Imidates, direct coupling

An interesting variant of the Nenitzescu indole synthesis, involving the Lewis acid-directed coupling of enol ethers with benzoquinone mono- and b/s-imides, was developed by T.A. Engler et al. for the synthesis of substituted - and -tetrahydrocarbolines. ... 

The direct electrosynthesis of S—N bonds from disulfides and amines has been shown to occur through a reaction of the amine with the oxidized disulfide being a strong electrophile. In contrast to the results, the cross-coupling of phthahmide (16) with disulfide does not proceed in a direct electrolysis. However, the electrosynthesis of sulfenimides (17) can be achieved by a [Br]" "-mediated cross-coupling reaction of imides with disulfides (Scheme 7). The electrolysis of a mixture of (16) and dicyclohexyl disulfide in an MeCN-NaBr-(Pt) system affords... 

The synthesis of a dipeptide dihydrothiazole by way of an imidate is shown in Scheme 13.[521 The Boc-protected amino acid 37 (in this case Val) was converted into the primary amide 38 by the mixed anhydride coupling with ammonia. The amide was then directly converted into the imidate 39 using triethyloxonium hexafluorophosphate which was subsequently condensed with H-Cys-OEt to provide the dihydrothiazole 40. 

Monotrifluoroacetylated diaminopyrazole was first reacted with the free Kemp s triacid to produce the imide, followed by N-Boc protection and amide-coupling with a m-substituted aniline derivative. Final Boc-deprotection occurred on the chromatography column leading directly to the new receptor modules. The recognition site X was chosen to be ethyl as a neutral reference, acetyl for polar side-chains, nitro for electron-rich aromatic residues and carboxylate for basic amino acids (Figure 2.4.4). 

N-oxide salts (HBTU and TBTU, respectively) [39], or from l-hydroxy-7-azabenzotriazole (HOAt) such as N-[(dimethylamino)-lH-l,2,3-triazolo[4,5-fe] pyridino-l-y]methylene]-N-methy]methanaminium tetrafluoroborate N-oxide (HATU) [40], are well established reagents. They are especially devoted to peptide coupling reactions due to their efficiency and the low degree of undesirable race-mization produced in the final peptide compared to the use of classical carbodi-imide-coupling methods. Therefore, as the polystyrene-supported HOBt is an often used polymeric reagent (Section 7.6.3) [41], its transformation in a supported HOBt and tetramethylurea-derived aminium salt analog to HBTU and TBTU resulted directly. Thus, the reaction of polystyrene-2% divinylbenzene copolymer resin P-HOBt (20) with tetramethylchloroformamidinium tetrafluoroborate (21) (4 equivalents) in the presence of triethylamine gave polymeric N-[(lH-benzotriazol-l-yl)(dimethylamino)methylene]-N-methylmethanaminium tetrafluoroborate N-oxide (P-TBTU, 22) (Scheme 7.6) [42],... 

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