Orthocarbonic esters

Magnesium methylate is used as a drying agent for alcohols and other organic solvents and as an intermediate in various manufacturing processes, eg, for organomagnesium compounds (79), orthocarbonic esters (80), and for oxide coatings. 

Guanidines have been prepared by the reaction between an amine, or an amine salt, and a host of other reagents, such as a thiourea in the presence of lead or mercuric oxide [83, 157, 158], carbodi-imides [140, 174, 175],calcium cyanamide [176, 177], isonitrile dichlorides [178—180], chloroformamidines [181], dialkyl imidocarbonates [182], orthocarbonate esters [183], trichloro-methanesulphenyl chloride [184], and nitro- or nitroso-guanidines [185-188]. Substituted ureas can furnish guanidines, either by treatment with amines and phosphorus oxychloride [189], or by reaction with phenylisocyanate [190] or phosgene [191]. 

Guanidine or its salts may be prepared, among other ways, by the interaction. (1) of orthocarbonic ester or (2) of chloropicrin... 

From orthocarbonic esters and related compounds (including trialkoxycarbenium ions) 562... 

The reaction can be used for the preparation of orthocarbonic esters of higher primary alcohols and of 2-alkoxy-l,3-dioxolanes and -dioxanes.le> 873 For example, 2-methoxy-l,3-dioxolane is obtained in 70% yield by heating... 

The derivatives of anthranilic acid 179 (the products from the condensation of primary amines and the respective isatoic anhydrides) were treated with orthocarbonic ester, and the obtained compounds 180 were cyclized to the derivatives of 2,4-quinazolinedione 181 by the action of an alcohol solution of potassium hydroxide [67, 96, 104, 105],... 

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