Amides from carbonylative amidation

Although some examples of C-substitutions of silylated Schiff bases and iminium salts, in particular the formation of / -lactams, have already been mentioned in Sections 5.1.3 and 5.1.5 (cf. also C-substitutions of lactones and amides in Section 4.8) in this section several additional and typical C-substitutions of 0,0- and 0,N-acetals and of iminium salts derived from carbonyl groups are discussed. 

Hoffmann developed a method for preparation of primary amines by treating an amide with bromine in an aqueous or ethanolic solution of sodium hydroxide. In this degradation reaction, migration of an alkyl or aryl group takes place from carbonyl carbon of the amide to the nitrogen atom. The amine so formed contains one carbon less than that present in the amide. 

These compounds ionize and act as sources of hydride and amide ions respectively, which are able to remove a-protons from carbonyl compounds. These ions are actually the conjugate bases of hydrogen and ammonia respectively, compounds that are very weak acids indeed. What becomes important here is that enolate anion formation becomes essentially irreversible the enolate anion formed is insufficiently basic to be able to remove... 

From carbonyl groups using Wittig or Wittig-Horner reaction Alumina, 14 Sodium amide, 278... 

On the pages which follow, general methods are illustrated for the synthesis of a wide variety of classes of organic compounds including acyl isocyanates (from amides and oxalyl chloride p. 16), epoxides (from reductive coupling of aromatic aldehydes by hexamethylphosphorous triamide p. 31), a-fluoro acids (from 1-alkenes p. 37), 0-lactams (from olefins and chlorosulfonyl isocyanate p. 51), 1 y3,5-triketones (from dianions of 1,3-diketones and esters p. 57), sulfinate esters (from disulfides, alcohols, and lead tetraacetate p. 62), carboxylic acids (from carbonylation of alcohols or olefins via carbonium-ion intermediates p. 72), sulfoxides (from sulfides and sodium periodate p. 78), carbazoles... 

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... 

We ve talked about reduction of iminium ions formed from carbonyl compounds plus amines. Iminium ions can also be formed by reducing amides with lithium aluminium hydride. A tetrahedral intermediate is formed that collapses to the iminium ion. 

As described above, the reduction of imines often proceeds via iminium ions particularly in acidic media, since protonation enhances the electrophilicity of the imine carbon. Thus, as expected, preformed iminium salts generated from carbonyls and secondary amines are also readily reduced by most hydride reagents. Several examples of synthetic applications with a variety of reagents are illustrated in Table 4. Entries 9-12 illustrate the use of iminium intermediates for the reductive removal of amide carbonyls. Thus, treatment of amides with POCI3 affords the iminium derivatives (e.g. 9 Scheme 3), which are reduced by NaBHt to the corresponding amines (Table 4, entries 9, 10). Likewise, reaction of amides witii trialkyloxonium salts to give imidic esters (entry 12) or thioamides with methyl iodide to give... 

As a method of synthesis of amines, the Hofmann degradation of amides has the special feature of yielding a product containing one less carbon than the starting material. As we can see, reaction involves migration of a group from carbonyl... 

In analogy to the synthesis of iminium salts (Section 4.2.2.1.), acyiiminium ions (60) can be obtained from carbonyl precursors (1), such as ketones or aldehydes, and carboxylic acid amides (62 Scheme 30). In addition, other amides can be used, such as p-toluenesulfonamides, which lead to the corresponding N-tosylated iminium salts. ... 

Corey, E. J., Kwiatkowski, G. T. Synthesis of olefins from carbonyl compounds and phosphonic acid bis amides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1968, 90, 6816-6821. 

Although unable to metallate selenides, dialkyl amides are sufficiently strong to metallate phenylselenoacetals39,46 51) as well as methyl48,52) and phenyl 46,47,52) selenoorthoesters. They are also able to metallate selenoxides 4 9,11 53 55) and selenones 14). Finally selenoacetals are readily available 4,711,12 S6) from carbonyl compounds and selenols in the presence of a Lewis acid and selenoorthoesters have been prepared from orthoesters, selenols, and boron trifluoride etherate47,48,52). 

As can be seen from equations 2-5, the formation of A -acylenamines proceeds from derivatives of carboxylic acids (having an oxidation level equal to three ), namely anhydrides or add halides RCOX or amides RCONH2, on the one hand, and from carbonyl compounds or their derivatives (oxidation level equal to two ), namely enamines 3, acetylenes 5, or vinyl ethers 6, on the other. Indeed, the acetylenes 5, being the dehydration products of enols, may be regarded as having a masked carbonyl functionwhile the enamines 3 rank with vinyl ethers, vinyl esters and enols, as the heteroanalogs of these carbonyl derivatives (see Section IV). 

This means the synthesis must employ a reaction that generates an amine of 1 less carbon from succinic anhydride. Such a reaction is the Hofmann degradation of amides. As seen below, the reaction involves the migration of a group from carbonyl carbon to the adjacent nitrogen atom. It is therefore an example of a molecular rearrangement. ... 

Chang SL, Tjandra N (2005) Temperature dependence of protein backbone motion from carbonyl C and amide N NMR relaxation. J Magn Reson 174(l) 43-53... 

Although unable to metaUate selenides, dialkyl amides are sufficiently strong to metallate phenylselenoacetals as well as methyl and phenyl selenoorthoesters. They are also able to metallate relenoxides and selenones Finally selenoacetals are readily available from carbonyl... 

At-Tosylhydrazones, R R C=NNHTs, undergo a palladium-catalysed amidation with isocyanides (CN-R ) via a ketenimine intermediate in the presence of water. This allows access to amides, R R HC-CONHR , from carbonyl compounds via a one-carbon extension. ... 

The stretching vibration from carbonyl carbon and amide groups can be seen at 1500 cm. ... 

Perhaps the most extensively studied catalytic reaction in acpreous solutions is the metal-ion catalysed hydrolysis of carboxylate esters, phosphate esters , phosphate diesters, amides and nittiles". Inspired by hydrolytic metalloenzymes, a multitude of different metal-ion complexes have been prepared and analysed with respect to their hydrolytic activity. Unfortunately, the exact mechanism by which these complexes operate is not completely clarified. The most important role of the catalyst is coordination of a hydroxide ion that is acting as a nucleophile. The extent of activation of tire substrate througji coordination to the Lewis-acidic metal centre is still unclear and probably varies from one substrate to another. For monodentate substrates this interaction is not very efficient. Only a few quantitative studies have been published. Chan et al. reported an equilibrium constant for coordination of the amide carbonyl group of... 

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