3-Pyrazolone, ring synthesis

The preparation of the selenazolyl-pyrazolones was then effected by a second method, in which first the pyrazolone ring and afterward the selenazole ring was formed. For this purpose -ketoester seleno-semicarbazones were first converted to the corresponding 1-seleno-carbamoyl-3-aIkylpyrazol-5-one. These, by condensation with a-halo-genocarbonyl compounds according to the Hantzsch synthesis, formed the selenazole ring as a second step (17). 

The l-arylpyrazol-5-ones (4.9), prepared by the two-step condensation of an arylhydrazine with ethyl acetoacetate, are the most commonly used coupling components for the synthesis of greenish yellow azo dyes. Coupling occurs at the 4-position of the pyrazolone ring which, as in the case of the acetoacetarylamides discussed above, is activated towards electrophilic attack by the two flanking unsaturated carbon atoms (Scheme 4.14). 

Reaction of hydrazine or substituted hydrazine with 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds to provide the pyrazole or pyrazolone ring system. Cf. Paal-Knorr pyrrole synthesis (page 333). 

A number of other five-membered ring nitrogen heterocycles have been prepared by cyclative cleavage. The illustrative examples (Fig. 4) depict the synthesis of pyrazolones,12 succinimides and phthalimides,13 pyrrolo[3,4-h] pyridines,14 2-aminoimidazolones,15 imidazo[4,5-fr]pyridin-2-ones,16 and l,2,4-triazoline-3,5-diones.17... 

The present article is Part III of a three part series. In Part I (01AHC(80)73) the synthesis and applications of pyrazol-3-ones I and II are described. In Part II (04AHC(87)141) the reactions of the ring atoms of pyrazol-3-ones I and II are given. Both of these articles cover the literature since January 1964. As in Part I and II, the present work is a follow up of the major work on pyrazolones published by Wiley and Wiley in the "Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds series of monographs (64MI1). The literature of this chapter has been searched up to August 2005. 

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