Amines azomethines

As the sp nitrogen atom in many heterocycles can be alkylated and aminated, the construction of an azomethine ylide or azomethine imine dipole is readily attainable as shown in Scheme 13. These ylides are very reactive and undergo cycloaddition with a... 

Aromatic nitro compounds are often strongly colored. They frequently produce characteristic, colored, quinoid derivatives on reaction with alkali or compounds with reactive methylene groups. Reduction to primary aryl amines followed by diazotization and coupling with phenols yields azo dyestuffs. Aryl amines can also react with aldehydes with formation of Schiff s bases to yield azomethines. 

Double asymmetric induction operates when the azomethine compound is derived from a chiral a-amino aldehyde and a chiral amine, e.g., the sulfin-imine 144 [70]. In this case, the R configuration at the sulfur of the chiral auxihary, N-tert-butanesulfinamide, matched with the S configuration of the starting a-amino aldehyde, allowing complete stereocontrol to be achieved in the preparation of the diamine derivatives 145 by the addition of trifluo-romethyl anion, which was formed from trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane in the presence of tetramethylammonium fluoride (Scheme 23). The substituents at both nitrogen atoms were easily removed by routine procedures see, for example, the preparation of the free diamine 146. On the other hand, a lower diastereoselectivity (dr 80 20) was observed in one reaction carried out on the imine derived from (it)-aldehyde and (it)-sulfinamide. 

The nitrogen analogs of ketones and aldehydes are called imines, azomethines, or Schiff bases, but imine is the preferred name and we use it here. These compounds can be prepared by condensation of primary amines with ketones or aldehydes.102 The equilibrium constants are unfavorable, so the reaction is usually driven forward by removal of water. 

In addition to nitrones, azomethine ylides are also valuable 1,3-dipoles for five-membered heterocycles [415], which have found useful applications in the synthesis of for example, alkaloids [416]. Again, the groups of both Grigg [417] and Risch [418] have contributed to this field. As reported by the latter group, the treatment of secondary amines 2-824 with benzaldehyde and an appropriate dipolarophile leads to the formation of either substituted pyrrolidines 2-823, 2-825 and 2-826 or oxa-zolidines 2-828 with the 1,3-dipole 2-827 as intermediate (Scheme 2.184). However, the yields and the diastereoselectivities are not always satisfactory. 

Yadav and Kapoor <2003TL8951> reported on a microwave-assisted ring closure leading to novel thiazolo[l,3,5]-triazines, as shown in Scheme 36. This three-component one-pot procedure started from the thiazolyl Schiff base 230, to which ammonium acetate and an aldehyde was added. In the first step, the azomethine moiety of the Schiff base reacted with ammonia to give the zwitterionic first intermediate 231, which underwent deprotonation to the amine 232, and, finally, reaction of this second intermediate with the aldehyde involving the ring-closure step afforded the product 233. It is important to emphasize that the MW-assisted technique ensured high yields (76-88%)... 

The chromium complexes of some azomethine derivatives are used as solvent dyes. Cl Solvent Yellow 32 (6.231) is an example, obtained by condensing one mole of salicyl-aldehyde with the appropriate amine, followed by treatment with one equivalent of chromium. 

Preparation with aliphatic amines, on the other hand, may promote side reactions, converting portions of a pigment to compounds that are somewhat soluble in toluene. Toluene is the most important solvent for publication gravure printing inks. This preparative method reduces the viscosity of the printing ink. The pigment is thus partially converted to a soluble azomethine (Schiff s base), which is formed by reaction between the acetoacetic arylide and an aliphatic amine [5] ... 

Additives may exert not only a physical but also a chemical influence on the coupling suspension long-chain aliphatic or cycloaliphatic amines RNH2, which react partially with the pigment molecules, will enhace the effect of other additives. The carbonyl function of the acetyl group is converted to a ketimine (azomethine) or, in the presence of the enol form, it reacts to form an alkylammonium enolate [5],... 

Aldehydes react with primary amines to give the so-called azomethines (Schiff s bases), by elimination of water (p. 161), e.g. 

Several Schiff bases were prepared by condensing substituted aromatic aldehydes with various aromatic amines. The azomethines were reduced by action of sodium borohydride to produce secondary amines. These products will be used to produce more complex molecules. We invite biologists for collaborative research. 

Water colloid solutions of fullerenes C60 (10 4 M) were prepared as described in Scharff et al. (2004). Fullerene-aminopropylaerosyl (fullerene C60-composite-l) was synthesized (Golub et al., 2003) by the introduction of aminopropyl chains oriented ad extra by amine groups (0.9 mM/g), to the surface layer of sihcon dioxide nanoparticles that were bound to fullerene C60 (0.12 mM/g) (Fig. 6.1). Fullerene-anthracenaliminopropylaerosyl (fullerene C60-composite-2) was composed also from anthraccnaliminc (0.2mM/g) that was introduced via azomethine condensation of aldehyde group of anthracenal with surface amino group. 

