Hydroxamic acids formation

Hydroxamic acid formation resembles amide formation (pp. 117-119) and therefore certain other classes of substances will respond to the test, e.g., acid chlorides and acid anhydrides, but these substances are readily distinguished by other reactions. 

Hydroxamic acid formation cf. Section 9, p. 334). To a few drops of an ester, add 0 2 g. of hydroxylamine hydrochloride and about 5 ml. of 10% NaOH solution and gently boil the mixture for 1-2 minutes. Cool and acidify with dil. HCl and then add a few drops of ferric chloride solution. A violet or deep red-brown colour develops immediately. 

Hydroxamic acid formation. To 0 1 g. of acetic anhydride, add 0 1 g. of hydroxylamine hydrochloride and 5 ml. of 10% NaOH solution. Boil the mixture for i minute, cool and acidify with dilute... 

Nitrosobenzenes react with the carbonyl group of aldehydes to yield hydroxamic acids 73, according to reaction 20. Recently, the reactions between some X-substituted nitrosobenzenes (X = H, p-Me, p-C 1, m-Cl, p-Br) and formaldehyde were reported194 in order to investigate the mechanism of the hydroxamic acid formation. The mechanism reported in Scheme 9 involves a first equilibrium yielding the zwitterionic intermediate 74 which rearranges (by acid catalysis) into hydroxamic acid 75. The presence of a general acid catalysis, the substituent effect (p values of the Hammett equation equal —1.74),... 

Hydroxamic acid formation (monoethyl adipate + NH4OH, 0.013 units)... 

For the example of hydroxamic acid formation given above, the efficiency of the exchange reaction depends on the relative nucleophilic strength of H2O and NH2OH and on the concentration of the latter. Hydroxylamine is a stronger nucleophilic replacement reagent but is present in relatively low concentration it is therefore favored by the more stable enzyme-acyl substrate bond. We have shown that the stability of the acylated enzyme is characterized by fcs and that for comparable reactions of trypsin and ficin on papain the rate of hydrolysis of the acyl-enzyme compound of the former is ten times as fast as that of the latter. The findings of Durell and Fruton... 

Gez S, Luxenhofer R, Levina A, Codd R, Lay PA. 2005. Chromium(V) complexes of hydroxamic acids formation, structures, and reactivities. Inorg Chem 44(8) 2934—2943. Barnard PJ, Levina A, Lay PA. 2005. Chromium(V) peptide complexes sjmthesis and spectroscopic characterization. Inorg Chem 44(4) 1044-1053. 

Hydroxamic acid formation from aldehyde and Af-sulfonylhydroxylamine. 

On this basis the extent to which an enzyme-catalyzed transamidation will occur will depend on the relative concentration of water and the replacement reagent, and the relative affinity of the replacement agent for the ES-complex. Durell and Fruton (51) have studied papain-catalyzed hydroxamic acid formation from o-benzoyl-L-argininamide. Their calculations show that hydroxylamine is about 420 times more efficient in its reaction with the enzyme-substrate complex than is water. Preliminary observations suggest that when amino acid amides or peptides are the attacking molecule the efficiency is even greater. Moreover, papain is a much more effective catalyst for transamidation than trypsin. 

Figure 29. General pathways for hydroxamic acid formation by thiamine-dependent enzymes.

In 2000, an efficient three-step procedure for the synthesis of 5-substituted 3-isoxazolols (without formation of undesired 5-isoxazolone byproduct) was published. The method uses an activated carboxylic acid derivative to acylate Meldrum s acid, which is treated with A,0-bis(ten-butoxycarbonyl)hydroxylamine to provide the N,0-di-Boc-protected P-keto hydroxamic acids 14. Cyclization to the corresponding 5-substituted 3-isoxazolols 15 occurs upon treatment with hydrochloric acid in 76-99% yield. 

A variety of condensation processes can lead to cyclic hydroxamic acids. These involve either the condensation of two molecules or the intramolecular cyclization of a single compound. In some cases, a primary hydroxamic acid function is already present and formation of a cyclic compound can arise by suitable reaction on nitrogen. These processes will be dealt with first. 

During a study of azonitrones (70), Forrester and Thomson showed that reaction with toluene-p-sulfinic acid resulted in nitrogen evolution and formation of the hydroxamic acid (66) together with the pyrrolidone (71) and the amidine (72). These workers suggested the following reaction course. Although the yield of hydroxamic acid was high, the method is not likely to be of preparative value. 

