Hydrolytic cleavage

Hydrolases. Enzymes catalysing the hydrolytic cleavage ofC —O, C —N and C —C bonds. The systematic name always includes hydrolase but the recommended name is often formed by the addition of ase to the substrate. Examples are esterases, glucosidases, peptidases, proteinases, phospholipases. Other bonds may be cleaved besides those cited, e.g. during the action of sulphatases and phosphatases. 

Linear polyethyleneimine results only in low yields from low temperature polymerization of ethyleneimine for very long reaction times. It can, however, be synthesized in a targeted manner by polymerization of 2-oxazolines with subsequent hydrolytic cleavage of the resulting polyamides (355,358). 

Another synthesis reaction is the hydrolytic cleavage of a suitable heterocycHc ring, for example, an Ai-methylpyridine salt, as shown in equation 9. 

Hydrolytic cleavage of single carbon-fluorine bonds generally requires activation by a neighboring group such as a carbonyl, sulfonyloxy, or olefinic bond or a negatively substituted aromatic group. 

Hydrolytic cleavage of vinylogous formamides and ureas has been applied to the generation of enamines (56-58). 

This ester is formed quantitatively in THF from the diol in the presence of a dehydrating agent such as sodium sulfate. It can be cleaved by hydrogenolysis, but it is also quite susceptible to hydrolytic cleavage. ... 

Attempts to prepare this substance by reduction of dioxotetrahydro-1,3,5-triazine with sodium amalgam,hydroiodic acid, or tin in acetic acid, were accompanied by hydrolytic cleavage of the ring. Only... 

Hydrolytic cleavage of the methylmercapto group usually proceeds very readily and in practically quantitative yield even on short boiling in water acidified with a few drops of hydrochloric acid. The readiness of the hydrolysis can be affected very substantially by substitution as shown in the case of 4-methyl-3-methylmercapto-5-thioxo-4,5-dihydro-l,2,4-triazine which was hydrolyzed only with ZN hydrochloric acid. "... 

The hydrolytic cleavage is usually slow, and requires drastic reaction conditions. A more elegant method is presented by the Ing-Manske procedure, where the A-alkylated imide is treated with hydrazine under milder conditions. In addition to the desired amine 5, the cyclic phthalic hydrazide 6 is then formed ... 

Such diazo compounds 3 however, that contain two electron-withdrawing substituents, are unstable under these reaction conditions. They further react by hydrolytic cleavage of one carbonyl substituent to give an anionic species 6, that is stabilized by resonance, and which yields the hydrazone 4 upon acidic workup ... 

The conversion of an alcohol to an amine can be achieved in a one-pot reaction the alcohol 1 is treated with hydrazoic azid (HN3), excess triphenylphosphine and diethyl azodicarboxylate (DEAD). The initial Mitsunobu product, the azide 14, further reacts with excess triphenylphosphine to give an iminophosphorane 15. Subsequent hydrolytic cleavage of 15 yields the amine—e.g. as hydrochloride 16 ... 

The Simmons-Smith cyclopropanation method has also found application for the a-methylation of ketones via an intermediate cyclopropane. The starting ketone—e.g. cyclohexanone 9—is first converted into an enol ether 10. Cyclopropanation of 10 leads to an alkoxynorcarane 11, which on regioselective hydrolytic cleavage of the three-membered ring leads to the semiketal 12 as intermediate, and finally yields the a-methylated ketone 13 ... 

The preparative value of this compound lies in the surprising fact that bis(l,3-diphenylimidazolidinylidenc-2) behaves in many reactions ie.g., with aromatic aldehydes,2,7 and with carbon acids 2 7-fJ) as if it dissociated to form a nucleophilic carbene. The hydrolytic cleavage of these derived imidazolidine derivatives makes possible the preparation of formyl compounds, so that the amino olefin can be considered as a potential carbonyla-tion reagent. In many reactions it is not necessary to isolate... 

Replacement of the tosylate group in 35 with a saturated butyl chain is achieved with an excess of lithium di-n-butylcuprate and, after hydrolytic cleavage of the isopropylidene and ethoxyethyl (EE) protecting groups, lactone 23 is obtained in an overall yield of... 

The completion of the total synthesis only requires a few deprotection steps. It was gratifying to find that the final deprotections could be conducted smoothly and without compromising the newly introduced and potentially labile trisulfide residue. In particular, exposure of intermediate 101 to the action of HF pyridine results in the cleavage of all five triethylsilyl ethers, providing 102 in 90% yield (Scheme 23). Finally, hydrolytic cleavage of the ethylene ketal with aqueous para-toluenesulfonic acid in THF, followed by removal of the FMOC protecting group with diethylamine furnishes calicheamicin y (1) (see Scheme 24). Synthetic calicheami-cin y, produced in this manner, exhibited physical and spectroscopic properties identical to those of an authentic sample. 

The hydrogeh atom bound to the amide nitrogen in 15 is rather acidic and it can be easily removed as a proton in the presence of some competent base. Naturally, such an event would afford a delocalized anion, a nucleophilic species, which could attack the proximal epoxide at position 16 in an intramolecular fashion to give the desired azabicyclo[3.2.1]octanol framework. In the event, when a solution of 15 in benzene is treated with sodium hydride at 100 °C, the processes just outlined do in fact take place and intermediate 14 is obtained after hydrolytic cleavage of the trifluoroacetyl group with potassium hydroxide. The formation of azabi-cyclo[3.2.1]octanol 14 in an overall yield of 43% from enone 16 underscores the efficiency of Overman s route to this heavily functionalized bicycle. 

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