Alkyl amines protonation

Once amines that also cany heteroatoms were included in the study, a dataset of 80 proton affinities was obtained. For those alkyl amines the inductive effect as quantified by residual electronegativity had also to be taken into account, A simple... 

Figure 7-7. Equations for the calculation of proton affinities (PA) of simple alkyl amines and of heteroatom-substituted alkyl amines.

The Zincke reaction is an overall amine exchange process that converts N- 2,A-dinitrophenyl)pyridinium salts (e.g, 1), known as Zincke salts, to iV-aryl or iV-alkyl pyridiniums 2 upon treatment with the appropriate aniline or alkyl amine. The Zincke salts are produced by reaction of pyridine or its derivatives with 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene. This venerable reaction, first reported in 1904 and independently explored by Konig, proceeds via nucleophilic addition, ring opening, amine exchange, and electrocyclic reclosure, a sequence that also requires a series of proton transfers. By... 

Replacement of the remaining ether oxygen by basic nitrogen leads to a compound that shows anti-malarial activity. Nitration of aniline derivative 38 leads to substitution para to the alkyl group. (Protonation of the amine under the reaction conditions leads to deactivation of the position para to that group relative to that para to alkyl. The position meta to the protonated amine is less deactivated.)... 

In practical terms, it is invariably a nitrogen atom that is protonated in salt formation. This always leads to a downfield shift for protons on carbons both alpha and beta to the nitrogen concerned. In alkyl amines, the expected shifts would be about 0.7 and 0.3 ppm respectively. Remember that some heterocyclic compounds (e.g., pyridine) contain nitrogen atoms that are basic enough to protonate and comparable downfield shifts can be expected (Spectrum 5.9). 

Ellipsoidal cryptands can also be synthesized by direct alkylation procedures <77AG(E)720,80CB1487), obviating the need for a diborane or lithium aluminum hydride reduction step. In the case of [l.l.l]cryptand (15a) yields of the final amine alkylation step are enhanced by the amine proton itself acting as a template (81CC777). 

Soloshonok and co-workers have developed a method for the synthesis of a-(perfluoro-alkyl)amines from perfluoroalkyl carbonyl compounds by a transamination involving an azomethine a/omethine (Schiffbase) isomerization. They call this method a biomimetic, base-catalyzed 1,3-proton shift reaction, and have applied it to perfluoroaldehydes,12-15 perfluoroalkyl ketones,12 18 / -(perfluoroalkyl)-/l-oxo esters,15 16 19 24 and - -( perfluoroalkyl)-a-oxo es-ters2 " -26 to synthesize the corresponding a-(perfluoroalkyl)amincs, / -(perfluoroalkyl )-/i-amino acids, and 3 -(perfluoroalkyl)- x-amino acids. 

These products can both be explained as arising from radical coupling derived from proton transfer within the initially formed radical ion pair, N-H deprotonation giving adduct and C-H deprotonation giving reduction product. With stilbene and tertiary alkyl amines (dimethylaminoalkanes), two products characteristic of radical coupling are observed, eq. 54 (162) ... 

Perhaps the simplest reaction to envisage is the alkylation of a co-ordinated amine. These reactions are well-known and usually occur under strongly basic conditions. It is most likely that these reactions involve deprotonated amido intermediates, and are considered in that context. As we have seen in Chapter 2, the acidity of an amine proton should increase upon co-ordination to a metal centre, and with the charge on that metal. As a consequence, we might expect to see new types of reaction products derived from the amido ligand, particularly with high oxidation state metal complexes. The former effect is indeed the case, and dramatic reduction of the pKa of ammonia and amines is observed upon co-ordination to a metal ion (Table 5-1). 

Aprotic protophillic solvents all nitrogen bases without protons, e.g., pyridine, and other conjugated amines, and fully alkylated amines or amides. The solvents function as Bronsted bases as well as Lewis bases and may have high permittivity. 

Eliminations of ammonium salts (Chapter 19, p. 484) require very strong bases—much stronger than those available to enzymes— and fully alkylated amines. You can t protonate an amine in the presence of strong base. 

The rates for the methylation of cyclopentanone and for the proton abstraction from 2-methylcyclopentanone were significantly increased by a factor of 7500 and 5, respectively, when six equivalents of HMPA were added to the reaction. Using 31P, 7Li and 13C NMR spectroscopy, Suzuki and Noyori found that the tetrasolvated Dy dimer was exclusively generated from the tetrameric (T0,4) and dimeric (D0,4) tetrasolvated lithium amine-free enolate of cyclopentanone (0.16 M in THF, —100 °C, ratio 2/3)275. Kinetic analysis gave a first-order reaction in dimer and HMPA for the reaction with a modulation for free HMPA33, and a first-order reaction in dimer for deprotonation, independent of HMPA. Possible transition state structures for alkylation and proton abstraction are drawn in Scheme 85. 

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