Acetic diazo-, ethyl ester

ETHYL DIAZOACETATE (Acetic acid, diazo-, ethyl ester)... 

C2-homologizati on of sugars with, 264-265 Acetamide, JV-bromo- (AcNHBr, NBA) bromohydrination with, 275-276, 287 Acetaminophen (= paracetamol), 301 Acetate, piperidinium cat. for aldol add., 82 —, sodium a-epimerization of ketones, 277 opening of oxiranes, 282 Acetic acid, anhydride (AcfO) protection with. See Protection Pummerer rearr. with, 51, 265 —, esters (See also Protection of hydroxy groups) C-H acidity, 10 1-methylethenyi ester pr., 174 transenolization, 58 —, bromo-, esters pr., 179 a2-synthon, 19, 65, 309 d2-synthon, 19, 301 —, chloro-, esters pr., 179 hydantoins from, 308 —, cyano-, esters pr., 177 pyrrolines from, 298 —, (dialkoxyphosphinyl)-, esters pr 188 Wittig-Horner olefinations, 267, 282 —, diazo-, ethyl ester pr, 176, 178 cyclopropanes from, 74—75 —, dichloro- deblocking of pixyl ethers, 342 —, hydroxy-, esters pr., 176 —, hydroxyphenyl-, (S)- (l-mandelic acid) ... 

DIAZOACETATE (ESTER) SERINE see ASA500 DIAZO-ACETIC ACID ESTER with SERINE see ASA500 DIAZOACETIC ACID, ETHYL ESTER see DCN800 DIAZOACETIC ESTER see DCN800 N-DIAZOACETILGLICINA-IDRAZIDE (ITALIAN) see DC0800... 

Diazo-acetic Esters. —Mercuric oxide dissolves in the cooled ethyl ester of diazo-acetic acid, and the product is extracted with ether. From the ethereal solution yellow, rhombic crystals of mercury bis-diazo-aceiic ethyl ester are deposited, the parameters of which are a b c=0-4546 1 0-72527. The crystals melt with decomposition at 104° C., and are affected by direct sunlight, mercury separating out. The substance explodes on concussion and is volatile in steam, with some decomposition. 

The thermally induced cyclopropanation of alkenes with silyldiazoacetates is virtually unknown. Silylated diazo esters are thermally rather stable and do not readily decompose to give a carbene under standard laboratory conditions. The only known cyclopropanation of this type, i.e. synthesis of 2 from ethyl diazo(trimethylsilyl)acetate and ethyl acrylate (formation of E- and Z-isomers, no yield given), probably occurs via a pyrazoline intermediate. 

Diazo ester/rhodium(II) carboxylate combinations other than EDA/Rh2(OAc)4 have been tested It turned out that the solubility of the rhodium(II) carboxylate greatly influenced the efficiency of cyclopropanation. For the reaction of monoolefins with ethyl diazoacetate, markedly higher yields than with Rh(II) acetate were obtained with the better soluble rhodium(II) butanoate and rhodium(II) pivalate, the latter one being soluble even in pentane. However, only poor yields resulted from the use of rhodium(Il) trifluoroacetate, even though this compound is readily soluble, Rh CCFjCOO), in contrast to the other rhodium(II) carboxylates, is able to form 1 1 complexes with olefins particularly with electron-rich ones thus, competition of olefin and diazo compound for the only available coordination site at the metal atom could be responsible for the reduced catalytic action of Rh2(CF3COO)4 (as will be seen in Section 4.1, this complex is an excellent catalyst for cyclopropanation of aromatic substrates). The diazoester substituent also has some influence on the yields. Increasing yields were obtained in the series methyl ester, ethyl ester, n-butyl... 

Aliphatic Diazo Compounds.—It has been stated that primary aliphatic amines do not yield diazonium compounds when treated with nitrous acid. It is of interest to note, however, in connection with the aromatic diazo compounds, that certain derivatives of the ahphatic amines yield compounds when treated with nitrous acid which resemble somewhat in their reactions the diazonium compounds. When the ethyl ester of amino-acetic acid is treated with nitrous acid a yellow oil is obtained, which explodes when heated. The reaction takes place according to the equation,—... 

