Synthesis of methyl 3-bromomethylbut-3-enoate and its reactions with aldehydes and tributylchlorostannane in the presence of zinc
作者:I. V. Mineeva、O. G. Kulinkovich
DOI:10.1134/s1070428008090029
日期:2008.9
Methyl 3-bromomethylbut-3-enoate smoothly reacted with prenal, beta-ionylideneacetaldehyde, benzyloxyacetaldehyde, and tributylchlorostannane in the presence of zinc and aqueous ammonium chloride in tetrahydrofuran to give the corresponding delta-hydroxy-beta-methylidenecarboxylic acid esters. In the absence of ammonium chloride, satisfactory yields of the products were obtained only in the reactions with prenal and benzyloxyacetaldehyde; these reactions involved lactonization of intermediate delta-hydroxy-beta-methylidenecarboxylic acid esters, and the double carbon-carbon bond migrated to the conjugated position with the lactone carbonyl group. The condensation of beta-ionylideneacetaldehyde with methyl 3-bromomethylbut-3-enoate was successfully used to obtain isotretinoin. Initial methyl 3-bromomethylbut-3-enoate was synthesized in a good yield from readily accessible ethyl 3,3-diethoxypropionate via cyclopropanation with ethylmagnesium bromide in the presence of titanium tetra(isopropoxide), oxidation of the acetal moiety to ester, and cleavage of the cyclopropane ring in intermediate methyl (1-methylsulfonyloxycyclopropyl)acetate.