Carbonic acid anhydrides esters

Ahyl alcohol undergoes reactions typical of saturated, aUphatic alcohols. Ahyl compounds derived from ahyl alcohol and used industriahy, are widely manufactured by these reactions. For example, reactions of ahyl alcohol with acid anhydrides, esters, and acid chlorides yield ahyl esters, such as diahyl phthalates and ahyl methacrylate reaction with chloroformate yields carbonates, such as diethylene glycol bis(ahyl carbonate) addition of ahyl alcohol to epoxy groups yields products used to produce ahyl glycidyl ether (33,34). 

Alternative paths for decomposition of the metal carboxylate can lead to ketones, acid anhydrides, esters, acid fluorides (1,11,22,68,77,78), and various coupling products (21,77,78), and aspects of these reactions have been reviewed (1,11). Competition from these routes is often substantial when thermal decomposition is carried out in the absence of a solvent (Section III,D), and their formation is attributable to homolytic pathways (11,21,77,78). Other alternative paths are reductive elimination rather than metal-carbon bond formation [Eq. (36)] (Section III,B) and formation of metal-oxygen rather than metal-carbon bonded compounds [e.g., Eqs. (107) (119) and (108) (120). Reactions (36) and (108) are reversible, and C02 activation (116) is involved in the reverse reactions (48,120). 

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 ... 

Benzoylation of benzoylmethylene triphenylarsorane (20) with benzoyl bromide gave a kinetically controlled acylated product, which on treatment with sodium acetate in chloroform afforded thermodynamically controlled dibenzoylmethylene triphenylarsorane (21) (56). Acylation with carbonic acid anhydride (32, 56), phenylisocyanate (32), or chloroformic ester (32) gave in no case O-acylated product. Similarly, reaction with acetic anhydride afforded l,3-dioxo-l-phenyl-butylidene-(2)-triphenylar-sorane (56). 

All other carboxylic acid derivatives in Table 6.1, in which the leaving group is bound to the carboxyl carbon through an O atom, are increasingly better acylating agents than carboxylic acid alkyl esters (entry 3) in the order carboxylic acid phenyl ester (entry 4) < acyl isourea (entry 7) < mixed carboxylic acid/carbonic acid anhydride (entry 8) < carboxylic acid anhydride (entry 9) < mixed carboxylic acid anhydride (entry 10). 

Carboxylic acids can be activated in situ as mixed anhydrides B (Figure 6.14) that are mixed anhydrides of a carboxylic acid and a carbonic acid half ester. As can be seen from Table 6.1, in anhydrides of this type the C=0 double bond of the carboxylic acid moiety is stabilized less by resonance than the C=0 double bond of the carbonic acid moiety. Therefore, a nucleophile chemoselectively reacts with the carboxyl carbon of the carboxylic and not the carbonic acid ester moiety. 

Mixed anhydrides of carbonic acid half esters contain an activating carbonyl group with reduced electrophilic character (due to lone pairs of electrons on the vicinal oxygen atom) and are rapidly amidated by amines. The anhydride is formed at low temperature in the presence of tertiary amines (equation 5). 

Isobutyl chloroformate is most frequently applied in peptide chemistryfollowed by ethyl chloto-formate (see Table 1). The advantage of this method is that the mixed anhydride does not have to be isolated, and during work-up only carbonic acid half esters are formed, which decompose to an alcohol and carbon dioxide. Only in the case of sterically hindered amino acids does the opening of the anhydride at the undesired carbonyl occur in considerable amounts. Furthermore, short activation times (30 s) at low temperatures lead to peptides with minimal racemization. With isopropenyl chloroformate the mixed anhydride is prepared at room temperature, and during reaction only acetone and carbon dioxide are formed. 

A carbonyl group is a carbon double-bonded to an oxygen an acyl group is a carbonyl group attached to an alkyl or aryl group. Acyl halides, acid anhydrides, esters, and amides are called carboxylic acid derivatives because they differ from a carboxylic acid only in the nature of the group that has replaced the OH group of the carboxylic acid. Cyclic esters are called lactones cyclic amides are lactams. There are symmetrical anhydrides and mixed anhydrides. 

Synonyms Carbonic acid, diethyl ester Carbonic ether DEC Ethoxyformic anhydride Ethyi carbonate... 

Amides can be prepared in a variety of ways, starting with acyl chlorides, acid anhydrides, esters, carboxylic acids, and carboxylate salts. All of these methods involve nucleophilic addition—elimination reactions by ammonia or an amine at an acyl carbon. As we might expect, acid chlorides are the most reactive and carboxylate anions are the least. 

Depend on main chain stmcture acid anhydride > ester > carbonate >. ... 

Note any very low field resonances (160 to 220 5/ppm), which are associated with carbonyl and ether carbons. Carboxylic acids, anhydrides, esters, amides, acyl halides and ethers are all found in the range 160 to 180 5/ppm, whilst aldehydes and ketones lie between 180 and about 220 5/ppm. 

Nucleophilic acyl substitution (Sections 20 4 20 6 and 20 12) Acylation of am monia and amines by an acyl chloride acid anhydride or ester is an excep tionally effective method for the for mation of carbon-nitrogen bonds... 

Chemical Properties The formation of salts with acids is the most characteristic reaction of amines. Since the amines are soluble in organic solvents and the salts are usually not soluble, acidic products can be conveniendy separated by the reaction with an amine, the unshared electron pair on the amine nitrogen acting as proton acceptor. Amines are good nucleophiles reactions of amines at the nitrogen atom have as a first step the formation of a bond with the unshared electron pair of nitrogen, eg, reactions with acid anhydrides, haUdes, and esters, with carbon dioxide or carbon disulfide, and with isocyanic or isothiocyanic acid derivatives. 

Cellulose esters are commonly derived from natural cellulose by reaction with organic acids, anhydrides, or acid chlorides. Cellulose esters of almost any organic acid can be prepared, but because of practical limitations esters of acids containing more than four carbon atoms have not achieved commercial significance. 

Esterification. Esters are formed by the reaction of ethanol with inorganic and organic acids, acid anhydrides, and acid halides. If the inorganic acid is oxygenated, eg, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, the ester has a carbon—oxygen linkage that is easily hydrolyzed (24—26). 

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