Azetidines, 2-imino

Azetidine, 7V-bromo-, 7, 240 Azetidine, AT-r-butyl- N NMR, 7, 11 Azetidine, AT-t-butyl-3-chloro-transannular nucleophilic attack, 7, 25 Azetidine, 3-chloro-isomerization, 7, 42 Azetidine, AT-chloro-, 7, 240 dehydrohalogenation, 7, 275 Azetidine, 7V-chloro-2-methyl-inversion, 7, 7 Azetidine, 3-halo-synthesis, 7, 246 Azetidine, AT-halo-synthesis, 7, 246 Azetidine, AT-hydroxy-synthesis, 7, 271 Azetidine, 2-imino-stability, 7, 256 Azetidine, 2-methoxy-synthesis, 7, 246 Azetidine, 2-methyl-circular dichroism, 7, 239 optical rotatory dispersion, 7, 239 Azetidine, AT-nitroso-deoxygenation, 7, 241 oxidation, 7, 240 synthesis, 7, 246 Azetidine, thioacyl-ring expansion, 7, 241 Azetidine-4-carboxylic acid, 2-oxo-oxidative decarboxylation, 7, 251 Azetidine-2-carboxylic acids absolute configuration, 7, 239 azetidin-2-ones from, 7, 263 synthesis, 7, 246... 

A wide variety of /3-lactams are available by these routes because of the range of substituents possible in either the ketene or its equivalent substituted acetic acid derivative. Considerable diversity in imine structure is also possible. In addition to simple Schiff bases, imino esters and thioethers, amidines, cyclic imines and conjugated imines such as cinnamy-lidineaniline have found wide application in the synthesis of functionalized /3-lactams. A-Acylhydrazones can be used, but phenylhydrazones and O-alkyloximes do not give /3-lactams. These /3-lactam forming reactions give both cis and /raMS-azetidin-2-ones some control over stereochemistry can, however, be exercised by choice of reactants and conditions. 

Azetidin-2-one, l-benzyl-3,3,4-triphenyl-, 7, 249 Azetidin-2-one, l-(2-bromophenyl)-X-ray crystallography, 7, 247 Azetidin-2-one, 3-carboxy-synthesis, 7, 262 Azetidin-2-one, 3-halo-synthesis, 7, 77 ring contraction, 7, 81-82 Azetidin-2-one, 4-imino-IR spectroscopy, 7, 248 Azetidin-2-one, 1-phenyl-irradiation, 7, 255 Azetidin-2-one, 4-phenyl-reductive ring cleavage, 7, 252 Azetidin-2-one, 4-thio-IR spectroscopy, 7, 248 Azetidinones bicyclic, 7, 348-356 C NMR, 7, 348 H NMR, 7, 348 reactivity, 7, 356-358 spectroscopy, 7, 357 structure, 7, 349 synthesis, 7, 358-359 fused ring... 

In order to check the role of proline at the C-terminus, linear tripeptides with other imino acids at that position have been subjected to cyclization. Both (74) and (76), the former having L-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid, and the latter sarcosine, gave the respective cyclols (75) and (77). The difference is that (75) can be dissolved in alkali and regenerated by acidification, whereas (77) is isomerized to the N-acylpiperazinedione and hydrolyzed under these conditions (78TL1009). 

A number of cycloadditions of imines or imino compounds with a variety of alkenes, including allenes (88HCA1025), vinyl ethers (88TL547), methyl acrylate (86ZOR636), ketene acetals (87JOC365) and electrophilic alkenes (85T1953), afford functionalized azetidines. 

Azetidine-2-carboxylic acid (2) like proline gives an intense blue color with sodium nitroprusside in 10% acetaldehyde solution in the presence of sodium carbonate. 98,99 Upon usual acid hydrolysis (6M HC1, 110 °C, 24 h or more) as required for amino acid analysis, azetidine-2-carboxylic acid is completely decomposed, yielding mainly homoserine lactone, as well as other ninhydrin-positive compounds. 87,89,99 To enable an accurate quantification of this imino acid, azetidine-2-carboxylic acid peptides should be hydrolyzed by alkali (5M barium hydroxide, at 100 °C for 18 h 89 or 2 M sodium hydroxide at 110°C for 22h 100 ). There are extensive NMR spectroscopic data available 100-104 and the absolute configurations of A-acetyl-L-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid 105 and A-terf-butoxycarbonyl-L-azetidine-2-car-boxylic acid 106 have been determined by X-ray analysis. 

