Synthesis carboxylic acid amides

Hofmann s amine synthesis can be applied to both aliphatic and aromatic carboxylic acid amides, benzamide, C HsCONH, thus giving aniline, C4H5NH,. 

Bond-Huper [69JCS(C)2453] synthesis, no traces of the described high-melting dark red substance were found. Only tolane-2-carboxylic acid amide (yield 65%) was obtained—the white crystals with a melting temperature of 156-157°C— which coincided with the results of Castro et al. (66JOC4071). Thus, in conditions of acetylide synthesis, o-iodobenzamide forms no bicyclic product. 

The synthesis of nitriles from halides is valuable in medicinal chemistry because nitriles are flexible building blocks readily converted into carboxylic acids, amides, amines, or a variety of heterocycles, e. g. thiazoles, oxazolidones, triazoles, and tetrazoles. The importance of the tetrazole group in medicinal chemistry is easily understood if we consider that it is the most commonly used bioisostere of the carboxyl group. 

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C.A. Buehler u. D.E. Pearson, Survey of Organic Synthesis, Carboxylic Acid Amides and Imides, Yol, 2, S.813, Wiley Intersciences, New York London Sydney Toronto 1977. 

In the synthesis of specially substituted methylene diphosphines, made from secondary phosphines and carbonyl derivatives (7), a carbenium ion adjacent to trivalent phosphorus as the transition state has been discussed. The transfer of this reaction principle to primary phosphines and suitable carbonyl compound revealed a further pathway to derivatives of dicoordinated phosphorus (8). Aromatic phosphines react with carboxylic acid amide acetals under elimination of alcohol giving dialkylamino-alkylidene phosphines (Scheme 5). A modification of the synthesis... 

The application of lactams in heterocyclic synthesis depends on the activation of their amide function.5 Similar activation of other functional groups, e.g., the conversion of ketones to enamines6 and of carboxylic acid amides to imino ethers,7 presented new applications for these compounds. Similarly, the conversion of lactams into lactim ethers offers a greater scope for the use of lactams in organic synthesis. 

Figure 4.42 Synthesis of homoleptic palladium(ll) carbene complexes using a carboxylic acid amide functionalised NHC ligand.

In analogy to the synthesis of iminium salts (Section 4.2.2.1.), acyiiminium ions (60) can be obtained from carbonyl precursors (1), such as ketones or aldehydes, and carboxylic acid amides (62 Scheme 30). In addition, other amides can be used, such as p-toluenesulfonamides, which lead to the corresponding N-tosylated iminium salts. ... 

Classical reactions involving nucleophiles such as saponification ("OH as the nucleophile), aminolysis (with amines also ammonia in ammonolysis reactions), transesterification (alkoxides, "OR) and others (hydrazinolysis, hydroxamic acid synthesis, etc.) have been adapted to solid phane and used to obtain, for instance, carboxylic acids, amides and esters. Internal or intramolecular nucleophilic attack has been employed to obtain cyclic products such as lactones, lactams (including cyclic peptides) and a great variety of heterocycles (hydantoins, diketopiperazines, benzodiazepinones, etc.). 

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