Hydroxylamines alkylation

Nitrones have been generally prepared by the condensation of /V-hydroxylamines with carbonyl compounds (Eq. 8.40).63 There are a number of published procedures, including dehydrogenation of /V,/V-disubstituted hydroxylamines, / -alkylation of imines, and oxidation of secondary amines. Among them, the simplest method is the oxidation of secondary amines with H202 in the presence of catalytic amounts of Na2W04 this method is very useful for the preparation of cyclic nitrones (Eq. 8.41).64... 

Al-(Alkoxycarbonyl) 0-(arenesulfonyl)hydroxylamines [alkyl Af-(arenesulfonyloxy) carbamates] 3i-o can be easily obtained by sulfonylation of commercially available iV-(alkoxycarbonyl)hydroxylamines (alkyl V-hydroxy carbamates). Af-(Alkoxycarbonyl) hydroxylamines can be also prepared from hydroxylamine and alkyl chloroformate . ... 

There are a few reports on the amination of a-metallated carbonyl compounds with 0-(arenesulfonyl)hydroxylamine-type reagents. However, in recent years there has been substantial progress in Af-(alkoxycarbonyl) 0-(arenesulfonyl)hydroxylamine [alkyl N-(arenesulfonyloxy)carbamate]-type reagents for the amination of enolates and eniminates. 

A-Metal derivatives of A-(aUtoxycarbonyl) 0-(arenesulfonyl)hydroxylamines, [alkyl A-metal A-(arenesulfonyloxy)carbamates] 3i-o have been used in the amination of a-metallated carbonyl compounds to give A-Boc [N(COOBu-f)] or A-Alloc [N(COOCH2 CH=CH)] protected a-aminocarbonyl compounds. 

The benzoyl acid ester CD is an important intermediate in CD modification. Selecting the appropriate nucleophile (iodide, azide, thio-amyl acetate and hydroxylamine, alkyl amines) to attack the carbon atoms which connect with tosyl, can trigger nucleophilic substitution reaction. Then, series of functional CD sulfonate derivatives can be obtained. 

Organic compounds that are oxidizing agents will oxidize ferrous hydroxide (blue) to ferric hydroxide (brown). The most common organic compounds that function in this way are aliphatic and aromatic nitro compounds, which are reduced to amines by the reaction (Eq. 25.60). Other less common types of compounds that give the same test are nitroso compounds, hydroxylamines, alkyl nitrates, alkyl nitrites, and quinones. 

A direct synthesis of substituted pyridines in yields of about 50% is found in the treatment of acetylene and an alkyl nitrile in the presence of a cobalt catalyst. A general method for the synthesis of 3- and 3,4-substituted furans from ketones has been developed. A new route to various heterocycles with 2 or more heteroatoms has been presented, as well as a procedure involving 1,3- or 3,3-cyclization on difunctional nucleophiles, such as hydrazine, hydroxylamine, alkyl and aryl-diamines. 76 77... 

The use of oximes as nucleophiles can be quite perplexing in view of the fact that nitrogen or oxygen may react. Alkylation of hydroxylamines can therefore be a very complex process which is largely dependent on the steric factors associated with the educts. Reproducible and predictable results are obtained in intramolecular reactions between oximes and electrophilic carbon atoms. Amides, halides, nitriles, and ketones have been used as electrophiles, and various heterocycles such as quinazoline N-oxide, benzodiayepines, and isoxazoles have been obtained in excellent yields under appropriate reaction conditions. 

Lithium amides of primary / fZ-alkylamines yield N-(/ f2 -alkyl)-0-(/ f2 -butyl)hydroxylamines, whereas lithium amides of primary alkylamines yield A/-alkylbenzamides and LiOO—due to nucleophilic attack on the carbonyl group (245). 

Eor antioxidant activity, the reaction of aminyl radicals with peroxy radicals is very beneficial. The nitroxyl radicals formed in this reaction are extremely effective oxidation inhibitors. Nitroxides function by trapping chain-propagating alkyl radicals to give hydroxylamine ethers. These ethers, in turn, quench chain propagating peroxy radicals and in the process regenerate the original nitroxides. The cycHc nature of this process accounts for the superlative antioxidant activity of nitroxides (see Antioxidants). Thus, antioxidant activity improves with an increase in stabiUty of the aminyl and nitroxyl radicals. Consequendy, commercial DPA antioxidants are alkylated in the ortho and para positions to prevent undesirable coupling reactions. 

To synthesize isomeric 3-substituted isoxazoles (301) the reaction of ethylene acetals of )3-ketoaldehydes (300) (readily available from -chlorovinyl ketones (57IZV949)) with hydroxylamine was employed. Owing to the comparative stability of the dioxolane group, this reaction gave exclusively 3-substituted isoxazoles (301) (60ZOB954). The use of noncy-clic, alkyl S-ketoacetals in this reaction resulted in a mixture of 3- and 5-substituted isoxazoles (55AG395). 

