Amine oxides amines, tert., synthesis

COPE - MAMLOC - WOLFENSTEIN Olefin synthesis Olefin formalion by elimination from tert amine N-oxides... 

An important application of oxidation of a C-H bond adjacent to a nitrogen atom is the selective oxidation of amides. This reaction proceeds in the presence of ferf-BuOOH as the oxidant and Ru(II) salts. Thus in the example of Eq. (36), the a-tert-butylperoxy amide of the isoquinoline was obtained, which is an important synthetic intermediate for natural products [138]. This product can be conveniently reacted with a nucleophile in the presence of a Lewis add. Direct trapping of the iminium ion complex by a nudeophile was achieved in the presence of trimethylsilyl cyanide, giving a-cyanated amines as shown in Eq. (37) [45]. This ruthenium/peracid oxidation reaction provides an alternative to the Strecker reaction for the synthesis of a-amino acid derivatives since they involve the same a-cyano amine intermediates. In this way N-methyl-N-(p-methoxyphenyl) glycine could be prepared from N,N-dimethyl-p-methoxyaniline in 82% yield. 

Naturally, it is possible to synthesise a similar ligand system without central chirality and in fact without the unnecessary methylene linker unit. A suitable synthesis starts with planar chiral ferrocenyl aldehyde acetal (see Figure 5.30). Hydrolysis and oxidation of the acetal yields the corresponding carboxylic acid that is transformed into the azide and subsequently turned into the respective primary amine functionalised planar chiral ferrocene. A rather complex reaction sequence involving 5-triazine, bromoacetal-dehyde diethylacetal and boron trifluoride etherate eventually yields the desired doubly ferrocenyl substituted imidazolium salt that can be deprotonated with the usual potassium tert-butylate to the free carbene. The ligand was used to form a variety of palladium(II) carbene complexes with pyridine or a phosphane as coligand. 

Elimination reactions leading to olefins are usually performed on the corresponding selenoxides 3 9,1 12) (Scheme 2 a). These are often unstable and decompose at room temperature to olefins and selenenic acid (further oxidized to the more stable seleninic acid by excess of oxidant). Hydrogen peroxide in water-THF, ozone and further treatment with an amine or tert-butyl hydroperoxide without or with alumina proved to be the method of choice for such a synthesis of olefins. The reaction is reminiscent of the one already described with aminoxides or sulfoxides 22) and occurs via a syn elimination of the seleninyl moiety and the hydrogen attached to the P-carbon atom. However it takes place under smoother conditions. 

There are a number of important methods worthy of merit for the synthesis of phosphorylglycines. Thus, electrophilic amination of diethyl l-(ethoxycarbonyl)methylphosphonate proceeds in one simple operation via the sodium salt in THF or DME. A variety of aminating agents are used with variable yields, such as 0-mesitylenesulfonylhydroxylamine (39 7%), chloramine (23-84%), and diphenyl (O-hydroxylamine)phosphine oxide (60%). Diethyl 1-ethoxycarbonyl- or l-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)methylphosphonate may also be efficiently transformed into oxime or diazo derivatives and then converted to an amine by a further reduction step. The oximes are prepared from EtONO via the sodium diethyl l-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)methylphosphonate (17% or 36%), from NOCl and diethyl l-(ethoxycarbonyl)methylphosphonate in the presence of tEtOljMg, Al-Hg, or Al(O7-Pr)3, 8 from NOCl and diethyl l-(methoxycarbonyl)ethylphosphonate, ° or from NOCl/ROH and diethyl l-tchlorocarbonyl)mclhy I phosphonate. ... 

COPE-MAMLOC-WOLFENSTEIN Olefin Synthesis Olefin formation by syn-elimination from tert. amine N-oxides (see 1st edition). 

Prior to the discovery of the aryl-Heck reaction (Chapter 72), the direct Pd-promoted oxidative cyclization of diaryl amines to carbazoles was well known. In 1975 Akennark reported this reaction (Scheme 1, eqnation 1) [1], In addition, A -phenylanthranUic acid gave carbazole-l-carboxylic acid (60%). Miller and Moock used Pd(OAc)j to cyclize 6-anilino-5,8-dimethylisoquinoIine to eUipticine in low yield [2]. The second advance in this chemistry was reported independently by Bittner [3] and Furukawa [4], who described the Pd-mediated (stoichiometric) oxidative conversion of 2-anilino-l,4-benzoquinones and 2-anilino-l,4-naphthoquinones to the corresponding carbazole-l,4-diones and benzo[ ]carbazole-l,6-diones (equations 2, 3). Furukawa s studies included syntheses of several carbazolequinone alkaloids. In 1995 Akermark and colleagues developed catalytic versions (i.e., using tert-butyl hydrogen peroxide [TBHP] or oxygen) of this cyclization (equation 3) [5,6], which elevated the importance of this palladium oxidative cyclization, mainly because of the expense of Pd(OAc)2. Somewhat earlier, Knbiker used cupric acetate as a reoxidant in a synthesis of carbazole-l,4-quinones [7]. 

Thioethers. A mixture of diphenyl sulfoxide and HMPA treated with SmL in THF under N2 at 20 for 1 min, diluted with hexane, and filtered through Florisil - diphenyl sulfide. Y 94%. The method can also be used for the rapid deoxygenation of sulfones (which may be viewed as protected thioethers). E Diphenyl sulfone under the same conditions - diphenyl sulfide. Y 93%. Esters remained intact and, in some cases, sulfoxides were selectively reduced in the presence of ketones. F.e. inch formation of cyclic tert. amines from N-oxides, tert. phosphines from phosphine oxides, and distannanes from distannoxanes, s. Y. Handa et al., J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun. 1989, 298-9 review of synthesis and use of polysulfoxides s. V.A. Nikonov, G.V. Leplyanin, Sulfur Reports 9, 1-23 (1989). 

Another oxidative Ugi-3CR was reported by Xie et al. for the synthesis of a-amino imides from tertiary amines by direct activation of sp C—Hs adjacent to nitrogen using an oxidant (tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP)) and a copper salt [23]. Notably, the reaction could be conducted under mild... 

The tert-butyldioxy amides of the isoquinoline 49 and the indole 50, which are important synthetic intermediates for the synthesis of natural products, were obtained in excellent yields (Eqs. (7.64) and (7.65)). Since the Lewis acid-promoted reactions of these oxidized products with nucleophiles give the corresponding N-acyl-a-substituted amines efficiently, the present reactions provide versatile methods for selective carbon-carbon bond formation at the a-position of amides [115]. 

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