Carboxylic acid amide anhydrides

Anhydrides are reduced with relative ease. McAlees and McCrindle 20) established the following increasing order of difficulty for various carbonyls acid chlorides > aldehydes, ketones > anhydrides > esters > carboxylic acids > amides. Reduction may proceed by 1,2-addilion of hydrogen or by cleavage of an oxygen-carbonyl bond. If 1,2-addition to the carbonyl occurs, as in the presence of strong protic acids over palladium, 1,1-diesters are formed by acylation 26). 

For the mechanism of azolide hydrolysis under specific conditions like, for example, in micelles,[24] in the presence of cycloamyloses,[25] or transition metals,[26] see the references noted and the literature cited therein. Thorough investigation of the hydrolysis of azolides is certainly important for studying the reactivity of those compounds in chemical and biochemical systems.[27] On the other hand, from the point of view of synthetic chemistry, interest is centred instead on die potential for chemical transformations e.g., alcoholysis to esters, aminolysis to amides or peptides, acylation of carboxylic acids to anhydrides and of peroxides to peroxycarboxylic acids, as well as certain C-acylations and a variety of other preparative applications. 

G.A. Olah, M. Nojima, I. Kerekes, Synthetic methods and reactions. I. Seleniuum tetrafluoride and its pyridine complex. Convenient fluorinating agents for fluorination of ketones, aldehydes, amides, alcohols, carboxylic acids, and anhydrides, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 96 (1974) 925-927. 

This procedure describes the use of pseudoephedrine as a chiral auxiliary for the asymmetric alkylation of carboxylic acid amides. In addition to the low cost and availability in bulk of both enantiomeric forms of the chiral auxiliary, pseudoephedrine, a particular advantage of the method is the facility with which the pseudoephedrine amides are formed. In the case of carboxylic acid anhydrides, the acylation reaction occurs rapidly upon mixing with pseudoephedrine. Because pseudoephedrine amides are frequently crystalline materials, the acylation products are often isolated directly by crystallization, as illustrated in the procedure above. 

Fluorinated alkylisocyanates and isothiocyanates add alcohols, mercaptans, and amines to yield stable 1 1 adducts [76]. When the reaction is performed with carboxylic acids, the anhydrides first formed decompose to give A -fluoroalky-lated amides [77]... 

Carboxylic acid esters Carboxylic acid anhydride (Fig. 4.1-15C) two bands at 1820 and 1760 cm, respec-Carboxylic acid chloride Carboxylic acid amide... 

This reagent also reduces nitro, nitrile, and amide derivatives to amines, and carboxylic acids and anhydrides to alcohols. The yields of these reductions arc nearly quantitative. Esters and halobenzene derivatives are not reduced. 

The most useful synthesis of this ring system involves conversion of 2-aminomethyl-pyrazines (470) by means of carboxylic acids or anhydrides into the amides (471), which are cyclized to 3-substituted imidazo[l,5-a]pyrazines (472) (73KX 2049, 75JHC207, 75JHC211, 75JOC3379). 

From formylation reactions of CH-acidic compounds, which take place if mixtures of carboxylic acid amides and anhydrides are used as formylating agents, it was concluded that the latter compounds form similar adducts to those from amides and acid halides. ... 

The addition of alcohols to nitrilium salts gives rise to formation of alkoxymethyleneiminium salts, which react with bases to yield imido esters (231 Scheme 33). - By deprotonation of carboxylic acid amides ambident anions are formed, which can be alkylated in the presence of silver ions to give imido esters, e.g. (232). " Secondary amides react with trifluoroacetic acid anhydride or trifluorosulfonic acid anhydride to give mixed anhydrides of imidic acids (233). ... 

The six common groups derived from carboxylic acids are, in decreasing priority after carboxylic acids salts, anhydrides, esters, acyl halides, amides, and nitriles. 

