Rearrangement condensation

Some benzimidazoimidazopyridines can be prepared from the reaction of the sulfoxide 294 with acetic acid. This unusual acid-induced rearrangement, condensation, and oxidation sequence gives the dimer 295, the proposed pathway being as shown in Scheme 80 <1987JOC4582>. In a similar way, 296 can be converted into 297 upon treatment with acid <1999PHA734> (Equation 50). The product (probably a mixture of isomers) is described as violet in color, but it is obtained in amounts too small for its potential as a colorant to be assessed. 

Moving from rearrangements, condensation reactions were also presented. Condensation reactions occur when two reactive species condense with one another forming a new compound. The first was the aldol condensation (Scheme 8.9). Later, a more complex application of the aldol condensation was presented in the form of the Robinson annula-tion (Scheme 8.10). For both of these reactions, the underlying lessons relate to the ability to induce reactions and incorporate substitutions at carbon atoms adjacent to carbonyl groups. Similar reactivities of such carbon atoms can be utilized for alkylation (SN2) and acylation (addition-elimination) reactions as illustrated in Scheme 8.11. 

Lossen rearrangement. Condensation of a carboxylic acid with this reagent followed by mild base treatment leads to primary amines with one less carbon. 

Several examples have been reported of the synthesis of 2,3-unsaturated C-glycosides by application of the Lewis-acid catalysed rearrangement condensation with acylated glycals. These are Illustrated in Scheme 25 a more complex reaction of a related kind is shown in Scheme 26. An alternative route to 2,3-unsaturated C-glycosides Involves a C3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement... 

To obtain a maximum yield of the acid it is necessary to hydrolyse the by-product, iaoamyl iaovalerate this is most economically effected with methyl alcoholic sodium hydroxide. Place a mixture of 20 g. of sodium hydroxide pellets, 25 ml. of water and 225 ml. of methyl alcohol in a 500 ml. round-bottomed flask fitted with a reflux (double surface) condenser, warm until the sodium hydroxide dissolves, add the ester layer and reflux the mixture for a period of 15 minutes. Rearrange the flask for distillation (Fig. II, 13, 3) and distil off the methyl alcohol until the residue becomes pasty. Then add about 200 ml. of water and continue the distfllation until the temperature reaches 98-100°. Pour the residue in the flask, consisting of an aqueous solution of sodium iaovalerate, into a 600 ml. beaker and add sufficient water to dissolve any solid which separates. Add slowly, with stirring, a solution of 15 ml. of concentrated sulphuric acid in 50 ml. of water, and extract the hberated acid with 25 ml. of carbon tetrachloride. Combine this extract with extract (A), dry with a httle anhydrous magnesium or calcium sulphate, and distil off the carbon tetrachloride (Fig. II, 13, 4 150 ml. distiUing or Claisen flask), and then distil the residue. Collect the wovaleric acid 172-176°. The yield is 56 g. 

Stopper the side arm of a 25 or 50 ml. distilling flask and fit a vertical water condenser into the neck. Place 0-5-1 -0 g. of the dry acid (finely powdered if it is a solid) into the flask, add 2-5-5 0 ml. of redistilled thionyl chloride and reflux gently for 30 minutes it is advisable to place a plug of cotton wool in the top of the condenser to exclude moisture. Rearrange the condenser and distil off the excess of thionyl chloride t (b.p. 78°). The residue in the flask consists of the acid chloride and can be converted into any of the derivatives given below. 

A. Maleic acid. Assemble the apparatus shown in Fig. Ill, 28, 1. Place 45 g. of dry mahc acid in the 200-250 ml. distilling flask and cautiously add 63 g. (57 ml.) of pure acetyl chloride. Warm the flask gently on a water bath to start the reaction, which then proceeds exothermically. Hydrogen chloride is evolved and the malic acid passes into solution. When the evolution of gas subsides, heat the flask on a water bath for 1-2 hours. Rearrange the apparatus and distil. A fraction of low boiling point passes over first and the temperature rises rapidly to 190° at this point run out the water from the condenser. Continue the distillation and collect the maleic anhydride at 195-200°. Recrystallise the crude maleic anhydride from chloroform (compare Section 111,93) 22 g. of pure maleic anhydride, m.p. 54°, are obtained. 

Benzilic acid rearrangement Benzoin reaction (condensation) Blanc chloromethylation reaction Bouveault-Blanc reduction Bucherer hydantoin synthesis Bucherer reaction Cannizzaro reaction Claisen aldoi condensation Claisen condensation Claisen-Schmidt reaction. Clemmensen reduction Darzens glycidic ester condensation Diazoamino-aminoazo rearrangement Dieckmann reaction Diels-Alder reaction Doebner reaction Erlenmeyer azlactone synthesis Fischer indole synthesis Fischer-Speior esterification Friedel-Crafts reaction... 

Apart from the thoroughly studied aqueous Diels-Alder reaction, a limited number of other transformations have been reported to benefit considerably from the use of water. These include the aldol condensation , the benzoin condensation , the Baylis-Hillman reaction (tertiary-amine catalysed coupling of aldehydes with acrylic acid derivatives) and pericyclic reactions like the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition and the Qaisen rearrangement (see below). These reactions have one thing in common a negative volume of activation. This observation has tempted many authors to propose hydrophobic effects as primary cause of ftie observed rate enhancements. 

Apparatus 500-ml flask (see Fig. 1) for the preparation of the sulfinate 250-ml two-necked, round-bottomed flask with a reflux condenser and a thermometer for the 2,3-sigmatropic rearrangement. 

Apparatus 500-ml round-bottomed, three-necked flask, provided with a gas inlet tube, a mechanical stirrer and a thermometer-vent combination for the preparation of the a-chloroether 500-inl round-bottomed flask, provided with a gas inlet, a reflux condenser and a thermometer, dipping in the liquid for the elimination of HCT and the 3,3-sigmatropic rearrangement. 

The base catalyzed rearrangement of a monotosylated 1,2-diol on alumina, followed by immediate condensation of the sensitive ketone with methylenetriphenylphosphorane, gave the exo-methylene compound below (G. Btlchi, 1966B). 

Potts et al. (333) condensed dipolarophiles (DMA, dibenzoylacetylene, ethyl propiolate) with ylides (81) obtained by quaternization of 4-methyl-thiazole with an a-bromoketone or ester and subsequent deprotonation. In fact the 1 1 molar adduct obtained (82) rearranged to a pyr-rolothiazine (83). One example of this reaction is described Scheme 49. 

The three monomethylthiazoles and 2,5-dimethylthiazole undergo the same type of cyclo addition with rearrangement when condensed with DMA in DMF (Scheme 54) (335, 339). 

Acheson et al. (336) by the condensation of DMA with 2,4-dimethyl-thiazole in THF (Scheme 56). As Reid et al. (335) first proposed, the adduct of 2,4-dimethylthiazole with DMA in DMF (93) results from the normal cyclo-addition with rearrangement (Scheme 57). The conclusive demonstration of this structure was recently given by Acheson et al. (339)... 

Ludwig Claisen was a Ger man chemist who worked during the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth His name is associated with three reac tions The Claisen-Schmidt reaction was presented in Section 18 10 the Claisen condensation is discussed in this section and the C/a/sen rearrangement will be intro duced in Section 24 13... 

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