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A novel synthesis of imidazoles via the cycloaddition of nitrile ylides to their imidoyl chloride precursors
Groundwater, Paul W.,Garnett, Ian,Morton, Andrew J.,Sharif, Toqir,Coles, Simon J.,Hursthouse, Michael B.,Nyerges, Miklos,Anderson, Rosaleen J.,Bendell, David,McKillop, Alexander,Zhang, Weimin
, p. 2781 - 2787 (2007/10/03)
The synthesis of imidazoles via the cycloaddition of nitrile ylides to their imidoyl chloride precursors was presented. The nitrile ylides were prepared by the 1,3-dehydrochlorination of imidoyl chlorides. It was shown that the HOMO of the 'bent' nitrile ylide is heavily localized on the methane terminus and is compatible with protonation at this carbon in substituted nitrile ylides and with the regioisomers obtained in biomolecular nitrile ylide cycloadditions. The observed regiochemistry of the cycloaddition was rationalized by energy calculations on the frontier molecular orbitals of the reactants using semi-empirical methods.
