Hydrochloric Acid → HCID 178429549, compound

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Ueda et al. (Synthesis of pyrazolone derivatives. XLII. Synthesis and analgesic activity of 2-methyl-1-phenyl-6,7-dihydro-1H,5H-pyrazolo[5,1-b][1,3]oxazin-8-ium bromide. Yakugaku Zasshi (1982), 102(8), 743-7) proposes in Chart I of page 744 and in the last two paragraphs on page 745, the reaction of an ethyl 2-(2-methyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-yl)acetate with phenylhydrazine in the presence of sodium methoxide as a base and benzene as a solvent, thereby obtaining 2-(2-methyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-yl)-N′-phenylacetohydrazide, which is further cyclised after treatment with hydrochloric acid 10% and heating on a water bath at 90° C., to obtain 3-hydroxy-5-methyl-1-phenylpyrazole. However, this method presents the disadvantage that both sodium methoxide and benzene are unsuitable for industrial upscaling, in particular, sodium methoxide is a dangerous and highly toxic reagent and benzene is carcinogenic and therefore unsuitable for use in large quantities. Moreover, the reaction devised by Ueda et al. presents a non-optimal yield for 2-(2-methyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-yl)-N′-phenylacetohydrazide (30%). Most importantly, when the inventors tried to reproduce said reaction with similar conditions and a naphthylhydrazine was used instead of the phenylhydrazine (see Example 26 below), they were unsuccessful in preparing the desired final intermediate in optimal isomeric purity. Adversely, an isomeric mixture (80:20) of 5-methyl-1-(naphthalen-2-yl)-1H-pyrazol-3-ol (desired isomer) and 3-methyl-1-(naphthalen-2-yl)-1H-pyrazol-5-ol (non-desired isomer) was obtained. This process does not avoid the distal nitrogen of the hydrazine from reacting with the ketone carbonyl of the ketoacetate, thereby generating by-products that make this route not interesting for industrial production.

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