CHELATION AS A DRIVING FORCE IN ORGANIC REACTIONS .4 SYNTHESIS OF ALPHA-NITRO ACIDS BY CONTROL OF CARBOXYLATION-DECARBOXYLATION EQUILIBRIUM
CHELATION AS A DRIVING FORCE IN ORGANIC REACTIONS .4 SYNTHESIS OF ALPHA-NITRO ACIDS BY CONTROL OF CARBOXYLATION-DECARBOXYLATION EQUILIBRIUM
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00888a031
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发表时间:
1963-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
STILES, M
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作者:
FINKBEINER, HL;STILES, M
Treatment of primary nitroparaffinswith carbon dioxide and magnesium methoxide (magnesium methyl car-bonate) leads to magnesium salts of the corresponding-nitrocarboxylic acids. These salts can be converted easily into the free nitro acids, the esters or the corresponding amino acids. The carboxylation reaction thus serves as a valuable method for synthesizing these compounds. On the basis of thecontrasting behavior of nitroacetic acid toward sodium methoxide and magnesium methoxide, it is concluded that the success of the car-boxylation reaction rests upon chelation of magnesium ions with the nitroacetate dianion. Thefirst and second ionization constants of nitroacetic acid in water are reported.Alteration of the length of a carbon chain by one unit often involves the addition or loss of carbon dioxide. Simple carboxylic acids can be synthesized and degraded by this scheme only if the strongest nucleophiles, such as Grignard reagents, are used in the carboxylation, and very drastic pyrolytic treatment in the decarboxylation. More interesting in preparative chemistry and biochemistry4 are those bifunctional acids such as I (eq. 1) where Xmay be acyl, carboxyl, nitro, cyano,