Lactams dicarboxylic acid imide

Lactams from dicarboxylic acid amide esters via dicarboxylic acid imides by decarbonylation... 

Treatment of a thirteen-membered lactam with 1-naphthylmagnesium bromide forms both a cyclic enamine and the amino ketone412. Imides of dicarboxylic acids produce with organometallic reagents cyclic enamino compounds such as 108 (n = 1, 2)413-418. 

The most important applications of peroxyacetic acid are the epoxi-dation [250, 251, 252, 254, 257, 258] and anti hydroxylation of double bonds [241, 252, the Dakin reaction of aldehydes [259, the Baeyer-Villiger reaction of ketones [148, 254, 258, 260, 261, 262] the oxidation of primary amines to nitroso [iJi] or nitrocompounds [253], of tertiary amines to amine oxides [i58, 263], of sulfides to sulfoxides and sulfones [264, 265], and of iodo compounds to iodoso or iodoxy compounds [266, 267] the degradation of alkynes [268] and diketones [269, 270, 271] to carboxylic acids and the oxidative opening of aromatic rings to aromatic dicarboxylic acids [256, 272, 271, 272,273, 274]. Occasionally, peroxyacetic acid is used for the dehydrogenation [275] and oxidation of aromatic compounds to quinones [249], of alcohols to ketones [276], of aldehyde acetals to carboxylic acids [277], and of lactams to imides [225,255]. The last two reactions are carried out in the presence of manganese salts. The oxidation of alcohols to ketones is catalyzed by chromium trioxide, and the role of peroxyacetic acid is to reoxidize the trivalent chromium [276]. 

There are cyclic esters (known as lactones), cyclic amides (known as lactams), cyclic anhydrides, and cyclic imides. The structures for these derivatives are presented in Chapter 20, Section 20.6.5. The chemical reactions associated with derivatives of dicarboxylic acids are discussed in Chapter 20 as well. 

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