Diels-Alder reaction fumaric compounds

Removal of maleic and fumaric acids from the cmde malononitrile by fractional distillation is impractical because the boiling points differ only slightly. The impurities are therefore converted into high boiling compounds in a conventional reactor by means of a Diels-Alder reaction with a 1,3-diene. The volatile and nonvolatile by-products are finally removed by two vacuum distillations. The by-products are burned. The yield of malononitrile amounts to 66% based on cyanogen chloride or acetonitrile. 

Sorbic acid is oxidized rapidly in the presence of molecular oxygen or peroxide compounds. The decomposition products indicate that the double bond farthest from the carboxyl group is oxidized (11). More complete oxidation leads to acetaldehyde, acetic acid, fumaraldehyde, fumaric acid, and polymeric products. Sorbic acid undergoes Diels-Alder reactions with many dienophiles and undergoes self-dimerization, which leads to eight possible isomeric Diels-Alder stmctures (12). 

In the fused compounds (241) and (242) the furan ring fails to react as a diene and Diels-Alder reaction with dienophiles occurs on the terminal carbocyclic rings. However, (243) and (244) afford monoadducts with dimethyl fumarate by addition to the furan rings (70JA972). The rates of reaction (Table 2) of a number of dehydroannuleno[c]furans with maleic anhydride, which yield fully conjugated dehydroannulenes of the exo type (247), have been correlated with the aromaticity or antiaromaticity of the products (76JA6052). It was assumed that the transition state for the reactions resembled products to some extent, and the relative rates therefore are a measure of the resonance energy of the products. The reaction of the open-chain compound (250), which yields the adduct (251), was taken as a model. Hence the dehydro[4 + 2]annulenes from (246) and (249) are stabilized compared to (251), and the dehydro[4 ]annulenes from (245) and (248) are destabilized (Scheme 84). 

Recently175 fourteen products were separated chromatographically and identified from the reaction of indole with DMAD in the absence of solvent. All were explained as arising from the fumarate 255, which was isolated, or the maleate 256 which was not. These compounds could undergo Diels-Alder reactions with DMAD to yield 265 and 267, respectively, which were not isolated, but on aromatization both would give the carbazole 266, which was the major product obtained. The main product from the fumarate 255 with DMAD is, in fact, 266,... 

In search for control of absolute stereochemistry, the reaction of thio-chalcones was investigated with unsaturated amides bearing an Evans chiral oxazolidinone [223] and dimenthyl fumarate [224, 225]. For the first time with thiocarbonyl compounds, the efficiency of Lewis acid addition was demonstrated, and reactions could be conducted at room temperature. With EtAlCl2 (Table 4, entry 2) or A1C13 (entry 3), levels of induction up to 92% were attained for the endo isomer. Yb(OTf)3 in DMSO also caused the acceleration of the reaction with chiral acrylamides with p-facial selectivity [226]. This group has also reported [227] an intramolecular hetero Diels-Alder reaction with divinyl thioketones and the double bond of an allyloxy group (Table 4, entry 4). 

A chiral diol was obtained from the asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction of anthracene with dimen-thyl fumarate (see Section 3.5.1. for the dienophile) in 99% ee (for details on this reaction, see ref 17). Conversion of the diol to the crown ether 13 was achieved with pentaethyleneglycol ditosylate and potassium hydroxide18. As for the other crown ethers discussed here, the compound has been used as a catalyst in enantioselective Michael additions (Section D. 1.5.2.1.). 

Extrusion of sulfur dioxide from oxidized thiophene derivatives is an exceptional method to prepare cis-dienes as components for Diels-Alder reactions. An example of this approach utilizes the Diels-Alder reactivity of the furan ring in substituted 4//,6ff-thieno[3,4-c]furan-3,S-dioxides to react with a variety of dienophiles such as DMAD, dimethyl maleate and dimethyl fumarate which then lose SO2 to form another reactive diene (Eq. 17) <94H961>. A review of the preparation and use of 4i/,6f/-thieno[3,4-c]furan-S,5-dioxides as well as other heteroaromatic-fused 3-suIfolenes is report <94H1417>. The preparation of dihydrothienooxazole 80 requires the careful control of the reaction time and temperature as well as the reactants molar ratio <94JOC2241>. Specific control of the alkylation conditions for 81 (X = COCH3) allows for the preparation of either 1,4-disubstituted or 1,6-disubstituted 4, 6//-thieno[3,4-c]furan-S,S-dioxides. These molecules could be used as intermediates for the preparation of novel pentacyclic compounds <94JCS(P1)1371>. 

The 18 n-electron system furo[3,4-c]octalene (356) is available by a Wittig reaction starting from cyclooctatetraene-1,2-dicarboxaldehyde it is obtained as an unstable pale yellow liquid, which is rapidly oxidized in air. The electronic spectrum resembles that of 353, showing little extended conjugation. Compound 356 underwent Diels-Alder addition at the terminal cyclooctatetraene ring thus treatment with dimethyl fumarate leads to monoadduct 357. ... 

Glovsky et al. observed an anticomplementary activity for levopimaric acid (45), a derivative of abietic acid, and prepared a number of synthetic derivatives such as maleopimaric acid (46) and fumaropimaric acid (47), being Diels-Alder substitution products of levopimaric acid v ith maleic anhydride or fumaric acid, respectively [28, 29]. Maleic acid is cis-butenedioic acid, fumaric acid is trans-butenedioic acid. Maleopimaric acid inhibited complement-mediated haemolysis via classical path-way activation (45% inhibition at a concentration of 500 iM), Fumaropimaic acid inhibited in vivo complement-dependent systemic Frossman, cutaneous Frossman, and reverse passive Arthus reactions. These pimaric acid derivatives have already been included in earlier reviews on complement-active compounds [8, 30]. The... 

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