Imine oxidation mixture

I.2. Oxidation of Amines Oxidation of primary amines is often viewed as a particularly convenient way to prepare hydroxylamines. However, their direct oxidation usually leads to complex mixtures containing nitroso and nitro compounds and oximes. However, oxidation to nitrones can be performed after their conversion into secondary amines or imines. Sometimes, oxidation of secondary amines rather than direct imine oxidation seems to provide a more useful and convenient way of producing nitrones. In many cases, imines are first reduced to secondary amines which are then treated with oxidants (26). This approach is used as a basis for a one-pot synthesis of asymmetrical acyclic nitrones starting from aromatic aldehydes (Scheme 2.5) (27a) and 3,4-dihydroisoquinoline-2-oxides (27b). 

Oxidation of N-alkyl or A -aryl enamines, with a secondary nitrogen, can lead to poor to modest yields of ligand coupling products or their products of imine hydrolysis. Mixtures of dimeric... 

The practical route for oxidizing leuco diphenylmethanes 15 demands inital conversion to an imine salt 16. The imine salt is obtained by heating a mixture of diphenylmethane, sulfur, ammonium chloride, and sodium chloride at 175°C in a current of ammonia or by heating a mixture of diphenylmethane, urea, sulfamic acid, sulfur, and ammonia at 175°C (Scheme 3). Dyes 16 can be represented as the quinonoid resonance structure 17. Dyes of this class, known as auramines, are all yellow, with the only commercial representative being auramine O 16a. Due to its poor lightfastness and instability to hot acids and bases, its use has been restricted to dyeing and printing cotton, paper, silk, leather, and jute. 

The initially obtained product undergoes isomerization and then the addition of phenyl azide to the phosphorus atom takes place. It is proposed that the oxidative imination does not depend on the steric effects of substituents. Actually, the interaction of 5-phenyl-2,4,6-triisopropyI-1,3,5-dioxaphosphorinane, existing as a mixture of three stereoisomers, gives with phenyl azide a mixture of three stereoisomers of 5-phenyl-5-phenylimino-2,4,6-triisopropyl-l,3,5-dioxaphosphorinane (83IZV2550). 

Tietze adopted a somewhat more indirect route to enantiopure tetrahydro-p-carbolines 166. This approach begins with P-S reaction of tryptamine with aldehydes or a-keto acids to yield the carbolines 163, which upon oxidation to the corresponding imines 164 subsequently undergo enantioselective hydrogenation with the catalyst 165 in a 5 2 formic acid/triethylamine mixture in acetonitrile <00EJO2247>. 

Oxidation of primary amines with DMD or other oxidants leads to the formation of a complex mixture of nitroso, oximes, and nitro compounds (76). Utilization of DMD in acetone affords dimethyl nitrone (22). This is likely to be a result of the initial oxidation of primary amine (19) to hydroxylamine (20) with the subsequent condensation of acetone and oxidation of imine (21) (Scheme 2.9) (77). 

Closure of the oxadiazole ring is still achieved through cycloaddition between pyridine iV-oxides and isocyanates, affording adducts such as 142 (Scheme 38) <1995T6451>. Nonaromatic imine fV-oxides exhibited similar reactivities, since azasugar-derived fV-oxides as a mixture of 143 and 144 underwent cycloaddition reactions in the presence of phenyl isocyanate or trichloroacetonitrile. Compounds 145 and 146 (Scheme 39) were obtained from the aldoxime W-oxide 143 two other regioisomeric heterocycles arose from the ketoxime derivative 144 <1996T4467>. 

When pyridinium A -imine salts 157 were reacted with methylphenyl-cyclopropenone (158, R = Ph, R = Me) in the presence of a base, dihydro-pyrido[l,2-h]pyridazin-3-ones (159) were formed, which subsequently underwent oxidation to produce 3//-pyrido[l,2-h]pyridazin-3-ones (160) under the reaction conditions [76JCS(CC)275 78JOC2892], In some cases the dihydro intermediates (159) could be isolated. 3-Substituted derivatives (157, R = 3-Me, 3-CN R = H) gave mixtures of isomers of 160 (R = 5-... 

For amines having an a-hydrogen atom, electrochemical oxidation leads to the imine as the first detectable intemrediate. In the absence of another nucleophile, this is not usually a useful reaction since the imine is hydrolysed by water present in the solvent leading to a mixture of products [80, 81], Oxidation of ten-butylamine, which has no a-hydrogen atom, leads to loss of a proton flrom the nitrogen atom and the dimerization of nitrogen centred radicals. The product isolated in moderate yields is azo-teri-butane 17 [82], The reaction can be carried out in an... 

Enantiomerically pure nitrile imines (211) have also been generated by the lead tetraacetate oxidation of aldehydo sugar p-nitrophenyl hydrazones. Reaction with methyl acrylate gave the pyrazolines as a 1 1 mixture of the (55) and (5R) epimers, which were resolvable in some cases (116). 

Synthetic routes to the nitrogen analogues of thiophene-1-oxides and thiophene-1,1-dioxides have been developed. Treatment of thiophene-1-oxide 48 with TsN=IPh gave sulfoximide 49 <99TL3785>, while a similar reaction involving thiophene 50 provided a mixture of thiophene-1-imine 51 and thiophene-1,1-diimine 52 amongst several products <99TL5549>. 

The reaction of acetophenone (19) with formamide is known to produce 21 after reduction of the imine and hydrolysis of the formate group. This is accompanied by a trace of pyrimidine 22 in the reaction mixture. Lejon and co-workers have optimized the production of 22 by adding CuCl, which is thought to oxidize the formate ion produced from the reaction of water with formamide, thereby minimizing the reduction of 20 and allowing the cyclocondensation with a second equivalent of formamide <99H611>. 

In general, sulfoximines are accessible by various routes, and most of them involve sulfur oxidation/imination sequences. For example, enantiopure 9 is commonly prepared starting from sulfide 10, which is oxidized with hydrogen peroxide (under acidic conditions) giving sulfoxide 11 (Scheme 2.1.1.1). Subsequent imina-tion of 11 with a mixture of sodium azide and sulfuric acid affords sulfoximine 9 as a racemate. Enantiomer resolution can then be achieved with camphorsul-fonic acid, leading to both enantiomers of 9 with high efficiency [15]. Alternatively, many sulfoximine syntheses start from enantiopure sulfoxides [16, 17], which can be stereospecifically iminated with 0-mesitylenesulfonylhydroxyl-amine (MSH) [18], as shown for the synthesis of sulfoximine (1 )-13 in Scheme 2.I.I.2. 

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