Acetic esters, acylation

Halogenation of the 7 position also proves compatible with good antiinflammatory activity. Construction of this compound, aclomethasone dipropionate (80), starts by introduction of the required unsaturation at the 6,7 position by dehydrogenation with DDQ (76). The highly hindered nature of the hydroxyl at position 17 requires that a roundabout scheme be used for formation of the corresponding ester. Thus treatment of 76 with ethyl orthoformate affords first the cyclic orthoformate This then rearranges to the 17 ester on exposure to acetic acid. Acylation of the 21 alcohol is accomplished in straightforward fashion with... 

These reactions are most important for the preparation of acyl fluorides. " Acyl chlorides and anhydrides can be converted to acyl fluorides by treatment with polyhydrogen fluoride-pyridine solution" or with liquid HF at — 10°C. Formyl fluoride, which is a stable compound, was prepared by the latter procedure from the mixed anhydride of formic and acetic acids. Acyl fluorides can also be obtained by reaction of acyl chlorides with KF in acetic acid or with DAST. Carboxylic esters and anhydrides can be converted to acyl halides other than fluorides by the inorganic acid halides mentioned in 10-77, as well as with PhsPXa (X = Cl or but this is seldom done. Halide exchange can be carried out in a... 

Fig. 2 Action of desaturases and limited chain shortening can produce a variety of mono-unsaturated acyl-CoA precursors that can be modified to form unsaturated pheromone compounds. The arrow pointing down indicates limited chain shortening by two carbons. Modification of all 16-, 14-, 12-, and 10-carbon acyl-CoA derivatives on the carbonyl carbon can account for the majority of monounsaturated acetate esters, aldehydes, and alcohols identified as sex pheromones...

The elaboration of 113 to (—)-kinamycins C, F, and J, is shown in Scheme 3.19. To access ( )-kinamycin C (3), the silyl ether function of 113 was cleaved with aqueous hydrochloric acid (95 %). Alternatively, treatment of 113 with lithium hydroxide served to liberate the phenol function and saponify the three acetate esters, to provide ( )-kinamycin F (6) in 92 % yield. Finally, acylation of the tertiary hydroxyl of 113 (acetic anhydride, triethylamine) afforded a tetraacetate. Cleavage of the silyl ether then provided ( )-kinamycin J (10) in 80 % over two steps. 

Many of these reactions are not observed at all when the relevant groups are allowed to come together in bimolecular processes in aqueous solution. For mechanistic work involving intermolecular reactions, therefore, it is necessary to use activated substrates. Much of what we know about the relevant reactions of esters, for example, comes from studies using aryl esters like p-nitrophenyl acetate, or acyl-activated compounds like ethyl trifluoroacetate (Bruice and Benkovic, 1966 Jencks, 1969 Bender, 1971). 

Fig. 21. Logarithmic plot of the second-order rate coefficients k2) for catalysis by imidazole of the hydrolysis of various esters, against the rate coefficients for alkaline hydrolysis. The most reactive compound is acetic anhydride the other open circles represent results for acetate esters of phenols, except for the two least reactive compounds, trifluorethyl acetate, and the acetate of acetone-oxime. The closed triangles represent data for ethyl esters with activated acyl groups, with the exception of the least reactive compound, which is ethyl acetate.

Polyhydroxy- phenols. amino acids, di- and polyamino compounds, amino alcohols. Sulphonic acids. Sulphinic acids. Salts. sulphinic acids, aminosulphonic acids and sulphonamides. Some diketones and /3-keto esters. Ethers and acetals. Lactones. Acyl halides. Diaryl ethers. intermediate reduction products of nitro compounds. Sulphones, sulphonamides of secondary amines, sulphides, sulphates and other sulphur compounds. 

A set of -methylene-/ -hydroxy esters 42 were resolved via enzymatic enantioselective transesterification with Pseudomonas sp. lipase (PCL), free and immobilized one using either vinyl or isopropenyl acetate as acyl donors under different conditions. The corresponding (R)-(+)-acetates (R)-43 and the unreacted (S)-(-)-substrates (S)-42 were obtained with an ee up to >99%.70... 

There are various ways wherein esters can be synthesised. An effective method is to react an acid chloride with an alcohol in the presence of pyridine yield. Acid anhydrides also react with alcohols to esters, but are less reactive. Moreover, the reaction is wasteful because half of the acyl content on the acid anhydride is wasted as the leaving group (i.e. the carboxylate ion). If the acid anhydride is cheap and readily available, this method can be used, e.g., acetic anhydride is useful for the synthesis of a range of acetate esters ... 

Most of the uncertainty in these enthalpies of formation for the chlorinated acetyl chlorides, RCOC1, arise from uncertainties in the corresponding chlorinated acetic acids, RCOOH after all, it is the high-accuracy (basic, aqueous) hydrolysis reaction that interconnects these species that gives us the acyl chloride enthalpies of formation we use. [See G. M. Moselhy and H. O. Pritchard, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 7,977 (1975).] We note that sufficiently few chlorinated acetate esters enjoy sufficiently accurate enthalpies of formation (as determined by combustion measurements) to allow for comparison of RCOC1 and RCOOR for any R. ... 

Esters are readily prepared by reaction of an alcohol with either an acyl chloride or an anhydride. Because it is more easily prepared from the acid, the acyl chloride is commonly employed. Again, a base, such as pyridine, is often added to react with the HC1 that is produced. Acetic anhydride, which is commercially available, is often used for the preparation of acetate esters. Following are several examples. 

Salbutamol is made from aspirin, itself simply the acetate ester of the natural product salicylic acid, by a series of substitution reactions. The first is a Friedel-Crafts acylation (an electrophilic substitution) in which aspirin itself is the acylating agent it is an isomerization in which the acetyl group gets transferred from O to C. Acylation occurs para to the electron-donating alkoxy substituent, and gives this ketone. 

Compound 25 (Fig. 18.9), a prodrug of 9-P-D-arabinofuranosyl guanine (26), was developed for the potential treatment of leukemia. Compound 24 is poorly soluble in water and its synthesis by conventional techniques is difficult. An enzymatic demethoxylation process was developed using adenosine deaminase (Mahmoudian et al., 1999, 2001). Compound 25 was enzymatically prepared from 6-methoxyguanine (27) and ara-uracil (28) using uridine phosphorylase and purine nucleotide phosphorylase. Each protein was cloned and overexpressed in independent Escherichia coli strains. Fermentation conditions were optimized for production of both enzymes and a co-immobilized enzyme preparation was used in the biotransformation process at 200 g/L substrate input. Enzyme was recovered at the end of the reaction by filtration and reused in several cycles. A more water soluble 5 -acetate ester of compound 26 was subsequently prepared by an enzymatic acylation process using immobilized Candida antarctica lipase in 1,4-dioxane (100 g/L substrate) with vinyl acetate as the acyl donor (Krenitsky et al., 1992). 

Thiel and coworkers reacted imidazole with epoxycyclohexane to form the racemic hydroxycyclohexyl imidazole. Attempts to separate the enantiomers by kinetic resolution with lipase B of Candida antarctica and isopropenyl acetate as acylating agent [11,12] failed, but gave the racemic ester in high yields (see Figure 4.1). Alkylation was then... 

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