Treatment of a solution of a 9-alkyl- or 9-aryl-2-iodopurine in dichloromethane with an ethereal solution of ethylmagnesium bromide at -5 °C generates the corresponding purin-2-ylmagnesium bromide, which reacts with aldehydes to give the corresponding 2-(hydroxyalkyl)purines in yields of 53-84%. The purin-2-yl Grignard reagents show good functional-group tolerance to ester and nitro groups, and the method permits the synthesis of the previously unknown 6-unsubstituted 2-magnesiopurines for the first time. Performing the same procedure in THF as solvent resulted either in extensive decomposition or rapid isomerization to give purin-8-ylmagnesium halides.

General Route to Purin-2-ylmagnesium Halides by Metal-Halogen Exchange in Dichloromethane

Gazzola S.
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2020-01-01

Abstract

Treatment of a solution of a 9-alkyl- or 9-aryl-2-iodopurine in dichloromethane with an ethereal solution of ethylmagnesium bromide at -5 °C generates the corresponding purin-2-ylmagnesium bromide, which reacts with aldehydes to give the corresponding 2-(hydroxyalkyl)purines in yields of 53-84%. The purin-2-yl Grignard reagents show good functional-group tolerance to ester and nitro groups, and the method permits the synthesis of the previously unknown 6-unsubstituted 2-magnesiopurines for the first time. Performing the same procedure in THF as solvent resulted either in extensive decomposition or rapid isomerization to give purin-8-ylmagnesium halides.
2020
dichloromethane; Grignard reaction; metal-halogen exchange; nucleobases; purinylmagnesium halides
Gazzola, S.; Gordon, M. R.; Lindell, S. D.
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