1.4- Dicarboxylic acids oxidative decarboxylation

Fumaroyl chloride is a useful acetylene equivalent in the Diels-Alder reaction. After hydrolysis of the adduct to the dicarboxylic acid, oxidative decarboxylation serves to generate the olefin double bond. 

The oxidative bisdecarboxylation of a,/3-dicarboxylic acids is usually carried out with lead tetraacetate and pyridine, in benzene or acetonitrile as solvent, at 50-60° [procedure of Grob (1,554-555)]. However, these conditions are reported2 to be unsuccessful in some cases, for example with (1) (1,4-dimethoxycarbonyl-bicyclo[2.2.2]octane-2,3-dicarboxylic acid). The decarboxylation, however, is successful in refluxing benzene (45% yield)3 or can be conducted at room temperature in comparable yield if dimethyl sulfoxide or dioxane is used as solvent.4... 

Scheme 13.13. A set of oxidative reactions on quinoline and isoquinoline from which dicar-boxylic acids are initially obtained. Both pyridine-2,3-dicarboxylic acid and pyridine-3,4-dicarboxylic acid undergo decarboxylation to pyridine-3-carboxlyic acid.The latter is identical to the acid obtained on oxidation of nicotine. After Skraup, Z. H. Cobenzl, A. Monatsh. C/tem.,1883,7,436.

Regioselectivity of C—C double bond formation can also be achieved in the reductiv or oxidative elimination of two functional groups from adjacent carbon atoms. Well estab llshed methods in synthesis include the reductive cleavage of cyclic thionocarbonates derivec from glycols (E.J. Corey, 1968 C W. Hartmann, 1972), the reduction of epoxides with Zn/Nal or of dihalides with metals, organometallic compounds, or Nal/acetone (seep.lS6f), and the oxidative decarboxylation of 1,2-dicarboxylic acids (C.A. Grob, 1958 S. Masamune, 1966 R.A. Sheldon, 1972) or their r-butyl peresters (E.N. Cain, 1969). 

The best way to make pyrimidine in quantity is from 1,1,3,3-tetraethoxypropane (or other such acetal of malondialdehyde) and formamide, by either a continuous (58CB2832) or a batch process (57CB942). Other practical ways to make small amounts in the laboratory are thermal decarboxylation of pyrimidine-4,6-dicarboxylic acid (744), prepared by oxidation of 4,6-dimethylpyrimidine (59JCS525), or hydrogenolysis of 2,4-dichloropyrimidine over palladium-charcoal in the presence of magnesium oxide (53JCS1646). 

The degradation of more complex substances can be regarded as another route to pteridine derivatives. Already in 1895 tolualloxazine was oxidized by alkaline permanganate to lumazine-6,7-dicarboxylic acid, and further heating led in a stepwise decarboxylation to lumazine (3) (1895CB1970). 

Pyridine 210 is oxidized by 20% nitric acid at the acetyl group to 2-methyl-5-pyridinecarboxylic acid, while its ozonation gives cinchomeronic acid [pyridine-2,5-dicarboxylic acid (215)] (75DIS) which is decarboxylated (200°C, 2 h) to nicotinic acid 216 in 97% yield (75DIS). 

Electrophilic substitution of the ring hydrogen atom in 1,3,4-oxadiazoles is uncommon. In contrast, several reactions of electrophiles with C-linked substituents of 1,3,4-oxadiazole have been reported. 2,5-Diaryl-l,3,4-oxadiazoles are bromi-nated and nitrated on aryl substituents. Oxidation of 2,5-ditolyl-l,3,4-oxadiazole afforded the corresponding dialdehydes or dicarboxylic acids. 2-Methyl-5-phenyl-l,3,4-oxadiazole treated with butyllithium and then with isoamyl nitrite yielded the oxime of 5-phenyl-l,3,4-oxadiazol-2-carbaldehyde. 2-Chloromethyl-5-phenyl-l,3,4-oxadiazole under the action of sulfur and methyl iodide followed by amines affords the respective thioamides. 2-Chloromethyl-5-methyl-l,3,4-oxadia-zole and triethyl phosphite gave a product, which underwent a Wittig reation with aromatic aldehydes to form alkenes. Alkyl l,3,4-oxadiazole-2-carboxylates undergo typical reactions with ammonia, amines, and hydrazines to afford amides or hydrazides. It has been shown that 5-amino-l,3,4-oxadiazole-2-carboxylic acids and their esters decarboxylate. 

Bipyridine was first prepared in 1888 by the dry distillation of the copper salt of picolinic acid. This method and modifications give low yields of 2,2 -bipyridine. Another old method Involves oxidation of 1,10-phenanthrbline (28) to 2,2 -bipyridine-3,3 -dicarboxylic acid (29) by alkaline permanganate, followed by decarboxylation. This... 

Bipyridine was first prepared one hundred years ago by the permanganate oxidation of 1,7-phenanthroline (42) to the dicarboxylic acid 43, followed by decarboxylation. Modifications of this method have been used. 2,3 -Bipyridine is among the products obtained from... 

Bipyridine (4) was first prepared in 1883 by the permanganate oxidation of 4,7-phenanthroline, followed by decarboxylation of the resultant dicarboxylic acid. Chromium trioxide may be used in the oxidation step. This method, sometimes with modifications, has been used on several occasions to prepare 3,3 -bipyridine and substituted 3,3 -bipyridines from the appropriate 4,7-phenanthroline " or 5,6-dihydro-4,7-phenanthroline. Closely related syntheses include the formation of... 

