An N-Trifluoromethylation/Cyclization Strategy for Accessing Diverse N-Trifluoromethyl Azoles from Nitriles and 1,3-Dipoles
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION(2022)
Abstract
N-Trifluoromethyl azoles are valuable targets in medicinal chemistry, but their synthesis is challenging. Classical preparation of N-CF3 azoles relies on the functional group interconversions but suffers from tedious N-pre-functionalization and unfriendly agents. Introduction of the CF3 onto the nitrogen of heterocycles provides a direct route to such motifs, but the N-trifluoromethylation remains underdeveloped. Reported here is an alternative and scalable cyclization strategy based on NCF3-containing synthons for constructing N-CF3 azoles. The approach involves the N-trifluoromethylation of nitriles followed by a [3+2] cyclization between resulting N-CF3 nitrilium derivatives and 1,3-dipoles. PhICF3Cl was an effective CF3 source for the transformation. As a result, a generic platform is established to divergently synthesize N-trifluoromethylated tetrazoles, imidazoles, and 1,2,3-triazoles by using sodium azide, activated methylene isocyanides, and diazo compounds as dipoles.
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Key words
1,3-dipoles,cyclizations,heterocycles,nitriles,synthetic methods
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