A method for the synthesis of peri-annelated trinuclear heterocycles, including 14pi-electron heteroaromatic systems, namely, 1H-thiopyrano[4,3,2-cd]indazoles and 1,5-dihydropyrazolo[3,4,5-de]cinnolines, from 3-R-1-aryl-4,6-dinitro-1H-indazoles was developed. The method is based on the high mobility of the NO2 group in position 4 and consists of either selective nucleophilic substitution of the 4-NO2 group on treatment with the HSCH2CO2Me-K2CO3 system followed by intramolecular cyclization of the resulting sulfide (R = CHO) or the corresponding sulfone (R = CN) formed upon its oxidation or direct intramolecular substitution of the 4-NO2 group (R = CH=NNH Ph).
A method for the synthesis of peri-annelated trinuclear heterocycles, including 14pi-electron heteroaromatic systems, namely, 1H-thiopyrano[4,3,2-cd]indazoles and 1,5-dihydropyrazolo[3,4,5-de]cinnolines, from 3-R-1-aryl-4,6-dinitro-1H-indazoles was developed. The method is based on the high mobility of the NO2 group in position 4 and consists of either selective nucleophilic substitution of the 4-NO2 group on treatment with the HSCH2CO2Me-K2CO3 system followed by intramolecular cyclization of the resulting sulfide (R = CHO) or the corresponding sulfone (R = CN) formed upon its oxidation or direct intramolecular substitution of the 4-NO2 group (R = CH=NNH Ph).
Oxidation of 3-substituted 4-R-6-nitro-1-phenyl-1H-indazoles and benzo[d]isoxazoles (R = Ph, CH2CO2Me) gave the corresponding sulfones treatment of which with PhSH-K2CO3 in N-methylpyrrolidone results in replacement of only the RSO2 group in position 4 with the 6-NO2 group remaining intact, contrary to the known sequence of nucleophilic substitution for meta-arranged nucleofuges.