Hydroxamic derivatives Subject

The route developed by Fowler and his associates (287) involved an ingenious application of the aza-Cope rearrangement, in which the bridged hydroxamic acid derivative 468, prepared as shown in Scheme 48, was subjected to flash vacuum thermolysis. The product, the enol ether 469, was not isolated but immediately hydrolyzed to the ketone 470, which was then hydrogenated and cyclized to the racemic ketone 466. This appears to be the first application of the aza-Cope rearrangement in synthetic chemistry, since the reaction is normally not thermodynamically favored when C-1 is replaced by nitrogen. However, it is clearly successful when the nitrogen is acylated, as in the present example. 

For this reason, we consider it hardly possible to cite all of the publications. Let us focus only on the following examples. Hydroxamic acids have already been for a long time subject of the classical analytical chemistry. In [71], the possibility of using these compounds in flotation of rare-earth minerals is shown. It has been concluded that on a mineral surface cerium chelates are formed. Besides, chemisorption is accompanied by a physical multilayer adsorption of hydroxamic acid derivatives formed by reaction with cations in the water phase. A number of chelate-forming compounds including hydroxamic acids has been tested in flotation of niobium ores [72]. The best results are obtained when using alkyl phosphonic acids. Chemisorption mechanism and the structure of the surface compounds are established by spectroscopic methods. 

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