A DEVELOPMENT OF AN EFFECTIVE METHOD FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF 2-(5-OXO-4,5-DIHYDRO-1,2,4-OXADIAZOL-3-YL)BENZOIC ACID

2-(5-Oxo-4,5-dihydro-1,2,4-oxadiazol-3-yl)benzoic acid was synthesized using a new effective method – thermal heterocyclization of 3-(hydroxyimino)isoindolin-1-one, which occurs as a result of its interaction with 1,1'-carbonyldiimidazole (CDI) and subsequent base-promoted cycleopening of the obtained intermediate 3H,5H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo[3,4-a]isoindole-3,5-dione. Direct cyclization of 3-(hydroxyimino)isoindolin-1-one by the reaction with diethyl carbonate in the presence of sodium ethylate in ethanol at room temperature and under heating was unsuccessful. The same result was observed when using triphosgene in the presence of triethylamine in dichloromethane. Treating 3-(hydroxyimino)isoindolin-1-one with methyl chloroformate gave 3-(((methoxycarbonyl)oxy)-imino)isoindolin-1-one which was thermally stable and was not cyclized into the desired acid by boiling in toluene and o-xylene for 24 hours. The reflux of the excess of CDI with 3-(hydroxyimino)isoindolin-1-one in anhydrous ethyl acetate and subsequent alkaline hydrolysis gave the desired 2-(5-oxo-4,5-dihydro-1,2,4-oxadiazol-3-yl)benzoic acid in a total yield of 90%. An attempt to stop the process at the stage of formation of the intermediate 3H,5H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo[3,4-a]isoindole-3,5-dione by carrying out the reaction in the absence of a base failed. Its partial hydrolysis took place during the reaction, and especially at the stage of isolation, and as a result a mixture of 3H,5H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo[3,4-a]isoindole-3,5-dione and 2-(5-oxo-4,5-dihydro-1,2,4-oxadiazol-3-yl)benzoic acid was formed in a ratio of about 2:3. The obtained substance after mixing with aqueousmethanolic NaOH solution and subsequent acidification with 1M HCl was quantitatively converted into the pure desired acid. The developed method allows the use of 3-(hydroxyimino)isoindolin-1-ones as convenient starting materials for the preparation of vic-(5-oxo-4,5-dihydro-1,2,4-oxadiazol-3-yl)aromatic acids and subsequently related compounds, in particular isomeric vic-carbamimidoyl(hetero)aromatic carboxylic acids, which cannot be obtained by other currently known methods. All the compounds obtained during the development of the method were studied by means of NMR spectroscopy.

The Structure of (NO)2[Ho(NO3)5], A 10-Coordinate Species

Nitrosonium pentanitratoholmate(III), (NO)2Ho(NO3)5, was prepared from holmium metal and dinitrogen tetroxide in anhydrous ethyl acetate. Its crystals are monoclinic with a = 8.094, b = 11.979, c = 14.170 Å and β = 104.7°,Z = 4, space group P21/c. The structure was solved by the heavy-atom method and refined by full matrix least-squares methods to an R value of 0.085 for 1514 observed reflections measured on the G.E. XRD-6 diffractometer. The structure consists of one Ho(NO3)52− and two NO+ ions. The holmium is 10-coordinated by five essentially symmetric bidentate nitrate groups which arrange themselves in a trigonal bipyramidal fashion around the metal with a mean Ho—O distance of 2.45 Å. The two NO+ ions per metal occupy slightly different environments and give rise to two i.r. bands at 2250 and 2285 cm−1, attributable to the (N, O+) stretching vibration. The mean N—O distance within these ions is 1.00 Å.