Carboxylic acid anhydrides reduction

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). 

Amides are the least reactive of the carboxylic acid derivatives, and undergo acid or base hydrolysis to produce the parent carboxylic acids, and reduction to appropriate amines (see Section 4.3.10). They can also be dehydrated to nitriles, most commonly with boiling acetic anhydride, (AcO)20, sulphonyl chloride (SOCI2) or phosphoms oxychloride (POCI3) (see Section 4.3.18). Amines (with one less carbon) are prepared from amides by the treatment of halides (Br2 or CI2) in aqueous NaOH or KOH. This reaction is known as Hofmann rearrangement (see Section 4.3.10). 

Attempts to synthesize C-terminal peptide aldehydes using other reductive techniques are less successful. 24"29 The reduction of a-amino acid esters with sodium amalgam and lithium aluminum hydride reduction of tosylated a-aminoacyldimethylpyrazoles resulted in poor yields. 26,29 The Rosemond reduction of TV-phthaloyl amino acid chlorides is inconvenient because the aldehyde is sensitive to hydrazine hydrate that is used to remove the phthaloyl group. 27 28 jV -Z-Protected a-aminoacylimidazoles, which are reduced to the corresponding aldehydes using lithium aluminum hydride, are extremely moisture sensitive and readily decomposed. 25 The catalytic reduction of mixed carbonic/carboxylic acid anhydrides, prepared from acylated a-amino acids, leads to poor reproducibility and low yields. 24 The major problems associated with these techniques are overreduction, racemization, and poor yields. 

A large number of stable /e-organo tellurocarboxylates were prepared from tellurolates and aliphatic1,2 or aromatic2 carboxylic acid chlorides or aliphatic carboxylic acid anhydrides . The tellurolates were obtained by reduction of diorgano ditelluriums with sodium borohydride. 

The starting materials for the preparation of 1,3-benzotellurazoles are aromatic tellurium compounds that contain an amino functionality in an orv/to-position to the tellurium atom. The reduction of 2-benzeneazophenyl tellurium trichloride with sodium borohydride in ethanol generates 2-aminobenzenetellurol. This compound is acylated with carboxylic acid anhydrides and the acylaminobenzenetellurol cyclized by treatment with concentrated... 

Appropriate quenching of a reductively formed lithium enolate with a carboxylic acid anhydride, chloride, methyl chloroformate or diethyl phosphorochloridate yields the corresponding enol esters, enol carbonates or enol phosphates. These derivatives may be transformed into specific alkenes via reductive cleavage of the vinyl oxygen function, as illustrated by the example in Scheme 8. 

Sodium aluminohydride (NaAlH4, SAH) in THF is somewhat less reactive than LAH toward carboxylic acids, anhydrides, epoxides, amides, and nitro compounds [CBS], and it can be used for selective reductions. However, it is as sensitive to moisture as LAH so similar precautions must be taken. 

NaBH4 is superior to LiAlH4 in selective reductions. In "water or methanol soln., it is an effective reagent for the conversion of aldehydes and ketones to the corresponding alcohols. Aoid chlorides are reduced to prim, alcohols in non-aq. media, but carboxylic acids, anhydrides, esters and nitriles are practically unaffected.—E Cinnamaldehyde —> cinnamyl alcohol. Y 97%.—n-Butyryl chloride —n-butanol Y 81%. (F. e. s. S. W. Chaikin, W. G-. Brown, Am. Soc. 71,122 (1949) s. a. H. Heusser et al., Helv. 33, 1093 (1950).)... 

Reduction of anhydrides to y-lactones. Carboxylic acid anhydrides are reduced by homogeneous hydrogenation catalyzed by this ruthenium complex... 

Hydrazides (s. a. Carboxylic acid hydrazides) reduction with borane 26,56 Hydrazine (s. a. Wolff-Kishner reduction) 26,15 reaction with dicarboxylic acid anhydrides 8, 482... 

