Amide alkylation

Alkylphenol polyethyleneglyool ethers Fatty aold alkanol amides Alkyl amides... 

Conversion of the C-2 amide to a biologically inactive nitrile, which can be further taken via a Ritter reaction (29) to the corresponding alkylated amide, has been accomphshed. When the 6-hydroxyl derivatives are used, dehydration occurs at this step to give the anhydro amide. Substituting an A/-hydroxymethylimide for isobutylene in the Ritter reaction yields the acylaminomethyl derivative (30). Hydrolysis affords an aminomethyl compound. Numerous examples (31—35) have been reported of the conversion of a C-2 amide to active Mannich adducts which are extremely labile and easily undergo hydrolysis to the parent tetracycline. This reverse reaction probably accounts for the antibacterial activity of these tetracyclines. 

DJERASSI RYLANDER Oxidation Ru04 in oxidative cleavage ot phenols or alkenes oxidation ol aromatics to quinones oxidation ol alkyl amides to irmdes or ol ethers lo esters... 

Aromatic ethers and furans undergo alkoxylation by addition upon electrolysis in an alcohol containing a suitable electrolyte.Other compounds such as aromatic hydrocarbons, alkenes, A -alkyl amides, and ethers lead to alkoxylated products by substitution. Two mechanisms for these electrochemical alkoxylations are currently discussed. The first one consists of direct oxidation of the substrate to give the radical cation which reacts with the alcohol, followed by reoxidation of the intermediate radical and either alcoholysis or elimination of a proton to the final product. In the second mechanism the primary step is the oxidation of the alcoholate to give an alkoxyl radical which then reacts with the substrate, the consequent steps then being the same as above. The formation of quinone acetals in particular seems to proceed via the second mechanism. ... 

I lic alkyl amides or substituted ammoni.as, nith both acid. iiul. tikyl radicals, also c.xist, and aic formed by the first two of the above reac tions and by heating the salt of the amine (see Piep. 54, ]). 15 )-... 

Treatment with sodium hypochlorite or hypobromite converts primary amines into N-halo- or N,N-dihaloamines. Secondary amines can be converted to N-halo secondary amines. Similar reactions can be carried out on unsubstituted and N-substituted amides and on sulfonamides. With unsubstituted amides the N-halo-gen product is seldom isolated but usually rearranges (see 18-13) however, N-halo-N-alkyl amides and N-halo imides are quite stable. The important reagent NBS is made in this manner. N-Halogenation has also been accomplished with other reagents, (e.g., sodium bromite NaBr02) benzyltrimethylammonium tribromide (PhCH2NMe3 Br3"), and NCS. The mechanisms of these reactions involve attack by a positive halogen and are probably similar to those of 12-47 and 12-49.N-Fluorination can be accomplished by direct treatment of amines °° or... 

Under certain conditions, amides can add directly to alkenes to form N-alkylated amides. 3-Pentenamide was cyclized to 5-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone by treatment with trifluorosulfonic acid. Acylbydrazine derivatives also cyclized in the presence of hypervalent iodine reagents to give lactams. When a carbamate was treated with Bu3SnH, and AIBN, addition to an alkene led to a bicyclic lactam. 

Kirkland J.J., Henderson J.W., Martosella J.D., Bidlingmeyer B.A., Vasta-Rus-sell J., and Adams Jr. J.B., A highly stable alkyl-amide silica-based column packing for HPLC of polar and ionizable compounds, LC-GC, 17 (7), 634,1999. 

Zinc carbamate complexes are well known, and the structural types and stabilities can be compared with thiocarbamates and dithiocarbamates which are discussed in Sections 6.8.11.1.3 and 6.8.7.1.4482 Carbamates of zinc can be formed from the reaction of carbon dioxide with alkylzinc alkyl amides and further reaction with alkylzinc can give a distorted cubane structure.483 The tetrameric diethylcarbamate species initially formed can also be used to produce monomeric or dimeric carbamate structures in reaction with amines tetramethylethylenediamine forms a monomer [(Me2NCH2)2Zn(02CN(C2H5)2)2] with an octahedral zinc center and pyridine forms a dimer[CsH5NZn2Me(02CN(C2H5)2)3] with tetrahedral zinc centers.484... 

