Amino hydrogen abstraction

Without other alternatives, the carboxyalkyl radicals couple to form dibasic acids HOOC(CH)2 COOH. In addition, the carboxyalkyl radical can be used for other desired radical reactions, eg, hydrogen abstraction, vinyl monomer polymerization, addition of carbon monoxide, etc. The reactions of this radical with chloride and cyanide ions are used to produce amino acids and lactams employed in the manufacture of polyamides, eg, nylon. 

Intramolecular hydrogen abstraction leading to the aziridine 344 has been proposed to account for the unexpected conversion of the /f-amino vinyl phenyl ketones 345 into the pyrroles 346.286... 

Olefinic compounds such as a-pinene (309) and /Dpi none (312) undergo hydrogen abstraction followed by rearrangement and amino-oxyl insertion (310, 313) and addition reactions (311, 314, 315), as shown in reactions 43 and 44627. Other olefinic compounds such as norbomadiene, cyclo-octene and cyclo-octa-1,5-diene gave analogous results628. 

Nitroanilines and nitronaphthylamines (group III) show remarkable stability towards both photoreduction and photosubstitution. Photoreduction (including intramolecular hydrogen abstraction) occurs, however, after acylation of the amino group in nitroanilines 46-48). Xhe stability of liitroanilines towards photoreduction is evidently due to the chcirge transfer character of the lowest excited state. Another possibility could be the increased probability of radiationless deactivation due to smaller separation of the ground state and the lowest excited states. 

Scheme 60). Griesbeck et al. assume that in a non-polar solvent such as benzene the intramolecular electron transfer from the methionic sulfur group is much faster than the abstraction of hydrogen from the hydroxyl group of the unprotected amino acid. C-Hydrogen abstraction leads to 313, whereas previous lactonization of the zwitterionic biradical 311 yields 314. Since the cis-hydroxy acid is not detected it is conceivable that it cyclizes immediately to the lactone 314. Photolysis of the corresponding methyl ester under the same conditions attains improved yields (84% combined) of two diastereomeric tricyclic products in a ratio of 48 52. 

The photoinduced -elimination of 1,2,3-triazole from 1-(A,A-bisacyl)amino-l,2,3-triazoles (142), itself formed from the photochemical isomerization of triazoles (141), proceeds either via an intra-or intermolecular hydrogen abstraction or electron-transfer mechanism followed by homolytic cleavage of the A,A-bond (path a) or via t -assisted )8-cleavage of the same weak bond (path b). The composition of the products suggests that in all cases a c-type 1,2,3-triazolyl radical (143) is eliminated which is further quenched by hydrogen abstraction as shown in Scheme 24 <93JHC1301>. 

Hydrogen abstraction by ketone sensitizers forms the basis of an elegant alkylation procedure for ethers, amides, lactones, amino acids, and peptides developed by Elad and his group.94 Terminal olefins, for example, can be added to y-butyrolactone (15) in good yield.95... 

Figure 6. Relationship between yields of low molar mass nitrogen-containing products resulting from elimination of a section of the main chain and hydrogen abstraction radical from the irradiation of poly(amino acid)s at 25° C. (A) tyr, (A) phe, ( ) gly, (O) ala, ) val.

The primary reaction of Type 2 photoinitiators is a hydrogen abstraction from the tertiary amine by a triplet excited ketone. The amino radical thus formed is sufficiently active to initiate the polymerization of vinyl monomers Scheme 2. 

Examples of photoreduction processes, brought about by hydrogen abstraction from solvents are the reduction of azobenzene to hydrazo-benzene,81 of 2,3-diphenyl-5,8-quinoxalinedione (CXXXIII) to its hexahydro derivative,148 of pteroxyl-L-glutamic acid to dihydro-2-amino-4-hydroxypteridine-6-aldehyde,80 and of the blue gem-chloro-nitroso compounds CXXXIV-CXXXVI to the corresponding ketox-imes.189... 

A series of substituted 2,2,4,4-tetramethylcyclobutanones in which the substituent is alkyl, aryl, hydroxy, amino, or imino yield on photolysis in methanol or ethanol the corresponding alkoxytetrahydrofuran [Eq. (112)] in addition to a cyclopropane derivative formed by decarbonylation.429 Earlier examples of this process occurring in 7,7-dimethyl[3.2.0]bicyclohept-2-en-6-one430 and in (+)-cyclocam-phanone431 have been reported. In all cases, intramolecular hydrogen abstraction is unfavorable, and a carbene is postulated as the intermediate species. 

The formation of rings with more than seven atoms has unfavorable rates because the addition step is often too slow to allow it to compete successfully with other pathways open to the radical intermediate. In stannane based chemistry for example, premature hydrogen abstraction from the organotin hydride is difficult to avoid. However, Baylis-Hillman adducts 111 derived from enantiopure 1-alkenyl (or alkynyl)-4-azetidinone-2-carbaldehydes are used for the stereoselective and divergent preparation of highly functionalized bicycles 112 and 113 fused to medium-sized heterocycles (Scheme 38) [80, 81]. The Baylis-Hillman reaction using nonracemic protected a-amino aldehydes has been attempted with limited success due to partial racemization of the chiral aldehyde by DABCO after... 

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