Conjugated, acylation

A. Conjugated Acyl Heterocycles 1. Five-Membered Heteroaromatic Derivatives... 

Under physiologic conditions, carnitine is primarily required to shuttle long-chain fatty acids across the inner mitochondrial membrane for FAO and products of peroxisomal /1-oxidation to the mitochondria for further metabolism in the citric acid cycle [40, 43]. Acylcarnitines are formed by conjugating acyl-CoA moieties to carnitine, which in the case of activated long-chain fatty acids is accomplished by CPT type I (CPT-I) [8, 44]. The acyl-group of the activated fatty acid (fatty acyl-CoA) is transferred by CPT-I from the sulfur atom of CoA to the hydroxyl group of carnitine (Fig. 3.2.1). Carnitine acylcarnitine translocase (CACT) then transfers the long-chain acylcarnitines across the inner mitochondrial membrane, where CPT-II reverses the action of CPT-I by the formation of acyl-CoA and release of free un-esterified carnitine. 

Lithium phosphites also can catalyze the silyl benzoin reaction of acylsilanes. Its asymmetric version is successfully achieved by a lithium phosphite derived from a homochiral diol.236 Thiazolium salt 32 effectively promotes conjugate acylation of a, 3-unsaturated carbonyls with acylsilanes in the presence of DBU (Equation (61)).237,237a The active catalyst of this sila-Stetter reaction would be a carbene species generated from 32 by deprotonation. 

Foreign carboxylic acids and amines undergo biological acylation to form amide conjugates. Acylation reactions are of two types. The first involves an activated conjugating intermediate, acetyl CoA, and the xenobiotic. The reaction is referred to as acetylation. 

Allylic 3-(benzotriazoM-yl)-3-ethoxyalkenes are conjugated acyl anion equivalents. Thus, deprotonation with BuLi and reaction with alkyl halides or esters furnish enones and unsaturated a-diketones," respectively. l-(Benzotriazol-l-yl)-3-(diphenylphosphoryl)-l-ethoxy-l-propene is a propanoic ester P, 3-dianion equivalent. 

Taurine conjugation Acyl-CoA amino acid, A-acyltransferase Cytosol/mitochondria 2,4-D... 

Acylating Amine Tetrahedral Amide Conjugate acid... 

Conjugated dienes, upon complexation with metal carbonyl complexes, are activated for Friedel-Crafts acylation reaction at the akyhc position. Such reactions are increasingly being used in the stereoselective synthesis of acylated dienes. Friedel-Crafts acetylation of... 

An investigation of acylaziridines was carried out by comparison of IR, NMR and MS data and included some 1,2-dibenzoylaziridines as well as 2-p-nitrobenzoyl-3-phenyl-oxaziridine (68IZV1530). Amide conjugation in acylated nitrogen-containing three-membered rings is weaker than in open chain acid amides. 

We consider first the Sn2 type of process. (In some important Sn2 reactions the solvent may function as the nucleophile. We will treat solvent nucleophilicity as a separate topic in Chapter 8.) Basicity toward the proton, that is, the pKa of the conjugate acid of the nucleophile, has been found to be less successful as a model property for reactions at saturated carbon than for nucleophilic acyl transfers, although basicity must have some relationship to nucleophilicity. Bordwell et al. have demonstrated very satisfactory Brjinsted-type plots for nucleophilic displacements at saturated carbon when the basicities and reactivities are measured in polar aprotic solvents like dimethylsulfoxide. The problem of establishing such simple correlations in hydroxylic solvents lies in the varying solvation stabilization within a reaction series in H-bond donor solvents. 

Since Stork et al. introduced as a new synthetic method the alkylation and acylation of carbonyl compounds via enamines, this class of compounds has been the subjeet of intensive studies 1-3). The exceptional physical and chemical behavior of the enamine structure can be ascribed to resonance by conjugation of the unshared pair of electrons of the nitrogen atom with the 77 electrons of the double bond ... 

FIGURE 25.6 Fatty acids are conjugated both to coenzyme A and to acyl carrier protein through the sulfliydryl of phosphopantetheine prosthetic groups. 

FIGURE 25.7 The pathway of palmhate synthesis from acetyl-CoA and malonyl-CoA. Acetyl and malonyl building blocks are introduced as acyl carrier protein conjugates. Decarboxylation drives the /3-ketoacyl-ACP synthase and results in the addition of two-carbon units to the growing chain. Concentrations of free fatty acids are extremely low in most cells, and newly synthesized fatty acids exist primarily as acyl-CoA esters. 

The most notable chemistry of the biscylopen-tadienyls results from the aromaticity of the cyclopentadienyl rings. This is now far too extensively documented to be described in full but an outline of some of its manifestations is in Fig. 25.14. Ferrocene resists catalytic hydrogenation and does not undergo the typical reactions of conjugated dienes, such as the Diels-Alder reaction. Nor are direct nitration and halogenation possible because of oxidation to the ferricinium ion. However, Friedel-Crafts acylation as well as alkylation and metallation reactions, are readily effected. Indeed, electrophilic substitution of ferrocene occurs with such facility compared to, say, benzene (3 x 10 faster) that some explanation is called for. It has been suggested that. 

An interesting application of the Paal thiophene synthesis was documented for the synthesis of a polystyrene-oligothiophene-polystyrene copolymer. In the Stetter reaction of aldehyde 13 and P-dimethylaminoketone 14, in situ generation of the a,p-unsaturated ketone preceded nucleophilic 1,4-conjugate addition by the acyl anion... 

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