Methyl propiolate

The direct combination of selenium and acetylene provides the most convenient source of selenophene (76JHC1319). Lesser amounts of many other compounds are formed concurrently and include 2- and 3-alkylselenophenes, benzo[6]selenophene and isomeric selenoloselenophenes (76CS(10)159). The commercial availability of thiophene makes comparable reactions of little interest for the obtention of the parent heterocycle in the laboratory. However, the reaction of substituted acetylenes with morpholinyl disulfide is of some synthetic value. The process, which appears to entail the initial formation of thionitroxyl radicals, converts phenylacetylene into a 3 1 mixture of 2,4- and 2,5-diphenylthiophene, methyl propiolate into dimethyl thiophene-2,5-dicarboxylate, and ethyl phenylpropiolate into diethyl 3,4-diphenylthiophene-2,5-dicarboxylate (Scheme 83a) (77TL3413). Dimethyl thiophene-2,4-dicarboxylate is obtained from methyl propiolate by treatment with dimethyl sulfoxide and thionyl chloride (Scheme 83b) (66CB1558). The rhodium carbonyl catalyzed carbonylation of alkynes in alcohols provides 5-alkoxy-2(5//)-furanones (Scheme 83c) (81CL993). The inclusion of ethylene provides 5-ethyl-2(5//)-furanones instead (82NKK242). The nickel acetate catalyzed addition of r-butyl isocyanide to alkynes provides access to 2-aminopyrroles (Scheme 83d) (70S593). 

Examples of photochemical methods of addition to acetylene derivatives are the addition of methyl disulfide to hexafluoro-2-butyne [7] (equation 8), of trifluaramethanethial to methyl propiolate [S] (equation 9), of methanethiol to trifluoromethylacetylene and hexafluoro-2-butyne [9] (equation 8), and of tri-methylsilane to tetrafluoropropyne [10. ... 

A more conventional cycloaddition occurs with activated acetylenes, however, the intermediate cyclobutene adducts undergo rearrangement to give insertion of two carbon atoms into the enamine chain (55). Thus the enamine (16) reacted with methyl propiolate to give the dienamino ester (73), presumably via the cycloaddition product (65a). 

The reaction of methyl propiolate (82) with acyclic enamines produces acyclic dienamines (100), as was the case with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate, and the treatment of the pyrrolidine enamines of cycloheptanone, cyclooctanone, cycloundecanone, and cyclododecanone with methyl propiolate results in ring enlargement products (100,101). When the enamines of cyclohexanone are allowed to react with methyl propiolate, rather anomalous products are formed (100). The pyrrolidine enamine of cyclopentanone forms stable 1,2-cycloaddition adduct 83 with methyl propiolate (82). Adduct 83 rearranges to the simple alkylation product 84 upon standing at room temperature, and heating 83 to about 90° causes ring expansion to 85 (97,100). 

Similarly, methyl propiolate and methyl phenylpropiolate give the cyclazine (67) and its 2-phenyl derivative, respectively, as would be expected of reactions initiated through a Michael addition to the acetylenic ester. 

Methyl propiolate and pyridine give a rather unstable 2 1 molar adduct which is the 1,2-dihydropyridine (112). The reaction sequence proposed to account for its formation is identical in principle to a similar scheme proposed earlier in the acridine series (Section II,A,2) and is also supported by the observation that the 1-benzoyl-pyridinium cation with the phenylacetylide anion yields (113). ... 

These amines gave, with methyl propiolate, products of Michael mono- and bis-addition. Adducts underwent further reaction leading to triazolo[4,5-/]quinolones 181, after retro Diels-Alder reaction and acetylene elimination to its methoxycar-... 

With a change to non-polar solvent, the reaction of ylides 269 with alkynes and alkenes changed dramatically, as shown in Scheme 10. With DM AD in toluene the ylides give pyrazolopyridines 272 in good yield (91TL4977), and with methyl propiolate (MEP) give indolizines 273 (92H(33)203). The reaction with acrylates is much less clean, but the variety of products is said to be formed from a diazene intermediate, which splits to give a diradical (93H(35)851). 

Irradiation of dimethyl ,2.7-trimethyl-l//-azcpinc-3,6-dicarboxylate (5) yields methyl 1,2,5-trimethylpyrrole-3-carboxylate (7) most probably by loss of methyl propiolate from the bicyclic valence tautomer 6 (cf. Houben-Weyl, Vol.6a, p719).239... 

Davis and coworkers199 found another convenient way to generate arenesulphenic acids by the thermolysis of IV-alkylidenearenesulphinamides 145. On heating 145 for 24 h at 80-115° in methyl propiolate or ethyl acrylate it afforded methyl trans-arenesulphinylacrylates 146 and ethyl arenesulphinylpropionate 147, respectively, in high yields. 

