Amine from imines

The metal coordination complexes of both sahcylaldehyde phenyhiydrazone (91) and sahcylaldoxime provide antioxidant (92) protection and uv stabihty to polyolefins (see Antioxidants). In addition, the imines resulting from the reaction of sahcylaldehyde and aromatic amines, eg, p- am in oph en o1 or a-naphthylamine, can be used at very low levels as heat stabiLizers (qv) in polyolefins (93). 

Reductive amination of cyclohexanone using primary and secondary aHphatic amines provides A/-alkylated cyclohexylamines. Dehydration to imine for the primary amines, to endocycHc enamine for the secondary amines is usually performed in situ prior to hydrogenation in batch processing. Alternatively, reduction of the /V-a1ky1ani1ines may be performed, as for /V,/V-dimethy1 cyclohexyl amine from /V, /V- di m e th y1 a n i1 i n e [121 -69-7] (12,13). One-step routes from phenol and the alkylamine (14) have also been practiced. 

The imine, prepared from an amine and (C5H4N)(Me3C JH2)CO (TiC, toluene, reflux, 12 h NaOH, 80% yield), can be cleaved with coned. HCl (reflux). The protective group was used to direct a-alkylation of amines. 

The hydrolysis of simple imines occurs readily in aqueous acid and has been studied in great detail by kinetic methods. The precise mechanism is a fimction of the reactant structure and the pH of the solution. The overall mechanism consists of an addition of water to the C=N bond, followed by expulsion of the amine from a tetrahedral intermediate. ... 

The kinetics of the hydrolysis of some imines derived from benzophenone anc primary amines revealed the normal dependence of mechanism on pH with ratedetermining nucleophilic attack at high pH and rate-determining decomposition of the tetrahedral intermediate at low pH. The simple primary amines show a linear correlation between the rate of nucleophilic addition and the basicity of the amine Several diamines which were included in the study, in particular A, B, and C, al showed a positive (more reactive) deviation from the correlation line for the simple amines. Why might these amines be more reactive than predicted on the basis of thei ... 

Chiral imines derived from 1-phenylethanone and (I. Sj-exo-l, 7,7-trimethyIbicyclo-[2.2.1]heptan-2-amine [(S)-isobornylamine], (.S>1-phenylethanamine or (R)-l-(1-naphthyl) ethanamine are transformed into the corresponding (vinylamino)dichloroboranes (e.g., 3) by treatment with trichloroborane and triethylamine in dichloromethane. Reaction of the chiral boron azaenolates with aromatic aldehydes at 25 "C, and subsequent acidic hydrolysis, furnishes aldol adducts with enantiomeric excesses in the range of 2.5 to 47.7%. Significantly lower asymmetric inductions are obtained from additions of the corresponding lithium and magnesium azaenolates. Best results arc achieved using (.S )-isobornylamine as the chiral auxiliary 3. 

Double asymmetric induction operates when the azomethine compound is derived from a chiral a-amino aldehyde and a chiral amine, e.g., the sulfin-imine 144 [70]. In this case, the R configuration at the sulfur of the chiral auxihary, N-tert-butanesulfinamide, matched with the S configuration of the starting a-amino aldehyde, allowing complete stereocontrol to be achieved in the preparation of the diamine derivatives 145 by the addition of trifluo-romethyl anion, which was formed from trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane in the presence of tetramethylammonium fluoride (Scheme 23). The substituents at both nitrogen atoms were easily removed by routine procedures see, for example, the preparation of the free diamine 146. On the other hand, a lower diastereoselectivity (dr 80 20) was observed in one reaction carried out on the imine derived from (it)-aldehyde and (it)-sulfinamide. 

One of the potentially most useful aspects of the imine anions is that they can be prepared from enantiomerically pure amines. When imines derived from chiral amines are alkylated, the new carbon-carbon bond is formed with a bias for one of the two possible stereochemical configurations. Hydrolysis of the imine then leads to enantiomerically enriched ketone. Table 1.4 lists some examples that have been reported.118... 

Amines can react with various carbonyl compounds and their derivatives in aqueous media to give the corresponding imine derivatives. These reactions have been discussed in related chapters. The synthetically most useful reaction of this type is the formation of imines and imine derivatives from the condensation of amines with aldehydes and ketones. Water is an excellent solvent for such condensation reactions. For example, water was found to be an ideal solvent for a high-yield, fast preparation of easily hydrolyzable 2-pyrrolecarbaldimines.23 In the presence of Cu2+, the reaction afforded the corresponding Cu(II) chelates (Eq. 11.19). 

A one pot samarium-catalyzed three-component reaction of aldehydes, amines, and nitroal-kanes leads to pyrroles. The reaction proceeds via imines, generated from the amine and carbonyl compound, followed by the Michael addition of the nitro compound (Eq. 10.10).12a In... 

