Acid anhydrides phosgene

Homophthalic anhydrides can be prepared by the dehydration of homoph-thalic acid with add chloride, acid anhydride, phosgene, thionyl chloride, benzene sulfonyl chloride, ketene, phosphorous pentoxide, dicyclohexyl-carbodiimide, or J -carbonyldiimidazole. However, these methods are not always effective for the acid-sensitive and/or unreactive homophthaUc acid derivatives. We developed a very mild and efficient method for obtaining homophthaUc anhydrides using (trimethylsilyl)ethoxyacetylene [9] (Scheme 1). Thus the treatment of homophthaUc acid 1 with (trimethylsi-lyl)ethoxyacetylene 2 in inert solvents such as methylene chloride, 1,2-di-chloroethane, and acetonitrile gave the homophthaUc anhydride 3 in a quantitative yield accompanied by ethyl trimethylsilyl acetate as the only side product. The high purity homophthaUc anhydride 3 could be obtained for the next cycloaddition reaction just by evaporation to remove the reaction solvent and the formed ethyl trimethylsilyl acetate. The method is quite useful, and was also applicable to the syntheses of hetero-homophthalic anhydrides 4. 

Trichloromethyl chloroformate has proven effective in the preparation of N-carboxy-a-amino acid anhydrides from amino acids, and various compounds having isocyanate, acid chloride, and chloroformate groups.For example, trichloromethyl chloroformate may be used instead of phosgene in the preparation of 2-tert-butoxycarbonyloxyimino-2-phenylacetonitrile. The use of this reagent is illustrated here by the synthesis of 3-isocyanato-propanoyl chloride from 3-aminopropanoic acid hydrochloride. 

When a nonproteinogenic unsaturated amino acid was subjected to the Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation, 49 was formed (87TL3605). It is known that AAs are converted with phosgene into A-carboxy-a-amino acid anhydride (NCA) derivatives. Unexpectedly, A-protected dehydroaspartic acid gave l,3-oxazine-2,6-dione-4-carboxylic acid under such conditions (88CL1473). 

Preparation of oxazole Cyclocondensation of amides, through dehydration, leads to the formation of corresponding oxazoles. This synthesis is known as Robinson-Gabriel synthesis. A number of acids or acid anhydrides, e.g. phosphoric acid, phosphorus oxychloride, phosgene and thionyl chloride, can bring about this dehydration. 

In practice the dehydration can be achieved with a broad range of acids or acid anhydrides, such as phosphoric add, phosphorus oxychloride, phosgene (COCI2), and thionyl chloride. An example of the mechanism is shown below for thionyl chloride and involves activation of the amide to imidolyl halide 3.16 then intramolecular attack by the enolic form of the ketone. 

Synthesis and Polymerization of Leuchs Anhydrides. The N-carboxy-a-amino acid anhydrides, referred to as Leuchs anhydrides or as NCAs, are synthesized either from N-alkoxycarbonyl derivatives of a-amino acids or from free amino acids. Cyclization of the amino acid derivative by SOCl2 or similar reagents was described first by Leuchs in 1906, but direct synthesis involves treating the a-amino acid or its hydrochloride with phosgene as shown in Figure 4. This method, commonly termed the Fuchs-Farthing method, is the one that is used most frequently since the N-carboxyanhydride may be freed easily from the carbamyl chloride, isocyanate derivative, and hydrogen chloride by crystallization. 

Wilchek, M., Ariely, S., and Patchornik, A., The reaction of asparagine, glutamine, and derivatives with phosgene, J. Org. Chem. 33, 1258-1259, 1968 Hamilton, R.D. and Lyman, D.J., Preparation of A-carboxy-a-amino acid anhydrides by the reaction of copper(II)-amino acid complexes with phosgene, J. Org. Chem. 34, 243-244,1969 Pohl, L.R., Bhooshan, B.,... 

