5-Acylation experimental procedure

Experimental procedure for acyl zirconocene generation and addition to imines [41] A... 

Catalytic hydrogenation is hardly ever used for this purpose since the reaction by-product - hydrogen chloride - poses some inconveniences in the experimental procedures. Most transformations of acyl chlorides to alcohols are effected by hydrides or complex hydrides. Addition of acyl chlorides to ethereal solutions of lithium aluminum hydride under gentle refluxing produced alcohols from aliphatic, aromatic and unsaturated acyl chlorides in 72-99% yields [5i]. The reaction is suitable even for the preparation of halogenated alcohols. Dichloroacetyl chloride was converted to dichloro-... 

Indeed, there were those who described the azide coupling method as racemization-free. [15l However, this viewpoint proved to be overly optimistic. In 1970, Sieber reported that during a synthesis of calcitonin M by the azide method, significant epimerization occurred during two of the segment condensation steps in one of these reactions 40% of the epimerized product was observed. 16 There is a crucial detail in the experimental procedure here. The workers used tert-butyl nitrite to convert a peptide hydrazide into a peptide azide, but did not isolate the azide as was typical for research at that time. Instead, they neutralized the active intermediate in situ with DIPEA and added the amino segment for acylation. This demonstrates another important theme in the control of epimerization, the presence of a tertiary amine in the reaction mixture, even if only as a neutralization equivalent, can result in the formation of epimerized products. Indeed, most observations of racemization during... 

Standard solid-phase peptide synthesis requires the first (C-terminal) amino acid to be esterified with a polymeric alcohol. Partial racemization can occur during the esterification of N-protected amino acids with Wang resin or hydroxymethyl polystyrene [200,201]. /V-Fmoc amino acids are particularly problematic because the bases required to catalyze the acylation of alcohols can also lead to deprotection. A comparative study of various esterification methods for the attachment of Fmoc amino acids to Wang resin [202] showed that the highest loadings with minimal racemization can be achieved under Mitsunobu conditions or by activation with 2,6-dichloroben-zoyl chloride (Experimental Procedure 13.5). iV-Fmoc amino acid fluorides in the presence of DMAP also proved suitable for the racemization-free esterification of Wang resin (Entry 1, Table 13.13). The most extensive racemization was observed when DMF or THF was used as solvent, whereas little or no racemization occurred in toluene or DCM [203]. 

Isothiocyanates can be prepared from support-bound primary amines by treatment with thiophosgene [14] or synthetic analogs thereof (Entry 5, Table 14.2). In an alternative two-step procedure, the amine is first treated with CS2 and a tertiary amine to yield an ammonium dithiocarbamate, which is subsequently desulfurized with TsCl or a chloroformate (Entry 6, Table 14.2 Experimental Procedure 14.1). Highly reactive acyl isothiocyanates have been prepared from support-bound acyl chlorides and tetra-butylammonium thiocyanate (Entry 7, Table 14.2). These acyl isothiocyanates react with amines to give the corresponding 7V-acylthiourcas, which can be used to prepare guanidines on insoluble supports (Entry 6, Table 14.3). 

During acylations with Fmoc-protected amino acids, addition of bases should be avoided as these could lead to partial deprotection and thence to multiple incorporation of the amino acid. Small amounts of DIPEA or pyridine, however, do not usually cause major problems (see Experimental Procedure 13.5). 

The phenolic group is activating and ortho-para directing. The electrophilic substitution reactions in the nucleus in (a) nitrosation and nitration (b) halogenation and (c) acylation and alkylation, are therefore particularly facile, and various experimental procedures need to be adopted to control the extent of substitution (cf. substitution reactions of aromatic amines and their acylated derivatives, Sections 6.6.1 and 6.6.2, pp. 906 and 916 respectively). 

Spivey AC, McDaid P (2007) Asymmetric acyl transfer reactions. In Dalko PI (ed) Enantioselective Organocatalysis reactions and experimental procedures. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, pp 287-329... 

