Decarboxylative benzoylation

Decarboxylative benzoylation of (benz)oxazoles (220) and (benzo)thia-zoles (221) with a-oxocarboxyHc acids (222) was observed to be catalyzed... 

J lie decarboxylation is frequently the most troublesome step in this sequence. Attempts at simple thermal decarboxylation frequently lead to recycliz-ation to the lactam. The original investigators carried out decarboxylation by acidic hydrolysis and noted that rings with ER substituents were most easily decarboxylated[2]. It appears that ring protonation is involved in the decarboxylation under hydrolytic conditions. Quinoline-copper decarboxylation has been used successfully after protecting the exocyclic nitrogen with a phthaloyl, acetyl or benzoyl group[3]. 

It has been shown that 2,3-thiophenedicarboxylic acid is preferentially esterified in the 2-position and the dimethyl ester is preferentially hydrolyzed in this position. The structure proof was difficult to achieve as rearrangements occurred. Thus both isomeric amides (195) and (196) were decarboxylized to the N-methylanilide of 3-thiophenecarboxylic acid (197). The same carbomethoxy benzoyl-thiophene, proved to be 2-carbomethoxy-3-benzoylthiophene (198),... 

Oxidation of ecgonine (2) by means of chromium trioxide was found to afford a keto acid (3). This was formulated as shown based on the fact that the compound undergoes ready themnal decarboxylation to tropinone (4)The latter had been obtained earlier from degradative studies in connection with the structural determination of atropine (5) and its structure established independently. Confirmation for the structure came from the finding that carbonation of the enolate of tropinone does in fact lead back to ecgonine. Reduction, esterification with methanol followed by benzoylation then affords cocaine. 

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]. 

For benzoyl and acetyl peroxides, loss of carbon dioxide occurs in a stepwise process. Estimates of the rate constants for step c in Scheme 1 are 7 x 10 sec (benzene, 60°). The corresponding process for acetyl peroxide has k = 2x 10 sec (n-hexane, 60°), so that the lifetime of radical pairs containing acetoxy radicals is comparable to the time necessary for nuclear polarization to take place (Kaptein, 1971b Kaptein and den Hollander, 1972 Kaptein et al., 1972). Propionoxy radicals are claimed to decarboxylate 15-20 times faster than acetoxy radicals (Dombchik, 1969). 

Hydroxy-L-prolin is converted into a 2-methoxypyrrolidine. This can be used as a valuable chiral building block to prepare optically active 2-substituted pyrrolidines (2-allyl, 2-cyano, 2-phosphono) with different nucleophiles and employing TiQ as Lewis acid (Eq. 21) [286]. Using these latent A -acylimmonium cations (Eq. 22) [287] (Table 9, No. 31), 2-(pyrimidin-l-yl)-2-amino acids [288], and 5-fluorouracil derivatives [289] have been prepared. For the synthesis of p-lactams a 4-acetoxyazetidinone, prepared by non-Kolbe electrolysis of the corresponding 4-carboxy derivative (Eq. 23) [290], proved to be a valuable intermediate. 0-Benzoylated a-hydroxyacetic acids are decarboxylated in methanol to mixed acylals [291]. By reaction of the intermediate cation, with the carboxylic acid used as precursor, esters are obtained in acetonitrile (Eq. 24) [292] and surprisingly also in methanol as solvent (Table 9, No. 32). Hydroxy compounds are formed by decarboxylation in water or in dimethyl sulfoxide (Table 9, Nos. 34, 35). 

The anaerobic metabolism of L-phenylalanine by Thauera aromatica under denitrifying conditions involves several steps that result in the formation of benzoyl-CoA (a) conversion to the CoA-ester by a ligase, (b) transamination to phenylacetyl-CoA, (c) a-oxidation to phenylglyoxalate, and (d) decarboxylation to benzoyl-CoA (Schneider et al. 1997). 

In the one example not involving mercurials, Ni(02CC6F5)2phen H20, which failed to decarboxylate in boiling toluene [c.f. Eq. (47)] (Section III,D), eliminated carbon dioxide in benzene in the presence of benzoyl peroxide (63). 

The complex also undergoes a variety of addition reactions with reagents such as methyl iodide, hydrochloric acid, benzoyl chloride, and allyl chloride.8 In a reaction similar to that of the decarboxylation of aldehydes, the complex will abstract CS from carbon disulfide to give the irans-thiocarbonyl complex rans-RhClCS[P(C8H6)5]2.9... 

N-Methyl-2-phenyl-A2-tetraJiydropyridine and similar compounds have previously been prepared by the hydrolysis and decarboxylation of a-benzoyl-N-methyl-2-piperidone3 and by the addition of phenyl Grignard reagents to N-methyl-2-piperidone followed by dehydration.4 Both of these methods require that a heterocyclic ring already be present in the system. In contrast, this procedure offers a new flexible route to the construction of five- or six-membered heterocyclic rings which may easily be incorporated into a larger polycyclic product. Several examples of this process that can be cited to demonstrate this utility are... 