In our earlier efforts to synthesize dendritic amphiphiles, we described a triden-dron (43) which was prepared by a two-step (alkylation-amidation or triester-tris) reaction sequence applied to l,3,5-tris(bromomethyl)benzene [117]. TEM and light scattering experiments suggested that 43 aggregated by stacking of its hydrophilic exterior into a spherical array of ca. 20 nm (diameter) reminiscent of globular micelles. 

It is necessary for the intermediate cation or complex to bear considerable car-bocationic character at the carbon center in order for effective hydride transfer to be possible. By carbocationic character it is meant that there must be a substantial deficiency of electron density at carbon or reduction will not occur. For example, the sesquixanthydryl cation l,26 dioxolenium ion 2,27 boron-complexed imines 3, and O-alkylated amide 4,28 are apparently all too stable to receive hydride from organosilicon hydrides and are reportedly not reduced (although the behavior of 1 is in dispute29). This lack of reactivity by very stable cations toward organosilicon hydrides can enhance selectivity in ionic reductions. 

Figure 5.65 provides theoretical evidence that resonance-assisted H-bonding can serve as an effective mechanism for switching a methyl rotor from one preferred conformation to another, or for controlling the stiffness of torsional motions in alkylated amides. In particular, the torsional potentials of proteins (more specifically, the Ramachandran b angle at Ca) should be sensitive to N—H- O and related H-bonding interactions involving the amide backbone. In principle, this electronic... 

This first reaction sequence on the exposed dendron (Figure 1.14) creates G = 0 (i.e. the core branch cell), wherein the number of arms (i.e. dendrons) anchored to the core is determined by Nc. Iteration of the alkylation/amidation sequence produces an amplification of terminal groups from 1 to 2 with the in situ creation of a branch cell at the anchoring site of the dendron that constitutes G = 1. Repeating these iterative sequences (Scheme 3), produces additional shells (generations) of branch cells that amplify mass and terminal groups according to the mathematical expressions described in the box opposite. 

Method A The haloalkane (0.06 mol) in PhH (10 ml) is added dropwise over a period of ca. 1.5 h to the amide (0.05 mol) and TBA-HS04 (1.7 g, 5 mmol) in a stirred two-phase system of aqueous NaOH (50%, 50 ml) and PhH (50 ml) under reflux. Stirring is continued for a further 2.5 h under reflux and the mixture is then cooled to room temperature and H20 (30 ml) is added. The organic phase is separated, washed with H20 until neutral, dried (MgS04), and evaporated under reduced pressure to yield the alkylated amide. 

In isolated examples, reactions of specific amides and thioamides with dihalo-carbenes can take unusual pathways. Thus, for example, using procedure 7.1.1, A,A-dialkylamides are converted into a-chloromethylene derivatives of the amides [48]. The initial step in which the carbene attacks the carbonyl oxygen atom is the same as for the dehydration of the A-alkyl amides, but subsequent steps, for which there is evidence from 2H/ H labelling experiments, lead to the formation of an enamine and further reaction with the carbene (Scheme 7.34). 

O-Protonated cations of eimides in concentrated and anhydrous acids are now well characterized by nmr spectroscopy. O-Protonated cations of N,N-dimethyl amides are most easily observed, even in 72% perchloric acid which has a water activity of about 10 , because for tertiary amides the N-protonated forms is relatively less stabilized by hydration (Liler, 1972a). O-Protonated cations of N-alkyl amides show considerable exchange of NH-protons with the solvent in 72% perchloric acid owing to the intervention of the N-protonated form. For primary amides (acetamide), however, O-protonated cations are not observable in that solvent (Liler, 1972b),... 

Replacement of the C-terminal glycinam-ide residue (-NHCH2CONH2) by a number of alkyl amide (-NH-R) or aza amino acid amide residues [-NH-N(R)-CONH2] (two- to three-fold improvement in potency) ... 

