Active hydrogen compounds with aldehydes

If the active hydrogen compound has two or three active hydrogens, the Mannich base may condense with one or two additional molecules of aldehyde and ammonia or amine, for example. 

Although formaldehyde has been most common, other aldehydes have also been used successfully for the formation of iminium ion. The Mannich reaction also proceeds with the other activated hydrogen compounds such as indole, furan, pyrrole and phenols. When primary amine is used, the Mannich base formed is a secondary amine and may undergo further condensation to yield tertiary amine. The Mannich base may eliminate an amine... 

Some of the most familiar reactions falling into the polycondensation class are those leading to polyamides derived from dicarboxylic acids and diamines, polyesters from glycols and dicarboxylic acids, polyurethanes from polyols and polyisocyanates, and polyureas from diamines and diisocyanates. Similar polymer formations utilizing bifunctional acid chlorides with polyols or polyamines also fall into this class. The condensations of aldehydes or ketones with a variety of active hydrogen compounds such as phenols and diamines are in this group. Some of the less familar polycondensation reactions include the formation of polyethers from bifunctional halogen compounds and the sodium salts of bis-phenols, and the addition of bis-thiols to diolefins under certain conditions. 

The reaction of compounds having an active hydrogen atom with non-enolizable aldehydes and ammonia or primary or secondary amines to give rise to the formation of aminomethylated product exclusively is commonly known as the Mannich Reaction and the product is invariably termed as the Mannich Base, as depicted below ... 

Reaction of butadiene with aldehydes in the presence of palladium(o)-triphenylphosphine species leads to two products (80) and (81), whose formation can be explained by the mechanism outlined in Scheme 4. Whereas butadiene reacts with active-hydrogen-containing compounds such as a-cyano-esters or jS-diketones in the presence of palladium complexes of unidentate phosphines, in the presence of palladium complexes of bidentate phosphines addition of the butadiene to the active-hydrogen compound takes place. ... 

Knoevenagel condensation is a classic C-C bond formation reaction. It occurs between aldehydes or ketones and active methylene compounds with ammonia or another amine as a catalyst in organic solvents. The Knoevenagel reaction is considered to be a modification of the aldol reaction. The main difference between these approaches is the higher acidity of the active methylene hydrogen as compared to a carbonyl hydrogen. 

The hydroformylation reaction is carried out in the Hquid phase using a metal carbonyl catalyst such as HCo(CO)4 (36), HCo(CO)2[P( -C4H2)] (37), or HRh(CO)2[P(CgH3)2]2 (38,39). The phosphine-substituted rhodium compound is the catalyst of choice for new commercial plants that can operate at 353—383 K and 0.7—2 MPa (7—20 atm) (39). The differences among the catalysts are found in their intrinsic activity, their selectivity to straight-chain product, their abiHty to isomerize the olefin feedstock and hydrogenate the product aldehyde to alcohol, and the ease with which they are separated from the reaction medium (36). 

The imide nitrogen atom was also most reactive to a variety of electrophilic species (hydrogen halides, pseudohalogens, and alkyl halides) in the parent Rimidophosphazenes, R(C—NH)-N=PPh3. With t-butyl hypochlorite the /V-chloro-derivatives, R(C=NCl)-N=PPh3, were obtained. R/ -Vinyl-phenylphosphazenes have been prepared by condensation of aldehydes with active methylene compounds ... 

Organic compounds containing active hydrogen atoms adjacent to a carbonyl group (aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids) may react violently in unmoderated contact with bromine. 

Aldehydes may participate in a condensation reaction with an amine compound and a substance containing a sufficiently-active hydrogen, yielding an alkylated derivative that effectively... 

In its simplest form, the Mannich reaction consists of the condensation of formaldehyde (or sometimes another aldehyde) with ammonia, in the form of its salt, and another compound containing an active hydrogen. Instead of using ammonia, however, this reaction can be done with primary or secondary amines, or even with amides. An example is illustrated in the condensation of acetophenone, formaldehyde, and a secondary amine salt (the active hydrogens are shown underlined) ... 

The condensation of aldehydes and ketones with active hydrogen atoms is called Knoevenagel condensation. It is related to an aldol condensation and commonly is used to produce enones (a compound with a carbon-carbon double bond adjacent to a carbonyl). The process requires a weak base (an amine). A typical excimple and mechanism eire presented in Figure 15-22. 

Because a comprehensive discussion of the transition state of hydrogen-bond catalysis will be presented by Berkessel in Chapter 3, the hydrogen bond catalyzed hetero Diels-Alder reaction of butadiene with carbonyl compounds will be discussed briefly here. Huang and Rawal reported that the hetero Diels-Alder reaction of aminodiene with aldehyde exhibited significant solvent effects (Scheme 2.7) [15]. The reaction in CHCfi was accelerated 30 times in comparison with that in THF, while that in i-PrOH was accelerated 630 times. They proposed that the Diels-Alder reaction was promoted by the hydrogen-bond activation of aldehyde. This finding resulted in the development of TADDOL catalyst [3]. 

Maruoka reported the use of the didentate catalyst 8 for double electrophilic activation of carbonyl compounds [70], but since no comparison with monofunctional phenolates was given it is not clear whether having two aluminium centres in the same catalyst offers any special advantages. They used this catalyst to effect transfer hydrogenation between remote aldehyde and alcohol groups in the same molecule [71], but again it is not clear whether the transfer is truly intramolecular or in any way different from that of reduction by an external alcohol using 8 or a monuclear aluminium catalyst. 

The reaction is usually carried out in acid solution, but may also be base catalysed. This is the condensation between aldehydes, ammonia or a primary or secondary amine and a compound containing at least one active hydrogen atom e.g., ketones, b-ketoesters, b-cyanoesters, nitroalkanes, alkynes with C°H). For example. 

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