Cyclization with diethyl malonate

Fig. 2. Synthesis of uma2enil (18). The isonitrosoacetanihde is synthesized from 4-f1iioroani1ine. Cyclization using sulfuric acid is followed by oxidization using peracetic acid to the isatoic anhydride. Reaction of sarcosine in DMF and acetic acid leads to the benzodiazepine-2,5-dione. Deprotonation, phosphorylation, and subsequent reaction with diethyl malonate leads to the diester. After selective hydrolysis and decarboxylation the resulting monoester is nitrosated and catalyticaHy hydrogenated to the aminoester. Introduction of the final carbon atom is accompHshed by reaction of triethyl orthoformate to...

Diphenylcinnoline can be prepared from benzil monophenylhydrazone in the presence of about 80% sulfuric acid (49MI21200). Synthetically more important, however, is the cyclization of mesoxalyl chloride phenylhydrazones under Frledel-Crafts -conditions (61JCS2828). As outlined in Scheme 67, the starting mesoxalate phenylhydrazones are obtained by coupling dlazotized aromatic amines with diethyl malonate. After conversion... 

Michael additions to acceptor-substituted dienes are often followed by (spontaneous or induced) cyclizations. This was already noted by Vorlander and Groebel4 who obtained a substituted 1,3-cyclohexanedione by treatment of 6-phenyl-3,5-hexadien-2-one with diethyl malonate (equation 5). Obviously, the 1,4-addition product which is formed initially then undergoes cyclization, ester hydrolysis and decarboxylation. Similarly, reaction of methyl sorbate with methyl 4-nitrobutyrate gave the 1,6-adduct which was reductively cyclized to 6-methyl-l-azabicyclo[5.3.0]decane18 (equation 6). 

Condensation of 3-chloromethylbenzo[6]thiophene with diethyl malonate followed by hydrolysis, decarboxylation, Arndt-Eistert homo-logization, hydrolysis, and cyclization of the derived acid chloride with anhydrous stannic chloride yielded 2-methyl-4-keto-l,2,3,4-tetrahy-drodibenzothiophene (47). ... 

The reaction of 2-aminopyridines with diethyl malonate or monosubsti-tuted malonates has been investigated by many other workers. Cyclizations were carried out thermally, either without solvents43,51,52-87 96-98 100"0 or in high-boiling solvents,63,97,111 or on the action of acid47,75-77 or base.112... 

Intramolecular cyclization. Knoevenagel condensation of diphenylacetaldehyde with diethyl malonate (piperidinium acetate catalysis) results in only a trace of the expected product when molecular sieves are present, the a-naphthol 1 is formed in 52% yield.2 A similar reaction is observed with ethyl acetoacetate and ethyl benzoylacetate. 

Asymmetric cyclopropanation. Three laboratories have reported that copper complexes of chiral bis(oxazolines) are effective catalysts for asymmetric cyclopropanation of alkenes with diazoacetates. Bis(oxazolines) such as 1 are readily available by condensation of a-amino alcohols with diethyl malonate followed by cyclization, effected with dichlorodimethyltin or thionyl chloride. Cyclopropanation of styrene with ethyl diazoacetate catalyzed by copper complexes of type 1 indicates... 

In a series of publications (75JOC2600, 70JOC1965, 73JOC3087), Potts and coworkers have reported that cyclic amidines (290) readily condense with trichloromethylsulfenyl chloride (329) to yield the sulfenamides (330 Scheme 119). Treatment of the latter compounds with aromatic amines in the presence of triethylamine results in cyclization, possibly via an intermediate such as (331), to produce bicyclic products of type (332). Heterocycles (290) which have been used successfully in this reaction include 2-amino-l,3,4-thiadiazoles, 3-aminopyridazines, 2-aminopyrimidines, 2-aminopyrazines, 2-aminopyridines, 3-aminoisoxazoles and 5-amino-1,2,4-thiadiazoles. The sulfenamide derivative (330) of 2-aminopyridine also was found to react with sodium sulfide and with diethyl malonate to produce (333) and (334) respectively. Attempts to hydrolyze (332) to (295) under acidic conditions failed. 

Nitro- and 6-nitroveratric acids, prepared from vanillin by the method of R. Pschorr and C. Sumuleanu (29), were separately subjected to the Bischoff synthesis (27), their chlorides being condensed with diethyl malonate, and the products reduced, cyclized and decarboxylated by treatment with tin and aqueous-alcoholic hydrochloric acid. 

The syntheses of chiral C2-symmetric methylene-bis(oxazolines) and bi-oxazolines of type 6 and 8 are summarized in Schemes 10 and 11 [25]. Using the well-established three-step sequence - amide formation, conversion to the bis(2-chloroalkyl)amide, and subsequent base-induced cyclization [26] - various derivatives were prepared in good overall yields. Alternatively, these ligands may be synthesized in one step from the corresponding amino alcohols and readily available bis-imidates derived from malonate or oxalate [25, 27] or, as described by Masamune et al [28], by amide formation with diethyl malonate and subsequent reaction with dimethyltin dichloride, or by metal-catalyzed condensation of amino alcohols with nitriles [29]. 

Diethyl oxalate functioned as one-carbon rather than two-carbon cyclizing agent with the diamino-heterocyclopyrimidines 37 to give the triazo-lopyrimidines 38. Diethyl malonate, ethyl acetoacetate, or ethyl... 

The same methodology was also used starting from the ethyl 6-amino-7-chloro-l-ethyl-4-oxo-l,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylate, prepared by reduction of the nitro derivative. The requisite nitro derivative was prepared by nitration of ethyl 7-chloro-l-ethyl-4-oxo-l,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylate. A second isomer was prepared from 4-chloro-3-nitroaniline by reaction with diethyl ethoxymethylene-malonate, subsequent thermal cyclization, and further ethylation because of low solubility of the formed quinolone. After separation and reduction, the ethyl 7-amino-6-chloro-l-ethyl-4-oxo-l,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylate 32 was obtained. The ort/io-chloroaminoquinolones 32,33 were cyclized to the corresponding 2-substituted thiazoloquinolines 34 and 35, and the latter were derivatized (Scheme 19) (74JAP(K)4, 79CPB1). 

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