Synthesis 2010(18): 3211-3216  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1258175
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[3+2]-Cycloaddition Reaction between Chiral Oxaziridines and Nitriles: Enantioselective Synthesis of 2,3-Dihydro-1,2,4-oxadiazoles

Luigino Troisi*a, Salvatore Caccameseb, Tullio Pilatic, Valeria Videttaa, Francesca Rosatoa
a Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, University of Salento, via prov. Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Fax: +39(832)298732; e-Mail: luigino.troisi@unisalento.it;
b University of Catania, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy
c C.N.R. Institute of Molecular Science and Technology, via G. Golgi 19, 20133 Milan, Italy
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Received 14 May 2010
Publication Date:
12 July 2010 (online)

Abstract

Enantiomerically pure 2,3-dihydro-1,2,4-oxadiazoles were synthesized by a cycloaddition reaction between chiral oxaziridines and nitriles. Assignment of absolute configurations was made by X-ray diffraction analysis, NOESY spectra, and theoretical calculations.

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X-ray crystallographic data for 10: C23H19N3OS, Mr =  85.47, 0.10 × 0.35 × 0.37 mm³, pale orange, monoclinic, space group P21, a = 11.6205(12), b = 6.2907(5), c = 13.6858(15) Å, β = 96.168(10)˚, V = 994.66(17) ų, Z = 2, D c  = 1.287 g cm, λ(Mo-Kα) = 0.71073 Å, µ(Mo-Kα) = 0.181 mm. Bruker SMART APEX2 diffractometer, data collection below 2θ = 55˚, 4024 data collected, 3153 independent, 2804 observed [I > 2σ(I)]. The structure was solved by SIR2002³8a, and refined on F² by SHELX97³8b. Final R = 0.0369, wR = 0.0944, on observed data, goodness-of-fit = 1.033; Flack parameters -0.03 (8); -0.21 < Δρ < 0.25 eÅ. Crystallographic data, excluding structure factors, have been deposited with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre as Supplementary Publication Number CCDC 767590. Copies of the data can be obtained, free of charge, on application to CCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge CB2 1EZ, UK; fax: +44(1223)336033 or e-mail: deposit@ccdc.cam.ac.uk.