Esters thioester

The thiation procedure described here is an example of a general synthetic method for the conversion of carbonyl to thiocarbonyl groups. Similar transformations have been carried out with ketones, carboxamides,esters,thioesters, 1 actones, " thiol actones, - imides, enaminones, and protected peptides. ... 

Ester Thioester Acid anhydride Acid chloride... 

As a consequence of these reactivity differences, it s usually possible to convert a more reactive acid derivative into a less reactive one. Acid chlorides, foi instance, can be directly converted into anhydrides, thioesters, esters, and amides, but amides can t be directly converted into esters, thioesters, anhydrides, or acid chlorides. Remembering the reactivity order is therefore a way tc keep track of a large number of reactions (Figure 21.2). Another consequence, a noted previously, is that only acyl phosphates, thioesters, esters, and amides are... 

Many types of carbonyl compounds, including aldehydes, ketones, esters, thioesters, acids, and amides, can be converted into enolate ions by reaction with LDA. Table 22.1 lists the approximate pKa values of different types of carbonyl compounds and shows how these values compare to other acidic substances we ve seen. Note that nitriles, too, are acidic and can be converted into enolate-like anions. 

A variety of Michael donors such as ketones, esters, thioesters, amides, lactones and lactams may be used and in all of these cases the problems of stereoselectivity apply. 

Closely related to enolate additions to enones is the diastereoselective 1,4-addition of lithium enolates of esters, thioesters and amides to a,/ -unsaturated esters. These reactions provide syn-or ar /-2,3-disubstituted glutarates (pentanedioates). 

Conversion of Free or Silylated Carboxylic Acids into Esters, Thioesters, Lactones, or Ketenes. Transesterification of Esters with Alcohols... 

Ester-thioester copolymers were enzymatically synthesized (Scheme 7). ° The lipase CA-catalyzed copolymerization of e-caprolactone with 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid or 3-mercaptopropionic acid under reduced pressure produced the polymer with molecular weight higher than 2 x 10". The thioester unit of the resulting polymer was lower than the feed ratio. The transesterification between poly(8-caprolactone) and 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid or 3-mercaptopropionic acid also took place by lipase CA catalyst. Recently, aliphatic polythioesters were synthesized by lipase CA-catalyzed polycondensation of diesters with 1,6-hexanedithiol. ... 

Rovis and co-workers have also shown that pre-catalyst 129 is competent with a wide range of Michael acceptors including oc,P-unsaturated aldehydes, amides, nitriles, esters, thioesters, vinylphosphonates and vinylphosphine oxides (Scheme 12.25) [58,60],... 

The CES family of proteins is characterized by the ability to hydrolyze a wide variety of aromatic and aliphatic substrates containing ester, thioester, and amide bonds (Heymann 1980, 1982). Cauxin is a member of the CES family, and is secreted from the proximal straight tubular cells into the urine in a species-, sex-, and age-dependent manner. Therefore, we postulated that cauxin was involved in an enzymatic reaction in cat urine and the products made by the reaction should vary with species, sex, and age. Based on this hypothesis, we searched for physiological substrates and products of cauxin in cat urine and identified 2-amino-7-hydroxy-5,5-dimethyl-4-thiaheptanoic acid, also known as felinine. 

Although hydrolytic enzymes, esterases and amidases, are named after their major substrates, the same enzyme can often hydrolyze esters, thioesters, and amides therefore, the differentiation between esterases and amidases is sometimes artificial. The highest hydrolytic activity is in the liver, but the enzyme pseudocholinesterase is found in the serum. Gut bacteria also contain hydrolytic enzymes. 

CPv. / Ti Al Tebbe reagent methylenation of aldehydes, ketones, esters, thioesters, amides, carbonates can also induce olefin metathesis in situ preparation [711-713]... 

The enolates of other carbonyl compounds can be used in mixed aldol condensations. Extensive use has been made of the enolates of esters, thioesters, amides, nitriles, and nitroalkanes. Scheme 2.4 gives a selection of such reactions. 

The above reagents serve as condensing reagents and have different reactivities for peptides 279, p-lactams 281, esters, thioesters, and mixed phosphates, as well as for the direct preparation of 3-acyl-2(3F/)-oxazolones. The bis(2-oxo-3-oxazohnyl)phosphinate 282 is useful for Zr(IV)-catalyzed phosphorylation of alcohols, leading to the general synthesis of acid- and base-labile mixed phosphate esters 284 (Fig. 5.67). ... 

Notes Useful for carboxylic acids activation towards the preparations of esters, thioesters and amides ... 

For purposes of classifying the reactions of metabolism, in this book the nucleophilic displacements are grouped into four subtypes (Table 10-1). These are displacements on (A) a saturated carbon atom, often from a methyl group or a glycosyl group (B) a carbonyl group of an ester, thioester, or amide (C) a phospho group or (D) a sulfur atom. In addition, many enzymes employ in sequence a displacement on a carbon atom followed by a second displacement on a phosphorus atom (or vice versa). 

Functional group incorporation e.g. amide, ester, thioester, urethane and thiourea) provides polar binding sites and additionally ligand stiffening.1,21... 

Alternative methods for the synthesis of peptide aldehydes include reduction of acid halides, phenyl esters, thioesters, and anhydrides prepared from corresponding acids, isoxazolidides, and the hydrolysis of thiazolidine peptides 17,54-56 Enzymes such as thermolysin, subtilisin, and pronase E have proven valuable as effective semisynthetic alternatives 40,57 5 62 ... 

