Dilithiation routes to functionalized sydnones

ORGN 505

Avafia Y. Dossa, avafia@yahoo.com and Kenneth Turnbull, kenneth.turnbull@wright.edu. Department of Chemistry, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435
The versatile intermediates, 3-(4-halo-2-iodo)phenyl)sydnones (2), have been synthesized in good yield by dilithiation of 3-(4-halophenyl)sydnones (1) using BuLi or LDA where appropriate, trapping with I2, followed by reduction at the 4-position with Na2SO3. Subsequent coupling of 2 with phenyl acetylene under Sonogashira conditions followed by Suzuki coupling at the 4'-position yields various ortho-phenylethynyl sydnones (3). Reactions of 3 with electrophiles have been explored as avenues to novel sydnoquinolines (4). The scope and limitations of these processes will be discussed.