Amides dealkylation

The process is not limited to amines. Amides can also be dealkylated. N-Benzyl amides are debenzylated in the presence of NBS and AIBN. ... 

Dealkylation of related salt 145b, which is stable up to — 20 °C, led to the formation of a nitrilium salt 146. The latter was transformed to amide 147 upon hydrolysis (see Equation 42) <1995HAC559>. 

The propensity of S-S dications to undergo dealkylation was found to decrease in the order of methyl > ethyl > benzyl. This order of reactivity parallels the increase in the stability of the corresponding carbocations.94 Dealkylation of dication 77 affords thiosulfonium salt 78 in quantitative yield.95 Kinetic studies suggest SN1 mechanism of dealkylation. In addition, reaction of sulfoxide 79 with a substituent chiral at the a-carbon results in racemic amide 80 after hydrolysis. 

In the case of the most reactive compounds, substitution at the carbon atom of diselenonium and ditelluronium dications is also a possible pathway. For example, formation of diselenide 117 from selenoxide 115 was explained by demethylation of intermediate dication 116 with trifluoroacetate anion.126 Dealkylation of salt 118, which is stable up to —20°C, leads to formation of nitrilium salt 119. The latter is transformed to amide 120 upon hydrolysis.64 Dealkylation of intermediate diselenonium dication 122 was suggested as the key step in the oxidative synthesis of 1,2,4-diselenazolidines 123 from eight-membered heterocycles 121 (Scheme 46).127... 

Peptidylglycine a-amidating monooxygenase (PAM) Pituitary, heart Oxidative A-dealkylation... 

Photolysis of pentobarbitone (pentobarbital, 285) was achieved on a solution buffered to pH 11 with a low-pressure mercury lamp over 10 h. At this pH the mono anion was the main species present. The products identified were the dealkylated ethyl barbitone (286), the amide (294) and both diastereoisomers of the ureide (295). On more prolonged irradiation, there also appeared ethylhydroxybarbitone (287) and an unidentified dimeric compound. When ethylbarbitone (286) was photolysed in the same way, it gave (287) and 2-ethyl-2-hydroxymalonic acid. Finally, pentobarbitone was irradiated in molar sodium hydroxide solution, where the dianion would be the main form present, to give (295) with a small amount of (294) [175]. 

By analogy to N- and O-dealkylation reactions, one might expect esters and amides to be susceptible to P450-catalyzed oxidative attack at the a-carbon to oxygen (esters) or a to nitrogen (amides). This is indeed the case and was first established (132) by demonstration that the pyridine diester (Fig. 4.66) was oxidatively cleaved by rat-liver microsomes to yield the monoacid as shown. 

Hall LR, Hanzlik RR N-dealkylation of tertiary amides by cytochrome P-450. Xenobiotica 1991 21(9) 1127-1138. 

Phenyl carbonochloridate (phenyl chloroformate) effects the dealkylation of tertiary amines A,A-dimethylanilinc yields methyl chloride and the amide 247, and quinuclidine yields the piperidine derivative 248261. 

However, the resulting amides are difficult to hydrolyse. A more efficient dealkylating agent is 2,2,2-trichloroethyl carbonochloridate ClC(0)0CH2CCl3. It readily decomposes... 

Phenylcarbamates, or carbanilates, generally exhibit low water solubilities, and thus they are almost immobile in soil systems. Chlorpropham and Propham are readily volatilized from soil systems, but Terbutol and Carbaryl (Fig. 10, Table 3) are not. Ester- and amide-hydrolysis, N-dealkylation and hydroxylation are among the chemical reactions that carbamates undergo. The N-methylcar-bamate insecticides (Fig. 10, Table 3) commonly used in soils are Carbaryl, Methiocarb,Aldicarb,and Carbofuran [74,173]. 

Fig. 4.3. Hydrolysis pathways in the metabolism of epicainide (4.29). Pathway a direct hydrolysis of the secondary amide function. Pathway b hydrolysis of the primary amide (4.30) formed by oxidative (V-dealkylation. Pathway c hydrolysis of the intermediary metabolite (4.31) formed by (V-deethylation and subsequent oxidation of the pyrrolidine moiety [17].

The simplest structures in this series are A-methyl- and A-ethylbenz-amide (4.73 and 4.74, respectively). When administered intraperitoneally in rats, these amides yielded methylamine and ethylamine, respectively, plus benzoic acid, which was detected in the urine as hippuric acid [47]. An alternative metabolic pathway is possible, involving A-dealkylation to the primary amide followed by hydrolysis its contribution, if any, must be minor, since benzamide levels in urine were negligible. 

