Hydroxamic acids compounds

Moy FJ, Chanda PK, Chen JM, Cosmi S, Edris W, Skotnicki JS, Wilhelm J, Powers P. NMR solution structure of the catalytic fragment of human fibroblast collagenase complexed with a sulfonamide derivative of a hydroxamic acid compound. Biochemistry 1999 38 7085-7096. 

Figure 1.6 Selected small molecule inhibitors of HDACs. Compounds 7 and 8 are short-chain fatty acids, compounds 9 and 10 are hydroxamic acids, compounds 11 and 12 are cyclic tetrapeptides, compound 13 is cyclic tetrapeptide analog and compound 14 is a benzamide.

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Many of the iron transport compounds have hydroxamic acid ligands which bind the ferric ion and so synthetic iron (III) hydroxamic acid compounds have been prepared. 

An unusual enzymatic action has been described in which arylhydroxamic acids were converted to arylhydroxylamine-O-ester (Fig. 16). This is thermodynamically unfavorable in most cases and is probably achieved as the result of the further rapid reactions of the latter which serve to displace the enzyme-mediated equilibrium between the arylhydroxamic acid compound and arylhydroxylamine-O-ester. The enzyme that catalyzes this reaction is called arylhydroxamic acid-N,0-acyl transferase (50, 51) and is either closely associated with or identical to the enzyme which catalyzes 0-acetylation of arylhydroxylamine compounds (64). In turn, it appears that the enzyme which catalyzes these two reactions may be the same as N-acetyltransferase, which is a rather non-specific enzyme that catalyzes reversible N-acetylations of arylamine and arylhydroxylamine compounds. These functions are depicted in Figure 16 for arylhydroxylamine metabolism, and their contributions to the bioactivation of arylhydroxylamine and aryl hydroxamic acid compounds are a major research area in arylamine toxicity (51). 

Only one cyclic hydroxamic acid which contains the pyrido[2,3-d]-pyrimidine ring system has been reported.This is 2-methyl-3-hydroxypyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4(3i/)-one (21) which was prepared by the action of acetic anhydride on 2-aminonieotinhydroxamic acid (20) or from ethyl 2-aeetamidonicotinate (22) and hydroxylamine. In view of the known antibacterial activity of certain cyclic hydroxamic acids further work on these compounds would be of interest. 

In three of the compounds (154, R2= H) examined the commonest loss from the molecular ion was the cyanide RjCN to give the most predominant ion at m/e= 120 in each case. The M-0 peak (M-16), was observed in cyclic hydroxamic acids (154, R = OH). 

The name hydroxamic acid was first used by Losseii in 1869, in the case of oxalohj droxamic acid, obtained from diethyl oxalate and hydroxylamine. Where this grouping forms part of the main cyclic system, however, the compound is named as a derivative of this system. In this review, 2 and 3 would be named as 1-hydroxy-2-pyrrolidone and l-hydroxy-2-pyridone, respectively. 

The following discussion of hydroxamic acids includes saturated systems, e.g., 2, compounds such as 3, derived from aromatic systems, 7V-hydroxyimides such as 7V-hydroxyglutarimide (78), and certain of their derivatives including thiohydroxamic acids. Naturally occurring cyclic hydroxamic acids are discussed to show the range of structural types that has been found, hut macrocyclic polyhydroxamic acids are mentioned very briefly, because several comprehensive reviews of these compounds are already available. The main purpose of this review is to summarize the methods available for the synthesis of cyclic hydroxamic acids, to outline their characteristic reactions, and to present some useful physical data. Their synthesis and some biological properties have previously been reviewed by Coutts. ... 

For the present purpose this is not a useful scheme and the naturally occurring compounds are arranged instead in order of increasing molecular complexity. Compounds that do not contain a cyclic hydroxamic acid structure are excluded. 

This cyclic hydroxamic acid (10) and the related demethoxy compound have been isolated from corn seedlings. Both compounds are fungistatic agents. 

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. 

This type of synthesis has been used extensively in the preparation of hydroxamic acids resembling aspergillic acid. a-Aminohj droxamic acids react with a-dicarbonyl compounds to yield pyrazine hydroxamic acids (18). Glyoxal and diacetyl react readily, but poor... 

Perhaps the most reliable method for the reductive cyclization of a nitro ester to a hydroxamic acid is that which involves treatment with sodium horohydride in the presence of palladium on charcoal. Although under these conditions aromatic nitro compounds are reduced to amines, o-nitro esters such as 53, in which the ester group is suitably oriented with respect to the nitro group, give good yields of cyclic hydroxamic acids (54). Coutts and his co-... 

Alicyclic hydroxamic acids undergo several specific oxidative cleavage reactions which may be of diagnostic or preparative value. In the pyrrolidine series compounds of type 66 have been oxidized with sodium hypobromite or with periodates to give y-nitroso acids (113). Ozonolysis gives the corresponding y-nitro acids. The related cyclic aldonitrone.s are also oxidized by periodate to nitroso acids, presumably via the hydroxamic acids.This periodate fission was used in the complex degradation of J -nitrones derived from aconitine. 

