Phosphorus oxychloride, dehydration

Because of resonance stabilization of the anion, a tet-nazolyl moiety is often employed successfully as a bioisosteric replacement for a carboxy group. An example in this subclass is provided by azosemide (27). Benzonitrile analogue is prepared by phosphorus oxychloride dehydration of the corresponding benzamide. Next, a nucleophilic aromatic displacement reaction of the fluorine atom leads to The synthesis concludes with the 1,3-dipolar addition of azide to the nitrile liinction to produce the diuretic azosemi de (27). ... 

Phosphorus oxychloride, dehydration of formamides with, 41, 13, 101 removal from reaction of cyanoacetic acid and phosphorus pentachlo-ride, 41,5,7... 

The phosphorus oxychloride formed in the reaction is a dehydrating agent also. 

Thiazole carboxamides are readily dehydrated to nitriles in good yields by heating with phosphorus oxychloride (91), phosphorus pentoxide (87, 71), or phosphoryl chloride (16) (Scheme 19). 

Pyridazinecarboxamides are prepared from the corresponding esters or acid chlorides with ammonia or amines or by partial hydrolysis of cyanopyridazines. Pyridazinecarboxamides with a variety of substituents are easily dehydrated to nitriles with phosphorus oxychloride and are converted into the corresponding acids by acid or alkaline hydrolysis. They undergo Hofmann degradation to give the corresponding amines, while in the case of two ortho carboxamide groups pyrimidopyridazines are formed. 

Carboxylic acid derivatives on pyridopyrimidine rings appear to undergo normal reactions with electrophilic reagents, e.g. the 6-amide (70) is dehydrated to the 6-nitrile with phosphorus oxychloride. 

Thus, Mathis et al. [1, 2] investigated oxidation reactions with 4-nitroperbenzoic acid, sodium hypobromite, osmium tetroxide and ruthenium tetroxide. Hamann et al. [3] employed phosphorus oxychloride in pyridine for dehydration. However, this method is accompanied by the disadvantages that the volume applied is increased because reagent has been added and that water is sometimes produced in the reaction and has to be removed before the chromatographic separation. 

Tetrahydrostrychnine, CgjHggOgNg. HgO. This substance, also formed by the electrolytic reduction of strychnine, crystallises from alcohol in prisms, m.p. 202°, gives colour reactions of the strychnidine type, and yields both neutral and acid salts the hydrochloride, B. HCl, occurs in small needles readily soluble in water and the dihydriodide, B. 2HI. 2HjO, in pyramidal crystals. The base yields an amorphous nitrosoamine, the hydrochloride of which crystallises from warm water in lustrous, yellowish prisms. It also furnishes a crystalline monoacetyl derivative, and on heating with hydrochloric acid or phosphorus oxychloride is dehydrated to strychnidine. 

Dehydration of 17a-hydroxy-20-ketopregnanes can be accomplished by phosphorus oxychloride/pyridine treatment at room temperature for 4 or more days ... 

The requisite starting cyanohydrin is readily prepared from a 20-keto-pregnane substitution at C-21 has no effect on the success of this step. However, the stability of the cyanohydrin is markedly dependent on other features of the molecule thus a 3-acetate confers greater stability than the free alcohol, and a 3-ketone is so unstable that subsequent dehydration with phosphorus oxychloride gives poor yields of the A -unsaturated nitrile. 

Tnfluoromethyl homoallyl alcohols also dehydrate easily with phosphorus oxychloride-pyridine complex, but it is very difficult to remove water from their saturated analogues by the same method [82] (equation 52)... 

A thioamide of isonicotinic acid has also shown tuberculostatic activity in the clinic. The additional substitution on the pyridine ring precludes its preparation from simple starting materials. Reaction of ethyl methyl ketone with ethyl oxalate leads to the ester-diketone, 12 (shown as its enol). Condensation of this with cyanoacetamide gives the substituted pyridone, 13, which contains both the ethyl and carboxyl groups in the desired position. The nitrile group is then excised by means of decarboxylative hydrolysis. Treatment of the pyridone (14) with phosphorus oxychloride converts that compound (after exposure to ethanol to take the acid chloride to the ester) to the chloro-pyridine, 15. The halogen is then removed by catalytic reduction (16). The ester at the 4 position is converted to the desired functionality by successive conversion to the amide (17), dehydration to the nitrile (18), and finally addition of hydrogen sulfide. There is thus obtained ethionamide (19)... 

To circumvent the need for strong acid and allow the dehydration of secondary alcohols, reagents have been developed that are effective under mild, basic conditions. One such reagent, phosphorus oxychloride (POCI3) in the basic amine solvent pyridine, is often able to effect the dehydration of secondary and tertiary alcohols at 0 °C. 

Phosphine(s), chirality of, 314 Phosphite, DNA synthesis and, 1115 oxidation of, 1116 Phospholipid, 1066-1067 classification of, 1066 Phosphopantetheine, coenzyme A from. 817 structure of, 1127 Phosphoramidite, DNA synthesis and, 1115 Phosphoranc, 720 Phosphoric acid, pKa of, 51 Phosphoric acid anhydride, 1127 Phosphorus, hybridization of, 20 Phosphorus oxychloride, alcohol dehydration with. 620-622 Phosphorus tribromide, reaction with alcohols. 344. 618 Photochemical reaction, 1181 Photolithography, 505-506 resists for, 505-506 Photon, 419 energy- of. 420 Photosynthesis, 973-974 Phthalic acid, structure of, 753 Phthalimide, Gabriel amine synthesis and, 929... 

Dehalogenation of l,l,2-trichloro-2,3,3-trifluorocyclobutane, 43,45 Dehydration of formamides with phosphorus oxychloride to isocyanides, 41, 13, 101... 

Rossi and co-workers <66AC(R)741> independently reported the synthesis of 33 using the same method. Reduction of 33 with sodium borohydride, followed by dehydration afforded 34 in 80% yield. Compounds 40a and 40b were prepared from 39a and 39b with phosphorus oxychloride in 92% and 65% yields, respectively (Scheme 11) <66AC(R)741>. 

The reaction of benzo-2-furancarboxylic acid with thiosemicarbazide under microwave conditions enables the use of an equivalent amount of phosphorus oxychloride and a short reaction time <2003SC2891 >. Moreover, solvent-free conditions are achieved when acidic alumina is used as dehydrating agent under microwave heating in the reaction of alkyl carboxylic acids with thiosemicarbazide <2000SC3031>. 

Phenyl cinnamate and other phenolic esters have been prepared by heating the acid and phenol in the presence of phosphorus oxychloride,1 and by heating the acid anhydride and phenol together in the presence of a dehydrating agent such as fused zinc chloride or anhydrous sodium acetate.2 Phenyl cinnamate has also been prepared by the careful distillation of phenyl fumarate.3... 

Phenanthridine cyclization by dehydrative ring closure of acyl-o-aminobiphenyls with phosphorus oxychloride in boiling nitrobenzene. 

The isoquinoline framework is derived from the corresponding acyl derivatives of P-hydroxy-P-phenylethylamines. Upon exposure to a dehydrating agent such as phosphorus pentaoxide, or phosphorus oxychloride, under reflux conditions and in an inert solvent such as decalin, isoquinoline frameworks are formed. 

Key components for the synthesis of biaryl ether macrocycles were diisonitriles 98 and 101. The former was synthesized in two steps (61% yield) from commercially available diamine 97 by bisformamide formation and subsequent dehydration with phosphorus oxychloride (Scheme 16). Starting ma-... 

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