Thiazolecarboxylic acids, acidity derivatives

Hydroxyalkylthiazoles are also obtained by cyclization or from alkoxyalkyl-thiazoles by hydrolysis (36, 44, 45, 52, 55-57) and by lithium aluminium hydride reduction of the esters of thiazolecarboxylic acids (58-60) or of the thiazoleacetic adds. The Cannizzaro reaction of 4-thiazolealdehyde gives 4-(hydroxymethyl)-thiazole (53). The main reactions of hydroxyalkyl thiazoles are the synthesis of halogenated derivatives by the action of hydrobroraic acid (55, 61-63), thionyl chloride (44, 45, 63-66), phosphoryl chloride (52, 62, 67), phosphorus penta-chloride (58), tribromide (38, 68), esterification (58, 68-71), and elimination that leads to the alkenylthiazoles (49, 72). 

On account of the high degree of stability of the thiazole ring a large variety of substituted derivatives yield thiazolecarboxylic acids upon oxidation. The oxidation of a methyl group or a substituted methyl group to a carboxyl group has been accomplished in a few instances. 

Thiazolecarboxylic acids can also be prepared by catalytic dehalogena-tion of 2-halo derivatives (22, 23, 24). 

Iversen and Lund have realized the polarographic reduction of 2-thiazolecarboxylic acid and some of its derivatives in acid solution. They obtained 2-thiazolecarboxaldehyde (58),... 

As mentioned previously, aldehydes can be prepared by Stephen s method of reduction of nitriles by stannous chloride (37, 91). Polaro-graphic reduction of thiazolecarboxylic acids and their derivatives gives lower yields of aldehydes (58). Ozonolysis of styrylthiazoles, for example, 2-styryl-4-methylthiazole, followed by catalytic reduction gives aldehyde with 47% yield of crude product (30). 

The thiazolecarboxylic acid structure (40) was also guessed in a similar way, from tracer experiments. The unknown compound was converted into the thiamine thiazole by heating at 100°C and pH 2. On paper electrophoresis, it migrated as an anion at pH 4. Tracer experiments indicated that it incorporated C-l and C-2 of L-tyrosine, and the sulfur of sulfate. The synthetic acid was prepared by carboxylation of the lithium derivative of the thiamine thiazole, and the derivatives shown in Scheme 19 were obtained by conventional methods. Again, the radioactivity of the unknown, labeled with 35S could not be separated from structure 40, added as carrier, and the molar radioactivity remained constant through several recrystallizations and the derivatizations of Scheme 17. 

Thiazolecarboxylic acids, esters or acid chlorides react readily with ammonia or various amines, affording the corresponding carboxamides. Dehydration of the amides with phosphorus pentoxide or phosphoryl chloride occurs readily and gives the corresponding nitriles (Scheme 99). Thiazolecarboxylic acid hydrazides are obtained in a similar way, using hydrazine or substituted hydrazines instead of ammonia or amines. The Raney nickel reduction of cyanothiazoles leads to the corresponding amino compounds, the 4-cyano derivative being the isomer most readily reduced. 

NMR study of nitrothiazoles has been the subject of few number of works [525, 530-540], The proton chemical shifts of about 30 thiazole derivatives including 5-nitrothiazole and 2-nitrothiazole are presented in [536], The authors have found the coupling constants between H-2 and II-4 in most 5-substituted thiazoles to be negligible with the exception of 5-nitrothiazole and 5-thiazolecarboxylic acids [536], The change in the H-4 chemical shifts of the 2-substituted 5-nitrothiazole fragment enables the ratio of isomeric products of the reaction of 5-nitrothiazole 2-(T,3 -dicarbonyl) derivatives with hydrazine and hydroxylamine to be established (Scheme 3.8) [537],... 

Thiazole adds may undergo many different types of reduction. Chemical reduction of thiazolecarboxylic acids and of their derivatives to yield the corresponding alcohols can be accomplished with lithium aluminium hydride in ether solution (53). 

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