Chloroformate, benzyl, reaction

Reaction of iV-benzyl-5, 5 -diphenylsulfimide with 2,3-diphenylcyclopropenone in methanol afforded a mixture of the acrylamide 17 and the acrylate 18. In chloroform, the reaction produced jV,TV -dibenzyl-1,2-diphenylethane-l,2-diimine (19)." °... 

Hydrogenolysis can be a useful method to destroy organic halide wastes (128). This reaction is not very efficient with homogeneous catalysts and H2. However, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, benzyl chloride, and several 1-he l halo-genides were effectively dehalogenated (129) by hydrogen transfer from aqueous Na-formate catalyzed by [RuCl2(TPPMS)2]2 at 80°C (Scheme 12). Initial turnover frequencies up to 1000 h were observed, but the catalyst stability still has to be improved. 

Amino Acids. Chloroformates play a most important role for the protection of the amino group of amino acids (qv) during peptide synthesis (32). The protective carbamate formed by the reaction of benzyl chloroformate and amino acid (33) can be cleaved by hydrogenolysis to free the amine after the carboxyl group has reacted further. The selectivity of the amino groups toward chloroformates results in amino-protected amino acids with the other reactive groups unprotected (34,35). Methods for the preparation of protected amino acids on an industrial scale have been developed (36,37). A wide variety of chloroformates have been used that give various carbamates that are stable or cleaved under different conditions. 

Nearly all of the benzyl chloride [100-44-7], henzal chloride [98-87-3], and hen zotrichl oride /P< -(97-i manufactured is converted to other chemical intermediates or products by reactions involving the chlorine substituents of the side chain. Each of the compounds has a single primary use that consumes a large portion of the compound produced. Benzyl chloride is utilized in the manufacture of benzyl butyl phthalate, a vinyl resin plasticizer benzal chloride is hydrolyzed to benzaldehyde hen zotrichl oride is converted to benzoyl chloride. Benzyl chloride is also hydrolyzed to benzyl alcohol, which is used in the photographic industry, in perfumes (as esters), and in peptide synthesis by conversion to benzyl chloroformate [501-53-1] (see Benzyl ALCOHOL AND p-PHENETHYL ALCOHOL CARBONIC AND CARBONOCm ORIDIC ESTERS). 

A synthesis for the enantiomerically pure 535 was developed starting with D-phenylalanine which upon reaction with methyl chloroformate gave 528 whose reaction with methoxylamine afforded 529. Cyclization with bis(trifluoroacetoxy)iodobenzene in presence of trifluoroacetic acid gave the tetrahydroquinoline derivative 530 which was demethoxylated to give 531. Treatment of 531 with either benzyl chloroformate or... 

A mixture of 4.98 g of acetoacetic acid N-benzyl-N-methylaminoethyl ester, 2.3 g of aminocrotonic acid methyl ester, and 3 g of m-nitrobenzaldehyde was stirred for 6 hours at 100°C in an oil bath. The reaction mixture was subjected to a silica gel column chromatography (diameter 4 cm and height 25 cm) and then eluted with a 20 1 mixture of chloroform and acetone. The effluent containing the subject product was concentrated and checked by thin layer chromatography. The powdery product thus obtained was dissolved in acetone and after adjusting the solution with an ethanol solution saturated with hydrogen chloride to pH 1 -2, the solution was concentrated to provide 2 g of 2,6-dimethyl-4-(3 -nitrophenyl)-1,4-dihydropyridlne-3,5-dicarboxylic acid 3-methylester-5- -(N-benzyl-N-methylamino)ethyl ester hydrochloride. The product thus obtained was then crystallized from an acetone mixture, melting point 136°Cto 140°C (decomposed). 

Step 4 A solution of 20 grams of the above amino alcohol is dissolved in 50 ml of dry chloroform and treated with dry hydrogen chloride until acid. Then a solution of 9 grams of thionyi chloride in 50 ml of dry chloroform is added and the reaction mixture is heated on a water bath at 50°-60°C for 2 hours. Most of the chloroform is removed by distillation under reduced pressure. Addition of ether to the residue causes the product to crystallize. After recrystallization from a mixture of alcohol and ether, the N-(phenoxyisopropyl)-N-benzyl-0-chloroethylamine hydrochloride melts at 137.5°-140°C. 

The method is very useful for the synthesis of physiologically interesting a-mcthylamino acids, e.g., methyl dopa from the 3,4-dimethoxybenzyl derivative. The excellent stereoselection achieved in the process, however, is caused by the preferential crystallization of one pure diastereomerfrom the equilibrium mixture formed in the reversible Strecker reaction. Thus, the pure diastcrcomers with benzyl substituents, dissolved in chloroform or acetonitrile, give equilibrium mixtures of both diastereomers in a ratio of about 7 347. This effect has also been found for other s-methylamino nitriles of quite different structure49. If the amino nitrile (R1 = Bn) is synthesized in acetonitrile solution, the diastereomers do not crystallize while immediate hydrolysis indicates a ratio of the diastereomeric amino nitriles (S)I(R) of 86 1447. 

Allylic silanes react with aldehydes, in the presence of Lewis acids, to give an allyl-substituted alcohol. In the case of benzylic silanes, this addition reaction has been induced with Mg(C104)2 under photochemical conditions. The addition of chiral additives leads to the alcohol with good asymmetric induction. In a related reaction, allylic silanes react with acyl halides to produce the corresponding carbonyl derivative. The reaction of phenyl chloroformate, trimethylallylsilane, and AICI3, for example, gave phenyl but-3-enoate. ... 

