Acetylenedicarboxylic acid dialkyl esters

Many ring-fused imidazole derivatives have been synthesized by various methods. Domino Michael addition retro-ene reaction of 2-alkoxyiminoimidazolidines and acetylene carboxylates provided a synthesis of 2,3-dihydroimidazo[l,2-a]pyrimidin-5-(l//)-ones <05T5303>. A single step synthesis of 3,5-dialkyl-9-nitroimidazo[l,2-c]quinazolin-2(3//)-ones from simple carbonyl compounds, primary amines or amino acid methyl esters and 2-azido-5-nitrobenzonitrile has been published <05TL5778>. Diels-Alder reaction of azadienes and benzimidazole-4,7-diones afforded imidazo[4,5-g ]quinoline-4,9-dione derivatives <05EJ01903>. Reaction between isocyanides and dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates in the presence of 4,5-diphenyl-l,3-dihydro-2//-imidazol-2-one provided a one-pot synthesis of 5//-imidazo[2,l-ft][l,3]oxazine derivatives <05T2645>. Microwave irradiation was employed in the synthesis of 1-ary 1-3-acetyl-1,4,5,6-... 

Condensations of chloroacetyl chloride (and similar compounds) with substituted ethylenediamines to give 1,4-disubstituted piperazin-2-ones have been described, and a number of 4-alkyl(or aralkyl)- -arylpiperazin-2-ones has been prepared either by catalytic debenzylation or pyrolytic debenzylation (or demethylation) of I,l-dialkyl(or l,l-diaralkyl)-3-oxo-4-arylpiperazinium halides (1609). 3-Ethoxy-carbonylmethylene-6-methylpiperazin-2-one has been synthesized by the reaction of diethyl acetylenedicarboxylate with propylenediamine (1610), and treatment of diethyl fumarate with propylenediamine has been shown to give 3-ethoxycarbonyl-methyl-6-methylpiperazin-2-one, also prepared from the diethyl ester of N- 2 -hydroxyiminopropyl)aspartic acid (84) (1611). 

Attack on Unsaturated Carbon.- A versatile route to phosphinic acids (15) is the 1,4-addition of bis(trimethylsilyl) phosphonite (16) to a,p-unsaturated esters.The pyrophoric (16) was prepared in s/fu from triethylammonium phosphinate silylation and 1,4-addition can be repeated to give (17), or performed in one step if symmetrical phosphinic acids (17) are wanted. Tervalent phosphorus acid esters (18) react with dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates in the presence of carbon dioxide to give 1,2-oxa-phospholenes (19) these reacted further with an excess of the phosphorus reagent to give different ylids, (20) or (21), dependant on the number of methoxy groups in (18). 

Stable phosphorus ylides (50) and (51) have been prepared from the reaction of electron-deficient acetylenic esters, such as dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates or alkyl propiolates and triphenylphosphine in the presence of 3-chlorotetrahyd-rofuran-2,4-dione (Scheme 10). These reactions are thought to proceed via vinylphosphonium salt intermediates which undergo Michael addition with the conjugate base of the CH-acid. Similar methodology has been used to prepare phosphonium ylide (52) from triphenylphosphine, isatin (indoline-2,3-dione) and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate. " ... 

Addition of carboxylic acids to alkynes generally requires the presence of strong protic acids or other electrophilic catalysts. It was, however, observed that carboxylic acids having pAa < 4.5 do add to phenylacetylene in the absence of a strong acid catalyst to give enol esters In case of formic acid, addition occurred by simply heating the alkyne in formic acid at 100 C. A variety of diaryl, dialkyl, aralkyl and terminal alkynes react, but dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate was found to be unreactive. The final product is a ketone, while a stoichiometric amount of carbon monoxide is released. 

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