1- Acylpyrazoles aldehydes

When lithium aluminum hydride reacts with N-acylpyrazoles, the CN bond is hydrogenolyzed and aldehydes are produced in good yield. Ried even recommends this as a method of preparing otherwise inaccessible aldehydes.730,781 Certain labile a-amino aldehydes were... 

The ideas for delocalization of nitrogen lone pair electron density into an aromatic or heteroaromatic system were pursued through reduction of acylated pyrazoles and imidazoles to aldehydes in high yield. 3,5-Dimethyl-A -acylpyrazoles are easy to prepare and afford 77-96% yields of aldehydes with LiAlH4 in diethyl ether at 0 Further examples of this reaction have appeared.Although these later publications commented unfavorably on the ability of LiAlH4 to reduce acyl imidazoles to aldehydes (low yields), other workers have demonstrated that yields of 60-80% could be attained at temperatures of -20 to 4-20 °C in diethyl ether.It was considered that the earlier failure may have been caused by the presence of impurities in the acyl imidazoles. The latter are easy to prepare from the parent carboxylic acid and A jV -carbonyldiimidazole. 

The pyrazole ring is resistant to most reducing agents and survives intact when other heterocycles are cleaved. An illustration is provided by the reaction of the pyrazoloimidazolidinone (1) with LAH. Here the imidazolidine unit is sensitized to nucleophilic attack by the presence of a lactam carbonyl group, and the product formed is the monocyclic pyrazole (2). The stability of pyrazoles to reduction has been exploited in a synthesis of aldehydes from acyl halides. Thus N-acylpyrazoles (3) on reduction with LAH produce complexes of the type (4) these when hydrolyzed yield aldehydes and the parent pyrazoles (5). ... 

Reduction of allylic carbonyl derivatives usually leads to the corresponding allylic alcohol however, in some cases, intermediate oxidation states can be obtained. Reduction of amide derivatives such as N-acylpyrazoles results in the formation of an aldehyde in good yield. ... 

Ketone syntheses. Acyl derivatives that favor the arrestment of Grignard reactions beyond the first round include A-acylpyrazoles, acyl hemiacetals, and acyl tributylphosphonium chlorides (generated in situ from RCOCl and Bu,P). The protocol involving Al-methoxy-Al-methyl carboxamides has been extended to the preparation of a-chloro ketones, a-keto amides, and a-diketones (the last two from the oxalyl diamides). Symmetrical diketones are obtained by the Grignard reaction of bis(benzimidazole) methiodides. Note that an analogous reaction of 1,3-disubstituted benzimidazolium salts furnishes aldehydes. ... 

Aldehydes from carboxylic and chlorides yia a-diazoketones and 1-acylpyrazoles Synthesis with addition of 1 C-atom... 

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