Reaction of diazoalkanes with unsaturated compounds

A THF solution of diazopropyne was obtained in 60% yield by the reaction of a 30% aqueous solution of methylamine withN,N′-dinitroso-N,N′-dipropargylterephthalodiamide. The reactions of diazopropyne with methyl acrylate and methyl methacrylate giving various ethynylpyrazolines as well as its CuCl-catalyzed decomposition in the presence of norbornene or norbornadiene yielding ethynylcyclopropanes were studied. The main products of catalytic deazotization of diazopropyne in the absence of unsaturated compounds are isomericE- andZ-hex-3-ene-1,5-diynes resulting from propargylene dimerization. For Part 12, see Ref. 1. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp. 2278–2282, November, 1998.