Pyrazoles, synthesis, diazomethane

PECHMANN PYRAZOLE SYNTHESIS. Formation of pyrazoles from acetylenes and diazomethane. The analogous addition of diazoacetic esters to the triple bond yields pyrazolecarboxylic acid derivatives. 

Buchner accomplished the first synthesis of pyrazole by a cycloaddition in 1889, but not by the direct reaction of diazomethane and ethyne, but with methyl diazoacetate and an electron-deficient dipolarophile, ethynedicarboxylate (see Sect. 6.2). Unsubstituted ethene and ethyne were considered for a very long time to be not sufficiently reactive for synthetic purposes, although von Pechmann (1898 b) had reported a 50 0 yield of pyrazole from diazomethane and ethyne shortly after the discovery of diazomethane. The knowledge of diazomethane being explosive is probably the reason that the obvious advantage of a reaction under pressure in order... 

The original reaction discovered by Pechmann involved the cycloaddition of diazomethane and acetylene. Although a better understanding of the reaction has led to the common use of more electron-deficient alkynes, diazomethane continues to be synthetically useful. A recent elegant example of the use of diazomethane as the 1,3-dipole was demonstrated in the preparation of 2,3-benzodiazepine derivatives as potential non-competitive AMPA antagonists. " Beginning with the alkyne, the pyrazole moiety could be incorporated into the benzodiazepine structure, using the Pechmann pyrazole synthesis, to produce the 2,3-benzodiazepines. 

In a number of studies, the Pechmann pyrazole synthesis has found utility in the synthesis of fluorinated heterocycles.As an example, the cyclization between 13 and diazomethane resulted in the efficient preparation of trifluoroalkyl pyrazole 14. As is the case with the majority of isolated pyrazoles, the product 14 is in equilibrium with the other N-H tautomer. 

Extension of the 1,3-DC approach to the synthesis of novel pyrazoline-fused chlorin 78 by the reaction of P-nitro-meso-tetraphenylporphyrin le with diazomethane has also been explored by Cavaleiro and co-workers (Scheme 27) <02S 1155>. The resulting chlorin 78 could be further converted into the pyrazole-fused porphyrin 79 by treatment with DBU or into the methanochlorin 80 by refluxing in toluene. 

Diazo compounds have also been used as precursors in the preparation of pyrazoles and indazoles. The copper-promoted cycloaddition reaction of lithium acetylides 18 with diazocarbonyl compounds 19 provided a direct and efficient approach to the synthesis of pyrazoles 20 <07AG(I)3242>. A facile, efficient, and general method for the synthesis of 1-arylated indazoles 22 and A-unsubstituted indazoles 23 by the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of benzynes, generated from 21, with diazomethane derivatives has been reported <07AG(I)3323>. Reaction of diazo(trimethylsilyl)methylmagnesium bromide with aldehydes or ketones gave 2-diazo-2-(trimethylsilyl)ethanols, which were applied to the synthesis of di- and trisubstituted pyrazoles via [3+2] cycloaddition reaction with ethyl propiolate or dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate <07S3371>. 

Dipolar cycloaddition reactions are most commonly applied for the synthesis of five-membered heterocyclic compounds.86 87 [3+2] cycloaddition reactions of transition-metal propargyl complexes have been reviewed.88 Addition of diazomethane to carbene complexes (CO)5Cr= C(OEt)R results in cleavage of the M = C bond with formation of enol ethers H2C = C(OEt)R,3 89 but (l-alkynyl)carbene complexes undergo 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions at the M = C as well as at the C=C bond. Compound lb (M = W, R = Ph) affords a mixture of pyrazole derivatives 61 and 62 with 1 eq diazomethane,90 but compound 62 is obtained as sole... 

The synthesis and relative stability of 3,5-diacyl-4,5-dihydro-l//-pyrazoles prepared by dipolar cycloaddition of enones and a-diazoketones has been published <2004JOC9085>. 3-Acyl-4-aryl-2-pyrazolines have been synthesized by the reaction of a,/3-unsaturated ketones with diazomethane <1996IJB1091>. Ethyl diazoacetate added to 1,3-diarylpropenones in a regioselective fashion to give the intermediate 4,5-dihydto-3//-pyrazole derivative 1,3-hydride shift in the latter led to the formation of the isomeric ethyl 4-aryl-5-aroyl-4,5-dihydro-l//-pyrazole-3-carboxylate and ethyl 4-aryl-3-aroyl-4,5-dihydro-l/7-pyrazole-5-carboxylate in a ratio of 5 1 <2001RJ01517>. 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition of 2-diazopropane with diarylideneacetones afforded diastereomeric bis-A -pyrazolines <1999T449>. 

For the more reactive allylic halides 4 a and 4 b the salt of diethyl hydrazinodicarboxylate was used as the nucleophile in preference to hydrazine.Deazetization of the resultant 4,5-dihydro-37/-pyrazoles 5 gave a mixture of alkylidenecyclopropanes 6 and 7. It should be noted that attempts to make 4-isopropylidene-4,5-dihydro-37/-pyrazole (5 b) by the more obvious route (by the reaction of diazomethane with 3-methylbuta-l,2-diene) failed. This route has been modified for the synthesis of various deuterated derivatives of 5 and used to make optically active (3/ ,57 )-3,5-dimethyl-4-methylene-4,5-dihydro-3/f-pyrazole, but all of the cyclopropanes produced from thermolysis of this compound were racemic. A similar route has also been used in the synthesis of 7,7-dimethyl-6b,7a-dihydro-7//-cycIopropa[fl]acenaph-thylene. ... 

Cycloaddition of diazo and azido compounds with acetylenes constitutes a well-established method for the synthesis of pyrazoles and triazoles. Addition of diazomethane to ethynylphosphonates provides... 

Diazo reagents have also been utilized in the preparation of pyrazoles. 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition of 2-diazopropane with propargyl alcohols led to the regioselective synthesis of 3//-pyrazoles <05EJO3526>. Reactions of diazomethane or diazoethane with activated sulfoxides 47 in the presence of Yb(OTf)3 produced a stereocontrolled synthesis of bicyclic pyrazoles 48 <05JOC8942>. 

A well-established pathway for the synthesis of silylated heteroarenes is the 1,3-dipolarophilic cycloaddition of alkynylsilanes (97a/189) with diazo compounds (261) or (262). Thus, TMS-phenylacetylene (97a) and diazomethane (261) form 3-TMS-4-phenylpyrazole (263), whereas bis(TMS)-acetylene (189) and 261 afford 3,4-bis-(TMS)-pyrazole (264). Ethyl diazoacetate (262) plus 189 give rise to 3,4-bis(TMS)-5-ethoxycarbonylpyrazole (265) in good yields (equation 121)151. The sterospecific formation of 263 via 1,3-dipolarophilic cycloaddition from 97a and 261 can be considered as... 

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