Carboxylic acid derivatives Table

A series of reagents have been developed which are prepared in situ from a geminal dihalide or a dithioacetal [635,730] and a transition metal complex. Titanium-based reagents of this type olefinate a broad range of carbonyl compounds, including carboxylic acid derivatives (Table 3.12), and are a practical alternative to the use of isolated carbene complexes. 

Compounds that are even better analogues of carboxylic acids are produced when an alkyl or aryl group replaces one of the hydroxyls in sulfuric acid. This provides compounds called sulfonic acids, which in turn give rise to a range of derivatives exactly comparable to those we have met as carboxylic acid derivatives (Table 7.4). 

Different types of carbonyl groups give characteristic strong absorptions at different positions in the infrared spectrum. As a result, infrared spectroscopy is often the best method to detect and differentiate these carboxylic acid derivatives. Table 21-3 summarizes the characteristic IR absorptions of carbonyl functional groups. As in Chapter 12, we are using about 1710 cm-1 for simple ketones and acids as a standard for comparison. Appendix 2 gives a more complete table of characteristic IR frequencies. 

Nucleophilic Addition to Carboxylic Acid Derivatives Table 7 Comparison of Heterocuprate Reagents for Acylation with Benzoyl Chloride... 

Conversions of acid anhydrides to other carboxylic acid derivatives are illustrated m Table 20 2 Because a more highly stabilized carbonyl group must result m order for nucleophilic acyl substitution to be effective acid anhydrides are readily converted to carboxylic acids esters and amides but not to acyl chlorides... 

A summary of nomenclature rules for carboxylic acid derivatives is given in Table 21.1. 

All carbonyl-containing compounds have intense IR absorptions in the range 1650 to 1850 cm-1. As shown in Table 21.3, the exact position of the absorption provides information about the specific kind of carbonyl group. For comparison, the IR absorptions of aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic acids are included in the table, along with values for carboxylic acid derivatives. 

There are also examples where heterocyclic 1 -amino-2-carboxylic acid derivatives are condensed to provide 1,5-diazocine systems (Table 4). 

Table 4. Heteroannulated 1,5-Diazocines by the Condensation of Heterocyclic 1-Amino-2-carboxylic Acid Derivatives...

The last method for the preparation of 2-quinolones described in this chapter relies on a intramolecular Heck cyclization starting from heteroaryl-amides (Table 2) [57]. These are synthesized either from commercially available pyrrole- and thiophene-2-carboxylic acids (a, Table 2) or thiophene-and furan-3-carboxylic acids (b, Table 2) in three steps. The Heck cyclization is conventionally performed with W,Ar-dimethylacetamide (DMA) as solvent, KOAc as base and Pd(PPh3)4 as catalyst for 24 h at 120 °C resulting in the coupled products in 56-89% yields. As discussed in Sect. 3.4, transition metal-catalyzed reactions often benefit from microwave irradiation [58-61], and so is the case also for this intramolecular reaction. In fact, derivatives with an aryl iodide were successfully coupled by conventional methods, whereas the heteroarylbromides 18 and 19, shown in Table 2, could only be coupled in satisfying yields by using MAOS (Table 2). 

A number of carboxylic acids are found in nature and also present in metabolic pathways. Accordingly, if monobasic acids are smoothly decarboxylated, they are expected to provide us with new routes to supply useful materials for chemical industry without depending on petroleum. Actually, there are some already known examples. The representative examples are the decarboxylation of cinnamic acid derivatives (Table 8). ... 

By methods analogous to those used for the tetrahedral intermediates related to carboxylic acid derivatives, Guthrie proceeded from the heat of formation of pentaeth-oxyphosphorane to free energies of the P(OEt) (OH)5 species. °° This allowed the calculation of the equilibrium constants for addition of water or hydroxide to simple alkyl esters of phosphoric acid see Table 1.7. 

The reaction of cycloheptaamylose with diaryl carbonates and with diaryl methylphosphonates provides a system in which a carboxylic acid derivative can be directly compared with a structurally analogous organo-phosphorus compound (Brass and Bender, 1972). The alkaline hydrolysis of these materials proceeds in twro steps, each of which is associated with the appearance of one mole of phenol (Scheme Y). The relative rates of the two steps, however, are reversed. Whereas the alkaline hydrolysis of carbonate diesters proceeds with the release of two moles of phenol in a first-order process (kh > fca), the hydrolysis of methylphosphonate diesters proceeds with the release of only one mole of phenol to produce a relatively stable aryl methylphosphonate intermediate (fca > kb), In contrast, kinetically identical pathways are observed for the reaction of cycloheptaamylose with these different substrates—in both cases, two moles of phenol are released in a first-order process.3 Maximal catalytic rate constants for the appearance of phenol are presented in Table XI. Unlike the reaction of cycloheptaamylose with m- and with p-nitrophenyl methylphosphonate discussed earlier, the reaction of cycloheptaamylose with diaryl methylphosphonates... 

Carbonyl compounds including ketones, aldehydes and carboxylic acid derivatives constitute a class of carbon acids, the acidity of which falls in the pifa range of 25 to 35 in dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO). Representative values for selected carbonyl substrates are summarized in Table 2-1.1 Different methods may be invoked for generating the enolates according to the pifa value of their parent compounds. 

