Formamides amides

Ethyl oxalate is the only liquid ester which gives this rapid separation of the amide, which is therefore characteristic. Methyl and ethyl formate react rapidly with ammonia, but the soluble formamide does not separate methyl succinate gives crystalline succinamide after about I hour s standing, other esters only after a much longer time. The solid esters, other than methyl oxalate, are either soluble in water and remain so when treated with ammonia, or alternatively are insoluble in water and hence clearly not methyl oxalate. 

B) AMIDES. R-CONHj. Formamide, acetamide, oxamide, urea, benzamide, salicylamide. Thiourea. 

B) Amides. All colourless solids except formamide, HCONIL, a... 

Other fairly recent commercial products, poly(vinyl amine) and poly(vinyl amine vinyl alcohol), have addressed the need for primary amines and their selective reactivity. Prior efforts to synthesize poly(vinyl amine) have been limited because of the difficulty hydrolyzing the intermediate polymers. The current product is prepared from /V-ethenylformamide (20) formed from the reaction of acetaldehyde and formamide. The vinyl amide is polymerized with a free-radical initiator, then hydrolyzed (eq. 7). 

Tables 1 and 2 Hst the important physical properties of formamide. Form amide is more highly hydrogen bonded than water at temperatures below 80°C but the degree of molecular association decreases rapidly with increa sing temperature. Because of its high dielectric constant, formamide is an excellent ionizing solvent for many inorganic salts and also for peptides, proteias (eg, keratin), polysaccharides (eg, cellulose [9004-34-6] starch [9005-25-8]) and resias.

V,/V-dimethy1-form amide [68-12-2] dimethyl formamide C3H2ON 24.7... 

Amino-pyridazines and -pyridazinones react with monomethyl- or iV,A-dimethyl-formamide and other aliphatic amides in the presence of phosphorus trichloride, thionyl chloride, phosgene or benzenesuUonyl chloride to give mono- or di-alkylaminomethyl-eneamino derivatives. The same compounds can be prepared conveniently with A,iV-dimethylformamide dimethyl acetal in high yield (Scheme 50). 

Oxazoles are also obtained by the reaction of a-halogenoketones (78) with primary amides (the Bliimlein-Lewy synthesis), and this method is particularly appropriate for oxazoles containing one or more aryl groups as in (79). Formamide may also be used in this process, resulting in a free 2-position in the oxazole, and when a urea derivative (80) is used, 2-aminooxazoles (81) are formed (80ZOR2185, 78IJC(B)1030, 78JIC264). Numerous applications of these procedures are described in Chapter 4.18. 

Triazole has been prepared by the oxidation of substituted 1,2,4-triazoles, by the treatment of urazole with phosphorus pentasulfide, by heating equimolar quantities of formyl-hydrazine and formamide, by removal of the amino function of 4-amino-l,2,4-triazole, by oxidation of l,2,4-triazole-3(5)-thiol with hydrogen peroxide, by decarboxylation of 1,2,4-triazole-3(5)-carboxylic acid, by heating hydrazine salts with form-amide,by rapidly distilling hydrazine hydrate mixed with two molar equivalents of formamide, i by heating N,N -diformyl-hydrazine with excess ammonia in an autoclave at 200° for 24 hours, and by the reaction of 1,3,5-triazine and hydrazine monohydrochloride. ... 

The chain addition of formamide to alkenes is a closely related reaction. It results in the formation of primary amides. The reaction is carried out with irradiation in acetone. The photoexcited acetone initiates the chain reaction by abstracting hydrogen from formamide ... 

When o-aminobenzophenone is heated with formamide in the presence of formic acid at 150°C for 20 min, a quantitative yield of 4-phenylquinazoline is obtained. In the absence of formic acid longer heating is necessary. Although this reaction does not proceed with o-acylamidobenzophenones, its extension to other o-acylanilines with aliphatic amides may prove fruitful. 

A likely pathway is also that in which the key stage is the addition of the second formamide molecule to the carbonyl group of the intermediate 157 to form the amide 159. The latter, with loss of water, closes the dihydropyrimidine ring 160, which undergoes aromatization to 4-metylpyrimidine via 1,4-hydrogen shift and decarbonylation. 

In a departure from the prototype molecule, the benzylpiperi-done is first converted to the corresponding aminonitrile (a derivative closely akin to a cyanohydrin) by treatment with aniline hydrochloride and potassium cyanide (126). Acid hydrolysis of the nitrile affords the corresponding amide (127). Treatment with formamide followed by reduction affords the spiro oxazinone... 

