Diethyl malonate enolate derived from

Most of the reactions of ester enolates described so far have centered on stabilized eno lates derived from 1 3 dicarbonyl compounds such as diethyl malonate and ethyl ace toacetate Although the synthetic value of these and related stabilized enolates is clear chemists have long been interested m extending the usefulness of nonstabilized enolates derived from simple esters Consider the deprotonation of an ester as represented by the acid—base reaction... 

In its original form, the Michael addition consisted on the addition of diethyl malonate across the double bond of ethyl cinnamate in the presence of sodium ethoxide to afford a substituted pentanedioic acid ester. Currently, all reactions that involve a 1,4-addition of stabilized carbon nucleophiles to activated 7i-systems are known as Michael additions. Among the various reactants, enolates derived from p-dicarbonyl compounds are substrates of choice due to their easy deprotonation under mild conditions. Recently, Michael addition-based MCRs emerged as highly potential methodologies for the synthesis of polysubstituted heterocycles in the five- to seven-membered series. 

Recently, Smulik and Vedejs have reported that amination of ester enolates and enim-inates with 0-(p-nitrobenzoyl)hydroxylamine 21 takes place with good yields . However, reaction of enolates derived from ethyl phenylacetate and phenylacetonitrile gave lower yields compared with stabilized enolates derived from diethyl malonate, diethyl 2-phenylmalonate and 2-phenyl-2-cyanopropionate (Scheme 23). 

One of the first examples of addition of a zinc enolate to an alkyne was a report dealing with the zinc or cadmium stearate-catalyzed addition of substituted malonates to acetylene under pressure250. Later, Schultze described the intermolecular nucleophilic addition of the zinc enolate derived from diethyl bromomalonate to phenylacetylene in refluxing xylene leading to the alkylidene malonate 392 (equation 171)251. 

The enolate derived from diethyl malonate reacts with a variety of electrophiles (not just alkyl halides) to form new carbon-... 

The preparation of diethyl benzoylmalonate (entry 12) represents the use of an acid anhydride, a function in which it is much more reactive than an ester, as the acylating agent. The reaction must be carried out in nonnucleophilic solvents to prevent solvolysis of the anhydride from competing with the desired reaction. Other limitations on the use of highly reactive acylating agents, such as acid anhydrides and acid chlorides, in reactions with enolates derive from the fact that O-acylation may be the dominant reaction. The magnesium salt of diethyl malonate (entries 12 and... 

The conjugate addition of an enolate to an a,/ -unsaturated carbonyl compound is called the Michael reaction or Michael addition. A good example is the following, where an enolate derived from diethyl malonate reacts with methyl vinyl ketone. 

The reaction of diethyl malonate (90) with sodium hydride generates enolate anion 91 as the conjugate base, and hydrogen gas is the conjugate acid. It has the three resonance contributors shown in the illustration, although 91A has the highest concentration of electron density, and 91 will react as a carbanion nucleophile. There is one extra resonance form in the malonate enolate anion relative to a simple ester due to the second carbonyl unit, and it means that 91 is more stable than the enolate derived from a monoester. In part, this accounts for the enhanced acidity and easier formation of the enolate anion using a weaker base. Once formed, 91 is a carbon nucleophile and it will react with both aldehydes and ketones, as well as with other esters. 

The Michael reaction is an alkylation in which carbanions, such as the enolates derived from (3-diketones, p-keto esters, and diethyl malonate, react with a,p-unsaturated ketones by conjugate addition. The a,p-unsaturated ketone serves the same kind of electrophilic role that alkyl halides do toward the enolate. 

Alkyl halides are converted to carboxylic acids by reaction with the enolate derived from diethyl malonate, followed by saponification and decarboxylation. 

Stabilized anions exhibit a pronounced tendency to undergo conjugate addition to a p unsaturated carbonyl compounds This reaction called the Michael reaction has been described for anions derived from p diketones m Section 18 13 The enolates of ethyl acetoacetate and diethyl malonate also undergo Michael addition to the p carbon atom of a p unsaturated aldehydes ketones and esters For example... 

Section 21 7 The malonic ester synthesis is related to the acetoacetic ester synthesis Alkyl halides (RX) are converted to carboxylic acids of the type RCH2COOH by reaction with the enolate ion derived from diethyl mal onate followed by saponification and decarboxylation... 

Section 21 9 Michael addition of the enolate ions derived from ethyl acetoacetate and diethyl malonate provides an alternative method for preparing their a alkyl derivatives... 

The malonic ester synthesis is similar to the acetoacetic ester synthesis. It begins with deprotonation of diethyl malonate (pKa = 11) to produce an enolate anion that is the synthetic equivalent of the enolate anion derived from acetic acid ... 

The reaction may be performed in one stage by preparing the trichloro-methylsulfenamido heterocycle in situ in the presence of an aromatic amine l,2,4-thiadiazolo[4,3-a]pyridine derivatives (152), for example, have been produced in this way.139 Suitable enolate ions, e.g., acetylacetone or diethyl malonate, give rise to compounds of type 155,140 probably by the successive displacement (from 151) of a chloride ion, loss of hydrogen chloride, and cyclization of the resulting a,/)-unsaturated intermediate 154 by a Michael-... 

In the late nineteenth century, Michael found that the enolate anion (46) derived from diethyl malonate reacts with ethyl acrylate at the P-carbon (as shown in the illustration) to give an enolate anion, 47, as the product. Remember from Chapter 22 (Section 22.7.4) that the a-proton of a 1,3-dicarbonyl compound such as diethyl malonate is rather acidic (pK of about 11), and even a relatively weak base will deprotonate to form the enolate anion. Michael addition of 46 with ethyl acrylate will give enolate anion 47, and aqueous acid workup leads to the isolated product, 48. Attack at the -carbon is possible because that carbon is less hindered than the acyl carbon, so reaction at the C=C unit is somewhat faster than attack at the acyl carbon. Michael addition occurs with relatively stable carbanion nucleophiles, such as malonate derivative 46 and some other common nucleophiles. Other conjugated carbonyl derivatives react similarly. 

SO that was the required nucleophile (the enolate of acetic acid synthon is derived from diethyl malonate). The benzylic carbon must have been the electrophile this can be achieved as an alkyl halide (benzyl bromide). An FGl of the alkyl halide concludes the retrosynthesis by working back to the given starting material (toluene). 

Rather than pyridine or ammonia, bases such as sodium hydride or sodium ethoxide can be used to generate a malonate enolate anion. Such enolates are easier to control, from a synthetic viewpoint, and allow a wider range of reactions. For this reason, they are collected into this section. An example is the reaction of the sodium enolate of diethyl 2-methylmalonate with the bromine moiety in phthalimide derivative 4.42. This displacement reaction was followed by removal of the phthalimidoyl group, hydrolysis of the esters and decarboxylation to give 2-methyl-6-aminohexanoic acid (4.4J),23 Phthalimide 4.42 was prepared by reaction of 1,4-dibromobutane with potassium phthalimide.23 The length of the carbon chain in the... 

Nitration of Active Methylene Carbons. Active methylene carbons are nitrated by a number of reagents.With nitric acid the nitration of /S-diketones can be achieved (eq 7). Nitration of diethyl malonate provides diethyl nitromalonate in 92% yield. a-Nitro ketones are obtained by nitration of ketones or enol acetates with the reagent derived from nitric acid and acetic anhydride in moderate to good yields (eq 8). ... 

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