Ortho esters acylation

Acylated Corticoids. The corticoid side-chain of (30) was converted iato the cycHc ortho ester (96) by reaction with a lower alkyl ortho ester RC(OR )2 iu benzene solution ia the presence of i ra-toluenesulfonic acid (88). Acid hydrolysis of the product at room temperature led to the formation of the 17-monoesters (97) ia nearly quantitative yield. The 17-monoesters (97) underwent acyl migration to the 21-monoesters (98) on careful heating with. In this way, prednisolone 17a,21-methylorthovalerate was converted quantitatively iato prednisolone 17-valerate, which is a very active antiinflammatory agent (89). The iatermediate ortho esters also are active. Thus, 17a,21-(l -methoxy)-pentyhdenedioxy-l,4-pregnadiene-liP-ol-3,20-dione [(96), R = CH3, R = C Hg] is at least 70 times more potent than prednisolone (89). The above conversions... 

Salicylohydrazide (1) reacts with acyl chlorides or acid anhydrides in the presence of meth-anesulfonic acid to give 1,3,4-benzoxadiazepin-5(4//)-ones 2 (Method A).317 A modification (Method B) consists of the condensation of the hydrazide 1 with ortho esters.317... 

Another important consideration in the thermal processing of linear poly (ortho esters) is the possibility of reactions between cata-lyst/polymer/drug. Because anhydrides are very good acylating... 

The Grohe-Heitzer sequence (Scheme 4.2) begins with acylation of malonate derivative 37 with benzoyl chloride 36 to give malonate 38 (Mitscher, 2005). Condensation of the malonate with an ortho-ester in the presence of a dehydrating agent such as acetic anhydride affords enol ether 39. The enol ether then undergoes an addition-elimination... 

I. 463 A) is close to the value for fert-butyl hydroperoxide (1) (95° and 104°, two crystallo-graphically independent molecules), which points to a comparatively small steric demand of the acyl group in peresters. Due to its structural similarity to diaUsyl peroxides, it is reasonable that the ortho ester 56 P2, 0—0 = 1.481 A, C—O—O—C = 145.1°) exhibits a significantly larger peroxide dihedral angle than 54 . 

Preparation of polycyclic ortho esters and hydrogen ortho esters by acylation of diols and triols [164-170]. 

Nitrosation of, 401 Ortho acids, 41-42 Ortho amides, 42 Orthocarbonates, 42 Ortho esters, 41-68 halogenation of acyl groups, 58-60 monocyclic, 51-53 polycyclic, 51... 

A. Reduction Reactions Involving the Acyl Substituents of Ortho Esters. . 61... 

The ortho ester function is quite stable under neutral and basic conditions and is resistant to catalytic reduction [141]. However, acyl substituents with acid chloride [142] are reduced to aldehyde, and unsaturated centers [143-145] are saturated. The acyl side chain can also undergo the usual addition and substitution reactions without affecting the ortho ester function [145-147]. (See Eqs. 40, 45-47, and Table VII.)... 

Alcoholysis of trihalides 0-6 Hydrolysis of ortho esters 0-20 Alcoholysis of acyl halides 0-21 Alcoholysis of anhydrides 0-22 Esterification of carboxylic acids 0-23 Transesterification 0-24 Alkylation of carboxylic acid salts 0-25 Cleavage of ethers with anhydrides 0-26 Alkylation of carboxylic acids with diazo compounds... 

Enol Ethers and Esters 0-15 O-Alkylation of carbonyl compounds with diazo alkanes 0-17 Transetherification 0-20 Reaction between acyl halides and active hydrogen compounds 0-23 Transesterification 0-24 Acylation of vinylic halides 0-94 Alkylation with ortho esters 0-107 O-Acylation of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds... 

Amino groups react very easily with aldehydes or ketones, and with aldehydes in the presence of amines, they can be acylated by the usual acylating agents, and they react with amidacetals, Vilsmeier reagents and nitroso compounds (Scheme 12). As mentioned earlier, alkylation leads mainly to AT(2)-alkylated products. The hydrazino group reacts in the same way as the amino group with aldehydes or ketones, with acyl chlorides or carboxylic anhydrides, with sulfonyl chlorides, ortho esters, carbon disulfide and with nitrous acid. The last three reactions have mainly been used for the synthesis of condensed 1,2,4-triazines. 

A reaction of 4-nitro-l,2-phenylendiamine with benzotrichloride in the presence of sodium methylate [367] has been described. In this case 2-phenyl-5(6)-nitroben-zimidazole is obtained without preliminary extraction of the ortho-ester of benzoic acid. Sometimes acylated polynitroanilines, with one of the groups in the orthoposition to the amino group, are used as the initial products. On partial reduction of such compounds the cyclization to benzimidazoles takes place [85, 368], For example, the reduction of 2,4-dinitroacetanilyde with ammonium sulfide has afforded 2-methyl-5(6)-nitrobenzimidazole (Scheme 2.41) [85],... 

Regiochemical synthesis of 1-substituted imidazole-4-carboxylates can be achieved by treatment of a (Z)-)3-dimethylamino-of-isocyanoacrylate with an alkyl or acyl halide (see Section 2.1.1 and Scheme 2.1.8), by cyclization of 3-alkylamino-2-aminopropanoic acids with triethyl orthoformate followed by dehydrogenation of the initially formed imidazoline (see Section 3.1.1 and Scheme 3.1.2), by condensation of 3-arylamino-2-nitro-2-enones with ortho esters in the presence of reducing agents (see Section 3.1.1 and Scheme 3.1.4), by reaction of an alkyl A -cyanoalkylimidate with a primary amine (see Section 3.2 and Scheme 3.2.1), the poor-yielding acid-catalysed cyclization of a 2-azabutadiene with a primary amine (see Section 3.2 and Scheme 3.2.3), the cyclocondensation of an isothiourea with the enolate form of ethyl isocyanoacetate (see Section 4.2 and Scheme 4.2.5), and from the interaction of of-aminonitrile, primary tunine and triethyl orthoformate (see Chapter 5, Scheme 5.1.5, and Tables 5.1.1 and 5.1.2). 

A further application of the metal-template effect in the ortho-regioselective acylation of phenols is represented by the direct synthesis of salicyloyl chloride and derivatives by the reaction of bromomagnesium phenolates 4 with phosgene. The reaction affords the unstable salicyloyl chloride-magnesium complexes 5 by a pathway similar to the mechanism depicted in Scheme 5.2. These intermediates can be in situ converted into the corresponding acids 6 (Scheme 5.3), esters, amides, or ketones by reaction with suitable reagents. 

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