Über die Umsetzung von 1-Phenylpyrazol mit Äthylmagnesiumbromid. 8. Mitteilung über Grignard-Reaktionen [1]

In contrast to butyllithium, ethylmagnesium-bromide reacts with 1-phenyl-pyrazole exclusively by deprotonation, at the ortho position of the phenyl-ring. With nitriles the intermediate 2-(1-pyrazolyl)-phenylmagnesiumbromide gave good to excellent yields of 1-(2-aroyl or 2-hetaroyl-phenyl)-pyrazoles (Table 1, compounds 5a – 5i ); with ketones the corresponding methanol derivatives (Table 2, compounds 6a – 6c ) were found, whilst CO₂ yielded the corresponding 1-(2-carboxyphenyl)-pyrazole ( 3 ). Surprisingly enough, 1-(o-bromo-phenyl)-pyrazole and magnesium did not yield a single product, but a mixture of 3 compounds, which on reaction with 4-benzoylpyridine gave the three alcohols 19 , 20 and 21 .