Photoassisted Diversity-Oriented Synthesis: Accessing 2,6-Epoxyazocane (Oxamorphan) Cores

The modular synthesis of photoprecursors and their photoinduced cyclization into substituted 1-benzazocanes of two distinct topologies is described. The key step producing an extended polyheterocyclic system involves the photogeneration of azaxylylenes and their subsequent intramolecular cycloadditi...

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Main Author: Olga A. Mukhina (1344252) (author)
Other Authors: N. N. Bhuvan Kumar (1344249) (author), Teresa M. Cowger (1344243) (author), Andrei G. Kutateladze (1344246) (author)
Published: 2015
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Summary:The modular synthesis of photoprecursors and their photoinduced cyclization into substituted 1-benzazocanes of two distinct topologies is described. The key step producing an extended polyheterocyclic system involves the photogeneration of azaxylylenes and their subsequent intramolecular cycloaddition with furan-containing pendants tethered either via the aniline nitrogen or through the carbonyl group containing arm. The primary photoproductssecondary or tertiary anilines which are not acylated at the nitrogen atomundergo facile acid-catalyzed or spontaneous ring-opening–ring-closing rearrangement to yield fused polyheterocyclic structures possessing a 2,6-epoxyazocane (or oxamorphan) core.