Synthesis,structure, and characteristics of 1,2-dichlorovinyl alkyl ketones

A method of alkyl 1,2-dichlorovinyl ketones preparation from acyl halides and 1,2-dichloroethylene was developed. The configurational equilibrium and electronic structure of alkyl 1,2-dichlorovinyl ketones was investigated by IR, ¹H and ¹³C NMR spectroscopy, by measuring dipole moments, and by quantum-chemical calculations using methods RHF and B3LYP in the basis 6–311++G (d,p). Alkyl 1,2-dichlorovinyl ketones are stable in the Z, s-cis-configuration where the olefin proton is involved into an intramolecular hydrogen bond with the oxygen of the carbonyl group. Reaction of 1,2-dichlorovinyl ketones with alkylhydrazines afforded 1-alkyl-3-alkyl-4-chloropyrazoles. The reaction of alkyl 1,2-dichlorovinyl ketones with 1,1-dimethylhydrazine involved dehydrochlorination and afforded 1,1-dimethylhydrazinium hydrochloride and a mixture of compounds with uncertain structure.Translated from Zhurnal Organicheskoi Khimii, Vol. 40, No. 11, 2004, pp. 1632–1640.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by Bozhenkov, Leckovskaya, Larina, Ushakov, Dolgushin, Mirskova.