Esters carboxylic acid preparation

Reactions with active carboxylic acid esters prepared from carbonic acid esters s. 18 434 serine peptides cf. H. Voss, Z. Naturf. 20b, 122 (1965)... 

Reactions with active carboxylic acid esters prepared... 

Carboxylic acid hydiazides are prepared from aqueous hydrazine and tfie carboxylic acid, ester, amide, anhydride, or halide. The reaction usually goes poody with the free acid. Esters are generally satisfactory. Acyl halides are particularly reactive, even at room temperature, and form the diacyl derivatives (22), which easily undergo thermal dehydration to 1,3,4-oxadiazoles (23). Diesters give dihydtazides (24) and polyesters such as polyacrylates yield a polyhydrazide (25). The chemistry of carboxyhc hydrazides has been reviewed (83,84). 

Ox 0-2,3-dihydro-7//-pyrido[l, 2, i-de]-1,4-benzoxazine-6-carboxylic acids were prepared from 6-esters under acidic (96JAP(K)96/291144, 98MIP19, 98MI37, 99H(51)1563, 99MI36, 00MI76) and under alkalic conditions (OOMIPIO). 

Surfactants are prepared which contain carboxylic acid ester or amide chains and terminal acid groups selected from phosphoric acid, carboxymethyl, sulfuric acid, sulfonic acid, and phosphonic acid. These surfactants can be obtained by reaction of phosphoric acid or phosphorus pentoxide with polyhydroxystearic acid or polycaprolactone at 180-190°C under an inert gas. They are useful as polymerization catalysts and as dispersing agents for fuel, diesel, and paraffin oils [69]. 

Surfactants which contain carboxylic acid ester or amide chains with terminal phosphonic acid groups are prepared from polyhydroxystearic acid or poly-caprolactone. Such reaction products are useful as dispersants, emulsifiers, and, in some cases, bactericides, disinfectants, and antiseptics see Sec. III.C.9 [69]. 

Heller, J., Ng, S. Y., and Penhale, D. W. H., Preparation of poly(carboxy-ortho esters) by the reaction of diketene acetals and carboxylic acids. In Preparation. 

Activated NHS esters of carboxylic acids are prepared by reacting the acid with NHS in the presence of DCC (Table 4, Figure 16). A-Hydroxysuccinimide esters are stable when kept under anhydrous and slightly acidic conditions, and they react rapidly with amino groups to form an amide in high yield. 

Wong and co-workers have prepared various quaternary cx-nitro-cx-methyl carboxylic acid esters by the palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation of a-nitropropionate ester (Eq. 5.59). The products can be kinetically resolved by using cx-chymotrypsin and are converted into optical active a-methyl cx-amino acids. Such amino acids are important due to the unique biological activity of these nonproteinogenic a-amino acids.82... 

The reaction of alcohols with CO was catalyzed by Pd compounds, iodides and/or bromides, and amides (or thioamides). Thus, MeOH was carbonylated in the presence of Pd acetate, NiCl2, tV-methylpyrrolidone, Mel, and Lil to give HOAc. AcOH is prepared by the reaction of MeOH with CO in the presence of a catalyst system comprising a Pd compound, an ionic Br or I compound other than HBr or HI, a sulfone or sulfoxide, and, in some cases, a Ni compound and a phosphine oxide or a phosphinic acid.60 Palladium(II) salts catalyze the carbonylation of methyl iodide in methanol to methyl acetate in the presence of an excess of iodide, even without amine or phosphine co-ligands platinum(II) salts are less effective.61 A novel Pd11 complex (13) is a highly efficient catalyst for the carbonylation of organic alcohols and alkenes to carboxylic acids/esters.62... 

Interestingly, the Fischer indole synthesis does not easily proceed from acetaldehyde to afford indole. Usually, indole-2-carboxylic acid is prepared from phenylhydrazine with a pyruvate ester followed by hydrolysis. Traditional methods for decarboxylation of indole-2-carboxylic acid to form indole are not environmentally benign. They include pyrolysis or heating with copper-bronze powder, copper(I) chloride, copper chromite, copper acetate or copper(II) oxide, in for example, heat-transfer oils, glycerol, quinoline or 2-benzylpyridine. Decomposition of the product during lengthy thermolysis or purification affects the yields. 

