Reissert reaction

The Reissert reaction is a series of chemical reactions that transforms quinoline to quinaldic acid.^[1][2] Quinolines will react with acid chlorides and potassium cyanide to give 1-acyl-2-cyano-1,2-dihydroquinolines, also known as Reissert compounds. Hydrolysis gives the desired quinaldic acid.

Reissert reaction
Named after	Arnold Reissert
Reaction type	Addition reaction

The Reissert reaction

The Reissert reaction is also successful with isoquinolines^[3][4] and most pyridines.

Several reviews have been published.^[5][6]

References

1. ^ Reissert, Arnold (1905). "Ueber die Einführung der Benzoyl-gruppe in tertiäre cyclische Basen". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft. 38 (2): 1603–1614. doi:10.1002/cber.19050380260.
2. ^ Grosheintz, J. M.; Fischer, Hermann O. L. (1941). "Preparation of 1-Acyl-1,2-dihydroquinaldonitriles and their Hydrolysis to Aldehydes". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 63 (7): 2021–2022. doi:10.1021/ja01852a066.
3. ^ Weinstock, J.; Boekelheide, V. Organic Syntheses, Coll. Vol. 4, p. 641 (1963); Vol. 38, p. 58 (1958). (Article)
4. ^ Uff, B. C.; Kershaw, J. R.; Neumeyer, J. L. Organic Syntheses, Coll. Vol. 6, p. 115 (1988); Vol. 56, p. 19 (1977). (Article)
5. ^ Mosettig, E. Org. React. 1954, 8, 220. (Review)
6. ^ McEwen, William E.; Cobb, R. Lynn (1955). "The Chemistry of N-Acyldihydroquinaldonitriles and N-Acyldihydroisoquinaldonitriles (Reissert Compounds)". Chemical Reviews. 55 (3): 511–549. doi:10.1021/cr50003a002. hdl:1808/32921. (Review)
7. ^ Ahamed, Muneer; Todd, Matthew. H. (2010). "Catalytic Asymmetric Additions of Carbon-Centered Nucleophiles to Nitrogen-Containing Aromatic Heterocycles". European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2010 (31): 5935–5942. doi:10.1002/ejoc.201000877. (Review)

Further reading

1. Cobb, R. Lynn; McEwen, William E. (1955). "Mechanism of the Acid-catalyzed Hydrolysis of Reissert Compounds". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 77 (19): 5042. doi:10.1021/ja01624a031.
2. McEwen, William E.; Mineo, Isidore C.; Shen, Yvonne H. (1971). "1,3-Dipolar addition reactions of Reissert compounds". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 93 (18): 4479. doi:10.1021/ja00747a023.
3. Evanguelidou, Eleftheria K.; McEwen, William E. (1966). "Acid-Catalyzed Condensation of a Reissert Compound with Acrylonitrile". The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 31 (12): 4110. doi:10.1021/jo01350a056.