Lactam acetals review

Finally, it should be noted that the investigations of Bredereck60,129 and Meerwein et al.130,131 on the preparation of lactam acetals have significantly widened the scope of utility of O-alkyl derivatives of lactams, and have extended some of the reactions of lactim ethers, discussed in this review, to N-substituted lactam acetals. 

N-Nitrosation. N-Nitroso- and N-nitrolactams are known to decompose on warming to lactones. A review of this method for conversion of lactams to lactones concludes that the route via nitrosolactams is preferable because nitrosation of lactams proceeds in almost quantitative yield with N204 and sodium acetate in CH2C12 at -10°. 

This review summarizes all the data we obtained on the synthesis and cationic ring-opening polymerization of bicyclic acetals and orthoesters, and discusses the relationship between ring-strain and poly-merlzablllty. This ties In with earlier work on the polymerlzabll-Ity of monocyclic and bicyclic lactams ( - ). A new mechanism for the propagation step In the polymerization of bicyclic orthoesters Is supported. 

Rhodium acetate-assisted cyclization (review [3928]) of an aldehyde (protected as an aminoaziridinehydrazone) which also has a lactam in another ring gives a high yield of the azepine. 

Largely stimulated by the synthesis of 3-lactam antibiotics, there have been widespread investigations into the stereochemical aspects of imine condensations, mainly involving reactions of enolates of carboxylic acid derivatives or silyl ketene acetals. In analogy to the aldol condensation, stereoselectivity of imine condensations will be discussed in terms of two types in this chapter (i) simple dia-stereoselectivity or syn-anti selectivity, when the two reactants are each prochiral (equation 12) and (ii) diastereofacial selectivity, when a new chiral center is formed in the presence of a pre-existing chiral center in one of the reactants (e.g. equation 13). The term asymmetric induction may be used synonymously with diastereofacial selectivity when one of the chiral reactants is optically active. For a more explicit explanation of these terms, see Heathcock s review on the aldol condensation. ... 

Condensation reactions of simple carboxylic acids with imines are of intense interest because of their applications to 3-lactam synthesis. Activation of the carboxylic acid derivative is accomplished by preforming the enolate in situ or by using a silyl ketene acetal derivative with Lewis acid catalysis. The first example of an enolate-imine condensation of this type can be attributed to Gillman and Speeter, who in 1943 reported the synthesis of 3-lactams from Reformatsky reagents and Schiff bases. Subsequently, other workers have investigated the mechanism and syn-anti selectivity of this reaction. A review of these studies by Evans et al. covering work through 1980 has appeared in their review, Stereoselective Aldol Condensations . ... 

A comprehensive review article on 3-lactam formation via the ester enolate-imine condensation has been written by Hart and Ha. Achiwa and coworkers have published a full paper detailing their work on the synthesis of N-benzyloxy-3-lactams utilizing the reaction of N-benzyloxyimines with silylketene acetals in the presence of TMS-OTf, or with lithium ester enolates. ... 

The most important general methods for enaminone preparation are (i) direct condensations of ammonia or amines with 1,3-diketones or 3-ketoesters, (ii) nucleophilic reactions of lactams or related compounds with vinylogous acid chlorides, (iii) transformations catalyzed by organopalla-dium complexes, and (iv) the reactions of active methylene compounds with formamide acetals. This last method (iv) has been reviewed in detail... 

The intramolecular cyclization route to a specific P-lactam often depends on the availability of a P-aminoester having the required stereochemistry. A review which considers the asymmetric synthesis of p-aminoesters is available (94MI475). Ytterbium promoted addition of benzylamine to 2-alkenoic esters having a stereogenic centre at the y-position (94CL827) and triphenyl borate mediated reaction of chiral imines with silylketene acetals have been utilised to give P-aminoesters stereoselectively (93BMC2337). 

Synthesis of Monosaccharide Derivatives.—New approaches to the synthesis of glycosides, including the alkoxylation of N-furanosyl-lactams, the reaction of l-0-acetyl-2,3,5-tri-0-benzoyl-P-D-ribofuranose with cyclic amide acetals derived from vicinal diols (see Vol. 10, p. 16), the Lewis acid-catalysed alcoholysis of sugars with an activated anomeric centre (see Vol. 10, p. 11), and the glycosidation of glycopyranosyl halides catalysed by silver trifluoromethanesulphonate (triflate), have been reviewed. A general review of carbonyl compounds has also dealt with some aspects of glycoside synthesis. 

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