Amidation of aromatic rings

Amidation of aromatic rings with hydroxamic acids... 

Intramolecular acylation 1-21 Intramolecular amidation of aromatic rings... 

The reaction with disubstituted formamides and phosphorus oxychloride, called the Vilsmeier or the Vilsmeier-Haack reaction,is the most common method for the formylation of aromatic rings. However, it is applicable only to active substrates, such as amines and phenols. An intramolecular version is also known.Aromatic hydrocarbons and heterocycles can also be formylated, but only if they are much more active than benzene (e.g., azulenes, ferrocenes). Though A-phenyl-A-methyl-formamide is a common reagent, other arylalkyl amides and dialkyl amides are also used. Phosgene (COCI2) has been used in place of POCI3. The reaction has also been carried out with other amides to give ketones (actually an example of 11-14),... 

This section contains dehydrogenations to form alkenes and unsaturated ketones, esters and amides. It also includes the conversion of aromatic rings to alkenes. Reduction of aryls to dienes is found in Section 377 (Alkene-Alkene). Hydrogenation of aryls to alkanes and dehydrogenations to form aryls are included in Section 74 (Alkyls from Alkenes). 

We have now adjusted our molecular systems to provide a model in which both forces can operate simultaneously. The U-shaped relationship that exists between the imide function and amides of aryl amines creates a hydrogen bonding edge and a planar stacking surface that converge from perpendicular directions as in 44 to provide a microenvironment complementary to nucleic acid components. A large number of aromatic rings can be functionalized with this simple scaffold, and spacers (R) can also be incorporated. The imide function is a mimic of the thymine residues. 

Assignments for C—H out-of-plane bending bands in the spectra of substituted benzenes appear in the chart of characteristic group absorptions (Appendix C). These assignments are usually reliable for alkyl-substituted benzenes, but caution must be observed in the interpretation of spectra when polar groups are attached directly to the ring, for example, in nitroben-zenes, aromatic acids, and esters or amides of aromatic acids. 

For convenience of isolating the reaction product in a crystalline state, acid amides containing aromatic ring(s), i.e., acetanilide and benzanilide, were selected, and were allowed to react with AlMe3, AlEt3, or A1Bu 3. The reaction product could be obtained in a crystalline state by adding an aliphatic hydrocarbon such as iso-octane to the reaction mixture in toluene. The catalytic behavior of the isolated reaction products indicated that these products were the real active species of the catalyst system (36) (Table 2). 

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