Novel [1,4]oxazepines containing a fused imidazoline moiety were synthesized from 2-hydroxyphenyl imidazolines and bis-electrophilic aromatic substrates in a reaction involving sequential nucleophilic aromatic substitution steps and a Smiles rearrangement. A notable step was the remarkably facile, metal-free intramolecular N-arylation of the imidazoline moiety with a fluoro-, nitro- or chloroaromatic or heteroaromatic ring. The approach presented in this Letter not only details access to a new, medicinally relevant tetracyclic [1,4]oxazepine core but also extends the scope of imidazoline arylation chemistry.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5632-5636
Number of pages5
JournalTetrahedron Letters
Volume56
Issue number41
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Oct 2015

    Research areas

  • Imidazoline arylation, Monoamine uptake inhibitors, Nucleophilic aromatic substitution, Polycyclic aromatic scaffolds, Regiospecificity, Smiles rearrangement

    Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry
  • Drug Discovery
  • Organic Chemistry

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