Oxomalonate

Ethyl Oxomalonate, 4,27 Ethyl Phenylacetate, 2, 27 Ethyl Propane-i, i, 2, 3-tetracar-boxylate, 4, 20, 77 Ethyl succinate, 6, 10 Ethyl sulfate, 4, 60... 

When an aromatic ring is treated with diethyl oxomalonate, (Et00C)2C=0, the product is an arylmalonic acid derivative, ArC(OH)(COOEt)2, which can be converted to an arylmalonic acid, ArCH(COOEt)2. This is therefore a way of applying the malonic ester synthesis (10-104) to an aryl group (see also 13-12). Of course, the opposite mechanism applies here The aryl species is the nucleophile. 

Reaction between aromatic compounds and diethyl oxomalonate... 

Mechanistic studies have been designed to determine if the concerted cyclic TS provides a good representation of the reaction. A systematic study of all the E- and Z-decene isomers with maleic anhydride showed that the stereochemistry of the reaction could be accounted for by a concerted cyclic mechanism.19 The reaction is only moderately sensitive to electronic effects or solvent polarity. The p value for reaction of diethyl oxomalonate with a series of 1-arylcyclopentenes is —1.2, which would indicate that there is little charge development in the TS.20 The reaction shows a primary kinetic isotope effect indicative of C—H bond breaking in the rate-determining step.21 There is good agreement between measured isotope effects and those calculated on the basis of TS structure.22 These observations are consistent with a concerted process. 

The best carbonyl components for these reactions are highly electrophilic compounds such as glyocylate, pyruvate, and oxomalonate esters, as well as chlorinated and fluorinated aldehydes. Most synthetic applications of the carbonyl-ene reaction utilize Lewis acids. Although such reactions may be stepwise in character, the stereochemical outcome is often consistent with a cyclic TS. It was found, for example, that steric effects of trimethylsilyl groups provide a strong stereochemical influence.28... 

Upon adding the calculated amount of water to ethyl oxomalonate, decolorization takes place immediately with evolution of heat, and on cooling a solid mass of ethyl dihydroxy-malonate results. After recrystallization from chloroform the product melts at 56-57°. (Communicated by Elizabeth Gilman and T. B. Johnson.)... 

When dihydroxyacetone is heated in aqueous solution with cupric acetate, the product is chiefly oxomalonic acid. Evans and Waring, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 48, 2680 (1926). 

When the reaction of diethyl oxomalonate 381 was carried out with the free 5-methyl isothiosemicarbazide, triazine 281 was obtained in addition to its isomeric triazine 382. Reaction of 382 with phosphorus oxychloride gave 383, whose reaction with guanidine or benzamidine gave 384, which cyclized to 385. This represents (85JOC2293) the first example of a preparation of this bicyclic system from a 1,2,4-triazine. 

An interesting pyrrolo[l,2-tf]pyrimidine was described as the product of the reaction of the heterocyclic ketene-aminals 236 that was synthesized by cyclocondensation of ketene dithioacetals 237 and 1,3-diamino propane. These compounds reacted with diethyl oxomalonate that behaves as an hetero-enophile, yielding the corresponding products 238 in acceptable to good yield (Scheme 31). A mechanism that involves an aza-ene reaction, via adduct 239 which isomerizes to ketene aminal 240 to produce the lactam ring of 238, has been proposed <1999J(P1)321>. 

Or, alternatively (see Scheme 3.3), the immediate precursor of patulin could be iO, arriving through this new route to tetrahydro-y-pyrone 12, as the starting material, together with the synthon =CH-COOR, which conveniently elaborated gives either a glyoxylic ester, OCH-COOR, or an oxomalonic diester. 

Thietes, four-membered precursors for the synthesis of 1,3-dilhianes or 1,3-oxathianes, provide access to the target heterocycles by reacting with either carbon disulfide and Lil <2002IJB1234, 2003S340> or, when the ring system denoted in Scheme 110 is aromatic, with diethyl 2-oxomalonate via a [4-1-2] cycloaddition pathway <1998JHC1505>. 

Condensation of 3-amino-2-(methylamino)pyridine 647 with diethyl 2-oxomalonate in boiling ethanol afforded 2-carbethoxy-4-methylpyrido[2,3- ]pyrazin-3(4//)-one 213 <1996JHC1737>. On the other hand, condensation of 647 with diethyl oxaloacetate gave ethyl [2(l//)-oxopyrido[2,3- ]pyrazine-3(4//)-ylidene]carboxylate 648 in addition to the formation of pyridodiazepine 649 as a by-product <1996JHC1737>. However, the condensation of 647 with diethyl 2-oxoadipate gave the 2-ethoxycarbonylpropyl analogue 650 (Scheme 30) <1994FA259>. 

The hypothesis ofWindaus and Ullrich48 that imidazole-4(5)-carbox-ylic acid (31) is formed after oxidation of D-glucose to 2-oxomalon-aldehydic acid, 0CH-C0-C02H, needs revision. As the reaction mixture was kept for three years, it is far more probable that a 4(5)-(hydroxyalkyl)imidazole was first formed, and that this was subsequently oxidized by the copper hydroxide in the reaction mixture to imidazole-4(5)-carboxylic acid. 

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