The advantage of the procedure introduced by Stork with bis(trifluoroacetoxy)iodobenzene (26) derives from the associated mild reaction conditions. Esters, thioesters, nitriles, secondary amides, amines, alcohols, halides, alkenes, and alkynes are all compatible with this transformation. 

Sulfur as Heteroatom. Thiols and sulfides are protonated on sulfur in superacid media and give mono- and dialkylsulfonium ions, respectively.136 Thio-carboxylic acids, 5-alkyl esters, thioesters, dithioesters, and thiocarbonates in similar media also form stable protonated ions541,647 such as cations 348-353. 

To address limitations in the use of glyceraldehyde acetonide (43) as a three-carbon chiral building block, butane-2,3-diacetal-protected glyceraldehyde (44, R1 = R2 = H) has been prepared. It undergoes diastereoselective aldol reactions with a range of carbonyl compounds esters, thioesters, and ketones. The work has been extended (g) to other derivatives such as the a-substituted aldehyde (44, R1 = Me, allyl) and the methyl ketone (44, R2 = Me).122a,b... 

Dimethyltitanocene (213), called the Petasis reagent, can be used for alkenation of carbonyls (aldehydes, ketones, esters, thioesters and lactones). This reagent is prepared more easily than the Tebbe reagent by the reaction of titanocene dichloride with MeLi. However, this reagent may not be a carbene complex and its reaction may be explained as a nucleophilic attack of the methyl group at the carbonyl [67], Alkenylsilanes are prepared from carbonyl compounds. Tri(trimethylsilyl)titanacyclobutene (216), as a... 

In Yb(OTf)3-catalyzed Mannich-type reaction of the imine with silicon enolate conducted in SCCO2, the desired product is obtained in only 10 % yield after 3 h due to the low solubility of reactants in scC02 (Scheme 3.11, R1, R2, R3, R4, Rs=Ph, Bn, Me, Me, OMe) [57]. Addition of PEG is found to improve the yield to 72 %. The formation of emulsions can be observed in the presence of PEG. The highest yield (72 %) can be reached at 15 MPa CO2 pressure using PEG400 (MW = 400). This system has been applicable to various substrates including imines derived from aromatic and heterocyclic as well as aliphatic aldehydes and silicon enolates derived from esters, thioesters, and a ketone as depicted in Scheme 3.11. 

The serine hydrolase family is one of the largest and most diverse classes of enzymes. They include proteases, peptidases, lipases, esterases, and amidases and play important roles in numerous physiological and pathological process including inflammation [53], angiogenesis [54], cancer [55], and diabetes [56]. This enzyme family catalyzes the hydrolysis of ester, thioester, and amide bonds in a variety of protein and nonprotein substrates. This hydrolysis chemistry is accomplished by the activation of a conserved serine residue, which then attacks the substrate carbonyl. The resulting covalent adduct is then cleaved by a water molecule, restoring the serine to its active state [57] (Scheme 1). 

The planarity of the amide linkers in the protein backbone restricts rotation around the carbon-nitrogen bond. This provides some restrictions on the number of conformers that can be adopted. The linkage joining amino acids in a polymer is quite stable, but not infinitely so, and it can be relatively easily hydrolyzed by enzymes to allow turnover of proteins within cells. This propitious combination of properties is conferred by the amide bonds linking the amino acids in the polymer polymers linked by ester, thioester, ether, or carbon-carbon bonds lack one or more these properties. 

However, most nucleophiles attack 5-oxazolones at the carbonyl group and the products are derivatives of a-amino acids formed by acyl-oxygen fission. Thus the action of alcohols, thiols, ammonia and amines leads, respectively, to esters, thioesters and amides orthophosphate anion gives acyl phosphates (Scheme 18). The use of a-amino acids in this reaction results in the establishment of a peptide link. Cysteine is acylated at the nitrogen atom in preference to the sulfur atom. Enzymes, e.g. a-chymotrypsin and papain, also readily combine with both saturated and unsaturated azlactones. A useful reagent for the introduction of an a-methylalanine residue is compound (202). Both the trifluoroacetamido and ester groups in the product are hydrolyzed by alkali to give a dipeptide. The alkaline hydrolyzate may be converted into the benzyloxycarbonyl derivative, which forms a new oxazolone on dehydration. Reaction with an ester of an amino acid then yields a protected tripeptide (equation 45). 

Besides simple enones and enals, less reactive Michael acceptors like /3,/3-disubstituted enones, as well as a,/3-unsaturated esters, thioesters, and nitriles, can also be transformed into the 1,4-addition products by this procedure.44,44a,46,46a The conjugate addition of a-aminoalkylcuprates to allenic or acetylenic Michael acceptors has been utilized extensively in the synthesis of heterocyclic products.46-49 For instance, addition of the cuprate, formed from cyclic carbamate 53 by deprotonation and transmetallation, to alkyl-substituted allenic esters proceeded with high stereoselectivity to afford the adducts 54 with good yield (Scheme 12).46,46a 47 Treatment with phenol and chlorotrimethylsilane effected a smooth Boc deprotection and lactam formation. In contrast, the corresponding reaction with acetylenic esters46,46a or ketones48 invariably produced an E Z-mixture of addition products 56. This poor stereoselectivity could be circumvented by the use of (E)- or (Z)-3-iodo-2-enoates instead of acetylenic esters,49 but turned out to be irrelevant for the subsequent deprotection/cyclization to the pyrroles 57 since this step took place with concomitant E/Z-isomerization. 

Compare the physical properties of acid derivatives, and explain the unusually high boiling points and melting points of amides. Compare the relative reactivity of esters, thioesters, amides, nitriles, anhydrides, and acid chlorides. 

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