Lactones, reaction with amines

Carboxymethyl glycoside lactones are easily prepared by diverse routes and react readily with nucleophilic species. Their reaction with amines, a simple addition which does not require any intermediate activation, is very general, and many examples of new pseudo-glycoconjugates prepared by this method are described. Moreover, 1,2-bisfunctionalized carbohydrate systems are efficiently constructed by reaction of the free OH on position 2 obtained after the opening of the lactone ring. Applications at the frontier of materials and biology have been envisaged and further studies in these fields will be reported in the near future. 

Epoxidation of styrene with tBuOOH catalysed by Au/Si02 in the presence of zinc and tetrabutylammonium bromides and carbon dioxide led directly to styrene carbonate at 1 MPa pressure and 353 K, conversion was 90% and selectivity 35%.47 Gold on functionalised polymer also catalyses the reaction of carbon dioxide with various epoxides to give lactones, and with amines to give carbonates.48... 

There are also several reactive diluents that do not contain epoxy groups. These are represented by triphenyl phosphite and y-butyrolactone (Fig. 6.7). The phosphite is a low-viscosity colorless liquid, which is sensitive to moisture. It reacts with hydroxyl groups in the resin. The y-butyrolactone is a very effective viscosity reducer. It can reduce the viscosity of a liquid DGEBA from about 15,000 to 2000 cP with only 10 pph. In the curing reaction with amines (Fig. 6.8), the lactone forms an amide, which can then crosslink with the polymer via the hydroxyl groups. 

Pyrones, which are the ring-oxygen equivalents of pyridones, are simply a- and y-hydroxy-pyrylium salts from which an 0-proton has been removed. There is little to recommend that 2- and 4-pyrones be viewed as aromatic they are perhaps best seen as cyclic unsaturated lactones and cyclic p-oxy-a,P-unsaturated-ketones, respectively, for example 2-pyrones are hydrolysed by alkali, just like simpler esters (lactones). It is instructive that, whereas the pyrones are converted into pyridones by reaction with amines or ammonia, the reverse is not the case - pyridones are not transformed into pyrones by water or hydroxide. Some electrophilic C-substitutions are known for pyrones and benzopyrenes, the oxygen guiding the electrophile ortho or para, however there is a tendency for electrophihe addition to the C-C double bond of the heterocyclic ring, again reflecting their non-aromatic nature. Easy Diels-Alder additions to 2-pyrones are further evidence for diene, rather than aromatic, character. 

Aminolysis. The conversion of lactones by reaction with amines to co-hydroxy amides is catalyzed by LiNTf2. ... 

Tosyloxypyridine, from pyri-dine-l-oxide, 723 trans-2-Imino-l 2ff)-pyridine-acrylic acid, 71 Triacetic acid lactone, 655 reaction with, amines, 655 ammonia, 655 glycine, 655... 

Just as amines react with esters to form amides, lactones react with amines to give lactams or are opened to give amino acid derivatives directly. When P-propiolactone (2.20) reacted with ammonia, for example, 3-aniinopropanamide (2.2Ia) was obtained. 2 Similar reaction with methylamine gaveno2.2/h but rather a 97% yield of 3-aminopropanoic acid, 2.22. Dimethylamine, however, converted 2.20 to 2.2Ic in 79% yield, along with 13% of 2.22.12... 

Ferrilactones are not only useful precursors for the synthesis of P- and 5-lactones. Reaction with primary amines in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst, such as Et AlCl or ZnCl2 TMEDA, gives the corresponding ferri-lactam complexes. Low temperature oxidation with cerium (IV) then gives access to the monocyclic P-lactams in an analogous manner [271] (Scheme 128). 

As has been stated above, reaction of n-allyl tricarbonyliron lactone complexes with amines in the presence of Lewis acids such as ZnQ2 results in the formation of the corresponding tricarbonyliron lactam complexes via an Sn2 reaction. These complexes (e.g. 46) may be converted by CAN to p-lac-tams such as 44 (Scheme 4.15) in an exactly analogous way to the method described above. Since p-lactams occur in numerous physiologically important natural products this is a valuable reaction sequence which has been applied to the synthesis of nocardicins and thienamydn. Recently a synthesis of pyrrolizidine alkaloids has been developed using this methodology. ... 

The reaction of 5-methoxy-2(5//)-furanone 168 with amines was also studied (89T6799). The conjugated addition of ethanolamine to the furanone 168 gave the racemic amino lactone 275 (R = CH2CH20H). Similarly, piperazine reacted with two equivalents of 168 to provide the diadduct 276 as a single diastereomer (no traces of the other isomer were detected). With tryptamine, the reaction was nearly quantitative with the the formation the tran -adduct 277 (R = tryptophanyl) (Scheme 72) (89T6799). 

The addition of Grignard reagents to aldehydes, ketones, and esters is the basis for the synthesis of a wide variety of alcohols, and several examples are given in Scheme 7.3. Primary alcohols can be made from formaldehyde (Entry 1) or, with addition of two carbons, from ethylene oxide (Entry 2). Secondary alcohols are obtained from aldehydes (Entries 3 to 6) or formate esters (Entry 7). Tertiary alcohols can be made from esters (Entries 8 and 9) or ketones (Entry 10). Lactones give diols (Entry 11). Aldehydes can be prepared from trialkyl orthoformate esters (Entries 12 and 13). Ketones can be made from nitriles (Entries 14 and 15), pyridine-2-thiol esters (Entry 16), N-methoxy-A-methyl carboxamides (Entries 17 and 18), or anhydrides (Entry 19). Carboxylic acids are available by reaction with C02 (Entries 20 to 22). Amines can be prepared from imines (Entry 23). Two-step procedures that involve formation and dehydration of alcohols provide routes to certain alkenes (Entries 24 and 25). 

