Tetrahedron Letters

New synthesis of pyridone derivative from 1-azadiene

M Komatsu, S Yamamoto, Y Ohshiro, T Agawa

Index: Komatsu, Mitsuo; Yamamoto, Shinji; Ohshiro, Yoshiki; Agawa, Toshio Tetrahedron Letters, 1981 , vol. 22, # 38 p. 3769 - 3772

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Abstract

Abstract The reaction of 1-azabutadienes with enolates of substituted acetates gave 3, 4- dihydro-2-pyridones which rearrange or dehydrogenate to other isomeric dihydropyridones or pyridones. Thus 1-azabutadienes were found to be good building blocks for pyridone derivatives.