Dialkyl ammonium salts

Figure 6.11 shows the activity of an artificial enzyme can be controlled based on the phase behavior of a lipid bilayer. The catalytic site for hydrolysis was supplied by a monoalkyl azobenzene compound with a histidine residue which was buried in the hydrophobic environment of a hpid bilayer matrix formed using a dialkyl ammonium salt. Azobenzene compound association depended on the state of the matrix bilayer. The azobenzene catalyst aggregated into clusters when the bilayer matrix was in a gel state. In contrast, the azobenzene derivative can be dispersed into the liquid crystalhne phase of the bilayer matrix above its phase transition temperature. This bilayer-type artificial enzyme catalyzed the hydrolysis of a Z-phenylalanine p-nitrophenyl ester. The activation energy for this reaction in the gel state is twice as large as that observed in the hquid crystalline state. The clustering of the catalysts upon phase separation suppress their catalytic activity, probably due to the disadvantageous electrostatic environment around the catalysts and the suppressed substrate diffusion. This activity control is unique to such molecular assembhes. 

X Sugar unit (glucose or galactose) Dialkyl ammonium salts H3—(CH2) — O / OH3... 

Another significant use for dialkyl dimethyl quaternary ammonium salts and alkylhenzyl dimethyl ammonium salts is in preparing organoclays for use as drilling muds, paint thickeners, and lubricants. 

The zinc. salts of these acids are extensively used as additives to lubricating oils to improve their extreme-pressure properties. The compounds also act as antioxidants, corrosion inhibitors and detergents. Short-chain dialkyl dithiophosphates and their sodium and ammonium salts are used as flotation agents for zinc and lead sulfide ores. The methyl and ethyl derivatives (RO)2P(S)SH and (RO)2P(S)CI are of particular interest in the large-scale manufacture of pesticides such as parathion, malathion, dimethylparathion, etc. For example parathion. which first went into production as an insecticide in Germany in 1947. is made by the following reaction sequence ... 

In recent years a number of methods have been developed for the preparation of dialkyl(methylene)ammonium salts (Mannich reagents)and their use in Mannich-type condensation reactions under anhydrous conditions has improved the scope and efficiency of this important synthetic process. However, the orientation of the Mannich reaction may nevertheless be difficult to control. Apart from the work of the submitters, the preparation of isomer-ically pure Mannich bases has only been achieved by indircci... 

A number of examples have been reported documenting the use of palladium phosphine complexes as catalysts. The dialkyl species [PtL2R2] (L2 = dmpe, dppe, (PMe3)2 R = Me, CH2SiMe3) catalyze the reaction of [PhNH3]+ with activated alkenes (acrylonitrile, methyl acrylate, acrolein).176 Unfunctionalized alkenes prove unreactive. The reaction mechanism is believed to proceed via protonation of Pt-R by the ammonium salt (generating PhNH2 in turn) and the subsequent release of alkane to afford a vacant coordination site on the metal. Coordination of alkene then allows access into route A of the mechanism shown in Scheme 34. Protonation is also... 

Under solid-liquid PTC conditions 5,5-diethylbarbituric acid was N,N-dialkylated in a good yield in the presence of a lipophilic ammonium salts and potassium carbonate when reaction mixtures were irradiated in a household microwave oven (Eq. 26). 

There are relatively few reports of phase-transfer catalysed syntheses of phenols from activated haloarenes using quaternary ammonium salts, presumably because of the instability of the ammonium salts under the reaction conditions. A patented procedure for the conversion of, for example, 2,6-dichloropyridine into 6-chloropyrid-2-one (98%) using aqueous sodium hydroxide in the presence of benzyl-triethylammonium chloride at 120-150°C has been filed [32], A possible route to the phenols, however, comes from the observed reaction of phenols with potassium carbonateipotassium hydrogen carbonate to yield the aryl carbonates (80-85%) using the procedure described for the preparation of dialkyl carbonates (3.3.13) [50]. 

In contrast with the reactions involving sulphide or hydrogen sulphide anions, aryl alkyl thioethers and unsymmetrical dialkyl thioethers (Table 4.3) are obtained conveniently by the analogous nucleophilic substitution reactions between haloalkanes and aryl or alkylthiols under mildly basic conditions in the presence of a quaternary ammonium salt [9-15] or polymer-supported quaternary ammonium salt [16]. Dimethyl carbonate is a very effective agent in the formation of methyl thioethers (4.1.4.B) [17]. 

Mildly basic liquiddiquid conditions with a stoichiometric amount of catalyst prevent hydrolysis during alkylation [101] and, more recently, it has been established that solid-liquid or microwave promoted reactions of dry materials are more effective for monoalkylation [102-106] of the esters and also permits dialkylation without hydrolysis. Soliddiquid phase-transfer catalytic conditions using potassium f-butoxide have been used successfully for the C-alkylation of diethyl acetamido-malonate and provides a convenient route to a-amino acids [105, 107] use of potassium hydroxide results in the trans-esterification of the malonate, resulting from hydrolysis followed by O-alkylation. The rate of C-alkylation of malonic esters under soliddiquid phase-transfer catalytic conditions may be enhanced by the addition of 18-crown-6 to the system. The overall rate is greater than the sum of the individual rates observed for the ammonium salt or the crown ether [108]. 

Typical synthetic procedures include the reaction of alkyl halides with the silver salts of carboxylic acids, the reaction of carboxylate anions in alkali with an excess of a dialkyl sulphate, (especially dimethyl sulphate), and heating tertiary184 or quaternary ammonium salts of carboxylic acids. These routes are particularly valuable for the preparation of esters of seriously sterically hindered acids. For example, Fuson et al.iK made the methyl ester of 2,4,6-triethylbenzoic acid by heating the tetramethyl ammonium salt to 200-250°C, viz. 

The power of this methodology lies in the ability to prepare unnatural amino acid derivatives by asymmetric alkylation of prochiral enolates. Several asymmetric alkylations of the alanine derivative 7, catalysed by the C2-symmetrical quaternary ammonium salt 6d, have been reported these reactions yield unnatural amino acids such as 8 in high enantiomeric excess (Scheme 2) [7]. The chiral salen complex 9 has also been shown to be an effective catalyst for the preparation of a,a-dialkyl a-amino acids [8, 9]. For example, benzylation of the Schiff base 10 gave the a-methyl phenylalanine derivative 11 in 92% ee (Scheme 3) [8]. Similar reactions have been catalysed by the TADDOL 12, and also give a,a-dialkyl a-amino acids in good enantiomeric excess [10]. 

N-Alkylation of 1,2,3-triazoles and benzotriazoles is readily achieved using (1) alkyl halides, dialkyl sulfates, diazoalkanes, and jS-tosylates or (2) the Mannich reaction. When alkyl halides are used, sodium alkoxide, sodium hydride, or sodium hydroxide is usually employed as the base. The N-alkylation of benzotriazole with alkyl halides proceeds efficiently using powdered NaOH as the base in DMF. The highest yields (80100%) of the alkylated benzotriazoles are obtained when a fourfold excess of NaOFl is employed. A-Alkylbenzotriazoles have been prepared from benzotriazole and alkyl halides using phase-transfer catalysts, e.g., KOFI, benzene, tetrabutyl-ammonium salts or KOH, benzene, polyethylene glycol. 

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