Ethyl pyrazole-5-carboxylates

Syntheses of 4-amino-3,5-dinitropyrazoles were achieved from four different starting materials (14JHC1621). 1,3-Di-substituted pyrazoles 32 were smoothly synthesized from the copper-catalyzed cascade reactions of oxime acetates 31, aniline, and paraformaldehyde (14CC14793). Nitroallylic acetates 33 and N-tosylhydrazine underwent cascade regioselective reaction to give ethyl pyrazole-5-carboxylates 34 (14T795). 

Conversion of ethyl 5-chloropyrazole-4-carboxylate into 4-hydroxy-thieno[2,3-c] pyrazoles, via ethyl 5-(phenylcarbomoylmethylthio)-4-pyrazole carboxylate intermediates, has also been reported (72USP3649641). The reaction of disulfide 313 with nitromethane gives 314 (74TL4069). 

Solid-phase synthesis of substituted pyrazolones 550 from polymer-bound /3-keto esters 549 has been described (Scheme 68) <2001EJ01631>. Trisubstituted pyrazole carboxylic acids were prepared by reaction of polymer-bound arylidene- or alkylidene-/3-oxo esters with phenylhydrazines <1999S1961>. 2-(Pyrazol-l-yl)pyrimi-dine derivatives were prepared by cyclocondensation of ethyl acetoacetate and (6-methyl-4-oxo-3,4-dihydropyrimi-din-2-yl)hydrazine with aromatic aldehydes <2004RJC423>. Reactions of acylated diethyl malonates with hydrazine monohydrochloride in ethanol afforded 3,4-disubstituted-pyrazolin-5-ones <2002T3639>. Reactions of hydrazines with A -acetoacetyl derivatives of (45 )-4-benzyloxazolidin-2-one (Evans oxazolidinone) and (2R)-bornane-10,2-sultam (Oppolzer sultam) in very acidic media gave pyrazoles retaining the 3(5)-chiral moiety <1999S157>. 

A -methoxy-A -methyl-a-enaminoketoesters were employed as synthetic precursors for the regioselective condensations with hydrazines in a microwave-assisted synthesis of ethyl 1,5-disubstituted-4-pyrazole carboxylate derivatives <06OL3219>. Protected Af(r)-substituted (S)-3-(4-methoxycarbonyl-l//-pyrazol-5-yl)alanines were prepared by acid-catalyzed cyclocondensations of chiral enaminone, available from L-aspartic acid, with hydrazine hydrochlorides <06S2376>. 

We have already noted (Section 4.04.2.1.4(xi)) that alkyl groups on pyrazoles are oxidized with permanganate to carboxylic acids. Silver nitrate and ammonium persulfate transform 4-ethyl-1-methylpyrazole (436) into the ketone (437) (72JHC1373). The best yield was obtained starting with the alcohol (438) and using an acid dichromate solution as oxidizing agent. 

The molecular structure has so far been determined only for 3-(pyrazol-4-yl) propargyl alcohol (98M076) and 5-trimethylsilanyl-4-trimethylsilanylethynyl-l//-pyrazole-3-carboxylic acid ethyl ester (88JOM247). 

Pyrazoles can be synthesized by thermal cycloreversion of adducts formed in the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of alkyldiazoacetates with norbornadiene. The rate of the primary process of cycloaddition is accelerated by iron pentacarbonyl (Scheme 88)155 a similar catalytic effect has been observed during the formation of ethyl 5-phenyl-A2-pyrazoline-3-carboxylate from cycloaddition of ethyl diazoacetate and styrene.155 Reactions of this type are catalyzed presumably because of coordination of one or both reactants to the transition metal, and a wider study of the effect of a variety of complexes on 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition processes would be valuable. 

