Hydroxyamines

Primary and secondary amines also react with epoxides (or in situ produced episulfides )r aziridines)to /J-hydroxyamines (or /J-mercaptoamines or 1,2-diamines). The Michael type iddition of amines to activated C—C double bonds is also a useful synthetic reaction. Rnally unines react readily with. carbonyl compounds to form imines and enamines and with carbo-tylic acid chlorides or esters to give amides which can be reduced to amines with LiAlH (p. Ilf.). All these reactions are often applied in synthesis to produce polycyclic alkaloids with itrogen bridgeheads (J.W. Huffman, 1967) G. Stork, 1963 S.S. Klioze, 1975). 

Keto-10,11 -dihydrodlbenzo(a,d)cycloheptene Hydroxyamine hydrochloride Sodium amide... 

The enantioselectivity a is defined as the distribution ratio of one single enantiomer over the two chiral phases and has been determined experimentally for a variety of compounds (Table 5-1). It has been known from work by Prelog [66, 67] that tartaric acid derivatives show selectivities towards a-hydroxyamines and amino acids. However, from Table 5-1 it is obvious that tartaric acid derivatives show selectivity for many other compounds, including various amino bases (e.g. mirtazapine (10)) and acids (e.g. ibuprofen (11)). The use of other chiral selectors (e.g. PLA)... 

The reaction between epoxides and ammonia is a general and useful method for the preparation of P-hydroxyamines. " Ammonia gives largely the primary amine, but also some secondary and tertiary amines. The useful solvents, the ethanolamines, are prepared by this reaction. For another way of accomplishing this conversion, see 10-54. The reaction can be catalyzed with Yb(OTf)3 and in the presence of a-BINOL is l,l -bi-2-naphthol derivative gives amino alcohols with high asymmetric induction. A variation used Yb(OTf)3 at lOkbar or at ambient pressure. Lithium triflate can also be used. Primary and secondary amines give, respectively, secondary and tertiary amines, for example. 

N-Tosylated P-hydroxy alkylamines (which can be easily hydrolyzed to P-hydroxyamines" ) can be prepared " by treatment of alkenes with the trihydrate of Chloramine-T and a catalytic amount of OSO4. In some cases yields can be improved by the use of phase-transfer catalysis." The reaction has been carried out enantioselectively." In another procedure, certain P-hydroxy secondary alkylamines can be prepared by treatment of alkenes with the osmium compounds... 

Ring expansions of certain hydroxyamines, for example, are analogous to the... 

Ring expansion of certain hydroxyamines (Tiffeneu-Demyanov)... 

Sargeson and co-workers have reported the use of [Pt(en)3]4+ in template reactions to produce the platinum(IV) complexes of the macrobicyclic ligands sep and (N02)2sar (170).477 These reactions are analogous to those that occur around cobalt(III). However, in contrast to the [Co((N02)2sar)]3+ system, reduction of the pendant dinitro groups did not yield amines, but hydroxyamine groups.478... 

Hydrogenation catalyst, Acid, Fuel Riesthuis, P. et al., J. Loss Prev. Process Ind., 1997, 10(10), 67 In the presence of precious metal hydrogenation catalyst, hydroxylamine salts may disproportionate and form dinitrogen monoxide. Such a mixture is present in a process whereby the hydroxyamine is formed by hydrogenation of nitrate. An explosion in the degassing line, after a period of abnormal operation, was attributed to nitrous oxide build-up. Fuel, in the form of hydrogen and methane diluent, was already present. 

The next step in the development of periodate oxidation was made by Nicolet and Shinn.8 They applied periodate oxidation to a series of a-amino acids, and found that those containing the 2-hydroxyamine structure are almost instantaneously oxidized. For such an oxidation to proceed rapidly, the amine could not be tertiary. An a-hydroxy A-acylamine was attacked very slowly, if at all. Only a small number of compounds were investigated. 

Still unexplained are the reactions, with periodate, of hydroxy phenols and certain oxygenated aromatic compounds,1 as well as of some a-amino acids not containing the 2-hydroxyamine structure.8... 

Bonser GM, Bradshaw L, Clayson DB et al (1956) A further study on the carcinogenic properties of ortho-hydroxyamines and related compounds by bladder implantation in the mouse. Br J Cancer 10 539-546... 

Many of the multidentate features observed for aminocarboxylate complexes of bismuth are evident in a small, diverse group of complexes involving hydroxyamine and aminoalkoxides ligands (Table XVI). Most of the examples in this section may be considered unique and represent unusual structural arrangements. 

The syntheses of N-hydroxy-N-nitrosamines are usually carried out by the nitrosation of the corresponding N-hydroxyamines (Scheme 3.8) [123, 124]. N-Hydroxyamines are readily obtained by the reduction of the corresponding nitro-compounds. The most efficient methods are neutral or basic reactions. Recent applications of this method have resulted in the preparation of a variety of cupferron derivatives (Scheme 3.8) via nitrosation of phenylhydroxylamine with amyl nitrite/ammonia [125] or methyl nitrite/ammonia [126]. Behrend and Konig have shown that the organic... 

Quinine and quinidine, as well as cinchonidine and cinchonine, are diastereo-meric pairs. However, at the critical sites—the P-hydroxyamine portions of the molecules—they are enantiomeric. Thus if quinine is used as the chiral catalyst in an asymmetric transformation (i.e., with one enantiomer being formed in excess), the other enantiomer is formed in excess when quinidine is used. Table 2 gives a representative example, the thiol addition reaction (19). 

Method B (catalysed by polymer-supported chiral fl-hydroxyamines) The aldehyde (1 mmol) is added to the polymer-supported catalyst (0.298 g) in n-C6Hu (2 ml) at 0°C and the mixture is stirred for 15 min. The dialkylzinc (1M in rt-C6H 4, 2.2 ml) is added and the mixture is stirred for 1-8 days at 0°C. The reaction is quenched with aqueous HCI (1M, 5 ml) and the mixture is filtered and extracted with CH2C12 (3x10 ml). The dried (Na2S04) extracts are evaporated to yield the chiral secondary alcohol. 

The catalysed reaction of a,p-unsaturated ketones with dialkylzincs and oxygen leads to the formation of chiral acyloxiranes. The initially formed intermediate complex between the chiral (3-hydroxyamine and the dialkylzine (cf. Scheme 12.9) is oxidized to the peroxyalkylzinc complex prior to the formation of the chiral oxirane (Scheme 12.13) [28]. 

Fig. 4.8. Formation of mutagenic N-hydroxyamines from arylamides. Pathway a via deacetylation and subsequent IV-hydroxylation. Pathway b via IV-hydroxylation and subsequent deacetylation. Pathway c via N-acetoxy arylamine produced by IV,0-acyltransferases. [99]. Activation of hydroxylamines and hydroxylamides by O-sulfation is not shown. In all cases, the ultimate electrophile may be a nitrenium ion.

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