Alkyl-5-arylisoxazoles (303) were prepared by the regiospecific reaction of appropriate 1,3-diketones (302) (R = alkyl or perfluoroalkyl) with hydroxylamine hydrochloride in pyridine (79MI41601). 

Alkyl(or 3-aryl)-5-methylisoxazoles (306) were prepared by the regiospecific reaction of phosphonium salts (304) with hydroxylamine, followed by the treatment of the resulting isoxazole-containing phosphonium salts (305) with aqueous sodium hydroxide (80CB2852). 

The reaction of a-bromoenone (307) with hydroxylamine hydrochloride in ethanol in the presence of potassium carbonate resulted in the regiospecific formation of 3-alkyl-5-phenylisoxazoles (303). On the other hand, when sodium ethoxide was used as the base under similar conditions, 5-alkyl-3-phenylisoxazoles (308) were obtained exclusively (80CC826, 81H(16)145). 

Methylisoxazole and its homologs have been readily prepared by reaction of hydroxylamine hydrochloride with tetraalkoxypropanes (284) (63AHC(2)365), a-alkyl- 8-alkoxy-acroleins (62ZOB2961) and with a-alkyl- -dimethylaminoacroleins (60CB1208). 

Methylisoxazole (297 R = Me) and its homologs can be synthesized by reaction of hydroxylamine hydrochloride with 1-alkyl-3-dimethylamino-2-propen-l-one (296) (54IZV47), the anilino derivatives of acetoacetaldehyde (47G556), 3-dimethyl-aminomethylene-l-propyne (equation 7) (69ZOR1179) and the /3-ketoaldehyde (293) (66JOC3193). 

The two major methods of preparation are the cycloaddition of nitrile oxides to alkenes and the reaction of a,/3-unsaturated ketones with hydroxylamines. Additional methods include reaction of /3-haloketones and hydroxylamine, the reaction of ylides with nitrile oxides by activation of alkyl nitro compounds from isoxazoline AT-oxides (methoxides, etc.) and miscellaneous syntheses (62HC(i7)i). 

Two substituents on two N atoms increase the number of diaziridine structures as compared with oxaziridines, while some limitations as to the nature of substituents on N and C decrease it. Favored starting materials are formaldehyde, aliphatic aldehydes and ketones, together with ammonia and simple aliphatic amines. Aromatic amines do not react. Suitable aminating agents are chloramine, N-chloroalkylamines, hydroxylamine-O-sulfonic acid and their simple alkyl derivatives, but also oxaziridines unsubstituted at nitrogen. Combination of a carbonyl compound, an amine and an aminating agent leads to the standard procedures of diaziridine synthesis. 

Because of the great range of structures containing cyclic hydroxamic acid functions it is difficult to give a concise summary of the available synthetic methods. Nevertheless, the vast majority of published syntheses depend on condensation reactions involving only familiar processes of acylation or alkylation of hydroxylamine derivatives. The principles of such syntheses are outlined in a number of typical examples in Section III, A but no attempt has been made to cover all reported cases. 

Thus the structure of the oxazirane must formally involve elimination of water from one molecule each of the carbonyl compound and of an alkyl hydroxylamine. (In the synthesis of oxazirane from N-methylhydroxylamine-O-sulfonic acid and benzaldehyde, this method... 

Here a typical property of three-membered rings wdth two hetero atoms is shown and this property is also found in the diaziridines. Only with the oxaziranes which are substituted by aryl groups in the 3-position does the hydrolysis by acids occur according to Eq. (14) with formation of an aromatic aldehyde and alkyl hydroxylamine. 

The acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of 3-aryloxaziranes is a useful process for the syntheses of alkyl hydroxylamines. Emmons prepared, e.g., tert-butylhydroxylamine in 82% yield and ferOoctyl-hydroxylamine in 86% yield Horner and Jurgens - obtained c clo-hexylhydroxylaminc in 70% yield. 

The well-known reaction of a-alkyl-/3-ketoaldehydes and hydroxyl-amine has been applied to the elucidation of the structure of formyl-ation products of ketones the conclusions are, however, open to question. Some workers attempted to overcome the ambiguity of the reaction of j8-ketoaldehydes and hydroxylamine, which results in a mixture of 3- and 5-monosubstituted isoxazoles and thus considerably lowers the preparative value of the method, by using various derivatives of yS-ketoaldehydes, especially those of their enolic forms (jS-substituted vinylketones) investigated by Kochetkov et al. The use of readily available /3-chlorovinylketones (12) in the reaction with hydroxylamine represents a rather useful preparative method to synthesize monoalkylisoxazoles but again gives rise to a mixture of 3- (13) and 5-alkylisoxazoles (14). This is due to the attack... 

Substituents R, R at the starting oxime 1 can be H, alkyl, or aryl. The reaction conditions for the Beckmann rearrangement often are quite drastic (e.g. concentrated sulfuric acid at 120 °C), which generally limits the scope to less sensitive substrates. The required oxime can be easily prepared from the respective aldehyde or ketone and hydroxylamine. 

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