Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
5 years ago

Fluorophores for Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer by an Yttrium Triflate Catalyzed Reaction of Isocyanides with Thiocarboxylic Acids

Fluorophores for Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer by an Yttrium Triflate Catalyzed Reaction of Isocyanides with Thiocarboxylic Acids
Shuo Tong, Qian Wang, Qing He, Jieping Zhu, Shun Zhao, Mei-Xiang Wang
Discovery of new chemical reactivity of a given functional group can often result in innovative synthesis of important chemical entities that possess unprecedented properties. We designed and developed a one-step synthesis of 5-amino-4-carboxamidothiazoles 1 by an yttrium-triflate-catalyzed reaction of thiocarboxylic acids 2 with isocyanides 3. In this reaction, both reactants 2 and 3 deviated from their normal reactivities because of metal coordination. The resulting heterocycles are novel prototypical structures for the double ESIPT process. Some of them were excited by visible light irradiation and emitted fluorescence at the NIR region with large Stokes shift, high quantum yield, and strong solvatochromism. Colorful reactivity: The reaction of thiocarboxylic acids with isocyanides in the presence of a catalytic amount of yttrium triflate afforded 5-amino-4-carboxamidothiazoles in good to excellent yields. Some of these heterocycles were excited by visible light and emitted fluorescence in the near-infrared region with large Stokes shift, high quantum yield, and strong positive solvatochromism.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201702488

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