Maleic acid anhydride 3 -pyridazinones

Maleic anhydride and hydrazine give the hydroxy-pyridazinone ( maleic hydrazide ) directly, " the additional unsaturation in the 1,4-dicarbonyl component meaning that an oxidative step is not reqnired conversion of 3-hydroxypyridazin-6-one into 3,6-dichloropyridazine makes this useful intermediate very easily available. Mucohalo acids (18.1.1.4), synthons for 4-carboxy-aldehydes, are an oxidation level down and produce l-aryl-pyridazin-3-ones on reaction with arylhydrazines. ... 

Many (benzo)pyridazines are made from 1,4-diketo compounds, and the industrial supply of, for example, maleic and phthalic anhydrides and mucohalic acids make them attractive and widely used starting materials, which can be used in conjunction with substituted hydrazines to give a range of A-substituted derivatives. Some other 1,4-diketo compounds are commercially available on a smaller scale, including, for example, certain 3-benzoylpropionic acids from which 6-aryl-4,5-dihydro-3(2//)-pyridazinones can be prepared. When such precursors are not commercially available then ease and scope of synthetic approaches to the starting materials must be considered, but for established routes, such as 6-aryl-4,5-dihydro-3(2//)-pyridazinones from 3-aroylpropionic acids, a variety of synthetic methods have been developed so that a wide range of (substituted)aroyl derivatives can be prepared. Synthetically useful preformed (benzo)pyridazine derivatives that are commercially available include 4,5-dichloro-3(2F/)-pyridazinone, 3,6-dichloropyridazine, and 1,4-dichlorophthalazine. 

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