Open AccessA Direct Route into Fused Imidazo-diazines and Imidazo-pyridines Using Nucleophilic Nitrenoids in a Gold-Catalyzed Formal [3 + 2]-Dipolar Cycloaddition
Author(s) -
Miguel Garzón,
Paul W. Davies
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
organic letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.94
H-Index - 239
eISSN - 1523-7060
pISSN - 1523-7052
DOI - 10.1021/ol502346d
Subject(s) - chemistry , cycloaddition , pyridinium , nucleophile , regioselectivity , alkyne , catalysis , combinatorial chemistry , nucleophilic addition , stereochemistry , medicinal chemistry , organic chemistry
Pyridinium N-(heteroaryl)aminides can be employed as robust and practical synthetic equivalents of nucleophilic 1,3-N,N-dipoles in a formal cycloaddition onto electron-rich alkynes under gold catalysis. Convergent and regioselective access to five types of imidazo-fused heteroaromatics is provided from the appropriate aminide. The efficient transformation accommodates significant structural variation around the aminide, ynamide, or indolyl-alkyne reactants and tolerates sensitive functional groups.