Aldehydes, catalytic hydrogenation

Reaction of (T)-(-)-2-acetoxysuccinyl chloride (78), prepared from (5)-mahc acid, using the magnesiobromide salt of monomethyl malonate afforded the dioxosuberate (79) which was cyclized with magnesium carbonate to a 4 1 mixture of cyclopentenone (80) and the 5-acetoxy isomer. Catalytic hydrogenation of (80) gave (81) having the thermodynamically favored aH-trans stereochemistry. Ketone reduction and hydrolysis produced the bicycHc lactone acid (82) which was converted to the Corey aldehyde equivalent (83). A number of other approaches have been described (108). 

Pyrolytic Decomposition. The pyrolytic decomposition at 350—460°C of castor oil or the methyl ester of ricinoleic acid spHts the ricinoleate molecule at the hydroxyl group forming heptaldehyde and undecylenic acids. Heptaldehyde, used in the manufacture of synthetic flavors and fragrances (see Elavors and spices Perfumes) may also be converted to heptanoic acid by various oxidation techniques and to heptyl alcohol by catalytic hydrogenation. When heptaldehyde reacts with benzaldehyde, amyl cinnamic aldehyde is produced (see Cinnamic acid, cinnamaldehyde, and cinnamyl... 

For most laboratory-scale reductions of aldehydes and ketones, catalytic hydrogenation has been replaced by methods based on metal hydride reducing agents. The two most common reagents are sodium borohydride and lithium aluminum hydride. 

Reduction to alcohols (Section 15.2) Aldehydes are reduced to primary alcohols, and ketones are reduced to secondary alcohols by a variety of reducing agents. Catalytic hydrogenation over a metal catalyst and reduction with sodium borohydride or lithium aluminum hydride are general methods. 

A class of nitrogen-containing compounds that was omitted from the section just discussed includes imines and their- derivatives. Irnines are formed by the reaction of aldehydes and ketones with ammonia. Imines can be reduced to primary amines by catalytic hydrogenation. 

Reductive amination (Section 22.10) Method for the preparation of amines in which an aldehyde or a ketone is treated with ammonia or an amine under conditions of catalytic hydrogenation. 

The name Rosenmund reduction is used for the catalytic hydrogenation of an acyl chloride 1 to yield an aldehyde 2. 

An alternate scheme for preparing these compounds starts with a prefabricated pyrimidone ring. Aldol condensation of that compound (95), which contains an eneamide function, with pyridine-3-aldehyde (80), gives the product 96. Catalytic hydrogenation gives the product of 1,4 reduction. The resulting pyrimidinedione, of course exists in the usual tautomeric keto (97a) and enol (97b) forms. Reaction with phosphorus oxyxchloride leads to the chloro derivative 98. Displacement with methoxide gives 99. Reaction of this last intermediate with the furylalkylamine derivative 92 leads to the H-2 blocker lupitidine (100) [22]. 

A very efficient and universal method has been developed for the production of optically pue L- and D-amino adds. The prindple is based on the enantioselective hydrolysis of D,L-amino add amides. The stable D,L-amino add amides are effidently prepared under mild reaction conditions starting from simple raw materials (Figure A8.2). Thus reaction of an aldehyde with hydrogen cyanide in ammonia (Strecker reaction) gives rise to the formation of the amino nitrile. The aminonitrile is converted in a high yield to the D,L-amino add amide under alkaline conditions in the presence of a catalytic amount of acetone. The resolution step is accomplished with permeabilised whole cells of Pseudomonas putida ATCC 12633. A nearly 100% stereoselectivity in hydrolysing only the L-amino add amide is combined with a very broad substrate spedfidty. 

Amides are very weak nucleophiles, far too weak to attack alkyl halides, so they must first be converted to their conjugate bases. By this method, unsubstituted amides can be converted to N-substituted, or N-substituted to N,N-disubstituted, amides. Esters of sulfuric or sulfonic acids can also be substrates. Tertiary substrates give elimination. O-Alkylation is at times a side reaction. Both amides and sulfonamides have been alkylated under phase-transfer conditions. Lactams can be alkylated using similar procedures. Ethyl pyroglutamate (5-carboethoxy 2-pyrrolidinone) and related lactams were converted to N-alkyl derivatives via treatment with NaH (short contact time) followed by addition of the halide. 2-Pyrrolidinone derivatives can be alkylated using a similar procedure. Lactams can be reductively alkylated using aldehydes under catalytic hydrogenation... 

The mechanism of catalytic hydrogenation of aldehydes and ketones is probably similar to that of Reaction 15-11, though not much is known about it. " ... 

Catalytic hydrogenation of 146 and oxidation with PCC gave the 3-C-pro-panoyl derivative 147. Selective hydrolysis of the 5,6-0-isopropylidene group, followed by periodic acid oxidation, provided the aldehyde 148. 

The reaction of the aldehyde 174, prepared from D-glucose diethyl dithio-acetal by way of compounds 172 and 173, with lithium dimethyl methyl-phosphonate gave the adduct 175. Conversion of 175 into compound 176, followed by oxidation with dimethyl sulfoxide-oxalyl chloride, provided diketone 177. Cyclization of 177 with ethyldiisopropylamine gave the enone 178, which furnished compounds 179 and 180 on sodium borohydride reduction. 0-Desilylation, catalytic hydrogenation, 0-debenzyIation, and acetylation converted 179 into the pentaacetate 93 and 5a-carba-a-L-ido-pyranose pentaacetate (181). 

As mentioned in Section 3.2, hydrogenation is by far the most investigated catalytic reaction and palladium the most commonly employed metal, followed by platinum. The most common substrates for catalytic hydrogenation tests are simple alkenes, cyclic alkenes and unsaturated carbonylic compounds. In the latter case, conjugated substrates (a,P-unsaturated aldehydes, acrylic acid) have received particular attention. 

Catalytic hydrogenation of nitriles may result in several products primary, secondary, and tertiary amines imines hydrocarbons aldehydes amides and... 

The unsubstituted quinazolidine system 5 was constructed from mesylate 173. The key feature in this synthesis is based on a cyclohydrocarbonylation of the protected 4-amino-l,6-heptadiene 169 catalyzed by Rh(acac)(CO)2-BIPHEPHOS. Formation of the hemiamidal-aldehyde 171 took place by hydroformylation of the two olefin moieties and cyclization. Elimination of water gave 172, which, after treatment with NaBFE, subsequent mesylation to 173, and catalytic hydrogenation, afforded 5 (Scheme 29) <1998TL4599>. 

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