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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 21, Issue 28, Pages 10170-10178Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201500744
Keywords
condensation; cyclization; gallium triflate; one-pot synthesis; quinazolines; solvent-free
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- Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute
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Condensed heterocycles such as quinazolines constitute the framework of many promising drugs. The great impact of the dramatic fluorine effect in pharmaceuticals prompted a great surge in the quest for fluorinated drug design resulting in over 20% fluorine-containing drugs in the market today. Therefore, finding an efficient and cost-effective method for the direct synthesis of fluorine-tagged quinazoline systems is of great significance in the pharmaceutical arena. For the first time, a one-pot sequential condensation-cyclization reaction to form selectively the difluoro/trifluoromethylated tetrahydroquinazolines from simple components difluoro/trifluoroacetaldehyde hemiacetal and aromatic amines is reported. Our recent studies using difluoro/trifluoroacetaldehyde hemiacetal as simple and elegant difluoro/trifluoromethyl synthons and metal triflates such as gallium triflate as safe and stable Lewis acid catalysts led us to this direct synthesis protocol for the expedient and convenient synthesis of fluorinated quinazolines. DFT calculations at PCM/B3LYP/6-31++G** were carried out for evaluating a possible reaction mechanism for this cyclization. According to the DFT calculations, product stereochemistry is thermodynamically driven, favoring the cis isomer as the major product, which is also confirmed experimentally.
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