F. Saczewski et M. Gdaniec, SYNTHESIS AND STRUCTURE OF NOVEL 1,2-DIHYDROPHTHALIAZINE CONTAINING BETAINES, Journal of heterocyclic chemistry, 35(3), 1998, pp. 707-710
Dihydro-2-(4,5-dihydroimidazol-2yl)phthalazin-1-ol 1 reacts exothermic
ally with dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates to give hthalazin]-1,4-dialk
oxy-1,4-dioxo-2-buten-2-olates 7 and 8. Enolic ester compounds underwe
nt further transesterification reactions with formation of the betaine
s 9 and 10. The unequivocal structural assignment of these compounds w
as achieved by spectroscopic H-1 and C-13 nmr methods as well as X-ray
analysis of 7.