Carboxylic acids reaction with acyl halides

In the course of this study, the authors determined /Lvalues for dibenzyl, methyl phenyl, methyl p-nitrophenyl, di-p-tolyl, di-isopropyl and tetramethylene sulphoxides and for diethyl, dipropyl and dibutyl sulphites. The /Lscales are applied to the various reactions or the spectral measurements. The /Lscales have been divided into either family-dependent (FD) types, which means two or more compounds can share the same /Lscale, family-independent (FI) types. Consequently, a variety of /Lscales are now available for various families of the bases, including 29 aldehydes and ketones, 17 carboxylic amides and ureas, 14 carboxylic acids esters, 4 acyl halides, 5 nitriles, 10 ethers, 16 phosphine oxides, 12 sulphinyl compounds, 15 pyridines and pyrimidines, 16 sp3 hybridized amines and 10 alcohols. The enthalpies of formation of the hydrogen bond of 4-fluorophenol with both sulphoxides and phosphine oxides and related derivatives fit the empirical equation 18, where the standard deviation is y = 0.983. Several averaged scales are shown in Table 1588. 

Classically, the acylzirconocene chlorides can be converted into aldehydes, carboxylic acids, esters, and acyl halides. Recendy, the usefulness of acylzirconocenes has been extended. In fact, these unmasked acyl anions directly add to aldehydes and imines affording a-hydroxy or a-amino ketones, respectively. The reaction of acylzirconocene chlorides with imines also proceeds under Bronsted acid-catalyzed conditions, even with aqueous acids. ... 

Reaction with acyl halides to form esters of carboxylic acids. 

The reaction between acyl halides and alcohols or phenols is the best general method for the preparation of carboxylic esters. It is believed to proceed by a 8 2 mechanism. As with 10-8, the mechanism can be S l or tetrahedral. Pyridine catalyzes the reaction by the nucleophilic catalysis route (see 10-9). The reaction is of wide scope, and many functional groups do not interfere. A base is frequently added to combine with the HX formed. When aqueous alkali is used, this is called the Schotten-Baumann procedure, but pyridine is also frequently used. Both R and R may be primary, secondary, or tertiary alkyl or aryl. Enolic esters can also be prepared by this method, though C-acylation competes in these cases. In difficult cases, especially with hindered acids or tertiary R, the alkoxide can be used instead of the alcohol. Activated alumina has also been used as a catalyst, for tertiary R. Thallium salts of phenols give very high yields of phenolic esters. Phase-transfer catalysis has been used for hindered phenols. Zinc has been used to couple... 

The reaction between acyl halides and diazomethane is of wide scope and is the best way to prepare diazo ketones. Diazomethane must be present in excess or the HX produced will react with the diazo ketone (10-74). This reaction is the first step of the Amdt-Eistert synthesis (18-8). Diazo ketones can also be prepared directly from a carboxylic acid and diazomethane or diazoethane in the presence of dicyclohexyl-carbodiimide. ... 

The conversion of an aliphatic carboxylic acid into the a-bromo- (or a-chloro ) acid by treatment with bromine (or chlorine) in the presence of a catalytic amount of phosphorus tribromide (or trichloride) or of red phosphorus is known as the Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction. The procedure probably involves the intermediate formation of the acyl halide, since it is known that halogens react more rapidly with acyl halides than with the acids themselves ... 

Carboxylic acids can be converted to acyl chlorides and bromides by a combination of triphenylphosphine and a halogen source. Triphenylphosphine and carbon tetrachloride convert acids to the corresponding acyl chloride.100 Similarly, carboxylic acids react with the triphenyl phosphine-bromine adduct to give acyl bromides.101 Triphenviphosphine-iV-hromosuccinimide also generates acyl bromide in situ.102 All these reactions involve acyloxyphosphonium ions and are mechanistically analogous to the alcohol-to-halide conversions that are discussed in Section 3.1.2. 

Reactions of Organozinc Reagents with Acyl Halides, Anhydrides, and Other Carboxylic Acid Derivatives... 

Synthesis of Acyl Nitronates The most general approach to the synthesis of acyl nitronates is based on the reactions of anions of the corresponding AN with acyl halides or carboxylic acid anhydrides in the presence of bases. Here, we will not consider a series of studies, where the formation of intermediate O-acyl nitronates was postulated without conclusive proof or by detection of their decomposition products. 

As one of the most reactive groups of carboxylic acid derivatives, acyl halides are very useful substrates for the preparation of the other classes of derivatives. For example, anhydrides may be synthesized by the reaction of carboxylic acid salts with an acyl halide. In this reaction, the carboxylate anion acts as the nucleophile, eventually displacing the halide leaving group. 

Preparations of pyridazino[3,4- [l,3]oxazines by ozonolysis of pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridazine-3-carboxylates and from the reaction of A -(4-ethoxycarbonylpyridazin-3-yl)phosphinimines with acyl halides were described in CHEC-II(1996) <1996CHEC-11(7)737>. A simpler form of the latter approach has now been reported <1994CC2451>, wherein the 1-A -oxide of 3-aminocinnoline-4-carboxylic acid undergoes cyclization with acetic anhydride (Equation 126). The isomeric pyridazino[4,3-, [l,3]oxazines have been prepared in a similar manner (Equation 127) <1997PHA838>. 

Many carboxylic acids lose carbon dioxide on either direct or sensitized irradiation, and in some cases (4.10 the evidence points to the operation of an initial electron-transfer mechanism rather than primary a-deavage. Cleavage occurs readily with acyl halides, and this can [ead to overall decarbonylation (4.11). Aldehydes also cleave readily, since the (0=)C—H bond is more prone to homolysis than the (0= C-C bond. This offers a convenient method for replacing the aldehydic hydrogen by deuterium in aromatic aldehydes (4.12. and a similar initial reaction step accounts for the production of chain-Iengtheped amides when formamide is irradiated in the presence of a terminal alkene (4.13). 

Acyl cations are now well-established chemical species. They can be prepared in quantity in solution, and several have been isolated as their crystalline salts. Recent papers have described their formation from carboxylic acids and esters under strongly acidic conditions81214, but they are most conveniently available from the reactions of acyl halides with L.ewis acids21 well-defined Lewis acid-base complexes are formed, which decompose in a second stage to the acyl cations21-23, viz. 

Because of the special structural requirements of the resin-bound substrate, this type of cleavage reaction lacks general applicability. Some of the few examples that have been reported are listed in Table 3.19. Lactones have also been obtained by acid-catalyzed lactonization of resin-bound 4-hydroxy or 3-oxiranyl carboxylic acids [399]. Treatment of polystyrene-bound cyclic acetals with Jones reagent also leads to the release of lactones into solution (Entry 5, Table 3.19). Resin-bound benzylic aryl or alkyl carbonates have been converted into esters by treatment with acyl halides and Lewis acids (Entry 6, Table 3.19). Similarly, alcohols bound to insoluble supports as benzyl ethers can be cleaved from the support and simultaneously converted into esters by treatment with acyl halides [400]. Esters have also been prepared by treatment of carboxylic acids with an excess of polystyrene-bound triazenes here, diazo-nium salts are released into solution, which serve to O-alkylate the acid (Entry 7, Table 3.19). This strategy can also be used to prepare sulfonates [401]. 

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