Boiling an ethanolic solution of 4//-pyridazino[6,l-fl]isoquinoline (42) in the presence of KOH for 6 h gave the 4-unsubstituted derivative 53, which was A-acylated with benzoyl chloride (83JOC1084). Heating the A-benzoyl derivative 54 in boiling ethanol in the presence of KOH for 36 h afforded the 2-hydroxy derivative 55, which was also prepared from 56 by basic hydrolysis and subsequent acylation with benzoyl chloride. A decarboxylation-oxidation product 50 was also isolated from the reaction mixture. 

On the next stage, the ethyl ester of iV-benzoylhomomeroquinene (37.1.1.42) is condensed with the ethyl ester of 6-methoxyquinolinic acid (37.1.1.27) in the presence of sodium ethoxide to make a derivative of quinotoxin (37.1.1.43). Boiling this in hydrochloric acid results in hydrolysis of the carbethoxy and benzoyl groups, and simultaneous decarboxylation gives the compound (37.1.1.44). Treating this with sodium hypobromite makes an... 

Italian authors prepared 3-phenylthieno[3,2-6]thiophene (73) similarly. Methyl (2-benzoyl-3-thienyithio)acetate (75), obtdned by ben-zoylating methyl (3-thienylthio)acetate (74), cyclized to 3-phenylthieno-[3,2-6]thiophene-2-carboxylic add (76) which was then decarboxylated [Eq. (27)1. 

The stability of the ring system decreases considerably when one hydrogen atom is left unsubstituted (55 b). It has been claimed that 5-monosubstituted oxadiazoles like XLII could not exist, as it was not possible to isolate the 5-phenyl derivative by decarboxylation of the corresponding acid or by hydrolyzing the 3-benzoyl-5-phenyl compound. 

Decreased Benzoyl Formate Decarboxylation Activity of Variant 55E4... 

The potential of benzoylformate decarboxylase (BFD, E.C. 4.1.1.7) to catalyze C-C bond formation was first reported by Wilcocks at al. using crude extracts of Pseudomonas putidsL [50]. They observed the formation of (S)-2-hydroxy-l-phenylpro-panone (S)-2-HPP when benzoyl formate was decarboxylated in the presence of acetaldehyde. Advantageously, aldehydes - without a previous decarboxylation step - can be used instead of the corresponding more expensive a-keto acids [51]. We could show that BFD is able to bind a broad range of different aromatic, heteroaromatic, and even cyclic aliphatic and conjugated olefinic aldehydes to ThDP before ligation to acetaldehyde or other aldehydes (Table 2.2.7.3) [52]. 

The aniline nitrogen is then converted to the para-toluenesulfonamide (4-3). Reaction of this intermediate with ethyl co-chlorobutyrate in the presence of potassium carbonate then gives the alkylation product (4-4). Potassium tert-butoxide-catalyzed Claisen condensation of this diester leads to azepinone (4-5) as a mixture of methyl and ethyl esters resulting from alternate cyclization routes. A strong acid leads to the transient keto-acid, which then decarboxylates the toluensulfonyl group is lost under reaction conditions as well as affording the benzazepinone (4-6). This last intermediate is then acylated with the benzoyl chloride (4-7) to afford amide (4-8). 

Secondary aliphatic amines reacted readily with mercaptoaldimines (279), which could be prepared readily by the action of Na/NH3 on the aldehyde diacetals (278). The resulting N,N- dialkyl derivatives (280) were alkylated on sulfur by a-halocarbonyl compounds such as bromoacetic acid the resulting products (281) underwent spontaneous ring closure and aromatization via loss of the secondary amine to yield the acids (282 Scheme 97). Decarboxylation of the acids (282) furnished the substituted thieno[2,3-6 ]thiophenes (283). The use of other a-halocarbonyl compounds, such as bromoacetone or phenacyl bromide for the alkylation, led to the formation of the 2-acetyl or 2-benzoyl derivatives, (284) and (285) respectively (76AHC(19)123). 

Mendel44 found that reaction of 2-aminopyridine-3-carboxylic acid with ethyl acetoacetate or ethyl benzoylacetate gave rise to a decarboxylated product (36 R1 = Me, Ph R = R2 = H), whereas with ethyl 4,4,4-tri-fluoroacetoacetate, the product was ethyl 2-aminopyridine-3-carboxylate. Yale51 obtained 3-benzoyl-2-hydroxy-4-oxo-4ff-pyrido[ 1,2-a] pyrimidine in 4- 5%, yield from 2-amino-3-methylpyridine and ethyl benzoylacetate in diethylbenzene. 

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