- INHIBITORS OF STEAROYL-COA DESATURASE
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Provided herein are compounds of the formula (I): as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the substituents are as those disclosed in the specification. These compounds, and the pharmaceutical compositions containing them, are useful for the treatment of diseases such as, for example, obesity.
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- Method of preparing fluoroaromatic compounds
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The present invention provides a method of preparing ortho-difluorobenzene derivatives, which comprises (a) providing a mixture of cyclohexenes by reacting chlorotrifluoroethylene (CTFE) and 1,3-diene in a flow reactor and distilling the resultant, and (b) dehydrohalogenating the mixture of cyclohexenes with a phase transition catalyst in the presence of alkali metal hydroxide at temperature range of 40 to 150 °C without using any organic solvent. The distillate having low boiling point, which is obtained during distillation of the resultant, is recycled into the flow reactor. The present invention also provides a method of preparing 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzoic acid, which comprises (a) providing a mixture of 4-chloro-1-methyl-4,5,5-trifluorocyclohexene and 5-chloro-1-methyl-4,4,5-trifluorocyclohexene by reacting chlorotrifluoroethylene (CTFE) and isoprene and distilling the resultant, (b) dehydrohalogenating said mixture in the presence of alkali metal hydroxide and a phase transition catalyst to form 3,4-difluorotoluene, (c) reacting said 3,4-difluorotoluene with chlorine gas without using any organic solvent to form 2-chloro-4,5-difluorotoluene, (d) photo-reacting said 2-chloro-4,5-difluorotoluene with chlorine gas under a lighting mercury lamp without using any organic solvent to form 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzotrichloride, and (e) reacting said 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzotrichloride with aqueous acid solution without using any organic solvent. The present invention also provides a method of preparing 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzoyl chloride by reacting the 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzotrichloride of step (e) above with zinc oxide.
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- Method of preparing fluoroaromatic compounds
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The present invention provides a method of preparing ortho-difluorobenzene derivatives, which comprises (a) providing a mixture of cyclohexenes by reacting chlorotrifluoroethylene (CTFE) and 1.3-diene in a flow reactor and distilling the resultant, and (b) dehydrohalogenating the mixture of cyclohexenes with a phase transition catalyst in :he presence of alkali metal hydroxide at temperature range of 40 to 150° C. without using any organic solvent. The distillate having low boiling point, which is obtained during distillation of the resultant, is recycled into the flow reactor. The present invention also provides a method of preparing 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzoic acid, which comprises (a) providing a mixture of 4-chloro-1-methyl-4,5,5-trifluorocyclohexene and 5-chloro-1-methyl-4,4,5-trifluorocyclohexene by reacting chlorotrifluoroethylene (CTFE) and isoprene and distilling the resultant. (b) dehydrohalogenating said mixture in the presence of alkali metal hydroxide and a phase transition catalyst to form 3,4-difluorotoluene, to reacting said 3,4-difluorotoluene with chlorine gas without using any organic solvent to form 2-chloro-4,5-difluorotoluene, (d) photo-reacting said 2-chloro-4,5-difluorotoluene with chlorine gas under a lighting mercury lamp without using any organic solvent to form 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzotrichloride, and (e) reacting said 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzotrichloride with aqueous acid solution without using any organic solvent. The present invention also provides a method of preparing 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzoyl chloride by reacting the 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzotrichloride of step (e) above with zinc oxide.
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- Process for the preparation of fluorinated benzoic acids
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A process for the preparation of 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzoic acid and 2,4,5-trifluorobenzoic acid as well as synthetic intermediates useful in and prepared according thereto, comprising reacting a nitrobenzene having the formula STR1 wherein X is chloro or fluoro, with an appropriate carbanion to form a compound having the formula STR2 wherein one of Y and Z is chloro and the other is nitro, and R is a radical selected from the group consisting of --CCl3, --CH2 NO2, --CH(NO2)R1, --CH(CO2 R1)2, --CH(C(O)R2)2, --CH(CN)CO2 R1, --CH(CO2 R1)COR2 and --COR2 where R1 is alkyl or arylalkyl and R2 is alkyl, aryl or arylalkyl and, where appearing more than once in such a radical, R1 and R2 may be the same or different at each occurrence.
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- Process for the preparation of halogenated benzoic acids
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A process for the preparation of halogenated benzoic acids of formula (1): STR1 in which R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine or bromine atoms or C1 -C6 -alkyl, C1 -C6 -alkoxy, nitro, cyano, trifluoromethyl, aidehyde, C1 -C4 -alkoxycarbonyl, -SO2 -C1 -C4 -alkyl, -SO2 -phenyl, -CONH2, -CON(C1 -C4 -alkyl)2, hydroxy, carboxy, -NH2 or -N(C1 -C4 - alkyl)2 groups, at least one of the substituents R1 -R5 being one of said halogen atoms, which comprises reacting 1 mol of a benzophenone, asymmetrically substituted on the benzene rings A and B, of general formula (2): STR2 in which R1 -R10 are as defined above for R1 -R5, with about 1 to about 10 mol of an oxidizing agent selected from the group comprising hydrogen peroxide, urea/hydrogen peroxide addition product, an alkali metal peroxide, ammonium, alkali metal or alkaline earth metal peroxodisulfates, pertungstates, perborates or percarbonates, ozone, alkyl- or aryl-percarboxylic acids, alkyl- or aryl-persulfonic acids or persulfuric acid, at temperatures from about -20° to about +100° C.
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- Fluorinated benzoyl compounds
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A 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzoyl compound of the formula: STR1 wherein R2 is a lower alkyl group, and R7 is a 2,4-difluorophenyl group or a 4-fluorophenyl group.
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- Process for the preparation of fluorinated benzoic acids
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In the process for the preparation of fluorinated benzoic acids of the formula I STR1 in which X and Y, for example, independently of one another denote chlorine or fluorine and X moreover denotes bromine, a fluorinated chloroacetophenone of the formula II STR2 in which Z denotes chlorine or hydrogen, is reacted with a hypohalite.
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- Process for preparing fluorinated benzoyl compounds
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Fluorinated benzoyl compounds of the formula: STR1 wherein Q is a lower alkyl group, a halogen atom, --CH2 CO2 R1 wherein R1 is a lower alkyl group, or STR2 wherein each of R2 and R3 is a lower alkyl group, are disclosed.
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- Intermediates for preparing 1,4-dihydro-4-oxo-quinoline-3-carboxylic acid esters
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Compounds of the formula: wherein Y is OR1, fluoro, chloro, methyl, R1, and R3 are independently selected from hydrogen and C1-C4 alkyl, R2 is C1-C4 alkyl and X is fluoro, chloro or bromo, with the proviso that when Y is OH, X cannot be bromo and with the proviso that X can be fluoro only if R2 is methyl.
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- Process for preparing 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzoic acid
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This disclosure describes a novel process for preparing 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzoic acid which is useful in the preparation of 7-(substituted)piperazinyl-1-substituted-6-fluoro-1,4-dihydro-4-oxo-3-quinoli necarboxylic acid antibacterial agents.
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