Pyrazolines reduction

Only two topics are of importance for this section the reduction of pyrazolium salts and 3-pyrazolin-5-ones by complex hydrides, and the nucleophilic photosubstitution of pyrazoles and indazoles. 

A -Pyrazolines are obtained by the reduction of pyrazoles with sodium and alcohol, by catalytic hydrogenation on palladium or by electrochemical means (B-76MI40402). In some cases the reduction proceeds further yielding pyrazolidines and open-chain compounds. 

A mechanism has been proposed to rationalize the results shown in Figure 23. The relative proportion of the A -pyrazolines obtained by the reduction of pyrazolium salts depends on steric and electronic effects. When all the substituents are alkyl groups, the hydride ion attacks the less hindered carbon atom for example when = Bu only C-5 is attacked. The smaller deuterohydride ion is less sensitive to steric effects and consequently the reaction is less selective (73BSF288). Phenyl substituents, both on the nitrogen atom and on the carbon atoms, direct the hydride attack selectively to one carbon atom and the isolated A -pyrazoline has the C—C double bond conjugated with the phenyl (328 R or R = Ph). Open-chain compounds are always formed during the reduction of pyrazolium salts, becoming predominant in the reduction of amino substituted pyrazoliums. 

Hi) Electrochemical reactions and reactions with free electrons Electrochemical oxidation of 3-methyl-l-phenylpyrazole gave the 3-carboxylic acid whereas electrochemical reduction (Section 4.04.2.1.6(i)) of l,5-diphenyl-3-styrylpyrazole produced the A -pyrazoline (B-76MI40402) with concomitant reduction of the exocyclic double bond (343). 

A -pyrazolines from, 5, 250 structure, 5, 169 Isoquinoline, 4-acetamido-reduction, 2, 327... 

Pyrazoline-5-thiones photoelectron spectroscopy, 5, 205 Pyrazolinium salts reduction, 5, 254 Pyrazolinium salts, 1,2-dimethyl-synthesis, 5, 276... 

Protected pyrazoline derivatives 429 can be transformed by conventional ozonolysis methodology to the corresponding aldehydes 430, then the Cbz protecting group is removed and the intramolecular reductive amination using... 

Reduction of unsaturated aromatic aldehydes to unsaturated hydrocarbons poses a serious problem, especially if the double bond is conjugated with the benzene ring or the carbonyl or both. In Clemmensen reduction the a,)8-unsaturated double bond is usually reduced [160], and in Wolff-Kizhner reduction a cyclopropane derivative may be formed as a result of decomposition of pyrazolines formed by intramolecular addition of the intermediate hydrazones across the double bonds [280]. The only way of converting unsaturated aromatic aldehydes to unsaturated hydrocarbons is the reaction of... 

Polyhalo ketones, reductive dehalogenation of, 29, 2 Pomeranz-Fritsch reaction, 6, 4 Prevost reaction, 9, 5 Pschorr synthesis, 2, 6 9, 7 Pnmmerer reaction, 40, 3 Pyrazolines, intermediates in diazoacetic ester reactions, 18, 3 Pyridininm chlorochromate, 53, 1 Pyrolysis ... 

It should be noted, however, that the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition chemistry of diazo compounds has been used much less frequently for the synthesis of natural products than that of other 1,3-dipoles. On the other hand, several recent syntheses of complex molecules using diazo substrates have utilized asymmetric induction in the cycloaddition step coupled with some known diazo transformation, such as the photochemical ring contraction of A -pyrazolines into cyclopropanes. This latter process often occurs with high retention of stereochemistry. Another useful transformation involves the conversion of A -pyrazolines into 1,3-diamines by reductive ring-opening. These and other results show that the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition chemistry of diazo compounds can be extremely useful for stereoselective target-oriented syntheses and presumably we will see more applications of this type in the near future. 

The electrochemical properties of cycloaddition derivatives of Ceo bearing pyrazolines such as (18a-c) (see Fig. 11) have been reported recently [115]. Their first reduction potential occurs 40-80 mV... 

Another 2,3-bis(phenylhydrazone), namely, l,5 4,6-dianhydro-2,3-hexodiulose bis(phenylhydrazone) (62a), was also found to cyclize to a pyrazoline (63a) by the action of copper(II) sulfate or benzalde-hyde, which usually convert osazones into aldosuloses or osotria-zoles.65 Reduction of this bicyclic compound (63a) led to the pyrazo-lidine 64, and periodate oxidation of 63a gave the expected aldehyde 65. 

Another interesting reaction of benzoxazines 114 (115) is the reductive opening of the oxazine ring with simultaneous dehydrogenation of the pyrazoline moiety [170]. This process is carried out in a KOH suspension of a mixture of dimethyl sulfoxide and dimethylformamide. For instance, this treatment involving 2,5-diary l-l,10b-dihydro-177-pyrazolo[l,5-c]benzo[e]-l,3-oxazines 116 leads to the formation of pyrazoles 117 (Scheme 2.32). Similar disproportionation reactions have also been described for some bezopiranes, for example, pyrazole derivative 118 [91, 170]. 

Thoms and Schnupp741 reduced pyrazole itself to pyrazoline, with a palladium catalyst in acetic acid at 20° but this is the only reported catalytic reduction of a pyrazole ring unsubstituted on nitrogen. Under these conditions V-phenyl pyrazoles are converted to V-phenyl-pyrazolines and then at 80° to N-phenylpyrazolidines.741... 

Rosenmund reduction of pyrazole acid chlorides to aldehydes never causes reduction of the ring.834,635,744,745 Attempts to prepare the aldehydes by the sodium amalgam reduction of the anilides, however, gave only traces of the required products,635 but the fate of the pyrazole ring is not recorded. It is the authors experience that pyrazoles unsubstituted on nitrogen are usually unaffected by sodium and alcohol, although the reduction to pyrazoline by sodium and alcohol at 130° and 20 atmospheres pressure has been patented.746 Reduction of Ar-phonyIpyrazoles is somewhat easier sodium and alcohol reduce them to A-phenylpyrazolines,77,78, 207,235, 447,567,... 

Reduction of one or two double bonds in the azole ring gives nonaromatic systems. Historically, these derivatives have been described as azolines and azolidines, as illustrated by the pyrazole derivatives 25 and 26. In 3-pyrazoline 25 the 3 indicates the first ring atom associated with the double bond . In the older literature the position of the double bond is indicated by An, where n is the number of the first ring atom associated with the double bond, e.g., A3-pyrazoline 25. Alternatively, they are named as dihydro or tetrahydro derivatives of the parent azole (e.g., 2,5-dihydropyrazole 25) and this nomenclature is IUPAC-preferred nomenclature for rings with more than two heteroatoms . 

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