Molecules (Oct 2022)

Triflamidation of Allyl-Containing Substances:Unusual Dehydrobromination vs. Intramolecular Heterocyclization

  • Anton S. Ganin,
  • Mikhail Yu. Moskalik,
  • Ivan A. Garagan,
  • Vera V. Astakhova,
  • Bagrat A. Shainyan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27206910
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 20
p. 6910

Abstract

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Allyl halides with triflamide under oxidative conditions form halogen-substituted amidines. Allyl cyanide reacts with triflamide in acetonitrile or THF solutions in the presence of NBS to give the products of bromotriflamidation with a solvent interception, whereas in CH2Cl2 two regioisomers of the bromotriflamidation product without a solvent interception were obtained. The formed products undergo base-induced dehydrobromination to give linear isomers with the new C=C bond conjugated either with the nitrile group or the amidine moiety or alkoxy group. Under the same conditions, the reaction of allyl alcohol with triflamide gives rise to amidine, which was prepared earlier by the reaction of diallyl formal with triflamide. Unlike their iodo-substituted analogs, bromo-substituted amidines successfully transform into imidazolidines under the action of potassium carbonate.

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