Intramolecular Metal-Free N-N Bond Formation with Heteroaromatic Amines: Mild Access to Fused-Triazapentalene Derivatives

Abstract

Formation of N-N bonds may offer an original approach to various nitrogen-containing heterocycles with numerous applications. For this purpose, we found that readily available heteroaromatic amines are appropriate substrates for providing an efficient and innovative approach for the formation of N-N bonds in the presence of iodine (III) reagent in very mild conditions. This method makes it possible to synthesize nitrogen rich triazapentalene derivatives exhibiting fluorescent properties, inaccessible with existing approaches.

Keywords: N−N bond formation; heteroaromatic amines; hypervalent compounds; iodine; triazapentalene derivatives.