Hydroxylamine, aromatic, sulfate

Other Applications. Hydroxylamine-O-sulfonic acid [2950-43-8] h.2is many applications in the area of organic synthesis. The use of this material for organic transformations has been thoroughly reviewed (125,126). The preparation of the acid involves the reaction of hydroxjlamine [5470-11-1] with oleum in the presence of ammonium sulfate [7783-20-2] (127). The acid has found appHcation in the preparation of hydra2ines from amines, aUphatic amines from activated methylene compounds, aromatic amines from activated aromatic compounds, amides from esters, and oximes. It is also an important reagent in reductive deamination and specialty nitrile production. 

The main metabolic reaction is the deamination of amphetamine with the formation of phenylacetone, which is subsequently oxidized to benzoic acid, then conjugated with glycine to form hippuric acid. Side reactions include aromatic hydroxylation to form 4-hydroxyamphetamine (an active metabolite), the stereoselective [i-hydroxy-lation for the isomer (+) of amphetamine leading to the formation of norephedrine (phenylpropanolamine) and finally the N-oxidation leading to the formation of a hydroxylamine derivative. The products of the hydroxyl and aromatic N-oxides can be conjugated with sulfate or glucuronic acid [18]. 

Palomo75 report that various aromatic aldehydes can be converted to nitriles in 94-97% yield by refluxing the aromatic aldehyde, hydroxylamine hydrochloride, and magnesium sulfate in toluene or xylene, with p-toluencsulfonic acid as catalyst for 1.5 to 3 hr. The microwave-assisted process may prove better for aliphatic aldehydes and may be made even more attractive if the above process conditions could be refined to reduce or eliminate NMP—for instance, if both aldehyde and nitrile form a homogeneous liquid at the reaction temperature. 

Some hydroxylamine sulfates are stable, like that formed from monoxldll (Figure 5), which Is an aromatic N-sulfate ( 36). 

Aromatic hydroxylamines and hydrosg l-amides are good substrates for some sulfotransferases and yield unstable sulfate esters... 

Under suitable conditions it is possible to isolate the A-substituted hydroxylamines that are formed as intermediates in the reduction of nitro compounds. For this purpose it is essential in the reduction of aromatic nitro compounds to work with neutral or nearly neutral solutions suitable reducing agents are hydrogen and platinum oxide catalysts in glacial acetic acid,82,83 zinc dust in ammonium chloride solution,84 aluminum amalgam,85 and ammonium sulfide.86 Aliphatic nitro compounds may be reduced as their alkali salts (nitronates) by diborane in tetrahydrofuran, then giving A-alkylhydroxyl-amines 87 for instance, A-cyclohexylhydroxylamine is thus obtained from nitrocyclohexane in 53% yield. However, aliphatic nitro compounds are converted into A-alkylhydroxylamines more simply by catalytic hydrogenation in the presence of palladium-barium sulfate unlike aromatic nitro compounds, aliphatic nitro compounds require an acid medium for reduction to hydroxylamines an oxalic acid medium has proved the most suitable. 

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