Hydroxamic acids carbonylation

The literature contains several examples of the rearrangement of a nitro group to a hydroxamic acid function. In two cases an adjacent carbonyl group is present, so that the rearrangement products are A-hydroxyimides. 

Acyl derivatives of cyclic hydroxamic acids, like all 0-acyI derivatives of hydroxylamine, show infrared absorption because of the acjd carbonyl at characteristically high frequencies, generally near 1800 The range of frequencies is similar to that found for... 

Zn -PDF, 37 pM versus E. coli Fe -PDF), it was successfully used to provide co-crystals bound in the active site of both Co - and Zn -E. coli PDF [58], These structures reveal that the H-phosphonate binds to the metal in a monodentate fashion, adopting a tetrahedral coordination state similar to that of the native resting state of the enzyme. This is in contrast to later co-crystal structures obtained with more potent hydroxamic acid or reverse hydroxamate inhibitors, which bind to the metal in a bidentate fashion vide infra). Presumably these bidentate inhibitors mimic the true transition state of the enzyme, in which the metal centre slips to a penta-coordinate geometry in order to activate the Wformyl carbonyl of the substrate [56, 67]. 

Researchers at Combio and Arpida have reported a series of isoxazole-3-hydroxamic acids as PDF inhibitors [109], Molecular modelling studies predict that the aryl substituent of isoxazole (37) binds into the SF pocket and that the oxygen atom of the isoxazole is involved in a H-bonding interaction with Ile-44 in E. coli PDF, similar to the PF carbonyl of actinonin. None of the inhibitors reported has sub-micromolar inhibitory activity against E. coli or S. aureus PDF. Not surprisingly, these moderately active inhibitors also lack antibacterial activity. 

Acyl nitroso compounds (3, Scheme 7.2) contain a nitroso group (-N=0) directly attached to a carbonyl carbon. Oxidation of an N-acyl hydroxylamine derivative provides the most direct method for the preparation of acyl C-nitroso compounds [10]. Treatment of hydroxamic acids, N-hydroxy carbamates or N-hydroxyureas with sodium periodate or tetra-alkyl ammonium periodate salts results in the formation of the corresponding acyl nitroso species (Scheme 7.2) [11-14]. Other oxidants including the Dess-Martin periodinane and both ruthenium (II) and iridium (I) based species efficiently convert N-acyl hydroxylamines to the corresponding acyl nitroso compounds [15-18]. The Swern oxidation also provides a useful alternative procedure for the oxidative preparation of acyl nitroso species [19]. Horseradish peroxidase (HRP) catalyzed oxidation of N-hydroxyurea with hydrogen peroxide forms an acyl nitroso species, which can be trapped with 1, 3-cyclohexanone, giving evidence of the formation of these species with enzymatic oxidants [20]. 

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),... 

Formation of hydroxamic acids via the reaction of the carbonyl group of aldehydes and a-oxo acids with the aromatic or aliphatic C-nitroso group belongs to the small number of nucleophilic reactions of the C-nitroso group. ... 

Unfortunately, the authors performed little detailed product analyses and did not take into account the possibility that many of the reactions they were monitoring were acyl transfer processes that led to hydroxamic acid products (Scheme 20). They also failed to maintain control of pH and ionic strength in their reactions. Underwood and co-workers showed that scrambling did not occur in carbonyl- 0-labeled esters 39a,b,c,e, and f during their... 

As previously mentioned, 1,4,2-dioxazoline rings may be used as a protected group for hydroxamic acids (see Section 6.04.6.3). In fact, this ring is susceptible to hydrogenolysis conditions (H2/Pd) affording carbonyl compounds <1996CHEC-II(4)525, 2002JOC4833>. 

In the reaction of O-benzoyl hydroxamic acid (56) with Bu3SnH, Bu3Sn adds to the carbonyl oxygen and subsequent p-elimination occurs to form an amidyl radical through the weak N-O bond cleavage, where finally, y-lactam (57) via 5-exo-trig manner is formed (eq. 3.18). 

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