Amides to thioamides

The microwave-assisted thionation of amides has been studied by Ley and coworkers using a polymer-supported thionating reagent [115]. This polymer-supported amino thiophosphate serves as a convenient substitute for its homogeneous analogue in the microwave-induced rapid conversion of amides to thioamides. Under microwave conditions, the reaction is complete within 15 min, as opposed to 30 h by conventional reflux in toluene (Scheme 7.95). The reaction has been studied for a range of secondary and tertiary amides and GC-MS monitoring showed that it proceeded almost quantitatively. More importantly, this work was the first incidence of the use of the ionic liquid l-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate... 

Another example of microwave-assisted PSR chemistry involves the rapid conversion of amides to thioamides by use of a polystyrene-supported Lawesson-type thio-nating reagent. By use of microwave irradiation at 200 °C in sealed vessels (monomode reactor), a range of secondary and tertiary amides was converted within... 

New polymer-supported reagents for sulfide transfer have been developed to avoid exposure to malodorous and toxic sulfur reagents. Ley et al.15 prepared a stable aminothiophosphate polystyrene resin for the conversion of secondary and tertiary amides to thioamides in high conversion and purity (Table III, entry 11). This procedure is extremely clean and affords the desired product with short reaction times in comparison to Law-esson s reagent. In addition, the aminothiophosphate resin dehydrates primary amides to nitriles. 

Solvent effect. We have had several instances where we wished to convert amides to thioamides ... 

Thwamides. Conversion of amides to thioamides is accomplished by exposing the corresponding chloroiminium salts to the tetrathiomolybdate reagent. 

Direct conversion of ordinary amides to thioamides has been developed. One of the most relevant methods for this conversion is to use commercially available... 

Thioamides are used as more reactive precursors than amides for amidine synthesis. Lawesson reagent is normally used for conversion of amide to thioamide. Preparation of an amidine-type mannosidase inhibitor 6 is shown as a representative example [14] (Scheme 3.13). 

Scheme 2.3-10 Polystyrene-supported thionating reagents for the conversion of amides to thioamides.

Scheme 3 Simple one-step conversion of amides to thioamides by Lawesson s reagent (LR).

Keto amides (or thioamides) could participate in cyclocondensations by elimination of the amino or oxo (thioxo) function from the amide (thioamide) grouping according to conditions. The other synthons should behave reasonably predictably. The following examples illustrate some possibilities. 

B (hydrogen-bond acceptor) unit, as it is also present in many of the derivatives that are not sweet. Its presence in these derivatives promotes the cis orientation of the amide (or thioamide) bond formed with the aniline amino group, as it is known, from infrared and n.m.r. studies, that a bulky substituent on an amide (or thioamide) favors the cis orientation, owing to the steric interaction between the bulky group and the carbonyl oxygen atom. Such an arrangement will bring the AH,B system into the correct spatial separation from the D unit. 

For imidazole-transfer reactions leading to imidoylimidazoles by conversion of secondary amides or thioamides with sulfinyldiimidazole, see reference [14a]. For imidazole-transfer reactions with nucleobases see Section 12.11. 

The reaction of alcohols with CO was catalyzed by Pd compounds, iodides and/or bromides, and amides (or thioamides). Thus, MeOH was carbonylated in the presence of Pd acetate, NiCl2, tV-methylpyrrolidone, Mel, and Lil to give HOAc. AcOH is prepared by the reaction of MeOH with CO in the presence of a catalyst system comprising a Pd compound, an ionic Br or I compound other than HBr or HI, a sulfone or sulfoxide, and, in some cases, a Ni compound and a phosphine oxide or a phosphinic acid.60 Palladium(II) salts catalyze the carbonylation of methyl iodide in methanol to methyl acetate in the presence of an excess of iodide, even without amine or phosphine co-ligands platinum(II) salts are less effective.61 A novel Pd11 complex (13) is a highly efficient catalyst for the carbonylation of organic alcohols and alkenes to carboxylic acids/esters.62... 

In isolated examples, reactions of specific amides and thioamides with dihalo-carbenes can take unusual pathways. Thus, for example, using procedure 7.1.1, A,A-dialkylamides are converted into a-chloromethylene derivatives of the amides [48]. The initial step in which the carbene attacks the carbonyl oxygen atom is the same as for the dehydration of the A-alkyl amides, but subsequent steps, for which there is evidence from 2H/ H labelling experiments, lead to the formation of an enamine and further reaction with the carbene (Scheme 7.34). 

The naphthalene-catalyzed (3%) lithiation of carbamoyl or thiocarbamoyl chlorides 91 in the presence of carbonyl componnds or imines as electrophiles in THF at temperatnres ranging between —78 to 20 °C led to the expected fnnctionalized amides or thioamides 92 after hydrolysis (Scheme 39) . ... 

Thieno[4,3,2-/g]benz[l]azocine 187 is produced in high yield (79MI397) from oxime 186 by Beckman rearrangement in PPA. Transformations of amide and thioamide groups of azocines 187 and 188, lead to derivatives 189-192, as shown in Scheme 52. 

Conversion of an amide a thioamide enhances the reactivity of that function since it favors the enol form and provides a better leaving group for addition-elimination reactions (mercaptide vs. hydroxide). Thioamides obtained by treatment of diazepi-none such as (15-1) or (16-1) with phosphorus pentasulhde provide starting materials for further modihcation of the benzodiazepine nucleus. (More recently developed reagents such as Lawesson s Reagent or hw(tricyclohexyltin) sulhde provide more convenient methods for that transformation.) Thus, reaction of the thioamide (15-2) with (9-allylhydroxylamine leads directly to the amidine, probably via an addition-elimination sequence of the thioenol tautomer of (15-2). There is thus obtained the antianxiety agent uldazapam (15-3) [17]. 

An alternate step-wise cyclization strategy to form 3-carboline 22 is shown in Scheme 7. Acylation of D-tryptophan (21) with piperonyloyl chloride afforded amide 25, which was converted to thioamide 26 with Lawesson s reagent. Thioamide 26 was treated with methyl iodide in refluxing CH2CI2 to give a a-thiomethylimmonium ion, which was trapped by the intramolecular addition of indole. The thiomethyl group was... 

Routes to AH-1,3-oxazines and -thiazines involve the cyclization of amides or thioamides with acidic reagents (Scheme 35) (78AHC(23)l). l,3-Oxazin-2-ones can be made by the thermolysis of carbonyl azides (262 Scheme 36) (79CC719). 

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