Formamides amines

Further application of ammonia in gas chromatography (and especially in gas-solid chromatography) appears appropriate. Formamide is also a compound of basic character 8ind its use as carrier gas becomes beneficial in separating polar amines. Formamide has been shown to improve chromatographic zone symmetry for basic solutes and other polar compounds [115]. 

The conversion of an aldehyde or ketone into the corresponding amine by heating with ammonium formate or with formamide and formic acid at about... 

The desired pyridylamine was obtained in 69 % overall yield by monomethylation of 2-(aminomethyl)pyridine following a literature procedure (Scheme 4.14). First amine 4.48 was converted into formamide 4.49, through reaction with the in situ prepared mixed anhydride of acetic acid and formic acid. Reduction of 4.49 with borane dimethyl sulfide complex produced diamine 4.50. This compound could be used successfully in the Mannich reaction with 4.39, affording crude 4.51 in 92 % yield (Scheme 4.15). Analogous to 4.44, 4.51 also coordinates to copper(II) in water, as indicated by a shift of the UV-absorption maximum from 296 nm to 308 nm. 

Other fairly recent commercial products, poly(vinyl amine) and poly(vinyl amine vinyl alcohol), have addressed the need for primary amines and their selective reactivity. Prior efforts to synthesize poly(vinyl amine) have been limited because of the difficulty hydrolyzing the intermediate polymers. The current product is prepared from /V-ethenylformamide (20) formed from the reaction of acetaldehyde and formamide. The vinyl amide is polymerized with a free-radical initiator, then hydrolyzed (eq. 7). 

Preparation of Amines. Amines are prepared by heating aUphatic, aromatic, or cycHc ketones with ammonium formate, formamide, or an A/-substituted ammonium formate at 165—190°C (Leuckart reaction). For example, cx-methylbenzylamine is prepared by the reaction of acetophenone with ammonium formate. 

Ritter Reaction (Method 4). A small but important class of amines are manufactured by the Ritter reaction. These are the amines in which the nitrogen atom is adjacent to a tertiary alkyl group. In the Ritter reaction a substituted olefin such as isobutylene reacts with hydrogen cyanide under acidic conditions (12). The resulting formamide is then hydroly2ed to the parent primary amine. Typically sulfuric acid is used in this transformation of an olefin to an amine. Stoichiometric quantities of sulfate salts are produced along with the desired amine. 

Greater stereoselectivity for the formation of equatorial amines has been found in the reduction of enamines with formic acid or formamides (553-559). The selective formation of 3-a-amino-5- -steroids by this method and of 3- 3-amino-5- 3-steroids by catalytic reduction (5<50) of the corresponding enamines is of interest. 

Vinyl formates readily react with amines, alcohols, and phenols to give the formamide or ester. " ... 

Pyrido[4,3-rf]pyrimidin-4(3/7)-oiie (138) was prepared from either ethyl 4-aminonicotinate or from 4-aminomcotinamide by fusion with formamide. A parallel to the pyrido[3,2-d]pyrimidines (cf. Section II,B, la) was demonstrated in the conversion of 2-methyl-pyrido[4,3-d][l,3]oxa7in-4-ones (139, Ri = Me) into the corresponding pyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidin-4(377)-ones (142) on treatment with a number of amines.There were certain limitations to the method in this series, however, and the intermediate diamides (140) were more conveniently prepared from the appropriate 4-amidonicotinate (141) and. .Ri... 

The cyclization of the imine 158 is believed (81UK1252) to involve the addition of the second formamide molecule to C-3 (at least primary amines readily add in a similar manner to such systems). 

Furfuryl dimethyl amine is first produced. This may conveniently be accomplished by employing the Leuckart synthesis known to those skilled in the art, which involves the use of an aldehyde or a ketone, and formate of ammonia or an amine, or corresponding formamide derived by dehydration of formate of ammonia or an amine. 

Secondary amines do not give the expected /V-TBDMS derivatives under the conditions normally used for similar alcohol protection (Chapter 14). Instead, /V-formamides are produced (3) in good yield through a DMF-derived Vilsmeier intermediate. 

Harnstoffe liefern entweder geminale Diamine (meist nur im Fall von cyclischen Verbindungenstabil), Formamidinebzw. unter AufspaltungdesMolekiils Formamide oder N-Methyl-amine. 

An alternative approach towards the PASP synthesis of isocyanides was developed by Bradley [100,101]. It involved the use of a polymer-supported sul-fonyl chloride in the presence of base to afford the dehydration of formamides (Scheme 21). The formamides required could be easily prepared by reaction of the corresponding amines with a formylated benzotriazole resin. Opti-... 

The reaction can also be used synthetically for the preparation of isocyanides, though yields are generally not high. An improved procedure has been reported. When secondary amines are involved, the adduct cannot lose 2 mol of HCl. Instead it is hydrolyzed to an iV,A -disubstituted formamide ... 

The reaction with disubstituted formamides and phosphorus oxychloride, called the Vilsmeier or the Vilsmeier-Haack reaction,is the most common method for the formylation of aromatic rings. However, it is applicable only to active substrates, such as amines and phenols. An intramolecular version is also known.Aromatic hydrocarbons and heterocycles can also be formylated, but only if they are much more active than benzene (e.g., azulenes, ferrocenes). Though A-phenyl-A-methyl-formamide is a common reagent, other arylalkyl amides and dialkyl amides are also used. Phosgene (COCI2) has been used in place of POCI3. The reaction has also been carried out with other amides to give ketones (actually an example of 11-14),... 

Aldehydes, formates, primary, and secondary alcohols, amines, ethers, alkyl halides, compounds of the type Z—CH2—Z, and a few other compounds add to double bonds in the presence of free-radical initiators/ This is formally the addition of RH to a double bond, but the R is not just any carbon but one connected to an oxygen or a nitrogen, a halogen, or to two Z groups (defined as on p. 548). The addition of aldehydes is illustrated above. Formates and formamides " add similarly ... 

Pr)4, " borohydride-exchange resin,and formic acid. When the last is used, the process is called the Wallach reaction. Conjugated aldehydes are converted to alkenyl-amines with the amine/silica gel followed by reduction with zinc borohydride.In the particular case where primary or secondary amines are reductively methylated with formaldehyde and formic acid, the method is called the Esch-weiler-Clarke procedure. It is possible to use ammonium (or amine) salts of formic acid, " or formamides, as a substitute for the Wallach conditions. This method is called the Leuckart reaction,and in this case the products obtained are often the N-formyl derivatives of the amines instead of the free amines. Primary and secondary amines can be iV-ethylated (e.g., ArNHR ArNREt) by treatment with NaBH4 in acetic acid. Aldehydes react with aniline in the presence of Mont-morillonite KIO clay and microwaves to give the amine. Formaldehyde with formic acid converts secondary amines to the N-methyl derivative with microwave irradiation. 

Disubstituted formamides can give addition of 2 mol of Grignard reagent. The products of this reaction (called Bouveault reaction) are an aldehyde and a tertiary amine.The use of an amide other than a formamide can give a ketone instead... 

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