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On the Mechanism of the Thermal Conversion of Cyclopropenyl-Substituted Oxazolinones to Pyridines
Padwa, Albert,Cohen, Leslie A.,Gingrich, Henry L.
, p. 1065 - 1073 (2007/10/02)
Thermolysis or photolysis of a sample of a 3-cyclopropenyl-substituted 2H-azirine produced 2-methyl-3,4,5,6-tetraphenylpyridine in high yield.The reaction can best be rationalized by a mechanism involving formation of a nitrile ylide intermediate followed by intramolecular dipolar cycloaddition to give an azabenzvalene, which subsequently rearranges to the pyridine.The thermal chemistry of a series of cyclopropenyl-substituted oxazolinones was also investigated.These oxazolinones undergo a thermally induced 1,3-dipolar cycloreversion reaction with elimination ofcarbon dioxide to generate a nitrile ylide intermediate adjacent to the cyclopropene ring.This dipole can be trapped when the thermolysis of the oxazolinone was carried out in the presence of a reactive dipolarophile.Heating a sample of 2-phenyl-4-methyl-4-(1-methyl-2,3-diphenyl-2-cyclopropen-1-yl)-Δ2-oxazolin-5-one at 150 deg C for 24 h afforded a mixture of 2,3-dimethyltriphenylpyridine (45percent), 2,4-dimethyltriphenylpyridine (20percent), and 2,5-dimethyltriphenylpyridine (35percent).The formation of these products is proposed to involve a stepwise cycloaddition of the initially generated nitrile ylide to produce a bicyclobutyl zwitterion which can either collapse to give an azabenzvalene or undergo rearrangement to a cyclobutenyl cation. This latter species closes to produce two different aza Dewar benzenes.Reorganization of the azabenzvalene and aza Dewar benzenes gives rise to the observed pyridines.Alternate mechanisms based on a concerted intramolecular cycloaddition reaction of the nitrile ylide do not account for the observed product ratios.
Aza Cope Rearrangements in the Cyclopropenyl-and Allyl-Substituted Δ2-Oxazolinone Systems
Padwa, Albert,Akiba, Mitsuo,Cohen, Leslie A.,MacDonald, Gavin J.
, p. 695 - 703 (2007/10/02)
The scope of the thermal and photochemical reorganization reactions of a number of cyclopropenyl- and allyl- substituted oxazolinones has been examined.These systems undergo a facile sigmatropic rearrangement in accord with orbital symmetry predictions. 2-Methyl-4-allyl-Δ2-oxazolinones were found to undergo a 3,3-sigmatropic allyl shift on thermolysis to give the Δ3-oxazolinone isomer.In contrast, on direct irradiation the 2-methyl-4-allyl-Δ3-oxazolinones undergo a 1,3-allyl shift to give the Δ2-isomer.The 4,4-disubstituted Δ2-oxazolinones undergo decarbonylat ion either on irradiation or by flash vacuum pyrolysis to give acetimides.The acetimides formed were easily hydrolyzed to give the corresponding ketones.The excited-state behavior of the 2-phenyl-4-methyl-Δ2-oxazolinone system was found to be markedly different from that encountered with the 2-methyl-4-phenyl-substituted isomer.The rationale for the difference in behavior is discussed.
