Reagents for carboxylic acids

Mukherjee, P. S. and Karnes, H. T., Ultraviolet and fluorescence derivatization reagents for carboxylic acids suitable for high performance liquid chromatography A review, Biomed. Chromatogr., 10, 193, 1996. 

The characteristic feature of the aforementioned oxazaborolidine catalyst system consists of a-sulfonamide carboxylic acid ligand for boron reagent, where the five-membered ring system seems to be the major structural feature for the active catalyst. Accordingly, tartaric acid-derived chiral (acyloxy)borane (CAB) complexes can also catalyze the asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction of a,P-unsaturated aldehydes with a high level of asymmetric induction [10] (Eq. 8A.4). Similarly, a chiral tartrate-derived dioxaborolidine has been introduced as a catalyst for enantioselective Diels-Alder reaction of 2-bromoacrolein [11] (Eq. 8A.5). 

Coupling of 69 with methyl 4-hydroxyphenoxyacetate 70 was carried out in the presence of imidazole and confirmed by gel-phase 13C NMR of PSDES resin 71. The hydrolysis of resin-bound ester was efficiently achieved using trimethyltin hydroxide (TMTOH) [110-114] to give the corresponding immobilized carboxylic acid 72. For the key Staudinger reaction, activation of the carboxylic acid 72 by Mukaiyama s reagent 74 was employed (Scheme 20) [115-117]. The m-p-lactam 16 was obtained in a 12-14% isolated yield. 

Used for the precolumn preparation of fluorescent derivatives of carboxylic acids reagent reacts well with fatty acids at room temperature to give intensely fluorescent esters Reference 2... 

Reagent for the Resolution of Carboxylic Acids. Reagent (1) and its enantiomer have been used, although not as extensively as the more common (S)-a-Methylbenzylamine, as resolving agents for carboxylic acids via fractional crystallization of the corresponding diastereomeric salts. Examples of acids resolved this way include (2)-(6). Additional examples, such as man-delic, hydratopic, and a-aryloxypropionic acids, can be found in the literature. ... 

Esterification. One use for the reagent is for esterification of carboxylic acids, either for protection of the carboxyl function or preparation of characterizing derivatives. Carboxylic acids, even hindered tertiary acids, react with diphenyidiazomethane to give benzhydryl esters the protective group is removed when required by hydrogenolysis.° Acetylsalicylic acid reacts with 1.5 equiv. of reagent in refiuxing... 

The anions derived from dihydro-1,3-oxazines have been nicely exploited as reagents to effect the two-carbon homologation of carbonyl compounds to provide a,3-unsaturated aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acid derivatives. " For example, metallation of (77) followed by reaction with a wide variety of aldehydes and ketones provides adducts (78 Scheme 29 Although attempts to purify these adducts have been unsuccessful owing to facile retroaldolization, sequential reduction of (78) with sodium... 

Since aldehydes are at an intermediate oxidation level between alcohols and carboxylic acids, reagents that are capable of oxidizing alcohols to carboxylic acid derivatives can generally also be applied for aldehyde oxidations. The various oxidants in-... 

Introduction. The Ph3PBr2 adduct was first used in synthesis in 1959 for the preparation of alkyl and acyl bromides from alcohols and carboxylic acids, and for the dehydration of amides and oximes to nitriles. Since then it has been widely employed as a versatile reagent for a number of synthetic reactions. 

Chiral 2-oxazolidones are useful recyclable auxiliaries for carboxylic acids in highly enantioselective aldol type reactions via the boron enolates derived from N-propionyl-2-oxazolidones (D.A. Evans, 1981). Two reagents exhibiting opposite enantioselectivity ate prepared from (S)-valinol and from (lS,2R)-norephedrine by cyclization with COClj or diethyl carbonate and subsequent lithiation and acylation with propionyl chloride at — 78°C. En-olization with dibutylboryl triflate forms the (Z)-enolates (>99% Z) which react with aldehydes at low temperature. The pure (2S,3R) and (2R,3S) acids or methyl esters are isolated in a 70% yield after mild solvolysis. 

The less hindered f/ans-olefins may be obtained by reduction with lithium or sodium metal in liquid ammonia or amine solvents (Birch reduction). This reagent, however, attacks most polar functional groups (except for carboxylic acids R.E.A. Dear, 1963 J. Fried, 1968), and their protection is necessary (see section 2.6). 

In synthetic target molecules esters, lactones, amides, and lactams are the most common carboxylic acid derivatives. In order to synthesize them from carboxylic acids one has generally to produce an activated acid derivative, and an enormous variety of activating reagents is known, mostly developed for peptide syntheses (M. Bodanszky, 1976). In actual syntheses of complex esters and amides, however, only a small selection of these remedies is used, and we shall mention only generally applicable methods. The classic means of activating carboxyl groups arc the acyl azide method of Curtius and the acyl chloride method of Emil Fischer. 

Vigorous oxidation leads to the formation of a carboxylic acid but a number of meth ods permit us to stop the oxidation at the intermediate aldehyde stage The reagents most commonly used for oxidizing alcohols are based on high oxidation state transition met als particularly chromium(VI)... 

Aldehydes are more easily oxidized than alcohols which is why special reagents such as PCC and PDC (Section 15 10) have been developed for oxidizing primary alco hols to aldehydes and no further PCC and PDC are effective because they are sources of Cr(VI) but are used m nonaqueous media (dichloromethane) By keeping water out of the reaction mixture the aldehyde is not converted to its hydrate which is the nec essary intermediate that leads to the carboxylic acid... 

Among the methods for preparing carboxylic acids carboxylation of a Grignard reagent and preparation and hydrolysis of a nitrile convert RBr to RCO2H The malonic ester synthesis converts RBr to RCH2CO2H... 

In some instances a carbon-carbon bond can be formed with C-nucleophiles. For example, 3-carboxamido-6-methylpyridazine is produced from 3-iodo-6-methylpyridazine by treatment with potassium cyanide in aqueous ethanol and l,3-dimethyl-6-oxo-l,6-dihydro-pyridazine-4-carboxylic acid from 4-chloro-l,3-dimethylpyridazin-6-(lH)-one by reaction with a mixture of cuprous chloride and potassium cyanide. Chloro-substituted pyridazines react with Grignard reagents. For example, 3,4,6-trichloropyridazine reacts with f-butyl-magnesium chloride to give 4-t-butyl-3,5,6-trichloro-l,4-dihydropyridazine (120) and 4,5-di-t-butyl-3,6-dichloro-l,4-dihydropyridazine (121) and both are converted into 4-t-butyl-3,6-dichloropyridazine (122 Scheme 38). 

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