Azodicarboxylates, reactions

Diethyl azelate, 45, 31 Diethyl azodicarboxylate, reaction with cyclopentadiene, 49,1 Diethylbenzene as solvent for decomposition of diphenyIiodonium-2-carboxylate in preparation of... 

A large number of pyridazines are synthetically available from [44-2] cycloaddition reactions. In one general method, azo or diazo compounds are used as dienophiles, and a second approach is based on the reaction between 1,2,4,5-tetrazines and various unsaturated compounds. The most useful azo dienophile is a dialkyl azodicarboxylate which reacts with appropriate dienes to give reduced pyridazines and cinnolines (Scheme 89). With highly substituted dienes the normal cycloaddition reaction is prevented, and, if the ethylenic group in styrenes is substituted with aryl groups, indoles are formed preferentially. The cycloadduct with 2,3-pentadienal acetal is a tetrahydropyridazine derivative which has been used for the preparation of 2,5-diamino-2,5-dideoxyribose (80LA1307). 

The other main source of various pyridopyridazines from pyridines are the [4 + 2] cycloaddition reactions, already mentioned (Section 2.15.8.3), between vinylpyridines and azodicarboxylic esters (79T2027, 79KGS639) or triazolidinediones e.g. 78KGS651). 2-Vinyl-pyridines gave reduced pyrido[3,2-c]pyridazines (370), 4-vinylpyridines gave [3,4-c] analogues, whilst 2-methyl-5-vinylpyridine furnishes a mixture of the [2,3-c] and [4,3-c] compounds. Yields are low, however, and these remain curiosities for practical synthetic purposes. 

Cycloaddition reactions of aziridines with a wide assortment of dipolarophiles have been studied. The reaction of dialkyl azodicarboxylates with the cf5-aziridine (27) is stereospecific... 

It would be pertinent to point out (25,27) that the trisubstituted isomer of the enamine of 2-aIkylcyclohexanone reacts in a quantitative manner with ethyl azodicarboxylate to give the addition product (35). This reaction in Conjunction with NMR spectroscopy can thus be employed for the determination of the amount of the trisubstituted isomer. According to the authors, hydrolysis of 35 furnishes the corresponding cw-2,6-disubstituted cyclohexanone (36) this seems unlikely since it would involve the stereo-electronically unfavored equatorial protonation of the enamine. 

The reaction of morpholine enamines of cyclic ketones with ethyl azodicarboxylate has also been demonstrated 56,136). The enamine (113) on reaction with ethyl azodicarboxylate can give the 2- or 2,6-bis(N,N di-carboxyhydrazino)cyclohexanones 199 and 200, respectively, on hydrolysis. 

The Mitsunobu reaction is usually used to introduce an ester with inversion of configuration. The use of this methodology on an anomeric hydroxyl was found to give only the /3-benzoate, whereas other methods gave mixtures of anomers. Improved yields are obtained in the Mitsunobu esterification when p-nitrobenzoic acid is used as the nucleophile/ Bis(dimethylamino) azodicarboxylate as an activating agent was... 

To prepare fervenulin 4-oxides 12 or toxoflavine 4-oxides 146, it is convenient to use the reaction of l,3-dimethyl-2,4-dioxopyrimidin-6-yl hydrazone 147 or N-(3-methyl-2,4-dioxopyiimidin-6-yl) iV-methylhydrazone 148 with potassium nitrate in acetic acid [75CPB1885,76CPB338,76JCS(CC)658,82JHC1309,93CPB362]. Diethyl azodicarboxylate can be used instead of potassium nitrate [76JCS(P1 )713]. 

When Diels and Alder published their famous paper in 1928, Diels had been working with related reactions for several years [6]. In 1925, Diels reported the reaction of azodicarboxylic ester (Et0C(0)2CN=NCC(0)0Et) with compounds containing a conjugated diene system. He found that addition of the azodicarboxylic ester occurs at the 1,4-position of the conjugated system as with cyclopentadiene and with butadiene. This work probably led to the famous Diels-Alder reaction. In 1927, Diels and his student Alder published a paper on the reaction of azodicarboxylic ester with styrene. 

