Dimethyl acetal preparation

Amino-pyridazines and -pyridazinones react with monomethyl- or iV,A-dimethyl-formamide and other aliphatic amides in the presence of phosphorus trichloride, thionyl chloride, phosgene or benzenesuUonyl chloride to give mono- or di-alkylaminomethyl-eneamino derivatives. The same compounds can be prepared conveniently with A,iV-dimethylformamide dimethyl acetal in high yield (Scheme 50). 

N-Alkylations, especially of oxo-di- and tetra-hydro derivatives, e.g. (28)->(29), have been carried out readily using a variety of reagents such as (usual) alkyl halide/alkali, alkyl sulfate/alkali, alkyl halide, tosylate or sulfate/NaH, trialkyloxonium fluoroborate and other Meerwein-type reagents, alcohols/DCCI, diazoalkanes, alkyl carbonates, oxalates or malon-ates, oxosulfonium ylides, DMF dimethyl acetal, and triethyl orthoformate/AcjO. Also used have been alkyl halide/lithium diisopropylamide and in one case benzyl chloride on the thallium derivative. In neutral conditions 8-alkylation is observed and preparation of some 8-nucleosides has also been reported (78JOC828, 77JOC997, 72JOC3975, 72JOC3980). 

MeOH, LaCl3, (MeO)3CH, 25°, 10 min, 80-100% yield/ Dimethyl acetals can be prepared efficlenlly under neutral conditions by catalysis with lanthanoid halides, but the results of the reaction with ketones are unpredictable. 

The dimethyl acetal (94) is readily prepared from the 22-aldehyde (93) by direct reaction with methanol in the presence of hydrogen chloride. Ena-mines (95) are formed without a catalyst even with the poorly reactive piperidine and morpholine.Enol acetates (96) are prepared by refluxing with acetic anhydride-sodium acetate or by exchange with isopropenyl acetate in pyridine.Reaction with acetic anhydride catalyzed by boron trifluoride-etherate or perchloric acid gives the aldehyde diacetate. 

For primary amides DMF dimethyl acetal, MeOH, 92-100% yield. The methyl ester is formed, but if MeOH is replaced with another alcohol, other esters can be prepared with similar efficiency. 

The Gassman process has also been applied to the preparation of indoles which are devoid of a substituent at the 2 position. For example, indolization of aniline 5 with methylthioacetaldehyde 25 or methylthioacetaldehyde dimethyl acetal 26 furnished indole 27 however, a higher yield was obtained when the acetal 26 was employed. ... 

Toward the end of the 19 century both Pomeranz and Fritsch independently reported the preparation of isoquinolines by the reaction of aminoacetaldehyde dimethyl acetal 2 (R = Me) with aromatic aldehydes 1 followed by cyclisation in acidic media. " Unfortunately yields were often poor and not always reproducible. This has prompted the search for various improvements and modifications on the original theme, including the use of reagents other than strong mineral acid which tends to destroy the intermediate imine. ... 

In the preparation of the thiazides containing more highly functionalized side chains (183-185), an acetal of the aldehyde is usually used rather than the free carbonyl compound. Thus, trichlomethiazide (183) is prepared by reaction of 160 with the dimethyl acetal from dichloroacetaldehyde. In a similar vein, alkylation of the acetalthiol, 190, with allyl bromide affords 191. This yields altizide (184) on condensation with 160. Alkylation of 190 with 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl iodide gives 192. This leads to epithiazide (185) on condensation with 160. 

In 1970, it was disclosed that it is possible to achieve the conversion of dimethylformamide cyclic acetals, prepared in one step from vicinal diols, into alkenes through thermolysis in the presence of acetic anhydride." In the context of 31, this two-step process performs admirably and furnishes the desired trans alkene 33 in an overall yield of 40 % from 29. In the event, when diol 31 is heated in the presence of V, V-dimethylforrnamide dimethyl acetal, cyclic dimethylformamide acetal 32 forms. When this substance is heated further in the presence of acetic anhydride, an elimination reaction takes place to give trans olefin 33. Although the mechanism for the elimination step was not established, it was demonstrated in the original report that acetic acid, yV, V-dimethylacetamide, and carbon dioxide are produced in addition to the alkene product."... 

The amidines 10, prepared by condensation of the corresponding imidates with aminoacetal-dehyde dimethyl acetal, undergo cyclization with a variety of acids to l//-3-benzazcpin-2-amines 11 45 Method A has proved to be successful on an industrial scale. 

Fewer procedures have been explored recently for the synthesis of simple six-membered heterocycles by microwave-assisted MCRs. Libraries of 3,5,6-trisubstituted 2-pyridones have been prepared by the rapid solution phase three-component condensation of CH-acidic carbonyl compounds 44, NJ -dimethylformamide dimethyl acetal 45 and methylene active nitriles 47 imder microwave irradiation [77]. In this one-pot, two-step process for the synthesis of simple pyridones, initial condensation between 44 and 45 under solvent-free conditions was facilitated in 5 -10 min at either ambient temperature or 100 ° C by microwave irradiation, depending upon the CH-acidic carbonyl compound 44 used, to give enamine intermediate 46 (Scheme 19). Addition of the nitrile 47 and catalytic piperidine, and irradiation at 100 °C for 5 min, gave a library of 2-pyridones 48 in reasonable overall yield and high individual purities. 

