Carbonic acid anhydrides mixed

In order to keep side reactions at a minimum alkyl-carbonic acid mixed anhydrides are prepared and used for acylation in the cold. Nevertheless, both reactions require a very short time. The byproducts of coupling, CO2 and an alcohol (R OH), do not interfere with the isolation of the desired peptide. These features readily explain the popularity of the approach, but the principal advantage of alkylcarbonic acid mixed anhydrides lies in the fact that they give rise to only small amounts of the undesired second acylation product, a urethane ... 

The acylation of formamidoxime should lead to oxadiazoles unsubstituted in the 3-position. While benzoylation with benzoyl chloride is reported to give dibenzhydroxamic acid 45), 0-acylated formamidoxime could be prepared in good yields with acetic anhydride, the mixed anhydride of acetic and ethyl carbonic acid, benzoic anhydride and benzoyl azide. The cyclization of these esters of formamidoxime into 5-substituted oxadiazoles has been accomplished by heating in an aqueous medium. 

Scheme 4 Racemization of a A-Acyl Amino Acid Mixed Anhydride by Proton Extraction from the a-Carbon...

Although N-protected amino acid mixed anhydrides, and particularly mixed carbonic anhydrides, have been by far the most commonly used mixed anhydrides in peptide synthesis, a number of additional mixed anhydrides derived from acids of phosphorus, arsenic, and sulfur have been reported and used in peptide synthesis t l however, these reagents have not found general applicability in routine peptide synthesis. 

Ethylcarbonic acid mixed anhydrides (Boissonnas 1951 Wieland and Bernhard 1951) were readily accepted in the practice of peptide synthesis and together with their improved version, isobutylcarbonic acid mixed anhydrides (Vaughan 1951) remain highly valued tools of peptide chemists. A particular advantage of alkylcarbonic acid mixed anhydrides is that the by-products of the acylation reaction, carbon dioxide and the appropriate alcohol, are easily removed from the mixture ... 

Acid Activation. Chlorodiphenylphosphine oxide has been utilized for the activation of acids via in situ formation of the diphenylphosphinic (DPP) mixed anhydrides. These anhydrides are superior to carbon-based mixed anhydrides because they do not suffer from disproportionation to symmetrical anhydrides. Also,... 

FIGURE 23.4 A mechanism for the pyruvate carboxylase reaction. Bicarbonate must be activated for attack by the pyruvate carbanion. This activation is driven by ATP and involves formation of a carbonylphosphate intermediate —a mixed anhydride of carbonic and phosphoric acids. (Carbonylphosphate and car-boxyphosphate are synonyms.)... 

Somewhat milder oxidative conditions lead to loss of but one carbon. Periodic acid cleavage of the side chain in 65, leads to the so-called etio acid (66). Reaction with propionic anhydride leads to acylation of the 17-hydroxyl group (67). Possibilities for neighboring group participation severely limit the methods available for activating the acid for esterification. Best results seemed to have been obtained by use of a mixed anhydride from treatment with diphenyl chloro-... 

Anhydrides, both aliphatic and aromatic, as well as mixed anhydrides of carboxylic and carbonic acids, have been reduced to aldehydes in moderate yields with disodium tetracarbonylferrate Na2Fe(CO)4. Heating a carboxylic acid, presumably to form the anhydride, and then reaction with Na/EtOH leads to the aldehyde. 

Carboxylic acids can be prepared in moderate-to-high yields by treatment of diazonium fluoroborates with carbon monoxide and palladium acetate or copper(II) chloride. The mixed anhydride ArCOOCOMe is an intermediate that can be isolated. Other mixed anhydrides can be prepared by the use of other salts instead of sodium acetate." An arylpalladium compound is probably an intermediate." ... 

The phosphinic isocyanates (116) and isothiocyanates (117) react with oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus nucleophiles by attack at carbon rather than phosphorus. Phenyl phosphonodichloridate has been recommended as a useful reagent for the activation (presumably by mixed anhydride formation) of carboxylic acids for conversion to amides and hydrazides. ... 

