Secondary enamines

One specific enol equivalent that works very well for aldehydes is an enamine. Secondary amines such as Me2NH, Et2NH, pyrrolidine, piperidine, or morpholine 34 add cleanly to aldehydes to give enamines 36. These relatively stable nitrogen analogues of enols react well with reactive alkyl halides, such as a-carbonyl halides, and in Michael additions. They were considered in chapter 2 and only a few extra examples will be given here. 

The condensation of aldehydes or ketones with secondary amines leads to "encunines via N-hemiacetals and immonium hydroxides, when the water is removed. In these conjugated systems electron density and nudeophilicity are largely transferred from the nitrogen to the a-carbon atom, and thus enamines are useful electroneutral d -reagents (G.A. Cook, 1969 S.F. Dyke, 1973). A bulky heterocyclic substituent supports regio- and stereoselective reactions. 

Primary and secondary amines also react with epoxides (or in situ produced episulfides )r aziridines)to /J-hydroxyamines (or /J-mercaptoamines or 1,2-diamines). The Michael type iddition of amines to activated C—C double bonds is also a useful synthetic reaction. Rnally unines react readily with. carbonyl compounds to form imines and enamines and with carbo-tylic acid chlorides or esters to give amides which can be reduced to amines with LiAlH (p. Ilf.). All these reactions are often applied in synthesis to produce polycyclic alkaloids with itrogen bridgeheads (J.W. Huffman, 1967) G. Stork, 1963 S.S. Klioze, 1975). 

Primary amines undergo nucleo philic addition to the carbonyl group of aldehydes and ketones to form carbinol amines These carbinolamines dehydrate under the conditions of their formation to give N substituted imines Secondary amines yield enamines... 

Enamines are formed in the correspond mg reaction of secondary amines with aldehydes and ketones... 

Reductive amination of cyclohexanone using primary and secondary aHphatic amines provides A/-alkylated cyclohexylamines. Dehydration to imine for the primary amines, to endocycHc enamine for the secondary amines is usually performed in situ prior to hydrogenation in batch processing. Alternatively, reduction of the /V-a1ky1ani1ines may be performed, as for /V,/V-dimethy1 cyclohexyl amine from /V, /V- di m e th y1 a n i1 i n e [121 -69-7] (12,13). One-step routes from phenol and the alkylamine (14) have also been practiced. 

Rifamycin S also undergoes conjugate addition reactions to the quinone ring by a variety of nucleophiles including ammonia, primary and secondary amines, mercaptans, carbanions, and enamines giving the C-3 substituted derivatives (38) of rifamycin SV (117,120,121). Many of the derivatives show excellent antibacterial properties (109,118,122,123). The 3-cycHc amino derivatives of rifamycin SV also inhibit the polymerase of RNA tumor vimses (123,124). 

Secondary amines cannot form imines, and dehydration proceeds to give carbon-carbon double bonds bearing amino substituents (enamines). Enamines were mentioned in Chapter 7 as examples of nucleophilic carbon species, and their synthetic utility is discussed in Chapter 1 of Part B. The equilibrium for the reaction between secondary amines and carbonyl compounds ordinarily lies far to the left in aqueous solution, but the reaction can be driven forward by dehydration methods. 

Secondary amines react smoothly with 3-ketones to give enamines and good selectivity is achieved in the presence of 7-, 12-, 17- and 20-ketones. With pyrrolidine the reaction takes place under very mild conditions and no catalyst is usually required. Hydrolysis occurs by simply heating in ethanol. 

Enamine (Section 17.11) Product of the reaction of a secondary amine and an aldehyde or a ketone. Enamines are characterized by the general structure... 

This type of mesomerisin is much more important in enamines possessing a tertiary nitrogen atom than in those possessing a secondary nitrogen atom since the latter exist largely in the tautomeric imino form (2). 

Other secondary amines such as pyrrolidine, di- -butylamine, tetrahydro-quinoline, n-benzylamine, and piperidine were also found to be capable of effecting this reduction. Interestingly, morpholine does not reduce enamines as readily (47) and its acid-catalyzed reaction with norbornanone was reported (45) to give only the corresponding enamine (93), although trace amounts of the reduction product were detected when cyclohexanone was treated with morpholine under these conditions (47a). The yield of morpholine reduction product was increased by using higher temperatures. 

