Amides from alkynes

Scheme 10.16 Enamides from anti-Markovnikov addition of amides to alkynes.

Other routes to 1,3-oxazines employ condensation reactions between /3-chloroketones and nitriles or between chloroalkyl amides and alkynes <69LA(723)ill) (Scheme 62). Thiazines are available through similar condensations between thioamides, aldehydes and acetylenes (74G849), and AH- 1,3-benzoxazines may be prepared from 2-hydroxybenzyl alcohols and nitriles in the presence of either perchloric or sulfuric acids (Schemes 63 and 64) (68MIP22700). 

Copper-catalyzed hydrative amide synthesis with terminal alkyne, sulfonyl azide, and water, (b) M. P. Cassidy, J. Raushel, V. V. Fokin, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006,4, 3154-3157. Practical synthesis of amides from in situ generated copper(I) acetyhdes and sulfonyl azides, (c) S. H. Cho, S. Chang, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 1897-1900. Rate-accelerated nonconventional amide synthesis in water a practical catalytic aldol-surrogate reaction. 

Solid-phase synthesis of pyrroles was reported by Mjalli et al. " Pyrroles were prepared via Rink resin-bound mesoionic munchnones (Scheme 11.12). Munchnones behave as azomethine ylides in 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. Cycloadditions with alkynes give pyrroles after aromatization and spontaneous release of carbon dioxide. A set of compounds was obtained from simple starting materials, aldehyde, amine, carboxylic acid, and isocyanide via the Ugi four-component condensation. Trifluoroacetic acid released highly substituted pyrroles as amides from the Rink resin in high overall yield and purity. A related method via the miinchnone pathway was reported by Strocker et al., and two pyrroles were obtained in 4% and 17% yields. 

Formation of C-N bond has raised of interest in the scientific community in the last 10 years. In this context, the formation of enamides is a valuable protocol. In addition to conventional approaches that include condensation of amides and aldehydes, addition of amides to alkynes, acylation of imines, Curtius rearrangement of a,jS-unsaturated acyl azides, amide Peterson olefination, and Wittig and Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reactions, several transition metal-catalyzed methods have been developed that allow the synthesis of enamides.Inspired by the analogous arylation of amines catalyzed by palladium or copper complexes (Buchwald-Hartwig reaction), a new approach for the synthesis of enamides has been published recently, which allows to prepare enamides from readily available starting materials (amides and vinyl halides) proceeding under very mild conditions. Thus, we decided to test the Porco-Buchwald amidation of vinyl halides in our synthesis [144-146]. 

Eq. 4) [116]. The latter conditions also proved to be efficient for the synthesis of secondary ( )-enamides from primary amides and terminal alkynes (Scheme 19, Eq. 5) [117]. The previously described catalytic conditions for the addition of amides to alkynes were also modified to allow the stereoselective addition of thioamides (Scheme 19, Eqs. 6 and 7) [118] and imides to alkynes (Scheme 19, Eqs. 8and9)[119]. 

Scheme 3.8 Preparation of primary amides from terminal alkynes with aqueous ammonia...

Acetylene and terminal alkynes are more acidic than other hydrocarbons They have s of approximately 26 compared with about 45 for alkenes and about 60 for alkanes Sodium amide is a strong enough base to remove a proton from acetylene or a terminal alkyne but sodium hydroxide is not... 

Alkylarylisoxazoles can be obtained from the cycloaddition of nitrile Af-oxides to substituted alkynes or alkenes (Section 4.16.4.1.2(ii)), and from the condensation of the 1,4-dilithio oximes (358) with benzonitriles (72JHC183) or amides (78JOC3015). 

Particularly interesting are the results obtained with the phosphonium ylides including an acyl rest derived from aminoacid if the N-H bond reactivity is blocked by an amide protection, the alkyne formation takes place [25,27], but if the N-H bond is not deactivated, an intramolecular cyclization occurs to give a new stabilized ylide [27,28]. 

As with carboxylic acids obtained by palladium hydroxycarbonylation, their derivatives esters, amides, anhydrides and acyl halides are synthesized from alkenes, CO and HX (X = OR, NR2 etc.). The Pd-catalyzed methoxycarbonylation is one of the most studied reactions among this type of catalyzed carbonylations and has been reviewed and included in reports of homogeneous catalysis.625, 26 The methoxycarbonylation has been applied to many different substrates to obtain intermediates in organic syntheses as well as specific products. For instance, the reaction has been applied for methoxycarbonylation of alkynes666 Highly efficient homogeneous Pd cationic catalysts have been reported and the methoxycarbonylation of alkynes has been used to develop economically attractive and environmentally benign process for the production of methyl... 

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