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A stereospecific route to (Z)-Urocanic acids
Despinoy, Xavier L. M.,McNab, Hamish,Tyas, Richard G.
, p. 1676 - 1678 (2008/12/22)
(Z)-Urocanic acid and its derivatives can be made stereo-specifically by ring-opening of pyrrolo[l,2-c]imidazol-5-ones in aqueous tetrahydrofuran.
A thermal cascade route to pyrroloisoindolone and pyrroloimidazolones
McNab, Hamish,Tyas, Richard G.
, p. 8760 - 8769 (2008/03/13)
(Chemical Equation Presented) Flash vacuum pyrolysis (FVP) of indol-1-ylacrylate derivatives 11 and 15 or the isomeric indol-3-ylacrylates 21, 22, and 24 at 925°C (0.05 Torr) provides pyrrolo[1,2-a]indol-3-ones 2, 18, 28, and 29 in 53-90% yield by a cascade mechanism that involves a sigmatropic migration, elimination, electrocyclization sequence. Pyrrolo[1,2-a]imidazol-5- ones 3 and pyrrolo[1,2-c]imidazol-5-ones 4 were similarly obtained by FVP of corresponding 2,5-unsubstituted imidazol-1-ylacrylates (e.g., 33), with the former isomer predominating in ca. 80:20 ratio. Migration to the 2-position is therefore favored in the initial sigmatropic shift. FVP of 2-substituted imidazol-1-ylacrylates 35, 37, and 51 (825-875°C) instead give pyrrolo[1,2-c]imidazol-5-ones 56-58 only (88-91%), and that of 4,5-disubstituted imidazol-1-ylacrylates 39 and 41 (825-850°C) provide pyrrolo[1,2-a] imidazol-5-ones 59 and 60 exclusively (93-95%), and thus the selectivity of the initial shift can be controlled by the presence of substituents on the imidazole 2- and 5-positions. FVP of the benzimidazole analogues 61 and 62 at 950°C gave the pyrrolo[1,2-a]benzimidazol-1-ones 6 (71%) and 63 (36%), respectively.
