Cyclic ketones, Beckmann rearrangements

Not only do oximes undergo the Beckmann rearrangement, but so also do esters of oximes with many acids, organic and inorganic. A side reaction with many substrates is the formation of nitriles (the abnormal Beckmann rearrangement, 17-31). Cyclic ketones can be converted directly to lactams in one laboratory step by... 

In addition to the Beckmann reaction, the Schmidt rearrangement is used to generate M-alkylated lactams, too. Alkyl azides 231 react with the cyclic ketones (and aldehydes) in the presence of proton or Lewis acids. On running the inter-molecular reactions, in most cases symmetric ketals 230 have been converted... 

Nine-membered lactam rings can also be produced by the Beckmann rearrangement. The azonane ring 420 was selectively formed from an eight-membered cyclic ketone 419 by a rearrangement/reduction sequence (equation 175). 

As with 1,4-oxazepines the Schmidt reaction of cyclic ketones and the Beckmann rearrangement of their oximes can be applied to the synthesis of monocyclic 1,4-thiazepines, 1,4- and 1,5-benzothiazepines and their 1-oxides and 1,1-dioxides (75CJC276). 

Amides lactams. Dimethyl thioketals of cyclic or acyclic ketones react with iodine azide to form an a-azido sulfide in 75-95% yield. The product rearranges to an amide or a lactam in high yield in the presence of trifluoroacctic acid. This sequence is an attractive alternative to the Beckmann rearrangement or Schmidt reaction. 

Rearrangements. Cyclic ketones utM sdroxyalkyl azides." Regioselectivity is d Beckmann rearrangement of ketoxime o emperature. 

Rearrangements. Cyclic ketones undergo ring expansion on reaction with hydroxyalkyl azides." Regioselectivity is dependent on steric and electronic factors. Beckmann rearrangement of ketoxime carbonates has been observed at room temperature. 

The cyclododecatriene is then converted to lauryllactam by different processes. One of them consists of hydrogenation of the cyclic triene, followed by oxidation to a cyclic ketone, conversion to an oxime, and rearrangement by the Beckmann reaction to the lactam ... 

Alumina sulfuric acid (ASA) was found to be an effective catalyst for the solvent-free one pot Beckmann rearrangement of several alkyl and aryl aldehydes and ketones 1. It has been reported that the electron rich aldehydes and ketones require shorter reaction times than the electron poor aldehydes. Cyclic ketones require longer reaction time than the aryl ketones ascribable to the steric factors. ... 

Poly phosphoric acid sodium azide Lactams from cyclic ketones by Schmidt reaction and from cyclic oximes by Beckmann rearrangement Ring expansion... 

FIGURE 18.56 When cyclic ketones are used, the Beckmann rearrangement becomes a synthesis of lactams. 

Another general method for the introduction of a nitrogen atom into a macrocyclic skeleton is via the Beckmann reaction. Rearrangement of cyclotridecanone oxime led to cyclic lactam, which was reduced to amine by lithium aluminium hydride (LAH). Further substitution yielded 14-membered mutuporamine <1999TL5401>. Dieckmann condensation was used for the preparation of 14-membered aza ketone 15 <1999JA2919>, but no experimental details were given. 

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