Lead halides amines

The reaction sequence - including subsequent reaction with water which leads to amines - is named the Curtius Reaction. This reaction is similar to the Schmidt Reaction with acids, differing in that the acyl azide in the present case is prepared from the acyl halide and an azide salt. 

A wide variety of functionality can be incorporated into the substrate acids, such as in the decarboxylation of a-amino acid derivatives which leads to amines (eq Application of this methodology to the appropriate aspartate and glutamate derivatives provides access to the useful radicals (5) which can be trapped in many ways, such as by halides (overall, a Hunsdiecker reaction), as can many other radical species obtained using this chemistry (see below). 

Because alkylation of ammonia can lead to a complex mixture of products it is used to prepare primary amines only when the starting alkyl halide is not particularly expensive and the desired amine can be easily separated from the other components of the reaction mixture... 

Because nitriles can be prepared from alkyl halides by nucleophilic substitution with cyanide ion the overall process RX RC=N RCH2NH2 leads to primary amines that have one more carbon atom than the starting alkyl halide... 

Ammonia can act as a nucleophile toward primary and some secondary alkyl halides to give primary alkylamines Yields tend to be modest because the primary amine IS itself a nucleophile and undergoes alkylation Alkylation of ammonia can lead to a mixture containing a primary amine a secondary amine a tertiary amine and a quaternary ammonium salt... 

Whilst reaction can take place in the absence of catalysts it is more common to use such materials as tetra-alkylammonium halides and tertiary amines such as triethylenediamine. A major side reaction leads to the production of isocyanurate rings, particularly in the presence of tertiary amines. 

Reaction of alkyl halides 1 with hexamethylenetetramine 2 (trivial name urotropine) followed by a hydrolysis step, leads to formation of primary amines 3 free of higher substituted amines. This method is called the Delepine reaction, a comparable method is the Gabriel synthesis. 

The reaction of potassium phthalimide 1 with an alkyl halide 2 leads to formation of a N-alkyl phthalimide 3/ which can be cleaved hydrolytically or by reaction with hydrazine (Ing-Manske variant) to yield a primary amine 5. This route owes its importance as a synthetic method to the fact that primary amines are prepared selectively, not contaminated with secondary or tertiary amines. 

A better method for preparing primary amines is to use the azide synthesis, in which azjde ion, N3, is used for SN2 reaction with a primary or secondary alkyl halide to give an alkyl azide, RN3. Because alkyl azides are not nucleophilic, overalkylation can t occur. Subsequent reduction of the alkyl azide, either by catalytic hydrogenation over a palladium catalyst or by reaction with LiAlK4. then leads to the desired primary amine. Although the method works well, low-molecular-weight alkyl azides are explosive and must be handled carefully. 

Palladium complexes also catalyze the carbonylation of halides. Aryl (see 13-13), vinylic, benzylic, and allylic halides (especially iodides) can be converted to carboxylic esters with CO, an alcohol or alkoxide, and a palladium complex. Similar reactivity was reported with vinyl triflates. Use of an amine instead of the alcohol or alkoxide leads to an amide. Reaction with an amine, AJBN, CO, and a tetraalkyltin catalyst also leads to an amide. Similar reaction with an alcohol, under Xe irradiation, leads to the ester. Benzylic and allylic halides were converted to carboxylic acids electrocatalytically, with CO and a cobalt imine complex. Vinylic halides were similarly converted with CO and nickel cyanide, under phase-transfer conditions. ... 

In an indirect amination process, acyl halides are converted to amino acids. Reaction of the acyl halide with a chiral oxazolidinone leads to a chiral amide, which reacts with the N=N unit of a dialkyl azodicarboxylate [R"02C—N=N—CO2R ]. Hydrolysis and catalytic hydrogenation leads to an amino acid with good enantioselectivity. ... 

When enamines are treated with alkyl halides, an alkylation occurs that is analogous to the first step of 12-14. Hydrolysis of the imine salt gives a ketone. Since the enamine is normally formed from a ketone (16-12), the net result is alkylation of the ketone at the a position. The method, known as the Stork enamine reaction is an alternative to the ketone alkylation considered at 10-105. The Stork method has the advantage that it generally leads almost exclusively to monoalkylation of the ketone, while 10-105, when applied to ketones, is difficult to stop with the introduction of just one alkyl group. Alkylation usually takes place on the less substituted side of the original ketone. The most commonly used amines are the cyclic amines piperidine, morpholine, and pyrrolidine. 

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