Condensation of hydrazine with ethoxymethylenemalononitrile (22) gives 3-amino-4-cyanopyrazole (23). Hydrolysis with sulfuric acid leads to the amide, 24 heating with formamide inserts... 

Photolytic Reaction in Sunlight A mixture of olefin (0.01 mole), formamide (40 g), r-butyl alcohol (20 ml), and acetone (5 ml) is placed in a Pyrex Erlenmeyer flask, which is then flushed with nitrogen, stoppered, and situated in direct sunlight for 1 day. A solution of olefin (0.04 mole), /-butyl alcohol (25 ml), and acetone (5 ml) is then added in four equal portions at 1-day intervals, and finally, the flask is left in sunlight for an additional 2 days. Work-up of the solutions as in the above procedure gives the desired amide in comparable yields. 

Samal et al. [25] reported that Ce(IV) ion coupled with an amide, such as thioacetamide, succinamide, acetamide, and formamide, could initiate acrylonitrile (AN) polymerization in aqueous solution. Feng et al. [3] for the first time thoroughly investigated the structural effect of amide on AAM polymerization using Ce(IV) ion, ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) as an initiator. They found that only acetanilide (AA) and formanilide (FA) promote the polymerization and remarkably enhance Rp. The others such as formamide, N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF), N-butylacetamide, and N-cyclohexylacetamide only slightly affect the rate of polymerization. This can be shown by the relative rate (/ r), i.e., the rate of AAM polymerization initiated with ceric ion-amide divided by the rate of polymerization initiated with ceric ion alone. Rr for CAN-anilide system is approximately 2.5, and the others range from 1.04-1.11. 

Best Preparation on a Laboratory and Commercial Scale. A. Methylene diform amide. In a 2fi round bottom 1 neck flask are placed 540g of formamide and 70g of hexamine. The flask is fitted with a wide bore air condenser topped with a w jacketed reflux condenser, and the flask held at 140 for 5 hours. It is chilled in ice, the solid filtered, and washed on the filter with 90g of formamide. The cmde prod may be used in the next step. For a pure sample,- the crude solid is dissolved in et ale, decolorized with charcoal, and the soln chilled, mp 142—43°... 

C. MEDINA. The crude methylenedi(nitro-formamide) is pressed dry on the filter, stirred into lOSml of formic acid, and the paste allowed to stand overnight. The next day the soln is filtered thru an acid-proof flit, the formic acid and w removed by codistn with xylene, and the crude MEDINA, which seps as a sand, filtered and dried over paraffin and NaOH in a vacuum yield 80—100% based on methylene diform-amide, mp 98—103°. The crude MEDINA is recrystd from 2-nitropropane or et chloride iso-Pr ale 9 1, mp 104-059 (Ref 11, p 54). This prepn is also covered in Ref 20... 

Potassium amide ip conversion of o-acetoacetochloroanilide to 3-acetyk)xindole, 40, 1 Potassium ierf-butoxide, 41, 101 in dehydration of formamides to isocyanides, 41, 101... 

Chromium aminocarbenes [39] are readily available from the reaction of K2Cr(CO)5 with iminium chlorides [40] or amides and trimethylsilyl chloride [41]. Those from formamides (H on carbene carbon) readily underwent photoreaction with a variety of imines to produce /J-lactams, while those having R-groups (e.g.,Me) on the carbene carbon produced little or no /J-lactam products [13]. The dibenzylaminocarbene complex underwent reaction with high diastereoselectivity (Table 4). As previously observed, cyclic, optically active imines produced /J-lactams with high enantioselectivity, while acyclic, optically active imines induced little asymmetry. An intramolecular version produced an unusual anti-Bredt lactam rather than the expected /J-lactam (Eq. 8) [44]. 

The reaction with disubstituted formamides and phosphorus oxychloride, called the Vilsmeier or the Vilsmeier-Haack reaction,is the most common method for the formylation of aromatic rings. However, it is applicable only to active substrates, such as amines and phenols. An intramolecular version is also known.Aromatic hydrocarbons and heterocycles can also be formylated, but only if they are much more active than benzene (e.g., azulenes, ferrocenes). Though A-phenyl-A-methyl-formamide is a common reagent, other arylalkyl amides and dialkyl amides are also used. Phosgene (COCI2) has been used in place of POCI3. The reaction has also been carried out with other amides to give ketones (actually an example of 11-14),... 

Disubstituted formamides can give addition of 2 mol of Grignard reagent. The products of this reaction (called Bouveault reaction) are an aldehyde and a tertiary amine.The use of an amide other than a formamide can give a ketone instead... 

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