Diazomethane reaction with

Furan and thiophene undergo addition reactions with carbenes. Thus cyclopropane derivatives are obtained from these heterocycles on copper(I) bromide-catalyzed reaction with diazomethane and light-promoted reaction with diazoacetic acid ester (Scheme 41). The copper-catalyzed reaction of pyrrole with diazoacetic acid ester, however, gives a 2-substituted product (Scheme 42). 

Arndt-Eistert reaction is used to convert an acid compound into the next higher homologue by reaction with diazomethane... 

A valuable extension of the diazomethane reaction for the preparation of A-homosteroids was discovered by Johnson, Neeman and Birkeland " who found that a,j5-unsaturated ketones are homologated by reaction with diazomethane in the presence of either fluoroboric acid or boron trifluoride. The main product is formed by the insertion of a methylene group between the carbonyl group and the unsaturated a-carbon to give a / ,y-unsaturated ketone. 

Fluoroallene is somewhat less reactive than 1,1 difluoroallene, requinng 1 h for complete reaction with diazomethane compared with the almost instantaneous... 

The determination of position of protonation by reaction with diazomethane was performed as follows The enamine was treated at —70° with ethereal hydrogen chloride and the suspension of precipitated salt was treated with diazomethane and allowed to warm slowly to —40°, at which temperature nitrogen was liberated. The reaction with lithium aluminum hydride (LAH) was carried out similarly except that an ether solution of LAH was added in place of diazomethane. The results from reaction of diazomethane and LAH 16) are summarized in Table 1. 

Dioxohexahydro-l,2,4-triazine (dihydro-6-azauracil) (128) yields a diacetyl derivative (129) which is relatively stable toward hydrolysis. The acetylation of the iV-methyl derivatives and the course of the reaction with diazomethane indicates that acetylation takes place here in positions 1 and 2 ... 

On the basis of its reaction with diazomethane, 2,4-dihydroxyquino-line was reported to exist as 4-hydroxyquinol-2-one in the solid state and as an equilibrium mixture of this form with 2-hydroxyquinol-4-one in solution. Using the infrared criteria for o- and p-quinonoid forms (see Section II,L), the spectra of 2,4-dihydroxy-pyridine and -quinoline indicated that both quinonoid forms, e.g., 12 (Z = NH) and 13 (Z — NH), were present and that the nonaroraatic form (43) was absent. ... 

Early investigators adduced various kinds of chemical evidence in support of a monohydroxy-dioxo structure for barbituric acid (112) (a) reaction with diazomethane afforded a mono-O-methyl deriva- iye,i59,i6o barbituric acid and its 5-alkyl derivatives are much stronger acids than the 5,5-dialkyl derivatives, and (c) the 5-bromo and 5,5-dibromo derivatives have different chemical properties. - The early physical evidence also appeared to substantiate the monoenol structure, this formulation having been suggested for barbituric acid in 1926 on the basis of its ultraviolet spectrum and again in 1934, In the 1940 s, ultraviolet spectroscopic studies led to the suggestion of other monohydroxy and dihydroxy structures for barbituric acid, whereas its monoanion was assigned structure 113 (a clear distinction between ionization and tautomerism was not made in these papers). 

Methylation of 1-hydroxyindoles can be achieved readily by the reaction with diazomethane, Mel, orMc2S04 in the presence of an appropriate base, as described in previous reviews (79MI1, 90AHC105, 91YGK205, 99H1157). Alkylation and acylation also work well with alkyl halides, acyl halides, acid anhydrides, and acids in the presence of acid activators such as DCC and so on. 

Hydroxypyridine (86, R = H) and its derivatives also belong to the class of heterocyclic enols. In benzene and dioxane, 3-hydroxy-pyridine occurs as the neutral molecule (and not as a betaine).Its reaction with diazomethane, in heterogeneous media, gives a mixture of 3-methoxypyridine (86, R = Me) (10%) and l-methyl-3-hydroxy-pyridinium betaine (87) (30%If tert-butanol is used as a... 

If the carbonyl grou]) in the 3-position of N-methylisatin or tlii-ana])hthencquinone is blocked by formation of an oxime (cf. 112), A -methylation of the oxime group occurs instead of ring expansion on reaction with diazomethane. In methanol, thianaphthenequinone oxime iV-mcthyl ether (113) then undergoes ring opening catalyzed by diazoniethane (113 114). 

Because of the high polarity of the C=N double bonds, cyanuric chloride (120, R= Cl) is comparable with a carboxylic acid chloride. This explains its smooth reaction with diazomethane to yield dichloro-(diazomcthyl)-l,3,5-triazine (121, R = The analogous com-... 

Reaction of 2-pyrrolylbenzoic acid derivative 122 with PCI5 and subsequent reaction with diazomethane gave the diazoacetophenone 123 that upon treatment with silver oxide, sodium carbonate and sodium thiosulfate afforded acetic acid derivative 124, cyclization with acetic anhydride gave 125 (91JHC77) (Scheme 24). 

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