Recently Stamhuis et al. (33) have determined the base strengths of morpholine, piperidine, and pyrrolidine enamines of isobutyraldehyde in aqueous solutions by kinetic, potentiometric, and spectroscopic methods at 25° and found that these enamines are 200-1000 times weaker bases than the secondary amines from which they are formed and 30-200 times less basic than the corresponding saturated tertiary enamines. The baseweakening effect has been attributed to the electron-withdrawing inductive effect of the double bond and the overlap of the electron pair on the nitrogen atom with the tt electrons of the double bond. It was pointed out that the kinetic protonation in the hydrolysis of these enamines occurs at the nitrogen atom, whereas the protonation under thermodynamic control takes place at the -carbon atom, which is, however, dependent upon the pH of the solution (84,85). The measurement of base strengths of enamines in chloroform solution show that they are 10-30 times weaker bases than the secondary amines from which they are derived (4,86). 

Enamines from the Condensation of Aldehydes and Ketones with Secondary Amines. ... 

C. Secondary Reactions in Enamine Formation from Ketones and Amines. ... 

The most versatile method for preparing enamines involves the condensation of aldehydes and ketones with secondary amines [Eq. (1)]. Mannich and Davidsen (/) discovered that the reaction of secondary amines with aldehydes in the presence of potassium carbonate and at temperatures near 0° gave enamines, while calcium oxide and elevated temperatures were required to cause a reaction between ketones and secondary amines, although usually in poor yield. The introduction by Herr and Heyl 2-4) of the removal of the water produced in the condensation by azeotropic distillation with benzene made possible the facile preparation of enamines from ketones and disubstituted aldehydes. 

This innovation was exploited by Stork and his co-workers (6-8) for a study of enamine formation from a variety of ketones and secondary amines. 

The next seven references are cited not because of the experimental procedures described but because they indicate diversification in the types of enamines prepared and studied. Both Paquette (25) and Kasper 26) have condensed 2,5-methylene-l,2,5,6-tetrahydrobenzaldehyde (5-nor-bornene-2-carboxyaldehyde) (2) with several cyclic and open-chain aliphatic secondary amines. Kasper studied the ratio of endo to exo aldehyde formed upon hydrolysis of these enamines and the dihydro enamines. Paquette investigated the addition of sulfene to the enamines. -Fluoro-... 

The secondary amines used in the preparation of enamines have been primarily simple dialkylamines or cyclic amines of five- or higher-membered rings. Azetidine (4) yields a stable enamine with cyclopentanone (28). No simple enamines formed by condensation of ethylenimine (5) or a substituted ethylenimine with an aldehyde or ketone have been reported. 

An interesting preparation of substituted o-aminophenols has been developed by Birkofer and Daum (30). 2-Acylfurans (8) plus an aliphatic secondary amine presumably condense to give the eorresponding enamine (9) (not isolated), which undergoes thermal isomerization to the o-amino-phenol (10). 

The cyclic thioketone, 3-oxotctrahydrothiophene (11), gives a mixture of enamines (12,13) when caused to react with a secondary amine such as piperidine or pyrrolidine (31). The enamine mixture can be reduced to the 3-aminotetrahydrothiophene using formic acid or oxidized to the 3-amino-thiophene using diisopentylsulfide. 

The overall reaction pathway usually presented (/,9,/9,36)for the preparation of an enamine from an aldehyde bearing an a-hydrogen and a secondary amine is given in Eqs. (2) and (3). Intermediate 16, which can be isolated in... 

That an aminal is a necessary intermediate was first questioned by Herr and Heyl (2). They found that by using a slight excess of amine the yield of the enamine from two of the steroidal aldehydes studied was 84%. Also, the -fluorocnamines discussed earlier are formed in 60-90% yield from equimolar amounts of the 8-fluoroaldehyde and secondary cyclic amine (27). However, neither of these studies was specifically designed to show whether or not aminals were intermediates. 

The evidence accumulated to date unfortunately is not conclusive. The most accurate statement which probably can be made is that aminals are produced when aldehydes and secondary amines react, but the aminals are not necessarily the direct precursor of the enamine. 

The intermediacy of an aminal in the formation of enamines from ketones and secondary amines is not usually proposed. The only direct evidence for this is the infrared spectra of the reaction mixtures produced when dimethyl-or diethylamine was allowed to react with cyclohexanone or cyclopentanone... 

The acid-catalyzed reaction of acetophenone with acyclic secondary amines results in the formation of the expected enamine and a rearrangement product. The latter product arises from the transfer of one of the amino N-alkyl groups to the cnamine s carbon to produce a ketimine (53a). 

The oxidation of amines by mercuric acetate is an old reaction (54) which up until recent years was employed primarily to modify alkaloid structures (55). A systemic study of the oxidizing action of mercuric acetate by Leonard and co-workers led to the development of a general method for the synthesis of enamines from cyclic tertiary amines. An observation made after a large number of compounds were oxidized, but which is worth noting at the onset, is that a tertiary hydrogen alpha to the nitrogen atom is removed preferentially to a secondary a-hydrogen. 

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