Department of Chemistry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
College of Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Org Lett. 2022 Jan 21;24(2):490-495. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c03810. Epub 2022 Jan 7.
Motivated by the biosynthesis of azamerone, we report the first example of a diazo-Hooker reaction, which involves the formation of a phthalazine ring system by the oxidative rearrangement of a diazoketone. Computational studies indicate that the diazo-Hooker reaction proceeds via an 8π-electrocyclization followed by ring contraction and aromatization. The biosynthetic origin of the diazoketone functional group was also chemically mimicked using a related natural product, naphterpin, as a model system.
受 azamerone 生物合成的启发,我们报告了首例重氮-Hooker 反应的实例,该反应通过氧化重氮酮的重排形成了邻苯二甲嗪环系统。计算研究表明,重氮-Hooker 反应通过 8π-电环化反应进行,随后进行环收缩和芳构化。还使用相关天然产物萘啶酮作为模型系统,通过化学模拟模拟了 diazoketone 官能团的生物合成起源。