Reduction oxime, lithium aluminum hydride

Excellent procedures are available for the preparation of primary, secondary, and tertiary amines by the reduction of a variety of nitrogen compounds. Primary amines can be obtained by hydrogenation or by lithium aluminum hydride reduction of nitro compounds, azides, oximes, imines, nitriles, or unsubstituted amides [all possible with H2 over a metal catalyst (Pt or Ni) or with LiAlH4] ... 

In any event, this discovery provided a solution for the problem of unmasking the enone. Thus, oximation of F3, followed by lithium aluminum hydride reduction, acetylation, and oxidation afforded the a-enone F4 as a single diastereomer. Clearly, reduction at the C-4 trigonal center had occurred stereo-selectively from the convex surface to give the desired axially oriented amino group in F4. 

AletalHydrides. Metal hydrides can sometimes be used to prepare amines by reduction of various functional groups, but they are seldom the preferred method. Most metal hydrides do not reduce nitro compounds at all (64), although aUphatic nitro compounds can be reduced to amines with lithium aluminum hydride. When aromatic amines are reduced with this reagent, a2o compounds are produced. Nitriles, on the other hand, can be reduced to amines with lithium aluminum hydride or sodium borohydride under certain conditions. Other functional groups which can be reduced to amines using metal hydrides include amides, oximes, isocyanates, isothiocyanates, and a2ides (64). 

Intramolecular nitrile oxide—olefin cycloaddition of oxazolidine and thiazoli-dine oximes 407 (R = H, Me R1 =H, Me X = 0, S n = 1,2) proceed stereose-lectively, yielding tricyclic fused pyrrolidines and piperidines. Thus, 407 (n =2 R = H R1 =Me X=S) has been oxidized to the nitrile oxides with sodium hypochlorite, in the presence of triethylamine in methylene chloride, to give the isoxazolothiazolopyridine 408 in 68% yield. Reduction of 408 with lithium aluminum hydride affords mercaptomethylmethylpiperidine 409 in 24% yield (448). 

Derivatives of Aziridines Prepared by Reduction of Oximes with Lithium Aluminum Hydride... 

Aziridines from reduction of oximes with lithium aluminum hydride, 48,23... 

Oxidative cyclization, substituted stil-benes to phenanthrenes, 46, 91 Oximes, reduction with lithium aluminum hydride, 48, 23 Oximinomalononitrile, from nitrosation of malononitrile, 48,1 reduction with aluminum amalgam, 48,2 ... 

Reduction of cyclohexanone oxime with lithium aluminum hydride in tetra-hydrofuran gave cyclohexylamine in 71% yield [809], and reduction of ketoximes with sodium in methanol and liquid ammonia [945] or in boiling ethanol [946] afforded alkyl amines, usually in good to high yields. Stannous chloride in hydrochloric acid at 60° reduced the dioxime of 9,10-phenanthra-... 

Oximes of a,/i-unsatiirated ketones, on reduction with lithium aluminum hydride, depending on the structure of the ketoxime and on the reaction conditions, yield unsaturated amines, saturated amines, and sometimes aziridines in fair yields [947],... 

A number of organic species, including amides, oximes, and nitriles, undergo reductive amination, a variety of reduction reactions that produce cimines. In general, these processes involve imines, R=N-R, or related species. Reduction processes include hydrogenation using Raney nickel as the catalyst (for nitriles), the reaction with sodium/EtOH (for oximes), and the use of lithium aluminum hydride, LiAlH (for amides or nitriles). Figure 13-16 illustrates the preparation of amphetamine by reductive amination. 

Lithium cyanoborohydride reduces oximes to hydroxylamines in good yield. Careful pH control is not necessary in this case and reduction can be done efficiently in the presence of acetic acid at pH 5 . Lithium borohydride reduces oximes as well. Sodium borohydride in acetic acid or on silica gel has been used for reduction of oximes, but reported yields were low to moderate only. Lithium aluminum hydride " and DIBAL are capable of reducing oximes, but are sufficiently chemoselective for reduction of polyfunctional oximes. 

Conversion of the keto ketoxime 1 to the exo-exo-amino alcohol 2 has been accomplished by hydrogenation over Adams catalyst and by reduction with lithium aluminum hydride. Amino alcohol 2 has also been prepared from 1 by a two-stage process in which selective reduction of the ketone is carried out with sodium borohydride, and the resultant hydroxy oxime is reduced with lithium aluminum hydride or by hydrogenation over Adams catalyst. ... 

Amide reduction with lithium aluminum hydride, 39, 19 Amine oxide formation, 39, 40 Amine oxide pyrolysis, 39, 41, 42 -Aminoacetanilide, 39, 1 Amino adds, synthesis of, 30, 7 2-Amino-4-anilino-6-(chloro-METHYl) -S-TRIAZINE, 38, 1 -Aminobenzaldehyde, 31, 6 hydrazone, 31, 7 oxime, 31, 7 phenylhydrazone, 31, 7 > -Aminobenzoic add, 36, 95 2-Aminobenzophenone, 32, 8 c-Aminocaproic acid, 32, 13 6-Aminocaproic acid hydrochloride,... 

The 4-oximes are convenient intermediates. Reduction with zinc/ acetic acid,54 hydrogen over palladium on charcoal55,56 or nickel,57 or lithium aluminum hydride,55 produces the 4-aminothiochroman. Interestingly, lithium aluminum hydride induces ring expansion to the... 

The Schmidt reaction affords both possible isomers when applied at the sulfide oxidation level, and also with the sulfoxide, no trace of sulfoximine being found (75CJC276). Reduction of the oxime to the amine with lithium aluminum hydride is significantly improved by the presence of titanium tetrachloride (78KGS1694). 

Lithium aluminum hydride is a convenient reagent for reduction of nitro compounds, nitriles, amides, azides, and oximes to primary amines. Catalytic hydrogenation works also. Aromatic nitro compounds are reduced best by reaction of a metal and aqueous acid or with ammonium or sodium polysulfides (see Section 23-12B). Reduction of /V-substituted amides leads to secondary amines. 

The second synthesis of lasubine II (6) by Narasaka et al. utilizes stereoselective reduction of a /3-hydroxy ketone O-benzyl oxime with lithium aluminum hydride, yielding the corresponding syn-/3-amino alcohol (Scheme 5) 17, 18). The 1,3-dithiane derivative 45 of 3,4-dimethoxybenzaldehyde was converted to 46 in 64% yield via alkylation with 2-bromo-l,l-dimethoxyethane followed by acid hydrolysis. Treatment of the aldol, obtained from condensation of 46 with the kinetic lithium enolate of 5-hexen-2-one, with O-benzylhydroxylamine hy-... 

Primary Amines Primary amines result from condensation of hydroxylamine (zero alkyl groups) with a ketone or an aldehyde, followed by reduction of the oxime. Hydroxylamine is used in place of ammonia because most oximes are stable, easily isolated compounds. The oxime is reduced using catalytic reduction, lithium aluminum hydride, or zinc and HC1. 

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