Hydroxy diketones acid esters

Diethyl 4-hydroxyisoxazole-3,5-dicarboxylate (334) was prepared by the reaction of acetonedicarboxylic acid ester with nitrosyl chloride (78JHC1519). Other 4-hydroxyisoxazoles have been prepared by the reaction of 2-hydroxy (or acetoxy)-1,3-diketones with hydroxylamine (34JA2190, 62HC(i7)i, p. 149), and by hydrolysis of 4-isoxazolediazonium salts (62HC(17)1, p. 149). The parent 4-hydroxyisoxazole has not yet been reported. 

A similar type of acid-catalyzed condensation of aldehydes with 4-methylene-2-oxetanone (diketene), giving 4-oxo-6-methyl-l,3-dioxins, has been patented (73GEP2149650). However, other work has established that <5-hydroxy-/ -keto acids or unsaturated keto acids are formed as the principal products (equation 24) (78CPB3877, 78CL409). The latter reaction probably involves electrophilic attack of the protonated aldehyde on the nucleophilic exocyclic methylene carbon atom of the diketone. A closely related reaction of acetals with diketene, catalyzed by titanium tetrachloride, gives the corresponding <5-alkoxy-/3-keto esters (74CL1189). 

In the benzil-benzilic acid rearrangement, an a-diketone is treated with a base to give the sodium salt of an a-hydroxy carboxylic acid. In the Favorskii rearrangement, an a-halogenoketone is treated with an alkoxide anion to give the a-alkyl ester. This reaction may also be used to effect a ring contraction. 

The first in this series to be reported was 4-oxoisoxazoline-3,5-dicarboxylic acid diethyl ester, which was formed by the reaction of nitrous acid on diethyl acetonedicarboxylate in 1891. Quilico described a number of syntheses in his 1962 review and the most general include the reaction of hydroxylamine and a-hydroxy-(or acetoxy)- 3-diketones and the conversion of 4-isoxazolediazonium salts to the hydroxy moiety (62HC(17)1, p. 3). Additional syntheses reported were the oxygenation of a 4-boric acid derivative (67JOM(9)l9) and peroxide oxidation of a 4-nitro-2-isoxazoline (Scheme 151) (79ZOR2436). 

Strong >500 50 RC02H dimers >300 100 o-Hydroxy aryl ketones o-hy-droxy aryl acids o-hydroxy aryl esters /3-diketones tropo-lones... 

JOC 47 2820 (1982) (/1-diketones to hydroxy ketones) 50 127 (fi-keto carboxylate), 3411 (fi-diketones to hydroxy ketones) (1985) 51 1253 (2,2-dithioalkan-l-ones), 2795 (a-flooro ketones) (1986) 52192 (fi-keto esters), 256,1141,1359 (fi-keto esters), 2036 (/1-diketones to hydroxy ketones), 2086 (a-acetoxy ketone), 2244 (fi-keto ester), 3223 (cyclic /1-diketones to hydroxy ketones), 4363 (y- arid 5-keto acids) (1987) 53 860, 1969, 2589 (x-keto ester), 4405 (a-acyloxy ketone), 4962 (1988) 54 2238 (/S-diketone to fi-hydroxy ketone), 2274, 3221 (a-diketone to a-hydroxy ketone) (1989) 55 3917 (1990)... 

The palladium [Pd(Ph3)4]-catalysed 3 + 3-cycloaddition of trimethylenemethane with azomethineimines produced hexahydropyridazine derivatives under mild conditions (40 °C).171 The Lewis acid-catalysed formal oxa-[3 + 3]-cycloaddition of a,f+ unsaturated aldehydes with 6-methyl-4-hydroxy-2-pyrone, 1,3-diketones, and viny-logous silyl esters yielded a variety of pyrones at room temperature.172 Croton-aldehyde has been converted to 6-hydroxy-4-methylcyclohex-l-enecarboxaldehyde by an enantioselective 3 + 3-cycloaddition catalysed by proline. This methodology was used in the synthesis of (—)-isopulegol hydrate, (—)-cubebaol, and (—)-6-hydroxy-4-methylcyclohex-l-ene-1-methanol acetate, an intermediate in the total synthesis of the alkaloid magellanine.173... 

So far, most microorganisms and enzymes derived therefrom have been used in the reduction of a single keto group of p-keto or a-keto compounds [68-71], Recently, Patel et al. [72] have demonstrated the stereoselective reduction of 3,5-dioxo-6-(benzyloxy)hexanoic acid, ethyl ester (41), to (3,S, 5R)-dihydroxy-6-(benzyloxy)hexanoic acid, ethyl ester (42a) (Fig. 14). The compound (42a) is a key chiral intermediate required for the chemical synthesis of [4-[4a,6P(E)]]-6-[4,4-bis(4-fluorophenyl)-3-(l-methyl-lH-tetrazol-5-yl)-l,3-butadienyl]-tetrahydro-4-hydroxy-2H-pyran-2-one, compound R-( + )-(43), a new anticholesterol drug that acts by inhibition of HMG CoA reductase [73], Among various microbial cultures evaluated for the stereoselective reduction of diketone (41), cell suspensions of Aci-... 

LiInH4 is increased by the introduction of phenyl group(s) LiPhInH3 and LiPh2InH2 readily reduce aldehydes, ketones, acid chlorides, and even esters to the corresponding alcohols. Hydroxy ketones and diketones are reduced with lithium indium hydride to give meso-diols selectively. a-Hydroxy ketones and a-diketones are reduced to meso-1,2-diols with high diastereoselectivities, whereas the selectivities of /3-hydroxyketones and /3-diketones are less satisfactory.365... 

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