Isomerization Ring opening

Other methods include ring opening of parasorbic acid [108-54-3] (5-lactone of 5-hydroxy-2-hexenoic acid) in hydrochloric acid or in alkaline solutions (43,44), the ring opening of y-vinyl- y-butyrolactone in various catalysts (45,46), or isomerization of 2,5-hexadienoic acid esters (47,48). Other methods are described in thehterature (6,49,50). 

Removal of AT-oxide groups by PCI3 follows normal behaviour (63JCS6073), but with acetic anhydride the AAoxides (332) underwent a complex ring-opening reaction leading to (333), and an isomeric 8-alkoxy-6-oxide behaved similarly (75H(3)38l). 

Irradiation of l//-indazoles under nonacidic conditions resulted in isomerization to benzimidazoles and also ring opening to isomeric benzonitriles. With 1-substituted benzimidazoles and sensitized irradiation, nitriles were formed, but these are only minor products with other substitution patterns 67HCA2244, 64TL2999). Irradiation of benzimidazoles leads to oxidative dimerization. 

In a number of cases the intermediate oxime has been isolated in the reaction of hydroxylamine and /3-keto esters. The reaction of ethyl acetoacetate with hydroxylamine generated an oxime which cyclized on base treatment (Scheme 144) (70MI41600). Likewise, treatment of an analogous amide with hydroxylamine generated a ring opened material which cyclized on treatment with HCl (Scheme 144) (67T831). The presence of a minor contaminant in the standard reaction of ethyl acetoacetate with hydroxylamine was discovered and identified as an isomeric isoxazolin-3-one. The mechanism of product formation has been discussed (70BSF2685). 

Methylideneoxiranes (allene oxides Section 5.05.3.2.1) react with nucleophiles as if ring opening occurs to give a zwitterion (e.g. 51 or 52), which may be captured by the nucleophile before (Scheme 42) or after (Scheme 43) isomerization to a cyclopropanone. 

Pyridone also catalyzes epimerization of the anomeric position of the tetramethyl ether of glucose. The mechanism involves two double proton transfers. The first leads to a ring-opened intermediate, and the second results in ring closure to the isomerized product ... 

Orbital symmetry control of subsequent ring opening could account for isomerization at only one of the double bonds. Taking ij/ as the controlling frontier orbital, it can be seen that a concerted return to ip2 to rotation at only one terminus of the diene ... 

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