The 6-(trimethylsilyl)methyl-substituted 1,Zoxazine 1 can smoothly be deprotonated with n-butyllithium at C-4 to give a lithiated species which reacts with a variety of electrophiles to provide the new 1,2-oxazines 5 -16 in good yields. Besides the preparative aspect of these transformations, the high stereoselectivity of many reactions is also interesting from a mechanistic point of view. By deprotonation of the 4-deuterated compound 5a it has been proven that n-butyllithium removes exclusively the proton (or deuteron) cis to the 6-CH2SiMe3 group. Also, in most cases the reaction of lithiated 1 with electrophiles occurs with overall retention of configuration to afford preferentially cis-1,2-oxazines (series a). A mechanistic proposal for this highly stereoselective deprotonation process, which seems to be governed by the 1,2-oxazine oxygen, is discussed including a comparison with a recently reported ab initio calculation dealing with oxime ethers. Similar deprotonation/substitution reactions are described for l,2-oxazines 14, 2, 3, and 4. Possibly due to a differing carbanion structure a deviating behavior is observed in some cases. Several acidinduced and reductive ring-opening reactions of 1,6a, Ea, and 14a demonstrate the potential of 4-substituted 1,Zoxazines for the stereoselective synthesis of polyfunctionalized compounds.5,6-Dihydro-4H-l ,Zoxazines A (herein abbreviated as 1,2-oxazines) are heterocycles with a promising potential for the synthesis of polyfunctional compounds2). They can easily be prepared by the hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of electronrich olefins with nitroso alkenes as developed by Gilchrist and coworkers3). By use of silylated dienophiles we were able to extend the scope of this [4 + 21 cycloaddition considerably'). In this contribution we will include our results on the substitution of 1,2-oxazines A proceeding via the carbanion B to give heterocycles C which incorporate an electrophile El at C-4 and are not easily available otherwise.The analogous sequence is well-known for oxime ethers D5) or the related isoxazolines Eq. However, for the sixmembered heterocyclic system A we are only aware of Shatzmiller's reports dealing with compound F and the regioselectivity of its deprotonation'). We have examined the feasibility of the sequence A-+B-+C using the monocyclic 1,2-oxazines 1 and 2, and after having discovered the surprisingly high stereoselectivity we have extended our investigation to the bicyclic compounds 3 and 4.
R = H4 R -SiMq