Osipyan Angelina, Sapegin Alexander, Novikov Alexander S, Krasavin Mikhail
Saint Petersburg State University , Saint Petersburg 199034 , Russian Federation.
J Org Chem. 2018 Sep 7;83(17):9707-9717. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b01210. Epub 2018 Aug 22.
The hydrolytic imidazoline ring expansion (HIRE) methodology was extended to readily available tetracyclic [1,4]thiazepines as well as sulfoxide and sulfone analogs thereof. The reactions resulted in the facile formation of a rare medium-sized [1,4,7]thiazecine ring system that has an emerging utility in bioactive compound design. Comparing the HIRE rates for representative compounds in the three groups of substrates allowed drawing some generalizations about the substituent effects on the course of the reaction.