The hydroxamic acid function in most alicyclic and aromatic compounds is stable to hot dilute acid or alkali, and derivatives cannot undergo normal base-catalyzed Lessen rearrangement. Di Maio and Tardella," however, have shown that some alicyclic hydroxamic acids when treated with polyphosphoric acid (PPA) at 176°-195° undergo loss of CO, CO.2, or H2O, in a series of reactions which must involve earlj fission of the N—0 bond, presumably in a phosphoryl-ated intermediate. Thus, l-hydroxy-2- piperidone(108) gave carbon monoxide, 1-pyrroline (119), and the lactams (120 and 121). The saturated lactam is believed to be derived from disproportionation of the unsaturated lactam. 

Cyclic hydroxamic acids and V-hydroxyimides are sufficiently acidic to be (9-methylated with diazomethane, although caution is necessary because complex secondary reactions may occur. N-Hydroxyisatin (105) reacted with diazomethane in acetone to give the products of ring expansion and further methylation (131, R = H or CH3). The benzalphthalimidine system (132) could not be methylated satisfactorily with diazomethane, but the V-methoxy compound was readil3 obtained by alkylation with methyl iodide and potassium carbonate in acetone. In the pyridine series, 1-benzyl-oxy and l-allyloxy-2-pyridones were formed by thermal isomeriza-tion of the corresponding 2-alkyloxypyridine V-oxides at 100°. 

The tenth volume of this serial publication comprises six chapters, four of which deal with the general chemistry of a specific group of heterocyclic compounds pyridopyrimidines (W. J. Irwin and D. G. VVibberley), benzofuroxans (A. J. Boulton and P. B. Ghosh), isoindoles (J. D. White and M. E. Mann), and pyrylium salts (A. T. Balaban, W. Schroth, and G. Fischer). The remaining chapters are concerned with indole Grignard reagents (R. A. Heacock and S. Kasparek) and with cyclic hydroxamic acids (J. B. Bapat, D. St. C. Black, and R. C. Brown).The international flavor of the publication is preserved our contributors come from six countries in three continents. 

Ring opening with subsequent recyclization to compound 15 occurred when 3,4-bis(hydroximinomethyl)furoxan 14 was heated in water prolonged heating afforded the nitromethyl derivative 16 (Scheme 5). Ring opening on attack by ammonia on the furoxan 14 led to the intermediate 17, which may be recyclized to hydroxamic acid 18 (75LA1029). 

Relatively few heteroaromatic N-oxides occur in nature. The chemistry of compounds that contain the oxidized peptide bond (the so-called hydroxamic acids) and their role in iron metabolism have been reviewed (67SC1443). Another review deals with the natural occurrence of N-oxides (68MI1). 

The experimental conditions for the syntheses starting from acid chlorides of hydroxamic acids and from nitrile oxides are somewhat different. In the former case the other component of the reaction is organometallic, usually an organomagnesium derivative of an acetylene or, less frequently, a sodium enolate of a /8-diketone. Nitrile oxides condense directly with unsaturated compounds. 

A seemingly complex heterocycle which on close examination is in fact a latentiated derivative of a salicylic acid shows antiinflammatory activity. It might be speculated that this compound could quite easily undergo metabolic transformation to a salicylate and that this product is in fact the active drug. Condensation of acid 134 with hydroxyl amine leads to the hydroxamic acid 135. Reaction of... 

The intramolecular /zetero-Diels-Alder reactions of 4-O-protected acyl-nitroso compounds 81, generated in situ from hydroxamic acids 80 by periodate oxidation, were investigated under various conditions in order to obtain the best endo/exo ratio of adducts 82 and 83 [65h] (Table 4.15). The endo adducts are key intermediates for the synthesis of optically active swainsonine [66a] and pumiliotoxin [66b]. The use of CDs in aqueous medium improves the reaction yield and selectivity with respect to organic solvents. 

N-Acylnitroso compounds 4 are generated in situ by periodate oxidation of hydroxamic acids 3 and react with 1,3-dienes (e.g. butadiene) to give 1,2-oxazines 5 (Scheme 6.3). The periodate oxidation of 4-O-protected homo-chiral hydroxamic acid 6 occurs in water in heterogeneous phase at 0°C, and the N-acylnitroso compound 7 that is generated immediately cyclizes to cis and tranx-l,2-oxazinolactams (Scheme 6.4) [17a, b]. When the cycloaddition is carried out in CHCI3 solution, the reaction is poorly diastereo-selective. In water, a considerable enhancement in favor of the trans adduct is observed. 

Direct amidation can be carried out if an aromatic compound is heated with a hydroxamic acid in polyphosphoric acid, though the scope is essentially limited to phenolic ethers. 

When primary nitro compounds are treated with sulfuric acid without previous conversion to the conjugate bases, they give carboxylic acids. Hydroxamic acids are intermediates and can be isolated, so that this is also a method for preparing them. Both the Nef reaction and the hydroxamic acid process involve the aci form the difference in products arises from higher acidity, for example, a difference in sulfuric acid concentration from 2 to 15.5 M changes the product from the aldehyde to the hydroxamic acid. The mechanism of the hydroxamic acid reaction is not known with certainty, but if higher acidity is required, it may be that the protonated aci form of the nitro compound is further protonated. 

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