Dihydroxy-, preparation

Glycerol (i-monochlorohydrin, 2-chloru-trimelhylene glycol, 1,3-dihydroxy-2-chlorO propane, CH2 0H CHC1 CH2 0H. Colourless liquid b.p. 146"C/18mm. It is obtained in small amounts in the preparation of the x-chlorohydrin. 

The 9 — 15 fragment was prepared by a similar route. Once again Sharpless kinetic resolution method was applied, but in the opposite sense, i.e., at 29% conversion a mixture of the racemic olefin educt with the virtually pure epoxide stereoisomer was obtained. On acid-catalysed epoxide opening and lactonization the stereocentre C-12 was inverted, and the pure dihydroxy lactone was isolated. This was methylated, protected as the acetonide, reduced to the lactol, protected by Wittig olefination and silylation, and finally ozonolysed to give the desired aldehyde. 

Anthralin [1143-38-0] is acetylated using acetyl chloride in toluene and a pyridine catalyst to furnish 1,8-dihydroxy-lO-acetylanthrone [3022-61-5], an intermediate in the preparation of medications used in treating skin disorders, such as warts, psoriasis, and acne (38). Sugar esters can be similarly prepared from acetyl chloride under anhydrous conditions (39). 

Misoprostil. Also known as Cytotec [59122 6-2] C22H2gO, (a 1 1 mixture of (+/ —) methyl-ll-alpha,16-dihydroxy-16-methyl-9-oxoprost-13E-en-l-oate) (7), this agent is a light yellow liquid that is soluble in water. The methods for preparation are available (8). 

Derivatives. Oxidation of pyrogaHol trimethyl ether with nitric acid, followed by reduction ia acetic anhydride and treatment of the product with aluminum chloride, affords 3,6-dihydroxy-2,4-dimethoxyacetophenone (228). 3,4,5-Trimethoxyphenol (antiarol) has been prepared by treatment of... 

As a variation on the base-catalyzed nucleopbilic displacement chemistry described, polysulfones and other polyarylethers have been prepared by cuprous chloride-catalyzed polycondensation of aromatic dihydroxy compounds with aromatic dibromo compounds. The advantage of this route is that it does not require that the aromatic dibromo compound be activated by an electron-withdrawing group such as the sulfone group. Details of this polymerization method, known as the Ullmaim synthesis, have been described (8). 

The discovery that vitamin was metabolized to biologically active derivatives led to a significant effort to prepare 25-hydroxy vitamin and, subsequendy, the 1 a-hydroxy and 1,25 dihydroxy derivatives. Initial attempts centered around modification of steroidal precursors, which were then converted to the D derivatives by conventional means. 

Polycarbonates. Polyarjiates are aromatic polyesters commonly prepared from aromatic dicarboxylic acids and diphenols. One of the most important polyarylates is polycarbonate, a polyester of carbonic acid. Polycarbonate composite is extensively used in the automotive industry because the resin is a tough, corrosion-resistant material. Polycarbonates (qv) can be prepared from aUphatic or aromatic materials by two routes reaction of a dihydroxy compound with phosgene accompanied by Hberation ofHCl(eq. 5) ... 

Dihydroxy-4,8-dinitroanthraquiaone [128-91 -6] (54) is an important dye precursor for Cl Disperse Blue 56, and is prepared from... 

Only the potentially 2,4-dihydroxy derivatives of furan and thiophene are known and these exist in the solid state and in polar solvents as the monoenols (82) (71T3839). However, in non-polar solvents the furan derivatives exist predominantly in the dioxo form (83). The 2,5-dioxo structure (84) is well established for X=0, NR, S and Se (71BSF3547) and there is no evidence for intervention of any enolic species. The formal tautomer (85) of succinimide has been prepared and is reasonably stable (62CI(L)1576). 

Bromoresorcinol has been prepared by the monobromination of resorcinol monobenzoate and subsequent hydrolysis, from 2-bromo-5-aminophenol by the diazo reaction, by treating resorcinol with dichlorourea and potassium bromide, and by the bromination of 2,4-dihydroxy benzoic acid followed by decarboxylation. The above procedure is based particularly upon the observations of Rice. ... 

A third synthesis which has resulted in the preparation of rieinine and a number of its derivatives is due to Schroeter, Seidler, Sulzbacher and Kanitz,i2 who foimd that cyanoacetyl chloride polymerises spontaneously to 6-chloro-2 4-dihydroxy-3-cyano-pyridine. The di-sodium derivative of this with methyl sulphate produces A -methyl-6-chloro-4-hydroxy-3-cyano-2-pyridone (6-chlororicininic acid), the mono-sodium derivative of which, with methyl bromide or sulphate, is converted into 6-chlororicinine and the latter is reduced by zinc and sulphuric acid to rieinine. A fourth synthesis, starting from 3-nitro-4-pyridone, is due to Reitmann. ... 

Orthoesters (e.g., methyl orthoacetate) have also been prepared by acid-catalyzed exchange with trimethyl orthoesters, from 16a,17a-dihydroxy-pregnanes with or without a 21-hydroxyl substituent. 

The oxa-Pictet-Spengler reaction has been used with success to prepare dihydrofurano[2,3-c]pyrans and isochromans from l-(3-furyl)alkan-2-ols and 2-(3 ,4 -dihydroxy)phenylethanol, respectively. Furanyl alcohol 32 reacted with isobutyraldehyde 33 in the presence of p-toluenesulfonic acid to give the corresponding CI5-5,7-diisopropyl 4,5-dihydro-7H-furano[2,3-c]pyran 34 in good yield. ... 

This synthesis is thus suitable preparing 6,7-dihydroxy derivatives (substituted 8-azaxanthines). However, with regard to the 1- or... 

Dichloroquinazolines have been prepared from the corresponding 2,4-dihydroxy compounds by heating for a few hours with phosphorus oxychloride in the presence of dimethyl aniline or phosphorus penta-chloride. These are more stable than the monochloro compounds and can be distilled in vacuum without appreciable decomposition. 

Fusion of 4-hydroxyquinazoIine with phosphorus pentasulfide yields 4-mercaptoquinazoline and, similarly, substituted 2,4-dimercapto-quinazolines have been obtained from the corresponding dihydroxy compounds. The greater reactivity of the 4-mercapto as compared with the 2-mercapto group has permitted the preparation of 4-amino-2-mercaptoquinazolines (see 7a). 

Tetraazafulvalenes bearing two pyrazole subunits could be prepared by an original way. Tlius, treatment of benzylidene acetophenone with iso-pentylnitrite leads to an A, A -dihydroxy-bipyrazolyl-A, A -oxide, which in turn can be oxidized to TAF of type 100 (72CC961, 79JOC3211). Another type of oxidative dimerization was observed by the reaction of the electron-rich l-methyl-2,4-bis(dimethylamino)imidazole with silver salts (83TL3563). A bis-cation was isolated in 30% yield in the presence of sodium tetrafluo-roborate an unsymmetrical structure 101 was predicted from its NMR data (Scheme 40). 

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