Unlocking Kuhn Verdazyls: New Synthetic Approach and Useful Mechanistic Insights.

ABSTRACT: An optimized synthetic protocol toward the assembly of Kuhn verdazyls based on an azo coupling of arenediazonium salts with readily available hydrazones followed by the base-mediated cyclization of in situ formed formazans with formalin was developed. The scope and limitations of the presented method were revealed. Some new mechanistic insights on the formation of Kuhn verdazyls were also conducted. It was found that in contradiction with previously assumed hypotheses, the synthesis of verdazyls was accomplished via an intermediate formation of verdazylium cations which were in situ reduced to leucoverdazyls. The latter underwent deprotonation under basic conditions to generate corresponding anions which coproportionate with verdazylium cations to furnish the formation of Kuhn verdazyls. T

SUBMITTER: Teslenko FE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9916651 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature