Stereo- and regiocontrol of electrophile-initiated rearrangement of push–pull 5-substituted 4-oxothiazolidine derivatives
摘要:
Regioselective a-bromination of (Z)-5-substituted-2-alkylidene-4-oxothiazolidine derivatives affords, under mild experimental conditions, vinyl bromides 3 in good yields. They undergo rearrangement providing a highly efficient route to the stereodefined 4-oxo-thiazolidine derivatives possessing two fully delocalized exocyclic double bonds at C(2) and C(5) positions. A mechanism of this novel rearrangement reaction via base-promoted proton transfer from one carbanionic site to another, followed by the bromination-dehydrobromination sequence, is proposed. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Vinyl bromides derivedfrom 2-alkylidene-4-oxothiazolidines represent a class of vinyl halides, which readily undergo a bromophilic attack by a range of nucleophiles. With Ph3P, AcS−, CN−, I−, F−, Ac2CH− and N3− the attack ends up with reductive debromination, whereas the bromine substitution takes place with KSCN. When acetate anion and organic bases, such as pyridine, Et3N or morpholine, are employed