These authors also found that the addition of excess MgO during the in situ preparation of allyltantalum species improved reaction outcomes, even allowing for the first example of allylation of imines derived from aliphatic amines and aliphatic aldehydes (prepared in situ at room temperature in the presence of molecular sieves) (Equation (18)). The selective addition to imines permitted three-component reactions. 

A stereospecific intramolecular imino-ene reaction was used by Weinreb and co-workers92 to provide the enantio-selective total syntheses of (-)-montanine, (-)-coccinine, and (-)-pancracine. Refluxing the imine resulting from the condensation of 151 and 152 in mesitylene produces the amine 153 (Scheme 33) as a single stereoisomer in 63% yield after removal of the silyl group from the alkyne. The high stereoselectivity is thought to arise from a concerted ene process. 

The heteroatom version of the vinylcyclopropane rearrangement serves to facilitate alkaloid construction. Scheme 13 outlines a strategy for the pyrrolizidine alkaloid isoretronecanol 211 90). Use of a carboxaldehyde (i.e. 213) as a synthon for the primary alcohol provides an ability to adjust stereochemistry. It also sets up formation of the pyrrolidine ring bearing the aldehyde by an aldol-type condensation of an enol of the aldehyde onto an imine derived from 214. Because of the lability of such systems, introduction of X=PhS imparts stability. The resultant azacyclopentene translates to an imine 215 using the iminocyclopropane rearrangement methodology. Simple condensation of the primary amine 216 with aldehyde 37a then initiates this... 

Asymmetric catalytic reduction reactions represent one of the most efficient and convenient methods to prepare a wide range of enantiomerically pure compounds (i.e. a-amino acids can be prepared from a-enamides, alcohols from ketones and amines from oximes or imines). The chirality transfer can be accomplished by different types of chiral catalysts metallic catalysts are very efficient for the hydrogenation of olefins, some ketones and oximes, while nonmetallic catalysts provide a complementary method for ketone and oxime hydrogenation. 

Since then, optically active a-aminophosphonates have been obtained by a variety of methods including resolution, asymmetric phosphite additions to imine double bonds and sugar-based nitrones, condensation of optically active ureas with phosphites and aldehydes, catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation, and 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions. These approaches have been discussed in a comprehensive review by Dhawan and Redmore.9 More recent protocols involve electrophilic amination of homochiral dioxane acetals,10 alkylation of homochiral imines derived from pinanone11 and ketopinic acid,12 and alkylation of homochiral, bicyclic phosphonamides.13... 

Aqueous organometalHc catalysis allows the use of NH3-solutions in water for the direct synthesis of amines from olefins in a combined hydroformylation/reductive amination procedure (Scheme 4.19). The hydroformylation step was catalyzed by the proven Rh/TPPTS or Rh/BINAS (44) catalysts, while the iridium complexes formed from the same phosphine ligands and [ IrCl(COD) 2] were found suitable for the hydrogenation of the intermediate imines. With sufficiently high NH3/olefin ratios (8/1) high selectivity towards the formation of primary amines (up to 90 %) could be achieved, while in an excess of olefin the corresponding... 

Imines derived from ketones with an a-methylene group can react via their enamine tautomers, and mixtures of triazoles are also isolated from these systems. The triazoline adducts of the enamine tautomers are aromatized by treating with acid, and in these conditions the triazoline appears to undergo a Dimroth rearrangement before elimination of the amine, because two triazoles are obtained, one of which has... 

CuOTf/PyBox System The first direct asymmetric addition of alkynes to imines, generated from aldehydes and amines in situ, was reported by using copper salts in the presence of chiral PyBox ligand (Scheme 5.2). The products were obtained in good yields and excellent enantioselectivities in most cases. When toluene was used as solvent, up to 93% yield and 99% ee were obtained. Up to 99.5% ee was obtained when the reaction was carried out in 1,2-dichloroethane. The reaction can also be performed in water smoothly, and good enantioselectivities (78-91% ee) were obtained. 

Scheme 5.2. Asymmetric addition of alkynes to imines generated from aldehydes and amines.

Since imines derived from alkyl-alkyl ketones are relatively unstable, reductive amination may be more practical compared to imine reduction. Compared to the reductive amination, which employs three equivalents of the ketone substrate, the in situ imine generation/one-pot reduction protocol has the significant advantage that it does not require an excess of the carbonyl compound. 

When DHAP-dependent aldolases are used as catalyst of the aldol reaction, a phosphorylated azido or amino polyhydroxyketone is obtained. The phosphate may be cleaved enzymatically or reductively cleaved under the hydrogenation conditions of the next step in which the azide is reduced to the amine. Intramolecular imine formation occurs spontaneously when the azide is reduced. The intramolecular reductive amination is the second key step of the aldolase-mediated synthesis of iminocyclitols. In general, delivery of hydrogen onto five- and six-membered ring imines occurs from the face opposite to the C4 hydroxyl group. 

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