The amide 504 may be made by ortholithiation of benzodioxolane 505, though a higher-yielding preparation starts from 1,2-dihydroxybenzoic acid 506. OrthoUthiation of 504, directed by the tertiary amide group, is straightforward, and gives the alkylated amide 503 (Scheme 196). 

Ihnat and coworkers substituted the primary amine group with a series of gradually increasing alkyl amides 113-119, aromatic amides 120 and 121, succinamide 122 and methylsulfonamide 123 with a systematic increase in partition coefficient (octanoFwater), to increase permeability while retaining iron-chelating ability. The formamide derivative... 

Another useful method for introducing formyl and acyl groups is the Vilsmeier-Haack reaction.61 An Ac. V-di alkyl amide reacts with phosphorus oxychloride or oxalyl chloride62 to give a chloroiminium ion, which is the reactive electrophile. 

In the presence of ammonia, the metal-azide unit can possibly undergo facile ammonolysis in the same way as alkyl-amide type precursors, but it produces HN3 instead of alkylamines. Hydrogen azide itself acts as a very efficient source for the N-component (see Eq. 5). In Ihe case of ammonolysis of metal azides in the gas phase, HN3 would be produced in situ only in the reactor close to the substrate surface, thus circumventing the intrinsic problems... 

Mainly two types of building blocks containing vicinal lipid chains have been developed these are based on diesters (10 and 11) or di-./V-(alkyl)amides (12) of the dicarboxylic amino acids, IV-dialkylamides of dicarboxylic acids (13 and 14), as well as on diesters of glycerol and related derivatives (15-21) (Scheme 14). 

Taking advantage of the side-chain linkage of C-terminal trifunctional amino acids to solid supports, related iV-mono(alkyl)amides or Ai-bis(alkyl)amides serve for the production of C-terminally lipidated peptides. So far, this approach has been reported only for the synthesis of a C-terminally mono-alkylated peptide.1 1 ... 

Conformational equilibria, which are slow on the NMR chemical shift timescale, exhibit a doubled signal set. These slow interconversions are observed when two amide bond retainers are significantly populated, e.g. for N-alkylated amide bonds such as Xaa-Pro bonds. The barriers in these equilibria are in the order of 18 kcal-mol-1, leading to signal coalescence at 80-120 °C. 47 It is difficult to analyze each conformation in such equilibria in detail because frequently, but not always, even in cyclic peptides the peptide bond interconversion... 

This section deals with the alkylation reactions of such enolates. In the presence of strong bases, amides carrying at least one a-hydrogen 1 can be deprotonated to form enolate ions which, on subsequent alkylation, give alkylated amides. Further reaction, e g., hydrolysis or reduction, furnishes the corresponding acids or primary alcohols, respectively. The pKa values for deprotonation are typically around 35 (extrapolated value DMSO3 7) unless electron-withdrawing substituents are present in the a-position. Thus, deprotonation usually requires non-nucleophilic bases such as lithium diisopropylamide (extrapolated 8 pKa for the amine in DMSO is around 44) or sodium hexamethyldisilazanide. 

Rotation is hindered in the enolate. Thus, if the a-substituent R1 4= R2, the enolate can exist in two forms, the syn- and anti-forms (enolates 2 and 3, respectively, if R2 has higher priority than R1). Attack of an electrophile on either face of the enolates, 2 or 3, leads to a mixture of the alkylated amides, 4 and 5. If R1 and R2 and the A-substituents R3 and R4 are all achiral, the two alkylated amides will be mirror images and thus a racemate results. If, however, any of the R substituents are chiral, enolate 2 will give a certain ratio of alkylated amide 4/5, whereas enolate 3 will give a different, usually inverted, ratio. Thus, for the successful design of stereoselective alkylation reactions of chiral amide enolates it is of prime importance to control the formation of the enolate so that one of the possible syn- or anti-isomers is produced in large excess over the other,... 

Conformational effects are clearly important in the cyclization of alkyl amides. It was observed60 that the proportion of products 16/17 + 18 from the cyclization of amide 15 did not change with changing electronic demands of the catalyst. Apparently, rhodium-catalyzed cyclization is faster than amide rotation. 

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