Alkenyl acids, reaction with amines

Pr)4, " borohydride-exchange resin,and formic acid. When the last is used, the process is called the Wallach reaction. Conjugated aldehydes are converted to alkenyl-amines with the amine/silica gel followed by reduction with zinc borohydride.In the particular case where primary or secondary amines are reductively methylated with formaldehyde and formic acid, the method is called the Esch-weiler-Clarke procedure. It is possible to use ammonium (or amine) salts of formic acid, " or formamides, as a substitute for the Wallach conditions. This method is called the Leuckart reaction,and in this case the products obtained are often the N-formyl derivatives of the amines instead of the free amines. Primary and secondary amines can be iV-ethylated (e.g., ArNHR ArNREt) by treatment with NaBH4 in acetic acid. Aldehydes react with aniline in the presence of Mont-morillonite KIO clay and microwaves to give the amine. Formaldehyde with formic acid converts secondary amines to the N-methyl derivative with microwave irradiation. 

Significant mechanistic insights into the DABCO-catalysed isomerization of y-hydroxy-o ,/3-alkynyl esters to y-oxo-a,p-trans-alkenyl esters have been reported.33 The reaction mechanism involves cumulene formation, protonation with the conjugate acid of the amine, and protonation of the resulting allenol with water. 

Similarly, the reaction of alkenyl boronic acids with azomethines can be found. Indeed, the corresponding 3-CR was used by Petasis [33] for the enantioselective synthesis of a-amino acids starting from amines, a-keto acids and alkenyl boronic acids. 

Undecylenic acid has also been shown to react with the surface preferentially at the alkene end, leaving the terminal carboxylic acid group free for further reaction [53], This result was somewhat unexpected as the Si-H sites are considered to be somewhat acidic and the oxophilic nature of silicon should thermodynamically favor reaction with the hydroxyl group of the acid. The preferential reactivity with the alkenyl end is consistent with a free radical, rather than a nucleophilic mechanism. The acid function can be activated with N-hydroxy succinimide (NHS) to facilitate coupling with amine tagged molecules. Schematically,... 

Conjugated acids such as crotonic acid can be used as precursors to halides that can be converted to GABOB via reaction with N-bromosuccinimide to give an allylic bromide, as in 6.37Reaction with ammonium hydroxide converted the bromide to an amine 6.38) and this was followed by reaction with an acidic resin in water to convert the alkenyl moiety to an alcohol, giving GABOB. 

Subsequent to this, there have been numerous reports of the use of this reaction using alkenyl, alkynyl and arylboronic adds or esters in reactions with a range of amines and aldehydes. This reaction has been variously named the boronic Acid Mannich , boronic Mannich , boro-Mannich , Petasis boronic acid-Mannich , Petasis borono-Mannich , and Petasis" reaction. The more indusive term of Petasis borono-Mannich reaction will be used throughout this chapter. 

Finn and Petasis have independently shown that salicylaldehyde is a suitable aldehyde for the Petasis borono-Mannich reaction, with alkenyl, aryl and heteroaryl-boronic acids (Equation 6) [30, 31]. The reaction works best for aliphatic secondary amines, as in the formation of 41 primary amines give modest yields of adducts 41. Benzaldehydes lacking ortho hydroxyl functionality do not react, with even ortho methoxy functionality being unsuitable, which is consistent with a tethering mechanism via putative intermediate 9 (Figure 7.3). Petasis and Boral reported that reactions occurred at room temperature over 24-36 h, using EtOH, MeOH or acetonitrile. 

Lactams Lactams represent a special type of C=N system due to the tautomerization between the lactam (keto amine) and lactim (hydroxyimine) forms. The lactim form is much more favored for cyclic than for non-cyclic amides of carbocyclic acids. In the reaction of complex 2b with N-methyl-e-caprolactam, a simple ligand exchange reaction occurs and complex 87 can be isolated. With P-propiolactam, the alkenyl-amido complex 88 is formed, which indicates an agostic interaction. The reaction of complex 1 with e-caprolactam gives, after elimination of the alkyne and of molecular hydrogen, complex 89 with a deproto-nated lactam in a r]2-amidate bonding fashion [47]. 

Aromatic carboxylic acids, a,/f-unsaturated carboxylic acids, their esters, amides, aldehydes and ketones, are prepared by the carbonylation of aryl halides and alkenyl halides. Pd, Rh, Fe, Ni and Co catalysts are used under different conditions. Among them, the Pd-catalysed carbonylations proceed conveniently under mild conditions in the presence of bases such as K2CO3 and Et3N. The extremely high toxicity of Ni(CO)4 almost prohibits the use of Ni catalysts in laboratories. The Pd-catalysed carbonylations are summarized in Scheme 3.9 [215], The reaction is explained by the oxidative addition of halides, and insertion of CO to form acylpalladium halides 440. Acids, esters, and amides are formed by the nucleophilic attack of water, alcohols and amines to 440. Transmetallation with hydrides and reductive elimination afford aldehydes 441. Ketones 442 are produced by transmetallation with alkylmetal reagents and reductive elimination. 

Electrophilic substitutions of alkenyl-, aryl-, and alkynylsilanes with heteroatom-stabilized cationic carbon species generated by the action of a Lewis or Brpnsted acid (acyl cation, oxocarbenium ion, etc.) provide powerful methods for carbon-carbon bond formation. Particularly, intramolecular reactions of alkenylsilanes with oxocarbenium and iminium ions are very valuable for stereoselective construction of cyclic ether and amine units.21-23 For example, the BFj OEt -promoted reaction of (E)- and (Z)-alkenylsilanes bearing an acetal moiety in the alkenyl ligand gives 2,6-disubstituted dihydropyrans in a stereospecific manner (Scheme l).23 Arylsilanes also can be utilized for a similar cyclization.24... 

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