N-Atom Deletion in Nitrogen Heterocycles
Haitao Qin1, Wangshui Cai1, Shuang Wang1
1Institute of Chemistry and BioMedical Sciences, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
Abstract:
Excising the nitrogen in secondary amines, and coupling the two residual fragments is a skeletal editing strategy that can be used to construct molecules with new skeletons, but which has been largely unexplored. Here we report a versatile method of N-atom excision from N-heterocycles. The process uses readily available N-heterocycles as substrates, and proceeds by N-sulfonylazidonation followed by the rearrangement of sulfamoyl azide intermediates, providing various cyclic products. Examples are provided of deletion of nitrogen from natural products, synthesis of chiral O-heterocycles from commercially available chiral β-amino alcohols, formal inert C-H functionalization through a sequence of N-directed C-H functionalization and N-atom deletion reactions in which the N-atom can serve as a traceless directing group.
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