N-Perfluoroalkylsulfonylimido derivatives of arenecarboxylic acid amides and their oxidative aza Hofmann rearrangement
摘要:
The analogues of carboxamides in which the sp(2)-hybridized oxygen atom is replaced by more electron-withdrawing groups, =NSO(2)CF(3) and =NSO(2)C(4)F(9), have been synthesized. The resulting N-perfluoroalkylsulfonyl arenecarboxamidines ArC(=NSO(2)R(f))NH(2) (Rf = CF(3), C(4)F(9)) undergo an oxidative Hofmann-type rearrangement to the corresponding carbodiimides ArN=C=NSO(2)R(f) under the action of (diacyloxy-iodo)arenes. Rearrangement of related compounds ArC(=NSO(2)R)NH(2) (R = CH(3), Ph) containing fluorine-free substituents at the sulfonyl group also occurs in similar conditions. It was found that the reactivity of amidines rises with the increasing electron-withdrawing ability of the substituent R. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.