The process of substitution undertaken on carboxylic acids and the derivatives of carboxylic acids (anhydrides, acid halides, esters, amides, and nitriles) generally involves a series of replacement processes. Thus, individually, substitution may involve replacement of (a) the proton attached to oxygen of the -OH group (i.e., ionization of the acid) (b) the hydroxyl (-OH) portion of the carboxylic acid (or derivative) (e.g., esterification) (c) the carbonyl oxygen and the hydroxyl (-OH) (e.g., orthoester formation, vide infra) (d) the entire carboxylic acid functionality (e.g., the Hunsdiecker reaction, already discussed Scheme 9.101) and the decarboxylation of orotic acid (as orotidine monophosphate) to uracil (as uridine monophosphate)—catalyzed by the enzyme orotidine monophosphate decarboxylase (Scheme 9.115) or (e) the protons (if any) on the carbon to which the carboxylic acid functional group is attached (e.g., the Dieckman cycUzation, already discussed earlier, c Equation 9.91). Indeed, processes already discussed (i.e., reduction and oxidation) have also accomplished some of these ends. Some additional substitutions for the carboxylic acid group itself are presented in Table 9.6, while other substitutions for derivatives of carboxylic acids are shown in Tables 9.7-9.10 and discussed subsequently. 

The application of bases such as lithium amide (LiNH2), lithium methoxide (LiOMe) and potassium hydroxide (KOH) as additives in Sml2 mediated reactions is also known. Kamochi and Kudo (1991) reported the use of these bases in reductions of esters, carboxylic acids, anhydrides, and amides to the corresponding alcohols. These substrates are not reduced by Sml2 alone (eqs. (49)-(51)). 

Another procedure for obtaining a-aminoketones is by reduction of a-nitrosoketones in the presence of the required carboxylic acid. Acylaminoketones are prepared either by reacting acids with the chlorhydrate of a-aminoketones according to the method of Pictet and Gauss (41) or by the action of acid anhydrides upon a-amino acids (550). 

Isoquinoline can be reduced quantitatively over platinum in acidic media to a mixture of i j -decahydroisoquinoline [2744-08-3] and /n j -decahydroisoquinoline [2744-09-4] (32). Hydrogenation with platinum oxide in strong acid, but under mild conditions, selectively reduces the benzene ring and leads to a 90% yield of 5,6,7,8-tetrahydroisoquinoline [36556-06-6] (32,33). Sodium hydride, in dipolar aprotic solvents like hexamethylphosphoric triamide, reduces isoquinoline in quantitative yield to the sodium adduct [81045-34-3] (25) (152). The adduct reacts with acid chlorides or anhydrides to give N-acyl derivatives which are converted to 4-substituted 1,2-dihydroisoquinolines. Sodium borohydride and carboxylic acids combine to provide a one-step reduction—alkylation (35). Sodium cyanoborohydride reduces isoquinoline under similar conditions without N-alkylation to give... 

The electrochemical reduction of 3-nitrophthalic acid at controlled potentials gave 2,1-benzisoxazole-3-carboxylic acid. Cyclization is presumed to proceed via an intermediate oxime (67AHC(8)277). Treating 5-iodoanthranilic acid with acetic anhydride gave 3-acetoxy-5-iodo-2,l-benzisoxazole (596) (65JMC550). 

An isoindol1 none moiety forms part of the aromatic moiety of yet another antiinflammatory propionic acid derivative. Carboxylation of the anion from -nitro-ethylbenzene (45) leads directly to the propionic acid (46). Reduction of the nitro group followed by condensation of the resulting aniline (47) with phthalic anhydride affords the corresponding phthalimide (48). Treatment of that intermediate with zinc in acetic acid interestingly results in reduction of only one of the carbonyl groups to afford the isoindolone. There is thus obtained indoprofen (49). ... 

Acid halides are among the most reactive of carboxylic acid derivatives and can be converted into many other kinds of compounds by nucleophilic acyl substitution mechanisms. The halogen can be replaced by -OH to yield an acid, by —OCOR to yield an anhydride, by -OR to yield an ester, or by -NH2 to yield an amide. In addition, the reduction of an acid halide yields a primary alcohol, and reaction with a Grignard reagent yields a tertiary alcohol. Although the reactions we ll be discussing in this section are illustrated only for acid chlorides, similar processes take place with other acid halides. 

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