Journal of the American Chemical Society published new progress about 50670-76-3. 50670-76-3 belongs to esters-buliding-blocks, auxiliary class Benzene,Phenol,Ester, name is Ethyl 4′-hydroxy-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-carboxylate, and the molecular formula is C12H14IN, Safety of Ethyl 4′-hydroxy-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-carboxylate.
Wilds, A. L. published the artcileSteroid analogs lacking ring C. II. Some analogs of progesterone and desoxycorticosterone, Safety of Ethyl 4′-hydroxy-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-carboxylate, the publication is Journal of the American Chemical Society (1950), 2388-95, database is CAplus.
cf. C.A. 44, 1086c; 45, 140g. Procedures were developed for the synthesis of some analogs of progesterone (I) and desoxycorticosterone lacking ring C and with a 6-membered ring D. The method involved the Robinson-Mannich base procedure for synthesizing α,β-unsaturated cyclic ketones, modified for application to hydroxymethylene ketones. The I analogs were physiologically inactive. p-MeOC6H4Ph, obtained in 95-7% yield from p-HOC6H4Ph and Me2SO4, was converted to p-(p-MeOC6H4)C6H4COMe (II), m. 155-6°, in 56% yield (cf. C.A. 40, 7172.1). Oxidation of 174 g. II with NaOBr and demethylation of the resulting 176 g. crude MeO acid with 460 ml. 48% HBr and 2200 ml. AcOH by refluxing 14 hrs. with exclusion of air gave 95% 4′-hydroxy-4-biphenylcarboxylic acid (III), m. 292-4° after sublimation and recrystallization from AcOH. The Me ester of III, colorless cubes, m. 227-8° (from Me2CO), was obtained in 92-5% yield by refluxing III 2 hrs. with MeOH saturated at 50° with HCl gas. The Et ester, m. 142-3° (from Me2CO-CCl4), was similarly prepared in 87% yield after refluxing 24 hrs. A suspension of 40 g. Me ester in 85 ml. absolute MeOH was hydrogenated 12 hrs. with 10 g. W-6 Raney Ni at 85° and an initial H pressure of 4500 lb./sq. in., the catalyst filtered off, and washed with MeOH (500 ml. total MeOH), 50 ml. 45% KOH added, the solution refluxed 2 hrs., diluted with 2 l. H2O, extracted with 3 portions of CHCl3, and the extract evaporated, giving 8.5 g. semisolid neutral material. The alk. solution was acidified, extracted with 3 portions of CHCl3, the extract dried over Na2SO4, and the solvent removed, leaving 28.0 g. (70%) of a mixture of acids. Recrystallization from Me2CO gave 1 of the stereoisomers of 4-(4-carboxycyclohexyl)cyclohexanol (IV), colorless prisms, m. 194-5°. Attempts to sep. the mixture of acids by fractional acidification of their Na2CO3 solution failed, yielding a mixture m. 115-205°. When the reduced ester mixture was not hydrolyzed but crystallized from Et2O-petr. ether, recrystallization from CCl4 of the solid (18%, m. 90-5°) gave 1 of the isomeric Me esters of IV, m. 98-100°, hydrolyzed by alkali to the same stereoisomer, m. 194-5°, of IV as above. The crude mixture of isomers of IV (28 g.) was dissolved in 500 ml. AcOH, cooled to 16°, stirred with 23 g. Cr2O3 in 20 ml. H2O, 50 ml. AcOH slowly added over 1 hr., the mixture kept at 16-20° 1 addnl. hr., then treated with 25 ml. MeOH, poured into 2 l. H2O containing 50 ml. HCl, the mixture extracted several times with CHCl3, the extract washed with dilute HCl and H2O, dried over Na2SO4, the solvent removed, and the residue recrystallized from Me2CO, giving in 2 crops 8.7 g. (31%) of a crude isomer A of 4-(4-carboxycyclohexyl)cyclohexanone (V), m. 174-5°. From the filtrate, by crystallization from petr. ether-Et2O, was obtained 14.1 g. (50%) of a mixture (m. 84-90°), largely a 2nd isomer B of V. The Me ester of isomer A, obtained in 99% yield with CH2N2 in Et2O, from petr. ether, colorless prisms, m. 39-40° (2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazone, prepared in 57% yield in MeOH containing a trace of HCl, from AcOMe, orange prisms, m. 197-8°). Partial purification of the crude isomer B of V by fractional acidification of its solution in Na2CO3 or adsorption of the Me ester on alumina and fractional elution, resulting in each case in concentration of isomer B in the 1st fraction. The best method was to remove as much of isomer A as possible, then seed a solution in C6H6 with pure isomer B, and cool, giving a product m. 96-6.5° (from C6H6 and Et2O-petr. ether). The solid isomer m. 194-5°, of IV, oxidized with Cr2O3, gave isomer B, m. 96-6.5°, of V. The Me ester was an oil, yielding 55% 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazone, orange needles, m. 107-9° (from MeOH), resolidifying, and m. 131-2°. A suspension of 5 g. Et ester of III was hydrogenated 30 min. with 2 g. W-6 Raney Ni at a pressure of 2400 lb./sq.in. and 110°, the catalyst and solvent removed, and the residue dissolved in Et2O and extracted with 3 portions of cold 5% KOH; from the Et2O was obtained 3.80 g. oil which partially solidified, and on recrystallization from Et2O-petr. ether gave one isomer of the Et ester of 4-(p-carboxyphenyl)cyclohexanol (VI), fine colorless needles, m. 134-5°. The remainder of the neutral product was hydrolyzed by refluxing 2 hrs. with 60 ml. MeOH and 10 ml. 45% KOH, diluted, and extracted with CHCl3, yielding 0.17 g. neutral material. The alk. layer, acidified and extracted with warm CHCl3 yielded 3.20 g. mixture of acids, m. 195-217°. Recrystallization from Me2CO gave one isomer of VI, stout prisms, m. 236-7°; conversion of this acid to the Et ester with alc. HCl gave the same isomer, m. 134-5°, as above. Me ester, prepared by addition of CH2N2 in Et2O to the acid in CHCl3, colorless needles from CCl4, m. 137-8°. From the KOH washings of the crude hydrogenation mixture was obtained 1.0 g. oily acidic material which was converted into the Me ester with MeOH and H2SO4; from this was isolated some unreduced Me ester of III, m. 224-6°, and a small amount of the Me ester, m. 137-38°, of IV. None of the compound with only the ring containing the carbomethoxy group reduced was isolated. The crude acid (m. 195-217°) above was oxidized in 80 ml. AcOH with 2.00 g. Cr2O4 in 2 ml. H2O and 10 ml. AcOH at 15-18°; a portion of the solid keto acid from the CHCl3 extracts recrystallized from Me2CO as stout prisms, m. 228-30°. The remaining crude acid treated in CHCl3 with excess CH2N2 in Et2O yielded the Me ester of 4-(4-carboxyphenyl)cyclohexanone (VII), colorless platelets from Et2O, m. 93-4.5°; 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazone of the Me ester (92% from AcOMe), orange prisms, m. 223-4°.
Journal of the American Chemical Society published new progress about 50670-76-3. 50670-76-3 belongs to esters-buliding-blocks, auxiliary class Benzene,Phenol,Ester, name is Ethyl 4′-hydroxy-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-carboxylate, and the molecular formula is C12H14IN, Safety of Ethyl 4′-hydroxy-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-carboxylate.
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