H NMR, 13C NMR
1
and HRMS. For example, in the H NMR spectrum of 7a
(Figure S1, Supplemental Materials), the absorption peaks at d:
7.77–7.29 ppm reveal the existence of phenyl protons. The
characteristic singlet at d: 6.89 ppm is attributed to the absorp-
tions of thiazole. The characteristic triplet at d: 5.43 ppm is due
to OCH of tropane. The characteristic singlets at d: 3.79 ppm
and d: 2.77 ppm are NH and NCH3 of tropane respectively.
The doublet at d: 3.04 ppm and multiplet at d: 2.46–2.23 ppm
are CH2 of tropane. Moreover, in the 13C NMR spectrum of
7a, the chemical shifts at d: 171.98–104.86 ppm are attributed
to the phenyl and thiazole. The chemical shifts at d:
72.34–24.55 ppm confirm the existences of tropane fragment
(Figure S2, Supplemental Materials). The structure assigned
for compound 7a was fully supported by its mass spectrum,
which showed a molecular formula C17H20N2OS (calcd for
C17H20N2OS (M)þ 300.1296; found, 300.1297) (Figure S3,
Supplemental Materials).
Figure 1. Azabicyclo derivatives with various pesticidal activities.
insecticidal activities against Myzus persicae (Figure 1A).[13]
Aventis Crop Science found that azabicyclo oxime ether
derivatives (Figure 1B) exhibited excellent mortality against
Heliothis virescens in 2001.[14] Moreover, Trowell and cow-
orkers proved that the human 5-HT3 receptor antagonist
MDL72222 (Figure 1C) had lethal effects on Caenorhabditis
elegans.[15] In our previous work, azabicyclo thiazole hydra-
zone derivatives have been found excellent bioactivity
against Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Figure 1D).[16] As our
continuous efforts on the development of novel nematicides,
herein, two categories and 46 unreported compounds with
azabicyclo[3.2.1]octane scaffolds were synthesized by intro-
ducing an ether or thioether linkage between azabicyclo and
thiazole moieties (Figure 1E). The target compounds were
synthesized as described in Scheme 1 and the biological
activity against Bursaphelenchus xylophilus in vitro were
tested. The spectra data of synthesized compounds are pro-
vided in the supplemental materials.
Nematicidal activities
The nematicidal activity of title compounds (7a-w and 10a-w)
against Bursaphelenchus xylophilus at the concentration of
40 mg/L were listed in Table 1.
As shown in Table 1, the preliminary bioassays indicated
that some of the target compounds had good nematicidal
activity, for example, compound 7a, 7e, 10a, 10e, 10f and
10k exhibited more than 80% mortality. Especially, com-
pound 7e, 10a and 10e displayed nematicidal activities of
95%, 92% and 94% against Bursaphelenchus xylophilus at the
concentration of 40 mg/L respectively. In general, the thio-
ether compounds demonstrated higher nematicidal activity
than their counterparts with an ether linkage.
Results and discussion
Chemistry
The compounds with substitution at the para-position of the
benzene ring had higher nematicidal activity than those at the
meta- or ortho-positions, while there were no significant differ-
ences between the meta- and ortho-position. For example, para-
substituted compounds (7 b-e) showed higher activity than
their meta- (7i-l) or ortho- (7n-q) substituted counterparts .
When halogen groups were introduced into the phenyl ring, the
compounds (7d-f) exhibited relatively higher nematicidal activ-
ity than other electron-donating groups (7 b and 7c) or elec-
tron-withdrawing groups (7f and 7 g). Furthermore, by
changing the phenyl group into a furan group, pyridine group
or methyl, the nematicidal activity of the compounds decreased
quickly (7 u-w). When the linkage between azabicyclo and thia-
zole was changed from O to S, higher nematicidal activity was
achieved in most cases (7a-wvs10a-w).
The synthetic routes to target compounds 2-((8-methyl-8-
azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-3-yl)oxy)-thiazole derivatives (7a–w)
and 2-((8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-3-yl)thio)-thiazole
derivatives (10a-w) were described in Scheme 1. According
to the reported literatures,[17,18] the intermediate 4 (S-ethyl
O-(8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-3-yl) carbonodithioate)
was synthesized by three steps without further purification.
The key intermediate 5 (O-(8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]oc-
tan-3-yl) carbamothioate) was prepared by a acylation reac-
tion of the intermediate 4 with ammonia in ethanol.[19]
Finally, the intermediate 5 was reacted with substituted ethyl
ketone 6a-w in ethanol under reflux temperature for 3 h to
obtain 2-((8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-3-yl)oxy)-thia-
zole derivatives (7a–w) in moderate to good yields.[20]
According to the reported literatures,[21] the intermediate 8
(8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-3-yl ethanesulfonate) was
obtained via esterification reaction with 8-methyl-8-azabicy-
Due to the high activities of compound 7a, 7e, 10a and
10e, we further tested the nematicidal activity of these com-
pounds at 40, 20, 10 and 5 mg/L (Table 2) respectively. It
clo[3.2.1]octan-3-olate sodium 2 and ethane sulfonyl chloride. was found that even at 10 mg/L,7e, 10a and 10e still showed
The substituted thiazole-2-thiol 9a–w were synthesized by good nematicidal activity against Bursaphelenchus xylophilus
ammonium dithiocarbamate and substituted ethyl ketone of more than 60%.