1605-08-9Relevant articles and documents
Reactivity of aziridinomitosene derivatives related to FK317 in the presence of protic nucleophiles
Wiedner, Susan D.,Vedejs, Edwin
experimental part, p. 1045 - 1055 (2012/03/26)
The syntheses and reactivity of N-TBDPS and N-trityl protected derivatives of an aziridinomitosene corresponding to FK317 are described. New reactivity patterns were observed for these highly sensitive and functionally dense heterocycles under mild nucleophilic conditions approaching the threshold for degradation. Thus, the silyl or trityl protected aziridinomitosene reacted with Cs2CO3/CD3OD to give isomeric products where substitution occurred at C(10) and C(9a) (mitomycin numbering) providing a CD3 ether and a CD3 hemiaminal, respectively. These findings show that heterolysis at C(10) is faster than at aziridine C(1), in contrast to the behavior of typical aziridinomitosenes in the mitomycin series. The labile N-TBDPS hemiaminal and the more stable N-trityl hemiaminal resemble the mitomycin K substitution pattern. A reagent consisting of CsF in CF 3CH2OH/CH3CN desilylated a simple N-TBDPS aziridine but caused nucleophilic cleavage at C(1) as well as C(10) without cleavage of the N-TBPDS group in the fully functionalized penultimate aziridinomitosene. The high reactivity of the C(10) carbamate with nucleophiles precludes the use of deprotection methodology that requires N-protonation for fully functionalized aziridinomitosenes in the FK317 series.
Single Electron Transfer versus Nucleophilic Ring Opening in Reactions of Cis-Trans Pairs of Activated 2-Phenylaziridines. Strong Influence of Nitrogen Pyramid for N-Benzoylaziridines
Falkenstein, Reinhard,Mall, Thomas,Speth, Dieter,Stamm, Helmut
, p. 7377 - 7381 (2007/10/02)
Activated 2-phenylaziridines with a second substituent R in position 3 were made to react with xanthyl anion X(1-).Nucleophilic ring opening is the only reaction that occurs with sulfonyl activation.The analogous N-benzoylaziridines 1 undergo this type of ring opening when the two substituents Ph and R are trans.The cis isomers (cis-1, Ph and R cis) react in this manner to a negligible extent if any.The (nearly) exclusive ring cleavage reaction of cis-1 is C-N homolysis of an intermediate ketyl formed by single electron transfer (SET) from X(1-).This cis-trans phenomenon is in accordance with the hypothesis that the two competing reactions depend in an opposite manner on the steepness of the nitrogen pyramid.A predominant or exclusive final result of SET is reductive aziridine opening and dimerization of the xanthyl radical X(.).Formation of both diastereomers of the amidoethylated xanthene in one case (R = Me) is evidence for a cross combination of X(.) with the radical formed by homolytic ring opening.Cross combination is also a likely path for R = H (no cis-trans isomerism), in addition to reductive ring opening. cis-Aziridines with dimethylcarbamoyl on nitrogen do not react via SET since the ketyl is not stabilized and therefore difficult to generate.Carbonyl attack on both types of acylaziridines competes more or less successfully with the two ring cleavage reactions.
