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Abstract
N-Phenylmaltimide reacted with chlorosulfonic acid to give an excellent yield of the sulfonyl chloride (1), which with dimethylamine or aniline (2 equivs.) afforded the corresponding sulfonamides (2,3). However, use of more dimethylamine (4 equivs.) caused opening of the imido ring and addition to the double bond to yield the dimethylamide (12). Similar reaction with diethylamine in methanol resulted in nucleophilic ring-opening by the solvent leading to the methyl ester (13). Analogous reactions with morpholine, pyrrolidine and piperidine (3 equivs.) proceeded with addition and substitution to give 7–9. N-(p-chlorosulfonylphenyl)-3,4-dichloromaleimide (15) reacted with amines with substitution of both the 3- and sulfonyl chlorine atoms to give the sulfonamides (16–21).
3-Chloro-4-phenoxy-N-phenylmaleimide reacted with chlorosulfonic acid to give the bis-sultonyl chloride (22); condensation with dimethylamine caused displacement of the 4-(p-chlorosulfonyl-phenoxy) group to give 16. The various reactions are discussed and the structures of the products confirmed by microanalytical and spectroscopic data. The results of preliminary biological screening against 4 fungi and 2 enzymes are included.