Since the discovery by Carpino et al.f l that A -Pbf-protected amino acids can be activated even as acid chlorides, such derivatives have been found to be well suited for the acylation of sterically demanding amino components (for details and experimental procedures, see Section 3.3.1). Oxazolone formation is prevented by this type of N -protection, racemization is not observed during activation and coupling.In line with these findings, further sulfonamide derivatives have been proposed such as l,3-benzothiazol-2-ylsulfonyl (Bts, 1Q4),[659,660] 5-methyl-l,3,4-thiadiazol-2-ylsulfonyl (105),f l 2-nitrophenylsulfonyl (oNbs, 4-nitrophenylsulfonyl (107),t l and 2,4-dinitrophenylsulfonyl group (108) (Scheme 49).f l... 

The acylations with N,N-dimethylformamide, N,N-dimethylbenzamide, dimethyl-carbamoyl chloride and methyl chloroformate, discussed in this section are illustrated by experimental procedures. The derivatization reactions shown below, generally give the best results with lithium derivatives in THF or Et2Q and in most... 

The introduction of 0-acyl thiohydroxamates (mixed anhydrides of carboxylic acids with thiohydroxamic acids) by the Barton group in 1983 [1] has provided one of the mildest and most convenient and versatile sources of carbon-centered radicals which fulfill the above criteria, and can hence, in Sir Derek s own words, be described as disciplined . Since their preparation from carboxylic acids is extremely straightforward, and since they have demonstrated a rapacious radicophilicity in a wide variety of very useful transformations, it is no surprise that these derivatives are commonly named either as Barton esters or by the acronym PTOC (pyridine thiocarbonyl) esters. The ongoing development of this chemistry has been summarized over the years in several useful reviews [2], and some of the tried and tested experimental procedures have also been collated [3]. 

The usual experimental procedure for CO insertion is to heat a solution of the alkyl or aryl complex with a high pressure of carbon monoxide. However, many of these reactions take place under mild conditions. A high pressure of carbon monoxide may only be necessary to ensure a high yield of acyl derivative in a reversible reaction. The following examples illustrate some of the conditions used. Note that the palladium compound carbonylates more readily than its platinum analog C2H5Mn(CO)s also reacts more easily than C2H5Re(CO)s. 

Because the addition steps are generally fast and consequently exothermic chain steps, their transition states should occur early on the reaction coordinate and therefore resemble the starting alkene. This was recently confirmed by ab initio calculations for the attack at ethylene by methyl radicals and fluorene atoms. The relative stability of the adduct radicals therefore should have little influence on reacti-vity 2 ). The analysis of reactivity and regioselectivity for radical addition reactions, however, is even more complex, because polar effects seem to have an important influence. It has been known for some time that electronegative radicals X-prefer to react with ordinary alkenes while nucleophilic alkyl or acyl radicals rather attack electron deficient olefins e.g., cyano or carbonyl substituted olefins The best known example for this behavior is copolymerization This view was supported by different MO-calculation procedures and in particular by the successful FMO-treatment of the regioselectivity and relative reactivity of additions of radicals to a series of alkenes An excellent review of most of the more recent experimental data and their interpretation was published recently by Tedder and... 

Intramolecular acylation has been used frequently. Houben-Hoesch cyclization of 1 -/ -cyanoethylpyrrole (2a) gives l-oxo-2,3-dihydropyrrolizine (3a).9-17 Difficulties occur because polymerization of the nitrile (2a) can be a side reaction. Addition of boron trifluoride [3a (33%)]11 or its ethyl ether complex [3a (60-80%)]15 has been recommended. Treatment of nitrile 2a with a molten aluminum chloride-potassium chloride-sodium chloride mixture yields 70% of ketone 3a but the experimental conditions are highly critical.13 A reproducible procedure that is based mainly on Clemo s specification9,10 gave 22% of ketone 3a.17 Purification of 3a should be carried out in an efficient fume hood because it appears to induce analgesia.1 ... 

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