A carboxyl group can be introduced in almost any compound by various methods. In cases where a free thiol is present, the carboxyl group can be introduced easily by reaction with bromo- or iodoacetic acid. This reaction is very mild and is usually performed at pH around 8-9. When the hapten contains a hydroxyl group, carboxylic acid may be introduced by one of the following methods (a) carboxymethylation of the hydroxyl group with bromo- or iodoacetic acid (b) esterification with dicarboxylic acid anhydrides, such as succinic anhydride, to yield hemi-succinates, which are unstable above pH 9 (c) reaction with phosgene, which results in the formation of chlorocarbonates. ... 

H-3,1-Benzoxazine-2,4(1 H)-dione known as isatoic anhydride (VI) is the most popular six membered cyclic O-acyl carbamate. The synthesis of isatoic anhydride by ring closure of anthranilic acid with phosgene is well described (Ref. 250). However, we have developed an... 

In peptide chemistry two methods are used frequently. The reaction of phosgene with protected amino acids leads to symmetric anhydrides (equation 4), after disproportionation and release of carbon dioxide, which can be readily used to build up a growing peptide chain. - More recently, symmetrical amino acid anhydrides have been generated by carbodiimides like water soluble carbodiimide and... 

Only a limited amount of work has been published concerning the reactions of phosgene with carboxylic acid anhydrides, despite the fact that the product acid chlorides, formed as illustrated in Equation (10.23), are generated without concomitant formation of co-product hydrogen chloride, as in the case for the corresponding reaction of the carboxylic acids. 

Reaction of the potassium salt of 3-aminobenzo[h]thiophene-2-carboxylic acid with phosgene gave the corresponding anhydride [412] ... 

Phosgene is reported to combine with a wide range of oxygenated materials, including alcohols, ethers, ketones, carboxylic acids, anhydrides, lactones, esters, carbonic acid derivatives, etc. Only the reactions of COCIF with alcohols, phenols and cyclic ethers have been reported, resulting usually in the generation of fluoroformates. Such materials can often be usefully converted into the corresponding fluoro compound by means of decarboxylation in the presence of BF3, EtjO, pyridine, or other materials. 

Desulfurization of petroleum feedstock (FBR), catalytic cracking (MBR or FI BR), hydrodewaxing (FBR), steam reforming of methane or naphtha (FBR), water-gas shift (CO conversion) reaction (FBR-A), ammonia synthesis (FBR-A), methanol from synthesis gas (FBR), oxidation of sulfur dioxide (FBR-A), isomerization of xylenes (FBR-A), catalytic reforming of naphtha (FBR-A), reduction of nitrobenzene to aniline (FBR), butadiene from n-butanes (FBR-A), ethylbenzene by alkylation of benzene (FBR), dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene (FBR), methyl ethyl ketone from sec-butyl alcohol (by dehydrogenation) (FBR), formaldehyde from methanol (FBR), disproportionation of toluene (FBR-A), dehydration of ethanol (FBR-A), dimethylaniline from aniline and methanol (FBR), vinyl chloride from acetone (FBR), vinyl acetate from acetylene and acetic acid (FBR), phosgene from carbon monoxide (FBR), dichloroethane by oxichlorination of ethylene (FBR), oxidation of ethylene to ethylene oxide (FBR), oxidation of benzene to maleic anhydride (FBR), oxidation of toluene to benzaldehyde (FBR), phthalic anhydride from o-xylene (FBR), furane from butadiene (FBR), acrylonitrile by ammoxidation of propylene (FI BR)... 

These amino acid anhydrides are usuaiiy made with phosgene. The use of dimethyi carbonate shouid be tested in the preparation of the monomers. Poiyaspartic acid can be made by heating aspartic acid without soivent to form a polysuccinimide which is then hydrolyzed (12.34).186 It can also be made directly from maleic anhydride and ammonia. It promises to be useful as a scale inhibitor in water, an antiredeposition agent in detergents, and such. Gamma-irradiation converts it to a biodegradable superabsorbent material that takes up 3400 g water per gram of dry polymer.187 (Most superabsorbent polymers are based on acrylamide, a neurotoxin.)... 

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