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N,N-Dialkyl-N 0 -chlorosulfonyl chloroformamidines 1 reacted regioselectively with 1-substituted 5-aminopyrazoles 2 via a 1,3-CCN dinucleophilic substitution to afford pyrazolo[3,4-e][1,2,4]thiadiazines 3 as the sole isolated products. Compounds 3, representatives of a very rare ring system, were shown to possess three nucleophilic sites at N2, N4, and N6. Methylation occurred at all three sites. Alkylation with benzylic halides occurred preferentially at N2, but some also occurred at N4, and at C7a. Alkylation with ethyl bromoacetate occurred at both N4 and N6, but the latter derivatives underwent a pyrazole ring expansion to afford pyrimido[4,5-e][1,2,4]thiadiazine derivatives. Compounds 3 were unreactive towards various acylating agents.

The recently discovered pyrazolo [1,5-b] [1,2,4,6]thiatriazine template was shown to possess four nucleophilic sites (N2, N4, C5, N7) that underwent a range of substitution reactions. Methylation occurred at both N4 and N7. Alkylation with benzylic halides occurred preferentially at N7, regardless of the solvent, but also occurred at C5, N4, and N2. Similar alkylation with a-halo esters occurred at both N4 and N7, but the latter derivatives underwent a novel pyrazole ring expansion to afford pyrimido[1,6-b][1,2,4,6]thiatriazine derivatives. Bromination of pyrazolo[1,5-b][1,2,4,6]thiatriazines afforded unstable 5-bromo derivatives. Tosylation occurred selectively at C5, but in modest yield; catalysis with 1-methylimidazole also led to a low yield of the 5,5 0 -dimer. The action of HCl on N7-benzylated pyrazolo[1,5-b][1,2,4,6] thiatriazines readily caused extrusion of sulfur dioxide to produce pyrazolo-guanidines.

The synthesis of a tetra-porphyrin molecular tweezer with two binding sites is described. The bis-porphyrin binding sites are aligned by a polycyclic scaffold and linked via a freely rotating phenyl diimide core. Synthesis was achieved using a divergent approach employing a novel coupling method for linking two polycyclic units to construct the core, with a copper(ii)-mediated phenyl boronic acid coupling found to extend to our polycyclic imide derivative. We expect this chemistry to be a powerful tool in accessing functional polycyclic supramolecular architectures in applications where north/south reactivity and/or directional interactions between modules are important. Porphyrin receptor functionalisation was undertaken last, by a four-fold ACE coupling reaction on the tetra-epoxide derivative of the core.