Isoxazoles methyl-, reactions

Isotetralin, 54, 11 ISOXAZOLE ANNELATION REACTION 1-METHYL-4,4a,5,6,7,8-HEXA-HYDRONAPHTHALEN-2 (3H) -ONE,... 

ISOXAZOLE ANNELATION REACTION l-METHYL-4,4a,S,6,7,8-HEX AHYD RONAPHTHALEN-2(3H)-ONE, 53, 70... 

The importance of this ring-opening reaction is illustrated by the following. 5-Methyl-isoxazole (110) on treatment with ammonia was partly converted into cyanoacetoneimine (111), and when refluxed with phenylhydrazine it yielded the 5-aminopyrazole (113) through the intermediate cyanoacetone (112) (63AHC(2)365). 

The reaction of methyl acetylpyruvate (312) with hydroxylamine hydrochloride gave the 3-carboxylate (313) in 76% yield together with traces of the isomeric 5-carboxylate (314) (78MIP41600). However, the sodium salt (315) of acetylpyruvic acid resulted in 3-methyl-isoxazole-5-carboxylic acid (316) as the major product. 

The addition of benzonitrile oxide to acrylic acid gave only the 4-carboxylic acid (441) (59MI41601), while addition to cis- and trans-cinnamic esters gave cis and trans diastereomeric pairs of 4-carboxylic acids (442) (Scheme 100) (59MI41600). Arbisono repeated the experiment and, when methyl c/s-cinnamate was used, in addition to the 4-carboxylic acid some 5-carboxylic acid (442) was isolated (66MI41600). The reaction of vinyl bromides with benzonitrile oxide yielded only an isoxazole and not a bromoisoxazoline (Scheme 101) (78JCR(S)192). 

In an attempt to prepare an isothiazolobenzodiazepine, ethyl 5-o-aminoanilino-3-methyl-isothiazole-4-carboxylate was treated with sodium methoxide, but the only reaction was transesterification to the methyl ester 76UC(B)394). Only the 5-ester group of dimethyl 3-methylisothiazole-4,5-dicarboxylate reacts with iV,iV -diphenylguanidine, as with the corresponding isoxazole compound, but the product could not be cyclized, even under drastic conditions. This is in marked constrast to the isoxazole compound which cyclized at room temperature (80JCS(P1)1667). 

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The methyl group position was fixed both by cleavage of the isoxazole ring with sodium ethylate and by isolation of the cyanacetone sodium salt 125. The reaction of this salt with phenylhydrazine resulted in the phenylhydrazone of cyanacetone (126) (69ZOR1179). 

The nucleophilic substitution reactions are still more limited in scope owing to the instability of the isoxazole ring toward nucleophilic reagents. Homolytic reactions appear to be unknown though some of the reactions being studied are possibly of this type. Besides those reactions which are characteristic of the reactivity of the isoxazole nucleus itself, we shall consider in this section some substitution reactions in the side chain organomagnesium synthesis in the isoxazole series, condensation reactions of the methyl groups of methyl-isoxazoles, and finally some miscellaneous reactions. 

It is only recently that the chloromethylation reaction, well known in the benzene series, has been extended to isoxazoles. It has been thereby found that this reaction results in 4-chloromethyl derivatives (69), their yield decreasing as follows 5-phenyl > 3,5-dimethyl > 5-methyl > 3-methyl isoxazoles > isoxazole. To prove the position of the chloromethyl group these compounds were oxidized to the known isoxazole-4-carboxylic acids (70). It is especially noteworthy that pyridine and its homologs do not undergo chloromethylation. 

Decarboxylation of isoxazole-3-carboxylic acids is related to the nucleophilic cleavage of the isoxazole ring as far as the nature of the reaction products is concerned. It occurs at temperatures above 200°C and is accompanied by the cleavage of the nitrogen-oxygen bond of the heterocyclic ring to yield a j8-ketonitrile. It was first reported by Claisen with 5-methyl- and 5-phenyl-isoxazole-3-carboxylic acids (153- 154).Under the reaction conditions, j8-ketonitriles condense... 

Preparation of S-Acetylsulfanilamido-S-Methy/isoxazole 0.9 gram of 3-amino-5-methyl-isoxazole in 5 cc of pyridine was allowed to react with 2.0 grams of acetylsulfanil chloride accompanied by the generation of heat. After about one hour, water was added to the reaction mixture and the crystal precipitated out was recrystallized from alcohol to give 2.5 grams of 3-acetylsulfanilamido-5-methylisoxazole, melting point (decomposition) 220° to 221°C. 

Enantiomerically pure 4.5-dihydro-3-[(/J)-(4-methylphenylsulfinyl)methyl]isoxazoles 16 arc readily available from the reaction of metalated 4,5-dihydro-3-methylisoxazoles 14 with (-)-menthyl (5)-4-methylbenzenesulfinate (15), under inversion of the configuration at sulfur, followed by separation of the resulting diastereoiners27-28. 

Both of the 4,5-tran.v-diaslereomers of 4,5-dihydro-4-(4-methoxyphenyl)-5-methyl-3-[(7 )-(4-methylphenylsulfinyl)methyl]isoxazole (24) show excellent stereoselection in reactions with aldehydes. Despite the bulky substituents at the 4,5-dihydroisoxazole nucleus, the stereochemical outcome of the reaction is controlled by the sulfoxide stereogenicity. The pairs of 4,5-dihydro-3-(2-hydroxyalkyl)-4-(4-methoxyphenyl)-5-methylisoxazoles, obtained by desulfurization of the corresponding aldol adducts, have the same configuration at the hydroxy-substituted carbon (C-2 ) and opposite configuration in the 4- and 5-positions of the dihydroisoxazole ring24. 

Imidazole nitrones 127 reacted with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate to yield imidazo[l,5-fc]isoxazoles 128, which in the presence of base afforded imidazoles 129 <00TL5407>. Chiral imidazoline nitrone 130 participated in a [3+2] cycloaddition reaction with various dienophiles to furnish imidazoisoxazoles 131 <00SL967>. A convenient synthesis of AyvyV -trisubstituted ethylenediamine derivatives from 2-methyl-2-imidazoline has been reported <00SC3307>. Dehydrogenation of 1,3-di- and 1,2,3-trisubstituted imidazolidines afforded l//-4,5-dihydroimidazolium salts <00SC3369>... 

This regioselectivity is practically not influenced by the nature of subsituent R. 3,5-Disubstituted isoxazolines are the sole or main products in [3 + 2] cycloaddition reactions of nitrile oxides with various monosubstituted ethylenes such as allylbenzene (99), methyl acrylate (105), acrylonitrile (105, 168), vinyl acetate (168) and diethyl vinylphosphonate (169). This is also the case for phenyl vinyl selenide (170), though subsequent oxidation—elimination leads to 3-substituted isoxazoles in a one-pot, two-step transformation. 1,1-Disubstituted ethylenes such as 2-methylene-1 -phenyl-1,3-butanedione, 2-methylene-1,3-diphenyl- 1,3-propa-nedione, 2-methylene-3-oxo-3-phenylpropanoates (171), 2-methylene-1,3-dichlo-ropropane, 2-methylenepropane-l,3-diol (172) and l,l-bis(diethoxyphosphoryl) ethylene (173) give the corresponding 3-R-5,5-disubstituted 4,5-dihydrooxazoles. 

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