Alkoxy groups nitrile synthesis

Here, R is an aliphatic or aromatic residue and X is an alkyl, hydroxyl, alkoxy, aroxy, ester, nitrile, or halogen group. This synthesis can indeed be carried out in the melt, but is mostly performed in a slurry with chloroform,. sym-tetrachloroethane, or m-cresol/xylene with excess of dicarbonyl compound. 

Aldehydo nitriles are readily available and can be used to prepare 4-amino-6-unsubstituted pyrimidines carrying one or more substituents in any of the other positions. Equivalents of the formyl group are also often used, for example, a 3-ethoxy-, 3-amino-, or 3-haloacrylonitrile. Most syntheses with /3-keto nitriles are carried out with equivalents thereof Such equivalents are /3-substituted /3-alkoxy-, /3-amino-, or /3-haloacrylonitriles. /3 -Ester nitrile reactions are also well established. Malononitriles and substituted malononitriles react readily with thiourea and N-substituted thioureas in refluxing ethanolic sodium ethoxide to form pyrimidine-4,6-diamines. An example is the reaction of N2-malononitrile 680 with N2-thiourea 681 to give N4- 4,6-diamino-2-(l//)-pyrimidinethione 682 which was then used in the synthesis of Ns-labeled adenine derivatives <2001JOC5463>. 

Reaction of lithiodithianes with acyl chlorides, esters or nitriles leads to the fOTination 1,2-dicarbonyl compounds in which one of the carbonyl groups is protected as the thioacetal. d76043j44 Optically active amino ketones of type (69) are inepared via acylation of dithiane with an oxazoline-protected (5)-serine methyl ester (Scheme 41). Optically active (5)-2-alkoxy-l-(l,3-dithian-2-yl)-l-propanones were prepaid by the reaction of the corresponding methyl (5)-lactate with 2-lithio-l,3-enantioselective synthesis of (-)-trachelanthic acid. Enantioselective synthesis of L-glyceraldehyde involves the acylation of a dithiane glycolic acid derivative followed by bikers yeast mediated reduction. ... 

This ester, and also 2,3-dibromopropionitrile (obtained from acrylonitrile under similar conditions), exchange their 3-bromine atoms readily for alkoxyl groups, and the resulting a-bromo-/ -alkoxy esters or nitriles are intermediates in the synthesis of oc-amino- -hydroxy acids — in the above cases for serine.81... 

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