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Preparation of Stable Bicyclic Aziridinium Ions and Their Ring-Opening for the Synthesis of Azaheterocycles
Published on: August 22, 2018
GaCl(3)-catalyzed insertion of diazene derivatives into the cyclopropane ring
Vadim S Korotkov1, Oleg V Larionov, Anja Hofmeister
1Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare Chemie der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 2, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany.
Abstract:
GaCl3 has been found to efficiently catalyze the formal cycloadditions of diazene derivatives 6 onto 2-arylcyclopropane-1,1-dicarboxylates 5, giving rise to the pyrazolidine derivatives 7. The insertion into the cyclopropane ring proceeds with complete regioselectivity to furnish 5-arylpyrazolidine-1,2,3,3-tetracarboxylates exclusively; however, the cis-configured azo compound N-phenyltriazolinedione gave the two possible regioisomeric pyrazolidine derivatives in ratios varying from 1:1.5 to 1:3. Conceivable mechanisms of these transformations are being discussed.
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