Amines oxidative carbonylation

Au Amines (oxidative carbonylation with CO/O2 to carbamates and symmetric ureas)... 

The alkylurea 576 and oxamide 577 are formed by oxidative carbonylation of amines under CO pressure using Pd/C as a catalyst[518]. The urea formation proceeds under atmospheric pressure using PdCh and CuCl2[519]. The mono-and double carbonylations of / -aminoethanol (578 and 579) afford the cyclic carbamate (oxazolidinones) 580 and oxamide (morpholinediones) 581 [520,521]. 

Carbamates are produced by the oxidative carbonylation of amines in alcohol, and active research on the commercial production of carbamates as a precursor of isoyanates based on this reaction has been carried out. As an example, ethyl phenylcarbamate (582) is produced in a high yield (95%) with... 

Carbonylation of the tetrasubstituted bispropargyiic amine 23 using PdCP and thiourea under mild conditions affords the carboxylated pyrrolidine derivatives 24a and b in good yields. Thiourea is regarded as effective for the oxidative carbonylation of alkynes, but no oxidative carbonylation was observed in this case[21]. 

For oximes, the word oxime is placed after the name of the aldehyde or ketone. If the carbonyl group is not the principal group, use the prefix hydroxyimino-. Compounds with the group Z = N—OR are named by a prefix alkyloxyimino- as oxime O-ethers or as O-substituted oximes. Compounds with the group r C=N(0)R are named by adding A-oxide after the name of the alkylideneaminc compound. For amine oxides, add the word oxide after the name of the base, with locants. For example, C5H5N—O is named pyridine A-oxide or pyridine 1-oxide. 

The heavier chalcogens are more prone towards secondary interactions than sulfur. In particular, the chemistry of tellurium has numerous examples of intramolecular coordination in derivatives such as diazenes, Schiff bases, pyridines, amines, and carbonylic compounds. The oxidation state of the chalcogen is also influential sulfur(IV) centres engender stronger interactions than sulfur(II). For example, the thiazocine derivative 15.9 displays a S N distance that is markedly longer than that in the corresponding sulfoxide 15.10 (2.97 A V5. 2.75-2.83 A, respectively). ... 

Oxidative carbonylation generates a number of important compounds and materials such as ureas, carbamates, 2-oxazolidinones, and aromatic polycarbonates. The [CuX(IPr)] complexes 38-X (X = Cl, Br, I) were tested as catalysts for the oxidative carbonylation of amino alcohols by Xia and co-workers [43]. Complex 38-1 is the first catalyst to selectively prepare ureas, carbamates, and 2-oxazolidinones without any additives. The important findings were the identity of the counterion and that the presence of the NHC ligand influenced the conversions. 2-Oxazohdinones were formed from primary amino alcohols in 86-96% yield. Complex 38-1 also catalysed the oxidative carbonylation of primary amines to ureas and carbamates. n-Propylamine, n-butylamine, and t-butylamine were transformed into the... 

Following this pnblication, the anthors tested a series of Pd-NHC complexes (33-36) for the oxidative carbonylation of amino compounds (Scheme 9.8) [44,45]. These complexes catalysed the oxidative carbonylation of amino compounds selectively to the nreas with good conversion and very high TOFs. Unlike the Cu-NHC catalyst 38-X, the palladium complexes catalysed the oxidative carbonylation of a variety of aromatic amines. For example, 35 converted d-Me-C H -NH, d-Cl-C H -NH, 2,4-Me3-C H3-NH3, 2,6-Me3-C H3-NH3, and 4-Ac-C H3-NH3 to the corresponding nreas with very high TOFs (>6000) in 1 h at 150°C, in 99%, 87%, 85%, 72%, and 60% isolated yields, respectively (Pco,o2 = 3.2/0.8 MPa). 

Didgikar MR, Roy D, Gupta SP, Joshi SS, Chaudhari RV (2010) Immobilized palladium nanoparticles catalyzed oxidative carbonylation of amines. Ind Eng Chem Res 49 1027-1032... 

The addition of a carbonylation step extended a pyrrole synthesis to pyrrole-2-acetic acid derivatives <06ASC2212>. Treatment of enyne amine 1 with palladium diiodide in the presence of CO and methanol produced pyrrole-2-acetic ester 2 via a 5-exo-dig cyclization, oxidative carbonylation, and isomerization. 

In many instances it is not necessary to isolate the acetonitrile complex or to carry out the reaction in acetonitrile. The use of amine oxide as a means of displacing carbonyl groups in metal carbonyls is well documented, and reaction proceeds smoothly with the carbonyl in the presence of a variety of ligands—e.g., ethylene or pyridine—to yield the monosubstituted derivatives. The advantage of the acetonitrile adducts is the stability of the compounds and the reactivity of the amine oxide toward acidic ligands. 

