Carboxamides from carboxylic acids

Carboxamides from CJiJCOOH. Carboxamides can be prepared from carboxylic acids directly rather than via the acid chlorides if the reaction with an amine and N(C2H5)3 is carried out in the presence of a Lewis acid. In reactions with a primary amine, BF, etherate is completely ineffective. In contrast, TiCL, is about equal to BF3 etherate in reactions with a secondary amine and has the further advantage that the rate of amidation is faster with TiCL, than with BF3 etherate. 

Carboxamides of the tricyclic compounds 244 (n = 1, R = CONH2) and 389 (w = 1, R = CONH2) were obtained from the appropriate esters or from carboxylic acids with ammonia, via mixed anhydrides. N-Substi-tuted carboxamides of the pyrido[l,2-fl]quinazolinones 211 (R = CONHR ) were prepared directly from the corresponding acids with amines in the presence of diphenylphosphoryl azide and triethylamine in dimethyl-formamide at — S C " or were obtained from esters with amines. ... 

Amide formation. Carboxamides including peptides are S3mthesized from carboxylic acids and aUcyl azides, after converting the acids into mixed anhydrides and then selenocarboxylates. Treatment of the mixed anhydrides with a suspension of freshly prepared from LAH and Se completes the first stage of the transformation. 

The preparation of cyanides by dehydration is best accomplished from aldoximes (standard method) rather than from carboxamides, because the former require milder reaction conditions. However, carboxamides, as carboxylic acid derivatives, are more easily accessible. Phosgene has been applied in the dehydration of carboxamides rather than of aldoximes. 

Pyridine carboxamide [98-92-0] (nicotinamide) (1) and 3-pyridine carboxylic acid [59-67-6] (nicotinic acid) (2) have a rich history and their early significance stems not from their importance as a vitamin but rather as products derived from the oxidation of nicotine. In 1867, Huber prepared nicotinic acid from the potassium dichromate oxidation of nicotine. Many years later, Engler prepared nicotinamide. Workers at the turn of the twentieth century isolated nicotinic acid from several natural sources. In 1894, Su2uki isolated nicotinic acid from rice bran, and in 1912 Funk isolated the same substance from yeast (1). 

The A-substituted derivatives of 4-oxo-4//-pyrido[l,2-n]pyrimidine-3-carboxamides and -3-acetamides and l,6-dimethyl-4-oxo-1,6,7,8-tetrahy-dro-4//-pyrido[l,2-n]pyrimidine-3-carboxamide were prepared by treatment of the appropriate 3-carboxylic acids and acetic acid, first with an alkyl chloroformate in the presence ofNEt3 in CHCI3 below — 10°C, then with an amine (98ACH515). A-Phenethyl and A-[2-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)ethyl] derivatives of 6-methyl-6,7,8,9-tetrahydro-4//-pyrido[l, 2-n]pyrimidine-3-acetamide were obtained in the reaction of 6-methyl-6,7,8,9-tetrahydro-4//-pyrido[l,2-n]pyrimidine-3-acetic acid and phenethylamines in boiling xylene under a H2O separator. Hydrazides of 4-oxo-4//- and 4-oxo-6,7,8,9-tetrahydro-4//-pyrido[l, 2-n]pyrimidine-3-acetic acid were prepared from the appropriate ester with H2NNH2 H2O in EtOH. Heating 4-oxo-4//- and 6-methyl-4-oxo-6,7,8,9-tetrahydro-4//-pyrido[l, 2-n]pyrimidine-3-acetic hydrazides in EtOH in the presence of excess Raney Ni afforded fhe appropriafe 4-oxo-6,7,8,9-fefrahydro-4//-pyrido[l,2-n]pyrimidine-3-acefa-mide. In the case of the 4-oxo-4// derivative, in addition to N-N bond... 

A-Substituted 11-oxo-l l//-pyrido[2,l-6]quinazoline-6-carboxamides were prepared from 11-oxo-l l//-pyrido[2,l-6]quinazoline-6-carboxylic acids and amines in the presence of (/-Pr)2EtN and benzotriazol-l-yloxytris(dimethy-lamino)phosphonium hexafluorophosphate in CH2CI2 (98MIP1, 98MIP2, 99USP5908840, 99USP5914327). 

