Synthesis 2006(1): 37-48  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-918499
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Generation of Cyclic Ketene-N,X-Acetals (X = O, S) from 2-Alkyl-1,3-oxazo­lines and 2-Alkyl-1,3-thiazolines. Reactions with Acid Chlorides, 1,3-Diacid Chlorides and N-(Chlorocarbonyl) Isocyanate

Aihua Zhou*, Charles U. Pittman Jr.*
Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39762, USA
Fax: +1(662)3257611; e-Mail: zhou_aihua@yahoo.com, cpittman@ra.msstate.edu;
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Received 31 March 2005
Publication Date:
24 November 2005 (online)

Abstract

2-Alkyl-1,3-oxazolines, 2-alkyl-1,3-thiazolines, and the corresponding cyclic ketene-N,X-acetals (X = O, S) derived from them were reacted with monoacid chlorides, diacid chlorides, tri­acid chlorides. A series of these carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions and cyclizations to both substituted 2,3-dihydrooxazolo[3,2-a]pyridine-5,7-diones and 2,3-dihydrothiazolo[3,2-a]pyridine-5,7-diones proceeded under mild reaction conditions. Cyclic ketene-N,X-acetal intermediates play important roles in all these reactions. Related cyclizations with N-(chlorocarbonyl) isocyanate formed substituted 2,3-dihydrooxazolo[3,2-c]pyrimidine-5,7-diones and 2,3-dihydrothiazolo[3,2-c]pyrimidine-5,7-diones.