Hydroxylamine reaction with carbonyl groups

AU considered condensation reactions have some anomalies for the a,j8-unsaturated carbonyl compounds. Most reagents with active hydrogen atoms can react not only with carbonyl groups but also with polarized conjugated double bonds C = C. As a result of this regularity, three products, instead of the estimated one target derivative, are formed in the reactions of a,)8-unsaturated carbonyl compounds with O-alkyl hydroxylamines ... 

Decarboxylations of a-amino acids are some of the most widely studied enzymatic reactions, and had been, at one time, presumed to be exclusively associated with pyridoxal-dependent catalysis. The reactivity of an enzyme of this type with carbonyl group reagents such as hydrazines, cyanide or hydroxylamine, was therefore consid-... 

Most of the synthetic approaches toward this ring system utilize N-amino pyridinium salts functionalized at the a-position with a carbonyl group. Thus, the amination of 2-(l,3-dioxolan-2-yl)pyridine with tosyl-hydroxylamine gave 78, whose reaction with urea in the presence of boron trifluoride-acetic acid gave 79, which gave the thermally unstable... 

De Bruin and van der Plas (79) also used hydroxylamine in an attempt to identify carbonyl groups. It is not stated whether this reagent was used as free base or as a salt. The considerable nitrogen uptake was very nearly the same as on reaction with ammonia in methanol. Perhaps ammonium salts had been formed in both reactions. The same authors found a pronounced reduction with TiClj which exceeded by far the extent of all other reactions. The TiClj reaction gave easily reproducible results. 

Acyl substituents at the 3- and/or 4-positions result in decreased hydrolytic stability compared with the alkyl and aryl derivatives described above. Despite this constraint most of the usual reactions of the carbonyl group are possible. Aldehydes <9ILA1211> and ketones are oxidized to the carboxylic acid, borohydride reduction affords the expected alcohols, and epoxides are formed on reaction with diazomethane. Oximes and arylhydrazones are formed with hydroxylamine and arylhydrazines, and the products may subsequently undergo monocyclic rearrangement involving the oxadiazole to give the corresponding isomeric furazans and 1,2,3-triazoles (Section 4.05.5.1.4). 

The carbonyl group in 241 and 242 can be converted into thiocarbonyl which in turn is attacked by hydroxylamine to form an imine (Scheme 30) <1980JOC4198>. The reverse reaction, that is, conversion of thiocarbonyl to carbonyl, is possible with trifluoroacetic anhydride in dichloromethane <1991TL1195>. 

Compound 63, the 2-formyl derivative of compound 61, undergoes a series of side-chain reactions at the carbonyl group including reduction with sodium borohydride and condensation reactions with hydroxylamine or malononitrile. The reactions afford the appropriately 2-substituted products in excellent yields <2004CHE1477>. 

The classical method for preparing isoxazole involves the condensation of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds with hydroxylamine, a reagent that contains the preformed N—O bond. The regiochemistry of the reactions can usually be rationalized by assuming that the first step involves imine bond formation at the more reactive carbonyl group. Thus, reaction of formyl ketone (44-1) with hydroxylamine gives... 

The dibasic side chain at position 7 can be alternatively provided by a substituted amino alkyl pyrrolidine. Preparation of that diamine in chiral form starts with the extension of the ester function in pyrrolidone (46-1) by aldol condensation with ethyl acetate (46-2). Acid hydrolysis of the (3-ketoester leads to the free acid that then decarboxylates to form an acetyl group (46-3). The carbonyl group is next converted to an amine by sequential reaction with hydroxylamine to form the oxime, followed by catalytic hydrogenation. The desired isomer (46-4) is then separated... 

Dicarbonyl compounds with a double bond in the 2,3-position condense with hydrazine to give pyridazines (e.g. 91 — 92). If one of the carbonyl groups in the starting material is part of a carboxyl group or a potential carboxyl group, then reactions with hydrazines or hydroxylamine lead to pyridazinones or 1,2-oxazinones (e.g. 93 — 94 Z = NH, NPh, O). Similarly a cyano group leads to an amino or imino product. 

The presence of the double bond (carbonyl group C 0) markedly determines the. chemical behavior of the aldehydes. The hydrogen atom connected directly to the carbonyl group is not easily displaced. The chemical properties of the aldehy des may be summarized by (1) they react with alcohols, with elimination of H2O, to form ace t i (2) they combine readily with HCN to form cyanohydrins, (3) they react with hydroxylamine to yield aldoximes (4) they react with hydrazine to form hydrazones (5) they can be oxidized lulu fatty acids, which contain die same [lumber of carbons as in the initial aldehyde 5) they can be reduced readily to form primary alcohols. When bcnzaldchydc is reduced with sodium amalgam and HjO, benzyl alcohol C,f l - -C f I Of I is obtained. The latter compound also may be obtained by treating benzaldehyde with a solution of cold KOH in which benzyl alcohol and potassium benzoate are produced. The latter reaction is known as Cannizzaro s reaction. 

Addition of primary amines to carbonyl groups has been the subject of extensive study, notably by Jencks and co-workers.91 The most striking feature of these reactions is the characteristic maximum in the graph of reaction rate as a function of pH.92 Figure 8.10 illustrates the observations for the reaction of hydroxylamine with acetone. It is also found that the sensitivity of rate to acid catalysis,93 and to substituent effects,94 is different on either side of the maximum in the pH-rate curve. These phenomena may be understood in terms of the two-step nature of the reaction. In acetal formation, we saw in Section 8.3 that the second step is rate-limiting in the overall process, and it is relatively easy to study the two steps separately here, the rates of the two steps are much more closely balanced, so that one or the other is rate-determining depending on the pH. 

On treatment with concentrated hydrochloric acid and aluminum amalgam, l-telluracyclohexane-3,5-diones decompose with elimination of tellurium. Their chemical behavior is determined by the presence of the dicoordinate tellurium center and two carbonyl groups in their molecules. As cyclic diketones, compounds 12 readily form oximes and dioximes under treatment with hydroxylamine. The former reaction is preferably carried out in dilute acetic acid solution, whereas the latter is carried out in basic... 

Dihydropyridines containing at position 3 a carbonyl group similar to oc,(3-unsaturated ketones can be involved in cyclocondensation reactions with 1,2-binucleophiles. Dihydropyridine 376 treated with hydroxylamine yields isoxazoline derivatives 377 [363, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386] (Scheme 3.122). Dihydro-l,2,4-triazolo[l,5- ]pyrimidine 378 reacts with hydrazine and hydroxylamine in the same manner, giving the condensation products 379 [387]. 

With regard to the mechanism of this new type of reaction, the Jorgensen group postulated enamine formation, by addition of the catalyst to the nitrone, followed by hydroxylamine elimination [132], Subsequent aldol-type reaction of this enamine with the carbonyl component and release of the proline catalyst by exchange... 

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