A strong acceptor TCNE undergoes [2+2] rather than [4+2] cycloaddition reactions even with dienes. 1,1-Diphenylbutadiene [20] and 2,5-dimethyl-2,4-hexadiene (Scheme 5) [21] afford mainly and exclusively vinyl cyclobutane derivatives, respectively. In the reactions of 2,5-dimethyl-2,4-hexadiene (1) the observed rate constant, is greater for chloroform solvent than for a more polar solvent, acetonitrile (2) the trapping of a zwitterion intermediate by either methanol or p-toluenethiol was unsuccessful (3) radical initiators such as benzyl peroxide, or radical inhibitors like hydroquinone, have no effect on the rate (4) the entropies of activation are of... 

Alkyl esters are efficiently dealkylated to trimethylsilyl esters with high concentrations of iodotrimethylsilane either in chloroform or sulfolane solutions at 25-80° or without solvent at 100-110°.Hydrolysis of the trimethylsilyl esters serves to release the carboxylic acid. Amines may be recovered from O-methyl, O-ethyl, and O-benzyl carbamates after reaction with iodotrimethylsilane in chloroform or sulfolane at 50—60° and subsequent methanolysis. The conversion of dimethyl, diethyl, and ethylene acetals and ketals to the parent aldehydes and ketones under aprotic conditions has been accomplished with this reagent. The reactions of alcohols (or the corresponding trimethylsilyl ethers) and aldehydes with iodotrimethylsilane give alkyl iodides and a-iodosilyl ethers,respectively. lodomethyl methyl ether is obtained from cleavage of dimethoxymethane with iodotrimethylsilane. 

The use of iodotrimethylsilane for this purpose provides an effective alternative to known methods. Thus the reaction of primary and secondary methyl ethers with iodotrimethylsilane in chloroform or acetonitrile at 25—60° for 2—64 hours affords the corresponding trimethylsilyl ethers in high yield. The alcohols may be liberated from the trimethylsilyl ethers by methanolysis. The mechanism of the ether cleavage is presumed to involve initial formation of a trimethylsilyl oxonium ion which is converted to the silyl ether by nucleophilic attack of iodide at the methyl group. tert-Butyl, trityl, and benzyl ethers of primary and secondary alcohols are rapidly converted to trimethylsilyl ethers by the action of iodotrimethylsilane, probably via heterolysis of silyl oxonium ion intermediates. The cleavage of aryl methyl ethers to aryl trimethylsilyl ethers may also be effected more slowly by reaction with iodotrimethylsilane at 25—50° in chloroform or sulfolane for 12-125 hours, with iodotrimethylsilane at 100—110° in the absence of solvent, " and with iodotrimethylsilane generated in situ from iodine and trimcthylphenylsilane at 100°. ... 

Trimethylsilyl iodide 17, which can be generated in situ by reaction of trimethyl-silyl chloride (TCS) 14 with Nal in acetonitrile [1], converts alcohols 11, in high yields at room temperature, into their iodides 773a, HI, and hexamethyldisiloxane (HMDSO) 7 [1-8, 12]. Likewise esters such as benzyl benzoate are cleaved by Me3SiCl 14/NaI in acetonitrile under reflux [Ij. Reactions of alcohols 11 with trimethylsilyl bromide 16 in chloroform or, for in situ synthesis of 16 from liBr and TCS 14 in acetonitrile and with HMDS 2 and pyridinium bromide perbromide, proceed only on heating in acetonitrile or chloroform to give the bromides 773 b in nearly quantitative yield [3, 8, 12] (Scheme 6.1). 

Peroxybenzoic acid readily oxidizes aryl and alkyl sulphoxides in acetone, methylene chloride or chloroform solutions, to the sulphone in high yield . The reaction is second order and acid catalysed as is the reaction with peracetic acid . The rate of oxidation is about five times faster than when peracetic acid is used. Other work considering the oxidation of sulphoxides with peracids gathered kinetic evidence and showed that the reaction was indeed second order and that the reaction involved nucleophilic attack by the sulphoxide sulphur atom on the peracid moiety. A further study by the same authors showed that with benzyl and phenyl alkyl sulphoxides the rate of reaction was very sensitive to the inductive effect of the alkyl group. Support for the nucleophilic attack by the sulphur atom on the peracid in acidic solution was forthcoming from other sources . ... 

If one of the species is anionic and we need to transport it to the organic phase, then a phase-transfer catalyst may be employed. Consider the example of benzyl penicillin where the reaction between phenyl acetic acid and the penicillin carboxylate ion, with penicillin amidase as a catalyst, is relevant, and which at pH 4.5 - 5.0 is shifted in the desired direction. Here a catalyst like tetrabutylammonium halide works, and with chloroform as a solvent 60% yield can be realized in contrast to a yield of only 5 - 10 % in water. 

Wiberg has described the reactions of the silene Me2Si=C(SiMe3)2 with a wide variety of reagents and has reported on their relative rates of reaction (see Table VIII).98 174 Some silenes will add chlorogermanes and chlorostannanes174 as well as reactive organic halides such as chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, and benzyl chloride. 

B) Benzyl Carbamate.—A measured aliquot (suitably 10 cc.) of the solution of benzyl chloroformate, prepared as described above, is added slowly and with vigorous stirring to five volumes of cold concentrated ammonium hydroxide (sp. gr. 0.90), and the reaction mixture is allowed to stand at room temperature for thirty minutes. The precipitate is filtered with suction, washed with cold water, and dried in a vacuum desiccator. The yield of practically pure benzyl carbamate, melting at 85-86°, is 7.0-7.2 g. (91-94 per cent of the theoretical amount based on the benzyl alcohol used in. 4). Pure benzyl carbamate melting at 87° is obtained by recrystallizing the slightly impure material from two volumes of toluene. 

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