A Carbon, acid derivatives

By reaction of polyhydroxy compounds with a carbonic acid derivative, a series of related polymers may be produced with carbonate (—0 C0 0—) linkages, the polymers being referred to as polycarbonates. Carbonic acid, C0(0H)2, itself does not exist in the free state but by means of ester exchange Figure 20.1) (1) and phosgenation techniques (II) it is possible to produce useful products. 

Biotin is a growth factor for many bacteria, protozoa, plants, and probably all higher animals. In the absence of biotin, oxalacetate decarboxylation, oxalosuccinate carboxylation, a-ketoglutarate decarboxylation, malate decarboxylation, acetoacetate synthesis, citrulline synthesis, and purine and pyrimidine syntheses, are greatly depressed or absent in cells (Mil, Tl). All of these reactions require either the removal or fixation of carbon dioxide. Together with coenzyme A, biotin participates in carboxylations such as those in fatty acid and sterol syntheses. Active C02 is thought to be a carbonic acid derivative of biotin involved in these carboxylations (L10, W10). Biotin has also been involved in... 

As the last example of an SN reaction at the carboxyl carbon of a carbonic acid derivative, consider the synthesis of dicyclohexylurea in Figure 6.39. In this synthesis, two equivalents of cyclohexylamine replace the two methoxy groups of dimethyl carbonate. Dicyclohexylurea can be converted into the carbodiimide dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC) by treatment with tosyl chloride and triethylamine. The urea is dehydrated. The mechanism of this reaction is identical to the mechanism that is presented in Figure 8.9 for the similar preparation of a different carbodiimide. 

Fig. 8.11. Tandem reaction consisting of three single reactions mutually transforming heterocumulenes and heteroatom nucleophiles in a one-pot synthesis of an isothiocyanate (1) uncatalyzed addition reaction of heteroatom nucleophile (aniline) + heterocumulene (carbon disulfide) —> carbonic acid derivative (A) (2) heterolysis-initiated /3-elimination of the carbonic acid derivative (D) -> heterocumulene (F = phenylisothiocyanate) + heteroatom nucleophile (thiocar-bonic acid O-ethylester) (3) decomposition of a carbonic acid derivative (D) to a heterocumulene (carbon oxysulfide) and a heteroatom nucleophile (ethanol) via the zwitterion H.

The second step of the urea synthesis follows after the reaction conditions have been changed dramatically a temperature of 135 °C and a positive pressure of 40 bar cause the conversion of ammonium carbamate (B), a carbonic acid derivative, into urea, another carbonic acid derivative. The mechanism of this second part of the urea synthesis will be discussed in Section 8.3. 

While the mechanism of the transformation of carbonic acid derivative (C) —> carbonic acid derivative (B) in Figure 8.15 is uncertain, it is well-known that two transformations of a carbonic acid derivative into another carbonic acid derivative, which have already been discussed from different perspectives, proceed via a heterocumulene intermediate. You have... 

A carbonic acid derivative which, surprisingly, also proves to be suitable for the acylation of ketone enolates, is Stiles reagent, i.e., (methoxymagnesium) monomethyl carbonate. In Section 8.2, you saw how this reagent can be obtained. Ketone enolates are carboxylatedby Stiles reagent to furnish a /3-keto carboxylic acid, as shown by the reaction equation below. As this keto acid is initially obtained as the (methoxymagnesium) carboxylate, such an acylation can easily proceed without the extra equivalents of enolate or base mentioned above. 

When the (149b) fragment is a carbonic acid derivative (166), i.e. of oxidation state +4, a hydroxy or an amino group may be introduced at C-5. If chloroethyl formate is used with an amidoxime, a 5-hydroxyoxadiazole (167) is obtained. 

Synthesis of an 8-oxopurine by the Traube route requires the condensation of a 4,5-diaminopyrimidine with a carbonic acid derivative. Such derivatives include carbon dioxide (rarely), alkyl chloroformates, carbonyl chloride, urea or substituted ureas and cyanic acid derivatives. 

One useful case is the addition of the activating group C02Et (see Chapter 19) in such compounds as (26). The disconnection requires a carbonic acid derivative ester CO(OEt)2 (diethylcarbonate) and the half acid chloride (24) (ethyl chloroformate) are good reagents for this task. 

The traditional classification of organic compounds, according to the nature of functional groups and their preparations [1], emphasizes phosgene (the dichloride of carbonic acid) as a carbonic acid derivative. Indeed, the reactivity of phosgene in nucleophilic reactions is best understood by conadering the electronic structure of carbonic acid and the electronic and steric effects of the substituents in its derivatives. 

Carothers also produced a number of aliphatic linear polyesters but these did not fulfil his requirements for a fibre-forming polymer which were eventually met by the polyamide, nylon 66. As a consequence the polyesters were discarded by Carothers. However, in 1941 Whinfield and Dickson working at the Calico Printers Association in England announced the discovery of a fibre from poly(ethylene terephthalate). Prompted by the success of such a polymer, Farbenfabriken Bayer initiated a programme in search of other useful polymers containing aromatic rings in the main chain. Carbonic acid derivatives were reacted with many dihydroxy compounds and one of these, bis-phenol A, produced a polymer of immediate promise. 

