Base-induced cyclisation of ortho-substituted 2-phenyloxazolines to give 3-aminobenzofurans and related heterocycles
Abstract
Treatment of ortho-benzyloxyphenyloxazolines with butyllithium and potassium t-butoxide results in cyclisation with ring-opening of the oxazoline to give 2-aryl-3-aminobenzofurans. The reaction also occurs with the corresponding benzylthio- and benzylamino-compounds to give benzothiophenes and indoles, respectively. Use of an ortho-allyloxyphenyloxazoline gives the corresponding 2-vinylbenzofuran, while both α-methylbenzyloxy and benzylsulfonyl compounds form stable spirooxazolidine products. The X-ray structure of an aminobenzothiophene product has been determined.
Citation
Aitken , R A , Harper , A D & Slawin , A M Z 2017 , ' Base-induced cyclisation of ortho-substituted 2-phenyloxazolines to give 3-aminobenzofurans and related heterocycles ' , Synlett , vol. 28 , no. 14 , pp. 1738-1742 . https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1588503
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Synlett
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0936-5214Type
Journal article
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© 2017 Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1588503
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The authors thank EPSRC (UK) for a DTA studentship (Grant No. EP/L505079/1) and the EPSRC UK National Mass Spectrometry Facility at Swansea UniversityCollections
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