Metal-free synthesis of 3-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazoles via multi-component reaction of trifluoroacetimidoyl chlorides, hydrazine hydrate and benzene-1,3,5-triyl triformate
Binjie Wang1 
Zhengkai Chen
Xiao-Feng Wu- 1Key Laboratory of Drug Prevention and Control Technology of Zhejiang Province, The Department of Criminal Science and Technology, Zhejiang Police College, Hangzhou, China
- 2Key Laboratory of Surface & Interface Science of Polymer Materials of Zhejiang Province, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China
- 3Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, Liaoning, China
- 4Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e. V, Rostock, Germany
A convenient approach for the construction of pharmaceutically valuable 3-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazoles has been developed, which employs the readily available trifluoroacetimidoyl chlorides, hydrazine hydrate and benzene-1,3,5-triyl triformate (TFBen) as starting materials. The multi-component reaction features broad substrate scope, high efficiency, and scalability, providing a facile and straightforward route to the biologically important 3-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazole scaffolds in moderate to good yields. Considering its broad-spectrum pharmaceutical activity, the method offers the opportunity for the further study towards the toxicity risk assessment and structure-activity relationship of the pharmaceuticals containing trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazole cores.
Introduction
1,2,4-Triazoles, especially trifluoromethyl-substituted 1,2,4-triazoles, have found extensive applications in the field of pharmaceutical, agrochemicals, biology, functional materials, and ligand chemistry (Koltin and Hitchcock, 1997; Shivarama Holla, et al., 2002; Haycock-Lewandowski, et al., 2008; Tao, et al., 2010; Zhou and Wang, 2012; Romagnoli, et al., 2014). For instance, the commercial sitagliptin is a potent inhibitor of DPP-IV and is used as a new treatment for type II diabetes (Hansen, et al., 2005). Other trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazole derivatives, have been applied as anticonvulsant drug, GlyT1 inhibitor, anti-HIV-1 reagent, and NKI-receptor ligand (Figure 1) (Lebsack, et al., 2004; Girardet, et al., 2006; Syvanen, et al., 2007; Sugane, et al., 2011; Sakurada, et al., 2015). It is well-known that the occurrence of trifluoromethyl group could significantly improve the physicochemical and pharmacological properties of the parent molecules due to the unique character of fluorine atom (Müller, et al., 2007; Gillis, et al., 2015; Zhou, et al., 2016; Han, et al., 2020). Therefore, the exploration of efficient and practical strategies for the preparation of trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazoles is highly desirable.
FIGURE 1. Selected examples of bioactive molecules containing 1,2,4-triazole cores.
Traditional methods for the synthesis of trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazoles usually suffer from tedious reaction procedures, narrow substrate scope and lower efficiency (Buscemi, et al., 2003; Buscemi, et al., 2006; Funabiki, et al., 1999; Sibgatulin, et al., 2010). Recent years have witnessed considerable achievements about the construction of trifluoromethyl-substituted 1,2,4-triazoles (Zhang, et al., 2019), which include transition metal-catalyzed three-component reaction of aryldiazonium salts with fluorinated diazo reagents and nitriles (Peng, et al., 2020). Our groups also developed a series of convenient approaches for the assembly of this kind of important five-membered N-heterocycle by using trifluoroacetimidoyl chlorides (Hu, et al., 2019; Du, et al., 2020) and trifluoroacetimidohydrazides (Zhang, et al., 2021a; Zhang, et al., 2021b; Zhang, et al., 2021c; Lu, et al., 2022a; Zhang, et al., 2022) as versatile trifluoromethyl synthons. Compared with the in-depth study toward the synthesis of 5-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazoles, the relevant reports regarding the formation of the more specific 3-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazoles have been rare but still of great significance. Wu, Chen and co-workers reported a copper-mediated [3 + 2] cycloaddition of trifluoroacetimidoyl chlorides and N-isocyanoiminotriphenylphphorane (NIITP) to efficiently access 3-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazoles (Figure 2A) (Yang, et al., 2021). They also utilized D-glucose (Lu, et al., 2021) and N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) (Lu, et al., 2022b) as an inexpensive C1 source to realize [4 + 1] cyclization reaction with trifluoroacetimidohydrazides for preparing 3-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazoles (Figures 2B,C). Very recently, Hu and co-workers described a tandem addition/cyclization reaction of trifluoromethyl N-acylhydrazones and cyanamide to afford polysubstituted 3-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazolines, which could be oxidized to 1,2,4-triazoles with NBS (Figure 2D) (Liu, et al., 2022). Despite notable advances having been gained, other facile pathways to access the valuable trifluoromethyl-substituted N-heterocycles deserve to be further investigated.
