Lactams carbonylation

Properties. Thienamycin is isolated as a colorless, hygroscopic, zwitterionic soHd, although the majority of carbapenems have been obtained as sodium salts and, in the case of the sulfated olivanic acids, as disodium salts (12). Concentrated aqueous solutions of the carbapenems are generally unstable, particularly at low pH. AH the substituted natural products have characteristic uv absorption properties that are often used in assay procedures. The ir frequency of the P-lactam carbonyl is in the range 1760 1790 cm . ... 

Spectral Characteristics. The iafrared stretching frequency of the penicillin P-lactam carbonyl group normally occurs at relatively high frequencies (1770 1815 cm ) as compared to the absorptions for the secondary amide (1504-1695 cm ) and ester (1720-1780 cm ) carbonyl groups. 

The most informative feature of the IR spectra of azetidin-2-ones is generally the /3-lactam carbonyl absorption, the frequency of which is affected by substitution and by fusion of the ring (c/. Table 3). Thus, IR spectra of simple monocyclic /3-lactams generally have absorption maxima in the region 1730-1760 cm while the fused 2- and 3-cephem systems (60) and (61) show IR maxima in the regions 1772-1784 and 1782-1792 cm S respectively (b-72MI50900 p. 318). 

The higher frequencies of the /3-lactam carbonyl absorption in fused systems has been attributed to increased inhibition of amide resonance as the /3-lactam ring becomes less planar (b-72mI50900 p. 303). For the 3-cephems (61) there is also the possibility of enamine resonance which could further reduce the ability of the /3-lactam nitrogen to contribute to amide resonance. 

IR spectra of systems related to /3-lactams show the expected trends in the frequency of the carbonyl absorption, where present. For example, the presence of an exocyclic double bond at C-4 in an azetidin-2-one raises the value of vc=o considerably. Thus the 4-thioxoazetidin-2-one (62 Z=S) and the derived 4-alkylidene systems (62 Z = CR R ) exhibit /3-lactam carbonyl absorptions at 1835 and 1800-1810 cm respectively (80JOC1477, 80JOC1481), while the 4-iminoazetidin-2-ones (63) have vc=o at 1800-1825 cm (81CC41). Additional spectral data for these and similar systems may be found in the references in Table 5. 

One of the major differences between penicillins and cephalosporins is the possibility for a concerted elimination of the C-3 substituent in the case of cephalosporins (6->7). There is now considerable evidence to support the idea that an increase in the ability of the C-3 substituent to act as a leaving group results in an increased reactivity of the 8-lactam carbonyl (75JMC408). Thus, both the hydrolysis rate of the 8-lactam and antibacterial activity... 

The role of IR spectroscopy in the early penicillin structure studies has been described (B-49MI51103) and the results of more recent work have been summarized (B-72MI51101). The most noteworthy aspect of a penicillin IR spectrum is the stretching frequency of the /3-lactam carbonyl, which comes at approximately 1780 cm" This is in contrast to a linear tertiary amide which absorbs at approximately 1650 cm and a /3-lactam which is not fused to another ring (e.g. benzyldethiopenicillin), which absorbs at approximately 1740 cm (the exact absorption frequency will, of course, depend upon the specific compound and technique of spectrum determination). The /3-lactam carbonyl absorptions of penicillin sulfoxides and sulfones occur at approximately 1805 and 1810 cm respectively. The high absorption frequency of the penicillin /3-lactam carbonyl is interpreted in terms of the increased double bond character of that bond as a consequence of decreased amide resonance, as discussed in the X-ray crystallographic section. Other aspects of the penicillin IR spectrum, e.g. the side chain amide absorptions at approximately 1680 and 1510 cm and the carboxylate absorption at approximately 1610 cm are as expected. 

Under approximately neutral conditions, where the degradation rate is independent of pH for a range of pH values characteristic of the individual penicillin, hydrolysis appears to occur through a general base-catalyzed attack of a water molecule (77JPS861) on the /3-lactam carbonyl. 

