Oxidative nucleophilic substitution of hydrogen versus ring-opening in the reaction of 4-R-2-nitrothiophenes with amines. The crucial effect of 4-alkyl groups.
4-Alkyl-2-nitrothiophenes [10: R = CH3, CH(OH)CH3, CH(OCH3)CH3] react with secondary aliphatic amines, in the presence of AgNO3, to give 3-alkyl-2-amino-5-nitrothiophenes (12) through an oxidative nucleophilic substitution of hydrogen (ONSH) of synthetic interest. This behavior is in striking contrast with that of the parent 2-nitrothiophene (6), which was found to undergo ring-opening in analogous reaction conditions. A possible rationale for the crucial effect of alkyl groups is suggested, grounded also on a study of the corresponding Meisenheimer-like adducts.
Bianchi
Lara
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Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 31, I-16146 Genoa, Italy.
Maccagno
Massimo
M
Petrillo
Giovanni
G
Sancassan
Fernando
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Tavani
Cinzia
C
Morganti
Stefano
S
Rizzato
Egon
E
Spinelli
Domenico
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