Maleic acid imides,

Heterocycles with olefinic C=C double bonds are able to add diazornetliane to form pyrazolines, for example, maleic acid imide, ... 

Maleic acid imides (maleimides) are derivatives of the reaction of maleic anhydride and ammonia or primary amine compounds. The double bond of a maleimide may undergo an alkylation reaction with a sulfhydryl group to form a stable thioether bond (Chapter 2, Section 2.2). Maleic anhydride may presumably undergo the same reaction with cysteine residues and other sulfhydryl compounds. 

Hydrochloric acid Maleic acid imides from / -cyano-a-ketocarboxyIic acid esters... 

Ar-[(./ )-2-fi /7-butyldimethyl-silyloxy-l-phenylethyl]maleic acid imide 10 -[(R)-2-ten- butyldimethyl- silyloxy-l-phen- ylethyl]-2,5- pyrroledione D.1.4.5. 5 ... 

Bifunctional reagents enable intra- and inter-molecular cross-linking of proteins. Examples are bifunctional imidoester, fluoronitrobenzene, isocyanate derivatives and maleic acid imides ... 

A15.1.1.9 Imides. Compounds that have two acyl groups bonded to a single nitrogen are known as imides (R—CO—NH—CO—R ). The most common imides are cyclic ones (maleimide). Maleimide will convert to maleic acid under water and acid/base. Another example of imide hydrolysis is pheno-barbital in which phenobarbital (a cyclic imide) is hydrolyzed to form urea and a-ethylbenzeneacetic acid. 

R) - and (S)-l-phenylethylamine to the diethyl esters of fumaric and maleic acid which are carried out by heating the pure compounds, without solvent, to 115-120 °C for three days (see Table 1). The reaction mixtures are then hydrolyzed and hydrogenated to give aspartic acids in high yields (85-87%) but very low optical purities (6.3-12.2%). A number of intermediates and by-products arc isolated, especially amides and imides of the dicarboxylic acids participating in the reaction. This may explain the low overall diastereoselectivity which can be calculated from the low optical rotation of the isolated aspartic acids. However, any discussion of the reaction mechanism remains difficult because the structures of the substrates and products of the actual addition step itself are not known with certainty. It is known that... 

Their synthesis begins with hexachlorocyclopentadiene reacted with maleic acid. The adduct obtained is treated with ammonia, and the resulting imide is mixed in a solvent with methyl- or ethylmercury chloride ... 

Since the unsaturation in MA is present in some MA derivatives, attention will be directed to the reaction of either MA or its simple derivatives such as maleic acid, esters, or amides. These derivatives, as can be seen in this chapter, are relatively easy to obtain. A fact to remember is that often the reactivity of its derivative is less than MA. However, this is hardly a detriment, since many times a number of other factors such as ease of handling, convenience, and available routes to the desired end take precedence. In this connection, reactions at the anhydride function are useful since ester, amic acids, and imides are made by the participation of the anhydride function. This possibility of independent manipulation lends MA versatility and uniqueness. Therefore, in this chapter, in addition to the reactions of MA, reactions of common derivatives of MA are used where synthetically or mechanistically pertinent. 

Although no geometries have been indicated in most of these synthetic works, it is known that amines isomerize maleic acid derivatives to the thermodynamically more stable fumaric acid derivatives. Furthermore, cycliz-ation to imides is much more easily obtained with succinic acid and phthalic acid/ It may be concluded, therefore, that low yields of cyclization in maleamic acid is not so much due to lack of reactivity as to the formation of less reactive fumaramic derivative by isomerization. 

The sulfosuccinimdes may be of two varieties, one analogous to the previously mentioned succinic acid derivatives, where the sulfonate group is added across the double bond of maleic acid and subsequently reacted to produce the cyclic imide. The second variety requires a different synthetic approach, since the locations of their hydrophilic and hydrophobic groups are reversed from those of the succinic acid derivatives. In this case, the starting material is a 2-alkyl, alkenyl, or similar succinic anhydride, which is reacted with the appropriate sulfoalkylamine to produce the amide acid, followed by dehydration to the imide. Similar reaction schemes can be used to prepare di- and higher polyesters and amides of malonic acid, itaconic acid, and other polycarboxylic acids. 

The reactions of primary amines and maleic anhydride yield amic acids that can be dehydrated to imides, polyimides (qv), or isoimides depending on the reaction conditions (35—37). However, these products require multistep processes. Pathways with favorable economics are difficult to achieve. Amines and pyridines decompose maleic anhydride, often ia a violent reaction. Carbon dioxide [124-38-9] is a typical end product for this exothermic reaction (38). 

MDA reacts with acid anhydrides to form amides. In the reaction with maleic anhydride both of the amino hydrogens are replaced to form the imide, A[,Ar-(methylenedi-/)-phenylene) dimaleimide [1367-54-5]... 

The partially hydrogenated phenanthrene derivative 18 (entry 4) is a very moderate diene due to the steric crowding caused by the substituents and the anulated rings, and it reacts even with highly reactive dienophiles such as maleic anhydride (MA) or N-phenylmaleic imide only at high pressure. The minor product 20 in the reaction with MA obviously stems from diene 21. This can be explained by a double-bond isomerization 18 - 21 prior to the cycloaddition, certainly catalyzed by traces of acid present in the MA. In the absence of acid only the Diels-Alder adduct 22 derived from diene 18 was observed. In the reaction of diene 23 with MA (entry 5) a similar sequence of steps was observed. A [1,5] shift of the C—O bond in 23, again certainly acid-catalyzed, produces the diene 26 followed by the Diels-Alder reaction with MA to give 24 and 25. 

