Hydroxylamine, reaction with acid anhydrides

Haptens containing amino groups can be coupled directly to carriers containing carboxyl groups, or the amino group can be converted to a carboxylic acid by reaction with succinic anhydride. - When a keto or an aldehyde group is present in the hapten, it can be converted to a carboxyl via reaction with 0-(carboxymethyl)hydroxylamine or with hydrazides. Haptens containing double bonds can be made to react directly with mer-captoacetic or mercaptopropionic acid, or a two-step reaction may be performed bromination followed by reaction with mercaptocarboxylic acid. ... 

Knobler Y, Bittner S, Frankel M (1964) Reaction of N-carboxy-alpha-amino-acid anhydrides with hydrochlorides of hydroxylamine O-alkylhydroxylamines + amines syntheses of amino-hydroxamic acids amido-oxy-peptides + alpha-amino-acid amides. J Chem Soc 3941... 

In much the same vein, acetylation of optically active cf-norgestrel by means of acetic anhydride and tosic acid gives the 17-acetate (72). Reaction with hydroxylamine hydrochloride in pyridine affords the orally active progestin dexnorgestrel acetime (73). ... 

Acetic anhydride is the only monocarboxylic acid anhydride that is important in modification reactions. The acetylation of the amino groups of proteins can be made relatively specific if the reaction is done in saturated sodium acetate, since the o-acetyltyrosine derivative is unstable to an excess of acetate ions (Fraenkel-Conrat, 1959). The tyrosine derivative rapidly hydrolyzes in alkaline reaction conditions, even in the absence of added acetate buffer (Uraki et al., 1957 Smyth, 1967). Treatment with hydroxylamine also cleaves any o-acetyltyrosine modifications, forming acetylhydroxamate, which can be followed by its purple complex with Fe3+ at 540 nm... 

Other chemical modifications pursued in our laboratories include metallation of the asphaltenes or halo-asphaltenes using metal or metallo-organics followed by, for example, carboxylation to the end product. Interaction of the asphaltenes with m-dinitrobenzene affords an oxygen-enriched material which, when treated with hydroxylamine or another amine yields materials containing extra nitrogen. Similarly, reaction of the asphaltenes with maleic anhydride and subsequent hydrolysis yields product bearing carboxylic acid functions. 

The catalytic action of ChE s is, however, not limited to ester hydrolysis. Thus, these enzymes catalyze also the reverse reaction, i.e., esterification of acids with choline (14). They promote transesterification 15) and the condensation of hydroxylamine with acids 14) or esters 15). Anhydrides of carboxylic acids are also substrates of ChE s 16, 17) and can undergo all the reactions, mentioned with esters, i.e., hydrolysis, esterification, and hydroxamation. 

Gallop el al. (1960) esterified the carboxyl groups prior to reaction with hydroxylamine and Lossen rearrangement. They point out themselves that in the anhydrous and dehydrating medium used for esterification, methanol/acetic anhydride, a — 7 conversion is a distinct possibility. Their results for poly-a-glutamic acid and for the aspartic acid in collagen make this less likely, but in later work they developed a method to avoid the esterification step (Franzblau, 1962 Franzblau et al, 1963). 

Partially methylated, acetylated aldononitriles are acyclic derivatives readily formed from reducing sugars by reaction with hydroxylamine in pyridine, followed by the addition of acetic anhydride to effect elimination of acetic acid from oxime acetates and acetylation of unsubstituted hydroxyl groups. These derivatives, although less extensively used, appear to give good GLC separations, and their mass spectra can be readily interpreted without the problem of structural symmetry (75MI3). 

I,2,3-Benzotriazin-4-ones are useful reagents in peptide synthesis and may be synthesized from the anthranilic acid by successive reaction with thionyl chloride (which forms an unstable sulphinamide anhydride), O-(trimethylsilyl)hydroxylamine and a nitrous acid-hydrochloric acid mixture at low temperature. 

Isoindoles can be produced by eliminations from A-substituted isoindolines (1,3-dihydro-isoindoles), themselves readily produced by the reaction of a nitrogen nucleophile and a l,2-bis(bromomethyl)-benzene examples are the pyrolytic eUmination of acetic acid from the cyclic hydroxylamine acetate,or, at a much lower temperature, of benzyl alcohol from an A-hydroxy-isoindoline benzyl ether, or of methanesulfonic acid from a corresponding mesylate. A-substituted isoindoles, too, have generally been made from an isoindoline by elimination processes, thus A-oxides can be made to lose water by pyrolysis," or better, by treatment with acetic anhydride. ... 

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