Carboxylic Acid Route

More recently, this method has been elaborated in a three-component-reaction (NPG, acetonitrile, carboxylic acid) route to iV-glycosylamines [63]. 

The most general synthetic route to ketones uses the reaction of carboxylic acids (or their derivatives) or nitriles with organometallic compounds (M.J. Jorgenson, 1970). Lithium car-boxylates react with organolithium compounds to give stable gem-diolates, which are decom-... 

Another useful route to cyciopentanes is the ring contraction of 2-bromo-cydohexanones by a Favorskii rearrangement to give csrdopcntanecarboxylic acids. If a 0 dibromoketones are used, ring opening of the intermediate cydopropanone leads selectively to, y-unsaturated carboxylic acids (S.A, Achmad, 1963, 1965 J. Wolinsky, 1965). 

Nitrile groups m cyanohydrins are hydrolyzed under conditions similar to those of alkyl cyanides Cyanohydrin formation followed by hydrolysis provides a route to the preparation of a hydroxy carboxylic acids... 

The boric and sulfuric acids are recycled to a HBF solution by reaction with CaF2. As a strong acid, fluoroboric acid is frequently used as an acid catalyst, eg, in synthesizing mixed polyol esters (29). This process provides an inexpensive route to confectioner s hard-butter compositions which are substitutes for cocoa butter in chocolate candies (see Chocolate and cocoa). Epichlorohydrin is polymerized in the presence of HBF for eventual conversion to polyglycidyl ethers (30) (see Chlorohydrins). A more concentrated solution, 61—71% HBF, catalyzes the addition of CO and water to olefins under pressure to form neo acids (31) (see Carboxylic acids). 

Branched-Chain Carboxylic Acids. Branched-chain acids such as 2-methylbutyric, 3-methylbutyric, isooctanoic, and isononanoic acids are produced by the oxo reaction, giving first the corresponding aldehyde, which is then oxidized to the acid. 2-EthyIhexanoic acid is produced by the aldol route from butyaldehyde in three steps aldol condensation hydrogenation of the carbon—carbon double bond and oxidation of the branched-chain saturated aldehyde to 2-ethyIhexanoic acid (see Carboxylic Acids, branched-chain acids). 

Practically all pyridazine-carboxylic and -polycarboxylic acids undergo decarboxylation when heated above 200 °C. As the corresponding products are usually isolated in high yields, decarboxylation is frequently used as the best synthetic route for many pyridazine and pyridazinone derivatives. For example, pyridazine-3-carboxylic acid eliminates carbon dioxide when heated at reduced pressure to give pyridazine in almost quantitative yield, but pyridazine is obtained in poor yield from pyridazine-4-carboxylic acid. Decarboxylation is usually carried out in acid solution, or by heating dry silver salts, while organic bases such as aniline, dimethylaniline and quinoline are used as catalysts for monodecarboxylation of pyridazine-4,5-dicarboxylic acids. 

The other three methods have not been studied extensively. The dimethyl-cadmium route has been used on a 17a-methyl-17 -carboxylic acid. ° The reaction of the acid amide with a Grignard reagent is described only in a Spanish patent,with a high yield claimed, and the methyllithium reaction has apparently been tried only on D-norsteroids. ... 

Oxidative reactions frequently represent a convenient preparative route to synthetic intermediates and end products This chapter includes oxidations of alkanes and cycloalkanes, alkenes and cycloalkenes, dienes, aromatic fluorocarbons, alcohols, phenols, ethers, aldehydes and ketones, carboxylic acids, nitrogen compounds, and organophosphorus, -sulfur, -selenium, -iodine, and -boron compounds... 

Phenylpyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidin-o(677)-ones (145) have been prepared from 7-phenylpyrano[4,3-d]pyrimidin-5(6/7)-ones (144) by treatment with ammonia, hydroxylamine, or hydrazine at room temperature. The utility of the route lies in the rapid preparation of 4-methyl-2-phenylpyrimidine-5-carboxylic acid (143) from cheap... 

Simple isothiazole-4-carboxylic acids have been made from the corresponding nitriles, which are available in turn from the halogeno derivatives, or directly by the olefin route.5-Aminoiso-thiazole-4-esters and -nitriles are readily obtained by the thioamide route. The 4-acids behave normally and form acid chlorides, esters, amides, and hydrazides. In contrast to the 5-series... 

Rearrangements and other side-reactions are rare. The ester pyrolysis is therefore of some synthetic value, and is used instead of the dehydration of the corresponding alcohol. The experimental procedure is simple, and yields are generally high. Numerous alkenes have been prepared by this route for the first time. For the preparation of higher alkenes (> Cio), the pyrolysis of the corresponding alcohol in the presence of acetic anhydride may be the preferable method." The pyrolysis of lactones 9 leads to unsaturated carboxylic acids 10 ... 

