Formation from oxime hydrogenation

The nitrosation of aliphatic carbon atoms, particularly of carbon atoms activated by adjacent carbonyl, carboxyl, nitrile, or nitro groups, has been reviewed in great detail [2]. Judging from this review, with few exceptions, nitrosation of active methylene compounds leads to the formation of oximes (unfortunately termed isonitroso compounds in the older literature). The few exceptional cases cited in which true nitroso compounds (or their dimers) were formed involved tertiary carbon atoms in which no hydrogen atoms were available to permit tautomerism to the oxime or involved a reaction which was carried out under neither acidic nor basic conditions. 

Various procedures have been developed for the production of oximes from nitroparaffins. Direct reduction with zinc dust and acetic acid has been proposed, but the yields are poor because of the simultaneous formation of amines. A synthesis for cyclohexanone oxime has been demonstrated which involves the formation and selective hydrogenation of 1-chloro-l-nitrocyclohexane. The halogenated intermediate is prepared in quantitative yield by chlorination of the sodium salt of acz -nitrocyclo-hexane, and subsequent hydrogenation is performed in an 80% yield over palladium-on-charcoal, ... 

In the following stage, hydrogen-atom abstraction from oximes leads to formation... 

Thebainone (Schopf), CigHjjOgN. This substance, which must be distinguished from Pschorr s thebainone (metothebainone of Schopf (see p. 248) ), is formed, along with the latter in the reduction of thebaine by stannous chloride in hydrochloric acid, and was isolated by Schopf and Hirsch. Its prior isolation by Pschorr, as confirmed by Morris and Small, has been referred to already. It crystallises with 0-5 HjO, has m.p. 151-2°, yields a hydriodide, m.p. 258-9°, methiodide, m.p. 223°, and an oxime, m.p. 185-6°. On catalytic hydrogenation it yields dihydrothebainone (LI), and can be degraded to 3 4 6-triacetoxyphenanthrene, m.p. 165-7°. On this basis formula (XLIX) is assigned to it. The mechanism of the formation of codeinone, thebainone and mefathebainone from thebaine is discussed by Schopf and Hirsch. ... 

The formation of cyclic nitrones (150) from pericyclic mechanism. Kinetic and computational studies have provided evidence for the involvement of a novel pseudo-pericyclic electrocyclization in the conversion of o-vinylphenyl isocyanates into quinolin-2-ones. " Such reactions have also provided evidence of torquoselectivity in a 6jt system. Hash vacuum thermolysis of triazoles (151) has been found to afford dihydroquinolines (155), presumably by generation of a-oxoketenimines (152) which can undergo a [1,5]-hydrogen shift to the o-quinoid imines (153)7(154) and subsequent electrocyclization (see Scheme 57). 

In this case, the enthalpies of reaction are 52.1, 45.7 and 44.6kJmoD where the enthalpies of formation of solid and gaseous acetone oxime are from References 1 and 4, respectively, and the enthalpies of oximation in aqueous media are from References 49a and 49c. In both cases, the values are comfortably similar for the three phases. Perhaps we should not be too surprised that the values are close—after all, the number of hydrogen bonds are the same on the two sides of the reaction. However, nothing prepares us for the observation that the aqueous phase oximation enthalpy of propionaldehyde is 73.2 kJmoD, even though we recall problems with the enthalpy of formation of EtCH=NOH. 

It was shown by Barton et al. that the photolysis of steroidal nitrites 50 proceeding by formation of alkoxy radicals could result in hydrogen abstrae-tion from suitably situated methyl groups forming earbon-centered radicals, which then reacted with the NO generated to give oximes (equation 79). This permitted the functionalization of the unaetivated centers. 

Functionalization of the carbon radical resulting from cyclization of an aminium radical is an important step for synthetic chemists in order to obtain the desired product directly or to provide a handle for further transformations. Radical reactions of A-chloroalkenylamines (Section III,B) lead to /3-chloro pyrrolidines, which are prone to rearrangement to give piperidines. Reactions of N-nitroso alkenylamines lead to 8-nitroso pyrrolidines and, if an a-hydrogen is present, ultimately to oximes of aldehydes or ketones. Advantages of the latter transformation are the formation of stable substituted pyrrolidines and the utility of the oxime moiety in regard to further transformations. 

The conversion of nitrocoumarins into the amino compounds has been achieved by hydrogen transfer (95JCR(S)372) and an intramolecular hydride transfer features in the formation of Mannich bases of 4-aminocoumarins from 4-alkylaminocoumarin-3-carbaldehyde (95S633). Amine derivatives of coumarin-3-carboxaldehyde undergo a thermal 1,3-cycloaddilion involving an oxime nitrone isomerisation on reaction with Al-methyl-hydtoxylamine yielding hetero-fused coumarins (95JCS(P1)1857). 

The radical C-H transformation of ethers is generally initiated by a-hydrogen abstraction with highly reactive radicals generated from such initiators as peroxides [3a, g], photo-activated carbonyl compounds [3b—d], metallic reagents [3i, j], and redox systems [3f, h[. Various combinations of ethers, radical initiators, and radical acceptors (e.g. carbon-carbon multiple bonds) may be used as the reaction components [6], Several notable means of direct C-C bond formation via the radical a-C-H transformation of ethers involve the use of triflon derivatives [7], the phthalimide-N-oxyl (PINO) radical [8], 2-chloroethylsulfonyl oxime ethers [9], and N-acyl aldohydrazones [10],... 

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