Brominative decarboxylation

The overall transformation can also be accomplished by reaction of thallium(I) carboxylate with bromine.278 Phenyliodonium diacetate and bromine also lead to brominative decarboxylation.279... 

Indirect methods, which are primarily essentially of academic interest, nevertheless may find use under special circumstances. One of these, involving the brominative decarboxylation (Borodin-Huns-diecker reaction) of silver a-fluorocyclopropanecarboxylate, provides a convenient and stereospecific route to the synthesis of fluorobromocyclopropyl compounds (equation 26).96 Another approach makes use of the Diels-Alder reaction between tetrachlorocyclopropene and dienes (equation 27).97,98 The adducts can undergo facile dehydrohalogenation or ring opening. 

Hunsdiecker reaction of the silver salts of both cis-(56) and trans-2-methylcyclopropanecarboxylic acid (57) yielded the same mixture of cis- (58) and trans-1-bromo-2-methylcyclopropane (59), thus demonstrating that the 2-methylcyclopropyl radical was incapable of maintaining its configuration . Brominative decarboxylation of the silver salts of exo- (60) and em/o-norcarane-7-carboxylic acid (61) produced the same mixture (16 84) of exo- (62) and entio-7-bromonorcarane (63)". Similarly, cis- and trans-silver 1,2-cyclopropanedicarboxylate gave rise to the same isomer ratio (24 76) of cis- and fraws-1,2-dibromocyclopropane. Consistent with these results is the report that the Hunsdiecker reaction with the silver salt of trans-2,2,3-d3-cyclopropanecarboxylic acid (64) gives an equimolar mixture of cis- (65) and rrans-2,2,3-d3-cyclopropane (66) . 

A few bromocyclopropanes have also been synthesized by brominative decarboxylation of the corresponding cyclopropanecarboxylic acids. The yields were moderate to good. 

The fluoro-radical derived from (432 X = F) suffers no inversion prior to bromine abstraction under brominative decarboxylation conditions, and radical-trapping experiments show that its inversion competes with hydrogen abstraction. On the other hand, the chloro-radical from (432 X s Cl) exhibits a much lower configurational stability, and the parent radical none at all. Related studies with both exo- and endo-fluoro-compounds (433 R = H, Me, or OMe) show that the radical stability... 

Orotic acid undergoes 5-nitration, 5-bromination in hydrobromic acid with peroxide, 5,5-dibromination following decarboxylation in bromine water, esterification, methylation (rather complicated), conversion into its acid chloride (containing some anhydride) by treatment with thionyl chloride, and conversion into 2,6-dichloropyrimidine-4-carboxylic acid by phosphoryl chloride (62HC(16)422). 

Imidazole, 4-acetyl-5-methyl-2-phenyl-synthesis, 5, 475 Imidazole, 1-acyl-reactions, 5, 452 rearrangement, 5, 379 Imidazole, 2-acyl-synthesis, 5, 392, 402, 408 Imidazole, 4-acyl-synthesis, 5, 468 Imidazole, C-acyl-UV spectra, 5, 356 Imidazole, N-acyl-hydrolysis rate constant, 5, 350 reactions, 5, 451-453 synthesis, 5, 54, 390-393 Imidazole, alkenyl-oxidation, 5, 437 polymerization, 5, 437 Imidazole, 1-alkoxycarbonyl-decarboxylation, 5, 453 Imidazole, 2-alkoxy-l-methyl-reactions, 5, 102 thermal rearrangement, 5, 443 Imidazole, 4-alkoxymethyl-synthesis, 5, 480 Imidazole, alkyl-oxidation, 5, 430 synthesis, 5, 484 UV spectra, 5, 355 Imidazole, 1-alkyl-alkylation, 5, 73 bromination, 5, 398, 399 HNMR, 5, 353 synthesis, 5, 383 thermal rearrangement, 5, 363 Imidazole, 2-alkyl-reactions, 5, 88 synthesis, 5, 469... 

Bromoresorcinol has been prepared by the monobromination of resorcinol monobenzoate and subsequent hydrolysis, from 2-bromo-5-aminophenol by the diazo reaction, by treating resorcinol with dichlorourea and potassium bromide, and by the bromination of 2,4-dihydroxy benzoic acid followed by decarboxylation. The above procedure is based particularly upon the observations of Rice. ... 

Finally, certain 3-substituted compounds can be prepared by utilizing the - meta) directing powet (cf. Section IV,B) of some groups in the 2-position which afterward can be removed. 3-Nitrothiophene is prepared by nitration of 2-thiophenesulfonyl chloride and by removal of the sulfonic acid group of the 4-nitro-2-sulfonyl chloride formed with superheated steam. Another approach to 3-nitrothio-phene is to nitrate 2-cyanothiophene, separate the 4-nitro-2-cyano-thiophene from the 5-isomer, hydrolyze, and decarboxylate. A final method of preparation of 3-nitrothiophene is by simultaneous de-bromination and decarboxylation of 5-bromo-4-nitro-2-thiophene-carboxylic acid obtained through the nitration of methyl 5-bromo-2-thiophenecarboxylate. 

Little data is available, but methyl groups a and y to ring nitrogens appear to be activated. 2-Methyl and 6-methyl substituents in pyrido[3,2-d]pyrimidines undergo bromination 38.79,12.9 oxidative decarboxylation, and form styryl compounds.The 6-methyl group in pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidines could not be brominated. ... 

Silver carboxylates 1 can be decarboxylated by treatment with bromine, to yield alkyl bromides 2 in the so-called Hunsdiecker reaction. ... 

One such compound, bropirimine (112), is described as an agent which has both antineo-plastic and antiviral activity. The first step in the preparation involves formation of the dianion 108 from the half ester of malonic acid by treatment with butyllithium. Acylation of the anion with benzoyl chloride proceeds at the more nucleophilic carbon anion to give 109. This tricarbonyl compound decarboxylates on acidification to give the beta ketoester 110. Condensation with guanidine leads to the pyrimidone 111. Bromination with N-bromosuccinimide gives bropirimine (112) [24]. 

The anticonvulsant activity of some 1,3-benzisoxazoles was discovered in routine testing. One of the more interesting of the subsequent analogues prepared was zonisamide (39). One of its syntheses starts with l,2-benzisoxazole-3-acetic acid (36) which is brominated and subsequently decarboxylated to give 37. Displacement of halogen in 37 with sodium bisulfite interestingly... 

The Hunsdiecker reaction is the treatment of the dry silver salt of a carboxylic acid with bromine in carbon tetrachloride. Decarboxylation occurs, and the product isolated is the corresponding organic bromide 16). Since dry silver salts are tedious to prepare, a modification of the reaction discovered by Cristol and Firth (77) is now... 

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