Hydrazones with ketenes

Production is by the acetylation of 4-aminophenol. This can be achieved with acetic acid and acetic anhydride at 80°C (191), with acetic acid anhydride in pyridine at 100°C (192), with acetyl chloride and pyridine in toluene at 60°C (193), or by the action of ketene in alcohoHc suspension. 4-Hydroxyacetanihde also may be synthesized directiy from 4-nitrophenol The available reduction—acetylation systems include tin with acetic acid, hydrogenation over Pd—C in acetic anhydride, and hydrogenation over platinum in acetic acid (194,195). Other routes include rearrangement of 4-hydroxyacetophenone hydrazone with sodium nitrite in sulfuric acid and the electrolytic hydroxylation of acetanilide [103-84-4] (196). 

The known disuhstituted ketencs include dialkyl-ketcnes, diary lkctcncs. and ihe ester analogs. Rimcthylkelene may be made from u-bromoisobuiy-ryl bromide by reaction with zinc in boiling ether, Diphenylketene may be made similarly, but the usual way lo prepare it is to oxidize benzil hydrazone with yellow mercuric oxide to benzoylphenyldiuzomethnne which, on healing in benzene solution, decomposes inio Ihe ketene. 

An acidic solution of 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine reacts with N-p-chlorophenyl-sulfonyl-3-ethoxy-l,2-thiazetidine 1-oxide to give (80%) the bis-2,4-dinitrophenyl-hydrazone of glyoxal. The adduct of A-sulfinyl-p-chlorophenylsulfonamide with dihydropyran is inert to catalytic hydrogenation and bromination. Treatment of two l,2-thiazetidine-3-one 1-oxides (e.g., 421) with hydriodic acid results in ring-cleavage and loss of sulfur. They are not oxidized to 1,1-dioxides by peracetic acid, ° but m-chloroperbenzoic acid accomplishes this oxidation. The unstable adducts with ketene decompose to amides with loss of hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide or may be trapped by reaction with aromatic amines as shown for thiazetidine 1-oxide 422.An aldol-type condensation has been reported for A -cyclohexyl-1,2 thiazetidine-3-one 1-oxide and p-(A(A"-dimethylamino)benz-aldehyde. " Sulfur monoxide is lost in the flash-vacuum thermolysis of 422a. ... 

In the presence of a catalytic amount of Sc(OTf)3, benzoylhy-drazones react with ketene silyl acetals to afford the corresponding adducts, 8-lV-benzoylhydrazino esters, in high yield (eq 10). Several benzoylhydrazones including those derived from aromatic, aliphatic, a,/3-unsaturated aldehydes, and glyoxylate work well. The reactions of polymer-supported hydrazones with silyl enolates are also catalyzed by Sc(OTf)3 to produce pyrazolone derivatives after base treatment. ... 

Presset M, Mohanan K, Hamann M, Coquerel Y, Rodriguez J. 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition of hydrazones with a-oxo-ketenes a three-component stereoselective entry to pyrazolidinones and an original class of spirooxindoles. Org. Lett. 2011 13 4124- 127. 

Several approaches to the 1,2,3-triazole core have been published in 2000. Iodobenzene diacetate-mediated oxidation of hydrazones 152 led to fused 1,2,3-triazoloheterocycles 153 <00SC417>. Treatment of oxazolone 154 with iso-pentyl nitrite in the presence of acetic acid gave 1,2,3-triazole 155, a precursor to 3-(W-l,2,3-triazolyl)-substituted a,P-unsaturated a amino acid derivatives <00SC2863>. Aroyl-substituted ketene aminals 156 reacted with aryl azides to provide polysubstituted 1,23-triazoles 157 <00HC387>. 2-Aryl-2T/,4/f-imidazo[43-d][l,2,3]triazoles 159 were prepared from the reaction of triethyl AM-ethyl-2-methyl-4-nitro-l//-imidazol-5-yl phosphoramidate (158) with aryl isocyanates <00TL9889>. 

