Hydrolysis, and decarboxylation

The compound (III) can however lose ethanol by an internal Claisen ester condensation (p. 264) to give the cyclohexane derivative (IV), which, being the ester of a (3-keto acid, in turn readily undergoes hydrolysis and decarboxylation to give 5,5Hiimethyl cyclohexan-i,3Hiione (V) or Dimedone, a valuable reagent for the detection and estimation of formaldehyde. 

The addition of active methylene compounds (ethyl malonate, ethyl aoeto-acetate, ethyl plienylacetate, nltromethane, acrylonitrile, etc.) to the aP-double bond of a conjugated unsaturated ketone, ester or nitrile In the presence of a basic catalyst (sodium ethoxide, piperidine, diethylamiiie, etc.) is known as the Michael reaction or Michael addition. The reaction may be illustrated by the addition of ethyl malonate to ethyl fumarate in the presence of sodium ethoxide hydrolysis and decarboxylation of the addendum (ethyl propane-1 1 2 3-tetracarboxylate) yields trlcarballylic acid ... 

A simple application of the reaction may bo mentioned. Refluxing of (I) with 48 per cent, hydrobromic aeid and glacial acetic acid leads to hydrolysis and decarboxylation and the production of a mixture of the yl tctone yr-di-phonylbutyrolaotone (II) and the isomeric unsaturated acid yY-dlphenyl-vinylacotic acid (III) reduction by the Clemmonsen method or catalytically... 

One effective method for synthesis of tryptophan derivatives involves alkylation of formamido- or acetamido- malonate diesters by gramine[l,2]. Conversion to tryptophans is completed by hydrolysis and decarboxylation. These reactions were discussed in Chapter 12. An enolate of an a-nitro ester is an alternative nucleophile. The products can be converted to tryptophans by rcduction[3,4],... 

The anion of a p keto ester may be alkylated at carbon with an alkyl halide and the product of this reaction subjected to ester hydrolysis and decarboxylation to give a ketone... 

The first ester function of the malonates is hydrolyzed much more easily than the second. This property can be used for synthesizing a large number of carboxyUc acids by alkylation or acylation of a malonate followed by hydrolysis and decarboxylation of one ester group. This is the case for ethyl... 

Fig. 2. Synthesis of uma2enil (18). The isonitrosoacetanihde is synthesized from 4-f1iioroani1ine. Cyclization using sulfuric acid is followed by oxidization using peracetic acid to the isatoic anhydride. Reaction of sarcosine in DMF and acetic acid leads to the benzodiazepine-2,5-dione. Deprotonation, phosphorylation, and subsequent reaction with diethyl malonate leads to the diester. After selective hydrolysis and decarboxylation the resulting monoester is nitrosated and catalyticaHy hydrogenated to the aminoester. Introduction of the final carbon atom is accompHshed by reaction of triethyl orthoformate to...

A number of other syntheses of coniine have been effected, of which that of Diels and Alder is of special interest. The initial adduct of pyridine and methyl acetylenedicarboxylate, viz., tetraraethylquinolizine-1 2 3 4-tetracarboxylate (IX) on oxidation with dilute nitric acid is converted into methyl indolizinetricarboxylate (X). This, on hydrolysis and decarboxylation, furnishes indolizine, the octahydro-derivative (XI) of which, also known as octahydropyrrocoline, is converted by the cyanogen bromide method (as applied by Winterfeld and Holschneider to lupinane, p. 123) successively into the broraocyanoamide (XII), cyanoaraide (XIII) and dZ-coniine (XIV). A synthesis of the alkaloid, starting from indolizine (pyrrocoline) is described by Ochiai and Tsuda. ... 

The latter on hydrolysis and decarboxylation yielded womicotyrine (II, above], rosettes of flattened needles, m.p. 98-9°, picrate, m.p. 203-4° dec.), in good agreement with the data of previous authors. 

Much interesting work has been done in the last ten years on the bridging of pyrrole and piperidine rings. Early in their work on this subject Clemo and Metcalfe (1937) prepared quinuclidine (V) by the reduction of 3-ketoquinuclidine (IV), the latter resulting from the hydrolysis and decarboxylation of the product (III) of a Dieckmann internal alkylation, applied to ethyl piperidine-l-acetate-4-carboxylate (II), itself made by condensing ethyl piperidine-4-carboxylate (I) with ethyl chloroacetate. 

