5 -Oxazolones oxidative decarboxylation

The oxidation by molecular oxygen or the base-catalyzed oxidative decarboxylation of saturated 5(4//)-oxazolones 278 yields diacylamines and provides an efficient procedure to prepare imides 279 from Al-acylamino acids (Scheme 7.90). 

The Diels-Alder reaction of (Z)-4-arylidene-2-phenyl-5(4//)-oxazolone 707 and Danishefsky s diene is best conducted in toluene at reflux to produce both the endo and the exo stereoisomers of 708. Base treatment of the cycloadduct mixture promotes aromatization through spontaneous oxidative decarboxylation to give 3-aryl-4-benzamidophenols that are converted to 3-aryl-4-aminophenols 709 by acid... 

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