Esters From acyl derivatives

C. From Acyl Derivatives of a-Amino Acid Esters... 

Tertiary alkyl azides can be prepared by stirring tertiary alkyl chlorides with NaN3 and ZnCl2 in 82 ° or by treating tertiary alcohols with NaN3 and CF3-COOH or with HN3 andTiCl4 or BF3. Acyl azides, which can be used in the Curtius reaction (18-14), can be similarly prepared from acyl halides, anhydrides, " esters, or other acyl derivatives. ° Acyl azides can also be prepared... 

A method involving SPE was developed for the determination of ten A-nitroso amino acids in cured meat products. These compounds were derivatized with diazomethane followed by O-acylation of hydroxyl groups with acetic anhydride-pyridine reagent. The methyl esters and their acylated derivatives were separated by GC on a DB-5 fused silica capillary column and quantified with a TEA-CLD specific for the nitric oxide derived from the thermal denitrosation of nitrosamines recovery exceeded 75% at the 10 ppb level579. 

Testosterone (T.) derivatives for clinical use. T. esters for im. depot injection are T. propionate and T. heptanoate (or enanthate). These are given in oily solution by deep intramuscular injection. Upon diffusion of the ester from the depot, esterases quickly split off the acyl residue, to yield free T. With increasing lipophilicity, esters will tend to remain in the depot, and the duration of action therefore lengthens. A T. ester for oral use is the undecanoate. Owing to the fatty acid nature of undecanoic acid, this ester is absorbed into the lymph, enabling it to bypass the liver and enter, via the thoracic duct, the general circulation. 17-0 Methyltestosterone is effective by the oral route due to its increased metabolic stability, but because of the hepatotoxicity of Cl 7-alkylated androgens (cholestasis, tumors) its use should be avoided. Orally active mesterolone is 1 a-methyl-dihydrotestosterone. Trans-dermal delivery systems for T. are also available. 

Scheldt and co-workers have also illustrated the oxidation of activated alcohols to esters [132], Oxidations of alcohols such as 260 provide the electrophile (acyl donor) for a nucleophilic alcohol 261. Esters 262 are derived from propargylic, allylic, aromatic, and hetero-aromatic substrates (Table 20). The nucleophilic alcohol scope includes MeOH, n-BuOH, f-BuOH, 2,2,2-trichloroethanol, 2-methoxyethanol, and 2-(trimethylsilyl) ethanol. 

The very different reactivity toward allylation of a,P-unsaturated esters and acyl-silanes [132] is due to stabilization of the allyl cation intermediates by the alkoxy group in the former class of substances, in contrast to those derived from acylsilanes which are expected to be less stable than 3-monooxyallyl cations. In the 1,1-dioxy substituted cations two donor atoms are bonded to the acceptor site, but in the 1-oxy-3 -silyl congeners a rf,a-antagonism (captodative) exists. 

Many such activated acyl derivatives have been developed, and the field has been reviewed [7-9]. The most commonly used irreversible acyl donors are various types of vinyl esters. During the acylation of the enzyme, vinyl alcohols are liberated, which rapidly tautomerize to non-nucleophilic carbonyl compounds (Scheme 4.5). The acyl-enzyme then reacts with the racemic nucleophile (e.g., an alcohol or amine). Many vinyl esters and isopropenyl acetate are commercially available, and others can be made from vinyl and isopropenyl acetate by Lewis acid- or palladium-catalyzed reactions with acids [10-12] or from transition metal-catalyzed additions to acetylenes [13-15]. If ethoxyacetylene is used in such reactions, R1 in the resulting acyl donor will be OEt (Scheme 4.5), and hence the end product from the acyl donor leaving group will be the innocuous ethyl acetate [16]. Other frequently used acylation agents that act as more or less irreversible acyl donors are the easily prepared 2,2,2-trifluoro- and 2,2,2-trichloro-ethyl esters [17-23]. Less frequently used are oxime esters and cyanomethyl ester [7]. S-ethyl thioesters such as the thiooctanoate has also been used, and here the ethanethiol formed is allowed to evaporate to displace the equilibrium [24, 25]. Some anhydrides can also serve as irreversible acyl donors. 

Conversely, ester condensation reactions join acyl groups from CoA derivatives to Schiff bases derived from glycine or serine. Succinyl-CoA is the acyl donor... 

It is this equilibrium which renders difficult the explanation of the course of the reactions which take place when metallic sodium or sodium ethoxide and then alkyl or acyl halide are added to these compounds. At first it was thought that the sodio compound formed with acetoacetic ester was CH3.CO.CHNa.COOC2H5, because the reaction with alkyl and acyl halides always yielded a C-derivative, CH3.CO.CHR.COOC2H5. The first example of a different course of reaction was found in the formation of an O-derivative—/3-carhethoxyhydroxycrotonic ester from sodio-acetoacetic ester and chloroformic ester (J. pr., [2], 37, 473 B., 25,1760 A., 277, 64). This could only be explained by assigning an enol formula to the sodium salt—... 

Carboxylic acid derivatives, as well as aldehydes and ketones, together with the corresponding sulfur compounds, have been included in this section. The reactivity of the 1- and 3-positions is such that in syntheses using acetic anhydride it is often impossible to prevent acetylation. Acyl derivatives may be formed from acid chlorides,44,159-161 cyclobutene-dione derivatives,162 or esters.163 Thus, reaction of a substituted in-... 

Only very few among the common amino acids possess a pK within the range 5.8-7.0. Therefore, the imidazole ring of histidine was suspected very early to represent the group responsible for nucleophilic attack on the substrate (38). The pK of free imidazol is 6.9 (39) that of imidazol, contained in histidine or its peptides, varies between 5.6 and 7.1 (40). Imidazol is well known to form unstable acyl derivatives, which undergo spontaneous hydrolysis because of the presence of the resonating triad unit —-N—C= N— (41). In addition, imidazol and its derivatives catalyze the hydrolysis of certain esters, especially those derived from phenols (42). Likewise, the behavior of imidazol towards thio esters reflects exactly the specificity of ChE s (see IV, 4). Thus, thiol esters are split (43), whereas thiono esters are resistant (21). 

The different reactivity of 1,2- and 1,1-acceptor/donor-substituted alkenes is paralleled by the readiness with which these compounds can be prepared. Thus, /3-amino acrylates are often spontaneously formed by mixing amines with /3-keto esters, and these derivatives have been used as protective groups for amines because of their low reactivity. a-Amino acrylates can, similarly, be prepared from a-keto esters [40], but this condensation reaction does not proceed spontaneously and requires chemical or azeotropic removal of water [41—43]. a-Amino acrylates are unstable compounds which must be stored at low temperatures [41] or N-acylated immediately after their generation [43]. 

For preparation of a wide range of acyl derivatives of trypsinlike enzymes, the 4-amidinophenyl benzoates proved appropriate, and using these fools preparation of acyl enzymes is relatively easy. In the first step the enzyme is acylatcd in the presence of excessive ester concentrations. Thereafter deacylation is stopped by lowering pH and temperature. Ultimately, the acyl enzyme is isolated from the... 

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