Hydroxamic acids from hydroxylamine

A soln. of N-acetoxy-N-[l-[4-(phenylmethoxy)phenyl]ethyl]acetamide in isopropanol treated with aq. LiOH, and stirred for 30 min - N-hydroxy-N-[l-[4-(phenylmethoxy)-phenyl]ethyl]acetamide. Y 80%. This is part of a 2-step method for preparing hydroxamic acids from hydroxylamines. F.e.s. J.B. Summers et al., J. Med. Chem. 31, 1960 (1988). 

Hydroxylamine, O-acetyl-A -benzoyl-.V-phenyl-hydroxamic acids from, 2, 506... 

Although several routes have been published for the preparation of hydroxamic acids on solid phase, these generally involve the preparation of a special linker to which hydrox-ylamine is attached. Dankwardt s approach obviates the need for special linkers or protecting groups, by displacing the desired hydroxamic acid from the resin directly using hydroxylamine, as illustrated in Scheme 86. CarboxyUc-acid-ester-linked, polymer-supported, Cbz-protected amino acids 195 (formed from 194) were displaced from the resin with aqueous hydroxylamine to provide the corresponding hydroxamic acids 196. 

Hydroxylamine, O-acetyl-N-benzoyl-N-phenyl-hydroxamic acids from, 506 Hydroxylamine ligands, 101 Hydrozirconation, 342 Hypoxanthines metal complexes, 93... 

The combinatorial approach is attractive for the synthesis of libraries of hydroxamic acids for screening as metalloenzyme inhibitors. A variety of hydroxylamine-linked resins (shown in Schemes 9-12) have been developed that allow peptide condensation reactions followed by cleavage of the hydroxamic acid from the resin. 

N-oxidation can occur in a number of ways to give either hydroxylamines from primary and secondary amines [Eqs. (11) and (12)], hydroxamic acids from amides, or N-oxides from tertiary amines [Eq. (13)]. The enzyme systems involved are either cytochrome P450 or a flavoprotein oxygenase. Hydroxylamines may be further oxidized to a nitro compound via a nitroso intermediate [Eq. (11)]. Oximes can be formed by rearrangement of the nitroso intermediate or N-hydroxylation of an imine, that could in turn be derived by dehydration of a hydroxylamine [Eq. (11)]. N-Oxides may be formed from both tertiary arylamines and alkylamines and from nitrogen in heterocyclic aromatic systems, such as a pyridine ring. 

Hydroxamic acids from acylimidazolcs. A soln. of N-benzoylimidazole in tetrahydrofuran shaken 6 hrs. with hydroxylamine hydrochloride benzhy-droxamic acid. Y 80%. 

Krogsgaard-Larsen and co-workers have protected the P-keto functionality as a ketal as a modification to the traditional conditions so attack of hydroxylamine is directed towards the ester. They prepared hydroxamic acid 10 from ester 9 then cyclized with sulfuric acid to isoxazole 11, in route to 4,5,6,7-tetrahydroisoxazolo[5,4-c]pyridin-3-ol (THIP), a selective GABAa receptor agonist studied clinically for insomnia. 

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. 

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. 

In general, a hydroxamic acid function results from the condensation of a hydroxylamine group with a carboxylic acid derivative. If these two groups are positioned suitably in the same molecule, spontaneous cyclization can occur. The most usual technique involves... 

A mixture of 3-hydroxy-4-phenylfurazan and 1,2,4-oxadiazole 243 was prepared from a-phenyl-a-hydroximino hydroxamic acid by acylation and subsequent treatment with 15% aqueous NaOH (Scheme 164) (25G201). The reaction of tetraacetate 244 with sodium acetate hydrate in glacial acetic acid at 70°C gives 3,4-dihydroxyfurazan (9%) (92URP1752734). a-Hydroximino ester 245 reacts with hydroxylamine to form furazan 246 in 25% yield (Scheme 164) (79JHC689). 

As in 10-55 hydrazides and hydroxamic acids can be prepared from carboxylic esters, with hydrazine and hydroxylamine, respectively. Both hydrazine and hydroxylamine react more rapidly than ammonia or primary amines (the alpha effect, p. 445). Imidates, RC(=NH)OR, give amidines, RC(=NH)NH2. Lactones, when treated with ammonia or primary amines, give lactams. Lactams are also produced from y- and 5-amino esters in an internal example of this reaction. 

Hydroxamic acids are an important class of compounds targeted as potential therapeutic agents. A-Fmoc-aminooxy-2-chlorotrityl polystyrene resin 61 allowed the synthesis and subsequent cleavage under mild conditions of both peptidyl and small molecule hydroxamic acids (Fig. 14) [70]. An alternative hydroxylamine linkage 62 was prepared from trityl chloride resin and tV-hydroxyphthalimide followed by treatment with hydrazine at room temperature (Scheme 30) [71]. A series of hydroxamic acids were prepared by the addition of substituted succinic anhydrides to the resin followed by coupling with a variety of amines, and cleavage with HCOOH-THF(l 3). 

