Obtenção de derivados de 1,3-oxazol através de reações de inserção envolvendo azalactonas e diazocompostos

Abstract

Since the synthesis of the first diazo compound by Theodor Curtius in 1883, the chemistry involving substances containing a diazo group has been extensively investigated. They are a remarkable class of compounds due to the range of different transformations they can perform. Cyclopropanations, Wolff rearrangement, cycloadditions, insertion to C-H and X-H bonds are some of the reactions that diazocarbonyl compounds can have. In the present study, a new methodology which consists in tertiary base-promoted insertion reactions of diazo carbonyls to azlactones is described. Under the optimized reaction conditions, the developed method allows the preparation of a wide range substrate scope concerning both diazocarbonyl substrates and azlactones, in yields ranging from 74 to 98%. Aromatic, aliphatic and unsaturated substituents were well tolerated and electronic effects were evaluated. Moreover, diazo bearing stereogenic centers were successfully adopted and chiral HPLC analyses revealed no racemization process. Some of the compounds were submitted to biological evaluation and showed cytotoxic activity against two cancer cell lines, appearing as promising compounds for further biological activities.