The hydroxy lactams are postulated to be intermediates in transformations of enol lactones to ene lactams. This hypothesis was proved by synthesis. For example, treatment of N-methylhydrastine (98) with dilute ammonium hydroxide resulted in hydroxy lactam 148, which by the action of hydrochloric acid underwent dehydration to produce fumaridine (113) (5). Similarily, fumschleicherine (120) in reaction with trifluoroacetic acid gave fumaramine (111) 121). Narceine amide (149) was prepared from (Z)-narceine enol lactone (101) in likewise fashion 100,122) and dehydrated to narceine imide (116). A large number of N-alkylated narceine amides was synthesized from (Z)-narceine enol lactone (101) and primary amines by Czech investigators for... 

As a final example in this section, the mechanistically interesting transformation of a, 3-unsaturated aldehydes containing a chloro or bromo atom in the 3-position into five-membered lactams or lactones is mentioned. In this transformation, which was developed by Riick-Braun and coworkers, an intermediate iron compound is formed by reaction with [C5H5(CO)2Fe]Na, which yields the products either by adding a primary amine and TiCl4 or a metalorganic alkane as RMgX or RLi [483],... 

Reaction of the Lactone Group with Ammonia and Amines... 

Telechelic polymers, containing one or more end groups with the capacity to react with other molecules, are useful for synthesizing block and other copolymers [Fontanille, 1989 Hsieh and Quirk, 1996 Nuyken and Pask, 1989 Pantazis et al., 2003 Patil et al., 1998 Quirk et al., 1989, 1996 Rempp et al., 1988]. Living anionic polymers can be terminated with a variety of electrophilic reagents to yield telechelic polymers. For example, reaction with carbon dioxide, ethylene oxide, and allyl bromide yield polymers terminated with carboxyl, hydroxyl, and allyl groups, respectively. Functionalization with hydroxyl or carboxyl groups can also be achieved by reaction with a lactone or anhydride, respectively. Polymers with amine end... 

A series of solid-state reactions has been explored by Kaupp et al., in which gaseous amines were reacted with aldehydes to give imines. Analogous reactions with solid anhydrides, imides, lactones or carbonates, and isothiocyanates were used to give, respectively, diamides or amidic carboxylic salts or imides, diamides, carbamic acids, and thioureas [24]. In general the yields were found to be quantitative. Ammonia and other gaseous amines, in particular methyl-amine, have also been shown to aminolyse thermoplastic polycarbonates [25]. 

The first surface-initiated enzymatic polymerization reported was the synthesis of amylose brushes on planar and spherical surfaces [145]. For this, silica or silicone surfaces were modified with self-assembled monolayers of (3 amino-propyl)trimethoxysilane or chlorodimethylsilane, respectively. To these functionalities, oligosaccharides were added via (a) reductive amidation of the oligosaccharides to surface-bound amines, (b) conversion of the oiigosaccharide to the according aldonic acid lactone and reaction with surface bound amines, and (c) incorporation... 

Reaction with ammonia and primary and secondary amines can also give two types of products, 0-hydroxyamides or amino acids (equation 49). The amide is obtained from the reaction of 0-propiolactone with ammonia in water, while the amino acid is obtained from the reaction in acetonitrile, both in good yield. 0-Lactones react very generally with both aliphatic and aromatic amines, but the type of product does not correlate with polarity of solvent or basicity of amine. Fortunately, conditions can usually be found for the formation of the desired product. 

Tertiary benzylic nitriles are useful synthetic intermediates, and have been used for the preparation of amidines,2 lactones,3 primary amines,4 5 pyridines,6 aldehydes,78 carboxylic acids,9 and esters.10,11 The general synthetic pathway to this class of compounds relies on the displacement of an activated benzylic alcohol or benzylic halide with a cyanide source followed by double alkylation under basic conditions. For instance, 2-(2-methoxyphenyl)-2-methylpropionitrile has been prepared by methylation of (2-methoxyphenyl)acetonitrile using sodium amide and iodomethane.12 In the course of the preparation of a drug candidate,13 the submitters discovered that the nucleophilic aromatic substitution of aryl fluorides with the anion of a secondary nitrile is an effective method for the preparation of these compounds.14 The reaction was studied using isobutyronitrile and 2-fluoroanisole. The submitters first showed that KHMDS was the superior base for the process when carried out in either THF or toluene (Table I). For example, they found that the preparation of 2-(2-methoxyphenyl)-2-methylpropionitrile could be accomplished h... 

Pyrrolinones are best obtained by cyclizative condensation of y-keto esters with ammonia or a primary amine (reaction 195). Alternatively, the 2-pyrrolinones may be obtained by cyclization of preformed a-keto amides as shown in reaction (196) (71CC346). Preexisting lactones (2H- or 5H-furanones) also react with amines to give pyrrolinones (reaction 197). Jones and Bean give references to specific examples of these methods as well as to more specialized examples (B-77MI30610). 

Selenides are oxidized to selenoxides that normally suffer an in situ elimination.111 Amines are destroyed,112 although its protection as amides or carbamates prevents the reaction with Collins reagent. Lactols are very quickly oxidized to lactones,113 unless a very great steric hindrance is present.114 Tertiary lactols suffer oxidation via its opened hydroxyketone form.115 The oxidation of tertiary lactols may be slow, so that an alcohol can be selectively oxidized. 

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