Chemistry of phosphorus ylides 31: Reaction of azidocoumarin with active phosphonium ylides, synthesis and antitumour activities of chromenones

摘要

The reaction of 4- azidochromen-2-one (1) with the nucleophilic phosphacumulene ylides 2, 8, and 12 afforded the new heterocyclic triazoles, triazepines, aziridine, pyrrolone containing a coumarin moiety. Cycloaddition reactions took place first to give triazoline 3 and 9. The triazolines rearranged to the triazepines 4, 10, and 13 accompanied by elimination of triphenylphosphine leading to the phosphorus-free triazepines 5, 11, and moreover, aziridine 6 was produced via nitrogen extrusion from the triazoline 3, followed by ring expansion to the pyrrolone 7. On the other hand, the reaction of the azidocoumarin 1 with the phosphallene yield 15 behaves differently and afforded the triazine 17 and azetone 18. The antitumour activity of compounds 3, 4, 6, and 11 was evaluated, in vitro, against (breast: MCF-7 and liver: HPEG2) human solid tumour cell lines. They showed values closed to that recorded by the reference drug doxorubicin.