Amide formation acetic anhydride

HCO2H, AC2O, 25°, 1 h, 78-90% yield.The use of formic acetic anhydride for esterification and amide formation has been reviewed. ... 

Kislyi et al. facilitated the formation of [l,2,3]triazolo[4,5-r lpyrimidin-7-ones from 5-amino-l,2,3-triazole-4-carbox-amides under Vilsmeier conditions (Scheme 47) or using triethyl orthoacetate and acetic anhydride (Scheme 48) <2003RCB1770>. These methods could be used to isolate the respective 5-formamidine 69 and 5-imidoate 70 reaction intermediates, if lower temperatures and shorter reaction times were employed. 

Treatment of the intermediate with acetic anhydride affords the acetamide (57-2). Reaction of the product with a base leads to an attack of the nitrogen on the secondary side chain amide on the newly introduced amide carbonyl with the formation of the cychc amidine. There is thus obtained the antiarrhythmic agent actisomide (57-3) [59]. 

It is well documented that the isoimide is the kinetically favoured product and that isomerization yields the thermodynamically stable imide when sodium acetate is used as the catalyst. High catalyst concentrations provide maleimides with low isoimide impurity. The mechanism by which the chemical imidization is thought to occur is shown in Fig. 3. The first step in the dehydration reaction may be formation of the acetic acid-maleamic acid mixed anhydride. This species could lose acetic acid in one of the two ways. Path A involves participation by the neighboring amide carbonyl oxygen to eject acetate ion with simultaneous or subsequent loss of proton on nitrogen to form the isoimide. Path B involves loss of acetate ion assisted by the attack of nitrogen with simultaneous or subsequent loss of the proton on nitrogen to form the imide. If the cyclodehydration is run in acetic anhydride in the absence of the base catalyst, isoimide is the main reaction product. 

At high temperatures with low catalyst concentration the formation of acetanilides is favored. Maleic anhydride and acetanilides may be formed directly from the mixed anhydride by an initial attack of the nitrogen on the acetate carbonyl, but this process would involve a seven membered ring transition state. Another possible route to the formation of maleic anhydride and the acetanilides is participation by neighboring carbonyl in loosening the amide carbon-nitrogen bond to the extent that the amine can be captured by acetic anhydride as shown in path D. 

Room temperature interaction of the diamines and tetracarboxylic acid dianhydrides, in NMP, leading to the formation of poly(o-carboxy)-amides followed by catalytic imidisation of these polymers with pyridine-acetic anhydride complex. 

The reaction of metal N-alkylcarbamates M(C)2CN 11 R) (M = Na, Mn(II), Co(II) R = Ph, Pr, Cy) with R C(0)C1 (R = Me, Ph) takes place, at ambient temperature, in a more complex way with the formation of isocyanates (RNCO), carboxylic anhydrides (R C(0)0C(0)CR ), amides (RNHC(O)R ) and C02. Amide formation and the evolution of C02 can be due to (i) the decomposition of mixed anhydride RNHC(0)0C(0)R obtained by addition of the acyl chloride to the oxygen atom of the carbamate group or (ii) the direct reaction of acyl chloride at the carbamic nitrogen atom of M(02CNHR) . The mixed anhydride RNHC(O) 0C(0)R might also decompose via another route so as to afford isocyanate and carboxylic acid. However, a different pathway (Scheme 6.6) has been also envisaged for the formation of RNCO and R C(0)0C(0)CR, which excludes any intermediacy of the mixed anhydride [61a], Two acetic acid molecules, bound to the same metal or to different metal centers, would then be dehydrated and acetic... 

Sydnones 78 (R1 = Ph, Ar or 3-pyridyl, R3 = H or Me) are obtained from the nitrosoamino acids 77 and acetic anhydride under ultrasound (94MI153). Three examples of the formation of oxadiazoles by microwave irradiation are from O-acyl amide oximes 79 in the presence of aluminium oxide, from amide oximes 80 and isoprop-enyl acetate in the presence of KSF-clay and from N,N -diacylhydrazines 81 and thionyl chloride (95SC1451). 

Some reactions of munchnones occur via acylamino ketenes, the covalent valence tautomers of the betaines. The ketenes are intermediates in the thermolysis (see Scheme 22) and in the formation of azetidinones from imines (equation 69) they are thought to be involved in the aminolysis of the mesoionic compounds, which results in amides of a-acylamino acids, and in the formation of the benzodioxin (247) by the combined action of acetic anhydride and tetrachloro-o-benzoquinone on Af-benzoylalanine (equation 70). 

By contrast, however, 3,5-diamino-l,2,4-thiadiazoles are selectively converted into amides and sulfonamides in good yields. Thus, acetylation of 3,5-diamino-l,2,4-thiadiazole (53) with excess acetic anhydride yields the symmetrical derivative (133) whereas under similar conditions 3-amino-5-methylamino-l,2,4-thiadiazole and 3,5-diarylamino-l,2,4-thiadiazoles (65AHC(5)119) produce the monoacylated derivatives (134) and (135), respectively. Sulfonylation also results in the preferential formation of the 3-sulfonamides but reaction with excess reagent eventually produces the 3,5-disubstituted derivatives (136) and (137) in good yields (65AHC(5)119). 

Intermolecular twofold amide formation (i.e., dehydration) to give a dimer is possible on heating with acetic anhydride, pyrrole-2-carboxylic... 

The reaction sequence, which is as shown in equation 43, is analogous to that suggested for the formation of arsonium ylides from triphenylarsine oxide in acetic anhydride Crystalline bisacetoxytriphenylarsine (37) has been isolated and shown to react with amides to give arsinimines . Tosyl and mesyl amides and benzamide react with 37 at room temperature, but less nucleophilic amides required heating in boiling 1,2-dichloroethane for reaction to take place. ... 

The acylation takes place by the normal mechanism for the formation of amides from anhydrides, that is, by nucleophilic attack on the carbonyl group and loss of the most stable anion (acetate) from the tetrahedral intermediate. The two isomers of alanine are enantiomers. Enantiomers must react at identical rates with an achiral reagent like acetic anhydride. 

A Pummerer-initiated cascade reaction has also been used as a method for generating isomiinchnones for further use in cycloaddition chemistry. For example, treatment of sulfoxide 23 with acetic anhydride first resulted in the formation of a reactive thionium ion that reacted with the distal amide carbonyl group to produce isomunchnone 24 (Scheme 6) (99JOC2038). Exposure of 24 to a dipolarophile, such as iV-phenylmaleimide, resulted in 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition to give 25 as a single diastereomer in 85% yield. 

When hydantoins are treated with acetic anhydride, sodium hypochlorite, or nitiric acid, substitution takes place at the N-l position, followed by the formation of a 1,3-disubstituted hydantoin.1 Intramolecular processes yield only the amide cyclized products (102).255,256... 

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