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Efficient Construction of Drug-like Bispirocyclic Scaffolds Via Organocatalytic Cycloadditions of α-Imino γ-Lactones and Alkylidene Pyrazolones
Published on: February 7, 2019
A versatile route to 3-benzoheteroepines containing group 15 and 16 heavier elements involving several novel ring
Shuji Yasuike1, Tsutomu Kiharada, Takashi Tsuchiya
1Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokuriku University, Kanazawa, Japan.
Abstract:
The C-unsubstituted 3-benzoheteroepines (2a-g) containing group 15 (P, As, Sb, and Bi) and group 16 (S, Se, and Te) heavier elements were prepared by the reaction of the corresponding metal reagents with (Z,Z)-o-bis(beta-lithiovinyl)benzene (5) which was derived in two steps from a common o-phthalaldehyde (3). The heteroepines (2) thus obtained were thermally labile towards heteroatom extrusion, and their half-lives on heating estimated from (1)H-NMR spectral analysis showed that the 3-benzoheteroepines (2) were far less stable than the corresponding 1-benzoheteroepines (1). The 2,4-bis(trimethylsilyl)-3-benzoheteroepines (17) containing Sb, Bi, and Te were also prepared from o-diiodobenzene (9) in 6 steps and were found to be more stable than the corresponding C-unsubstituted heteroepines (2).
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