4-hydroxy coumarins

Chknenti, M. Fratter, A. Use of coumarin or a coumarin hydroxy derivative for the treatment of medium or severe vascular and/or lymphatic edema. PCX Int. Appl. WO 2003047566, 2003 Chem. 

Coumarin is usually prepared by heating salicylaldehyde with acetic anhydride and sodium acetate (i.e., the Perkin cinnamic acid synthesis, p. 23 6), whereby the 0" hydroxy-cinnamic acid (I) undergoes cyclisation to coumarin. Coumarins having substituents in the benzene ring can often be similarly prepared. 

For the preparation of 4-substituted coumarins, a phenol may be condensed with ethyl acetoacetate under the influence of sulphuric acid. Thus resorcinol (II) readily undergoes this condensation (which is represented diagrammatically above) to give 7-hydroxy-4-methyl-coumarin (III). Note that the coumarins, like all 2 pyrones, are systematically lactones. 

Basic catalysts other than alkali acetates have been employed in the Perkin reaction thus salicylaldehyde condenses with acetic anhydride in the presence of triethylamine to yield coumarin (tlie lactone of the cis form of o-hydroxy-cinnamio acid) together with some of the acetyl derivative of the trans form (o-acetoxycoumaric acid) ... 

Coum rinic Acid Compounds. These synthetic phyUoquinone derivatives and congeners have been employed as anticoagulants since the isolation of 3,3 -methylenebis(4-hydroxy-2H-l-benzopyran-2-one) [66-76-2] (bis-4-hydroxycoumarin or dicoumarol) (1) from spoiled sweet clover in 1939. The ingestion of the latter was responsible for widespread and extensive death of bovine animals at that time. The parent compound for the synthesis of many congeners is 4-hydrocoumarin, which is synthesized from methyl salicylate by acetylation and internal cyclization. The basic stmctures of these compounds are shown in Figure 2, and their properties Hsted in Table 6 (see Coumarin). 

Hydrolysis. The lactone is easily hydroly2ed by alkaUes to the corresponding salts of coumarinic acid or o-hydroxy-i j -cinnamic acid [495-79 ]. Coumarinic acid salts are odorless. Coumarinic acid and salts revert to coumarin upon acidification with inorganic acids. Alkaline fusion of coumarin yields salts of sahcyhc and acetic acids. 

Coumarin can also be formed by the reaction of phenol with diketene (40). Similarly, diphenols can react with hydroxycarboxyUc acids or beta-ketoesters to give hydroxycoumaria derivatives. The reaction of resorciaol with malic acid produces umbeUiferone (7-hydroxycoumaria) and its reaction with ethyl acetoacetate gives beta-methylumbeUiferone (7-hydroxy-4-methylcoumaria). 

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Coumarin, 7-(dialkylamino)-, I, 333 Coumarin, 7-dialkylamino-4-hydroxy-synthesis, 3, 808... 

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Coumarin-3-carboxylic acid, 4-hydroxy-ethyl ester... 

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Comforth has reviewed literature reports and independently studied the special cases of reaction of 1 with salicylaldehyde and with 2-acetoxybenzaldehyde. Coumarins (10) are afforded in the condensation of 1 with salicylaldehyde or its imine, whereas when 2-acetoxybenzaldehyde is used, acetoxy oxazolone 12 is the major product. The initial aldol condensation product between the oxazolone and 2-acetoxybenzaldehyde is the 4-(a-hydroxybenzyl)oxazolone 11, in which base-catalyzed intramolecular transacetylation is envisioned. The product 9 (R = Ac) can either be acetylated on the phenolic hydroxy group, before or after loss of acetic acid, to yield the oxazolone 12, or it can rearrange, by a second intramolecular process catalyzed by base and acid, to the hydrocoumarin, which loses acetic acid to yield 10. When salicylaldehyde is the starting material, aldol intermediate 9 (R = H) can rearrange directly to a hydrocoumarin. Comforth also accessed pure 4-(2 -hydroxyphenylmethylene)-2-phenyloxazol-5(4//)-one (13) through hydrolysis of 12 with 88% sulfuric acid. 

It is notable that flavone and its derivatives are substituted predominantly in the phenyl group at positions 3 and 4 whereas reaction with Fenton s reagent gives mainly the S-hydroxy isomer." " Similarly, comparison of the distribution of products from coumarin obtained with Udenfriend s system with that given by Fenton s reagent re-... 

Anschutz 1 treated aceto-salicylic chloride with sodium-malonic ester, with the formation of ethyl acetate and y3-hydroxy-coumarin-alpha-car-hoxylic ethyl ester—... 

This compound is heated with caustic potash solution, yielding beta-hydroxy-coumarin. From this body, coumarin is obtained by substituting a halogen atom for the OH group, and then reducing the product in alcoholic solution with zinc-dust. 

A mixture of 3 gof 8-(2-hydroxy-3-chloropropoxy)-5-methyl coumarin,4.3 g of t-butylamine and 60 ml of ethenol Is heated et 100°C in a sealed tube for 15 hours. The reaction mixture is concentrated under reduced pressure to dryness. The residue Is recrystallized from a mixture of ethanoi and ether to give 2.1 g of the desired product melting at 226° to 228 C (with decomposition). 

Al Preparation of 7-Hydroxy-4,8-Dimethy/coumarin Chilled ethyl acetoacetate (157 ml, 1.20 mols) followed by 2-methyl-resorcinol (130 g, 1.04 mols) was dissolved in well-stirred concentrated sulfuric acid (600 ml) at such a rate as to keep the temperature below 10°C (ice bath). The stirred solution was allowed to warm gradually and after 3 hours was added to water (ca 8 liters) with mechanical stirring. The product was collected, washed twice with water, and dried at 70° to 80°C until the first sign of darkening. Yield 191.3 g (95.4%). Recrystallization from aqueous ethanol gave 7-hydroxy-4,8-dimethylcoumarin as colorless needles, MP 260.5° to 261°C. In dilute sodium hydroxide, the compound gives a yellow solution which exhibits blue fluorescence. 

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