Hydroxamic acids, reduction

Photochemical transpositions of steroids into the naphtho[2,1-f]quinoline system include a low-yielding photo-Beckmann (H.Suginome and T. Uchida, Bull, chem Soc. Japan, 1974, f , 687) and the conversion of 17-nitrite esters to the 17-a hydroxamic acids, reduction of which affords the lactam (S.H. Imam and B.A. Marples, Tetrahedron Letters, 1977, 2613). 

Other zinc reductions have been used extensively. Zinc dust in aqueous ammonium chloride is a standard reagent for the reductive cyclization of nitro esters to hydroxamic acids. These reactions are usually carried out at low temperatures (0°-10°) to avoid further reduction. Despite the fact that good yields can often be obtained, these reductions are highly capricious, depending on the quality of the zinc (impurities seem to improve the reaction) and other unknown factors. 

An interesting comparison between a catalytic hydrogenation and a zinc and acetic acid reduction is observed in the case of the oximino acid (49). The cw-fused hydroxamic acid (50) was the sole... 

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-... 

In one particular example, an interesting intramolecular acylation occurred. Reduction of cis-iVi-acetyl-o-nitrobenzylideneoxindole (55) gave rise to a cyclic hydroxamic acid, assigned structure 56. 

Reduction of cyclic hydroxamic acids generally leads to lactams or the corresponding amines. Chemical methods have frequently been preferred to catalytic hydrogenation, probably because the choice of... 

Hydroxamic acids constitute an important class of siderophores, which play a major role in iron solubilization and transport. Some of them are important as therapeutic agents. The Michael addition of nitroacetyl proline esters to allyl acrylate followed by Pd(0)-catalyzed intramolecular allyl transfer and subsequent reduction of the nitro group yields a novel class of cyclic hydroxamic acids related to pyroglutamic acid (Scheme 5.9).85... 

Scheme 5. SPS synthesis of the hydroxamic acid derivative via reductive ami-nation a Reduction, b Cl-S02-Ph-R2, NMM, DCM 3M h c 10% or 1-2% TFA in DCM with direct neutralisation with sat. NaHCCb, d without neutralisation...

The electrochemical reduction of the corresponding nitrophenylpyridine or pyridinium derivatives only produces cyclic hydroxamic acids. 

O-linked polymer-bound Af-substituted hydroxylamines are prepared by reduction of resin-bound oximes with borane-pyridine complex in the presence of dichloroacetic acid (Scheme 94). Other reducing systems commonly used for imine or oxime reduction are ineffective, including borane-pyridine in the presence of acetic acid. Subsequently, the A-substituted products are acylated and cleaved from the resin to afford Af-substituted hydroxamic acids 220. ... 

Electrochemical reduction of hydroxamic acid has hardly been known. The reduction of PhCOCONHOH at a Hg cathode gave PhCH(OH)CONH2 and [CPh(OH)CONH2]2. ... 

The literature contains several references to reductive cyclizations producing cyclic hydroxamic acids like those described above, though not in solid-phase chemistry.43-47 We showed that this reaction competes well with lactam formation. The relative extent of these two reaction pathways is highly dependent on the presence and the nature of other heteroatoms and substituents around the ring system as well as on the conditions used to effect the reduction. 

Reduction of hydroxamic acids. Buffered TiC lj can reduce simple hydroxamic acids (equation I). Yields are high when R1 is an alkyl group when it is hydrogen, aldehydes are obtained as by-products. The reagent also reduces substituted N-hydroxy-2-azetidinones to /Mactams (equation 11). 

As illustrated by the examples in Table 3.9, resin-bound 4-alkoxybenzylamides often require higher concentrations of TFA and longer reaction times than carboxylic acids esterified to Wang resin. For this reason, the more acid-sensitive di- or (trialkoxy-benzyl)amines [208] are generally preferred as backbone amide linkers. The required resin-bound, secondary benzylamines can readily be prepared by reductive amination of resin-bound benzaldehydes (Section 10.1.4 and Figure 3.17 [209]) or by A-alkyla-tion of primary amines with resin-bound benzyl halides or sulfonates (Section 10.1.1.1). Sufficiently acidic amides can also be A-alkylated by resin-bound benzyl alcohols under Mitsunobu conditions (see, e.g., [210] attachment to Sasrin of Fmoc cycloserine, an O-alkyl hydroxamic acid). 

Raman spectroscopy metal in water complexes, 309 Rare earth complexes acetylacetone synthesis, 377 guanidinium, 282 hydroxamic acids, 506 Redox properties bipyridyl metal complexes, 90 Reductive coupling nitrile metal complexes, 265 Resorcinol, 2,4-dinitro-metal complexes, 273 Rhenium complexes acetylacetone, 376 synthesis, 375, 378... 

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