A simple example in this class with which to begin is A,A-diethyl-m-to-luamide 0V,/V-dicthyl-3-mcthylbenzamidc, DEET, 4.82), an extensively used topical insect repellant. The hydrolysis product 3-methylbenzoic acid was detected in the urine of rats dosed intraperitoneally or topically with DEET. However, amide hydrolysis represented only a minor pathway, the major metabolites resulting from methyl oxidation and A-dealkylation [52], Treatment of rats with /V,/V-dicthylbcnzamidc (4.83), a contaminant in DEET, produced the same urinary metabolites as its secondary analogue, A-ethylbenzamide (see Sect. 4.3.1.2). This observation can be explained by invoking a metabolic pathway that involves initial oxidative mono-A-deethylation followed by enzymatic hydrolysis of the secondary amide to form ethylamine and benzoic acid [47], Since diethylamide was not detected in these experiments, it appears that A,A-diethylbenzamide cannot be hydrolyzed by amidases, perhaps due to the increased steric bulk of the tertiary amido group. 

Tertiary arylacetamides appear to undergo hydrolysis to a very limited extent only. Hydrolysis of the synthetic opioid fentanyl (4.117) to despropa-noylfentanyl (4.118) was a very minor pathway in humans [76], No metabolites resulting from amide hydrolysis were detected for the fentanil analogues alfentanil (4.119) and sufentanil (4.120) [77], for which oxidative N-dealkylation was the main metabolic pathway. 

N-atom (Chapt. 6 in [50]). In reactions of -dealkylation, the rate-limiting step is C-hydroxylation, whereas subsequent hydrolytic cleavage of the N-C bond is too fast under physiological conditions to be measurable, at least when the parent compound is a basic amine. Breakdown of carbinolamines of very weak amines and amides, e.g., 3-(hydroxymethyl)phenytoin, is not as fast and becomes measurable. 

The primary ozonation by-products of atrazine (15 mg/L) in natural surface water and synthetic water were deethylatrazine, deisopropylatrazine, 2-chloro-4,6-diamino-s-triazine, a deisopropylatrazine amide (4-acetamido-4-amino-6-chloro-5-triazine), 2-amino-4-hydroxy-6-isopropylamino-5-triazine, and an unknown compound. The types of compounds formed were pH dependent. At high pH, low alkalinity, or in the presence of hydrogen peroxide, hydroxyl radicals formed from ozone yielded 5-triazine hydroxy analogs via hydrolysis of the Cl-Cl bond. At low pH and low alkalinity, which minimized the production of hydroxy radicals, dealkylated atrazine and an amide were the primary byproducts formed (Adams and Randtke, 1992). 

The amide type local anesthetic lidocaine is broken down primarily in the liver by oxidative N-dealkylation. This step can occur only to a restricted extent in prilocaine and articaine because both carry a substituent on the C-atom adjacent to the nitrogen group. Articaine possesses a carboxymethyl group on its thiophen ring. At this position, ester cleavage can occur, resulting in the formation of a polar -COO group, loss of the amphiphilic character, and conversion to an inactive metabolite. 

Nitrosamine formation is not the only conceivable fragmentation mechanism for compounds of structure I. By analogy to the nitrosative dealkylation reactions discussed above, one might predict that such compounds could also undergo cis elimination of nitroxyl in amide-forming reactions. Such a transformation has possibly been observed (14). During an attempt to synthesize the nitrosamino aldehyde VIII from immonium ion IX, Hecht coworkers were able to isolate only 5-10% of the desired product. The major product proved to be N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, as shown in Fig. 10. We interpret this as evidence that an intermediate such as li can fragment not only by the Fig. 1... 

Lidocaine (synonyme lignocaine) was introduced as the first amide in 1944 and is the most commonly used LA today. It has a rapid onset of action with intermediate duration and an intermediate toxicity. The maximum tolerated dose with infiltration or injection is 200 mg (500 mg when combined with adrenaline). Lidocaine is dealkylated in the liver to monoethylglycine xylidide and glycine xylidide which retain local anesthetic activity. It is available in a variety of preparations including creams, gels, patches and solutions, often in combination with adrenaline. 

Several classes of synthesized calixarenes bearing several moieties (ether, ester, and amide derivatives), were tested for the extraction of strontium picrates (from aqueous solutions into dichloromethane).128 Only a few of them show appreciable extraction levels. The p-i-butyl calix[6]arene hexa(di-/V-ethyl)amide (CA4) shows a very high extraction level of alkaline earth cations with respect to alkali metal cations. Moreover, dealkylation of the calix[6]arene hcxa(di-/V-cthyl)amidc (CA5) decreases the extraction of both sodium and strontium. As this decrease is much more important for sodium than for strontium, the Sr/Na selectivity, which increases from 3.12 to 9.4, is better than that achieved for DC18 derivative under the same conditions (8.7). These results were confirmed by extraction of strontium (5 x 10 4 M) from 1 M HN03 solutions, where it was found that p-t-butyl calix[4]arene tetra(di-N-ethyl) amide (CA2) (10 2 M in NPOE) extracts only sodium (DNa = 12.3, DSl < 0.001). 

The photochemistry of 2-acyl-vinylogous amides has also been investigated by Tamura and coworkers, who reported that irradiation of 142 (R1 = CH2R R2 = H R1 = R2 = CH2R) through a quartz filter in methylene chloride led to the formation of the dealkylated product 143, albeit in modest yield (equation 19), both in the case of... 

---