Carboxylic acids Arndt-Eistert homologation

The Wolff rearrangement of a-diazocarbonyl compounds (8.58, R = H, alkyl, aryl, OR) has great synthetic importance because in most cases the ketenes formed react smoothly with water, alcohols, and amines (Scheme 8-34). An early application that still has considerable importance is the homologization of carboxylic acids (Arndt-Eistert reaction Arndt and Eistert, 1935). As shown in Scheme 8-34, the reaction starts from the chloride of the acid RCOOH, which leads to an a-diazo ketone with diazomethane (R = H), followed by the Wolff rearrangement and the hydrolysis of the ketene intermediate to give the homologous carboxylic acid (8.59, R =H). In alcohols and amines esters (8.60) and amides (8.61, R = H), respectively. 

Wolff rearrangement in organic synthesis are the homologation of carboxylic acids (Arndt-Eistert reaction), the one-carbon ring contraction of cyclic a-diazoketones, and, more generally, the in situ production of ketenes and a-oxo-ketenes as reactive intermediates under additive-free and coproduct-free conditions (except for the inert N2 gas). 

Aminomethyl)biphenyl-2-carboxylic acid (70) and -acetic acid (69) have been prepared from dibenzo-substituted oxepin-2-one 66 by potassium phthalimide ring opening. Further Arndt-Eistert homologation of 67 provided 68.[104]... 

Fig. 8.13. Arndt-Eistert homologation of carboxylic acids—addition of H20 to a ketene in part 2 of the third reaction of this three-step reaction sequence.

The Wolff rearrangement is the third step of the Arndt-Eistert homologation of carboxylic acids. Figure 11.25 picks up an example that was discussed in Section 7.2, that is, the homologation of trifluoroacetic acid to trifluoropropionic acid. The first step of the Arndt-Eistert synthesis consists of the activation of the carboxylic acid via the acid chloride. The Q elongation to an a-diazoketone occurs in the second step. 

In the first step of the reaction sequence a methyl ester is formed via a Wolff rearrangement. The Wolff rearrangem ent provides acids, esters or amides from a-diazo ketones and is often used in a ring contractive way to form strained ring systems, which are not accessible by other sequences.It also occurs as the key step in the Arndt-Eistert homologation of carboxylic acids. ... 

Arndt-Eistert homologation One-carbon homologation of carboxylic acids. 18... 

The well-known Arndt-Eistert homologation" of an acyl halide to a carboxylic acid also involves the migration of an R group (with its electron pair) to an electron-deficient acyl carbene (presumably through a hypercarbon species) [Eq. (6.132)]. This rearrangement is also known as the Wolff rearrangement. 

Apart from the well-known Arndt-Eistert homologization of carboxylic acids and the many and varied intermolecular reactions of the ketenes formed... 

ARNDT - EISTERT Homologation Homologation ot carboxylic acids or ketones... 

Alder route, was converted into the urethan (25) by a series of unexceptional steps. Arndt-Eistert homologation of (25) provided the carboxylic acid (26) which, upon treatment with acetic anhydride, readily gave the lactam (27). Introduction of a one-carbon unit into the aromatic ring was achieved with chloromethyl methyl ether, and further reductive and hydrolytic modification afforded the amino-alcohol (28). Osmium tetroxide oxidation of (28) yielded the stereoisomeric triols (29) (20%) and (30) (22%) which were separated and oxidized to ( + )-clivonine (31) and (+ )-clividine (32), respectively. 

This reaction was first reported by Arndt and Eistert in 1935. It is the extension of carboxylic acid by one CH2 unit via the reaction of acyl chloride with diazomethane and is generally known as the Arndt-Eistert synthesis. In addition, this reaction is also occasionally referred to as the Arndt-Eistert acid synthesis, Arndt-Eistert homologation," and Arndt-Eistert reaction. This reaction has been extensively reviewed. Other reagents instead of diazomethane have been similarly applied to extend the length of the carboxylic acids7... 

The conversion of a carboxylic acid to its homolog (one CH2 group longer) in three stages via an a-diazo methylketone is known as the Arndt-Eistert homologation.It is the best preparative method for the chain elongation of carboxylic acids. 

Arndt-Eistert synthesis A procedure for converting a carboxylic acid to its next higher homologue, or to a derivative of a homologous acid, e.g. ester or amide. 

The Arndt-Eistert synthesis allows for the conversion of carboxylic acids 1 into the next higher homolog 4. This reaction sequence is considered to be the best method for the extension of a carbon chain by one carbon atom in cases where a carboxylic acid is available. 

The Arndt-Eistert Synthesis allows the formation of homologated carboxylic acids or their derivatives by reaction of the activated carboxylic acids with diazomethane and subsequent Wolff-Rearrangement of the intermediate diazoketones in the presence of nucleophiles such as water, alcohols, or amines. 

The homologation of carboxylic acids is a reaction frequently needed in synthetic chemistry. The Arndt-Eistert reaction though aesthetically pleasing, is not preferred today, owing to the use of diazomethane and silver reagents. We provided47 a solution to this problem by the addition of carbon radicals to... 

A carbon chain may be extended by one unit by using the Arndt-Eistert synthesis. In the first step, an acyl halide is treated with diazomethane to form the a-diazo ketone. This is then treated with water and silver oxide. The resultant product is the free acid. If an alcohol is used instead of water, then the related ester is formed. This is the best way of extending a chain by one unit if the carboxylic acid is available. The process of extension in this manner is called homologation. 

The carboxylic acid 95, obtained from the methyl ester by alkaline hydrolysis, was converted by an Arndt-Eistert sequence to the higher homolog 96 (84JA3240). The ethyl esters of 7-oxo-lH,3//,7//-pyrido[3,2,l-y][3,l]benzoxazine-6-carboxylates were hydrolyzed under basic conditions (90EUP373531). The carboxylic acid derivative was obtained by alkaline hydrolysis of methyl trans-4a,8-H-l-oxo-l,3,4,4a,7,8-hexahydropyrido[l,2-... 

The chemistry of these trapped sulfide adducts also provided no less than three distinct solutions to the problem of the homologation of carboxylic acids, thereby providing a mild radical alternative to the classical Arndt-Eistert reaction. Thus, as shown in Scheme 33, the a. nitrosulfides obtained using nitroethylene as the alkene trap could be converted by oxidation to carboxylic acids or hydrolyzed to aldehydes using aqueous titanium trichloride [29, 31]. 

When working on the acylation of diazomethane, Arndt and Eistert (1935) found the method for homologization of carboxylic acids in which acylation of the diazo ketone with the acid chloride is followed by a Wolff rearrangement (see discussion in Sect. 8.6). 

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