5- Phenylethynylpyrazoles

Note that 1,4-substituted butadiynes with diazomethane can form two isomers. Kuznetsov and co-workers have considered this problem in detail and established that diphenyldiacetylene with diazomethane forms, in standard conditions (ether, 0°C, 9 days), only one of the two possible regioisomers 4-phenyl-3(5)-phenylethynylpyrazole (yield 86%) (93ZOB1107). The cyclization of derivatives of phenoxy-2,4-hexadiyn-6-oles with diazomethane leads to only one isomer of alkynylpyrazole (76MI1 77MI1) (Scheme 8). 

As a substrate, 4-amino-5-acetylenylpyrazole 71 was chosen in this compound the position of interacting groups is the most favorable for intramolecular cyclization. Indeed, 4-amino-l,3-dimethyl-5-phenylethynylpyrazole 71 isomerized into l,3-dimethyl-5-phenylpyrrolo[3,2-c]pyrazole 70 in 65% yield under heating in DMF for 4 h in the presence of Cul (83IZV688). The authors have noticed that the cyclization of 71 is accelerated by the addition of CuC=CPh. 

It is known that the ability of nitrotolane to cyclize depends on electronic factors (69MI2) hence l,3-dimethyl-4-nitro-5-phenylethynylpyrazole, whose acetylene group is in the most electron-accepting position of the pyrazole ring, i.e., favorable for nucleophilic addition, was introduced into the reaction of cyclization. Thus,... 

The proton spectra of 1-substituted 3-nitropyrazoles [296], 5-substituted 3-methyl-l-aryl-4-nitropyrazoles [297, 298], 1,3- and l,5-diphenyl-4-nitropyra-zoles [281], 5-iodo-4-nitro-l,3-dimethylpyrazole [299], l-methyl-3-nitro-4- and l,3-methyl-4-nitro-5-phenylethynylpyrazoles [300], l-methyl-3-nitro-5-methoxy-carbonylpyrazole [301], l-methyl-3-nitro- and l-methyl-5-nitro-4-cyanopyrazoles [302], A-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)nitropyrazoles [303], a- and [3-anomers of 3-nitro-and4-nitropyrazolyl-l-ribonucleosides [304, 305], 3-substituted 1,5-dimethyl- [306] and 5-substituted l,3-dimethyl-4-nitropyrazoles [279], l-acetyl-3-anilino-4-nitro-5-dimethylaminopyrazoles [307], 3-substituted 4-nitro-5-carboxylic acid derivatives [308, 309], 4-nitropyrazolo[4,3-e][l, 4]diazepin-5,8-diones showing antimicrobial activity [310], l-heteryl-4-nitropyrazole derivatives [311], 3-nitro- and 5-nitro-l-methylpyrazole [312], 4-nitro-5-(trimethylsilyl)pyrazole [313], 3-methyl-4-nitro-pyrazol-5-ones [298], and some other nitropyrazoles [248, 314-320] have been examined. 

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