The dianhydride of perylene tetracarboxylic acid is converted into the pigment form by preparing the corresponding alkali salt and then reprecipitating the compound with an acid. The dianhydride is formed after separating the acid by thermal aftertreatment at 100 to 200°C, possibly under pressure, with an organic solvent. The list of suitable media includes alcohols, ketones, carboxylic acid esters, hydrocarbons, and dipolar aprotic solvents. 

Disubstituted 2,4-cyclohexadienones (112) undergo photoinduced electrocyclic ring opening to the transient ketene derivatives 113, which can be trapped by nucleophiles to prepare the corresponding carboxylic acid derivatives (114 equation 44)196 197 j le reaction has been employed successfully for the synthesis of various carboxylic acids, esters and amides. 

One of the most actively investigated aspects of the biohydrolysis of carboxylic acid esters is enantioselectivity (for a definition of the various stereochemical terms used here, see [7], particularly its Sect. 1.5) for two reasons, one practical (preparation of pure enantiomers for various applications) and one fundamental (investigations on the structure and function of hydrolases). The synthetic and preparative aspects of enantioselective biocatalysis by hydrolases have been extensively investigated for biotechnology applications but are of only secondary interest in our context (e.g., [16-18], see Sect. 7.3.5). In contrast, the fundamental aspects of enantioselectivity in particular and of structure-metabolism relationships in general are central to our approach and are illustrated here with a number of selected examples. 

Pyrrole-2-carboxylic acid esters have been prepared from ethyl chloroformate and pyrrolylmagnesium bromide1 2 or pyrrolyllithium,3 by hydrolysis and decarboxylation of dimethyl pyrrole-1,2-dicarboxylate followed by re-esterification of the 2-acid4 and by oxidation of pyrrole-2-carboxaldehyde followed by esterification with diazomethane.4... 

Electrophilic additions to 7t-deficient heterocycles are less common than those to 7t-excessive heterocycles. However, intramolecular electrophilic cyclizations have been used to access the heterocycles of interest in this chapter <1996CHEC-II(7)49>. Recent examples include the preparation of a pyrrolo[2,3-f]pyrazole 165 by acid-catalyzed condensation of 163 and 164 (Equation 37) <1999SC311> and the reaction of 3-(4-pyrazolyl)acrylic acids 166 with excess thionyl chloride in the presence of benzyltriethylammonium chloride (BTEAC) to afford 4-chlorothieno[2,3-f]pyrazole-5-carbonyl chlorides 167 (Equation 38) <2003RJ0893, 2003ZOK942>. In the latter case, the reaction products were readily manipulated to prepare corresponding carboxylic acids, esters, and amides using standard procedures. 

The principal method for preparation of pyrazino[2,3- [l,3]oxazines, as reported in CHEC-II(1996) <1996CHEC-II(7)737> involves cyclization of a 2-aminopyrazine-3-carboxylic acid ester with an aromatic acid chloride. Further applications of this three-step approach have been reported <19948405, 2000BMC2803>, but a one-pot approach has also been developed (Equation 157). This cyclization has also been carried out using acetic anhydride in place of an acid chloride <2005JMT(741)67>. 

Carboxylic acids are prepared hy the hydrolysis of acid chlorides and acid anhydrides, and acid- or hase-catalysed hydrolysis (see Section 5.6.1) of esters, primary amides and nitriles (see Section 5.6.1). 

DSM jointly with Du Pont de Nemours308 have patented platinum catalysts generated from the water soluble sulfonated ligand 30 (Table 2 m=0, n=0, m=l, n=2 m=l, n=l, Ar=nBu-S03Li) and used in the aqueous phase hydroformylation of internally unsaturated carboxylic acids, esters or nitriles to their corresponding formyl derivatives which are useful intermediates for the preparation of di-carboxylic acids (e.g. adipic acid). For example, TOFs up to 105 h-1 were achieved in the hydroformylation of 3-pentenoic acid catalysed by Pt/30 (m=0, n=0) at 100°C and 80 bar CO/H2 to give aldehydes with a selectivity of 83% (n/i=3.4), valeric acid (4.6%) and adipic acid (8.1%).308 The products were separated from the aqueous catalyst solution by extraction with ether. Five recycles of the aqueous catalyst solution showed that the Pt/30 (m=0, n=0) catalyst retains its activity. 

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