Imidazoles, acyl, reaction with

Substituted imidazoles can be acylated at the 2-position by acid chlorides in the presence of triethylamine. This reaction proceeds by proton loss on the (V-acylated intermediate (241). An analogous reaction with phenyl isocyanate gives (242), probably via a similar mechanism. Benzimidazoles react similarly, but pyrazoles do not (80AHC(27)24l) cf. Section 4.02.1.4.6). 

These Br nsted-type plots often seem to be scatter diagrams until the points are collated into groups related by specific structural features. Thus, p-nitrophenyl acetate gives four separate, but parallel, lines for reactions with pyridines, anilines, imidazoles, and oxygen nucleophiles.Figure 7-4 shows such a plot for the reaction of trans-cmmm c anhydride with primary and secondary aliphatic amines to give substituted cinnamamides.All of the primary amines without substituents on the a carbon (R-CHi-NHi) fall on a line of slope 0.62 cyclopentylamine also lies on this line. If this line is characteristic of normal behavior, most of the deviations become qualitatively explicable. The line drawn through the secondary amines (slope 1.98) connects amines with the structure R-CHi-NH-CHi-R. The different steric requirements in the acylation reaction and in the model process... 

In addition to acyl halides and acid anhydrides, there are a number of milder and more selective acylating agents that can be readily prepared from carboxylic acids. Imidazolides, the (V-acyl derivatives of imidazole, are examples.115 Imidazolides are isolable substances and can be prepared directly from the carboxylic acid by reaction with carbonyldiimidazole. 

Allylation of acyloyl-imidazoles and pyrazoles61 with allyl halide mediated by indium in aqueous media provides a facile regioselective synthesis of P, y-unsaturated ketones (Scheme 11.1), which has been applied to the synthesis of the monoterpene artemesia ketone. The same product can be obtained by indium-mediated allylation of acyl cyanide (Eq. 11.35).62 Samarium, gallium, and bismuth can be used as a mediator for the allylation of nitrones and hydrazones to give homoallylic hydroxylamine and hydrazides in aqueous media in the presence of Bu4NBr (Scheme 11.2).63 The reaction with gallium and bismuth can be increased dramatically under microwave activation. 

In summary, reactions of nitronates with acid anhydrides or acyl chlorides give the O-acylated products, and reactions with acyl imidazoles, phenyl esters, acyl nitriles, and enol-lactones gives the C-acylated products, (see Eq. 5.13).25 The C/O selectivity of nitronate acylation by RCOX is qualitatively correlated with strength (pKJ of the acid HX conjugated to the leaving group X .25... 

The functional micellized surfactant contained both imidazole and hydroxyethyl groups and the final products of reaction with p-nitrophenyl alkanoates are acyl derivatives of the hydroxyethyl group. However, these O-acylated products were formed from an acylimidazole intermediate which... 

In the reaction with PNPA, myristoylhistidine [29] in a cationic micelle rapidly forms acetylimidazole as a fairly stable intermediate which is readily observable at 245 nm. On the other hand, a mixed micelle of [29] and N,N-dimethyl-N-2-hydroxyethylstearylammonium bromide [30] leads to the formation and decay of the intermediate, indicating that the acetyl group is transferred from imidazole to hydroxyl groups (Tagaki et al., 1977 Tagaki et al., 1979). This can be a model of cr-chymotrypsin which catalyses hydrolysis of PNPA (non-specific substrate) by initial acylation of the histidyl imidazole followed by acyl transfer to the seryl hydroxyl group (Kirsh and Hubbard, 1972), as indicated schematically in (12). 

Reaction of methyl 3-(dimethylamino)-2-isocyanoacrylate (Ri = Me) with acyl chlorides gave 2-acyl-4-(dimethylaminomethylene)-5(477)-oxazolones 375. ° The same reaction with arenesulfenyl chlorides gave either 2-arylthio-4-(dimethylami-nomethylene)-5(477)-oxazolones 376 or an unsaturated 5(477)-oxazolone 377 containing an imidazole at C-2 depending on the substitution present in the arenesulfenyl chloride. Nitroarenesulfenyl chlorides favored 376. ° ° Selected examples of 372, 375, and 376 are shown in Table 7.33 (Fig. 7.44 Scheme 7.121). 

The reaction of 14 may remind one of the well-established reaction mechanism for chymotrypsin (Fig. 5) (20). By comparing the acyl-trans-fer reaction of complex 14 with that of chymotrypsin 17, we find that the alcoholic nucleophiles in 14 and 17 are activated by Zn11—OH- and imidazole (in a triad), respectively. Several common features should be pointed out (i) Both reactions proceed via two-step reaction (i.e., double displacement), (ii) The basicity of Zn11—OH (pKa = 7.7) is somewhat similar to that of imidazole (plfa = ca. 7). (iii) The initial acyl-transfer reactions to alcoholic OH groups are rate determining, (iv) In NA hydrolysis with chymotrypsin, the pH dependence of both the acylation (17 — 18) and the deacylation (19 — 17) steps point to the involvement of a general base or nucleophile with a kinetically revealed piFCa value of ca. 7. A major difference here is that while the... 

Carbonyldiimidazole does certainly stand out as one of the most remarkable reagents for peptide coupling. Carboxylic acids react readily with this reagent to yield acyl imidazoles which in turn couple with the amino group of a peptide to produce a new acyl-nitrogen linkage with very little racemization. Reaction of the acylimidazolide with other nucleophiles can lead to a variety of carbonyl derivatives (62AG(E)35l). 

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