Methyl-3,3 -bipyridine has been oxidized by permanganate to 3,3 -bi-pyridine-4-carboxylic acid. " 3,3 -Bipyridine carboxylic acids are easily decarboxylated and have been esterified and converted to amides, hydrazides, and acylazides. The Hofmann degradation, of the diamide of 3,3 -bipyridine-2,2 -dicarboxylic acid affords the expected 2,2 -diamino-3,3 -bipyridine, but some of the tricyclic system 108 is formed as well. A 2,2 -bis(acylazide) is converted to a similar tricyclic system with ethanol via the intermediate isocyanate, and several related reactions have been described. The simultaneous dehydration... 

The photochemical and thermal stabilities of Ru complexes have been investigated in detail [8,153-156]. For example, it has been reported that the NCS ligand of the N3 dye, cri-Ru(II)(dcbpy)2(NCS)2 (dcbpy = 2,2 -bipyridyl-4,4 -dicarboxylic acid), is oxidized to produce a cyano group (—CN) under irradiation in methanol solution. It was measured by both ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) absorption spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) [8,153]. In addition, the intensity of the infrared (IR) absorption peak attributed to the NCS ligand starts to decrease at 135°C, and decarboxylation of N3 dyes occurs at temperatures above 180°C [155]. Desorption of the dye from the 2 surface has been observed at temperatures above 200°C. 

Nevertheless, malonyl-CoA is a major metabolite. It is an intermediate in fatty acid synthesis (see Fig. 17-12) and is formed in the peroxisomal P oxidation of odd chain-length dicarboxylic acids.703 Excess malonyl-CoA is decarboxylated in peroxisomes, and lack of the decarboxylase enzyme in mammals causes the lethal malonic aciduria.703 Some propionyl-CoA may also be metabolized by this pathway. The modified P oxidation sequence indicated on the left side of Fig. 17-3 is used in green plants and in many microorganisms. 3-Hydroxypropionyl-CoA is hydrolyzed to free P-hydroxypropionate, which is then oxidized to malonic semialdehyde and converted to acetyl-CoA by reactions that have not been completely described. Another possible pathway of propionate metabolism is the direct conversion to pyruvate via a oxidation into lactate, a mechanism that may be employed by some bacteria. Another route to lactate is through addition of water to acrylyl-CoA, the product of step a of Fig. 17-3. Tire water molecule adds in the "wrong way," the OH ion going to the a carbon instead of the P (Eq. 17-8). An enzyme with an active site similar to that of histidine ammonia-lyase (Eq. 14-48) could... 

It is shown that low-temperature liquid-phase oxidation of resinous acids, their salts and dicarboxylic acids, as well as their mixtures with hydrocarbons is accompanied by decarboxylation, the latter not proceeding in the absence of oxidation. The chemical conjugation mechanism in decarboxylation becomes of importance, associated with the production of fatty acids and organics oxidation. 

The C8 aldehyde ester may be produced by cleavage of the 9-hydroperoxide of ethyl llnoleate followed by terminal hydroperoxidation. Further oxidation would produce the corresponding dicarboxylic acid which upon decarboxylation would give rise to ethyl heptanoate. The 8-alkoxy radical may also decompose to give the C7 alkyl radical, which would yield ethyl heptanoate or form a terminal hydroperoxide, and so on. Polymerization, both intra- and intermolecular, is also a major reaction in high temperature oxidation. Combination of alkyl, alkoxy, and peroxy radicals yields a variety of dimeric and polymeric compounds with C-O-C or C-O-O-C crosslinks. 

Synthetic and degradative use has been made in several instances of the easy decarboxylation of phenanthridine-6-carboxylio acids.30, 80, 324 The corresponding iV-oxide is decarboxylated by heating in aqueous sulfuric acid.77 Phenanthridine-3,8-dicarboxylic acids are more resistant to decarboxylation, which can be achieved (in poor yield) by heating with copper powder in quinoline.194 The usual carboxyl derivative inter con versions (esterification, amide formation, ester and amide hydrolyses, etc.) proceed normally with both phenanthridine-6-carboxylic acid and its A-oxide,77, 232, 352 although an unsuccessful attempt to prepare 6-acetylphenanthridine from the acid with methyllithium has been reported.232... 

Pyrazinecarboxylic acid has been obtained by selenious acid oxidation in pyridine of methylpyrazine or aqueous permanganate oxidation of ethylpyrazine, in yields of 64 and 48%, respectively.171,218 It has also been obtained in 70% yield by partial decarboxylation of pyrazine-2,3-dicarboxylic acid on heating in vacuo at 210°.219 Aqueous permanganate oxidation of 2,5-distyrylpyrazine gives the 2,5-dicarboxylic acid.220 Pyrazine-2,5-dicarboxylic acid has also been prepared in 45% yield by direct carboxylation of pyrazine with carbon dioxide at 50 atm pressure at 250° for 3 hours in the presence of a potassium carbonate and calcium fluoride catalyst.221 Pyrazine-tricarboxylic acid (57), obtainable in only very poor yields by oxidation of 2,5-dimethyl-3-ethylpyrazine, is prepared in 87% yield by alkaline permanganate oxidation of 2-(D-arabo)tetrahydroxybutyl-quinoxaline (56).222 Decarboxylation of the tricarboxylic acid by... 

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