4+1Annulation of in situ generated azoalkenes with amines:A powerful approach to access 1-substituted 1,2,3-triazoles

摘要

1-Substituted 1,2,3-triazoles represents‘privileged’structural scaffolds of many clinical pharmaceuticals.However,the traditional methods for their preparation mainly rely on thermal[3+2]cycloaddition of potentially dangerous acetylene and azides.Here we report a base-mediated[4+1]annulation of azoalkenes generated in situ from readily available difluoroacetaldehyde N-tosylhydrazones(DFHZ-Ts)with amines under relatively mild conditions.This azide-and acetylene-free strategy provides facile access to diverse 1-substituted 1,2,3-triazole derivatives in high yield in a regiospecific manner.This transformation has great functional group tolerance and can suit a broad substrate scope.Furthermore,the application of this novel methodology in the gram-scale synthesis of an antibiotic drug PH-027 and in the late-stage derivatization of several bioactive small molecules and clinical drugs demonstrated its generality,practicability and applicability.