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Elucidation of the E-Amide Preference of N-Acyl Azoles
Takahashi, Yuka,Ikeda, Hirotaka,Kanase, Yuki,Makino, Kosho,Tabata, Hidetsugu,Oshitari, Tetsuta,Inagaki, Satoshi,Otani, Yuko,Natsugari, Hideaki,Takahashi, Hideyo,Ohwada, Tomohiko
, p. 11370 - 11382 (2017/11/10)
The conformational properties of N-acyl azoles (imidazole, pyrazole, and triazole) were examined. The N-2′,4′,6′-trichlorobenzoyl azoles were stable in methanol at room temperature, and no hydrolyzed products were observed over 7 days in the presence of 5% trifluoroacetic acid or 5% triethylamine in CDCl3. The high stability may be explained by the double-bond amide character caused by the steric hindrance due to the ortho-substituents in the benzoyl group. While specific E-amide preferences were observed in N-acyl pyrazoles/triazoles, the amides of the imidazoles gave a mixture of E and Z. One of the conceivable ideas to rationalize this conformational preference may be repulsive interaction between two sets of lone-pair electrons on the pyrazole 2-nitrogen (nN) and the carbonyl oxygen atoms (nO) in the Z-conformation of N-acyl pyrazoles/triazoles. However, analysis of orbital interactions suggested that in the case of the E-conformation of N-acyl pyrazoles, such electron repulsion is small because of distance. The interbond energy calculations suggested that the Z-conformer is involved in strong vicinal σ-σ repulsion along the amide linkage between the σN1N2 and σC1C2 orbitals in the anti-periplanar arrangement and between the σN1C5 and σC1C2 orbitals in the syn-periplanar arrangement, which lead to the overwhelming E-preference in N-acyl pyrazoles/triazoles. In the case of N-acyl imidazoles, similar vicinal σ-σ repulsions were counterbalanced, leading to a weak preference for the E-conformer over the Z-conformer. The chemically stable and E-preferring N-acyl azoles may be utilized as scaffolds in future drug design.
Stability studies of N-acylimidazoles
Zaramella, Simone,Stroemberg, Roger,Yeheskiely, Esther
, p. 2633 - 2639 (2007/10/03)
Studies of the stabilities of a series of N-acylimidazoles towards acidic and basic conditions of potential usefulness for the removal of common temporary protection in peptide and oligonucleotide synthesis are presented. N-Acylimidazoles with a variety of substituents in the acyl component were prepared and treated with 3% trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) in chloroform and with 2% 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene (DBU) in N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF), the extent of their degradation being determined by proton NMR. N-(2,4,6-Trimethylbenzoyl)imidazole (1) and N-(2,6-dimethoxybenzoyl)-imidazole (2) remained unaffected under the above acidic and basic conditions after 4 d and 2 d, respectively. In addition, 1 and 2 were resistant to treatment with a solution of 2% piperidine/2% DBU in DMF for 24 h. Under ammonolytic conditions, 2 was rapidly cleaved (less than 1 h), whereas 1 was 64% degraded after 48 h, as ascertained by reversed-phase HPLC. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2002.
