Acyl azides, amides from

Formation of C-N bond has raised of interest in the scientific community in the last 10 years. In this context, the formation of enamides is a valuable protocol. In addition to conventional approaches that include condensation of amides and aldehydes, addition of amides to alkynes, acylation of imines, Curtius rearrangement of a,jS-unsaturated acyl azides, amide Peterson olefination, and Wittig and Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reactions, several transition metal-catalyzed methods have been developed that allow the synthesis of enamides.Inspired by the analogous arylation of amines catalyzed by palladium or copper complexes (Buchwald-Hartwig reaction), a new approach for the synthesis of enamides has been published recently, which allows to prepare enamides from readily available starting materials (amides and vinyl halides) proceeding under very mild conditions. Thus, we decided to test the Porco-Buchwald amidation of vinyl halides in our synthesis [144-146]. 

In synthetic target molecules esters, lactones, amides, and lactams are the most common carboxylic acid derivatives. In order to synthesize them from carboxylic acids one has generally to produce an activated acid derivative, and an enormous variety of activating reagents is known, mostly developed for peptide syntheses (M. Bodanszky, 1976). In actual syntheses of complex esters and amides, however, only a small selection of these remedies is used, and we shall mention only generally applicable methods. The classic means of activating carboxyl groups arc the acyl azide method of Curtius and the acyl chloride method of Emil Fischer. 

Scheme 2 Preparation of gem-Diaminoalkyl Derivatives by Curtius or Hofmann Rearrangement from Acyl Azides or Acyl Amides...

Mercurioferrocenes (290) and (291) are separable by Soxhlet extraction and these may be used to prepare bromoferrocene or dibromoferrocene or the iodo analogs. Alternatively, these halogenated ferrocenes are prepared from the ferrocene boronic acids or from anions (322) or (323). Bromoferrocene is the starting material for cyanoferrocene, azidoferrocene, or aminoferrocenes, generally in the presence of a copper salt. Amtnoferrocene can be acylated to produce an amide, or converted to isocyanoferrocene by a formylation/dehydration sequence (Scheme 96). The 1,T-diisocyanoferrocene is available from the bis(acyl)azide, itself derived from ferrocene dicarboxylic acid. ... 

Oxophilic early transition metal Lewis acids were shown to react differently from azaphilic Lewis acids when ring-opening of acylaziridines was attempted [21], When A -acyl aziridine 48 was treated with trimethylsilylazide in the presence of a catalytic amount of Cp2Zr(SbF6)2, the product was azide-amide 49, whereas in the presence of Cu(OTf)2 the ring-expansion product, oxazoline 51, was formed (Sch. 1). 

The quest for tin-free reductive methods led the same authors to develop the use of indium(lll) hydride ClalnH, generated in situ from triethylsilane and InCla. Aromatic and aliphatic azides as well as sulfonyl azides and acyl azides are reduced in moderate to excellent yield to the corresponding amines and amides. Azido nitriles are efficiently converted to the pyrrolidin-2-imines (Scheme 8.45). 

The phosphanes useful in this process are built from acyl derivatives of compounds such as those shown in Figure 17.22. During the Staudinger ligation process, once the azide reactant forms the aza-ylide with the phosphine, electrophilic attraction induces the nitrogen to attack the electron deficient carbonyl, which in turn causes release of the phosphonium group and forms the amide bond (Figure 17.23). 

Ar-Acyl oxy- A -a 1 k oxyamides have been found to undergo SN2 reactions with a number of organic and inorganic nucleophiles including anilines, thiols, hydroxide and azide anions. Reaction products from all of these processes are themselves reactive anomeric amides and outcomes have uncovered novel chemistry of this unusual class of compounds. 

The bicyclic meso-ionic 3-oxo-l,2,4-triazolo[4,5-a]pyridines (206) have been prepared by the following methods (i) the reaction of the hydrazines (207, X = H) with phosgene, (ii) heating the amide (207, X = CONH2) or the carbamate (207, X = COjEt), and (iii) alkylation or acylation of 3-oxo-l,2,4-triazolo[4,5-a]pyridine (208). The isomeric meso-ionic 2-oxo-l,3,4-triazolo[4,5-a]pyridines (209) are formed from the carbamoyl chlorides (210) and sodium azide. ... 

A neurokinin inhibitor whose strueture differs markedly from aprepitant (200) incorporates a substituted tetrazole ring. The synthesis of the tetrazole-containing moiety of vofopitant (241) start by acylation of substituted aniline 231 with trifluoroaeetyl ehloride to afford the amide (232). Reaction of that under Mitsonobu eonditions leads to the enol chloride (233). Treatment of 233 with sodium azide probablty starts with addition-elimination of azide ion this undergoes internal 1,3-cycloaddition to form the tetrazole ring. Catalytie hydrogenation then removes the benzyl... 

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