N-alkyl-2-(1,2-diferrocenylvinyl)-4,5-dihydrooxazolinium salts, multi-component synthesis and breaking of their heterocyclic systems

Abstract

AbstractA new multicomponent method for the synthesis of N-alkyl-2-(Z-1,2-diferrocenylvinyl)-4,5-dihydrooxazolinium salts 3a–f, 5-(N-alkyl-2′,3′-diferrocenyl-acryloylamido)-3-aza-3-alkylpentanols 4a–d, (E)-N-alkyl-N-(2-morpholinoethyl)-2,3-diferrocenylacrylamides 9a,b,e,f and (E)-N-alkyl-N-(2-piperidinoethyl)-2,3-diferrocenylacrylamides 10a,c from reactions of 2,3-diferrocenylcyclopropenone 1 with bis-1,4-N,O-nucleophiles in the presence of triethyloxonium tetrafluoroborate, alkyl iodides, morpholine, piperidine and Et3N is described. The characterization of the new compounds was done by IR, 1H- and 13C-NMR spectroscopy, mass-spectrometry, elemental analysis and X-ray diffraction studies.