Amines, acylation with microwaves

With no fear, we pushed on to the Curtius rearrangement sequence needed to transform ferf-butyl ester 44 into the amide needed for sorbicillactone A. In the same fashion as the model substrate, the ester was first converted into acyl azide 45. Heating the acyl azide in a solution of f-BuOH under microwave conditions gave the rearranged product as ferf-butyl carbamate 46. Alternatively, and more directly, the rearrangement of acyl azide 45 to the isocyanate could be performed in THF. Subsequent hydrolysis with aqueous K2CO3 afforded the amine, which was acylated with fumarate 30 to give amide 47. 

The AMEBA linker " was installed upon NaH-mediated alkylation of Merrifield resin with 4-hydroxy-2-methoxy-benzaldehyde in DMF at 120°C for 5 min under microwave irradiation (Scheme 8.20). The authors then chose to attach 4-methyl-3-nitroaniline to the linker through a previously established two-step reductive amination protocol, involving the imine formation mediated by Ti(0 Pr)4 followed by reduction of the imine using NaBH (OAc)3 (Scheme 8.20). The free amino group was then acylated with 4-(chloromethyl) benzoyl chloride using DIPEA in DMF to form the corresponding amide. 

The acylation with acid chloride and the urea formation with isocyanate of intermediate resin 16 afforded other substituent groups onto 4-aminothiazole. Under microwave (MW) irradiation reaction with isocyanate and acylation reaction with acid chloride, R -substituted thiazole resin 19 was obtained. Following conversion of sulfonyl resin 19 to sulfonyl resin 20 (mCPBA/CH2Cl2), substitution reactions promoted by treatment with appropriate amines (R R" N diversity elements) furnished the 2,4,5-trisubstituted thiazoles 2 (29 examples 36-25% isolated yields from Merrifield resin 1, >95% purities, Table 10.1). 

Microwave-assisted synthesis of nano-sized cadmium oxide as a new and highly efficient catalyst for solvent-free acylation of amines and alcohols was developed (Mazaheriehrani et al., 2010). The biological synthesis of silver nanoparticles is not only a cost-effective and ecofriendly method but also time consuming. A rapid method of silver nanoparticle synthesis using E. coli culture supernatant along with microwave irradiation has been proposed (Mahanty etal., 2013). 

A similar microwave-assisted cyclization in the presence of ammonium acetate of an a-ketoamide, obtained by acylation of an a-aminoketone, was recently described for the synthesis of the antifungal agent Nortopsedin D [46]. The problem of the instabiUty of the a-amino ketones was successfully resolved by in situ acylation of the amine derived from Staudinger reaction of the azide 50 with a phosphine (Scheme 16). This ketoamide was... 

Acyl hydrazides are useful precursors for the synthesis of 1,2,4-triazoles. Reaction of acyl hydrazides 149 with imidoylbenzotriazoles 148 in the presence of catalytic amounts of acetic acid under microwave irradiation afforded 3,4,5-trisubstituted triazoles 150 <06JOC9051>. Treatment of A-substituted acetamides with oxalyl chloride generated imidoyl chlorides, which reacted readily with aryl hydrazides to give 3-aryl-5-methyl-4-substituted[ 1,2,4]triazoles <06SC2217>. 5-Methyl triazoles could be further functionalized through a-lithiation and subsequent reaction with electrophiles. ( )-A -(Ethoxymethylene)hydrazinecarboxylic acid methyl ester 152 was applied to the one-pot synthesis of 4-substituted-2,4-dihydro-3//-1,2,4-triazolin-3-ones 153 from readily available primary alkyl and aryl amines 151 <06TL6743>. An efficient synthesis of substituted 1,2,4-triazoles involved condensation of benzoylhydrazides with thioamides under microwave irradiation <06JCR293>. 

Three different microwave-assisted synthetic routes to benzimidazole derivatives are summarized in Scheme 6.205, involving the condensation of 1,2-phenylenedi-amines with either carboxylic acids (Scheme 6.205 a and b) [368, 369] or two equivalents of aldehydes (Scheme 6.205 c) [370], or by cyclization of N-acylated-diamino-pyrimidines mediated by a strong base (Scheme 6.205 d and e) [371, 372],... 

Combs and coworkers have presented a study on the solid-phase synthesis of oxa-zolidinone antimicrobials by microwave-mediated Suzuki coupling [38], A valuable oxazolidinone scaffold was coupled to Bal resin (PS-PEG resin with a 4-formyl-3,5-dimethoxyphenoxy linker) to afford the corresponding resin-bound secondary amine (Scheme 7.18). After subsequent acylation, the resulting intermediate was transformed to the corresponding biaryl compound by microwave-assisted Suzuki coupling. Cleavage with trifluoroacetic acid/dichloromethane yielded the desired target structures. 

