Esters with acid anhydrides

Phenols form esters with acid anhydrides and acid chlorides. 

Siloxanes form silyl esters with acid anhydrides such as SOs and CrOa, e.g. ... 

Reaction with Acid Anhydrides. Below room temperature, acid anhydrides react with alkanolamines to produce amides, which partially rearrange to esters on warming to room temperature or slighdy above. 

Ahyl alcohol undergoes reactions typical of saturated, aUphatic alcohols. Ahyl compounds derived from ahyl alcohol and used industriahy, are widely manufactured by these reactions. For example, reactions of ahyl alcohol with acid anhydrides, esters, and acid chlorides yield ahyl esters, such as diahyl phthalates and ahyl methacrylate reaction with chloroformate yields carbonates, such as diethylene glycol bis(ahyl carbonate) addition of ahyl alcohol to epoxy groups yields products used to produce ahyl glycidyl ether (33,34). 

Chemical Properties The formation of salts with acids is the most characteristic reaction of amines. Since the amines are soluble in organic solvents and the salts are usually not soluble, acidic products can be conveniendy separated by the reaction with an amine, the unshared electron pair on the amine nitrogen acting as proton acceptor. Amines are good nucleophiles reactions of amines at the nitrogen atom have as a first step the formation of a bond with the unshared electron pair of nitrogen, eg, reactions with acid anhydrides, haUdes, and esters, with carbon dioxide or carbon disulfide, and with isocyanic or isothiocyanic acid derivatives. 

When dextrose is heated with methanol containing a small amount of anhydrous hydrogen chloride, a-methyl-D-glucoside is obtained in good yield and can be isolated by crystallization. Similar reactions occur with higher alcohols, but the reaction products are more difficult to isolate by crystallization. Dextrose reacts with acid anhydrides in the presence of basic catalysts, yielding esters. Complete reaction gives the pentaacylated derivative. 

Acid-catalyzed esterification of nerol and geraniol with acid anhydrides produces the corresponding esters. The acetates and isobutyrates are also avaUable commercial products. U.S. production of neryl acetate [141-12-8] in 1993 was 18 t at a price of 11.56/kg and that of geranyl acetate [105-37-3] was 132 t at a price of 9.86/kg (67). 

CitroneUol is easUy esterified with acid anhydrides or carboxylic acids, catalyzed by mineral acids. The price of citroneUyl acetate [150-84-5] in 1995 was 10.45/kg (45). Other esters such as the formate and isobutyrate ate also used. 

Ethyl alcohol also reacts with acid anhydrides or acid halides to give the corresponding esters. 

Perfluoroalkyl group-containing surfactants like fluoroalkylsuccinamic surfactant and fluoroalkylthio derivatives from the reaction of bis-2-hydroxyethyl-aminomethylphosphonic acid ester with maleic anhydride were especially useful for the preparation of foams for extinguishing burning hydrocarbon liquids. A surface tension of 19.8 mN/m in a 0.1% aqueous solution was observed [88. ... 

So far, various dicarboxylic acid derivatives, dicarboxylic acids, their activated and non-activated esters, cyclic acid anhydrides, and polyanhydrides have been polymerized with glycols through lipase catalysis to give polyesters. 

In summary, reactions of nitronates with acid anhydrides or acyl chlorides give the O-acylated products, and reactions with acyl imidazoles, phenyl esters, acyl nitriles, and enol-lactones gives the C-acylated products, (see Eq. 5.13).25 The C/O selectivity of nitronate acylation by RCOX is qualitatively correlated with strength (pKJ of the acid HX conjugated to the leaving group X .25... 

The formation of relatively ill-defined catalysts for epoxide/C02 copolymerization catalysts, arising from the treatment of ZnO with acid anhydrides or monoesters of dicarboxylic acids, has been described in a patent disclosure.968 Employing the perfluoroalkyl ester acid (342) renders the catalyst soluble in supercritical C02.969 At 110°C and 2,000 psi this catalyst mixture performs similarly to the zinc bisphenolates, producing a 96 4 ratio of polycarbonate polyether linkages, with a turnover of 440 g polymer/g [Zn] and a broad polydispersity (Mw/Mn>4). Related aluminum complexes have also been studied and (343) was found to be particularly active. However, selectivity is poor, with a ratio of 1 3.6 polycarbonate polyether.970... 

The colour reaction of cholesterol and cholesterol esters with acetic anhydride and concentrated sulphuric acid provides the basis of the method attributed to Liebermann and Burchard. This reaction in not entirely specific for cholesterol or its esters because other sterols will also react. In its original form the reagent consists of acetic anhydride, concentrated sulphuric acid and glacial acetic acid and the intensity of the green colour is affected by the proportions of the reagents and the amount of water present. It is possible to achieve an increase in sensitivity if the reagent contains ferric ions. Various modifications of reagent composition have been used and some methods are fluorimetric. 

The classes of compounds which are conveniently considered together as derivatives of carboxylic acids include the carboxylic acid anhydrides, acyl chlorides, esters, and amides. In the case of simple aliphatic and aromatic acids, synthetic transformations among these derivatives are usually a straightforward matter involving such fundamental reactions as ester saponification, formation of acyl chlorides, and the reactions of amines with acid anhydrides or acyl chlorides ... 

Citronellol undergoes the typical reactions of primary alcohols. Compared with geraniol, which contains one more double bond, citronellol is relatively stable. Citronellol is converted into citronellal by dehydrogenation or oxidation hydrogenation yields 3,7-dimethyloctan-l-ol. Citronellyl esters are easily prepared by esterification with acid anhydrides. 

Monosaccharides contain a number of alcoholic hydroxyl groups, and thus can react with acid anhydrides to yield corresponding esters. For example, when glucose is treated with acetic anhydride and pyridine, it forms a pentaacetate. The ester functions in glucopyranose pentaacetate undergo the typical ester reactions. 

Acrolein, 446 Acrylonitrile, 916, 1022 reactions with, 914-917 Acrylic acid derivatives, 1016, 1023 Acylation of ketones, with acid anhydrides, 861 with esters, 861, 862 ... 

These atoms are more electronegative than nitrogen and less able to stabilise a positive charge. These resonance structures might occur to a small extent with esters and acid anhydrides, but are far less likely in acid chlorides. This tend also matches the trend in reactivity. 

Although the resonance effect is weak in esters and acid anhydrides, it explain why acid anhydrides are more reactive than esters. Acid anhydrides have two carbonyl groups and so resonance can occur with either carbonyl group (Following fig.). Due to this, the lone pair of the central oxygen is split between both groups that means that the resonance effect is split between both carbonyl groups. 

Amides can also be synthesised from acid anhydrides and esters but in general these reactions offer no advantage over acid chlorides because acid anhydrides and esters are less reactive. Moreover, with acid anhydrides, half of the parent carboxylic acid is lost as the leaving group. Thus, acid anhydrides are only used for the synthesis of amides if the acid anhydride is cheap and freely available (e.g. acetic anhydride). 

Azine approach. 4-Amino-5-hydroxypyrimidine condenses with acid anhydrides or esters to form the corresponding 2-substituted oxazolopyrimidine system (77CPB491). Under relatively mild reaction conditions the nucleoside 6-amino-5-hydroxyuridine will undergo cyclocondensation with formamide under the influence of polyphosphate ester to form the oxazolo-fused nucleoside (230) both protected and non-protected pyrimidine nucleosides have been used in this reaction (73CPB1327). 

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