N-heterocyclic amines

S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM)-dependent methyl-ation was briefly discussed under Thiomethylation (see Figure 14). Other functional groups that are methylated by this mechanism include aliphatic and aromatic amines, N-heterocyclics, monophenols, and polyphenols. The most important enzymes involved in these methylation reactions with xenobiotics are catechol O-methyltransferase, histamine N-methylt-ransferase, and indolethylamine N-methyltransferase - each catalyzes the transfer of a methyl group from SAM to phenolic or amine substrates (O- and N-methyltransferases, respectively). Methylation is not a quantitatively important metabolic pathway for xenobiotics, but it is an important pathway in the intermediary metabolism of both N- and O-contain-ing catechol and amine endobiotics. 

Scheme 43.9 Secondary amine/N-heterocyclic carbene catalyzed cascade for the synthesis of chiral a-hydroxycyclopentanones.

Scheme 43.11 Secondary amine/N-heterocyclic carbene catalysis for the synthesis of 2,4-disubstituted cyclopent-2-enones.

Scheme 10.5 Nucleophilic/basic pathways for the ROP of lactide. (Nu = amine, N-heterocyclic carbene or phosphazene, ROH = the initiating protic agent or the growing polymer chain).

N-(2-thiazolyl)dithiocarbamates are prepared by the action of carbon disulfide on 2-aminothiazoles (see Section III.3.C and Ref. 505). When refluxed with secondary amines these heterocyclic dithiocarbamates yield l,T-dialkyl-3-(2-thiazoIyI)thioureas (261) (491). 

N -Heterocyclic Sulfanilamides. The parent sulfanilamide is manufactured by the reaction of A/-acetylsulfanilyl chloride with excess concentrated aqueous ammonia, and hydrolysis of the product. Most heterocycHc amines are less reactive, and the condensation with the sulfonyl chloride is usually done in anhydrous media in the presence of an acid-binding agent. Use of anhydrous conditions avoids hydrolytic destmction of the sulfonyl chloride. The solvent and acid-binding functions are commonly filled by pyridine, or by mixtures of pyridine and acetone. Tertiary amines, such as triethylamine, may be substituted for pyridine. The majority of A/ -heterocycHc sulfanilamides are made by simple condensation with A/-acetylsulfanilyl chloride and hydrolysis. 

The spectra of saturated heterocycles are generally fairly featureless, with amine n —>a absorptions and those transitions associated with sulfur showing up weakly, while saturated ethers are usually transparent down to 210 nm. 

Nucleophilic aromatic amination by the action of unsaturated N-heterocycles 99T11399. 

Rhenium(VI) complexes, 4,194 alkoxides, 4,196 amides, 4,194 amines, 4,199 carboxylates, 4,199 dimethylformamide, 4,199 dioxane, 4,198 halides, 4,195,199 2-hydroxypyridine, 4,199 imides, 4,194 magnetic behavior, 1,271 mixed sulfur-nitrogen compounds, 4,196 N heterocycles, 4,199 nitrides, 4,194 oxide halides, 4, 195 oxoanions,4,196 pyridine, 4,199 sulfates, 4,198 sulfur compounds, 4,196 tellurates, 4,198... 

Independently, Caddick et al. reported microwave-assisted amination of aryl chlorides using a palladium-N-heterocyclic carbene complex as the catalyst (Scheme 99) [lOlj. Initial experiments in a domestic microwave oven (reflux conditions) revealed that the solvent is crucial for the reaction. The Pd source also proved very important, since Pd(OAc)2 at high power in DMF gave extensive catalyst decomposition and using it at medium and low power gave no reaction at all. Pd(dba)2/imidazohum salt (1 mol% catalyst loading) in DME with the addition of some DMF was found to be suitable. Oil bath experiments indicated that only thermal effects are governing the amination reactions. 

In the synthesis of N heterocycles, this technique also overcomes competitive retro Michael addition that lowers the yield of 1,4-adduct in the Michael addition of amines to nitro olefins. Thus, a toluene solution of nitro olefin 159 was treated with allylamine 160, EtgN, and TMSCI under nitrogen at ambient tern-... 

