F. Saczewski et T. Debowski, TANDEM 1,4-DIAZA,3-OXA-COPE REARRANGEMENT NUCLEOPHILIC-ADDITION REACTION - A ROUTE TO 2-OXOBENZIMIDAZOLES, Tetrahedron letters, 34(17), 1993, pp. 2843-2846
A novel tandem 1,4-diaza-3-oxa-Cope rearrangement - nucleophilic addit
ion reaction has been deviced in which the formation of 2-oxobenzimida
zoles 9 has been rationalized on the basis of an initial [3,3]sigmatro
pic rearrangement of the N-cyanato-anilines 6, followed by an intramol
ecular nucleophilic addition in the intermediate isocyanates 7.