Reactivity of various carboxyl derivatives decreases in the order, acid chlorides > (aldehydes, ketones) > anhydrides > esters > carboxylic acids > amides. Carboxylic acids are reduced to alcohols under vigorous conditions. High P (35 X 10 to 70 X 10 kPa) and elevated T (up to 230°C) are required to effect conversion in high yields. 

Dehydration reactions using the tertiary phosphine-carbon tetrachloride adduct have appeared quite regularly in the literature again this year. Among those reported have been the dehydrations of oximes to nitriles, carboxylic acids to anhydrides, and the amides (37) to the cumulenes (38). Further reaction of the dehydration product from treatment of the... 

You will see a great example of this in Chapter 10 carboxylic acids, amides, esters, anhydrides... many functional groups, but all the same mechanisms. 

In addition to carboxylic acid derivatives, anhydrides and acid fluorides are also accessible straightforward via carbonylation reactions depending on the various nucleophiles used. Eor example, water (hydroxycarbonylation) will give carboxylic acid, alcohols (alkoxycarbonylation) will give esters, amines (aminocarb-onylation) will give amides, and anhydrides and acid fluorides can be produced if... 

Retention of ester groups. Equimolar amounts of startg. nitrile and tetrafluorophthalic acid heated at 135° for 4 days in a heavy-walled glass pressure tube product. Y 56%. Work-up is simple since no solvent is required. F.e.s. W.D. Rounds, G.W. Gribble, Tetrahedron Letters 29, 6557-60 (1988) from carboxylic acid amides with tetrachloro-or tetrafluoro-phthalic anhydride s. ibid. 6553-6. 

Carboxylic acid anhydrides. A soln. of triflic anhydride in ethylene dichloride added dropwise to a soln. of Ph3PO in the same solvent at 0° under N2 after 15 min a soln. of / -toluic acid in ethylene dichloride added followed by EtjN, and stirred for 15 min - p-toluic anhydride. Y 93%. Redox side reactions are avoided, and ketones, esters and ethers unaffected. F.e. inch ketenes, carboxylic acid esters (incl. aryl esters) and amides, amidines from carboxylic acid amides, benzimidazoles, and intramolecular ar. acylation, also using N-diphenylphosphinyl-N -methylpiperazine (without the need for an additional base), s. J.B. Hendrickson, M.S. Hussoin, J. Org. Chem. 54, 1144-9 (1989) alternative prepn. of reagents cf. D. Crich, H. Dyker, Tetrahedron Letters 30, 475-6 (1989). 

Tetrahalogenophthalic anhydrides Carboxylic acids from carboxylic acid amides... 

Ethyl chloroformate/triethylamine Carboxylic acid amides from carboxylic acids via carboxylic alkoxyformic anhydrides... 

Radical substitution of the hydrogen from the methyl groups PHj OH,X Kl( -HY CH3 X CH, hc=ch X-Y = Br-Br,C1-C1 (12) RS0.-C1 (13) I 1 ( ) Halogenation, sulfonation, binding of maleric anhydride group, unsaturated carboxyl acids, amides, imides, esters, epoxides, amines, alcohol can be used Product of (12) is precursor for PCMs, that of (13) for direct PCMs. 

An acid anhydride such as trimellitic anhydride can be considered as an ideal monomer since both carboxylic acid and anhydride groups can react with diamines to make up AB poly(amide imide)s. The overall reaction is depicted in Scheme (37). 

The presence of the good leaving group (chloride) attached directly to the carbon-oxygen double bond makes all manner of addition-elimination reactions possible for acid chlorides. The acid chloride can be used to make anhydrides, esters, carboxylic acids, amides, aldehydes, ketones, and alcohols. 

Formation of anhydride succeeds with Ni catalysts even at lower temperatures (230 to 250 °C) than the synthesis of propionic acid from ethylene. Thiolcarboxylic acid esters are obtained analogously by addition of thiols instead of carboxylic acids (2). Olefins, carbon monoxide and amines react to give saturated carboxylic acid amides (3) and acid chlorides are formed from hydrogen chloride and carbon monoxide in the presence of noble metal catalysts of the 8th group of the periodic table of the elements (4). 

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