Dicarboxylic acids, anhydrides reductions

Benzo analogs of 381 were obtained in a Friedel-Crafts reaction from 2,3-dicyano l,4-dithiin-5,6-dicarboxylic acid anhydride and benzene (62MI2), or from 2,3-dichloro-1,4-naphthoquinone and 1,2-dimercaptoethane (67RC1067). Reduction potentials of several quinones were determined (86CC1489). 

The direct synthesis of cantharidin by a Diels-Alder reaction of furan with dimethyl maleic anhydride 6 is not possible. However, cycloaddition can be carried out with 2,5-dihydrothiophene-3,4-dicarboxylic acid anhydride 8 as dienophile. The cycloadduct 9 exolendo mixture 85 15) is subsequently hydrogenated and the tetrahydrothiophene ring in 10 is cleaved by a reductive desulfurization [17] ... 

Hydrazides (s. a. Carboxylic acid hydrazides) reduction with borane 26,56 Hydrazine (s. a. Wolff-Kishner reduction) 26,15 reaction with dicarboxylic acid anhydrides 8, 482... 

In 1975, Kellyprepared and characterized a number of polyesters based on 2,5-disubstituted furans in various states of reduction. In this study, 2,5-disubstituted-furan, -dihydrofuran, and -tetrahydrofuran monomers were polymerized using solution, melt-transesterification, ring-opening, and interfacial techniques. These monomers included diacids, diols, diacid chlorides, diesters, dicarboxylic acid anhydrides, as well as monomers based on 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furoic and tetrahydrofuroic acids and esters, and bycyclic lactones containing the tetrahydrofuran ring. A thorough review of previous work done in the area of poljnner synthesis, based on 2,5-disubstituted furan derivatives is reported. It is reported that when... 

The experiment that follows involves the conversion of 4-cyclohexene-cis-1,2-dicarboxylic acid (3) to cyclohexane-cis-l,2-dicarboxylic acid (4), as shown in Equation 17.8. The catalytic hydrogenation of 3 is considered to be selective because the carboxylic acid groups, -CO2H, are not reduced under the reaction conditions. The starting material for this reduction may be readily prepared by the hydrolysis of 4-cyclohexene-czs-l,2-dicarboxylic acid anhydride, which is the product of the Diels-Alder reaction between butadiene and maleic anhydride, according to the procedure outlined in Section 12.3, Part Cl. 

More generally, reduction of cyclic anhydrides such as phthalic anhydride (benzene-1,2-dicarboxylic acid anhydride) with zinc (Zn) in ethanoic acid (acetic acid, CH3CO2H) results in the formation of cyclic esters (lactones) (Scheme 9.114). As shown, the zinc (Zn) metal is oxidized (to zinc oxide [Zn02]), while the... 

Scheme 9.114. A representation of the reduction of phthalic anhydride (benzene-1,2-dicarboxylic acid anhydride) to the corresponding lactone with zinc (Zn) in ethanoic acid (acetic acid).

Hydrocarbons from ketones Selective reduction s. 13,112 Phthalides from o-dicarboxylic acid anhydrides s. 11,123... 

Reductions of anhydrides of monocarboxylic acids to alcohols are very rare but can be accomplished by complex hydrides [55, 99]. More frequent are reductions of cyclic anhydrides of dicarboxylic acids, which give lactones. Such reductions were carried out by catalytic hydrogenation, by complex hydrides and by metals. 

Other reagents used for the preparation of lactones from acid anhydrides are lithium borohydride [1019], lithium triethylborohydride (Superhydride ) [1019] and lithium tris sec-butyl)borohydride (L-Selectride ) [1019]. Of the three complex borohydrides the last one is most stereoselective in the reduction of 3-methylphthalic anhydride, 3-methoxyphthalic anhydride, and 1-methoxynaphthalene-2,3-dicarboxylic anhydride. It reduces the less sterically hindered carbonyl group with 85-90% stereoselectivity and is 83-91% yield [1019]. 

Miki and Hachiken reported a total synthesis of murrayaquinone A (107) using 4-benzyl-l-ferf-butyldimethylsiloxy-4fT-furo[3,4-f>]indole (854) as an indolo-2,3-quinodimethane equivalent for the Diels-Alder reaction with methyl acrylate (624). 4-Benzyl-3,4-dihydro-lfT-furo[3,4-f>]indol-l-one (853), the precursor for the 4H-furo[3,4-f>]indole (854), was prepared in five steps and 30% overall yield starting from dimethyl indole-2,3-dicarboxylate (851). Alkaline hydrolysis of 851 followed by N-benzylation of the dicarboxylic acid with benzyl bromide and sodium hydride in DMF, and treatment of the corresponding l-benzylindole-2,3-dicarboxylic acid with trifluoroacetic anhydride (TFAA) gave the anhydride 852. Reduction of 852 with sodium borohydride, followed by lactonization of the intermediate 2-hydroxy-methylindole-3-carboxylic acid with l-methyl-2-chloropyridinium iodide, led to the lactone 853. The lactone 853 was transformed to 4-benzyl-l-ferf-butyldimethylsiloxy-4H-furo[3,4- 7]indole 854 by a base-induced silylation. Without isolation, the... 

