Acylation of malonates

The Grohe-Heitzer sequence (Scheme 4.2) begins with acylation of malonate derivative 37 with benzoyl chloride 36 to give malonate 38 (Mitscher, 2005). Condensation of the malonate with an ortho-ester in the presence of a dehydrating agent such as acetic anhydride affords enol ether 39. The enol ether then undergoes an addition-elimination... 

Alkylation or acylation of malonic ester (diethyl malonate), followed by hydrolysis and decarboxylation, to give substituted acetic acids, (p. 1079)... 

A reaction similar to the above involves the acylation of malonic ester through its magnesium enolate. Thus, the reaction of propionyl chloride with the ester enolate leads to diethyl propionylmalonate. Thermal decomposition of this compound with /3-naphthalenesulfonic acid yields ethyl propionylacetate (57%). This modification appears to be general in that it has been extended to the use of aliphatic, aromatic, and car-balkoxy acyl chlorides. ... 

Acylation of malonic esters. Monoacylation of sodiomalonic esters is usually accompanied by diacylation. This disadvantage can be eliminated by reaction of the sodiomalonate with trimethylchlorosilane to give a ketene acetal (1). This reacts readily with an acid chloride or anhydride to give an acylmalonic ester (2).11 Yields are in the range 50-80%. 

Naphthalene ring hydroxynaphthalenes Acylation of malonic esters... 

Acylation of malonic esters HjC(COOR)j —>- RCOCH(COOR)s... 

Synthesis of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds by this approach requires the acylation of malonates or other simple 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds as a first step. Sodium or potassium enolates (58) acylate on oxygen but in the corresponding magnesium enolates (59) the oxygen atoms are chelated by the metal, leaving the carbon free to react. 

Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky (HVZ) reaction Reaction of a carboxylic acid with Br2 and PBr3 to give an a-bromo acyl bromide, often hydrolyzed to an a-bromo acid. (p. 1051) malonic ester synthesis Alkylation or acylation of malonic ester (diethyl malonate), followed by hydrolysis and decarboxylation, to give substituted acetic acids, (p. 1076)... 

Acylation of malonic acid esters HG(GOOR)2 RGO-G(GOOR)2... 

Several routes to /3-keto-acids, -esters, and -nitriles, based on the acylation of malonate derivatives, have been reported. The dianion of monoethyl malonate is acylated by acid chlorides to give -keto-esters in a one-pot synthesis,and the lithio-derivative of bis(trimethylsilyl) malonate reacts with acid chlorides, giving /3-keto-acids directly.The magnesium derivatives of monomethyl or mono-thioalkyl esters of malonic acid give j8-keto-esters or -thioesters respectively in high yield under virtually neutral conditions with acid imidazolides. Similarly, the trimethylsilyl ester of cyanoacetic acid, after lithiation, reacts with mixed anhydrides to give high yields of j8-keto-nitriles. ... 

The first ester function of the malonates is hydrolyzed much more easily than the second. This property can be used for synthesizing a large number of carboxyUc acids by alkylation or acylation of a malonate followed by hydrolysis and decarboxylation of one ester group. This is the case for ethyl... 

Although the antithyroid activity of compounds incorporating an enolizable thioamide function was discussed earlier, this activity was in fact first found in the pyrimidine series. The simplest compound to show this activity, methylthiouracil (80) (shown in both enol and keto forms), is prepared quite simply by condensation of ethyl acetoacetate with thiourea.Further work in this series shows that better activity was obtained by incorporation of a lipophilic side chain. Preparation of the required dicarbonyl compound starts with acylation of the magnesium enolate of the unsyrametrically esterified malonate, 81, with butyryl chlo-... 

Condensation of m-fluorobenzaldehyde with malonic acid leads to the trans cinnamic acid 96 acylation of the acid chloride with cyclopropylaminc leads to amide 97 (cinflumide), a muscle relaxant [24]. 

One such compound, bropirimine (112), is described as an agent which has both antineo-plastic and antiviral activity. The first step in the preparation involves formation of the dianion 108 from the half ester of malonic acid by treatment with butyllithium. Acylation of the anion with benzoyl chloride proceeds at the more nucleophilic carbon anion to give 109. This tricarbonyl compound decarboxylates on acidification to give the beta ketoester 110. Condensation with guanidine leads to the pyrimidone 111. Bromination with N-bromosuccinimide gives bropirimine (112) [24]. 

Enzymatic desymmetrization of prochiral or meso-alcohols to yield enantiopure building blocks is a powerful tool in the synthesis of natural products. For example, a synthesis ofconagenin, an immunomodulator isolated from a Streptomyces, involved two enzymatic desymmetrizations [149]. The syn-syn triad of the add moiety was prepared via a stereoselective acylation of a meso-diol, whereas the amine fragment was obtained by the PLE-catalyzed hydrolysis of a prochiral malonate (Figure 6.56). 

