Amine acyl azide

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In these cases the acyl azides formed have been used to prepare amines via Curtius rearrangement. The acyl chloride or azide intermediates can. however, also be reacted with amines or alcohols to form amides or esters. 

Degradation of acid hydrazides or acyl azides to amine or amine derivatives. 

The Cunius degradation of acyl azides prepared either by treatment of acyl halides with sodium azide or trimethylsilyl azide [47] or by treatment of acyl hydrazides with nitrous acid [f J yields pnmarily alkyl isocyanates, which can be isolated when the reaction is earned out in aptotic solvents If alcohols are used as solvents, urethanes are formed Hydrolysis of the isocyanates and the urethanes yields primary amines. 

The Curtius rearrangement can be catalyzed by Lewis acids or protic acids, but good yields are often obtained also without a catalyst. From reaction in an inert solvent (e.g. benzene, chloroform) in the absence of water, the isocyanate can be isolated, while in aqueous solution the amine is formed. Highly reactive acyl azides may suffer loss of nitrogen and rearrange already during preparation in aqueous solution. The isocyanate then cannot be isolated because it immediately reacts with water to yield the corresponding amine. 

Carboxylic acid derivatives can be converted into primary amines with loss of one carbon atom by both the Hofmann rearrangement and tire Curtius rearrangement. Although the Hofmann rearrangement involves a primary-amide and the Curtius rearrangement involves an acyl azide, both proceed through similar mechanisms. 

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Acid derivatives that can be converted to amides include thiol acids (RCOSH), thiol esters (RCOSR), ° acyloxyboranes [RCOB(OR )2]. silicic esters [(RCOO)4Si], 1,1,1-trihalo ketones (RCOCXa), a-keto nitriles, acyl azides, and non-enolizable ketones (see the Haller-Bauer reaction 12-31). A polymer-bound acyl derivative was converted to an amide using tributylvinyl tin, trifluoroacetic acid, AsPh3, and a palladium catalyst. The source of amine in this reaction was the polymer itself, which was an amide resin. 

Carboxylic acids can also be activated by the formation of mixed anhydrides with various phosphoric acid derivatives. Diphenyl phosphoryl azide, for example, is an effective reagent for conversion of amines to amides.140 The proposed mechanism involves formation of the acyl azide as a reactive intermediate. 

Section A of Scheme 10.15 contains a number of examples of Curtius rearrangements. Entry 1 is an example carried out in a nonnucleophilic solvent, permitting isolation of the isocyanate. Entries 2 and 3 involve isolation of the amine after hydrolysis of the isocyanate. In Entry 2, the dihydrazide intermediate is isolated as a solid and diazotized in aqueous solution, from which the amine is isolated as the dihydrochloride. Entry 3 is an example of the mixed anhydride procedure (see p. 948). The first stage of the reaction is carried out in acetone and the thermolysis of the acyl azide is done in refluxing toluene. The crude isocyanate is then hydrolyzed in acidic water. Entry 4 is a reaction that demonstrates the retention of configuration during rearrangement. 

The major competing reaction in acyl azide coupling is hydrolysis. The higher the pH, the faster the reactivity, both with regard to amine conjugation and hydrolysis. Crosslinkers or modification reagents containing this compound must be kept dry to preserve activity. Reactions are complete in 2-4 hours at room temperature. 

Prolonged contact of acyl azides or activated esters with tertiary amines. 

Use me acyl-azide method of coupling (see Sections 2.13 and 7.16) with particular care to avoid contact of me azide with tertiary amine. 

Method 2 addition of the amine nucleophile to one of the activated forms of the acid (activated ester, acyl azide, anhydrides, etc.) to which it is to be combined. 

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Thermal or photochemical rearrangement of acyl azides into amines via isocyanate intermediates. While the thermal rearrangement is a concerted process, the photochemical rearrangement goes through a nitrene intermediate. 

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Amines have been prepared on insoluble supports by Hofmann degradation of amides [222] followed by hydrolysis of the intermediate isocyanates (Figure 10.5). One reagent suitable for this purpose is [bis(trifluoroacetoxy)iodo]benzene, which can be used both on cross-linked polystyrene [223] and on more hydrophilic supports such as polyacrylamides (Figure 10.6). Support-bound carboxylic acids can also be degraded via the acyl azides (Curtius degradation [224,225]) to yield isocyanates. 

The use of acyl azides in the preparation of amines by the Curtius rearrangement has been discussed previously (Section 23-12E). Alkyl azides can be reduced readily by lithium aluminum hydride to amines and, if a pure primary amine is desired, the sequence halide — azide — amine may give as good or better results than does the Gabriel synthesis (Section 23-9D). 

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