Amide construction

Additives such as HOBt or DMAP can be used while attached to a polymer. Thus, the polymeric //-benzyl-1-hydroxybenzotriazole-6-sulfona-mide (19) [47] and the polymeric 1-hydroxybenzotriazole (20) [48] have been shown to be highly efficient for the solution synthesis of amides. The efficiency of 19 could be attributed to its high acidity, conferred by the sulfonyl moiety. The procedure for amide construction involves the formation of an activated ester on the derivatized polymer followed, in a second step, by treatment with an amine to generate the amide in solution. This HOBt-supported polymer has also been applied for the preparation of N-hydroxysuccinimide esters, useful for the modification of proteins [49]. Polymeric DMAP is a less basic compound and generally gives very low racemization [50]. 

Most peptides (polymers of amides constructed from amino acids) are very polar molecules therefore, they are most successfully purified by reverse-phase chromatography. 

The leader of DuPont s effort was Wallace H Carothers who reasoned that he could reproduce the properties of silk by constructing a polymer chain held together as is silk by amide bonds The neces sary amide bonds were formed by heating a dicar boxylic acid with a diamine Hexanedioic acid adipic acid) and 1 6 hexanediamme hexamethylenedi-amine) react to give a salt that when heated gives a polyamide called nylon 66 The amide bonds form by a condensation reaction and nylon 66 is an example of a condensation polymer... 

The straightforward construction of substituted pyrone 4 proceeded as follows (see Scheme 6c). Alkylation of the monoanion of 2,4-pentanedione (8) with methyl iodide furnishes 3-methyl-2,4-pentanedione. Conversion of this substance into the corresponding dianion with sodium amide followed by selective carboxylation of the more basic site provides intermediate 7. Pyrone 4 is obtained after cyclization with l,l -carbonyldiimidazole and methylation of the resulting enol with dimethyl sulfate. 

A retrosynthetic analysis of fragment 152 can be completed through cleavage of the C16-C17 bond in enone 155, the projected precursor of epoxide 152. This retrosynthetic maneuver furnishes intermediates 156 and 157 as potential building blocks. In the forward sense, acylation of a vinyl metal species derived from 156 with Weinreb amide 157 could accomplish the construction of enone 155. Iodide 153, on the other hand, can be traced retrosynthetically to the commercially available, optically active building block methyl (S)-(+)-3-hydroxy-2-methyIpropionate (154). 

There have been two general approaches to the direct asymmetric epoxidation of carbonyl-containing compounds (Scheme 1.2) ylide-mediated epoxidation for the construction of aryl and vinyl epoxides, and a-halo enolate epoxidation (Darzens reaction) for the construction of epoxy esters, acids, amides, and sulfones. 

In general, the Michael addition of a-substituted amide dienolates to a,/j-unsaturated esters is a method with great future potential for the diastereoselective construction of adjacent tertiary and quaternary stereogenic centers80. 

A concise total synthesis of the indole alkaloid dihydrocorynantheol (101) (Scheme 19), that features two RCM steps and a zirconocene-catalyzed carbo-magnesation [68], is a further example of Martin s interest in applying RCM as a key reaction for the construction of alkaloid frameworks [69]. The first RCM step was applied to bis-allyl amide 96. The resulting intermediate 97 was directly subjected to carbomagnesation and subsequent elimination to deliver 98 in 71% yield from 96. Amide 98 was then transformed into acrylamide 99 in... 

M-substituted 2-pyridones can be prepared by N-alkylation, under basic conditions (pfCa of the amide proton is 11). The resulting anion can then react on either nitrogen or oxygen depending on the conditions employed [24-27]. Also, several direct methods for the construction of N-substituted 2-pyridones have been reported. Two such examples can be seen in Scheme 3 where the first example (a) is an intramolecular Dieckmann-type condensation [28] and the second (b) is a metal-mediated [2 -I- 2 + 2] reaction between alkynes with isocyanates [29,30]. 

The cationic pathway allows the conversion of carboxylic acids into ethers, acetals or amides. From a-aminoacids versatile chiral building blocks are accessible. The eliminative decarboxylation of vicinal diacids or P-silyl carboxylic acids, combined with cycloaddition reactions, allows the efficient construction of cyclobutenes or cyclohexadienes. The induction of cationic rearrangements or fragmentations is a potent way to specifically substituted cyclopentanoids and ring extensions by one-or four carbons. In view of these favorable qualities of Kolbe electrolysis, numerous useful applications of this old reaction can be expected in the future. 

MAMP (Merrifield, Alpha-MethoxyPhenyl) resin 44 is an alternative to aldehyde linkers to construct TV-substituted amides [53], Nucleophilic displacement of the benzylic chloride with an amine followed by acylation yielded a secondary amide which was released upon a low ( 10%) concentration of TFA (Scheme 16). 

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