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Article Dans Une Revue Tetrahedron Letters Année : 2001

A remarkably facile oxygen transfer in a nitrobenzofuroxan structure activated through σ-complex formation

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Treatment of 4,6-dinitrobenzofuroxan (DNBF) with the imidazoline 1-NRf is found to afford a zwitterionic nitrogen-bonded complex (2-NRf±) which, in the presence of base (Et3N), undergoes a slow but quantitative transformation to give 7-hydroxy-4,6-dinitrobenzofurazan (5) as the final product. Overall, an oxygen transfer has thus occurred from the N-oxide function to the carbocyclic moiety of DNBF. The key point in this transformation is shown to be a facile abstraction of the sp3 hydrogen bonded at C-7 of 2-NRf±, providing important new evidence that the parent DNBF structure is extremely electron-withdrawing (‘super-electrophile’). The overall conversion is also an unusual case of a catalytic process in which the catalysts (both 1-NRf and Et3N) partake to form covalent reaction intermediates and thereby lower the activation energy, resulting in a facile reaction.

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hal-02149596 , version 1 (06-06-2019)

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François Terrier, Martine Beaufour, Jean-Claude Halle, Jean-Claude Cherton, Erwin Buncel. A remarkably facile oxygen transfer in a nitrobenzofuroxan structure activated through σ-complex formation. Tetrahedron Letters, 2001, 42 (27), pp.4499-4501. ⟨10.1016/S0040-4039(01)00774-2⟩. ⟨hal-02149596⟩

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