Quinoxalinecarboxylic acids preparation

This chapter covers not only nuclear and extranuclear quinoxahnecarboxylic acids (and anhydrides) but also the carboxylic esters, acyl halides, carboxamides, carbohydrazides, carbonitriles, carbaldehydes, and (ketonic) acyl derivatives of quinoxaline a few related speceis are also included. To avoid repetition, the interconversions of these quinoxaline derivatives are discussed only at the first opportunity thus the esterification of quinoxalinecarboxylic acids in covered as a reaction of carboxylic acids rather than as a preparative route to carboxylic esters, simply because the section on carboxylic acids precedes that on carboxylic esters. To minimize any confusion, appropriate cross-references have been inserted. 

This section covers the preparation and reactions of quinoxalinecarboxylic esters, generally the most convenient derivatives of quinoxalinecarboxylic acids. 

Preparation. Virtually aU quinoxalinecarbonyl chlorides have been made by treatment of the corresponding quinoxalinecarboxylic acids with thionyl chloride (see Section 7.1.2). 

Several routes to such derivatives have been covered already by primary synthesis (Chapter 1), from quinoxalinecarboxylic acids (Section 7.1.2), from quinoxalinecarboxylic esters (Section 7.2.2), and from quinoxalinecarbonyl halides (Section 7.3). Other preparative routes are illustrated in the following classified examples. 

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