Imidazoquinoline compounds with an oxime substituent at the 1-position, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, intermediates, and methods of use of these compounds as immunomodulators, for inducing cytokine biosynthesis in animals and in the treatment of diseases including viral and neoplastic diseases are disclosed.
Cyclization with Nitrenium Ions Generated from N-Methoxy- or N-Allyloxy-N-chloroamides with Anhydrous Zinc Acetate. Synthesys of N-Hydroxy- and N-Methoxynitrogen Heterocyclic Compounds
Electrophilic intramolecular aromatic substitution with an N-methoxy- or an N-allyloxy-acylnitrenium ion, generated by treatment of an N-methoxy- or an N-allyloxy-N-chloroamide with anhydrous zinc acetate in nitromethane, leads to formation of a nitrogen heterocyclic compound bearing an N-methoxy- or N-allyloxy group. The latter is readily converted to the corresponding N-hydroxy compound by palladium-catalyzed removal of the allyl group.
Kikugawa Yasuo, Shimada Masahiro, Matsumoto Kazuhiro, Heterocycles, 37 (1994) N 1, S 293-301