Ring enlargement via an insertion of a carbene generated in the a-position to the ring is an established method and has also been applied to the synthesis of oxepins. The ()3-allylpalladium chloride catalyzed decomposition of substituted ethyl diazo(4/7-pyran-4-yl)acetates in benzene at room temperature gives ethyl oxepin-4-carboxylates 1 in excellent yield.190 The ester function can be replaced by the phosphonate group and other P = 0-functions (see Houben-Weyl,... 

Reactions of carbenoids with 4-thio-substituted 2-azetidinones have attracted much interest recently. Insertion of the carbene unit derived from diazomalonic esters 297-34°> or ethyl diazo(diethoxyphosphoryl)acetate 340 into the C4—S bond of simple P-lactams 353 and 354 took place irrespective of whether a N—H or a N—R... 

The catalytic activity of rhodium diacetate compounds in the decomposition of diazo compounds was discovered by Teyssie in 1973 [12] for a reaction of ethyl diazoacetate with water, alcohols, and weak acids to give the carbene inserted alcohol, ether, or ester product. This was soon followed by cyclopropanation. Rhodium(II) acetates form stable dimeric complexes containing four bridging carboxylates and a rhodium-rhodium bond (Figure 17.8). 

Although the present procedure illustrates the formation of the diazoacetic ester without isolation of the intermediate ester of glyoxylic acid />-toluenesulfonylhydrazone, the two geometric isomers of this hydrazone can be isolated if only one molar equivalent of triethylamine is used in the reaction of the acid chloride with the alcohol. The extremely mild conditions required for the further conversion of these hydrazones to the diazo esters should be noted. Other methods for decomposing arylsulfonyl-hydrazones to form diazocarbonyl compounds have included aqueous sodium hydroxide, sodium hydride in dimethoxyethane at 60°, and aluminum oxide in methylene chloride or ethyl acetate." Although the latter method competes in mildness and convenience with the procedure described here, it was found not to be applicable to the preparation of aliphatic diazoesters such as ethyl 2-diazopropionate. Hence the conditions used in the present procedure may offer a useful complement to the last-mentioned method when the appropriate arylsulfonylhydrazone is available. 

In contrast to the carbene and carbenoid chemistry of simple diazoacetic esters, that of a-silyl-a-diazoacetic esters has not yet been developed systematically [1]. Irradiation of ethyl diazo(trimethylsilyl)acetate in an alcohol affords products derived from 0-H insertion of the carbene intermediate, Wolff rearrangement, and carbene- silene rearrangement [2]. In contrast, photolysis of ethyl diazo(pentamethyldisilanyl)acetate in an inert solvent yields exclusively a ketene derived from a carbene->silene->ketene rearrangement [3], Photochemically generated ethoxycarbonyltrimethyl-silylcarbene cyclopropanates alkenes and undergoes insertion into aliphatic C-H bonds [4]. Copper-catalyzed and photochemically induced cyclopropenation of an alkyne with methyl diazo(trimethylsilyl)acetate has also been reported [5]. 

Concurrently, Noels had reported that rhodium carboxylates smoothly catalyze the intermolecular C—H insertion of ethyl diazoacetate into alkanes. Following up on this report, Taber demonstrated that the open chain a-diazo 3-keto ester (60) cyclizes smoothly under rhodium acetate catalysis to give the corresponding cyclopentane (61 equation 24). In contrast to the copper-mediated cyclization cited above (equation 22), the six-membered ring product is not observed. The insertion shows significant electronic selectivity. Although there is a 3 1 statistical preference for methyl C—H, only the methylene C—H insertion product (61) is observed (equation 24). 

