Ring opening of 2-substituted 4-nitrothiophenes with pyrrolidine. Access to new functionalized nitro-unsaturated building blocks
摘要:
The reaction conditions of the ring-opening processes of 3-nitrothiophene 7a and of 3-nitrobenzo[b]thiophene 7b with pyrrolidine and silver nitrate were optimized as well as those of the subsequent S-methylation of the ensuing silver enethiolates 8a and 8b to 4-methylthio-2-nitro-1-pyrrolidino-1,3-butadiene 9a and 1-(2-methylthiophenyl)-1-nitro-2-pyrrolidinoethylene 9b. Under such conditions 2-X-substituted 4-nitrothiophenes 7c-i consistently gave good yields of the corresponding 4-methylthio-2-nitro-1-pyrrolidino-4-X-1,3-butadienes 9c-i. The nitroenamine derivatives 9a-i were then reacted with p-tolylmagnesium bromide to furnish moderate to good yields of 4-methylthio-2-nitro-1-(p-tolyl)-4-X-1,3-butadienes 10a,c-i and 1-(2-methylthiophenyl)-1-nitro-2-(p-tolyl)ethylene 10b. Stereochemistry of the interesting building blocks 9a-i and 10a-i was assigned on the grounds of H-1 NMR data and NOE experiments. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Kinetic study of substituent effects on the mechanism of β-elimination of arenethiol from trans-2,3-bis(arylthio)-4-nitro-2,3-dihydrothiophenes in toluene
The 2,3-dihydrothiophene derivatives (1b–f) readily undergo, in toluene, regiospecific tributylamine-promoted syn-elimination of arenethiol to give the 2-(arylthio)-4-nitrothiophenes (2b–f). For the rather complex kinetic behaviour displayed by each member of the series, a rationalisation is proposed based on a stability of the substrate's conjugate base sufficient to allow formation of non-negligible
The reaction conditions of the ring-opening processes of 3-nitrothiophene 7a and of 3-nitrobenzo[b]thiophene 7b with pyrrolidine and silver nitrate were optimized as well as those of the subsequent S-methylation of the ensuing silver enethiolates 8a and 8b to 4-methylthio-2-nitro-1-pyrrolidino-1,3-butadiene 9a and 1-(2-methylthiophenyl)-1-nitro-2-pyrrolidinoethylene 9b. Under such conditions 2-X-substituted 4-nitrothiophenes 7c-i consistently gave good yields of the corresponding 4-methylthio-2-nitro-1-pyrrolidino-4-X-1,3-butadienes 9c-i. The nitroenamine derivatives 9a-i were then reacted with p-tolylmagnesium bromide to furnish moderate to good yields of 4-methylthio-2-nitro-1-(p-tolyl)-4-X-1,3-butadienes 10a,c-i and 1-(2-methylthiophenyl)-1-nitro-2-(p-tolyl)ethylene 10b. Stereochemistry of the interesting building blocks 9a-i and 10a-i was assigned on the grounds of H-1 NMR data and NOE experiments. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.