Esters from acyl hydrazides

Much more important than these reactions, however, are the reactions of CDI and its analogues with carboxylic acids, leading to AAacylazoles, from which (by acyl transfer) esters, amides, peptides, hydrazides, hydroxamic acids, as well as anhydrides and various C-acylation products may be obtained. The potential of these and other reactions will be shown in the following chapters. In most of these reactions it is not necessary to isolate the intermediate AAacylazoles. Instead, in the normal procedure the appropriate nucleophile reactant (an alcohol in the ester synthesis, or an amino acid in the peptide synthesis) is added to a solution of an AAacylimidazole, formed by reaction of a carboxylic acid with CDI. Thus, CDI and its analogues offer an especially convenient vehicle for activation of... 

Acyl hydrazides are useful precursors for the synthesis of 1,2,4-triazoles. Reaction of acyl hydrazides 149 with imidoylbenzotriazoles 148 in the presence of catalytic amounts of acetic acid under microwave irradiation afforded 3,4,5-trisubstituted triazoles 150 <06JOC9051>. Treatment of A-substituted acetamides with oxalyl chloride generated imidoyl chlorides, which reacted readily with aryl hydrazides to give 3-aryl-5-methyl-4-substituted[ 1,2,4]triazoles <06SC2217>. 5-Methyl triazoles could be further functionalized through a-lithiation and subsequent reaction with electrophiles. ( )-A -(Ethoxymethylene)hydrazinecarboxylic acid methyl ester 152 was applied to the one-pot synthesis of 4-substituted-2,4-dihydro-3//-1,2,4-triazolin-3-ones 153 from readily available primary alkyl and aryl amines 151 <06TL6743>. An efficient synthesis of substituted 1,2,4-triazoles involved condensation of benzoylhydrazides with thioamides under microwave irradiation <06JCR293>. 

Acyl azides (see Section 2.13) The acyl-azide method of coupling is unique for two reasons. First, it is the only case in which the immediate precursor of the activated form of the peptide is not the parent acid. The starting material is the peptide ester that is obtained from the amino acid ester by usual chain assembly (Figure 2.25, path A). Second, it is the only method that just about guarantees production of a peptide that is enantiomerically pure, provided scrupulous attention is paid to details of procedure. There is no danger for loss of chirality during conversion of the ester to the hydrazide and then the azide, but care must be taken to avoid contact of... 

A closely related reaction of general applicability is the Curtius rearrangement222 of acyl azides. The rearranging species in the Schmidt reaction (see p. 898) is in fact also a protonated acyl azide these azides are readily prepared by the action of nitrous acid on acyl hydrazides which are themselves formed from esters and hydrazine (Section 9.6.17, p. 1269). On heating in aprotic solvents the acyl azides decompose to yield the corresponding isocyanates in good yield. 

Carboxylic acid hydiazides are prepared from aqueous hydrazine and tfie carboxylic acid, ester, amide, anhydride, or halide. The reaction usually goes poody with the free acid. Esters are generally satisfactory. Acyl halides are particularly reactive, even at room temperature, and form the diacyl derivatives (22), which easily undergo thermal dehydration to 1,3,4-oxadiazoles (23). Diesters give dihydtazides (24) and polyesters such as polyacrylates yield a polyhydrazide (25). The chemistry of carboxyhc hydrazides has been reviewed (83,84). 

In general the synthesis of suitably protected amino acid and peptide hydrazides from the corresponding alkyl or aryl esters by reaction with hydrazine hydrate is carried out in alcohols or DMF at ambient temperature.P However, with C-terminal branched amino acids such as valine or isoleucine, or larger peptides, more vigorous conditions are required, i.e. higher temperature (25-80°C) and longer reaction times. To avoid formation of symmetrical bis(A-acyl-aminoacyl)hydrazides an excess of hydrazine hydrate or hydrazine is recommended, which also enhances the reaction rates. In this context, the solvent is known to play an important role, with alcohols being more appropriate than DMFP 0 or solvent mixtures such as dioxane/methanol.f l The use of hydrazine hydrate without any solvent has also been reported. ... 

Z-Glu(OtBu)-Ala-Glu(OtBu)-OPcp [(from EtOAc) yield 78% mp 132-133 C [a]o -13.2 (c 2, CHCI3)] and Z-Glu(OtBu)-Ala-OPcp [(from MeOH) yield 64% mp 171-172 C mp 173-174 C after three crystallizations, [a]o —18.5 (c 1.33, CHCI3)] were prepared from the acid and HOPcp using DCC according to Section 3.2.1.1.3.The protected tripeptide ester had the same specific rotation as that prepared by coupling the protected dipeptide hydrazide and the amino add ester by the acyl azide method. The two esters prepared by direct esterification were demonstrated by indirect optical rotation measurements to be >99.6 and 98% enantiomerically pure, respectively. 

Three amides, 728-730, and the hydrazide 731 were prepared in good yields from the corresponding ester 726 via acyl chloride 727 (Scheme 107) <1999JMC2373>. 

As described earlier (Section 4.4.1.1), the intermediates of the Curtius reaction are acyl azides, which themially rearrange to isocyanates. One of the classical procedures for the preparation of acyl azides consists of the formation of hydrazides from esters and hydrazine, followed by treatment of the hydrazides with nitrous acid, generated from sodium nitrite and acetic, hydrochloric or sulfuric acid. Acyl azides are commonly used in the crude state or in solution since they are thermally unstable and potentially explosive. 

Acyl azide method, one of the oldest coupling methods in peptide synthesis, introduced by Theodor Curtius in 1902. Starting compounds are amino acid or peptide hydrazides (R-CO-NH-NH2), easily accessible from the corresponding esters by hydrazinolysis, which are transformed into azides (R-CO-N3) by N-... 

Protection of amino groups from nitrous acid by acylation is not always successful, for deacylation may occur during treatment of the esters with hydrazine. Ethyl 2,6-dibenzamidoisonicotinate when treated with hydrazine gives 2,6-diMmnoisonicotinyl hydrazide the ethyl ester of phthalylglycine is similarly cleaved to gly(yl hydrazide and phthalhydrazide, a gener reaction for phthalimides (see p. 381). 

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