A solution of ethyl diazopyruvate (6 5.00 g, 35.0 mmol) in dry CHjCl (400 mL) was added dropwise, within 8 h, into stirred suspension of rhodium(II) acetate dimer (20 mg, 0.04 mmol) in dry CHjCl (100 mL), in which an excess of liquid buta-1,3-diene (i.e. gaseous butadiene liquefied in a dry ice/acetone condenser) had been dissolved. More butadiene was added periodically and the reaction (at rt) was monitored by TLC (silica gel, hexane/EtOAc 4 1) for the disappearance of the diazo ester. The mixture was concentrated to a 10-mL volume and column chromatographed (silica gel, hexane/EtOAc 12 1) to give colorless liquid 7 yield 2.06 g (35%). 

Taylor, E.C., and Davies, H.M.L., Rhodium(II) acetate-catalyzed reaction of ethyl 2-diazo-3-oxopent-4-enoates. Simple routes to 4-aryl-2-hydroxy-l-naphthoates and P,y-iinsaliiralcd esters. The dianion of ethyl 4-(diethylphosphono)acetoacetate as a propionate homoenolate equivalent, Tetrahedron Lett., 24, 5453. 1983. 

Cyclopropanation reactions with these catalysts are typically carried out with 0.5-2 mol% (with respect to the diazo compound) of catalyst and a five- to tenfold excess of alkene. Under these conditions, the formation of formal carbene dimers [e.g. diethyl ( )-but-2-enedioate and (Z)-but-2-enedioate from ethyl diazo acetate], arising from the competition between alkene and the metal-carbene intermediate for the diazo compound, can be largely suppressed. It has been shown, however, that the control of the addition rate of the diazoacetic ester has no effect on the cyclopropane yield with (dibenzonitrile)palladium(II) chloride as catalyst, in contrast to tetraacetatodirhodium, Rh6(CO)16, and CuCl P(OR)3.152... 

The rhodium- or copper-catalyzed cyclopropanation of furan and its derivatives with diazo-acetic esters,300-302 or ethyl 2-diazopropanoate300 usually leads to a mixture of the 2-oxa-bicyclo[3.1.0]hex-3-ene-e co-6-carboxylate, ring-opened (4Z)-6-oxohexa-2,4-dienoates, and ring-substituted furans. Only with electron-deficient furans methyl furan-2-carboxylates, 2-[( )-2-methoxycarbonylvinyl]furan300 and with benzofuran,301,303 was the cyclopropane product obtained exclusively. Examples 37-40 are representative.300... 

Cyclization of a-diazo ester 154 with rhodium acetate Rhodium acetate (30 mg, 0.068 mmol) was added to a magnetically stirred solution of a-diazo ester 7 (1.20 g, 4.12 mmol) in dry methylene chloride (25 mL) under nitrogen at 25 °C. After 3 h, TLC showed complete conversion to a single, more polar, UV-active product. Methylene chloride was removed in vacuo. TLC mesh column chromatography on silica gel (35 g) with 85 15 petroleum ether/ethyl acetate yielded the tricyclic p-keto ester 240 as a colorless oil. Yield 993 mg (91%). TLC R/0.21 on silica gel 8 2 hexane/ethyl acetate. 1R(CC14) 1760, 1735 cm-1. 

C-Silylated cyclohexyl diazo esters can be prepared from the appropriate diazo acetates by treatment with TMSOTf and ethyl diisopropylamine in ether at -78 °C (eq A9) ... 

The synthesis of cllastatin constitutes one of the first enantioselective syntheses on an Industrial scale. In 1966, H. NozakI and R. Noyorl Investigated the enantioselective [2 -I-1 ]-cycloaddition of diazo-acetic esters to olefins. From this, Sumitomo developed industrial processes for the preparation of pyrethroids and cilastatin. In the key step, ethyl diazoacetate is decomposed in presence of isobutene at a dimeric, enantio-merically pure copper complex. The resulting ethyl di-methylcyclopropanecarboxyl-ate has an optical purity of 92% ee. 

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