Schemes 15 and 16 summarize the syntheses of intermediates that represent rings A and D of vitamin Bi2 by the Eschenmoser group. Treatment of lactam/lactone 51, the precursor to B-ring intermediate 8 (whose synthesis has already been described, see Scheme 8), with potassium cyanide in methanol induces cleavage of the y-lac-tone ring and furnishes intermediate 76 after esterification of the newly formed acetic acid chain with diazomethane. Intermediate 76 is produced as a mixture of diastereomers, epimeric at the newly formed stereocenter, in a yield exceeding 95%. Selective conversion of the lactam carbonyl in 76 into the corresponding thiolactam...

Although neither of the two carbonyl groups in 18 is immune to the action of Lawesson s reagent,11 it is possible to bring about the selective conversion of the more Lewis-basic lactam carbonyl to the corresponding thiocarbonyl. Thus, treatment of 18 with Lawesson s reagent results in the formation of thiolactam 19 in 85% overall yield from 13. 

The benzoxazepinedione 1 is selectively thiated at the lactam carbonyl group by Lawesson s reagent to give the one-thione 2.37... 

Thus, neither halogen substitution nor ring strain induces enzymatic hydrolysis. Molecules 21 and 22 may be bound in such a way that the (3-lactam carbonyl lies too far away from the catalytic serine hydroxyl group.72... 

Although we did not anticipate the hydrogenation of the lactam carbonyl, this transformation is known in the literature with the earliest examples coming from the pioneering work of Adkins et al. using Cu-Cr oxides (22). 

Hydrogenation of amides normally result in the formation of alcohols, whereas lactams give cyclic amines. The work presented in this paper is the first example that we are aware in which a lactam was hydrogenated by a ruthenium catalyst. To verify that acid promoted the lactam carbonyl hydrogenation, two... 

As a simple model for the enzyme penicillinase, Tutt and Schwartz (1970, 1971) investigated the effect of cycloheptaamylose on the hydrolysis of a series of penicillins. As illustrated in Scheme III, the alkaline hydrolysis of penicillins is first-order in both substrate and hydroxide ion and proceeds with cleavage of the /3-lactam ring to produce penicilloic acid. In the presence of an excess of cycloheptaamylose, the rate of disappearance of penicillin follows saturation kinetics as the cycloheptaamylose concentration is varied. By analogy to the hydrolysis of the phenyl acetates, this saturation behavior may be explained by inclusion of the penicillin side chain (the R group) within the cycloheptaamylose cavity prior to nucleophilic attack by a cycloheptaamylose alkoxide ion at the /3-lactam carbonyl. The presence of a covalent intermediate on the reaction pathway, although not isolated, was implicated by the observation that the rate of disappearance of penicillin is always greater than the rate of appearance of free penicilloic acid. 

In order to synthesize quinolizidine compounds, some authors have used the Parsons method (Bu3SnH/AIBN) to cleave the iV-tosyl group of 2-piperidones such as 144 (AIBN = 2,2 -azobisisobutyronitrile). After detosylation to 145, the intramolecular cyclization of the lactam promoted by sodium hydride gave quinolizidinone 146. T reatment of this compound with Raney nickel both cleaved the C-S bond and reduced the C=C bond to give quinazolinone 147, while the lactam carbonyl was reduced with LiAlH4 to give 148 (Scheme 23) <2005TL8551>. 

In the search of new methodologies for the asymmetric synthesis of nonproteinogenic amino acids, 8-methyl-4,8a-diphenyltetrahydro-17/-pyrrolo[2.1 -r l, 4 oxazinc-l, 6(7//)-dionc 62, obtained as described in Scheme 24 (Section 11.11.7.3), was selectively reduced at the lactam carbonyl with BH3 and further opened by hydrogenolysis to give syn-disubstituted proline derivative 64 in 95% yield <1997SL935> (Scheme 6). It is noteworthy that hydrogenolysis did not affect the benzylic position of bicyclic compound 63. 

Lactams are generally more reactive toward nucleophiles than are normal amides. The ease of the nucleophilic attack on the lactam carbonyl group is usually attributed to either relief of strain upon opening the ring [68], or to a reduction in the usual amide resonance due to nonplanarity of the bicyclic system [69]. However, the evidence to support unusual strain in the ring or reduced amide resonance in /3-lactam antibiotics is ambiguous. 

COOR Penicillins Esterification of the C(3) carboxy group Electron-withdrawing effect makes /3-lactam carbonyl C-atom more electrophilic, and intramolecular acylamido participation (see Fig. 5.9) Increased ca. 16-fold [91]... 

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