Nitriles amides

Analytical Procedures. Standard methods for analysis of food-grade adipic acid are described ia the Food Chemicals Codex (see Refs, ia Table 8). Classical methods are used for assay (titration), trace metals (As, heavy metals as Pb), and total ash. Water is determined by Kad-Fisher titration of a methanol solution of the acid. Determination of color ia methanol solution (APHA, Hazen equivalent, max. 10), as well as iron and other metals, are also described elsewhere (175). Other analyses frequendy are required for resia-grade acid. For example, hydrolyzable nitrogen (NH, amides, nitriles, etc) is determined by distillation of ammonia from an alkaline solution. Reducible nitrogen (nitrates and nitroorganics) may then be determined by adding DeVarda s alloy and continuing the distillation. Hydrocarbon oil contaminants may be determined by ir analysis of halocarbon extracts of alkaline solutions of the acid. 

Reactions of the carboxyl group include salt and acid chloride formation, esterification, pyrolysis, reduction, and amide, nitrile, and amine formation. Salt formation occurs when the carboxyUc acid reacts with an alkaline substance (22)... 

Esters are most commonly prepared by the reaction of a carboxyHc acid and an alcohol with the elimination of water. Esters are also formed by a number of other reactions utilizing acid anhydrides, acid chlorides, amides, nitriles, unsaturated hydrocarbons, ethers, aldehydes, ketones, alcohols, and esters (via ester interchange). Detailed reviews of esterification are given in References 1—9. 

The dipoles are shown interacting directly as would be expected. Nevertheless, it must be emphasized that behind the dipole-dipole interactions will be dispersive interactions from the random charge fluctuations that continuously take place on both molecules. In the example given above, the net molecular interaction will be a combination of both dispersive interactions from the fluctuating random charges and polar interactions from forces between the two dipoles. Examples of substances that contain permanent dipoles and can exhibit polar interactions with other molecules are alcohols, esters, ethers, amines, amides, nitriles, etc. 

Lithium aluminum hydride (LiAlH4) is the most powerful of the hydride reagents. It reduces acid chlorides, esters, lactones, acids, anhydrides, aldehydes, ketones and epoxides to alcohols amides, nitriles, imines and oximes to amines primary and secondary alkyl halides and toluenesulfonates to... 

Nitriles are classified as carboxylic acid derivatives because they are converted to carboxylic acids on hydrolysis. The conditions required are similar- to those for the hydrolysis of amides, namely, heating in aqueous acid or base for several hours. Like the hydrolysis of amides, nitrile hydrolysis is ineversible in the presence of acids or bases. Acid hydrolysis yields fflnmonium ion and a carboxylic acid. 

Nitriles are similar in some respects to carboxylic acids and are prepared either by SN2 reaction of an alkyl halide with cyanide ion or by dehydration of an amide. Nitriles undergo nucleophilic addition to the polar C=N bond in the same way that carbonyl compounds do. The most important reactions of nitriles are their hydrolysis to carboxylic acids, reduction to primary amines, and reaction with organometallic reagents to yield ketones. 

Examples of polyfunctional carboxylic acids esterified by this method are shown in Table I. Yields are uniformly high, with the exception of those cases (maleic and fumaric acids) where some of the product appears to be lost during work-up as a result of water solubility. Even with carboxylic acids containing a second functional group (e.g., amide, nitrile) which can readily react with the oxonium salt, the more nucleophilic carboxylate anion is preferentially alkylated. The examples described in detail above illustrate the esterification of an acid containing a labile acetoxy group, which would not survive other procedures such as the traditional Fischer esterification. 

Halogen-ester (S. 396f.), -amide, -nitrile, -ketone (S. 396) usw. werden selektiv dehalogeniert Chlorameisensaureester zu Ameisensaureestern (S. 126)... 

Allyl- -diathylester 204 Allyl-(2-methyl-allyl)- -diathylester 202 -amid-nitril (2,2-disubst.) 113 Amino- -diathylester 613 Benzyl- -diathylester 204, 208, 210 Benzyl- -dinitril 559 Benzyliden- -diathylester 208, 210 Benzyliden- -diathylester-nitril 206 Benzyliden- -dinitril 559, 643 ter.-Butyl- -nitril 114 Cyclohexyl- -athylester-nitril 206 Cyclohexyl- -diathylester 204 Cyclohexyl- -dinitril 559 Cyclohexyliden- -athylester-nitril 206 Cyclohexyliden- -dinitril 559 (1-Cyclopropyl-athyliden)- -dinitril 666 Diathyl- -amid-nitril 113 -diester 640... 

Derivatives of these acids formed by change in the carboxy group (salts, esters, lactones, acyl halides, amides, nitriles, etc.) are named according to 2-Carb-20.2. The anion takes the ending -uronate . Esters are also named using the ending -uronate . 

Using an Aldehydo Amide, Nitrile, Acyl Halide, or Related Synthon... 

Rovis and co-workers have also shown that pre-catalyst 129 is competent with a wide range of Michael acceptors including oc,P-unsaturated aldehydes, amides, nitriles, esters, thioesters, vinylphosphonates and vinylphosphine oxides (Scheme 12.25) [58,60],... 

Compared with aldehydes and ketones, carboxylic acids and their derivatives are less reactive toward reduction. Nevertheless, it is still possible to reduce various acid derivatives in aqueous conditions. Aromatic carboxylic acids, esters, amides, nitriles, and chlorides (and ketones and nitro compounds) were rapidly reduced by the Sml2-H20 system to the corresponding products at room temperature in good yields... 

Thiadiazoles have proven of some utility as aromatic nuclei for medicinal agents. For example, the previous volume detailed the preparation of a series of "azolamide" diuretic agents based on this class of heterocycle. It is thus of note that the 1,2,5-thiadiazole ring provides the nucleus for a clinically useful agent for treatment of hypertension which operates by an entirely different mechanism, p-adrenergic blockade. In its preparation, reaction of the amide-nitrile 211 with sulfur monochloride leads directly to the substituted thiadiazole 212. ... 

The cycloaddition of Weinreb amide functionalized nitrile oxide with a range of dipolarophiles has been studied. N-Methoxy-N-methylcarbonocyanidic amide, nitrile oxide 207 (i.e., a nitrile oxide of Weinreb amide type derivative) was generated from 2-chloro-2-(hydroxyimino)-N-methoxy-N-methylacetamide as intermediate and used in situ. Thus, addition of 3-bromo-l-propyne as dipolarophile to this precursor of 207, followed by quenching with triethylamine, gave 5-(bromo-methyl)-N-(methoxy)-N-methyl-3-isoxazolecarboxamide 208 in 55% to 60% yield (367). 

The reaction tolerates a wide variety of EWG groups (ester, amide, nitrile, ketone, sulphonyl, 2-pyridyl etc), and amines (aliphatic, aryl,... 

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