With halocarbonyl derivatives

Furthermore, they react with carbonyl derivatives such as acetone and benzaldehyde to give selenohydrazones identical to those prepared from the condensation of selenosemicarbazones with an a-halocarbonyl compound. 

OC-All lation of Carbonyl Compounds and Derivatives. The organoborate iatermediates generated by the reaction of alkylboranes with carbanions derived from a-halocarbonyl compounds and a-halonitriles rearrange to give a-alkylated products. 

Several modifications of the Feist-Benary furan synthesis have been reported and fall into two general classes 1) reactions that yield furan products 2) reactions that yield dihydrofuran products. One variant that furnishes dihydrofiirans uses substrates identical to the traditional Feist-Benary furan synthesis with a slight modification of the reaction conditions. The other transformations covered in this section involve the combination of P-dicarbonyls with reagents that are not simple a-halocarbonyls. Several reactions incorporate a-halocarbonyl derivatives while others rely on completely different compounds. 

The modified Hantzsch synthesis first described by Hofmann <1889LA(250)294> has remained the general method for preparing 1,3-selenazoles. Depending on the substitution required in the selenazole the requisite selenocarboxamide and a-halocarbonyl derivatives are coupled (Scheme 7) <79HC(34)217>. Since a chlorooxirane is isomeric with an a-chlorocarbonyl, 2-aminoselenazoles are also formed with selenourea (Equation (6)) <81T2607>. The synthesis of a 5-quinonyl-l,3-selenazole... 

The cyclization of -halocarbonyl compounds is carried out with a great variety of reactants including thioamides, thioureas, their mono- or disubstituted derivatives, and salts and esters of monothiocar-bamic acid, leading to variously substituted thiazoles. 

II. Thiazoles from a-Halocarbonyl Compounds and Derivatives 211 2. Reaction with N>Substituted Thioamides (ThiazoHum Salts)... 

II. Thiazoles from -Halocarbonyl Compounds and Derivatives 213 3. Reaction with Thiourea... 

The N,N-disubstituted thioureas (135) condensed with a-halocarbonyl compounds give 2-disubstituted aminothiazoies (136) but in lower yields (30 to 70%) (Scheme 65 and Table 11-20) (518). For example, N,N-dialkylthioureas condensed with chloroacetaldehyde or dibromoether lead to Ar,At-dialkyl-2-aminothiazoles in 136, Ri=R2 = methyl (342, 404, 436, 637), ethyl (343, 436), n-propyl (518), n-butyl (518), ally] (518), and benzyl (26, 29). When chloroacetone and dichloroacetone are the carbonyl reactants the corresponding 4-methyl (518) and 4-chloromethyl derivatives (572) were obtained. 

Hydroxythiazoles give 2-chIorothiazole derivatives almost quantitatively upon treatment with phosphorus oxychloride (221, 229, 428). This constitutes a convenient synthesis method for these compounds when the conversion of 2-aminothiazoles to 2-chlorothiazole derivatives fails. Esters of thiocarbamic acid or thiourethanes also react with a-halocarbonyl compounds to give the corresponding 2-alkoxythiazoles (50, 68, 209, 272). 

Initiated by Miolati in 1893 (27), taken up later by Levi (82), and successively by many other authors, the reaction of ammonium dithiocar-bamate (162) with a-halocarbonyl compounds gives 2-mercaptothiazole derivatives with yields varying greatly according to experimental conditions (Table 11-25). 

Although bromo derivatives have been used, the two most common ot-halocarbonyl compounds for this reaction are chloroacetaldehyde and chloroacetone. The dicarbonyl component is typically ethyl acetoacetate or one of its derivatives. A variety of bases including triethylamine and potassium hydroxide can promote the reaction however, the most popular base is pyridine. Conversion to the furan takes place either at room temperature or upon heating to 50°C with reaction times varying from four hours to five days and yields ranging from 30-86%. 

In some cases, the Grignard reaction can be performed intramolecularly. For example, treatment of 5-bromo-2-pentanone with magnesium and a small amount of mercuric chloride in THE produced 1-methyl-1-cyclobutanol in 60% yield. Other four- and five-membered ring compounds were also prepared by this procedure. Similar closing of five- and six-membered rings was achieved by treatment of a 6- or s-halocarbonyl compound, not with a metal, but with a dianion derived from nickel... 

Homologation via a-Haloenolates. Organoboranes can also be used to construct carbon-carbon bonds by several other types of reactions that involve migration of a boron substituent to carbon. One such reaction involves a-halocarbonyl compounds.19 For example, ethyl bromoacetate reacts with trialkylboranes in the presence of base to give alkylated acetic acid derivatives in excellent yield. The reaction is most efficiently carried out with a 9-BBN derivative. These reactions can also be effected with B-alkenyl derivatives of 9-BBN to give /i,y-unsaturatcd esters.20... 

In the 1,4-dinucleophile - 1,2-dielectrophile approach the most common situation is where heteroatoms function as nucleophiles and 1,2-dicarbonyl compounds, 1,2-dihalides or sulfonate esters, a-halocarbonyl compounds, etc., as the dielectrophile component. Representative examples are given in equations (76)-(79). Condensation of hydrazine and its derivatives with 1,4-dicarbonyl compounds is the common situation in the 1,2-dinucleophile- 1,4-dielectrophile approach, and the vast majority of pyridazine derivatives are prepared in this way (e.g equations 80 and 81). Sulfur 1,4-dielectrophiles have been used in related processes, but the method is not readily adaptable to the synthesis of oxygen heterocycles. 

Secondary aliphatic amines reacted readily with mercaptoaldimines (279), which could be prepared readily by the action of Na/NH3 on the aldehyde diacetals (278). The resulting N,N- dialkyl derivatives (280) were alkylated on sulfur by a-halocarbonyl compounds such as bromoacetic acid the resulting products (281) underwent spontaneous ring closure and aromatization via loss of the secondary amine to yield the acids (282 Scheme 97). Decarboxylation of the acids (282) furnished the substituted thieno[2,3-6 ]thiophenes (283). The use of other a-halocarbonyl compounds, such as bromoacetone or phenacyl bromide for the alkylation, led to the formation of the 2-acetyl or 2-benzoyl derivatives, (284) and (285) respectively (76AHC(19)123). 

The simplest way to make such a derivative is to treat a 3-halocarbonyl compound 59, easily made from the enone 58 by conjugate addition, with zinc metal to give a species that we might write as 60 but perhaps should be 61 or even 62. Whichever is correct, it is nucleophilic at the (3-carbon atom and the polarity of the enone 58 has been reversed. 

First discovered by Miolati in 1893 (1893G(23)437), the reaction of ammonium dithiocarba-mate with a-halocarbonyl compounds gives 2-mercaptothiazole derivatives, usually in good yields. These compounds have found wide use as accelerators in the vulcanization of rubber (Scheme 178). 

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