Hydroxylamines rearrangement reactions

The rearrangement reaction continues to be of synthetic utility, often involved in industrial processes. Patent references (e.g. Reference 48) refer to the formation of 4-amino phenols. Often the reactant nitro compound is reduced (to the hydroxylamine) in an acid environment so that the two-stage reaction can be accomplished as a one-pot synthesis. 4-Amino phenol itself 45 can be made in high yield directly from nitrobenzene49 and the 4-methoxy aniline derivative 46 similarly from 2-methylnitrobenzene by hydrogenation in MeOH/H2S0450. 

Several explosions or violent decompositions dining distillation of aldoximes may be attributable to presence of peroxides arising from autoxidation. The peroxides may form on the -C=NOH system (both aldehydes and hydroxylamines perox-idise [1]) or perhaps arise from unreacted aldehyde. Attention has been drawn to an explosion hazard inherent to ketoximes and many of their derivatives (and not limited to them). The hazard is attributed to inadvertent occurence of acidic conditions leading to highly exothermic Beckmann rearrangement reactions accompanied by potentially catastrophic gas evolution. Presence of acidic salts (iron(III)... 

The Beckmann rearrangement of oximes to produce amides is promoted by perrhenate ions under phase-transfer catalytic conditions, in the presence of trifluoro-methanesulphonic acid in nitromethane [6]. Under these conditions, the rearrangement reaction is frequently accompanied by the solvolysis of the oxime to the ketone. This can be obviated by the addition of hydroxylamine hydrochloride. No reaction occurs in the absence of the ammonium catalyst or with the O-acetyl oximes. 

Rearrangement reactions of hydroxylamines (1), oximes (2) and hydroxamic acids (3) will be covered in this chapter with emphasis on the developments made during the last 15 years. All referred compounds possess a relatively low energy N—O bond ca 53 kcalmol" ) which facilitates the ability of these compounds to rearrange. 

The most widely used rearrangement reactions of hydroxylamine, oximes and hydroxamic acids are reported in previous sections of this chapter, but there are other relevant rearrangements which were less exploited. 

The name Stieglitz rearrangement is generally applied to the rearrangements of trityl N-haloamines and hydroxylamines. These reactions are similar to the rearrangements of alkyl... 

Thus, the important factor in determining whether the nitroalkane will be reduced to a hydroxylamine or an amine is the temperature, since increased temperatures will speed up the rearrangement reaction (79) and favor the formation of the amine. 

In the reaction of dimethylfoimamide chloride with the imidoyl cyanide (299 equation 160) the amidine (300) is formed. Isoxazolines, prepared from amide chlorides and hydroxylamine, rearrange on heating or irradiation to give 2-aminoazirine (301 Scheme 46). Azirines (302) can also be prepared by treating chloroenamines with base and sodium azide. ... 

Beckmann rearrangement The rearrangement reaction that occurs when a ketone is treated with hydroxylamine, NH2OH, followed by, for example, PC15. The reaction proceeds via an oxime to... 

Direct IV-oxidation of these heterocycles invariably fails (see Section 3.02.7.2.8), making ring synthetic methods the only viable alternative <93CHE127>. Although there has been considerable interest in the chemistry of compounds of this type, there are no new synthetic approaches of a general nature. The most common approach is to react a-oximinoketones with aldehydes and primary amines. With formaldehyde, however, the 2-unsubstituted 1-oxides rearrange to 2-imi-dazolones. Variations on this theme allow synthesis of 1-hydroxyimidazole 3-oxides. Thus, treatment of an a-dicarbonyl compound with an aldehyde and hydroxylamine, or reaction of the aldehyde oxime or aldehyde with a 1,2-dioxime are common approaches <898773 >. Similarly, a-hydroxyamino-... 

The probable reaction course to the nitroalkane (XI), after the formation of the amine-ozone adduct (Reaction 1), is shown by Reactions 7 to 9 and summed up in Reaction 10. A primary amine oxide would not be expected to be stable and should rearrange to the hydroxylamine (IX, Reaction 7). A similar set of reactions (Reaction 8) should result in the nitrosoalkane (X), which should then be converted to the nitroalkane (XI) as shown in Reaction 9. Evidence for this series of reactions was the observation of the blue color of the nitrosoalkane (X) throughout the ozonation and the demonstration, in separate experiments, that the hydroxylamine (IX) reacts with two mole equivalents of ozone and the nitrosoalkane (X) with one mole equivalent of ozone, each to give the nitroalkane (XI). 

A variety of compounds can be obtained from this single electroreduction reaction. For example, the formation of the hydroxylamine (XIV) occurs at a platinum cathode (low hydrogen overpotential) in dilute aqueous acid. It is interesting to note that in aqueous sulfuric acid the hydroxylamine rearranges to yield p-aminophenol (XIX). 

Electrolytic reductions generally caimot compete economically with chemical reductions of nitro compounds to amines, but they have been appHed in some specific reactions, such as the preparation of aminophenols (qv) from aromatic nitro compounds. For example, in the presence of sulfuric acid, cathodic reduction of aromatic nitro compounds with a free para-position leads to -aminophenol [123-30-8] hy rearrangement of the intermediate N-phenyl-hydroxylamine [100-65-2] (61). 

If primary or secondary amines are used, A/-substituted amides are formed. This reaction is called aminolysis. Hydra2ines yield the corresponding hydra2ides, which can then be treated with nitrous acid to form the a2ides used in the Curtius rearrangement. Hydroxylamines give hydroxamic acids. 

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. 

Aryl hydroxylamines treated with acids rearrange to aminophenols. Although this reaction (known as the Bamberger rearrangement) is similar in appearance to... 

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