The condensation between enaminones and cyanoacetamide is a well-established method for the synthesis of 2-pyridones (see c, Scheme 2, Sect. 2.1), and the use of malonodinitrile instead of the amide component has also been shown to yield 2-pyridones [39-41]. Recently, Gorobets et al. developed a microwave-assisted modification of this reaction suitable for combinatorial synthesis, as they set out to synthesize a small library of compounds containing a 2-pyridone scaffold substituted at the 3, 5, and 6-positions [42]. The 2-pyridones were prepared by a three-component, two-step reaction where eight different carbonyl building blocks were reacted with N,N-dimethylformamide dimethyl acetal (DMFDMA) to yield enaminones 7 (Fig. 2). The reactions were performed under solvent-free conditions at el-... 

Spirothiopyrans 45b including a benzopyrylium ring have been prepared in one step by condensation of 2-aminovinyl-3-formyl chromone-4-thione 47 with 1,2,3,3-tetramethylindolinium salts in ethanol (Scheme 25).90 The precursor 47 is prepared from 3-carboxymethylene-2-methyl-chromone-4-thione 48. First, oxidation of 48 with pyridinium dichromate in CH2C12, and then condensation with dimethyl formamide dimethyl acetal in benzene gave compound 47. 

Partly saturated pyrazino[l,2-r-]pyrimidines were prepared by formation of the pyrazine ring. 2-Substituted-8-hydroxy-3,4-dihydro-177,277-pyrazino[l,2-r-]pyrimidin-l-ones were prepared by a [6+0] synthesis involving cyclization of 6-hydroxy-pyrimidine-4-(fV-hydroxyethyl)carboxamides <2005W02005/087766>. The 2/7-pyra-zino[l,2-c]pyrimidine-3-carboxamide 164 (Y = NH) was formed from [5+1] atom fragments via the uracil derivative 163 (Y = NH) and DMF-dimethyl acetal. Compounds 163 were prepared from 6-chloromethyluracil and glycine methyl ester 162 (Y = NH) (Scheme 20) <2004W02004/014354>. 

Pyrazino[l,2-z]pyrimidine-6,8-dionc was prepared from [3+3] atom fragments by reacting 6-hydroxypyrimidine-4-carboxylic acid with 2-aminoacetaldehyde dimethyl acetal <2005W02005/016927>. 

C-Nucleoside analogue 464 of this ring system was prepared (86SC35) from 2,5-anhydro-3,4,6-tri-0-benzoyl-L-mannose dimethyl acetal 462 and 6-(2-aminophenyl)-3-methylthiotriazin-5(2//)-one 463 in the presence of acetic and hydrochloric acids. 

A ,A"-/i/. s,(dimcthylaminomcthylenc)thiourea (prepared by double condensation of AAY-dimethylformamide dimethyl acetal with thiourea) has been reacted with a-haloketones or acrylic dienophiles to give thiazolic and thiazinic diazadienes, respectively. These undergo cyclization reactions to yield imidazo[2,1-/ ][1,3] thiazoles, 5H-1,3-thiazolo[3,2-a]pyrimidines, 72/-imidazo[2,1 -/ ][ 1,3]thiazines and 2//,6//-pyrimido[2,l -/)][1,3]thiazines without any regioisomeric ambiguity (Scheme 61).144,145... 

The anodic oxidation of 7-MeO-CHT in MeOH results in the formation of benzalde-hyde dimethyl acetal through a ring contracting rearrangement, whereas 3-MeO-CHT and 1-MeO-CHT are prepared by thermal rearrangement of 7-MeO-CHT and afford 7,7-diMeO-CHT in 83% and 85% yields, respectively, upon the anodic oxidation. The hydrolysis of 7,7-diMeO-CHT in 5% aqueous H2SO4 gives tropone in 85% yield (equation 17). 

Numerous procedures for the preparation of butenolides have been developed. Font and coworkers (234-236) prepared the 5-O-substituted derivatives 223a-c of D-ribono-1,4-lactone. The cw-glycol system of223a reacted with ATjV-dimethylformamide dimethyl acetal and then with iodomethane to give the trimethylammonium methylidene intermediate 224. Pyrolysis of 224 gave the butenolide 225. 

Isopropylidene A/./V-dimethylaminomethylenemalonate (423, R = R1 = Me) was prepared in 77% yield when a solution of Meldrum s acid (421) in THF was added dropwise to a solution of DMF dimethyl acetal in THF over a period of 1 hr at 0-5°C in the presence of sodium methylate. The reaction mixture was then stirred for 17 hr (80SC661). 

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