0-Amino-acrylate ester, decarboxylation

Cycloaddition of a-nitroso acrylic esters (749) to alkenes followed by base hydrolysis provides a route to 5,6-dihydro-4//-l,2-oxazine-3-carboxylic acids (750). These heterocycles on heating above 150 °C decarboxylate to furnish y-hydroxynitriles (thus the overall c/s-addition of OH and CH2CN to a double bond), which can be transformed further to y-lactones (751) by treatment with methanolic hydrochloric acid (Scheme 172) (79CC1090). The adducts were also reduced to a-amino esters (752) by the action of aluminum amalgam (Scheme 173) (79CC1089). 

The coupling of 3-tert-butyl [1 - " C]malonate (393) with the /3-amino acid derivative 395 to give amide 396 was developed as an alternative route to the 1,4 addition of 395 to the corresponding [l- " C]acrylate 394, which might have failed due to radiation-induced polymerization. Subsequent treatment with 2,4-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)-l,3,2,4-dithiadi-phosphetane-2,4-disulfide (Lawesson s reagent) followed by Raney nickel-mediated desulfurization of the thioamide function formed converted 396 into the target /3-amino acid ester 397. Intramolecular ester condensation upon treatment of 397 with sodium methoxide and concluding saponification and decarboxylation of the f-butyl ester function afforded the trisubstituted 4-[2- " C]piperidone derivative 398. 

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