{"title":"Dithiane-Enabled Divergent Ring Rearrangements for the Construction of Sulfur-Containing Semisaturated Fused Pyridines and Pyrroles","authors":"Xiaomeng Gong, Guohong Tang, Yingying Xue, Rui-Peng Li, Shouchu Tang","doi":"10.1021/acs.orglett.6c03956","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sulfur-containing semisaturated <em>N</em>-heterocycles\r\nrepresent valuable three-dimensional drug-relevant scaffolds, yet\r\ngeneral divergent synthetic approaches remain scarce. Herein, we report\r\na metal-free <em>cis</em>-selective [3 + 2] cycloaddition\r\nbetween alkynyl 1,3-dithianes and 2<em>H</em>-azirines to\r\nconstruct strain-encoded bicyclic aziridine intermediates. The 1,3-dithiane\r\nunit functions as a sulfur shuttle that enables two reagent-controlled\r\nrearrangement pathways: Brønsted-acid-mediated ring expansion\r\nthrough 1,2-sulfur migration affords sulfur-functionalized semisaturated\r\nfused pyridines, whereas oxidative Lewis-acid-promoted ring contraction\r\nfurnishes sulfur-functionalized semisaturated fused pyrroles.</p>","PeriodicalId":54,"journal":{"name":"Organic Letters","volume":"28 41","pages":"13070–13075"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7000,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Organic Letters","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.6c03956","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/10/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Sulfur-containing semisaturated N-heterocycles
represent valuable three-dimensional drug-relevant scaffolds, yet
general divergent synthetic approaches remain scarce. Herein, we report
a metal-free cis-selective [3 + 2] cycloaddition
between alkynyl 1,3-dithianes and 2H-azirines to
construct strain-encoded bicyclic aziridine intermediates. The 1,3-dithiane
unit functions as a sulfur shuttle that enables two reagent-controlled
rearrangement pathways: Brønsted-acid-mediated ring expansion
through 1,2-sulfur migration affords sulfur-functionalized semisaturated
fused pyridines, whereas oxidative Lewis-acid-promoted ring contraction
furnishes sulfur-functionalized semisaturated fused pyrroles.
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