Acetylenedicarboxylic acid, diethyl ester

HETEROCYCLES Copper phcnylace-tylide. Dichlorobis(benzonitrile)palladium. N-Dichloromethylene-N,N-dimcthylammo-nium chloride. Diiminosuccinonitrile. Dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate. Dipotassium cyanodithioimidocarbonate. Ethoxy-carbonyl isothiocyanate. Ethyldiisopropyl-amine. Ethylene oxide. Hydrogen fluoride. Isocyanomethane-phosphoric acid diethyl ester. Lead tetraacetate. Lithium aluminium hydride. Methylhydrazine. Phosphoryl chloride. Polyphosphate ester. Polyphosphoric acid. Potassium amide. Potassium hydroxide. Tolythiomethyl isocyanide. Tosylmethyl isocyanide, Trichlo-romethylisocyanide dichloride. Trimethyl-silyldiazomethane. 

To a suspension of 1.31 g A-acetyl-D,L-alanine (10 mmol) in 10 mL acetic anhydride was added 3.2 mL diethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (20 mmol). The reaction mixture was maintained at 110°C for 2 h, cooled, and then evaporated under reduced pressure. The oily residue was dissolved in hot cyclohexane and left in the refrigerator overnight with crystal seeds. Diethyl 2,5-dimethyl pyrrole-3,4-dicarboxylate was isolated as white needles by filtration, in amount of 274 mg, in a yield of 11.4%. The filtrate was evaporated and chromatographed (dry column vacuum chromatography) using CH2CI2 and then CH2Cl2/EtOH (99 1 to 98 2) to afford 1.58 g 2-(2,5-dimethyl-3,4-diethoxycarbonyl)-pyrrolyl maleic acid diethyl ester as a yellowish oil, in a yield of 39%. 

The same general method has been used by the submitters to prepare diethyl acetylenedicarboxylate. In this case absolute ethanol was used, and the ether extract was dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate. The yield of diethyl ester from 100 g. of the acid potassium salt of acetylenedicarboxylic acid was 57-59 g. (51-53%) b.p. 96-98°/8 mm. n 1.4397. 

We were not able to obtain any cycloadduct from unactivated 2-azadienes 139 and esters of acetylenedicarboxylic acid. However, we found that 139 did cycloadd to typical electron-poor dienophiles such as esters of azodicarboxylic acid and tetracyanoethylene (Scheme 62). Thus, diethyl and diisopropyl azodicarboxylates underwent a concerted [4 + 2] cycloaddition with 139 to afford in a stereoselective manner triazines 278 in 85-90% yield (86CC1179). The minor reaction-rate variations observed with the solvent polarity excluded zwitterionic intermediates on the other hand, AS was calculated to be 48.1 cal K 1 mol-1 in CC14, a value which is in the range of a concerted [4 + 2] cycloaddition. Azadienes 139 again reacted at room temperature with the cyclic azo derivative 4-phenyl-1,2,4-triazoline-3,5-dione, leading stereoselectively to bicyclic derivatives 279... 

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). 

Nonetheless, furan does react with bromine in methanol to produce the corresponding addition compounds, (E)- and (Z)-2,5-dimethoxy-2,5-dihydrofuran (Equation 8.55) and aromaticity can also be lost through a Diels-Alder reaction of furan and substituted furans with reactive dienophiles such as the diethyl ester of acetylenedicarboxylic acid (Equation 8.56)... 

Both diethyl acetylenedicarboxylate and chlorofumarate have found frequent application as the second component, but other unsaturated acid derivatives are acceptable. The initially formed aryloxyalkenoic acids or their esters (471) are readily cyclized with acid or acetyl chloride. 

Reaction of thione 276 (R = H) with diethyl acetylenedicarboxylate in acetic acid or ethanol similarly gives both thiazolidinone (277) and thiazinone (278) as expected (79TL53) (Scheme 67). Condensation of 276 (R = Me, Cl, NO2, CO2H) and 280 with acetylenedicarboxylic esters gives a cyclized product in each case for which respective thiazolidinone structures 279 and 281 were assigned (77M11). This work warrants reinves-... 

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