What the is outcome of the strong hydrolysis of N-methylpyrrolidinone??
This is what I think...
is this right???
The pyrrolidinone would be expected to have a reactivity similar to
that of an N,N-disubstituted amide. 2-pyrrolidinone is described in
Merck as having "good chemical stability" and I would guess that the
N-methyl constituent would stabilize it further. (
Reaction of 2-pyrrolidinone with base might be expected to produce
4-amino-butyric acid (or its sodium salt if NaOH used).
1-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone reacts with base to produce the sodium salt
of N-methyl-gamma-aminobutyric acid.
4-amino-butyric acid is also called GABA and is a food supplement...
(and is no fun either; you can convert it to GBL though with a toxic nitrite involving procedure, search for Chromics posts on GABA in the hive archives)
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