Imines amination reactions

FORSTER - DECKER Amine Synthesis Selective monoalkylation of primary amines via imines An altemativa method is the reaction ol 1 and 2 in the preserve of NaCNBH4 or tnaceloxyborohydride (Borch reduction)/... 

An aldehyde or ketone reacts with a primary amine, RNH.2, to yield an imine, in which the carbonyl oxygen atom has been replaced by the =N-R group of the amine. Reaction of the same aldehyde or ketone with a secondary amine, R2NH, yields an enamine, in which the oxygen atom has been replaced by the -NR2 group of the amine and the double bond has moved to a position between the former carbonyl carbon and the neighboring carbon. 

As has been outlined for the Strecker synthesis, the Ugi reaction also proceeds via initial formation of a Schiff base from an aldehyde and an amine. The imine intermediate is attacked by the isocyanidc, a process which is supported by protonation of the imine by the carboxylic acid component. The resulting a-amino nitrilium intermediate is immediately trapped by the carboxylate to give an 6>-acyl imidiate. All steps up to this stage are reversible. Only the final oxygen to nitrogen acyl shift is irreversible and delivers the A-acyl-a-amino amide as the thermodynamically favored product which contains two amide groups. 

The reaction of ketenes (usually formed from treatment of acid chlorides with tertiary amines) with imines is a classic way to form /J-lactams [17,18]. Although widely used, it suffers limitations in scope and efficiency, since free ketenes are... 

Linking the ketone and carboxylic acid components together in an Ugi reaction facilitates the synthesis of pyrrolidinones amenable to library design. The three-component condensation of levulinic acid 30, an amine and isocyanide proceeds under microwave irradiation to give lactams 31 [65]. The optimum conditions were established by a design of experiments approach, varying the equivalents of amine, concentration, imine pre-formation time, microwave reaction time and reaction temperature, yielding lactams 31 at 100 °C in poor to excellent yield, after only 30 min compared to 48 h under ambient conditions (Scheme 11). 

The above-described structures are the main representatives of the family of nitrogen ligands, which cover a wide spectrum of activity and efficiency for catalytic C - C bond formations. To a lesser extent, amines or imines, associated with copper salts, and metalloporphyrins led to good catalysts for cyclo-propanation. Interestingly, sulfinylimine ligands, with the chirality provided solely by the sulfoxide moieties, have been also used as copper-chelates for the asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction. Amide derivatives (or pyridylamides) also proved their efficiency for the Tsuji-Trost reaction. 

The N-terminal methionine residue of protein can also be employed for selective PEGylation using aldehyde-terminated PEG via a reductive amination reaction, because the N-terminal primary amine has a lower pAa of 7.8 than other amines such as lysines, whose pZa is 10.1 [7]. After reaction with aldehyde-terminated PEG at low pH, the resultant imine is reduced with sodium cyanoborohydrate to provide PEGylated protein (Fig. 4) [8, 9]. This technique was used for the production of Neulasta, which was approved for use by the FDA in 2002 [10]. 

Oxidative dehydrogenations of many macrocyclic ligand complexes have now been documented. Typically, these reactions involve conversion of coordinated secondary amines to imine groups. 

In addition to alkenes and alkynes, allenes have attracted considerable interest due to their unique reactivity and multireaction sites. Therefore, transition-metal-catalyzed nucleophilic addition reaction of amines and imines to allenes has been extensively studied to prepare biologically important amines and nitrogen-heterocycles.31,31d... 

Highly reactive ions such as [FeNH]+ may transfer the ligand, in this case the imine group. The reaction of [FeNH]+ with benzene resulted in an amination reaction with the cation of aniline [PhNH2]+ produced as the major product ion (178). 

The ready protonation of radical anions under conditions of proton availability causes other problems to appear, as for example shown by the stepwise cathodic reduction of PBN to the corresponding imine and amine [reactions (59) and (60)] during which the intermediate radicals [21] and [22] appear and become trapped by PBN (Simonet et al., 1990). 

The electrochemical oxidation of amines to imines and nitriles typically utilize a chemical mediator. The use of both Al-oxyl radicals [12, 13] and halogens has been reported for this process [14]. For example, the conversion of benzyl amine (14a) into nitrile (15a) and aldehyde (16a) has been accomplished using the M-oxyl radical of a decahydroquinoline ring skeleton as the mediator (Scheme 5). The use of acetonitrile as the solvent for the reaction generated the nitrile product. The addition of water to the reaction stopped this process by hydrolyzing the imine generated. A high yield of the aldehyde was obtained. In the case of a secondary amine, the aqueous... 

The reductive amination reaction (Scheme 12.10) has two steps the formation of imine and the reduction of imine. The single bead FTIR results (Fig. 12.14) show the combined result of both steps. The aldehyde IR bands at 1682 and 2769 cm disappeared in the final product. However, this did not suggest that the... 

Allylic phenyl tellurides are converted into the corresponding allylic amines by imination with [iV-(p-toluene-sulphonyl)imino] phenyliodinane. The reaction proceeds via [2,31-sigma-tropic rearrangement of a tellurimide intermediate. 

When DHAP-dependent aldolases are used as catalyst of the aldol reaction, a phosphorylated azido or amino polyhydroxyketone is obtained. The phosphate may be cleaved enzymatically or reductively cleaved under the hydrogenation conditions of the next step in which the azide is reduced to the amine. Intramolecular imine formation occurs spontaneously when the azide is reduced. The intramolecular reductive amination is the second key step of the aldolase-mediated synthesis of iminocyclitols. In general, delivery of hydrogen onto five- and six-membered ring imines occurs from the face opposite to the C4 hydroxyl group. 