A further type of nitro-group rearrangement gives rise to a cyclic hydroxamic ether. Noland e.t aL describe the action of cold, dilute sulfuric acid on the sodium salt of 5-nitronorbornene (98), which results in conversion to the oxazinone (101). This complex rearrangement is rationalized by the sequence 98 101 involving intermediate formation of the nitrile oxide (99) and the hydroxamic acid (100). 

This alkyl migration is believed to proceed via ion-pair formation. These and many other simple 0-alkyIated cyclic hydroxamic acids are thermally stablebelow 180°. 

As early as 1899, 8tieglitz proposed a tetrahedral intermediate for the hydrolysis of an imino ether to an amide. Thns it was clear qnite early that a complicated overall transformation, imino ether to amide, would make more sense as the result of a series of simple steps. The detailed mechanism proposed, althongh reasonable in terms of what was known and believed at the time, wonld no longer be accepted, but the idea of tetrahedral intermediates was clearly in the air. 8tieglitz stated of the aminolysis of an ester that it is now commonly snpposed that the reaction takes place with the formation of an intermediate prodnct as follows referring to work of Lossen. (Note that the favored tautomer of a hydroxamic acid was as yet unknown.)... 

A combination first coordination shell-second coordination shell based recognition BLM transport system was devised, including active transport (200). This is based on a labile dihydroxamic acid system, including alcaligin, and a free lysine hydroxamic acid ligand capable of ternary complex formation to... 

Although the synthesis of 3-isoxazolols from P-keto esters and hydroxylamine suffers from the formation of 5-isoxazolones as major products, treatment of acyl chlorides with Meldrum s acid 4 followed by aminolysis gave rise to p-keto hydroxamic acids 6 that cyclised to the corresponding 5-substituted 3-isoxazolols 7 without formation of any byproduct <00JOC1003>. Cyclisation of N-substituted salicylhydroxamic acids 9 under... 

The presence in the heterocycle of additional basic centers or those open to alkylation can lead to a change in reaction directions. It essentially limits the application of this method in the formation of a-methoxy nitrones. In such cases, it is reasonable to use diazomethane and, depending on the structure of hydroxamic acid (198-201) the yields of a-methoxy nitrones (197), (202-204) can rise from 17% up to 62% (Scheme 2.70) (353). 

The formation of the latter compounds can be attributed to the result of the direct attack of the nucleophile R on the a- or p-carbon atoms of SENAs after elimination of the corresponding protons. However, it is most likely that the reaction proceeds through nitrile oxides or conjugated nitrosoalkenes (see Scheme 3.93). This interpretation is evidenced by generation of silyl esters of hydroxamic acids R CONHOSi as by-products. The reactions with more saturated solutions give the latter compounds as the major products. 

As second example for the scale-up of solid-phase reactions directly on solid support, we chose an arylsulfonamido-substituted hydroxamic acid derivative stemming from the matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor library (MMP) of our research colleagues (Breitenstein et al. 2001). In this case, there was already a solution-phase synthesis available for comparison (see Scheme 4). The synthesis starts with the inline formation of a benzaldehyde 18 with the glycine methyl ester, which is then reduced to the benzylamine 20 using sodium borohydride in methanol/ THF (2 1). The sulfonamide formation is carried out in dioxane/H20 (2 1) with triethylamine as the base and after neutralisation and evaporation the product 21 can be crystallised from tert. butylmethyl ether. After deprotection with LiOH, the acid is activated by treatment with oxalyl chloride and finally converted into the hyroxamic acid 23 in 33.7% yield overall. 

Aldehyde 54 and the hydroxamic acids 55 were generated together in an acid-catalysed elimination reaction (Scheme 7 pathway (ii)). A crossover experiment indicated that esters are formed in a concerted rearrangement concomitant with the likely formation of the hydroxynitrene 57 (Scheme 7 pathway (iii)) while there is no evidence to date for the formation of hydroxynitrene, joint solvolysis of equimolar quantities of /V-acetoxy-/V-butoxy-/>-chlorobenzamide 26e and N- acetoxy-/V-benzyloxybenzamide 27a afforded significant quantities of butyl p-chlorobenzo-ate (36%) and benzyl benzoate (54%) as the only esters. This is an example of a HERON reaction, which has been identified in these laboratories as a characteristic rearrangement of bisheteroatom-substituted amides.32,33,42 43 155 158 Since ester formation was shown to prevail in neutral or low acid concentrations, it could involve the conjugate anion of the hydroxamic acid (vide infra).158... 

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