The most widely used method for the preparation of [l,2,4]triazolo[3,4-A][l,3,4]thiadiazoles 85 employs 4-amino-5-thio-4/7-[l,2,4]triazoles 83 or 4-amino[l,2,4]-triazole-5(47T)-thiones 84 as starting materials. The reaction of the triazoles 83 or 84 with carbonic acid derivatives furnishes [l,2,4]triazolo[3,4-4][l,3,4]thiadiazoles with a heteroatom substituent (N, O, S) at position 6 the O- and S-functions are formulated as 6-hydroxy and 6-thio derivatives 85a or as thiadiazol-(5/7)6-ones and -thiadiazole-(577)6-thiones 85b, respectively reaction with carboxylic acid derivatives provides the 6-substituted-[l,2,4]triazolo[3,4-4][l,3,4]-thiadiazoles 85c (Equation 20 Table 3). 

V-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)aminomethylenemalonate (749, R = 3-CF3) proved unsuccessful in boiling phosphoryl chloride. The thermal cycliza-tion of ZV-ethyl-N-arylaminomethylenemalonates (749) and their ring closure in acetic acid, in acetic anhydride with zinc chloride, or in a melt of aluminium chloride were likewise unsuccessful (71JHC357). The corresponding quinoline was not obtained in a one-pot version when N-ethylani-line and EMME were reacted in polyphosphoric acid. Table V shows the yields of quinoline-3-carboxylic acid derivatives obtained from /V-ethyl-N-phenyl- and iV-ethyl-7V-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)aminomethylene-malonates (749, R = H and 3,4-0CH20) under various acidic cyclization conditions. 

Since the solvent properties of dimethyl sulfoxide are widely different from those of hydrocarbons and halogenated hydrocarbons, it may be difficult to compare the kinetic and thermodynamic data for the C02H group (Table 16) directly with others. However, heating the carboxylic acid (68, X = OH) in toluene affords the sp isomer almost exclusively. Probably, the observed results with the carboxylic acid derive from difficulty in the formation of a hydrogen bond owing to a steric effect, in addition to the nonplanar conformation of the carboxyl group relative to the naphthalene. 

Table 2.3. Heteroatom-substituted carbene complexes prepared from carboxylic acid derivatives and metallates.

Table 7.2 Leaving groups and reactivity in carboxylic acid derivatives...

In the early days, greatest interest was focused on the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis (by hydrochloric acid in the presence of 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine) of Reissert compounds to aldehydes and the corresponding heterocyclic carboxylic acid derivatives. This reaction is fairly general for compounds of quinoline (178) and isoquinoline (179) (Table 18), but it is not applicable to pyridines as they rarely form Reissert compounds. The 3-hydroxyquino-line Reissert compound does not yield benzaldehyde, probably because acylation of the 3-hydroxy group prevents formation of the required cyclic intermediate (180). Some nitroquinolines and isoquinolines give low yields of benzaldehyde. Rather curiously, disub-stituted quinoline Reissert compounds yield less of the aldehyde than of the corresponding... 

Table 2.1.5.3 Asymmetric hydrogenation of a, P-unsaturated carboxylic acid derivatives.

Sulfonic acids, R(Ar)S03H, form derivatives similar to those of carboxylic acids (see Table 16-3). These are sulfonyl chlorides, sulfonates (esters), and sulfonamides. The transsulfonylation reactions are similar to the transacylation reactions, except that the ester and amide cannot be made directly from the acid. See Problem 13.17 for preparation of sulfonyl chlorides and esters and Problem 13.18 for use of sulfonate esters as substrates in S l and S,42 reactions. 

Flexible aliphatic compounds are also selectively fluorinated. Such substrates may be alkanes, alcohols, carboxylic acid derivatives or ketones as long as the electron-withdrawing group is far enough from the reacting center (Table 2).44 There are differences in yields and reaction rates which are qualitatively easily understood and are directly related to the electron density of the reactive C —H bond. 

Note that the reaction at the phosphorus atom is postulated to occur by an SN2 (no intermediate formed) rather than by an addition mechanism such as we encountered with carboxylic acid derivatives (Kirby and Warren, 1967). As we learned in Section 13.2, for attack at a saturated carbon atom, OH- is a better nucleophile than H20 by about a factor of 104 (Table 13.2). Toward phosphorus, which is a harder electrophilic center (see Box 13.1), however, the relative nucleophilicity increases dramatically. For triphenyl phosphate, for example, OH- is about 108 times stronger than H20 as a nucleophile (Barnard et al., 1961). Note that in the case of triphenyl phosphate, no substitution may occur at the carbon bound to the oxygen of the alcohol moiety, and therefore, neutral hydrolysis is much less important as compared to the other cases (see /NB values in Table 13.12). Consequently, the base-catalyzed reaction generally occurs at the phosphorus atom leading to the dissociation of the alcohol moiety that is the best leaving group (P-0 cleavage), as is illustrated by the reaction of parathion with OH ... 

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