After isolation, the Michael adduct may be subjected to ester hydrolysis and decarboxylation. When a,p-unsaturated ketones are carried through this sequence, the final products are 5-keto acids (8-keto acids). 

The furazan ring is stable under the conditions used to reduce the nitro group to the amine (Scheme 6). Thus, on treatment of compound 19 with SnC in HCl, the nitro group was reduced and the cyano group underwent hydrolysis and decarboxylation yielding salt 20 (30G721). 

Selective hydrolysis of the 3-carboxylate with 6N-HCl/AcOH was unsuccessful and instead the 4-carboxylate hydrolyzed to the corresponding acid, however, heating of 432 at 50 °C caused its hydrolysis and decarboxylation in one step. Subsequent reaction with either MnO or DDQ gave 433. The fluorine atom at 8-position could be replaced by cyclic amines to give the 8-pyrrolyl or 8-[l-methyl-4-piperazinyl] derivatives 436 which upon hydrolysis using either acidic or basic conditions afforded the... 

Cyclization of the two pendant alkyl side chains on barbiturates to form a spiran is consistent with sedative-hypnotic activity. The synthesis of this most complex barbiturate starts by alkylation of ethyl acetoacetate with 2-chloropentan-3-one to give 152. Hydrolysis and decarboxylation under acidic conditions gives the diketone, 153. This intermediate is then reduced to the diol (154), and that is converted to the dibromide (155) by means of hydrogen bromide. Double Internal alkylation of ethyl... 

The malonic ester synthesis can also be used to prepare cydoalkane-carboxvlic acids. For example, when 1,4-dibromobutanc is treated with diethyl malonate in the presence of 2 equivalents of sodium ethoxide base, the second alkylation step occurs intrcunotecidariy to yield a cyclic product. Hydrolysis and decarboxylation then give cvclopentanecarboxylic acid. Three-, four-, five-. 

Acetoacetic ester synthesis (Section 22.7) The synthesis of a methyl ketone by alkylation of an alkyl halide, followed by hydrolysis and decarboxylation. 

Oxo esters are accessible via the diastereoselective 1,4-addition of chiral lithium enamine 11 as Michael donor. The terr-butyl ester of L-valine reacts with a / -oxo ester to form a chiral enamine which on deprotonation with lithium diisopropylamide results in the highly chelated enolate 11. Subsequent 1,4-addition to 2-(arylmethylene) or 2-alkylidene-l,3-propanedioates at — 78 °C, followed by removal of the auxiliary by hydrolysis and decarboxylation of the Michael adducts, affords optically active -substituted <5-oxo esters232 (for a related synthesis of 1,5-diesters, see Section 1.5.2.4.2.2.1.). In the same manner, <5-oxo esters with contiguous quaternary and tertiary carbon centers with virtually complete induced (> 99%) and excellent simple diastereoselectivities (d.r. 93 7 to 99.5 0.5) may be obtained 233 234. 

Temozolomide undergoes spontaneous hydrolysis and decarboxylation at physiological pH value and thereafter a methyldiazonium ion is released. This ion forms DNA adducts within guanine rich DNA sequences. Temozolomide has high bioavailability and is metabolized in the liver. 

Hydrolysis and decarboxylation of (12) occur in hot acetic acid. The C02H group in (9) is not protected the first mole of Ph2P=CHg removes the acid proton and the second does the Wittig reaction. 

Malonates are good reagents tor synthons (23) and (25). Lactones (2S) and (27) are formed on addition of the epoxides and give the perfumery lactones on hydrolysis and decarboxylation. 

In the published synthesis the ozonolysis is performed on the protected product (9) and aldehyde (10) isolated before oxidation, hydrolysis and decarboxylation give aspartic acid. 

The 3-arylglutaric esters 3 required as substrates were obtained by condensation of 2 equiv. of ethyl acetylacetate with respective benzaldehydes, followed by hydrolysis and decarboxylation of the resulting product under basic conditions. After esterification, ester 3 was obtained in 75% overall yield (R = Cl, = Me) [10]. 

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