Murdoch and coworkers carried out amination reactions of aryl Grignard reagents and aryllithiums with oximes using O-p-toluenesulfonyl tetraphenylcyclopentanone oxime (0-tosyltetracyclone oxime) 6g (Scheme 61). The imine is extracted with benzene, purified, and then converted to amine and oxime by reacting with excess hydroxylamine in aqueous pyridine at room temperature. Amines are obtained following acidic hydrolysis. 

Solid tertiary amines and imines may be quantitatively alkylated by gas-solid and solid-solid techniques. Methylation of quinuclidine (176) to give the methoiodide 177 is achieved waste-free by exposure of 176 to a stoichiometric amount of methyl iodide vapor (Scheme 23). Difficulties with the disintegration of the crystals of 177 from those of 176 (reaction step 3) are overcome by ultrasound treatment from a cleaning bath at 20 °C [22]. Numerous applications of this technique to tertiary amines can be envisaged. However, solid Troeger s base (with interlocked layers, i.e., no possibility for molecular migrations) is not alkylated by methyl iodide vapor unless an excess of the vapor is applied to induce intermediate (partial) liquefying of the solid [22]. 

The single largest use of ammonia is its direct apphcation as fertdizer, and in the manufacture of ammonium fertilizers that have increased world food production dramatically. Such ammonia-based fertilizers are now the primary source of nitrogen in farm soils. Ammonia also is used in the manufacture of nitric acid, synthetic fibers, plastics, explosives and miscellaneous ammonium salts. Liquid ammonia is used as a solvent for many inorganic reactions in non-aqueous phase. Other apphcations include synthesis of amines and imines as a fluid for supercritical fluid extraction and chromatography and as a reference standard in i N-NMR. 

Similar reaction occurs with amines and imines the decomposition is rapid ... 

Similar to those of oxygen and sulfur ylide, ammonium ylide or azomethine ylide can be generated by the interaction of metal carbene and amine or imine, respectively. As is the case of sulfur, nitrogen also has a strong coordinating ability to a metal complex. Consequently, metal complex-catalyzed diazo decomposition in the presence of an amine or imine usually requires high reaction temperatures (Figure 6). 

Hydroperoxides and peroxides oxidize primary and secondary aliphatic amines to imines. Thus f-butyl hydroperoxide oxidizes 4-methyl-2-pentyl-amine to 2-(4-methylpentylidene)-4-methyl-2-pentylamine in 66% yield [29]. Di-r-butyl peroxide reacts in a similar manner [29]. However, this reaction is... 

Primary amines at a primary carbon can be dehydrogenated to nitriles. The reaction has been carried out with a variety of reagents, among others, IF5,"9 lead tetraacetate, 20 nickel peroxide,121 NaOCl in micelles,122 S g-NiSO, 2-1 and CuCl-02-pyridine.124 Several methods have been reported for the dehydrogenation of secondary amines to imines.125 Among them126 are treatment with(l) iodosylbenzene PhIO alone or in the presence of a ruthenium complex, 27 (2) Me2SO and oxalyl chloride, 2" and (3) f-BuOOH and a rhenium catalyst. 29... 

N-oxidation. The oxidation of nitrogen in tertiary amines, amides, imines, hydrazines, and heterocyclic rings may be catalyzed by microsomal enzymes or by other enzymes (see below). Thus the oxidation of trimethylamine to anN-oxide (Fig. 4.19) is catalyzed by the microsomal FAD-containing mono oxygenase. The N-oxide so formed may undergo enzyme-catalyzed decomposition to a secondary amine and aldehyde. This N to C transoxygenation is mediated by cytochromes P-450. The N-oxidation of 3-methylpyridine, however, is catalyzed by cytochromes P-450. This reaction may be involved in the toxicity of the analogue,... 

Oxidation of amines to imines.1 In the presence of this ruthenium complex secondary amines are oxidized to imines in >70% yield. This reaction is particularly useful for preparation of 1-azadienes. 

Table 1 shows that methyl dodecanoate is easily converted into amine in the presence of CuCr deposited on alumina or on titania. Nevertheless one can observe that the methylation reaction is rather difficult and favoured by alumina. Moreover, a significant increase of N-dimethyl dodecylamine is obtained when the reaction is carried out with a large excess of hydrogen. Due to the mechanism of the reaction this is unexpected indeed it is generally considered that the methylation of primary amine with methanol requires i) the dehydrogenation of alcohol into a carbonyl compound and ii) a further reaction of this compound with primary amine or secondary amine via imine or enamine intermediates. 

The synthetic routes may often involve template directed condensations, a widely used reaction being the (carbonyl + amine) to imine condensation that efficiently leads to a variety of Schiff-base macrocycles [2.58-2.60, A.7, A.14], macrobicyclic cryptands [2.61-2.63] and lacunar cyclidene ligands [2.60, 2.64]. 

Numerous dinucleating macrocyclic and macrobicyclic ligands have been synthesized, in particular by the versatile amine + carbonyl — imine reaction they form dinuclear metal complexes as well as cascade complexes with bridging groups [2.58-2.63, 3.24-3.27, 4.1-4.4], for instance in dicobalt complexes that are oxygen carriers [3.26]. 

Keywords carbonyl reagent, acetone, hydroxyl amine, semicarbazide, hydrazine, condensation, waste-free, gas-solid reaction, imine... 

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