Y-Bromocrotonate

METHYL y-BROMOCROTONATE JV-Bromosuccinimide. Dissolve, with the aid of rapid mechanical stirring, 80 g. of pure succinimide (Section V,14) in a mixture of 150 g. of finely crushed ice and a solution of 32 g. of sodium hydroxide in 200 ml. of water contained in a litre beaker and cooled externally by ice. Immediately the imide has dissolved, continue the vigorous stirring and introduce 42 -5 ml. of bromine in one lot from a separatory funnel supported over the beaker it is essential that the bromine be instantly suspended in the solution. After stirring vigorously for 2 minutes, filter at the pump and... 

Methyl y-bromocrotonate. Mix 36 g. of iV-bromosuccinimide, 40 g. of methyl crotonate and 60 ml. of dry, redistilled carbon tetrachloride in a 500 ml. round bottomed flask. Reflux ou a water bath for 12 hours by this time all the sohd should have risen to the surface of the liquid. Filter off the succinimide at the pump and wash it with a little dry carbon tetrachloride. Remove the solvent on a water bath and distil the residue under reduced pressure, preferably from a Widmer flask (compare Figs. II, 24, 4-5). Collect the methyl y-bromocrotonate at 77-78°/8 mm. the yield is 31 g. 

A common goal of library synthesis is to maximize diversity around a core, so the synthetic route described above was extended to accommodate a variety of substituted aryl groups. The modified route is shown in Scheme 11. The solid-phase starting material was Rink amide resin,36 which had been loaded with y-bromocrotonic acid (attempts to load with other suitable fragments, such as fumaraldehydic acid, or the pentafluorophenol-activated ester, failed). Substituted ort o-iodoanilines could then be used to alkylate... 

Methyl n-amyl carbinol. 247, 254 Methyl n-amyl ketone, 482 Methylaniline (mono), pure, from commercial methylaniline, 562, 570 P-Methylanthraquinone, 728, 740 Methyl benzoate, 780, 781 p-Methyl benzyl alcohol, 811,812 Methyl benzyl ketone, 727, 735 Methyl y-bromocrotonate, 926, 927 2-Methyl-2-butene, 239 Methyl n-butyl carbinol, 247,255 Methyl n-butyl ether, 314 Methyl n-butyl ketone, 475, 481 4-Methylcarbostyril, 855 p-Methylcinnamic acid, 719 4-Methylcoumarin, 853, 854 Methyl crotonate, 926, 927 Methylethylacetic acid, 354, 358 Methylethylethynyl carbinol, 468 Methyl ethyl ketone, 335, 336 purification of, 172 Methyl n-hexyl ether, 314 Methyl n-hexyl ketone, 335, 336 Methyl n-hexyl ketoxime, 348 Methyl hydrogen adipate, 938 Methyl hydrogen sebacate, 938,939 4-Methyl-7-hydroxycoumarin, 834 Methyl iodide, 287 Methyl isopropyl carbinol, 247,255 Methyl 4-keto-octanoate, 936... 

Reformatsky reaction.5 The Reformatsky reaction of y-bromocrotonic acid with aldehydes or ketones in THF gives rise to a mixture of branched and linear unsaturated hydroxy acids. The former are the kinetic products and, on equilibration, rearrange to the latter products. 

Various 3-substituted l-cyano-2-methylthioindolizines (68) have been prepared by treating a-[bis(methylthio)methylene]-2-pyridine acetonitrile with a-haloketones and ethyl-y-bromocrotonate nitromethane gave the 3-nitroso compound.80... 

Two simple applications may be mentioned. With cyclohexene, 3-bromo-cyclohexene is obtained in a satisfactory yield (Expt 5.68), the latter upon dehydrobromination with quinoline affords an 80-90 per cent yield of cyclo-hexa-1,3-diene (Expt 5.13). Methyl crotonate yields the valuable synthetic reagent methyl y-bromocrotonate (Expt 5.69) this latter compound permits the introduction (in moderate yield) of a four-carbon atom chain at the site of the carbonyl group by the use of the Reformatsky reaction (compare Expt 5.170) ... 

Experiment 5.69 METHYL y-BROMOCROTONATE (Methyl 4-bromobut-2-enoate)... 

In this reaction organometallic compounds incapable of existence in high concentration are formed and utilized immediately. When an aide hyde or ketone is condensed with a halo ester the product is a fi-bydroxy ester. Sometimes dehydration occurs to give olefinic esters directly (method 19). The use of an ester as the carbonyl compound leads to /3-keto esters (method 234). The halo esters most commonly employed are of three types XCHjCOjCjHj, RCHXC02CjHj, and R CXCO CjH,. Vinylogous halo esters, such as y-bromocrotonate, and certain benzyl halides have been used with variable success. 

The tanshinones are diterpenoid furanoquinones which occur in the roots of Salvia miltiorrhiza. The syntheses of tanshinone II and cryptotanshinone were accomplished from 1,2,4-trimethoxybenzene. This was converted by a Friedel-Crafts acylation to 2,4,5-trimethoxybenzoylpropionic acid and thence to the tetralone (125). The tetralone was condensed with ethyl y-bromocrotonate and the product converted directly to a naphthylbutyric ester. Curiously, an aromatic methoxy-group was displaced in this reaction. Reaction of the ethyl ester with methyl magnesium iodide and cyclodehydration afforded the tetra-hydrodimethoxyphenanthrene (126). The furan ring was added via the derivative (127) which underwent cyclization and decarboxylation to afford (128). Hydrolysis and oxidation gave the tanshinone (129). 

Indium. 14,181 16,181-182 18. 18< AUylation in water. Numerous arious allylic bromides. The highly synthetically valuable. On the other y-bromocrotonate leads mainly to the a... 

The reactions of carbon disulfide with malononitrile in the presence of sodium methoxide in methanol followed by treatment of the resulting dicyanodithioacetate 118 with y-bromocrotonic acid derivatives can also be assigned to this reaction type (90LA115). These reactions give diamino-substituted thienothiophenes 119 as the final products. 

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