3-Hydroxythiazole and 1-Hydroxyimidazole as Products of a Mutual Ring Closure Reaction: Extension to Selenium Derivatives

A thiazole derivative can be easily prepared, e.g., from an α -thiocyanatoketone and a nitrogen nucleophile. In this work, α -bromopropiophenone was chosen as a starting compound. Since the carbonyl group facilitates nucleophilic substitution, bromine can be simply replaced with the thiocyanato group. The following reaction with hydroxylamine hydrochloride provides an intermediate, which undergoes a ring closure reaction. Finally, 3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-phenylthiazol-2(3H)-iminium chloride 4a or 1-hydroxy-4-methyl-5-phenyl-1,3-dihydro-2H-imidazole-2-thione 5a arises depending on the presence of a base. In the next part, this interesting phenomenon was successfully investigated on selenium derivatives as well. All prepared substances have not been described in the literature yet.

Keywords:

• Cyclization
• imidazole
• selenium
• thiazole

This work was supported by Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (grant No. MSMT 143 1000 111) and by Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (grant No. 203/01/1333).

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