Glyoxalate esters

Preparation of the key tropine is achieved by any one of several variations on the method first developed by Robinson, which involves reaction of a primary amine with dihydroxyacetone and glyoxal. Reduction of the carbonyl group in the product (86) followed by acylation affords the aminoester (88). Transesterification with ester aldehyde 89... 

Polyvinyl alcohols may be applied as such or in crosslinked form [90]. Crosslinkers can be aldehydes (e.g., formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, glyoxal, glutaraldehyde), to form acetals, maleic acid or oxalic acid to form cross-linked ester bridges, or others (e.g., dimethylurea, polyacrolein, diisocyanate, divinyl sulfonate) [89,91]. 

Conversion of ketone 80 to the enol silane followed by addition of lithium aluminum hydride to the reaction mixture directly provides the allylic alcohol 81 [70]. Treatment of crude allylic alcohol 81 with tert-butyldimethylsilyl chloride followed by N-b ro m o s u cc i n i m i de furnishes the a-bromoketone 82 in 84 % yield over the two-step sequence from a.p-unsaturated ester 80. Finally, a one-pot Komblum oxidation [71] of a-bromoketone 82 is achieved by way of the nitrate ester to deliver the glyoxal 71. It is worth noting that the sequence to glyoxal 71 requires only a single chromatographic purification at the second to last step (Scheme 5.10). 

Glyoxal-sodium bisulfite, 30, 86 Glyoxylic acid, w-butyl ester, 35, 18 ethyl ester, diethyl acetal, 35, 59 Grignard reaction, addition to ethyl sec-butylidenecyanoacetate, 35, 7 allylmagnesium bromide with of,(3-di-bromoethyl ethyl ether, 36, 61 allylmagnesium chloride with a,/3-di-bromoethyl ethyl ether, 36, 63 ethylmagnesium bromide with tin tetrachloride, 36, 86... 

Glutaronitrile, 3-hydroxy-, 46, 48 Glycerol chlorohydrin, 46, 24 Glycine (-butyl ester, 45, 47 conversion to acetamidoacetone, 45,1 Glyoxal, phenyl-, 48,109 Glyoxals from esters and the potassium salt of dimethyl sulfoxide, 48, 112... 

An interesting example of the effectiveness of different reagents for 0-nitration can be seen during the synthesis of neo-inositol-based nitrate ester explosives. l,4-Dideoxy-l,4-dinitro-neo-inositol (15), a compound readily prepared from the condensation of nitromethane and glyoxal in the presence of base,undergoes conversion to the tetranitrate ester (16) on... 

Hinsburg first reported that various a-dicarbonyl compounds (256) condensed with thiodiglycolic esters in the presence of alcoholic sodium ethoxide to give various substituted thiophene-2,5-dicarboxylic esters (257). R1 and R2 in (256) could be H, OH, alkyl, OR, aryl or carboxyl groups o-quinones will also condense. If the condensation is carried out in aqueous alcohol, as is the case when glyoxal (256 R1 = R2 = H) is used, the thiophene-2,5-dicarboxylic acid is isolated directly. Pyruvic acid gives the half-ester of (257 R1 = Me, R2 = OH). The earlier work has been reviewed (52HC(3)l). 

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