Alicyclic oxidation

A recent example of a species difference in metabolism causing a difference in toxicity is afforded by the alicyclic hydroxylation of the oral antiallergy drug, proxicromil (Fig. 5.11). After chronic administration, this compound was found to be hepatotoxic in dogs but not in rats. It was found that dogs did not significantly metabolize the compound by alicyclic oxidation, whereas rats, hamsters, rabbits, and man excreted substantial proportions of metabolites in the urine. In the dog, biliary excretion was the route of elimination of the unchanged compound,... 

A useful oxidizing reagent is silver(III) tristrifluoroacetate which can be generated from silver peroxide (AgO) and a tnfluoroacetic acid-tnfluoroacetic anhydride mixture [5f] This reagent readily oxidizes alicyclic and bicyclic hydro... 

Alicyclic hydroxamic acids undergo several specific oxidative cleavage reactions which may be of diagnostic or preparative value. In the pyrrolidine series compounds of type 66 have been oxidized with sodium hypobromite or with periodates to give y-nitroso acids (113). Ozonolysis gives the corresponding y-nitro acids. The related cyclic aldonitrone.s are also oxidized by periodate to nitroso acids, presumably via the hydroxamic acids.This periodate fission was used in the complex degradation of J -nitrones derived from aconitine. 

Some alicyclic 1,2-diamine derivatives have recently been shown to have interesting CNS properties. For example, eclanamine (34) is an antidepressant with a rapid onset of action. The reasons for its potency are not as yet clear but pharmacologists note that the drug desensitizes adrenergic alpha-2 receptors and antagonizes the actions of clonidine. The synthesis of eclanamine starts with attack of cyclopentene oxide (30) by dimethylamine (to give 31). This product is converted to the mesylate by reaction with sodium hydride followed by mesyl chloride. Attack of... 

The effect of adding large quantities of acetic acid to the medium is more complicated. The acceleration of the oxidation rate of isopropanol was ascribed initially to a shift of the esterification equilibrium to the right (reaction 29). However, RoCek found that acceleration by acetic acid occurs for oxidations which cannot involve a pre-equilibrium esterification, e.g. those of aliphatic and alicyclic hydrocarbons. The obvious alternative, i.e. that acetic acid combines with chromic acid, viz. 

The issue of regioselectivity in oxidations of a-tocopherol-type antioxidants— being an open question for more than 70 years—was recently clarified by a combined experimental and theoretical study.38 The approach was based on measuring the ratio between the down-o-QM and up-o-QM products obtained upon oxidation of 10 different a-tocopherol-type antioxidants (1, 15a-i), which carried differently sized alicycles (Fig. 6.13). Thus, in these compounds the electronic effects were kept... 

As pointed out previously, controlled degradation reactions are very difficult with aliphatic or alicyclic hydrocarbons, and most of the relabeling work has been concentrated on aromatic reaction products. Procedures have been extensively described by Pines and co-workers (e.g., 97, 96, also 87, 89-98, 95, 98). For the present purpose, it suffices to note that the 14C contents of the methyl side-chains and the rings in aromatic reaction products are readily estimated by oxidation of the methyl to carboxyl, followed by decarboxylation, while ethyl side-chains may be oxidatively degraded one carbon atom at a time. Radiochemical assays may be made on CO2 either directly in a gas counter, or after conversion to barium carbonate, while other solid degradation intermediates (e.g., benzoic acid or the phthalic acids) may be either assayed directly as solids or burned to CO2. Liquids are best assayed after burning to CO2. 

Peroxyl radicals can undergo various reactions, e.g., hydrogen abstraction, isomerization, decay, and addition to a double bond. Chain propagation in oxidized aliphatic, alkyl-aromatic, alicyclic hydrocarbons, and olefins with weak C—H bonds near the double bond proceeds according to the following reaction as a limiting step of the chain process [2 15] ... 

Numerous enantioselective transfer hydrogenation processes have now been developed and operated at commercial scale to give consistent, high-quality products, economically. These include variously substituted aryl alcohols, styrene oxides and alicyclic and aliphatic amines. Those discussed in the public domain include (S)-3-trifluoromethylphenylethanol [48], (f )-3,5-bistrifluorophenylethanol [64], 3-nitrophenylethanol [92], (S)-4-fluorophenylethanol [lc], (f )-l-tetralol [lc], and (T)-l-methylnaphthylamine [lc]. 

The conversion of a chemical with a given molecular formula to another compound with the same molecular formula but a different molecular structure, such as from a straight-chain to a branched-chain hydrocarbon or an alicyclic to an aromatic hydrocarbon. Examples include the isomerization of ethylene oxide to acetaldehyde (both C2H40) and butane to isobutane (both C4H10). 

As revealed in the following three sections, work dealing with the electrochemical oxidation of halogenated organic compounds is centered largely on the behavior of alkyl, alicyclic, and aryl halides. A review by Becker [4] provides an especially good perspective of developments in these areas. 

An economical, practical, and environmentally acceptable procedure was elaborated for oxidative deprotection of trimethylsilyl ethers to their corresponding carbonyl compounds. The reaction proceeded in a solventless system, within a short period of time, and yields were good. On irradiation in a conventional microwave for 30 s, trimethylsilyl ether of benzyl alcohol in the presence of mont-morilonite KIO and finely grounded Fe(N03)3 9H2O gave rise to benzaldehyde in 95% yield. The applicability of this method was tested with several aromatic, alicyclic, and aliphatic trimethylsilyl ethers. Duration did not exceed 1 min, and yields were not lower than 80% (Mojtahedi et al. 1999). 

Oxone has been successfully used in aprotic solvents for oxidation reactions by dispersing it on an alumina surface. Thus, the oxidation of secondary aliphatic, alicyclic and benzylic alcohols using Oxone/wet alumina oxide in CH2CI2 or CH3CN afforded ketones in good to excellent yields (70-96%). Similarly, the conversion of cycloalkanones to lactones is also reported. 

Only a few examples of ring syntheses by transformation of another ring have been published, as exemplified by the preparation of the sultines 168 by ring enlargement of five-membeted thiolane 1-oxides 166 (cf Section 8.10.9.2.3) and the 3,6-dihydro-l,2-dithiins 202 by catalytic transformation of vinylthiiranes 201 (cf Section 8.10.9.4.2). Because possibilities to synthesize six-membered rings with oxygen and/or sulfur as heteroatoms in 1,2-positions are rather limited, these reactions have been covered already in Section 8.10.9 together with alternative syntheses from alicyclic compounds. 

Over time, oxygen will react with fuel components to degrade the fuel into a viscous, sludgelike mass. Fuel components most susceptible to oxidation are olefins and alicyclic naphthenes. Paraffins and aromatics are less susceptible to attack but can eventually be consumed by the free-radical chain reaction process. 

An interesting reversal of chiral induction in chromium(III)-salen complexes using a tartaric derived alicyclic diamine moiety (i.e., 7) has been observed by Mosset, Saalfrank, and co-workers <99T1063>. Thus, epoxidation of the chromene 8 using catalyst 7 and an oxidant consisting of MCPBA/NMO afforded the 3S,4S epoxide 9, whereas the Jacobsen catalyst (1) provided the corresponding 3R,4R enantiomer. A mechanistic rationalization for this curious crossover has not yet been proposed. 

In the aliphatic series, the peracid oxidation appears to be limited to i-alkyl primary amines or alicyclic amines [39]. 

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