Crosslinking of amine- or hydroxy-terminated PAMAM dendrimers using cyclic anhydride - amine or cyclic anhydride - hydroxy addition reactions was employed for preparation of crosslinked thin films of very low permeability [73], Polyanhydrides, such as maleic anhydride-methyl vinyl ether copolymers, were used as crosslinking components. In the case of amine-terminated PAMAM, crosslinking and chemical stability were further increased by imidization of the maleamic acid groups retro-Michael eliminations were followed by Michael additions to further crosslink the film. 

Monomers 111 (a -d), were prepared from the common starting material 15 by a potassium phenate displacement of the aromatic nitro group. The yields of the keto-ether amine products ranged from 90 to 100% and were of sufficient purity after extractive work up to be utilized directly in the synthesis of the various maleimide monomers. Imidization of the aminobenzocyclobutenes was accomplished using standard reaction conditions (maleic anhydride to form the amic acid followed by cyclodehydration with acetic anhydride and triethyla-mine) and provided the maleimide products in yields ranging from 60 to 90%. 

Recently a convenient method for the synthesis of maleimide-terminated imide oligomers has been described (38). Aromatic diamine, biphenyl tetracar-boxylic dianhydride and maleic anhydride are reacted in DMAc/Xylene at 50 °C to form the amic acid oligomer which was subsequently cyclodehydrated by refluxing in the presence of pyridine as a catalyst. Water is removed azeo-tropically over a period of three hours. The maleimide terminated imide oligomer is isolated by precipitation in water or a non-solvent. The molar ratio of the monomers can be varied widely to tailor the molecular weight and... 

An interesting approach to maleimide-terminated phenoxy resin has recently has described (42). para-Maleimidobenzoic acid was reacted with diglyci-dylbisphenol-A epoxy resin in the presence of catalyst to provide the bismale-imide of Fig. 13. Instead of diglycidyl bisphenol-A, linear epoxy resin pre-polymers can be used in this reaction to form a maleimide terminated phenoxy resin. Another suitable functionalized monomaleimide is m- or p- N-(hydroxyphenyl) maleimide which is synthesized from maleic anhydride and m-aminophenol in DMF as a solvent at 70 °C. The purified hydroxyphenyl maleimide was reacted with epoxy resin to form novel BMIs as outlined in Fig. 14. The new BMI and phenoxy oligomers polymerize at temperatures of 200-220 °C, but the cure temperatures can be significantly lowered when catalysts such as imidazoles or triphenylphosphine are added. The cured homopolymers show Tg of 140 and 230 °C for the n = 2 and the n = 1 polymer, respectively(43). 

Diels-Alder reactions of 341 with maleic anhydride and A-phenylmale-imide and of 344 with maleic anhydride occur quite easily at 20°C on dehydration with acetic acid the aromatized products are obtained in high yields. ... 

Other preparations of 2-iminothiazolidin-4-ones which are discussed in the review by Brown139 utilize the reactions of thiourea with a-hydroxy acids,146 ethyl diazoacetate,73 glycidic esters,74,147 cinnamic acid,148 unsaturated diacids (fumaric, maleic, and citraconic) or their esters or imides,149-152 and propiolic esters.153,154 There has been considerable controversy in the literature surrounding the propiolic ester synthesis since many workers have proposed that the products are 1,3-thiazines (see Section IV, B, 1). The pertinent papers in this controversy have been summarized by Cain and Warrener.155 Nagase158 has recently settled the argument in favor of the 2-iminothiazolidin-4-... 

Bradshaw [74] reported in 1966 that maleimide undergoes sensitized photochemical addition to benzene, producing the imide analog of the corresponding maleic anhydride photoadduct. The author observed that the reaction probably proceeds by the addition of electronically excited maleimide to benzene. The photoaddition proved successful also with toluene, /-butylbenzene, and ethylbenzene. Simultaneously, Bryce-Smith and Hems [75] reported that 2 1 photoadducts are formed from maleimide, iV-n-butyl-,. V-benzyl-, iV-o-tolyl-, and iV-2,6-xylylmaleimide with benzene.. V-Phenyl, N-p-tolyl-, and A-p-methoxyphenylmaleimide did not form photoadducts. Trifluoroacetic acid was found to be virtually without effect on the photoaddition of N-n - bulyI maleimide No phenyl-A- -butylsuccinimide was detected [36], It was concluded that a dipolar intermediate is not involved. When N-n-bulylmalcimide and benzene were irradiated in the presence of tetra-cyanoethylene, a 1 1 1 adduct was formed [37],... 

Azo compounds like esters or imides of azo dicarboxylic acid act as reactive dienophiles in normal electron demand hetero Diels-Alder reactions due to the strong activation caused by two electron-withdrawing moieties. In the last years, considerable attention has focused on alkyl and phenyl derivatives of 1,2,4-tria-zoline-3,5-diones since their cycloadditions to chiral dienes proceed with often excellent facial selectivities. Thus, when reacting an oxapropellane derived diene with N -methyltriazolinedione, Paquette et al. obtained the cycloadduct as single diastereomer, but both maleic anhydride and N-phenyl maleimide were distinctly less reactive and turned out to undergo cycloadditions with poor selectivities [289]. 

Polysulfobetaines derived from alternating styrene-maleic anhydride copolymers 32 are easily prepared by ring opening of the anhydride moiety with 3-dimethylaminopropylamine, imidizing the resulting poly(amic acid) by heating, and alkylation with propane sultone [70-72]. For investigations of structure-property relationships additionally to 32b, the polymers 33 and 34 were synthesized [71]. The ionene-like polymer 33 was prepared... 

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