Azetidine-2-carboxylic acid (2) is commercially available. It is readily prepared as the racemate by refluxing 2,4-dibromobutyric acid ester with benzhydrylamine in acetonitrile. If benzyl 2,4-dibromobutyrate is treated with benzhydrylamine, the resulting benzyl TV-benz-hydryl-D,L-azetidine-2-carboxylate is hydrogenolytically processed to D,L-azetidine-2-car-boxylic acid in a one-step reaction. 101,107 Resolution of the racemate can be performed by the method of Vogler 108 via fractional crystallization of the Z-D,L-Aze-OH-H-Tyr-N2H3 salt thereby the salt of the D-imino acid precipitates first from methanol. 96 A stereoselective synthesis of A-tosyl-L-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid can be achieved by a two-step reaction from N-tosyl-L-homoserine lactone. 94 ... 

In solution-phase peptide synthesis, acylation of amino acids or peptides with N-protected azetidine-2-carboxylic acid is performed via the active esters, e.g. A-hydroxysuccin-imide 100 111-112 or pentachlorophenyl ester, m 117 as well as by the mixed anhydride 101114 or carbodiimide 118 methods. An attempt to prepare the A-carbonic acid anhydride by cycli-zation of A-(chloroformyl)azetidine-2-carboxylic acid with silver oxide in acetone or by addition of triethylamine in situ failed, presumably due to steric hindrance. 111 In SPPS, activation of the Fmoc-protected imino acid by HBTU 119,120 is reported. In solution-phase peptide synthesis, coupling of N-protected amino acids or peptides to C-protected azetidine-2-carboxylic acid or related peptides may be performed by active esters, 100 118 121 mixed anhydrides, 95 or similar methods. It may be worth mentioning that the probability of pip-erazine-2,5-dione formation from azetidine-2-carboxylic acid dipeptides is significantly reduced compared to proline dipeptides. 111 ... 

Regio- and stereoselective alkylations at the C-4 position of l-alkyl-2-substituted azetidin-3-ones have been investigated. Imination of l-benzhydryl-2-methoxymethylazetidin-3-one, followed by alkylation under kinetic conditions and final hydrolysis of the imino group, gave 4-alkyl-l-benzhydryl-2-methoxymethylazetidin-3-ones 7 in which the substituent at C-2 and C-4 had the cw-stereochemistry. The reduction of the carbonyl group afforded the corresponding 4-alkyl-2-methoxymethylazetidin-3-ols 8 <02T2763>. 

The pyrimidine nucleobases have the highest quantum yields for photoreactivity, with thymine uracil > cytosine. The purine nucleobases have much lower quantum yields for photochemistry, but can be quite reactive in the presence of oxygen. As can be seen from Figure 9-3, thymine forms primarily cyclobutyl photodimers (ToT) via a [2ir + 2tt cycloaddition, with the cis-syn photodimer most prevalent in DNA. This is the lesion which is found most often in DNA and has been directly-linked to the suntan response in humans [65]. A [2Tr + 2Tr] cycloaddition reaction between the double bond in thymine and the carbonyl or the imino of an adjacent pyrimidine nucleobase can eventually yield the pyrimidine pyrimidinone [6 1]-photoproduct via spontaneous rearrangement of the initially formed oxetane or azetidine. This photoproduct has a much lower quantum yield than the photodimer in both dinucleoside monophosphates and in DNA. Finally, thymine can also form the photohydrate via photocatalytic addition of water across the C5 = C6 bond. 

Azetidin 3,3-Dibrom-l-ethyl-2-oxo-4-(trimethy -silyl-imino)- E16b, 899 (Carbodiimid + Br2CH — CO-Cl)... 

Amino-3-methoxy-2-(3-pyridyl-methylen-amino)-E15/2, 1809 [(NC)2CH-NH2 + R-CHO] Azetidin 3-Azido-4-(4-methyl-phenyl)-2-oxo- E16b, 371 (Nj-C-CO-Cl + Imin) Furazan 4-(Anilinomethylen-amino)-3-methyl- E8c, 673 (NH2 -> N=CH —NH —Ar) Hydrazin l,2-Bis-[2-pyrrylme-thylen]- -1-oxid X/2, 121 1 H-(Imidazo 1,2-a]-l,3,5-benzotriaze-pin), 10-Hydroxy-2,3-dihydro E9d, 476 [1 -(2-NH2 — Ar) — 2-imino — imidazolidin/COCl2) Imidazo[4,5-f indazol 5,6-Dimethyl-... 

Azetidin 2-Ethenyl-2-methyl-l-[1 -methyl-2-(trimethylsilyloxy-imino)-ethyl]- E16c, 841 (NH -> N-R)... 

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