Fluorinated imines, reaction

Carbon-nitrogen multiple bonds in fluorinated imines and nitriles react with halogen fluoride reagents Imines provide 7V-chloroamine.s on reaction with chlo rme fluoride [62, 121, 122, 123] (equations 23 and 24) or with cesium fluoride and chlorine [124] and A -bromoammes on reaction with cesium fluoride and bromine (equation 24)... 

Racemic fluorinated tryptophan derivatives 31 were obtained from 3-methylene indole 29 and fluorinated imines 30 using the imino-ene reaction (Equation (18)).28 The highest yields were obtained for the more electrophilic imines (R2 = SC>2Ph, Ts, SC Me). Moreover, these reactions took place at ambient temperature. 

A number of imines have also been fluorinated. Typical reactions are the fluorination of N-(trifluoromethyl)difluoromethanimine (21) and 7V,7V,N -tris(trifluoromethyl)fluoroform-imidamide (22).103... 

Fustero et al. noticed that fluorinated imines lOg-h had received little attention so far in literature. In particular, the synthesis of the corresponding anti-Mannich adducts had never been explored previously. By employing Jprgensen s diphenyl-prolinol derivative 41, highly enantioselective one-pot reactions between aldehydes 2 and the fluoroaldimines lOg-h were conducted [31], leading to the fluorinated P-aUcyl-y-amino alcohols 42a-e in a highly selective anh-manner (Scheme 5.23). 

Wang W Li YL, Wang XS (2012) Highly efficient synthesis of 7-aryl-pyrano[3,4-c] pyrazolo[4,3-f]quinoline derivatives catalyzed by iodine. ARKIVOC vi 214-221 Lin XF, Cui SL, Wang YG (2006) Molecular iodine catalyzed one-pot synthesis of substituted quinolines from imines and aldehydes. Tetrahedron Lett 47 3127-3130 Jin G, Zhao J, Han J, Zhu S, Zhang J (2010) Iodine-promoted imino-Diels-Alder reaction of fluorinated imine with enol ether synthesis of 2-perfluorophenyl tetrahydroquinoline derivatives. Tetrahedron 66 913-917... 

Xie H, Zhu J, Chen Z, Li S, Wu Y (2010) Synthesis of 2-trifluoromethyl quinoline by the reaction of fluorinated imine with alkyne cattdyzed by indium(III) triflate. Synlett 2010(17) 2659-2663... 

Reactions offluorinated dipoles. In recent years, much effort has been devoted to the preparation of tnfluoromethyl-substituted 1,3-dipoles with the goal of using them to introduce trifluoromethyl groups into five-membered nng heterocycles Fluorinated diazoalkanes were the first such 1,3-dipoles to be prepared and used in synthesis A number of reports of cycloadditions of mono- and bis(tnfluo-romethyl)diazomethane appeared prior to 1972 [9] Other types of fluonne-substi-tuted 1,3-dipoles were virtually unknown until only recently However, largely because of the efforts of Tanaka s group, a broad knowledge of the chemistry of tnfluoromethyl-substituted nitrile oxides, nitnle imines, nitnle ylides, and nitrones has been accumulated recently... 

Pyrimidin-2-ones 43 with fluorinated substituents have been prepared by reaction of metallated imines with fluorinated nitriles, followed by cyclisation with triphosgene <06T1444>. 

Fluorinated triazole derivatives have been prepared by a somewhat deceptive route that starts with imine perfluoro(5-aza-4-nonene) 140 reaction of 140 with aromatic hydrazines gives 1,2,4-triazoles 141a-g in good yields (Equation 44 and Table 27) <2001RJ01621, 2001ZOR1693>. 

As well as the Bingel reaction and its modifications some more reactions that involve the addition-elimination mechanism have been discovered. 1,2-Methano-[60]fullerenes are obtainable in good yields by reaction with phosphorus- [44] or sulfur-ylides [45,46] or by fluorine-ion-mediated reaction with silylated nucleophiles [47]. The reaction with ylides requires stabilized sulfur or phosphorus ylides (Scheme 3.9). As well as representing a new route to l,2-methano[60]fullerenes, the synthesis of methanofullerenes with a formyl group at the bridgehead-carbon is possible. This formyl-group can be easily transformed into imines with various aromatic amines. 

Although the fluoride anion is not a good leaving group (because of the great strength of the C-F bond), ketones, imines and jS-fluoroesters easily afford this S-elimination reaction (Fig. 22) [77], The S-elimination process remains efficient for CF2 and CF3 compounds, while the C-F bond is stronger. Indeed, fluorine atoms render more acidic the a proton, which makes easier the formation of the anion. 

Imine formation is also possible when a fluorine atom is in a geminal position to a suitable leaving group (e.g., halogen38 or O-substituents). Reaction of perfluorinated epoxides (e.g.. 

In the reaction of /h/f-difluoro ketones with amines, a,/I-unsaturated / -amino ketones are formed, either by inline formation and imine enaminc tautomerization or via elimination of hydrogen fluoride and subsequent substitution of the other fluorine.22 Geminal sp2-bonded difluoridcs arc converted into ketenimines.12-49,89,90... 

NMR studies have been carried out on Schiff bases derived from pyridoxal phosphate and amino acids, since they have been proposed as intermediates in many important biological reactions such as transamination, decarboxylation, etc.90 The pK.d values of a series of Schiff bases derived from pyridoxal phosphate and a-amino adds, most of which are fluorinated (Figure 11), have been derived from H and19F titration curves.91 The imine N atom was found to be more basic and more sensitive to the electron-withdrawing effect of fluorine than the pyridine N atom. Pyridoxal and its phosphate derivative are shown in Figure 12a. The Schiff base formation by condensation of both with octopamine (Figure 12b) in water or methanol solution was studied by 13C NMR. The enolimine form is favoured in methanol, while the ketoamine form predominates in water.92... 

The CCl4-HF-SbF5 system developed by Jouannetaud and co-workers and used in the selective fluorination of imines (see Section 5.10.1) can be applied in the oxygenation of ketones and carboxamides as well. The hydroxylation of ketones is selective [Eq. (5.229)], provided that a five- or six-membered cyclic carboxonium ion preventing fluorination is involved.534,659 Fluorination, however, may be a side reaction with product distributions depending on quenching conditions (aqueous Na2CC>3 or HF-pyridine). Similar features are characteristic of the transformation of carboxamides.659... 

Based on their fluorination protocol, Cahard and co-workers have elaborated a convenient synthesis of a-fluoro-a-phenylglycin derivatives [18]. For example, upon reaction with reagent 24 racemic nitrile 23 was converted into the fluorinated derivative 25 with 94% enantiomeric excess. The corresponding ester derivatives of 23 gave rise to somewhat lower ees. This difference was contributed to the fact that a-lithiated nitriles can be in equilibrium with axial-chiral lithio ketene imines of low racemization barriers thus leading to a potential dynamic kinetic resolution. 

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