Alcohols acyl chlorides conversion into

The Rosenmund reduction is usually applied for the conversion of a carboxylic acid into the corresponding aldehyde via the acyl chloride. Alternatively a carboxylic acid may be reduced with lithium aluminum hydride to the alcohol, which in turn may then be oxidized to the aldehyde. Both routes require the preparation of an intermediate product and each route may have its advantages over the other, depending on substrate structure. 

Cyanuric chloride has been used for the preparation of acyl chlorides, amides, and peptides. Conversion of cyanuric chloride into 2-chloro-4,6-dimethoxy-l,3,5-triazine (CDMT, 6) leads to a reagent that upon reaction with carboxylic acids produces the highly reactive 2-acyloxy-4,6-dimethoxy-l,3,5-triazines.P l The resulting active ester is a powerful acylating agent for alcohols and amines. The activation is performed in presence of a base, preferentially NMM, which leads to intermediate formation of 4-(4,6-dimethoxy-l,3,5-triazin-2-yl)-4-methylmorpholinium chloride (DMTMM, 7)P l (Scheme 5). This addition product is readily prepared from the commercially available CDMT (6) and NMM in THF and can be stored as solid compound in the cold.P P l It offers the advantage that it can be used in a one-... 

In the conversion of an acyl chloride into an ester, the nucleophilic alcohol attacks the carbonyl carbon of the acyl chloride. Because the protonated ether group is a strong acid (Section 1.17), the tetrahedral intermediate loses a proton. Chloride ion is expelled from the deprotonated tetrahedral intermediate because chloride ion is a weaker base than the alkoxide ion. 

The GC separation of enantiomeric d- and L-amino acids with non-chiral phases needs their conversion into diastereomeric derivatives. The second chiral center in the molecule [asterisk ( ) in Fig. 8] arises after their (9-esterification by stereochemically pure alcohols [(/ )- or (5)-2-butanol, 2-pentanol, pinacolol, menthol, etc.] or acylation of NH2 groups by chiral reagents, e.g., a-methoxy-a-trifluoromethylphenylacetyl chloride [MTPAC (III)], A-trifluoroacetyl-L-prolyl chloride [A-TFA-L-Pro-Cl (IV)], or the corresponding anhydride V-trifluoroacetylthiazolidine-4-carbonyl chloride (V). 

The acid 2.8 is used to provide the acid chloride which gives a route to dimethylene linked-compounds by Friedel-Crafts acylation and reduction of the product ketone [34] and the alcohol 2.7 is used for the methyl-eneoxy-linked systems [36] by a direct DEAD reaction to a phenol [37] or by conversion into an alkyl halide or tosylate and reaction with a phenolate anion. 

Conversion of Acid Chlorides into Alcohols Reduction Acid chlorides are reduced by LiAJH4 to yield primary alcohols. The reaction is of little practical value, however, because the parent carboxylic acids are generally more readily available and can themselves be reduced by L1AIH4 to yield alcohols. Reduction occurs via a typical nucleophilic acyl substitution mechanism in which a hydride ion (H -) adds to the carbonyl group, yielding a tetrahedral intermediate that expels Cl-. The net effect is a substitution of -Cl by -H to yield an aldehyde, which is then immediately reduced by UAIH4 in a second step to yield the primary alcohol. 

The carbanion is trapped with iodine to give 42. which makes a further functionali/aiion possible. Conversion of vinylic iodide 42 into a lactone is accomplished by palladium-cataly/ed carbonyla-tion under Stille conditions.13 This process ean be broken down into the following elementary reactions a) Oxidative addition of Pd° to vinylic iodide 42 with formation of 43 b) An insertion reaction of carbon monoxide with creation of the pallada-acyl species 44 c) Reaction of acid-chloride equivalent 44 with the alcohol to give lactone 13. 

The Leukart reaction has also been used in the conversion of dehydroepiandro-sterone into 17/3-formylamino-3/3-formyloxyandrost-5-ene, which on reduction with lithium aluminium hydride afforded 3/3-hydroxy-17/3-me thylaminoandrost-5-ene. Acylation with isocaproyl chloride then furnished the N-methyl-N-isocaproyl steroid (197), after selective ester hydrolysis of the initially formed ON-diacyl derivative. The amide (197) was further converted into its 3,5-cyclo-6-ketone via the 3,5-cyclo-6/3-alcohol and thence by reaction with hydrogen bromide into the corresponding 3/3-bromo-5a-6-ketone which upon dehydrobromination furnished a A2-5a-6-ketone and ultimately the 2-monoacetate of the 2/3,3/3-diol (198) after reaction with silver acetate and iodine. Hydrolysis to the 2/3,3/3-diol (198) gave a separable mixture of the 2/3,3/8-dihydroxy-5a- and -5/3-ketones.88... 

A characteristic reaction of carboxylic acid derivatives is nucleophilic acyl substitution. In this reaction a negative or neutral nucleophile replaces a leaving group to form a substitution product. The leaving groups and nucleophiles are the groups that define the various acid derivatives as a result, the reaction usually involves the conversion of one acid derivative into another. The order of reactivity of acid derivatives is acid chloride > anhydride > acid or ester > amide. In general, reaction of any of these derivatives with water produces acids with alcohols, esters result and with amines, amides are formed. 

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