Published reports describe the oxidative cyclization of suitable ortho-substituted arenamines to form such products as 2,1-benzisoxazoles, benzofurazan 1-oxides and benzotriazoles, by using bis(acetato-O)phenyliodine at room temperature. However, the reactions are often inconveniently slow. We now report attempts to achieve short reaction times with more powerful iodine(III) oxidants. These often failed to give cyclic products, but the results enable us to argue that the reaction competing with cyclization involves the arenaminyl, cation ArN+H. When such cations are predicted to be relatively unstable, the parent arenamine can be rapidly cyclized in high yield by oxidation with bis(acetato-O)phenyliodine in boiling benzene.
已发表的报告介绍了在室温下使用双(乙酰氧基)苯基碘对合适的正交取代的芳胺进行氧化环化,生成 2,1-苯并异噁唑、苯并呋喃 1-氧化物和苯并三唑等产物。然而,这些反应通常速度很慢,很不方便。现在,我们报告了使用更强的碘(III)氧化剂来缩短反应时间的尝试。这些尝试往往不能得到环状产物,但结果使我们能够论证,与环化反应竞争的反应涉及芳酰胺基阳离子 ArN+H。当预测这种阳离子相对不稳定时,在沸腾的苯中用双(乙酰-O)苯基碘进行氧化,母体芳酰胺就能迅速环化,而且产量很高。