The mixed carbonic anhydride procedure8-7 has been useful in the preparation of amide linkages and thiol esters. Mixed carbonic anhydrides have successfully acylated, under very mild conditions, the carb-anions derived from diethyl ethylmalonate and diethylcadmium.8 The latter gives as a product the corresponding ketone. Mixed anhydrides derived from acetic and acetylsalicylic acids give results similar to those described here.8... 

FMF Chen, M Slebioda, NL Benoiton. Mixed carboxylic-carbonic acid anhydrides of acylamino acids and peptides as a convenient source of 2,4-dialky 1 -5(AH)-oxazo-lones. Int J Pept Prot Res 31, 339, 1988. 

FIGURE 2.27 More on additives. In a carbodiimide-mediated reaction between acid 1 and amine 2, addition of HOObt can lead to the side reaction of aminolysis at the carbonyl of the activating moiety of ester 3, generating addition product 4. Addition of HOBt to a mixed-anhydride reaction containing unconsumed chloroformate generates mixed carbonate 5, leading to production of urethane 6. 

In fact, recent work indicates that less urethane is formed by aminolysis of an activated peptide than by aminolysis of an activated /V-al ko x y carbon y I am ino acid. Such results are consistent with the postulate that the intermediate undergoing aminolysis during the mixed anhydride reaction of a segment is the 2,4-dialkyl-5(4//)-oxazolonc, a tenet that is indicated by the high rate at which the activated peptide is converted to the oxazolone.10 13... 

FIGURE 7.6 Decomposition of a mixed anhydride (A) to the 2-alkoxy-5(4//)-oxazolone and the alkyl carbonate.9 The latter is in equilibrium with the anion whose reaction (B) with a second molecule of anhydride produces pyrocarbonate and the acid anion whose reaction (C) with a third molecule produces the symmetrical anhydride. The oxazolone eventually reacts with the alcohol to give the ester. (D) Acyloxonium ions formed by reaction of the anhydride with dimethylformamide and tetrahydrofuran. 

FIGURE 7.12 Preparation of activated esters of A-alkoxycarbonylamino acids by reaction of the hydroxy compound with a mixed anhydride (path A), obtained by leaving the three reagents (NMM = A-methylmorpholine) in CH2C12 at 23°C for 2 minutes.35 Mixed carbonate that is formed (path B) is readily eliminated by crystallization of the ester. 

The alternative method for making activated esters is base-catalyzed transesterification. Fmoc-amino acids are esterified in excellent yields by reaction with pentafluorophenyl trifluoroacetate at 40°C in the presence of pyridine (Figure 7.13). A mixed anhydride is formed initially, and the anhydride is then attacked by the pentafluorophenoxy anion that is generated by the pyridine. Succinimido, chlorophe-nyl, and nitrophenyl esters were made by this method when it was introduced decades ago. A unique variant of this approach is the use of mixed carbonates that contain an isopropenyl group [Cf C CfyO-COjR]. These react with hydroxy compounds in the presence of triethylamine or 4-dimethylaminopyridine (see Section 4.19) to give the esters and acetone.30 35... 

Triethylamine (7) is a strong, hindered base originally employed for mixed-anhydride reactions. However, it reduces the rate of anhydride formation if the solvent is dichloromethane or chloroform (see Section 7.3) and promotes disproportionation of the anhydride under conditions in which /V-mcthylmorpholinc does not (see Section 7.5). It causes enantiomerization of urethane-protected amino-acid /V-carboxyanhydrides and reaction between two molecules with release of carbon dioxide (see Section 7.14). It is also used in the synthesis of Atosiban (see Section 8.9). There is no reaction for which it is recommended as superior to other tertiary amines, except possibly for coupling employing BOP-C1 (see Section 8.14). 

A huge number of ester and carbonate derivatives of polynitroaliphatic alcohol have been synthesized driven by the search for new explosives and energetic plasticizers and oxidizers for propellant and explosive formulations. Most of these are derived from 2-fluoro-2,2-dinitroethanol and 2,2,2-trinitroethanol ° and have excellent oxygen balances. Some examples are illustrated above (168-174) but more comprehensive lists can be found in numerous reviews. " " Direct esterification of polynitroaliphatic alcohols with nitric acid, mixed acid, or acetic anhydride-nitric acid has been used as a route to mixed polynitroaliphatic-nitrate ester explosives. ... 

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