Due to reduction or lack of hydrogen bonding, carbonyl carbon nuclei of amides [313-315], anhydrides [316], esters [310-312], and halides [317] display smaller shift values relative to the parent acids (Tables 4.34 and 4.35). Methyl esterification shieldings are about — 6+1 ppm for mono- and — 1.5 + 1 ppm for diesters, reflecting weaker hydrogen bonding in dicarboxylic acids [316] Taking the methoxy carbon as a /i effect... 

The usual range of carboxylic acid derivatives can be prepared and interconverted. Both carboxylic acid and ester functions are capable of reduction by lithium aluminum hydride to alcohols, or by controlled potential reduction to aldehydes. Attempts to form the anhydride from imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylic acid by heating with acetic anhydride failed. Instead, compound (199) is formed. This product forms the monoester (200) when heated with methanol and the hydrazide (201) when treated similarly with hydrazine (Scheme 107) (75S162). The corresponding l-methyl-4,5-dicarboxylic acid loses the 4-carboxyl group when heated with acetic anhydride, but in boiling aniline it is transformed into the 1-methyl-4-carboxanilide (79H(12)186). 

Syntheses of (2) and flOf were conveniently effected tScheme 4) starting from diethyl succinate (12) (28). The resultant dienolate (13). obtained by the action of two equivalent of lithium di-isopropylamide (29) gave on alkylation with methylenedioxybenzyl bromide in excellent yield a mixture of the ( )-ester (14) and meso-cster (15) which by alkaline hydrolysis yielded the dicarboxylic acid mixture (16) and (17). Without separation, this mixture on heating wih acetic anhydride gave the known /ron.r-dipiperonylsuccinic anhydride (18) (30). Reduction of (18) with lithium aluminium hydride gave ( )-dihydrocubebin Q), acetylation of which yielded ( )-ariensin (10). 

Hydrolysis of the ester functions of dimethyl 2,2-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)-277-naphtho[l,2-6]pyran-5,6-dicarboxylate and cyclisation of the resulting dicarboxylic acid yields the cyclic anhydride 51. Reduction affords a mixture of two isomeric furano-fused naphthopyrans. Treatment of the anhydride with primary amines provides a route to the corresponding pyrrole derivatives. Both types of hetero-fused naphthopyrans show a red shift relative to the starting naphthopyran diester and reduced half-lives <01 WOP32661>. 

Catalytic hydrogenation of the imide 24 (R = H) over palladium on charcoal results in partial reduction of the pyrazine ring to give the tetrahydro compound 37. The anomalous products 31 and 32 from the reaction of the anhydride of pyrazine-2,3-dicarboxylic acid and hydrazine were presumed to have been formed by reduction of the pyrazine ring by diimide. This could have been formed in situ by oxidation of hydrazine... 

The synthetic route to iV-aryl [3.2.2] cryptands 5a and 5b is shown in the Scheme. Starting from the A-aryl diethanolamine, reaction with two equivalents of chloro-acetic and /-BuOK in t-BuOH followed by conversion of the diacid to the diester for purification gave la and lb in yields of 49 and 25%, respectively. Subsequent acid-catalyzed hydrolysis produced the dicarboxylic acid amine hydrochlorides 2a and 2b quantitatively. Attempts to form the diacid chloride of 2a resulted in an unreactive deep blue-colored substance of unknown identity. Ring closure was effected by adaptation of a method from peptide synthesis [8]. Mixed anhydrides 3a and 3b formed by reaction with two equivalents of isobutyl chloroformate in the presence of triethylamine were cyclized with l,10-diaza-18-crown-6 in toluene to produce the corresponding cryptand diamides 4a and 4b in 36 and 32% yields, respectively. Reduction with borane-dimethyl sulfide in THF provided 74% yields of 5a and 5b. 

These results show that reduction of the multiple bonds takes place through trans-addition. By reduction of diphenylacetylene in dimethylformamide in the presence of carbon dioxide Wawzonek and Wearring [103] obtained diphenylfumaric acid, diphenylmaleic anhydride and meso-diphenylsuccinic acid in the proportions 2,5 1 7. If it is assumed that the meso acid is formed from fumaric acid, these results demonstrate the stereospecificity of the process, contrary to the assertions made by Wawzonek and Wearring [103], From phenanthrene in the presence of carbon dioxide they obtained trans- 9,10-dihydrophenanthrene-9,10-dicarboxylic acid. 

The last synthesis to evolve which is due to Ito and his coworkers is interesting in that it relies on a stereospecific skeletal rearrangement of a bicyclo[2.2.2]octane system which in turn was prepared by Diels-Alder methodology (Scheme XLVIII) Heating of a toluene solution of cyclopentene 1,2-dicarboxylic anhydride and 4-methylcyclohexa-l,4-dienyl methyl ether in the presence of a catalytic quantity of p-toluenesulfonic acid afforded 589. Demethylation was followed by reduction and cyclization to sulfide 590. Desulfurization set the stage for peracid oxidation and arrival at 591. Chromatography of this intermediate on alumina induced isomerization to keto alcohol 592. Jones oxidation afforded diketone 593 which had earlier been transformed into gymnomitrol. 

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