With methoxide

Electron-deficient alkenes add stereospecifically to 4-hydroxy-THISs with formation of endo-cycloadducts. Only with methylvinyl-ketone considerable amounts of the exo isomer are produced (Scheme 8) (16). The adducts (6) may extrude hydrogen sulfide on heating with methoxide producing 2-pyridones. The base is unnecessary with fumaronitrile adducts. The alternative elimination of isocyanate Or sulfur may be controlled using 7 as the dipolarenOphile. The cycloaddition produces two products, 8a (R = H, R = COOMe) and 8b (R = COOMe, R =H) (Scheme 9) (17). Pyrolysis of 8b leads to extrusion of furan and isocyanate to give a thiophene. The alternative S-elimi-nation can be effected by oxidation of the adduct and subsequent pyrolysis. 

When 5-halogeno-2-nitrothiazole reacts with methoxide ion. the leaving group is the nitro group in position 2, following Scheme 17 (86). 

FIGURE 23 4 Struc ture of the rate determining intermediate in the reaction of p fluoronitrobenzene with methoxide ion... 

If there is no phenyl substituent in the 3-position the amination ability decreases. The acyloxaziridine (104) yields only 11% of a semicarbazide derivative with piperidine. In the presence of strong bases an intramolecular amination competes. Compound (104) reacts with methoxide within a couple of seconds to give phenylhydrazine carboxylic ester (106), and with cyclohexylamine to give the substituted semicarbazide (107). A diaziridinone (105) is assumed to be the common intermediate, formed by an intramolecular reaction from deprotonated (104) (67CB2600). 

Another route to a certain class of 6a-methoxypenicillanates (77TL3831) also probably involves the intermediacy of a 6-imino species. As shown in Scheme 46, 6/3-ketenimino intermediates are readily formed with penicillins having this kind of side chain. Chlorination followed by treatment with methoxide affords the 6a-methoxy-6/3-ketimine, probably involving the intermediates shown. 

Pyrylium perchlorate, 2,4,6-triphenyl-hydrolysis, 3, 741 nitration, 3, 649 reactions with alkali, 3, 652 with methoxides, 3, 652 with piperidine, 3, 655 synthesis, 3, 869... 

Halosilanes also undergo facile elimination when treated with methoxide ioa... 

Treatment of l,2-difluoro-3,5-dinitrobenzene with methoxide leads to a single isomer of fluorodinitroanisole. Obtain the energies of the possible Meisenheimer complexes and predict the structure of the product. Is this outcome consistent with the previously-established directing effect of the nitro group ... 

In terms of the final loss of aniline after ring closure, the fact that reactions using EtsN and BU3N, (ammonium ion as proton source) occurred at the same rate as the reactions with methoxide base (MeOH as proton source) suggested a lack of general acid catalysis. Also, it was found that varying the amount of available acid did not change the rate of cyclization appreciably. ... 

A COMPAMSON OF THE REACTIVITIES OF ChLOBO-QUINOLINES WITH MeTHOXIDE AND AbYLSUDFIDE... 

A similar kinetic effect was reported for the reaction of 4-chloro-pyridine 1-oxide with methoxide ion at 50°, and still larger effects were obtained with the 2- and 3-isomers at the same temperature. ... 

The order NO2 > Cl, which is known for the reactions of nitro-activated aromatic compounds, is also found for pyridine and quinoline derivatives. In the reaction of 2-chloro-4-nitroquinoline with methoxide ion, only the 4-methoxide derivative is formed, as shown by gas-chromatography, whereas 2,4-dichloroquinoline yields a mixture of the isomeric chloro-methoxy derivatives in comparable amounts. ... 

Bunnett and co-workers have shown that an or Ao-carboxy-late anion decreases the rate of reaction of 4-nitrochlorobenzene with methoxide ion but rather strongly increases the reaction rate with piperidine. This effect arises from an accelerative increase in the... 

The effect of a substituent may be substantially modified by fast, concurrent, reversible addition of the nucleophile to an electrophilic center in the substituent. Ortho- and para-CS.0 and pam-CN groups have been found by Miller and co-workers to have a much reduced activating effect on the displacement of halogen in 2-nitrohaloben-zenes with methoxide ion [reversible formation of hemiacetal (143) and imido ester anions (144)] than with azide ion (less interaction) or thiocyanate (little, if any, interaction). Formation of 0-acyl derivatives of 0x0 derivatives or of A-oxides, hydrogen bonding to these moieties, and ionization of substituents are other examples of reversible and often relatively complete modifications under reaction conditions. If the interaction is irreversible, such as hydrolysis of a... 

The diEFerent activation and deactivation influences are seen in 4,5-bromo-2-phenylpyridazin-3-one (209) which reacts with methoxide, hydrazine, or secondary amines at the 6-position. Related N—H and iV -alkyl halopyridazinones behave similarly. 

Even polyalkoxy-s-triazines are quite prone to nucleophilic substitution. For example, 2,4,6-trimethoxy-s-triazine (320) is rapidly hydrolyzed (20°, dilute aqueous alkali) to the anion of 4,6-dimethoxy-s-triazin-2(l )-one (331). This reaction is undoubtedly an /S jvr-4r2 reaction and not an aliphatic dealkylation. The latter type occurs with anilines at much higher temperatures (150-200°) and with chloride ion in the reaction of non-basified alcohols with cyanuric chloride at reflux temperatures. The reported dealkylation with methoxide has been shown to be hydrolysis by traces of water present. Several analogous dealkylations by alkoxide ion, reported without evidence for the formation of the dialkyl ether, are all associated with the high reactivity of the alkoxy compounds which ai e, in fact, hydrolyzed by usually tolerable traces of water. Brown ... 

Reduction of the imine with sodium borohydride leads to an intermediate amino-ester that cyclizes spontaneously to the <5-lactam function. Solvolysis of the acetyl group with methoxide followed by acylation of the hydroxyl group thus liberated with trimethoxybenzoyl chloride leads to 38. Bischler-Napieralski cyclodehydration (phosphorus oxychloride) effects closure of the remaining ring. Reduction of the imine thus formed with sodium borohydride gives 39. This, it should be noted, leads to the... 

An alternate scheme for preparing these compounds starts with a prefabricated pyrimidone ring. Aldol condensation of that compound (95), which contains an eneamide function, with pyridine-3-aldehyde (80), gives the product 96. Catalytic hydrogenation gives the product of 1,4 reduction. The resulting pyrimidinedione, of course exists in the usual tautomeric keto (97a) and enol (97b) forms. Reaction with phosphorus oxyxchloride leads to the chloro derivative 98. Displacement with methoxide gives 99. Reaction of this last intermediate with the furylalkylamine derivative 92 leads to the H-2 blocker lupitidine (100) [22]. 

Hydrogenation of l-0-acetyl-2,4,6-tri-0-benzoyl-2,3-didehydro-3-deoxy-a-D-erythro-hexose (30) gave a crystalline l-0-acetyl-2,4,6-tri-0-benzoyl-3-deoxyhexose in 60% yield, which on de-esterification with methoxide in methanol afforded 3-deoxy- -D-nfeo-hexose (22). It was not possible to hydrogenate the / isomer under the conditions used for the a form, presumably because the large trans-related C-l and C-4 ester groupings prevent the necessary contact with the catalyst. 

Propose a mechanism for the reaction of l-ch)oroanthraquinone with methoxide ion to give the substitution product 1-methoxyanthraquinone. Use curved arrows to show the electron flow in each step. 

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