FIGURE 2. Several approaches for the synthesis of 3-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazoles.
Benzene-1,3,5-triyl triformate (TFBen) is first designed and developed by Wu and co-workers and has usually been used as a potent CO surrogate in diverse carbonylative transformations (Jiang, et al., 2016; Yang, et al., 2022). Meanwhile, TFBen is also adopted as a C1 source in the formation of a variety of heterocycles. Wu group reported a metal-free annulation of hydrazides with benzene-1,3,5-triyl triformate (TFBen) to produce 1,3,4-oxadiazoles (Yin, et al., 2018). Our group disclosed a palladium-catalyzed three-component carbonylative reaction of trifluoroacetimidohydrazides and aryl iodides for delivering 5-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazoles (Tang, et al., 2021). In these reactions, TFBen provided a CO unit to form carbonyl-containing compounds and the latter underwent an intramolecular dehydration process. In continuation of our effort on the carbonylative reaction using CO surrogate for the efficient construction of trifluoromethyl-containing heterocycles (Chen, et al., 2020a; Chen, et al., 2020b; Yang, et al., 2020; Tang, et al., 2021; Wang, et al., 2021), we herein presented a multi-component annulation reaction of readily available trifluoroacetimidoyl chlorides (Tamura, et al., 1993; Chen, et al., 2020c), hydrazine hydrate and benzene-1,3,5-triyl triformate for the metal-free synthesis of 3-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazoles (Figure 2E).
Results and discussion
The study was initiated by the employment of trifluoroacetimidoyl chloride 1e as model substrate along with hydrazine hydrate and benzene-1,3,5-triyl triformate (TFBen) as starting materials (Table 1). The reaction proceeded smoothly in the presence of TsOH H2O in toluene at 100°C for 12 h, and the desired 3-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazole product 3e was isolated in 53% yield (Table 1, entry 1). Other acidic additives were also examined, including TfOH, PivOH and TFA, and the results indicated that TFA promoted the reaction with highest efficiency (Table 1, entries 2–4). Then, a series of organic solvents were tried to test the solvent effect of this reaction. The multi-component reaction could occur in various solvents, but the obtained reaction yields were all inferior to that of toluene (Table 1, entries 5–9). Lowering and elevating the reaction temperature did not get the better outcome (Table 1, entries 10–11). When the reaction was conducted in the presence of 0.5 equiv. of TFA, the yield of product 2e was decreased to 50% (Table 1, entry 12). Furthermore, reducing the amount of hydrazine hydrate had a negative impact on the reaction (Table 1, entry 13). Considering TFBen could generate three times as much CO per molecule, increasing the amount of TFBen to 1.0 equiv. only gave the comparable result (Table 1, entry 14). In addition, the inert atmosphere also had a negligible effect on the reaction (Table 1, entry 15).
TABLE 1. Optimization of reaction Conditionsa
Having established the optimized conditions, the generality and limitation of the protocol was investigated and the result was summarized in Table 2. To our delight, the reaction exhibited good substrates compatibility, as demonstrated that diverse trifluoroacetimidoyl chlorides were smoothly tolerated in the reaction (2a-p). The reaction was not sensitive to the steric hindrance and the comparable reactivity was observed regarding the trifluoroacetimidoyl chlorides bearing ortho, meta or para substituents located at the aryl ring (2b-d). In general, the trifluoroacetimidoyl chlorides with electron-rich groups (2b-g) showed higher reactivity than that of substrates with electron-deficient groups (2h-k). The naphthalene ring could be successfully incorporated into the 1,2,4-triazole products (2l and 2m) in 75%–78% yields. In addition, other perfluoroalkyl substituted imidoyl chlorides were also amenable to the current reaction system, providing the corresponding 1,2,4-triazoles 2n-p with perfluoroalkyl group in acceptable yields.
