A method for the synthesis of 2-substituted pyrimidine-5-carboxylic esters is described. The sodium salt of 3,3-dimethoxy-2-methoxycarbonylpropen-1-ol (3) has been found to react with a variety of amidinium salts to afford the corresponding 2-substituted pyrimidine-5-carboxylic esters.

A one-pot method for the preparation of 1,8-naphthyridine derivatives is reported. The method involves the dimetalation of an appropriate N-2-pyridylpivalamide or tert-butylcarbamate followed by reaction with a b-dimethylamino or b-alkoxyacrolein derivative. This method is also applicable to 1,6-naphthyridines.Recently there has been increased interest in the synthesis of 1,8-naphthyridines and their application in medicinal chemistry as quinoline bioisosteres. 1 Traditionally, the cyclocondensation of amino pyridines with diethyl methoxymethylenemalonate or similar derivatives (EMME synthesis) has provided entry into the naphthyridine core. 2 In order to prepare even the simplest mono-and disubstituted 1,8-naphthyridines, it was necessary to subject the products derived from EMME synthesis to a lengthy and low-yielding series of tranformations. 3 A more direct method of naphthyridine preparation is the reaction of amino pyridines with an a,b-unsaturated ketones or aldehydes (Skraup or Doebner-Miller syntheses). This cyclization is carried out in hot sulfuric acid and affords poor yields with all but strongly activated pyridines. 4 The most efficient method of construction of naphthyridine ring appears to be the extension of the Friedländer quinoline synthesis pioneered by Hawes. 5,6 In this method, an amino pyridine containing an ortho-carbonyl functionality is reacted with an enolizable carbonyl compound. However, a significant disadvantage of this approach is the limited commercial availability of ortho-carbonyl substituted amino pyridines. In most cases these starting materials have to be prepared from the corresponding amino pyridines in 3-4 steps with only a moderate yield in the crucial ortho-metalation-functionalization step. 6a,7As part of a recent research program, we required a general route to variously substituted 1,8-naphthyridines. Multiple attempts to reproduce yields obtained by Hamada 8 following his modified Skraup synthesis procedure were not successful in our hands. 9 The regular Friedländer condensation using ortho-formyl substituted amino pyridines was considered and rejected due to its lengthiness and mediocre yield (vide supra). At this point our attention was attracted by an earlier published synthesis of quinolines via a modification of the Friedländer reaction. 10 This synthesis employed a one-pot reaction of the ortho-metalated anilides with a masked malondialdehyde species followed by an acid-mediated cyclization. We expected that extension of this methodology to naphthyridines would allow an efficient two-step preparation of 1,8-naphthyridines from commercially available amino pyridines.We were, therefore, pleased to find out that the unsubstituted 1,8-naphthyridine 3a can be obtained in high yield from pivalamide 1a derived in turn from 2-amino pyridine (R = H, R¢ = Pv). The dianion of 1a could be formed by treatment of a THF solution of the pivalamide with 2.2 equivalents of n-butyllithium. 7a Subsequent reaction with b-dimethylaminoacrolein (2) followed by heating to reflux in a...

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