Photochemical ring expansion of 4-azidouracil : a route to 5H-1,3,5-triazepin-2,4-dione in the nucleoside series

Autor: Michèle Cesario, Frédéric Peyrane, Pascale Clivio
Přispěvatelé: Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Journal of Organic Chemistry
Journal of Organic Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2006, 71(4), pp.1742-1745. ⟨10.1021/jo0524066⟩
ISSN: 0022-3263
1520-6904
DOI: 10.1021/jo0524066⟩
Popis: Under aqueous conditions, 4-azidouracil/tetrazolo[1,5-c]pyrimidin-5(6H)-one nucleosides undergo a very efficient photochemical nitrogen elimination and ring expansion to 1,3,5-triazepin-2,4-dione nucleosides whose structure has been confirmed by X-ray crystallography. In contrast, when the photolysis was attempted under anhydrous conditions in the presence of a nucleophile, a ring contraction reaction occurred, affording 2-oxoimidazolone nucleosides. A mechanism to account for the formation of ring expansion and contraction reactions and involving a carbodiimide intermediate is proposed which is reminiscent of the known photochemical behavior of 2-azidopyridines/tetrazolo[1,5-a]pyridines.
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