Abstract The basic principles of the oxidative carbonylation reaction together with its synthetic applications are reviewed. In the first section, an overview of oxidative carbonylation is presented, and the general mechanisms followed by different substrates (alkenes, dienes, allenes, alkynes, ketones, ketenes, aromatic hydrocarbons, aliphatic hydrocarbons, alcohols, phenols, amines) leading to a variety of carbonyl compounds are discussed. The second section is focused on processes catalyzed by Pdl2-based systems, and on their ability to promote different kind of oxidative carbonylations under mild conditions to afford important carbonyl derivatives with high selectivity and efficiency. In particular, the recent developments towards the one-step synthesis of new heterocyclic derivatives are described. 

Oxidative carbonylation is not necessarily associated with C - C bond formation. Indeed, heteroatom carbonylation may occur exclusively, as in the oxidative carbonylation of alcohols or phenols to carbonates, of alcohols and amines to carbamates, of aminoalcohols to cyclic carbamates, and of amines to ureas. All these reactions are of particular significance, in view of the possibility to prepare these very important classes of carbonyl compounds through a phosgene-free approach. These carbonylations are usually carried out in the presence of an appropriate oxidant under catalytic conditions (Eqs. 31-33), and in some cases can be promoted not only by transition metals but also by... 

The direct conversion of alcohols and amines into carbamate esters by oxidative carbonylation is also an attractive process from an industrial point of view, since carbamates are useful intermediates for the production of polyurethanes. Many efforts have, therefore, been devoted to the development of efficient catalysts able to operate under relatively mild conditions. The reaction, when applied to amino alcohols, allows a convenient synthesis of cyclic urethanes. Several transition metal complexes, based on Pd [218— 239], Cu [240-242], Au [243,244], Os [245], Rh [237,238,246,247], Co [248], Mn [249], Ru [224,250-252], Pt [238] are able to promote the process. The formation of ureas, oxamates, or oxamides as byproducts can in some cases lower the selectivity towards carbamates. 

The oxidative carbonylation of amines to give ureas is at present one of the most attractive ways for synthesizing this very important class of carbonyl compounds via a phosgene-free approach. Ureas find extensive application as agrochemicals, dyes, antioxidants, resin precursors, synthetic intermediates (also for the production of carbamates and isocyanates), and HIV-inhibitors. Many transition metals (incuding Au [244], Co [248,253-255], Cu [242], Mn [249,256-258], Ni [259], Rh [246,247,260-262], Ru [224,260,263] and especially Pd [219,225,226,264-276], and, more recently, W [277-283]) as well as main-group elements (such as sulfur [284-286] and selenium [287— 292]) have been reported to promote the oxidative carbonylation of amines, usually under catalytic conditions. In some cases, carbamates and/or oxamides are formed as byproducts, thus lowering the selectivity of the process. 

The versatility of the PCH2/KI catalytic system is further demonstrated by its ability to catalyze the oxidative carbonylation of primary amines to symmetrically substituted ureas (Eq. 51), still under mild conditions (100 °C, 16 atm of CO, 4 atm of air in DME as the solvent) and with unprecedented catalytic efficiencies for this kind of reaction (up to ca. 2500 mol of product per mol of Pd) [274,275]. In some cases, working in the presence of an excess of CO2 (40 atm) had a beneficial effect on the reaction rate and product selectivity. 

Several oxidations of amines involved oxidation of methyl groups adjacent to tertiary amines to carbonyl groups. Oxidation by RuO /aq. Na(IO )/CCl of 2, 3, 5 -tri-0-acetyl- or -benzoyl derivatives of A A -dimethyladenosine, A, A -... 

The insertion of carbon monoxide was also the key step in the formation of urea derivatives through the oxidative carbonylation of amines. 6-Amino-... 

A phosgene-free route to aromatic isocyanates, such as M DI and TDI, was reported by Fernandez et al. [42] (Scheme 5.7) According to the patent, the one-pot synthesis involves the use of an immobilized Schiff base type of ligand catalyst that facilitates the oxidative carbonylation of aromatic amines to the corresponding isocyanates. However, 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol (TFE), 1,2-dichlorobenzene, and carbon monoxide were used in this process, so this would not be a totally environmentally friendly process even if these reagents could be recycled and reused. 

The mechanism of this oxygen transfer involves attack of the amine oxide on a coordinated carbonyl to yield the indicated products, with the resulting vacant coordination site again being filled by a carbonyl. 

Catalysis by cobalt(III) has been the subject of several papers.185-187 The N.N-bis(sahcyldene)ethylnediaminocobalt(III)-catalysed oxidative carbonylation of o-, m-and -substituted primary aromatic amines in MeOH gives ureas, isocyanates, carbamates, and azo derivatives. A Hammett p value of —0.5 for the reaction indicates that electrophilic attack of CO at a nitrogen anion complexed to Co in the TS is... 

A few of these imply the carbonylation of nitroaromahc substrates [41], or the oxidative carbonylation of amines [42], or the reaction of amines with carbonic acid diesters [11] that are currently available, even on an industrial scale, through phosgene-free routes [43]. 

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