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... 

In 1983, Prasad et al.12 first reported the condensation of chloromethyl polystyrene with /V-hydroxyphthalimide to give the ester, hydrazinolysis of which yielded the desired resin-bound hydroxylamine. However, the sole purpose of this reagent was to react with, and hence extract ketones from, a complex steroidal mixture, and its use for the solid-phase synthesis of hydroxamic acids was not explored. Recently, the exploitation of the above solid-phase approach for the synthesis of hydroxamic acids was independently reported by three groups,7-9 all of which differ only in the method for the initial anchoring of TV-hydroxyphtha-limide to an 4-alkoxybenzyl alcohol functionalized polystyrene or trityl chloride polystyrene. Subsequent /V-deprotection was... 

The enzyme can also catalyze the transfer of an acetyl group from an N-acetylated hydroxylamine (hydroxamic acid) to form an acetoxy product, i.e., an N to O transacetylation and this pathway does not require acetyl Co-A (12). A-hydroxy-4-acetylaminobiphenyl provides an example of this conversion as shown in Figure 7.7. The significance of this pathway is that it leads to the activation of the hydroxamic acid because acetoxy derivatives of aromatic amines are chemically reactive and many are carcinogens such as the heterocyclic amines formed when meat is heated to a high temperature, e.g., 2-amino-1-mcthyl-6-phenylirnidaz()[4,5-i ]pyri(linc. 

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 hydroxylamine leads to the hydroxamic acid 135. Reaction of that with the ethyl acetal from 4-chlorobutyraldehyde then leads to the cyclic carbinolamine derivative 136. Treatment... 

There are three amine hydrogens in Table 5, in hydroxylamine (5), and in the two hydroxamic acids, 8 and 11. The magnitudes of their Vs,max range from 32.3 to 67.6 kcal... 

The resulting estimated average polarizabilities for the hydroxylamines, oximes and hydroxamic acids that we have discussed are given in Table 8. (It should be noted that Miller s approach does not distinguish between oxime isomers.) As anticipated from the correlation between average polarizability and volume (equation 10), the a in Table 8 increase with molecular size. 

The last few years have seen the usual dramatic increase in the number of publications in this area, coming from an impressive array of groups using the full range of NMR techniques, and NMR data have been used to determine the stereochemistry of rather complex systems containing hydroxylamines, oximes and hydroxamic acids, but systematic studies have been concentrated mainly on oximes. 

The main first part of the review (Section HI) summarizes preparation of hydroxylamine derivatives through alkylation, arylation, and addition reaction of hydroxylamine, or its derivatives such as hydroxamic acids and A-oxysulfonamides. The second main part (Sections IV-VIII) describes methods of creation of hydroxyamino groups de novo from other functionalities. Due to easy interconversion outlined in Section II, syntheses of hydroxylamines and hydroxamic acids are considered together. For the same reason, the chapter also relates to synthesis of A-oxysulfonamides and V-oxyphosphonamides as far as these methods are of interest for the preparation of hydroxylamines. 

Intermolecular reactions of hydroxylamines with secondary alkyl halides and mesylates proceed slower than with alkyl triflates and may not provide sufficiently good yield and/or stereoselectivity. A nseful alternative for these reactions is application of more reactive anions of 0-alkylhydroxamic acids or 0-alkoxysulfonamides ° like 12 (equation 8) as nucleophiles. The resulting Af,0-disubstituted hydroxamic acids or their sulfamide analogs of type 13 can be readily hydrolyzed to the corresponding hydroxylamines. The same strategy is also helpful for synthesis of hydroxylamines from sterically hindered triflates and from chiral alcohols (e.g. 14) through a Mitsunobu reaction (equation 9). 

The A-hydroxycarboxamide group is a key fragment of many siderophores so that a convenient synthesis of this group is crucial for further progress. A variety of methods have been attempted for the preparation of hydroxamic acids starting from carboxylic acids. Although some of these methods are quite efficient for the preparation of substituted hydroxamic acids, the preparation of the parent compound is still a problem and yields are often moderately unacceptable, in part due to the low solubility of the parent hydroxylamine hydrochloride in organic solvents. 

Ho and coworkers" have observed that the addition of small amounts of solid KCN (0.2 equivalents) can effectively accelerate the formation of hydroxamic acids 112 from methyl esters 111 (Scheme 58). The authors suggested that this reaction proceeds through an acylcyanide intermediate followed by nucleophilic substitution by 50% aqueous hydroxylamine at room temperature. The use and advantage of this methodology have been demonstrated for both solution-phase and solid-phase applications. 

The syntheses of the methyl esters 116-118 from 115 and hydroxamic acids 119-121 were carried out via a typical alkylation of the hydroxy function of methyl 4-hydroxyben-zoate 116 followed by either reaction with hydroxylamine to provide bishydroxamic acids 119-121 containing an alkyl spacer between two aromatic rings. 

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