Amides by carbonylation

Direct preparation of primary amides by carbonylation in the presence of NH3 is not easy. As one solution, Indolese carried out carbonylation of p-bromotoluene... 

Reduction of an azide a nitrile or a nitro compound furnishes a primary amine A method that provides access to primary secondary or tertiary amines is reduction of the carbonyl group of an amide by lithium aluminum hydride... 

Acid chlorides are easily detected by their characteristic absorption near 1800 cm-1. Acid anhydrides can be identified by the fact that they show two absorptions in the carbonyl region, one at 1820 cm 1 and another at 1760 cm-1. Esters are detected by their absorption at 1735 cm 1, a position somewhat higher than that for either aldehydes or ketones. Amides, by contrast, absorb near the low wavenumber end of the carbonyl region, with the degree of substitution on nitrogen affecting the exact position of the IR band. 

Preparation Of Thiol Acids, Thiol Esters And Amides By Reactions Of Carbonyl Sulfides With Grignard Reagents," Katritzky. A.R. Moutou, J.-L. Yang, Z. Org. Prep. Proceed. Int., 1995, 27, 361... 

Scheme 8.15. Synthesis of Ketones, Esters, Carboxylic Acids, and Amides by Palladium-Catalyzed Carbonylation and Acylation... 

The amide group shows a prominent directivity in the hydrogenation of cyclic unsaturated amides by a cationic iridium catalyst, and much higher diastereo-selectivity is realized than in the corresponding ester substrates (Table 21.7). In the case of / ,y-unsaturated bicyclic amide (entry 3), the stereoselectivity surpasses 1000 1 [41]. An increase of the distance between the amide carbonyl and olefmic bond causes little decrease in the selectivity (d, -unsaturated amide, entry 6) compared with the case of the less-basic ester functionality (Table 21.6, entry 5). 

Peng HM, Raner GM, Vaz AD, et al. Oxidative cleavage of esters and amides to carbonyl products by cytochrome P450. Arch Biochem Biophys 1995 318(2) 333—339. 

The anodic oxidation of substituted allenes [76-79] and hetero-allenes [80-85] has been extensively studied by Becker and coworkers. Oxidation of secondary and tertiary alkyl isothiocyanates resulted in an ot-cleavage processes [77]. Primary alkyl isocyanates yielded amides and carbonyl compounds due to the nucleophilic involvement of either acetonitrile or water [80]. Primary alkyl isothiocyanates 48 afforded five-membered thiadiazolidine 49 and 50 and... 

When the ratio of template to acid is close to 0.5, the viscosity of the product is more than 3 times higher than the viscosity of the polymer obtained without the template. PEO participates in the change of local concentration by interaction with carbonyl groups, but not in the activation. Solution of LiCl in N-methylpyrrolidone with PlOCeHsls was found very effective system for synthesis of amides by the direct reaction of acids with amines in the presence of polymeric matrix. High molecular weight poly(aminoacids) obtained by direct polycondensation reaction, promoted by triphenyl phosphite and LiCl in the presence of poly(vinylpyrrolidone), were synthesized by Higashi et al The results for polymerization of L-leucine in the presence of poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) are presented in the Table 6.3. 

The facile reduction of amides by borane[67 69 was used for the reduction of the carbonyl group of the peptide bond.159 This reduction procedure is compatible with Boc, Z, OMe, and OBzl protecting groups. Generally, yields are relatively low. The following experimental procedure describing a dipeptide reduction, is the one which produces the best results/57 ... 

The first instance involves the Pt(II) fragment "TpPdMe," used not as a catalyst, but rather as a protecting function for alkynes during catalytic, and indeed stoichiometric, processes, a role that followed from the noted stability of TpPtMe(r 2-RC=CR) complexes, and their capacity to release the alkyne by carbonylation.56 63 Thus, ji-complexes with a series of bis (amide)acetylenes (144-149, Scheme 12, Section III.B.l), formed from the polymeric TpPtMe (126), could be subjected to conditions of catalytic hydrogenation, or basic hydrolysis of the pendant functions, without... 

The conjugate addition of carbonyl anions catalysed by thiazolium salts (via umpol-ung) that is fully operative under neutral aqueous conditions has been accomplished. The combination of a-keto carboxylates (157) and thiazolium-derived zwitterions (e.g. 160) in a buffered protic environment (pH 7.2) generates reactive carbonyl anions that readily undergo conjugate additions to substituted o /3-unsaturated 2-acylimidazoles (158) to produce (159). The scope of the reaction has been examined and found to accommodate various a-keto carboxylates and /3-aryl-substituted unsaturated 2-acylimidazoles. The optimum precatalyst for this process is the commercially available thiazolium salt (160), a simple analogue of thiamine diphosphate. In this process, no benzoin products from carbonyl anion dimerization were observed. The resulting 1,4-dicarbonyl compounds (159) can be efficiently converted into esters and amides by way of activation of the A-methylimidazole ring via alkylation.181... 

Thus, thieno[c]tropylium salts (like 228a) are hydrolyzed even by 40% perchloric acid, and are rapidly decolorized by water, alcohols, amines, amides, and carbonyl compounds. The corresponding pyrroles (like 228b) are more stable and are inert toward those reagents (68ZOR907). 

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