TABLE 2. Scope of trifluoroacetimidoyl chlorides.
Several control experiments were performed to have a deep understanding of the reaction mechanism (Figure 3). First, the replacement of TFBen with formaldehyde totally inhibited the reaction (Figure 3A), whereas the formic acid could participate in the reaction to give the product 2e in 40% yield (Figure 3B). Then, another commonly used CO surrogate, HCO2H/Ac2O, was applied to the reaction for producing 2e in 52% yield (Figure 3C). The above results revealed that the active carbonyl unit was released and subsequently coupled with trifluoroacetimidoyl chloride and hydrazine hydrate. The reaction of trifluoroacetimidohydrazide 1e’ with TFBen could furnish the target product 2e in high yield, suggesting the intermediacy of 1e’ (Figure 3D). When the reaction was carried out between trifluoroacetimidoyl chloride 1e and formhydrazide under the standard conditions, no desired product 2e was detected (Figure 3E), which showed the hydrazine hydrate might initially couple with 1e to form trifluoroacetimidohydrazide 1e’ and formhydrazide not acted as the reaction intermediate.
FIGURE 3. Control experiments.
Based on the mechanistic observations and previously reported literatures (Yin, et al., 2018; Tang, et al., 2021), a plausible reaction mechanism was proposed as outlined in Figure 4. Initially, the coupling of trifluoroacetimidoyl chloride 1 and hydrazine hydrate could readily deliver trifluoroacetimidohydrazide 1’, which reacted with TFBen to give N-formyl imidohydrazide A. Then, the intramolecular nucleophilic addition occurred to lead to the five-membered heterocyclic intermediate B, followed by the dehydration process with the assistance of TFA to provide the final 3-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazole products 2 and release a molecule of water.
FIGURE 4. Plausible reaction mechanism.
To probe the application potential of this protocol, the reaction was performed at 5 mmol scale and the product 2e was isolated without obvious loss of efficiency (Figure 5). Due to the excellent pharmaceutical activity of the scaffold, the present method offers the opportunity for the further study towards the toxicity risk assessment and structure-activity relationship of the pharmaceuticals containing trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazole cores.
FIGURE 5. Scale up reaction.
Conclusion
In conclusion, we have developed a facile and efficient strategy for the assembly of pharmaceutically valuable 3-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazoles through metal-free multi-component reaction of trifluoroacetimidoyl chloride, hydrazine hydrate and TFBen. Notable features of this methodology include readily available reagents, convenient operating conditions, broad substrate scope, high efficiency, and scalability. Further studies toward the synthesis of functionalized heterocycles in a simple manner are underway.
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Author contributions
ZC and XW conceived and designed the experiments; BW and YS carried out the experiments and data test; YS and AC performed some synthesis and characterization; YZ and JW contributed to data analysis and discussion; ZC and X-FW wrote the paper.
Funding
This work is supported by the Open Project of Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Drug Prevention and Control Technology Research (No. 2020001).
Conflict of interest
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Keywords: metal-free, multi-component reaction, trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazole, trifluoroacetimidoyl chloride, benzene-1,3,5-triyl triformate
Citation: Wang B, Sun Y, Cheng A, Zhu Y, Wang J, Chen Z and Wu X-F (2022) Metal-free synthesis of 3-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-triazoles via multi-component reaction of trifluoroacetimidoyl chlorides, hydrazine hydrate and benzene-1,3,5-triyl triformate. Front. Chem. 10:1013977. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2022.1013977
Received: 08 August 2022; Accepted: 30 August 2022;
Published: 20 September 2022.
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*Correspondence: Jiye Wang, wangjiye@zjpc.edu.cn; Zhengkai Chen, zkchen@zstu.edu.cn; Xiao-Feng Wu, xwu2020@dicp.ac.cn