In an initial step triphenylphosphine adds to diethyl azodicarboxylate 5 to give the zwitterionic adduct 6, which is protonated by the carboxylic acid 2 to give intermediate salt 7. The alcohol reacts with 7 to the alkoxyphosphonium salt 8 and the hydrazine derivative 9, and is thus activated for a SN2-reaction ... 

In summary the Mitsunobu reaction can be described as a condensation of an alcohol 1 and a nucleophile—NuH—11, where the reagent triphenylphosphine is oxidized to triphenylphosphine oxide and the azodicarboxylate reagent 12 is reduced to a hydrazine derivative 13 ... 

The conversion of an alcohol to an amine can be achieved in a one-pot reaction the alcohol 1 is treated with hydrazoic azid (HN3), excess triphenylphosphine and diethyl azodicarboxylate (DEAD). The initial Mitsunobu product, the azide 14, further reacts with excess triphenylphosphine to give an iminophosphorane 15. Subsequent hydrolytic cleavage of 15 yields the amine—e.g. as hydrochloride 16 ... 

Preparation of 7-(N,N -Dicarbobenzyloxyhydrazino)-6-Demethyttetracydine A 1.0 g portion of O-demethyltetracycline was dissolved in a mixture of 9.6 ml of tetrahydrofuran and 10.4 ml of methanesulfonic acid at -10°C. The mixture was allowed to warm to 0°C. A solution of 0.86 g of dibenzyl azodicarboxylate in 0.5 ml of tetrahydrofuran was added dropwise and the mixture was stirred for 2 hours while the temperature was maintained at 0°C. The reaction mixture was added to ether. The product was filtered off, washed with ether and then dried. The 7-(N,N -dicarbobenzyloxyhydrazino)-6-demethyltetracycline was identified by paper chromatography. 

The Mitsunobu reaction was also applied to the synthesis of [ 1,2,4]triaz-ino[4,5-n]indoles (84AG517). Thus, reaction of the 2-acylindoles 127 with sodium borohydride in methanol or with lithium aluminium hydride in tetrahydrofuran gave the corresponding alcohols 128. Their cyclization with diethyl azodicarboxylate in the presence of triphenyl-phosphine gave the triazinoindoles 129. Acid treatment of the latter afforded 130 (Scheme 30). 

Cydization of P-hydroxy-a-amino esters under Mitsunobu reaction conditions is an alternative approach to aziridine-2-carboxylic esters [6b, 13-16], In this case the P-hydroxy group is activated by a phosphorus reagent. Treatment of Boc-a-Me-D-Ser-OMe 13 (Scheme 3.5) with triphenylphosphine and diethyl azodicarboxylate (DEAD), for example, gave a-methyl aziridinecarboxylic acid methyl ester 14 in 85% yield [15]. In addition to PPh3/DEAD [13b, 15], several other reagent combi-... 

In an indirect amination process, acyl halides are converted to amino acids. Reaction of the acyl halide with a chiral oxazolidinone leads to a chiral amide, which reacts with the N=N unit of a dialkyl azodicarboxylate [R"02C—N=N—CO2R ]. Hydrolysis and catalytic hydrogenation leads to an amino acid with good enantioselectivity. ... 

Mercaptans have been oxidized with diethyl azodicarboxylate and triphenylphosphine. It is suggested that the formation of a charge-transfer complex (57) may be a key step in the reaction. 

A very mild procedure for converting alcohols to iodides uses triphenylphosphine, diethyl azodicarboxylate (DEAD), and methyl iodide.24 This reaction occurs... 

A derivative of benzylhydrazine, procarbazine (8), exhibits antineoplastic activity. In an interesting insertion-type sequence, reaction of the p-toluamide (5) with ethyl azodicarboxylate leads directly to the substituted hydrazine (6). It is not unlikely that the first mole of the diazo compound... 

Pavan Kumar et al. <2006NJC717> investigated the reaction of diethyl azodicarboxylate (DEAD) or diisopropyl azodicarboxylate (DIAD) with cyclic phosphates or phosphoramides in order to determine the structural preferences in spirocyclic penta- and hexacoordinate aminophosphoranes. They found that sulfur would coordinate to phosphorus to form the [3.3.0] bicyclic compounds 94-96. 

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