The asymmetric reduction of C=N double bonds in prochiral oximes afforded a maximum of 18% ee [380, 384, 385]. Prochiral azomethines were reduced to the corresponding 1,2-diamines and secondary amines using 36 optically active supporting electrolytes. The dimers were optically inactive, while the monomers showed low optical inductions (<11% ee). The effect of electrolyte, substrate concentration, temperature, pH, and cathode potential on the induction was studied. It was proposed that the enantioselectivity... 

It seems very likely that the initial addition of the alkyl amine takes place at the activated N-C(2) azomethine bond and that the reaction sequence occurs in a similar way to that described in Scheme IILl. When the reactions were carried out in boiling ethanol, besides the N -phenyl-N -alkyl exchange, deethoxycarbonylation occurs. Deethoxycarbonylation is the sole reaction that takes place on treatment of 3 with r-butylamine (82JOC498). 

Chen extended the scope of his iminium ion catalysed [3+2] cycloaddition with azomethine imines (see Sect. 2.1.2) to encompass cyclic a,P-unsaturated ketone substrates using primary amine 147 as the catalyst [194]. Interestingly, the presence... 

The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azomethine yUdes with olefins gives rise to pyrrolidines which represent structural elements of organocatalysts, natural products, and drug candidates. Asymmetric metal-catalyzed variants attracted considerable attention over the last few years [64], Recently, Vicario et al. reported an organo-catalytic [3 -i- 2] cycloaddition of azomethine ylides and a,p-unsaturated aldehydes mediated by a chiral secondary amine [65]. 

For the formation of 15 (Figure 6.9) a different mechanism has been proposed [62]. Reaction of singlet oxygen with the corresponding amine (iminodiacetic methylester) leads - after two H-abstractions - to an azomethine ylide as a key intermediate. This ylide can add to the double bond via a [3-i-2]-cycloaddition related to the Prato reaction (Section 4.3.4). 

Aryl alkyl amines gave hydroxylamine 0-arylsulfonates when reacted with arylsul-fonyl peroxide. The products were later decomposed to azomethine and further hydrolysis results in the corresponding amine with one less carbon atom. Thus when p-methoxy-benzylamine was treated with p-nitrophenylsulfonyl peroxide at —78 °C in ethyl acetate, p-methoxybenzaldehyde and p-methoxyaniline were obtained . Cyclic amines with p-nitrophenylsulfonyl peroxide were converted to the Al-(p-nitrophenylsulfonyloxy)amine derivatives, which further rearranged to ring-expanded cyclic imines in good yields (equation 9 f. ... 

Roussi et al. (23) studied the deprotonation of tertiary amine N-oxides to generate azomethine yhdes. Typically, treatment of 87 with lithium diisopropyla-mide (LDA) in the presence of a suitable dipolarophUe led to the subsequent formation of the adducts shown (Scheme 3.23). In most cases, material yield is high, although the protocol suffers from formation of isomers for some dipolarophiles. 

The chiral dipolarophiles of Garners and Dogan, which were derived from Oppolzer s sultam, have been previously discussed in Section 3.2.1 and, in an extension to these results, the sultam moiety was used as the stereodirecting unit in enantiopure azomethine ylides (56). The ylides were generated either by thermo-lytic opening of N-substituted aziridines or by the condensation of the amine functionality with benzaldehyde followed by tautomerism. These precursors were derived from the known (+)-A-propenoylbornane-2,10-sultam. Subsequent trapping of the ylides with A-phenylmaleimide furnished the cycloaddition products shown in Schemes 3.60 and 3.61. 

Treatment with amines of the type 279 generated the intermediate oxazolidinone 280, which underwent thermal decarboxylative formation of the azomethine yhde. Subsequent in situ intramolecular cycloaddition formed the products 281 and 282 in 63% yield and in a 1 1.2 ratio for n=l. Replacing toluene for acetonitrile, for n = 2, gave comparable yields and an improved ratio of 1 2.1 in favor of 281 (Scheme 3.93). 

A novel application of phosphate-stabilized ylides in intramolecular reactions has been reported by Martin and Cheavens (87). Thus, condensation of aldehydes of the type 293 with the amine 294 furnished the intermediate azomethine ylide, which then underwent a cycloaddition process, leading to pyrrolidines 295, where... 

A -Silylmethyl-amidines and -thioamides (42) (X=NR or S) undergo alkylation at X with, for example methyl triflate, and then fluorodesilylation to give the azomethine ylides 43 (identical with 38 for the thioamides) (25,26). Cycloaddition followed by elimination of an amine or thiol, respectively, again leads to formal nitrile ylide adducts. These species again showed the opposite regioselectivity in reaction with aldehydes to that of true nitrile ylides. The thioamides were generally thought to be better for use in synthesis than the amidines and this route leads to better yields and less substituent dependence than the water-induced desilylation discussed above. 

Padwa et al. (75) found that the unsymmetrical miinchnone 137, which was generated from A-acetyl-7/-benzylglycine (136) and refluxing acetic anhydride, reacts with methyl propiolate to give an 8 1 mixture of pyrroles 138 and 139. The same product ratio is obtained from the reaction of methyl propiolate and the azomethine ylide derived from 7/-benzyl-A(-(a-cyanoethyl)-A(-[(trimethylsilyl)-methyl] amine. 

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