Halides, alkyl, reaction with amino-alcohols

Reaction of dibenzylamine with ethylene oxide affords the amino alcohol, 82. Treatment of that product with thionyl chloride gives the a-sympathetic blocking agent, dibenamine (83). (Condensation of phenol with propylene chlorohydrin (84) gives the alcohol, 85. Reaction with thionyl chloride affords the chloride (86). Use of the halide to alkylate ethanolamine affords the secondary amine (87). Alkylation of this last with benzyl chloride... 

From oxidative cleavage of 1,2-diols and 1,2-amino alcohols Dibutyltin oxide, 95 By reaction of alkyl halides with sulfur-stabilized carbanions Methylthiomethyl p-tolyl sulfone, 192 From reduction of carboxylic acids Vilsmeier reagent, 341 From terminal alkenes by addition reactions... 

Epoxides react cleanly with amines to give amino-alcohols. We have not so far featured amines as nucleophiles because their reactions with alkyl halides are often bedevilled by overreaction (see the next section), but with epoxides they give good results. 

Deoxygenation. Alkanes are obtained from alcohols by reaction with PdClj-EtjSiH (by adding an alkyl halide such as Mel to the reaction medium the halides are produced). Secondary allylic alcohols and acetates are reduced to the hydrocarbons with EtjSiH-LiClO. The facile removal of the oxygen atom from aryl ketones by TiCl -mediated reaction with Et,SiH makes the synthesis of a-amino acids containing carbon chains of different length and a terminal aryl group much easier. A synthesis of CHIRAPHOS via the phosphine oxides calls for deoxygenation with HSiCl -EtaN." ... 

The preparation of indoles by the benzyne route is illustrated by the base-induced cyclization of the amino-alcohols (171 R = H or Me) to indole and 3-methylin-dole, respectively/ The photochemical reaction of o-bromo- or o-iodo-aniline with the enolates (172 R = H, Me, or PrO leads to indoles (173)/ The salt (174), generated by the action of lithium di-isopropylamide on o-tolyl isocyanide, serves as a source of diverse indole derivatives (i) it cyclizes spontaneously to 1-lithioindole, which forms 3-alkyl-indoles on treatment with alkyl halides in the presence of magnesium iodide, (ii) it reacts with allyl esters RC02CH2CH=CH2 (R = alkyl or aryl) to give the ketones (175), which cyclize... 

There are various synthetic routes to introduce hydrocarbon long chains into amino acid-based surfactants. For example, a long-chain fatty acyl group is introduced on the amino part of amino acids by using an acid chloride. To obtain amino acid esters or amides, the carbonyl parts of amino acids are reacted with fatty alcohol or amines, respectively. For example, C-alkylation of an amino acid is obtained by the reaction of a-bromo fatty acid with ammonia or by a transmission reaction of the amino part of the amino ester with a stable Schiff base followed by deprotonation with a strong base. This is followed by alkylation with an alkyl halide. N-Alkylation of an amino acid is generally obtained by the reaction of fatty amines with monochloroacetic acid, methyl acrylate, or maleic acid or by the addition of 1,2-epoxy alkane to amino acids. 

Reaction of Alkyl Amines Copper-catalyzed cross-coupling of aliphatic amines with aryl halides has made considerable progress. Several methods have used Ctil with p-amino alcohols L58 [42], amino acids L59, L60 [43], Al,Al-diethyl saUcylaldehyde L61 [44], or p-diketones L62-L65 [45] (Fig. 20.3). Among these, the protocol using p-diketones exhibited the superior results catalyzing the reaction even at room temperature (Scheme 20.19). 

Scheme 4 Copper iodide /L17-catalyzed reactions of alkyl amines or and amino alcohols with aryl halides...

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