The synthesis of 2-chloro-2,3,3-trifluorocyclobutyl acetate illustrates a general method of preparing cyclobutanes by heating chlorotrifluoroethylene, tetrafluoroethylene, and other highly fluorinated ethylenes with alkenes. The reaction has recently been reviewed.11 Chlorotrifluoroethylene has been shown to form cyclobutanes in this way with acrylonitrile,6 vinylidene chloride,3 phenylacetylene,7 and methyl propiolate.3 A far greater number of cyclobutanes have been prepared from tetrafluoroethylene and alkenes 4,11 when tetrafluoroethylene is used, care must be exercised because of the danger of explosion. The fluorinated cyclobutanes can be converted to a variety of cyclobutanes, cyclobutenes, and butadienes. 

Trimethylsilylketene and acyl isocyanates generate 4-trimethylsiloxy-l,3-oxazin-6-ones 12 in situ, which smoothly react with the enamines of cycloalkanones to give bicyclic 2-pyridones 13 <96TL(37)4977>. The heterocycles 12 also undergo the Diels-Alder reaction with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate or methyl propiolate to furnish substituted 2-pyridones <96TL(37)4973>. 

Phenylacetylene is apparently one of thee few actylenes so far reported which is able to react via the cis addition of Co—H. Methyl propiolate, ethyl... 

B. By Hydrolysis Reactions.—Details have appeared of the synthesis of dibenzophosphorin oxides (15) from 5-alkyldibenzophospholes, by reaction with methyl propiolate in the presence of water, and of confirmatory syntheses from phosphinic acid chlorides, as shown below. Evidence for the suggested mechanism of the ring-expansion reaction is presented. The hydrolysis of enamine phosphine oxides is an efficient, although somewhat indirect, method for the preparation of j8-ketoalkylphosphine oxides (16) [see Section 3(iii), for the preparation of enamine oxides]. Reasonable yields (48—66%) of trialkylphosphine oxides (17) have been obtained by the alkaline hydrolysis of the products from the pyrolysis at 220 °C of red phosphorus with alkyl halides, in the presence of iodine. 

A. Preparation.—The first reverse Wittig olefin synthesis has been reported. Triphenylphosphine oxide and dicyanoacetylene at 160 °C gave the stable ylide (1 78%) the reaction was reversed at 300 °C. No comparable reaction was observed with a variety of other activated acetylenes but tri phenyl arsine oxide gave the corresponding stable arsoranes with dicyanoacetylene (— 70 °C), methyl propiolate, hexafluorobut-2-yne, dimethyl acetylene dicarboxylate, and ethyl phenylpropiolate (130 °C). 

The authors confirmed the formation of vinyl Ru-complex 21 by the reaction of [Cp Ru(SBu-t)]2 with methyl propiolate (Eq. 7.15). To my knowledge, this is the first observation of the insertion of an alkyne into the M-S bond within a catalytically active metal complex. In 2000, Gabriele et al. reported the Pd-catalyzed cycloisomerization of (Z)-2-en-4-yne-l-thiol affording a thiophene derivative 22 (Eq. 7.16) [26]. 

Formation of complexes with excess methyl propiolate or dimethyl acetylenedicar-boxylate must not be allowed to proceed at above +20°C, or violently explosive polymerisation of the acetylene esters will occur. 

Another example of the preparing of aromatic compounds via the Diels-Alder reaction of nitroalkenes is presented in Eq. 8.16.26 Cycloaddition of methyl propiolate affords a high yield of the isomeric product. 

The 3-oxo-2-pyrazolidinium ylides 315, easily available by reaction of the corresponding pyrazolidin-3-one with aromatic aldehydes, function as 1,3-dipoles in cycloaddition reactions with suitable alkenes and alkynes to provide the corresponding products. When unsymmetrical alkynes are used, mixtures of both possible products 316 and 317 are usually obtained (Equation 45). The regioselectivity of cycloadditions of the reaction with methyl propiolate is influenced by the substituents on the aryl residue using several 2,6-di- and 2,4,6-trisubstituted phenyl derivatives only compound 316 is formed <2001HCA146>. Analogous reactions of 3-thioxo-l,2-pyrazolidinium ylides have also been described <1994H(38)2171>. 

Reaction of iV-aminoisoindoline 450 with methyl propiolate affords betaine 451 and its treatment with hydrochloric acid gives intermediate chloro derivative 452, which can be cyclized to 453 by treatment with a base or by heating (Scheme 75) <1995LA817>. 

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