To reduce melt viscosity an aliphatic dicarhoxylic acid may be used to partially replace the carbonic acid derivative. Easy-flow grades with a melt flow rate of 80 are now available in order to meet the stringent flow requirements involved in compact disc production. Such an improvement in flow rate is, however, at the expense of heat distortion temperature. 

Hydrogens on carbon next to a carbonyl group are acidic. In general, a /3-dicarbonyl compound is most acidic, a ketone or aldehyde is next most acidic, and a carboxylic acid derivative is least acidic. Remember that alcohols, phenols, and carboxylic acids are also acidic because of their -OH hydrogens. 

V,/V-Bis(trimethylsilyl) alkyl glycinates can be deprotonated and then alkylated on carbon (4) to give homologous a-amino-acid derivatives ... 

Thus unsubstituted (R=H) and substituted (R = alkyl) non-stabilized diyiides 1 react with phenylisocyanate and dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (R NCX), leading to the formation of new monoylide type intermediates. These last ones react in situ with carbonyl compounds through a Wittig type reaction leading respectively to a,)8-unsaturated amides 2 and amidines 3, with a high E stereoselectivity, the double bond being di- or tri-substituted [48,49]. By a similar reactional pathway, diyiides also react with carbonic acid derivatives, with the synthesis as final products of -a,/l-unsaturated esters 4 and acids 5 [50]. 

The reaction of cycloheptaamylose with diaryl carbonates and with diaryl methylphosphonates provides a system in which a carboxylic acid derivative can be directly compared with a structurally analogous organo-phosphorus compound (Brass and Bender, 1972). The alkaline hydrolysis of these materials proceeds in twro steps, each of which is associated with the appearance of one mole of phenol (Scheme Y). The relative rates of the two steps, however, are reversed. Whereas the alkaline hydrolysis of carbonate diesters proceeds with the release of two moles of phenol in a first-order process (kh > fca), the hydrolysis of methylphosphonate diesters proceeds with the release of only one mole of phenol to produce a relatively stable aryl methylphosphonate intermediate (fca > kb), In contrast, kinetically identical pathways are observed for the reaction of cycloheptaamylose with these different substrates—in both cases, two moles of phenol are released in a first-order process.3 Maximal catalytic rate constants for the appearance of phenol are presented in Table XI. Unlike the reaction of cycloheptaamylose with m- and with p-nitrophenyl methylphosphonate discussed earlier, the reaction of cycloheptaamylose with diaryl methylphosphonates... 

In general, the choice of counteranion has a minor effect on catalyst performance, with typical examples being selected from BF4, OTD, PFg, or BARF-. In one example, however, it was noted that [(R.R)-Et-DuPhos Rh CODJOTf gave superior selectivity for the reduction of / -/ disubstituted a-dehydroamino acid derivatives than the corresponding BARF complex when performed in a range of solvents, including supercritical carbon dioxide [39]. 

We can think of water entering the lake in terms of a titration. A solution of alkali enters a fixed volume of acid the alkaline solution is water entering from the lake s tributary rivers, and the acid is the lake, which contains the weak acid H2CO3 (carbonic acid) deriving from atmospheric carbon dioxide. The alkali in the tributary rivers is calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2, which enters the... 

Exchange of a functionalized ring carbon with carbonic acid derivatives 331... 

The most widely used method for the preparation of [l,2,4]triazolo[3,4-A][l,3,4]thiadiazoles 85 employs 4-amino-5-thio-4/7-[l,2,4]triazoles 83 or 4-amino[l,2,4]-triazole-5(47T)-thiones 84 as starting materials. The reaction of the triazoles 83 or 84 with carbonic acid derivatives furnishes [l,2,4]triazolo[3,4-4][l,3,4]thiadiazoles with a heteroatom substituent (N, O, S) at position 6 the O- and S-functions are formulated as 6-hydroxy and 6-thio derivatives 85a or as thiadiazol-(5/7)6-ones and -thiadiazole-(577)6-thiones 85b, respectively reaction with carboxylic acid derivatives provides the 6-substituted-[l,2,4]triazolo[3,4-4][l,3,4]-thiadiazoles 85c (Equation 20 Table 3). 

Hydrazines of type 89 react with various carbonic acid derivatives to furnish cyclized product. Under basic conditions (KOH), in the presence of carbon disulfide or arylisothiocyanates, the cyclized thione 90 is obtained (Scheme 7) <1966JOG3528, 1984JCCS315>. Analogous reactions performed in the absence of base gave 91 as a 3-thiol when performed with carbon disulfide, as a 3-hydroxyl with methyl chloroformate, or as a 3-arylamino with arylisothiocyanates in the presence of dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (Scheme 7) <1986JHC1339, 1992IJB467>. 

The amidocarbonylation of aldehydes provides highly efficient access to N-acyl a-amino acid derivatives by the reaction of the ubiquitous and cheap starting materials aldehyde, amide, and carbon monoxide under transition metal-catalysis [1,2]. Wakamatsu serendipitously discovered this reaction when observing the formation of amino acid derivatives as by-products in the cobalt-catalyzed oxo reaction of acrylonitrile [3-5]. The reaction was further elaborated to an efficient cobalt- or palladium-catalyzed one-step synthesis of racemic N-acyl a-amino acids [6-8] (Scheme 1). Besides the range of direct applications, such as pharmaceuticals and detergents, racemic N-acetyl a-amino acids are important intermediates in the synthesis of enantiomeri-cally pure a-amino acids via enzymatic hydrolysis [9]. 

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