Keywords: hydrazide, ethoxymethylenemalonic acid diethyl ester, pyrazoline, pyrazolin-5-one, cyclohexenecarboxylic acid.After the Knorr synthesis of antipyrine (2,3-dimethyl-1-phenylpyrazolin-5-one) [1] work continued on the preparation of new pyrazolin-5-ones, since many of them are widely used in color photography and are applied in medicine as pharmacological preparations with analgesic and antipyretic action
[2][3]
[4].Results are given in the present paper on a study of the possibility of obtaining pyrazolin-5-ones from 2'-N-(2,2-dicarbethoxyethylenyl)monohydrazides of 6-aryl-4-methylcyclohex-3-ene-1,1-dicarboxylic acids 1a-e, synthesized by us previously by condensing monohydrazides of 6-Ar-4-methylcyclohex-3-ene-1,1-dicarboxylic acids with diethyl ethoxymethylenemalonate [5].One of the methods of obtaining pyrazolin-5-ones is based on the cyclization of N-substituted hydrazides obtained analogously to compound 1 [6-9]. Reaction is effected in a melt at 170-175°C [6], on boiling in water [7, 8], or ethanol [9] in the presence of potassium carbonate
[8,9], sodium carbonate [7], or sodium ethylate
[9].
Attempts by us to cyclize monohydrazides 1a-e under the conditions indicated above were unsuccessful.