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Sulfur-bridged molecular racks : O,S-sesquinorbornadienes, CNS-[3] and CNOS [4]polynorbornanes

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posted on 2017-12-06, 00:00 authored by D Margetic, Douglas Butler, Ronald Warrener
Thiophene has been reacted under high-pressure (10 kbar) and temperature (1000C) with Nmethylmaleimide and N-phenylmaleimide to produce Diels-Alder exo- and endo-adducts in modest yields (25-36%). Reaction of 7-oxanorbornadiene-2,3-dicarboxylic anhydride 6, a highly reactive dienophile, with thiophene occurred under high-pressure (10 kbar) at 100oC to yield stereoisomeric 1:1-adducts by site selective attack at the maleic anhydride type of π-bond. This approach afforded the first examples of syn- and anti- heterobridged sesquinorbornadiene anhydrides 8 and 9 containing a sulfur bridge. Similar reaction of isobenzothiophene with 6 was even more facile as reaction occurred at room temperature and atmospheric pressure to yield benzo-analogues 12 and 13. Thermal fragmentation involving loss of furan and sulfur occurred from both classes of adducts under FVP (370 0C, 0.005 mbar) to produce phthalic anhydride or naphthalene-2,3-dicarboxylic anhydride respectively. The putative 7-thianorbornadiene intermediates 20 and 22, generated by loss of furan, were not detected. Reaction of exo-N-methyl 7-thianorbornene-5,6-dicarboxylic imide 4a with the ester-activated cyclobutenoaziridine 16 provided access to CNS-[3]polynorbornane 18, while similar addition of the exo,endo-isomer of O,S-benzosesquinorbornadiene 13 to 16 afforded the CNOS-[4] olynorbornane 19. These are the first S-bridged [n]polynorbornanes to be reported. Molecular modelling (AM1) has shown that Sn-[n]polynorbornadienes have a curved topology greater than On- n]polynorbornadienes but less than Nn-[n]polynorbornadienes.

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Category 1 - Australian Competitive Grants (this includes ARC, NHMRC)

History

Volume

2002

Issue

6

Start Page

234

End Page

256

Number of Pages

23

ISSN

1551-7004

Location

United States

Publisher

Arkat USA, Inc.

Language

en-aus

Peer Reviewed

  • Yes

Open Access

  • No

External Author Affiliations

Centre for Molecular Architecture;

Era Eligible

  • No

Journal

ARKIVOC.

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