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Preparation of Stable Bicyclic Aziridinium Ions and Their Ring-Opening for the Synthesis of Azaheterocycles
Published on: August 22, 2018
Synthesis and highly selective bromination of Azacalix[4]pyrimidine macrocycles
Li-Xia Wang1, De-Xian Wang, Zhi-Tang Huang
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Abstract:
A number of N-substituted azacalix[4]pyrimidines were synthesized by two methods. While straightforward condensation reaction between 4,6-dichloropyrimidine and 4,6-bis(alkylamino)pyrimidines gave identically N-substituted azacalix[4]pyrimidines in low yields, a general and moderate-to-high yielding 1 + 3 macrocyclic fragment coupling reaction afforded azacalix[4]pyrimidines that contained either the same or different N-substituents. Upon treatment with N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) under controlled conditions, methylazacalix[4]pyrimidine was selectively brominated at lower rim to produce mono-, di-, and tribrominated azacalix[4]pyrimidines in good yields. While azacalix[4]pyrimidine derivatives adopted 1,3-alternate conformation in the solid state, the synthesized macrocycles were fluxional in solution, and the interconversion of various conformational structures was rapid relative to the NMR time scale.
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