Barbituric acids carboxylic acid amide

Within the last two decades, a number of chemical structures have been proposed as metal deactivators for polyolefins. These include carboxylic acid amides of aromatic mono- and di-carboxylic acids and N-substituted derivatives such as N,N -diphenyloxamide, cyclic amides such as barbituric acid, hydrazones and bishydrazones of aromatic aldehydes such as benzaldehyde and salicylaldehyde or of o-hydroxy-arylketones, hydrazides of aliphatic and aromatic mono- and di-carboxylic acids as well as N-acylated derivatives thereof, bisacylated hydrazine derivatives, polyhydrazides, and phosphorus acid ester of a thiobisphenol. An index of trade names and suppliers of a few commercial metal deactivators is given in Appendix A4. 

S2S. Street, H. V., Gas-liquid chromatography of submicrogram amounts of drugs. IV. Identification of barbiturates, hydantoins, amides, imides, carbamates, phenylbutazone, carboxylic acids and hydrazine derivatives by direct derivative fonnation within the gas chromatograph. J. Chromaiogr. 41, 358-366 (1969). 

The most important reactions of carboxylic esters with amides are the cycli-zations of urea with dicarboxylic esters. As required for an ester condensation, stoichiometric amounts of an alkoxide must be used. Simple directions for the synthesis of barbituric acid were given by Pfleiderer and Nubel 791... 

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