While cycloaddition approaches have been discussed extensively in this chapter, there are certain substitution patterns that are not amendable to such approaches. In these cases, the more traditional annelative approaches are necessary. For example, the 5,6-dihydropyrrolo[3,4-rf]imidazol-4(3//)-one (286) is obtained from the diamine (285) and triethyl orthoformate. If formamide is used in excess, 6-(formamidomethylene)-5,6-dihydropyrrolo[3,4-d]imidazol-4(3//)-one (287) is obtained (Scheme 53) <70JPS1732>. A variant of the Thorpe cyclization was employed in the preparation of 3-amino-4//-pyrrolo[3,4-c]isoxazoles (289) from a-cyanooximes (288) (Equation (66)) <68JMC453>. 3-Acyltetramic acid (290 X = NR2) and 3-acyltetronic acid (292 X = O) hydrazones undergo ready cyclization in refluxing xylene with catalytic p-toluenesulfonic acid to afford 4-oxo-l,4-dihydro-6/f-pyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrazoles (291) and 4-oxo-l,4-dihydro-6//-furo[3,4-c]pyrazoles (293), respectively (Equation (67)) <82SC43l>. The novel synthesis of 5-amino-6a-hydroxydihydro-6//-pyrrolo[2,3-j]isoxazole (296) from 3,4-disubstituted 4-(amino)isoxazol-(4//)-ones (294) is hypothesized to occur by the cyclization of the ketene aminal intermediates (295) (Scheme 54) <91S127>. 

Diastereomeric benzylamines are obtained by cinnamylation of imines with alkenylsiladi-oxolane 90. The stereochemical switch requires only a change of the A -substituent. The cognate heterocycle 91 is useful catalyzing addition of ketene silyl ethers to hydrazones. ... 

Because of their predictable behavior and reactivity, thioacyl isocyanates comprise the bulk of this work, and extensive studies of their [4 + 2] reactions with olefins,83 enamines,84 enol ethers,843 thioacyl isocyanates,85 imines,85 1 86 carbodiimides,84387 isocyanates,843 azirines,88 /3-enaminoke-tones,89 dianils,86d azines,90 hydrazones,91 imidazoline-4,5-diones,92 aryl cyanates,93 disubstituted cyanamides,93 aldehydes,94 ketones,94 ketenes,94 alkyl or aryl iminodithiocarbonates,95 and the carbon-carbon double bond of ketenimines96 have been detailed. In an extensive comparative study of the [4 + 2] cycloaddition reactions of thioacyl isocyanates, the heterocu-mulenes bearing strong electron-withdrawing substituents were found to be more stable and less prone to participate in cycloaddition reactions.84 Representative examples are summarized in Scheme 9-IV. 

Acyl isothiocyanates have been shown to participate in [4 + 2] cycloadditions with enamines,98 imines," ketenimines,100 and hydrazones.101 Similar reports have detailed the [4 + 2] cycloadditions of thioacyl isothiocyanates with the carbon-carbon double bond of ketenes, ketenimines, and enamines as well as the carbon-nitrogen double bond of imines, carbodii-mides, and isocyanates.102... 

S-Unsaturated hydrazones such as (12) have been shown to behave as 1 -aza-1, 3-dienes in Diels-Alder addition reactions with a range of dienophiles such as maleic anhydride (Scheme 2). The dimethylamino substituent in the cycloadducts (e.g. 13) may be cleaved by treatment with zinc and acetic acid, but no conditions have so far been found to cleave the N-N bond without reducing the C-C double bond 5-Nitropyrimidine undergoes inverse Diels-Alder cycloaddition with electron-rich dienophiles such as enamines and ketene N,N- and 0,0-acetals (Scheme 3). ... 

Acylhydrazones, R CH=N-NHCOR , undergo stereoselective Mannich reactions with silyl ketene acetals to give j8-hydrazido esters, using activation by a chiral silicon Lewis acid. Alternatively, the use of silyl ketene imine gives a /3-hydrazido nitrile. Enantioselective (5)-l-amino-2-methoxymethylpyrrolidine (SAMP) hydrazone alkylation of aldehydes and ketones is the subject of a computational study, providing a useful screening method for possible new candidates. " ... 

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