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 languageEnglish
Article number131774
Number of pages9
JournalTetrahedron
Volume77
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2021

    Scopus subject areas

  • Drug Discovery
  • Biochemistry
  • Organic Chemistry

    Research areas

  • Aziridines, Azoles, Azomethine ylides, Polyethylene glycol, OXAZOLIDINES, THERMOLYSIS, THERAPY, AZOMETHINE YLIDES, CHEMISTRY, DERIVATIVES, HYDANTOIN, IMIDAZOLIDINES

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