Weik and Rademann have described the use of phosphoranes as polymer-bound acylation equivalents [65]. The authors chose a norstatine isostere as a synthetic target and employed classical polymer-bound triphenylphosphine in their studies (Scheme 7.54). Initial alkylation of the polymer-supported reagent was achieved with bromoacetonitrile under microwave irradiation. Simple treatment with triethyl-amine transformed the polymer-bound phosphonium salt into the corresponding stable phosphorane, which could be efficiently coupled with various protected amino acids. In this acylation step, the exclusion of water was crucial. 

A variation of this method led to the generation of bis-benzimidazoles [81, 82], The versatile immobilized ortho-phenylenediamine template was prepared as described above in several microwave-mediated steps. Additional N-acylation exclusively at the primary aromatic amine moiety was achieved utilizing the initially used 4-fluoro-3-nitrobenzoic acid at room temperature (Scheme 7.72). Various amines were used to introduce diversity through nucleophilic aromatic substitution. Cyclization to the polymer-bound benzimidazole was achieved by refluxing for several hours in a mixture of trifluoroacetic acid and chloroform. Individual steps at ambient temperature for selective reduction, cyclization with several aldehydes, and final detachment from the polymer support were necessary in order to obtain the desired bis-benzimidazoles. A set of 13 examples was prepared in high yields and good purities [81]. 

This novel resin-bound CHD derivative was then utilized in the preparation of an amide library under microwave irradiation. Reaction of the starting resin-bound CHD with an acyl or aroyl chloride yields an enol ester, which, upon treatment with amines, leads to the corresponding amide, thus regenerating the CHD. This demonstrates the feasibility of using the CHD resin as a capture and release reagent for the synthesis of amides. The resin capture/release methodology [126] aids in the removal of impurities and facilitates product purification. 

The simplicity of the two-phase modification of the Gabriel synthesis of primary amines, via the N-alkylation of potassium phthalimide, makes the procedure considerably more convenient than the traditional method, which normally requires the use of anhydrous dipolar aprolic solvents. The reaction can be conducted under solid liquid conditions using potassium hydroxide in toluene [25], or with preformed potassium phthalimide [26, 27] (cf ref. 28). As is normal for acylation reactions, relatively mild conditions are required for the preparation of the A-ethoxycarbonyl derivative [29], whereas a reaction temperature of 100°C is generally used for N-alkylation (Table 5.16). The reaction time for the soliddiquid two-phase system can be reduced dramatically with retention of the high yields, when the reaction mixture is subjected to microwave irradiation [30]. 

Hydro acylation of alkenes was achieved in the presence of Wilkinson s catalyst and microwave irradiation under solvent-free conditions. As an example, benzaldehyde was reacted with dec- 1-ene to give 1-phenylundecan- 1-one in 83%yield within 30 min. Both domestic microwave ovens and single-mode reactors have been used for this reaction. The presence of an amine such as 2-amino-3-picoline or aniline and a carboxylic acid is crucial for the success of the reaction, showing that the formation of an imine plays an important role as an intermediate in the mechanism of this reaction29. 

A mixture of 1.5 mmol of (V-acyl imidate 1 and 3.9 mmol of imidazolidine ke-tene aminals 2 was placed in a Pyrex glass. Then, the tube was introduced into a Synthewave 420 Prolabo microwave oven. Microwave irradiation was earned out with a suitable power for an appropriate time. The reaction temperature is monitored by a computer coupled with the microwave oven. After, the mixture was... 

Pathway C seemed to be especially attractive, because it should enable addition of acyl anion equivalents to a large number of readily accessible activated carboxylic acids (Figure 3.6.10). Thus diversity in all relevant positions should be readily attainable. High-loaded triphenyl phosphine resin 12 (1.6 mmol g-1) was alkylated with bromoacetonitrile under the action of microwave irradiation yielding phos-phonium salt 13 quantitatively. 13 was converted into stable ylide 14 by treatment with tertiary amine. Carboxylic acids were activated in the presence of N-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-N -ethylcarbodiimide hydrochloride (EDC) and reacted with 14 yielding acyl cyanophosphoranes 15. The reaction was monitored by ATR-IR coupling yields could be determined by spectrophotometric Fmoc-determination and were 90% for Fmoc-phenylalanine as reference amino acid. 

Microwave irradiation of a mixture of an acid anhydride, an amine adsorbed on silica gel, and TaCl5/Si02 is a solvent-free method for the synthesis of A-alkyl and A-aryl-imides [47]. Ni(II) promotes the conversion of an acrylamide to ethyl acrylate via a Diels-Alder adduct with (2-pyridyl)anthracene [48], Aromatic carboxylic acids [49] and mandelic acid [50] are efficiently esterified with Fc2(S04)3 XH2O as catalyst. Co(II) perchlorate in MeOH catalyzes the methanolysis of acetyl imidazole and acetyl pyrazole [51]. Hiyama et al. used FeCb as a catalyst for the acylation of a silylated cyanohydrin. The resulting ester was then cyclized to 4-amino-2(5H)-furanones (Sch. 5) [52]. 

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