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Diastereoselective synthesis of PEGylated imidazolidines, oxazolidines, thiazolidines, pyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrroles and fulleropyrrolidines in high yields is reported. The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azomethine ylides generated via thermal ring-opening of PEGylated aziridines to ketenimines, ketenes, thioketones, maleimides, DMAD and fullerene C60 was found to proceed under different conditions. The use of C[dbnd]O, C[dbnd]N and C[dbnd]S dipolarophiles requires more harsh reaction conditions, compared with C[dbnd]C and C[tbnd]C dipolarophiles, to suppress the side reaction of aziridine “dimerization”. The stereocontrol of the product configuration is achieved through stereospecificity of two consecutive concerted reactions: electrocyclic aziridine ring opening followed by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of the resulting azomethine ylide: only trans-adducts are formed from cis-aziridines, whereas trans-aziridines give exclusively cis-adducts. The structure and molecular-mass distribution of the resulting PEGylated heterocycles are exhaustively characterized by 1H, 13C NMR, IR and HRMS.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 131774 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Tetrahedron |
Volume | 77 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2021 |
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