Similar ring systems were prepared <97JHC1693> by Coppo and Fawzi from the reaction of substituted ethyl 5-[methyl(methylsulfonyl)amino]-l 7/-pyrazole-4-carboxylates 119 with sodium hydride. This gave the 7-substitued 1,7-dihydro-l-methylpyrazolo[3,4-c][l, 2]thiazin-4(37/)-one 2,2-dioxides 120 in fair to good yield (Scheme 30). They also extended this synthesis by treating methyl 2-[methyl(methylsulfonyl)amino]-6-(trifluoromethyl)-3-pyridinecarboxylate 121 with sodium hydride in dimethylformamide to yield l-methyl-7-(trifhioromethyl)-l//-pyrido[2,3-c][l,2]thiazin-4(3//)-one 2,2-dioxide 122 in 79% yield (Scheme 31) <98JHC499>. 

Aminopyrazole has been prepared by a Curtius degradation of pyrazole-3(5)-carboxylic acid hydrazide,2 3 by saponification and decarboxylation of ethyl 3-aminopyrazole-4-carboxy-late 4 obtained from ethyl ethoxymethylenecyanoacetate and hydrazine, and by the present procedure.6,6... 

Reaction of ethyl 5-amino-3-methylthio-l//-pyrazol-4-carboxylate 267 with sodium nitrite in the presence of hydrochloric acid gives the diazo intermediate 268, which on treatment with active methylenic compounds such as ethyl a-chloroacetate or a-chloroacetylacetone affords the hydrazonyl chlorides 269 and 270, respectively, whose reaction with triethylamine in refluxing ethanol convert them into ethyl 4-hydro-2-methylthiopyrazolo[5,l-c]-[l,2,4]triazole-3,6-dicarboxylate 271 and ethyl 6-acetyl-4-hydro-2-methylthiopyrazolo[5,l-c][l,2,4]triazole-3-carboxy-late 272 (Scheme 23) <2001MI1>. 

The reaction of 2-pyridylhydrazine and EMME in diphenyl ether at 190°C for 30 min give ethyl 5-hydroxy-l-(2-pyridyl)pyrazole-4-carboxylate in 6% yield (89MI435). 

The reaction of aroylhydrazines with DMAD gives rise to the hydrazones of oxaloacetic ester, which undergo thermal transformation to the corresponding diaroylhydrazines. b. Hydrazones. Ethyl l,3,5-triphenylpyrazole-4-carboxylate has been reported to be formed in the reaction of benzaldehyde phenylhydrazone with ethyl phenylpropiolate. In a detailed investigation, George and co-workers have shown that aldehyde phenylhydrazones react with DMAD, yielding a mixture of pyrazoles and pyrazolines. Thus, in the reaction of benzaldehyde phenylhydrazone with DMAD, products such as dimethyl l,3-diphenylpyrazoline-4,5-dicarboxylate (129), dimethyl... 

Trifluoromethyl-substituted pyrazoles are easily obtained using trifluoromethyl-alkynes as dipolarophiles (Table 8.2, entry 9). Thus, treatment of 4,4,4-trifluorobut-2-ynoic acid with excess diazomethane gave methyl 4-(trifluoromethyl)pyrazole-4-carboxylate (45%) accompanied by its N - (32%) and -methylated (6.5%) derivatives (267). Another convenient route to CF3-substituted pyrazoles involves dipolar cycloaddition of appropriately CF3-substituted alkenes followed by eliminative aromatization (76,77,268). For example, the reaction of alkenes such as (CF3)2C=C(H)COAr with ethyl diazoacetate gave 4-aroyl-5-trifluoromethylpyra-zole-3-carboxylates (268). 

This method has been extended to heterocycles bearing a hydroxymethyl-substituted nitrogen. Thus, ethyl l-(hydroxymethyl)pyrazole-4-carboxylate (10) is converted into ethyl 1-(fluoromethyl)pyrazole-4-carboxylate (11) in 76% yield with cesium fluoride/methanesulfonyl fluoride/18-crown-6 system.167 Potassium fluoride did not react at all and tetrabutylammonium fluoride leads to decomposition and formation of coupling products. 

Ethyl-l-(Fluoromethyl)pyrazole-4-carboxylate (11) Typical Procedure 167... 

Hydrogenation of 5,6-diphenyl-l,2,4-triazine-3-carboxylic acid or its ethyl ester (293) led to the pyrazole-3-carboxylic acid or ester (294) respectively (59CB564). 

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