In this diploma thesis we made an attempt to synthesize 1-phenyl-5-hydroxy-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylic acid (compound 4) in different ways. Firstly, we tried to synthesize the desired compound from ethyl 5-hydroxy-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylate (compound 1) by enzymatic and basic hydrolysis. The enzymatic hydrolysis was done with eight different enzymes; however, the hydrolysis was unsuccessful. The basic hydrolysis was done under various conditions (reaction time, temperature) but only a mixture of the compound 4 and a decarboxylated compound (compound 5) was obtained. Then we tried to synthesize the compound 4 by hydrogenolysis of benzyl 5-hydroxy-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylate (compound 3). However, only the decarboxylated compound 5 was obtained. We found out that 1-phenyl-5-hydroxy-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylic acid is very unstable because of the hydroxy group at β position and undergoes decarboxylation also at room temperature and neutral pH.
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