The respective amide was prepared from 7-substituted 5-oxo-2,3-dihydro-5//-pyrido[l,2,3-de]-l,4-benzoxazine-6-carboxylic acids via acid chlorides with different benzylamines (00M1P3). 6-Carboxamides were N-benzylated, and a side-chain phenolic hydroxy group was O-alkylated. 7-Aryl-5-oxo-2,3-dihydro-5//-pyrido[l, 2,3-r/e]-1,4-benzoxazine-6-carboxylic acid was obtained from the ethyl ester by alkalic hydrolysis. 

Phenazines — The phenazines are biosynthesized by the shikimic acid pathway, through the intermediate chorismic acid. The process was studied using different strains of Pseudomonas species, the major producers of phenazines. The best-known phenazine, pyocyanine, seems to be produced from the intermediate phenazine-1-carboxylic acid (PCA). Although intensive biochemical studies were done, not all the details and the intermediates of conversion of chorismic acid to PCA are known. In the first step, PCA is N-methylated by a SAM-dependent methyltransferase. The second step is a hydroxylative decarboxylation catalyzed by a flavoprotein monooxygenase dependent on NADH. PCA is also the precursor of phenazine-1-carboxamide and 1-hydroxyphenazine from Pseudomonas species. - - ... 

The addition of Grignard reagents to aldehydes, ketones, and esters is the basis for the synthesis of a wide variety of alcohols, and several examples are given in Scheme 7.3. Primary alcohols can be made from formaldehyde (Entry 1) or, with addition of two carbons, from ethylene oxide (Entry 2). Secondary alcohols are obtained from aldehydes (Entries 3 to 6) or formate esters (Entry 7). Tertiary alcohols can be made from esters (Entries 8 and 9) or ketones (Entry 10). Lactones give diols (Entry 11). Aldehydes can be prepared from trialkyl orthoformate esters (Entries 12 and 13). Ketones can be made from nitriles (Entries 14 and 15), pyridine-2-thiol esters (Entry 16), N-methoxy-A-methyl carboxamides (Entries 17 and 18), or anhydrides (Entry 19). Carboxylic acids are available by reaction with C02 (Entries 20 to 22). Amines can be prepared from imines (Entry 23). Two-step procedures that involve formation and dehydration of alcohols provide routes to certain alkenes (Entries 24 and 25). 

Fluorenone derived linker 17 prepared in two steps was coupled to aminomethyl-PS via DIPCDI [21]. Due to the presence of an electron-withdrawing carboxamide group, the release of carboxylic acids from this support requires strong acids, such as trifluoromethanesulfonic acid (TFMSA) (Scheme 1). Insertion of an oxygen adjacent to the biphenyl rings to the fluorenone scaffold provides xanthene 18 handle [22]. The oxygen is strategically located to decrease the acid concentration required... 

A microwave assisted Comforth rearrangement of oxazole-4-carboxamides 106 efficiently afforded 5-aminooxazole-4-carboxylates 107. This procedure was applied to the formal synthesis of a natural antibiotic derived from pseudomonic acid <06TL4698>. 

Applications of the cross-metathesis reaction in more diverse areas of organic chemistry are beginning to appear in the literature. For example, the use of alkene metathesis in solution-phase combinatorial synthesis was recently reported by Boger and co-workers [45]. They assembled a chemical library of 600 compounds 27 (including cisttrans isomers) in which the final reaction was the metathesis of a mixture of 24 oo-alkene carboxamides 26 (prepared from six ami-nodiacetamides, with differing amide groups, each functionalised with four to-alkene carboxylic acids) (Eq.27). 

Fig. 6 Ellipsometric analysis of films containing various mixtures of amines and carboxylic acids 3-PAA/lN (ca. 55% -CO2H) 3-PAA/3N (ca. 17% -CO2H) and 3-PAA/6N (no - CO2H groups could be distinguished from carboxamide carbonyl peak in the FTIR-ERS spectrum). The IN, 3N and 6N refers to the number of times the amidation in Eq. 3 was repeated using NH2CH2CH2N(CH3) as the amidating reagent...

Finally, an entirely different approach to milnacipran (2) was recently reported in the literature (Scheme 14.6). In this case, the general strategy is based on position-selective deprotonation of cyclopropane carboxamides. Thus, cyclopropane amide 27, which was easily prepared from commercially available cyclopropane carboxylic acid, underwent... 

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