Fused ring aziridines as a facile entry into triazole fused tricyclic and bicyclic heterocycles.

The intramolecular dipolar cycloaddition of an azide with an alkyne has provided a useful entry into triazole fused tricyclic heterocycles containing both the triazole ring and the oxazolidin-2-one ring system. The requisite azido-alkynes have been prepared via a two-step sequence from fused ring aziridines. A series of 6-12 membered rings containing both the oxazolidinone and triazole rings have been prepared. These ring systems have been designed as conformationally restrained analogs of RNA-binding oxazolidinones.