All these steps proceed to afford free or N -substituted crystalline cytidines 6 in high yields [11] (cf. the preparation of N (tetramethylene)cytidine 6b in 95.4% yield in Section 1.1.). This simple one-pot reaction is also very easy to perform on a technical scale, as are the subsequently discussed analogous silylation-aminations of purine nucleosides and other hydroxy-N-heterocycles (cf. Sections 4.2.4 and 4.2.5). The concept of silylation-activation while simultaneously protecting hydroxyl groups in alcohols, phenols, or phosphoric acids by silylation was subsequently rediscovered and appropriately termed transient protection [16-18]. 

Although several methods are used to aminate heterocyclic aromatic hydroxy-N-heterocycles [36], some additional, special, amination procedures are used for nucleoside modification. When we planned to synthesize a series of N -substituted cytidines 5 starting from uridine 1 we considered known classical methods, which imply (Scheme 4.14) ... 

The amination of aromatic hydroxy-N-heterocycles is a standard reaction in medicinal and agricultural chemistry and has heen reviewed [36]. The hitherto commonly used two-step procedure for amination of hydroxy-N-heterocycles, starts with conversion into the chloro-N-heterocycles, e.g. by treatment of the hydroxy-N-heterocycle with POCI3, PCI5, or SOCI2, followed by reaction with the amine moiety. This methodology has several drawbacks however, for example ... 

Because aromatic purines and purine nucleosides and free purines such as hypo-xanthine and guanine 242 are readily silylated-aminated [64] (cf Scheme 4.24), it is obvious that 6-membered hydroxy-N-heterocycles are analogously silylated-aminated, with reactivity in the order given in Scheme 4.25 [73] X=OTf is the best leaving group and X=NHSiMe3 (cf the transamination as discussed in Section 4.2.4) is the weakest. 

Silylation-aminations of a variety of other hydroxy-N-heterocycles, for example 4(lH)-pyridinone, 2(lH)-pyrimidone, uracil, 2(lH)-quinoline, and 9(10H)-acridone are described in the full paper, which was published in English [27]. 

The advantages of the one-step silylation-amination of hydroxy-N-heterocycles are demonstrated by the amination of 2-methylpyrido[3,4-d]pyrimidin-4-one 261. Whereas silylation-amination of 261 with three equivalents of benzylamine-... 

In contrast with the hitherto described silylation-aminations of six-membered heterocycles, silylation-amination of five-membered hydroxy-N-heterocycles such as benzoxazol-2-one 289 with excess benzylamine and HMDS 2, to give 2-benzyla-minobenzoxazole, fails, because of the equilibrium between 2-trimethylsilyloxy-... 

Hydrates of acids such as Ts0H-H20 can probably also be dehydrated by treatment with silyl esters such as TsOSiMe3 (Scheme 13.1). Likewise, Ts0H-H20 is dehydrated in situ during aminations of hydroxy-N-heterocycles such as purines 242 (Scheme 4.24) or (lH,3H)-quinazoline-2,4-dione 250 (Scheme 4.27) by HMDS 2, in the presence of higher-boiling primary or secondary amines, to give the ami-... 

Nielsen DJ, Cavell KJ (2006) Pd-NHC complexes as catalysts in telomerization and aryl amination reactions. In Nolan SP (ed) N-Heterocyclic carbenes in synthesis. WUey-VCH, Weinheim, pp 73-102... 

Dominguez and coworkers [41] used a twofold Heck reaction for the construction of annulated N-heterocycles such as 6/l-64a-c, starting from the enamides 6/1-63 which can be easily obtained from the corresponding amines 6/l-62a-c and o-iodo-benzoic acid chloride (Scheme 6/1.15). 

By contrast, much of the work performed using ruthenium-based catalysts has employed well-defined complexes. These have mostly been studied in the ATRP of MMA, and include complexes (158)-(165).400-405 Recent studies with (158) have shown the importance of amine additives which afford faster, more controlled polymerization.406 A fast polymerization has also been reported with a dimethylaminoindenyl analog of (161).407 The Grubbs-type metathesis initiator (165) polymerizes MMA without the need for an organic initiator, and may therefore be used to prepare block copolymers of MMA and 1,5-cyclooctadiene.405 Hydrogenation of this product yields PE-b-PMMA. N-heterocyclic carbene analogs of (164) have also been used to catalyze the free radical polymerization of both MMA and styrene.408... 

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