Differences in solubility of the reactants may for example be utilized as follows. Sodium iodide is much more soluble in acetone than are sodium chloride or sodium bromide. Upon treatment of an alkyl chloride or bromide with sodium iodide in acetone, the newly formed sodium chloride or bromide precipitates from the solution and is thus removed from equilibrium. Alkyl iodides can be conveniently prepared in good yields by this route. Alkyl bromides are more reactive as the corresponding chlorides. Of high reactivity are a-halogen ketones, a-halogen carboxylic acids and their derivatives, as well as allyl and benzyl halides. 

The Rosenmund reduction is usually applied for the conversion of a carboxylic acid into the corresponding aldehyde via the acyl chloride. Alternatively a carboxylic acid may be reduced with lithium aluminum hydride to the alcohol, which in turn may then be oxidized to the aldehyde. Both routes require the preparation of an intermediate product and each route may have its advantages over the other, depending on substrate structure. 

The nature of the penicillin derivatives accessible by this "feeding" route was severely limited by the fact that the acylat-ing enzyme of the Penicillium molds would accept only those carboxylic acids which bore at least some resemblance to its natural substrates. A breakthrough in this field was achieved by the finding that rigid exclusion of all possible side-chain substrate from the culture medium afforded 6-APA as the main fermentation... 

The route of kasugamycin s biosynthesis, especially of the amidine carboxylic acid moiety, is interesting. Either C-l or C-2 labeled glycine... 

The following carboxylic acid can t be prepared from an alkyl halide by either the nitrile hydrolysis route or the Grignard carboxylation route. Explain. 

Curran s synthesis of ( )-A9(l2)-capnellene [( )-2] is detailed in Schemes 30 and 31. This synthesis commences with the preparation of racemic bicyclic vinyl lactone 147 from ( )-norbomenone [( )-145] by a well-known route.61 Thus, Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of (+)-145 provides unsaturated bicyclic lactone 146, a compound that can be converted to the isomeric fused bicyclic lactone 147 by acid-catalyzed rearrangement. Reaction of 147 with methylmagne-sium bromide/CuBr SMe2 in THF at -20 °C takes the desired course and affords unsaturated carboxylic acid 148 in nearly quantitative yield. Iodolactonization of 148 to 149, followed by base-induced elimination, then provides the methyl-substituted bicyclic vinyl lactone 150 as a single regioisomer in 66% overall yield from 147. 

Trace Amines. Figure 1 The main routes of trace amine metabolism. The trace amines (3-phenylethylamine (PEA), p-tyramine (TYR), octopamine (OCT) and tryptamine (TRP), highlighted by white shading, are each generated from their respective precursor amino acids by decarboxylation. They are rapidly metabolized by monoamine oxidase (MAO) to the pharmacologically inactive carboxylic acids. To a limited extent trace amines are also A/-methylated to the corresponding secondary amines which are believed to be pharmacologically active. Abbreviations AADC, aromatic amino acid decarboxylase DBH, dopamine b-hydroxylase NMT, nonspecific A/-methyltransferase PNMT, phenylethanolamine A/-methyltransferase TH, tyrosine hydroxylase. 

The present synthesis10 consists of two simple steps, uses readily available and inexpensive starting materials, and produces pure material in high overall yield. It is based on two observations that nonenolizable ketones may be cleaved to carboxylic acids by potassium ferf-butoxide-water,2 and that aryl 2 chlorophenyl ketones may be cleaved with loss of the 2-chlorophenyl group to give only one of the two possible acids.11 Other compounds prepared by this route include carboxycyclopentadienyltriearbonylmanganese [Manganese, tricar-bonyl[(l, 2,3,4,5- )-l-carboxy-2,4-cyclopentadien-l-yl]-] (79%)10 and... 

The method described here for the synthesis of [Pg.37]

Also via the route of the acid chloride followed by reaction with taurine or methyltaurine solution in water under the Schotten-Baumann reaction are created the taurides and methyltaurides of the ether carboxylic acids [44] ... 

This chapter covers not only nuclear and extranuclear quinoxahnecarboxylic acids (and anhydrides) but also the carboxylic esters, acyl halides, carboxamides, carbohydrazides, carbonitriles, carbaldehydes, and (ketonic) acyl derivatives of quinoxaline a few related speceis are also included. To avoid repetition, the interconversions of these quinoxaline derivatives are discussed only at the first opportunity thus the esterification of quinoxalinecarboxylic acids in covered as a reaction of carboxylic acids rather than as a preparative route to carboxylic esters, simply because the section on carboxylic acids precedes that on carboxylic esters. To minimize any confusion, appropriate cross-references have been inserted. 

The imidazole ring is a privileged structure in medicinal chemistry since it is found in the core structure of a wide range of pharmaceutically active compounds efficient methods for the preparation of substituted imidazole libraries are therefore of great interest. Recently, a rapid synthetic route to imidazole-4-carboxylic acids using Wang resin was reported by Henkel (Fig. 17) [64]. An excess aliphatic or aromatic amine was added to the commercially available Wang-resin-bound 3-Ar,M-(dimethylamino)isocyano-acrylate, and the mixture was heated in a sealed vial with microwave irradi-... 

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