Pyrazolines from keto esters

The present method9 affords the methyl ester directly in high yields from 2-pyrazolin-5-ones, which are readily prepared in nearly quantitative yields from readily accessible, /3-keto-esters. In addition, the reaction is simple to carry out, conditions are mild, and the product is easily isolated in a high state of purity. A limitation of the reaction is that only the methyl ester can be made, as other alcohols have been found to give poor yields and undesirable mixtures of products. Table I illustrates other examples of the reaction.10... 

The thermal ring opening of the pyrazoline (351) occurs with elimination of nitrogen and the formation of a keto ester. The latter cyclizes with loss of ethanol to the pyran-2-one (352 Scheme 110) (02CB782). Since pyrazolines may be obtained from a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of diazoacetic ester and an unsaturated ketone, this route is in effect a further example of a type (i) synthesis (Scheme 85). 

Solid-phase synthesis of substituted pyrazolones 550 from polymer-bound /3-keto esters 549 has been described (Scheme 68) <2001EJ01631>. Trisubstituted pyrazole carboxylic acids were prepared by reaction of polymer-bound arylidene- or alkylidene-/3-oxo esters with phenylhydrazines <1999S1961>. 2-(Pyrazol-l-yl)pyrimi-dine derivatives were prepared by cyclocondensation of ethyl acetoacetate and (6-methyl-4-oxo-3,4-dihydropyrimi-din-2-yl)hydrazine with aromatic aldehydes <2004RJC423>. Reactions of acylated diethyl malonates with hydrazine monohydrochloride in ethanol afforded 3,4-disubstituted-pyrazolin-5-ones <2002T3639>. Reactions of hydrazines with A -acetoacetyl derivatives of (45 )-4-benzyloxazolidin-2-one (Evans oxazolidinone) and (2R)-bornane-10,2-sultam (Oppolzer sultam) in very acidic media gave pyrazoles retaining the 3(5)-chiral moiety <1999S157>. 

A facile synthesis of allenic esters (187) is by reaction between acid chlorides (185) and phosphoranes (186) derived from a-halo-esters. Yields are 10— 70% presumably ketens are intermediates. Cyclic /3-keto-esters can serve as precursors to cyclic allenic esters by sequential conversion to the 2-pyrazolin-5-one derivatives, using hydrazine and oxidation with thallium trinitrate (Scheme 26) overall yields are around 50%. ... 

Derivatives of Y-hydroxyacetylenic acids, which are useful intermediates in the synthesis of butenolides, are prepared from propiolic acid and ester anions. Alk-2-ynoic and 2-allenic esters are prepared by the oxidation of 3,4-disubstituted 2-pyrazolin-5-ones with lead(iv) tetra-acetate in the absence and presence of BF3 respectively. Py-Unsaturated esters are produced in high yield by the palladium-catalysed decarboxylation-carbonylation of allylic carbonates. Magnesium enolates of esters react with nitriles to give (Z)-3-amino-alk-2-enoates. Enol lactones react with diethyl methoxycarbonylmethylphosphonate to give cyclic unsaturated keto-esters (Scheme 66). ... 

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