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ANDREA PACE

Experimental and DFT Studies on Competitive Heterocyclic Rearrangements. A Cascade Isoxazole-1,2,4-Oxadiazole-Oxazole Rearrangement

  • Authors: PACE, A; PIERRO, P; BUSCEMI, S; VIVONA, N; BARONE, GA
  • Publication year: 2009
  • Type: Articolo in rivista (Articolo in rivista)
  • OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/34888

Abstract

The thermal rearrangements of 3-acylamino-5-methylisoxazoles 1 have been investigated under basic and neutral conditions and interpreted with the support of computational data. The density functional theory (DFT) study on the competitive routes available for the base-catalyzed thermal rearrangement of isoxazoles 1 showed that the Boulton-Katritzky (BK) rearrangement, producing the less stable 3-acetonyl- 1,2,4-oxadiazoles 5, is a much more favored process than either the migration-nucleophilic attack-cyclization (MNAC) or the ring contraction-ring expansion (RCRE). In turn, an increase in reaction temperature will promote the MNAC of oxadiazoles 5, producing the more stable 2-acylaminooxazoles 8. The thermal rearrangement of 3-acylaminoisoxazoles 1 into oxazoles 8 can therefore be interpreted in terms of a cascade BK-MNAC rearrangement involving 3-acetonyl-1,2,4-oxadiazoles 5 as ancillary intermediates.