Addition of carboxylic acids to alkynes Acylation of aldehydes or ketones Bisdecarboxylation of malonic acids Oxidation of arylmethanes with CrOs and AC2O... 

A synthesis of aspartic acid is based on this strategy. Disconnection (a) is attractive since acyl-amino malonate (7) is a reagent for synthon (6). Synthon (8) can be represented by allyl bromide. 

Acyl imidazolides are more reactive than esters but not as reactive as acyl halides. Entry 7 is an example of formation of a (3-ketoesters by reaction of magnesium enolate monoalkyl malonate ester by an imidazolide. Acyl imidazolides also are used for acylation of ester enolates and nitromethane anion, as illustrated by Entries 8, 9, and 10. (V-Methoxy-lV-methylamides are also useful for acylation of ester enolates. 

Ethyl 3-oxoalkanoates when not commercially available can be prepared by the acylation of tert-butyl ethyl malonate with an appropriate acid chloride by way of the magnesium enolate derivative. Hydrolysis and decarboxylation in acid solution yields the desired 3-oxo esters [59]. 3-Keto esters can also be prepared in excellent yields either from 2-alkanone by condensation with ethyl chloroformate by means of lithium diisopropylamide (LDA) [60] or from ethyl hydrogen malonate and alkanoyl chloride usingbutyllithium [61]. Alternatively P-keto esters have also been prepared by the alcoholysis of 5-acylated Mel-drum s acid (2,2-dimethyl-l,3-dioxane-4,6-dione). The latter are prepared in almost quantitative yield by the condensation of Meldrum s acid either with an appropriate fatty acid in the presence of DCCI and DMAP [62] or with an acid chloride in the presence of pyridine [62] (Scheme 7). 

Acylated derivatives of urea are referred to as ureides. Acylation of urea with a monoacid produces acyclic ureides, whereas diacylation with malonic acid (a diacid) yields the cyclic structure of barbiturates. The acyclic ureides carbromal and bromisoval, now outdated hypnotics, can be considered ring-opened analogues of the barbiturates to be examined in the next subsection. 

Highly enantioselective organocatalytic Mannich reactions of aldehydes and ketones have been extensively stndied with chiral secondary amine catalysts. These secondary amines employ chiral prolines, pyrrolidines, and imidazoles to generate a highly active enamine or imininm intermediate species [44], Cinchona alkaloids were previonsly shown to be active catalysts in malonate additions. The conjngate addition of malonates and other 1,3-dicarbonyls to imines, however, is relatively nnexplored. Snbseqnently, Schans et al. [45] employed the nse of Cinchona alkaloids in the conjngate addition of P-ketoesters to iV-acyl aldimines. Highly enantioselective mnltifnnctional secondary amine prodncts were obtained with 10 mol% cinchonine (Scheme 5). 

At around the same time, other groups further reported the deprotonation-activation of malonates for the asymmetric addition to imines. Various malonates and aromatic V-acyl imines produced high yielding adducts with excellent stereoselectivities [87, 88]. 

The barbiturates were widely used as sedative-hypnotic drugs. Barbital was introduced as a drug in 1903. The method of synthesis for thousands of its analogs has undergone little change. Urea reacts with various derivatives of malonic acid, usually a diethyl ester of a dialkyl substituted malonic acid. This is a classic example of a nucleophilic acyl substitution. A derivative of ammonia reacts with esters to form an amide, only in this case a cyclization to a strainless six-membered ring results because of the proximity of the bifunctionality. 

Magnesium enolates play an important role in C-acylation reactions. The magnesium enolate of diethyl malonate, for example, can be prepared by reaction with magnesium metal in ethanol. It is soluble in ether and undergoes C-acylation by acid anhydrides and acyl chlorides (entries 1 and 3 in Scheme 2.14). Monoalkyl esters of malonic acid react with Grignard reagents to give a chelated enolate of the malonate monoanion. 

Acyl imidazolides are more reactive than esters but not as reactive as acyl halides. /1-K.cto esters are formed by reaction of magnesium salts of monoalkyl esters of malonic acid with imidazolides. 

Malonate binds to the ph osphopanthotheine coenzyme site and then the acetyl or acyl group is transferred to carbon two of malonate, with the loss of one malonyl carbon as C02-... 

Dimethylbisthiomalonic acid (120), when treated with an acylated enol, produced intermediate 121 thietanediones 122 and 123 then were formed by elimination of thioketone and acetic acid (see Eq. 12). Similarly, cyclobutane-l,l-bisthiolcarboxylic acid gave 123, a previously unknown sulfur analog of malonic anhydride, (Eq. 12). Thermolysis of 120 also results in the formation of the four-membered heterocycles in addition to carbonyl sulfide, hydrogen sulfide, and thiocarbonic acid. ... 

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