Hydrazine reactions with azides

Acetaldehyde can be isolated and identified by the characteristic melting points of the crystalline compounds formed with hydrazines, semicarbazides, etc these derivatives of aldehydes can be separated by paper and column chromatography (104,113). Acetaldehyde has been separated quantitatively from other carbonyl compounds on an ion-exchange resin in the bisulfite form the aldehyde is then eluted from the column with a solution of sodium chloride (114). In larger quantities, acetaldehyde may be isolated by passing the vapor into ether, then saturating with dry ammonia acetaldehyde—ammonia crystallizes from the solution. Reactions with bisulfite, hydrazines, oximes, semicarb azides, and 5,5-dimethyl-1,3-cyclohexanedione [126-81 -8] (dimedone) have also been used to isolate acetaldehyde from various solutions. 

The azidohydrins obtained by azide ion opening of epoxides, except for those possessing a tertiary hydroxy group, can be readily converted to azido mesylates on treatment with pyridine/methanesulfonyl chloride. Reduction and subsequent aziridine formation results upon reaction with hydrazine/ Raney nickel, lithium aluminum hydride, or sodium borohydride/cobalt(II)... 

Monosubstituted hydrazines treated with nitrous acid give azides in a reaction exactly analogous to the formation of aliphatic diazo compounds mentioned in 12-47. Among other reagents used for this conversion have been N204 ° and nitrosyl tetrafluoroborate (NOBp4). ... 

The reaction of Curtius, which is especially to be preferred in the case of the higher members on account of the favourable solubilities of the intermediate products, involves as its first stage the preparation of the hydrazide from an ester (or acid chloride). The hydrazide is then converted, usually very readily, by the action of nitrous acid into the azide. In many cases it is more convenient to prepare the azide by treating an acid chloride with sodium azide previously activated with hydrazine hydrate.1 Azides easily undergo thermal decomposition, the two azo nitrogen atoms being eliminated as elementary nitrogen. In this way, however, the same radicle is formed as was invoked above to explain the Hofmann reaction ... 

Arylamines and hydrazines react with tosyl azide under basic conditions to yield aryl azides [1] and arenes [2], respectively, by an aza-transfer process (Scheme 5.25). Traditionally, the reaction of anilines with tosyl azides requires strong bases, such as alkyl lithiums, but acceptable yields (>50%) have been obtained under liquidiliquid phase-transfer catalytic conditions. Not surprisingly, the best yields are obtained when the aryl ring is substituted by an electron-withdrawing substituent, and the yields for the corresponding reaction with aliphatic amines are generally poor (-20%). Comparison of the catalytic effect of various quaternary ammonium salts showed that tetra-/i-butylammonium bromide produces the best conversion, but differences between the various catalysts were minimal [ 1 ]. 

The use of neutral nucleophiles, such as ammonia and hydrazine, causes a reversal of polarity of one of the transitory dipoles, and these displacement reactions are therefore more favorable than with azide. On the other hand, the greater basicity of these reagents are more likely to cause elimination. 

Nucleophilic substitution of the 4-chloro group of the 4-pyranotriazines 103 with hydrazine gives the 4-hydrazino-triazines 104, which can be further elaborated to the corresponding azides 105 or cyclized upon reaction with formic acid or carbon disulfide to give the triazolotriazines 106 or thioxotriazolotriazines 107, respectively (Scheme 11) <2005HC0495>. 

The synthesis of a triptan with a chiral side chain begins by reduction of the carboxylic acid in chiral 4-nitrophenylalanine (15-1). The two-step procedure involves conversion of the acid to its ester by the acid chloride by successive reaction with thionyl chloride and then methanol. Treatment of the ester with sodium borohy-dride then afford the alanilol (15-2). Reaction of this last intermediate with phosgene closes the ring to afford the oxazolidone (15-3) the nitro group is then reduced to the aniline (15-4). The newly obtained amine is then converted to the hydrazine (15-5). Reaction of this product with the acetal from 3-chloropropionaldehyde followed by treatment of the hydrazone with acid affords the indole (15-6). The terminal halogen on the side chain is then replaced by an amine by successive displacement by means of sodium azide followed by catalytic reduction of the azide. The newly formed amine is then methylated by reductive alkylation with formaldehyde in the presence of sodium cyanoborohydride to afford zolmitriptan (15-7) [15]. 

The reductive NO chemistry will cover some new developments on the electrophilic reactions of bound nitrosyl with different nucleophiles, particularly the nitrogen hydrides (hydrazine, hydroxylamine, ammonia, azide) and trioxodinitrate, along with new density functional theoretical (DFT) calculations which have allowed to better understand the detailed mechanistic features of these long-studied addition reactions, including the one with OH-. The redox chemistry of other molecules relevant to biochemistry, such as O2, H2O2 and the thiolates (SR-) will also be presented. 

Hydrazoic acid also reacts with copper, silver and mercury but in a different way it forms azides without loss of hydrogen and a considerable amount of hydrazoic acid is reduced to ammonia or hydrazine and free nitrogen. The reaction with copper recalls the action of nitric acid on this metal. 

The majority of pyrimido[4,5-c]pyridazines have been prepared from pyrimidine precursors. The chloropyrimidines (176) give the desired heterocyclic ring (177) on reaction with hydrazine (72BSF1483). Hydrazine also reacts with ethyl a-diazo-/3-oxo-5-(4-chloro-2-methylthiopyrimidine)propionate (178) to give the pyrimido[4,5-c]pyridazine-3-carboxamide (78). A mechanism for this interesting reaction has been proposed as shown, on the basis of the detection of hydrogen azide in the reaction mixture. There is no precedent for the reaction of the a-carbon of a-diazo-/3-oxopropionates with nucleophiles under basic conditions (76CPB2637). 

The racemic acid 399 was treated with oxalyl chloride to afford an acyl chloride 401, which on reaction with anhydrous hydrazine yielded the hydra-zide 402. The latter was converted to the azide 403 by treatment with nitrous acid. Photolysis of 403 which a high-pressure mercury lamp afforded the lactam 404. This lactam was synthesized earlier by Japanese chemists by an entirely different method (187). 

Amino-5-aryl-l,3,4-oxadiazoles form stable N-nitrosamines (71c) which are converted into hydrazines (7ld) with zinc in acetic acid. Treatment of the hydrazine (71d) with nitrous acid yields the corresponding azide and with benzaldehyde a hydrazone is formed (B-61MI42300). On heating in benzene or in nitrobenzene, the nitrosamine (71c) undergoes the Gomberg-Bachmann reaction to yield 2,5-diaryl-l,3,4-oxadiazoles (73JCS(P1)1357). 

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