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Chapter 7 154<strong>the</strong> Mitsunobu reaction. No evidence for fur<strong>the</strong>r racemization was founddur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> hydrolysis to <strong>the</strong> 1-(1-Phenyl-1-propyl) imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylic acid 34c, but a complete racemization was observed <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong><strong>the</strong>rmic decarboxylation to <strong>the</strong> f<strong>in</strong>al (1-phenyl-1-propyl) imidazole 35c.NNHCNCNNCNOH32NCNR 1 R 2 DEAD PPh 3R 1 R 231a-i,27a-c,g,m33a-mHydrolysisCO 2 HNNDecarboxylationNNCO 2 HR 1 R 235a-d; 6aR 1 R 234a-mScheme 7.2: Mitsunobu-Hydrolyses-Decarboxylation for <strong>the</strong> syn<strong>the</strong>sis <strong>of</strong>enantiomeric <strong>and</strong> racemic N-Alkyl imidazole derivatives.The application <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Mitsunobu reaction to <strong>the</strong> enantiopurebenzhydroles 27a-c led to a completely racemic N-4,5-dicyano imidazolederivatives 33g-i <strong>in</strong> high chemical yields. The syn<strong>the</strong>ses proceededthrough <strong>the</strong> next two steps with high chemical yields to produce <strong>the</strong>imidazole derivative 35d <strong>and</strong> bifonazole 6a <strong>in</strong> racemic form. Allsyn<strong>the</strong>tic pathways were completely unsatisfactory <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> case <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> aryl-2-benzo[b]furan methanols 27g,m. An identical procedure was applied to4(5)-ethylimidazole carboxylate 37 <strong>in</strong> order to avoid <strong>the</strong> drasticconditions dur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> hydrolyses <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> cyano groups <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 4,5-dicyanoimidazole derivatives 33a-m. Overall no advantages <strong>in</strong> us<strong>in</strong>g thissubstrate were found.To demonstrate <strong>the</strong> complete <strong>in</strong>version <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> stereocenter dur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong>Mitsunobu reaction, several alternative syn<strong>the</strong>tic methods <strong>of</strong> N-imidazole

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