Heterocycles, acylation carboxylic acids

Carboxylic acids and their anhydrides acy late a variety of benzene derivatives, fused ring systems, and heterocyclic compounds. An improved procedure for the preparation of l,4-difluoroanthracene-9,10-dione involves reacting phthalic anhydride and 1,4-difluorobenzene to prepare an intermediate carboxylic acid [35] Intramolecular acylation in polyphosphonc acid completes the synthesis (equahon 24). 

The aerobic reduction of aryl and alkyl carboxylates to the corresponding aldehydes. The reaction involves formation of an acyl-AMP intermediate by reaction of the carboxylic acid with ATP NADPH then reduces this to the aldehyde (Li and Rosazza 1998 He et al. 2004). The oxidoreductase from Nocardia sp. is able to accept a range of substituted benzoic acids, naphthoic acids, and a few heterocyclic carboxylic acids (Li and Rosazza 1997). 

Methods for the A-acylation of similar heterocycles, such as simple thiazolidinethiones, have been reported since 1977, namely acyl chlorides in miscellaneous conditions,586 or carboxylic acids under DCC-activation.60,61 However the easiest and most effective method involves acyl chlorides or carboxylic anhydrides in the presence of an amine.47 Applying that procedure on carbohydrate scaffolds Rollin and co-workers62 reported the synthesis of diverse /V-acylated OZTs. The reactions were performed with good yields and the /V-selective acylation was ascertained by NMR— namely the thiocarbonyl 13C chemical shift (Scheme 41). Thanks to the dual nature of the carbanion drifting in the reaction,596 60 no competitive formation of the thioester, as mentioned by Plusquellec el al. in the case of benzothiazole, was observed. 

Volume 75 concludes with six procedures for the preparation of valuable building blocks. The first, 6,7-DIHYDROCYCLOPENTA-l,3-DIOXIN-5(4H)-ONE, serves as an effective /3-keto vinyl cation equivalent when subjected to reductive and alkylative 1,3-carbonyl transpositions. 3-CYCLOPENTENE-l-CARBOXYLIC ACID, the second procedure in this series, is prepared via the reaction of dimethyl malonate and cis-l,4-dichloro-2-butene, followed by hydrolysis and decarboxylation. The use of tetrahaloarenes as diaryne equivalents for the potential construction of molecular belts, collars, and strips is demonstrated with the preparation of anti- and syn-l,4,5,8-TETRAHYDROANTHRACENE 1,4 5,8-DIEPOXIDES. Also of potential interest to the organic materials community is 8,8-DICYANOHEPTAFULVENE, prepared by the condensation of cycloheptatrienylium tetrafluoroborate with bromomalononitrile. The preparation of 2-PHENYL-l-PYRROLINE, an important heterocycle for the synthesis of a variety of alkaloids and pyrroloisoquinoline antidepressants, illustrates the utility of the inexpensive N-vinylpyrrolidin-2-one as an effective 3-aminopropyl carbanion equivalent. The final preparation in Volume 75, cis-4a(S), 8a(R)-PERHYDRO-6(2H)-ISOQUINOLINONES, il lustrates the conversion of quinine via oxidative degradation to meroquinene esters that are subsequently cyclized to N-acylated cis-perhydroisoquinolones and as such represent attractive building blocks now readily available in the pool of chiral substrates. 

In the early days, greatest interest was focused on the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis (by hydrochloric acid in the presence of 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine) of Reissert compounds to aldehydes and the corresponding heterocyclic carboxylic acid derivatives. This reaction is fairly general for compounds of quinoline (178) and isoquinoline (179) (Table 18), but it is not applicable to pyridines as they rarely form Reissert compounds. The 3-hydroxyquino-line Reissert compound does not yield benzaldehyde, probably because acylation of the 3-hydroxy group prevents formation of the required cyclic intermediate (180). Some nitroquinolines and isoquinolines give low yields of benzaldehyde. Rather curiously, disub-stituted quinoline Reissert compounds yield less of the aldehyde than of the corresponding... 

The reaction of sulfur tetrafluoride with carboxylic acids (aliphatic, aromatic, and heterocyclic) is of particular importance as the most general and simplest route to trifluorotnethyl derivatives. The reaction proceeds in two steps, the first step gives acyl or aroyl fluorides 1, and then catalysis in the second step by hydrogen fluoride released in the first step results in the tri-fluoromethyl derivatives 2.41... 

In connection with these results, and as an extension of their studies toward the reactivity of new bicyclic mesoionic compounds and their usefulness in the synthesis of condensed heterocycles, they further reported the stereoselective synthesis of spiro-(3-lactams 153, 154 (Scheme 36) by reactions of imines with mesoionic compounds or ketenes generated from A-acyl-thiozolidine-2-carboxylic acids 152 [110]. 

The pKa of the methylene protons of 7 is close to that of cyanacetic ester. Thus, it was interesting to compare the reactions of these two species. We found that 7 can be acylated by various carboxylic acid halides, leading to compound 11. According to IR and NMR data 11 exists mostly as the enol-form, due to the influence of the carboranyl substituent, which strongly stabilizes conjugated double bonds.13 Compound 11 is a useful synthon for the preparation of heterocyclic compounds. It can be methylated, chlorinated and acylated twice ( compound 13). Compound 13 gives an adduct with phenylhydrazine (scheme 6). 

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