Mixed carboxylic-sulfonic anhydrides

These authors suggest that the reaction may proceed through the formation of their mixed anhydrides , and illustrate a metal ion templated, mixed carboxylic-sulfonic anhydride. 

Sulfur compounds have also been widely studied as activating agents for polyesterification reactions. p-Toluenesulfonyl chloride (tosyl chloride) reacts with DMF in pyridine to form a Vilsmeir adduct which easily reacts with carboxylic acids at 100-120° C, giving highly reactive mixed carboxylic-sulfonic anhydrides.312 The reaction is efficient both for aromatic dicarboxylic acid-bisphenol312 and hydroxybenzoic acid314 polyesterifications (Scheme 2.31). The formation of phenyl tosylates as significant side products of this reaction has been reported.315... 

Proton acids can be used as catalysts when the reagent is a carboxylic acid. The mixed carboxylic sulfonic anhydrides RCOOSO2CF3 are extremely reactive acylating agents and can smoothly acylate benzene without a catalyst.265 With active substrates (e.g., aryl ethers, fused-ring systems, thiophenes), Friedel-Crafts acylation can be carried out with very small amounts of catalyst, often just a trace, or even sometimes with no catalyst at all. Ferric chloride, iodine, zinc chloride, and iron are the most common catalysts when the reactions is carried out in this manner.266... 

Other less commonly used coupling reagents include EEDQ (formation of mixed carboxylic carbonic anhydrides), Bop-Cl (formation of mixed carboxylic phosphinic anhydrides [52,53]), DPPA (formation of acyl azides), DECP (formation of acyl cyanides), MSNT (formation of mixed carboxylic sulfonic anhydrides), and benzisoxazo-lium salts (generation of phenyl esters [54]). 

The synthesis of (+)-N-methylmaysenine, a preliminary for the later synthesis of the antitumor agent maytansine, was accomplished by the joining of fragments A and B, chain extension and macrolactam closure using a mixed carboxylic-sulfonic acid anhydride. 

The first (3-thiolactone was prepared according to Scheme A by Knunyants and co-workers. A mixed anhydride of )3-mercaptocarboxylic acid and carbonic-acid ester is obtained by treatment of a salt of the mercapto acid with a chlorocarbonate ester.Cyclization to the 3-thiolactone occurs during the reaction this synthetic method is exemplified by the preparation of 302 from 301. A mixed carboxylic-sulfonic acid anhydride is involved in the formation of the thiolactone ring in 303. ... 

In the preparation of mixed carboxylic-perfluoroalkane sulfonic anhydrides from the corresponding acids, water formahon is responsible for the low yields of the acylation product. By removing water from the reaction mixture by azeotropic distillation and adsorption onto molecular sieves, the yield of benzoylahon of para-xylene with BAC in the presence of perfluorobutanesulfonic acid (10% mol) is improved to 90%. 

Mixed polymeric sulfonic carboxylic anhydrides prepared by Ang and Harwood (1973) were slow to react with alcohols larger than ethanol. Similsu ly, amines did not react quantitatively with these anhydrides. It was thought that this reaction was slowed due to the protonation of the amino groups by the free sulfonic acid groups present on the polymer. Hence the reaction, when repeated in the presence of an excess of a tertiary amine such as pyridine or triethylamine, was found to proceed smoothly (Jain, 1977). The formation of AT-acylpyridinium compounds as intermediates in these reactions may also account for the enhanced reactivity and lack of steric hindrance. The reactions of acetylpolystyrene sul-phonates and phosphonates with aniline have also been investigated (Laird and Spence, 1977). 

Ethers. In the presence of anhydrous agents such as ferric chloride (88), hydrogen bromide, and acid chlorides, ethers react to form esters (see Ethers). Esters can also be prepared from ethers by an oxidative process (89). With mixed sulfonic—carboxyhc anhydrides, ethers are converted to a mixture of the corresponding carboxylate and sulfonate esters (90) ... 

Conversion of the carboxylic acid to the diethyl amide interestingly leads to an agent that exhibits the properties of a respiratory stimulant. One synthesis of this agent starts with the preparation of the mixed anhydride of nicotinic and benzene-sulfonic acid (4). An exchange reaction between the anhydride and diethyl benzenesulfonamide affords nikethemide (5). ... 

Mixed anhydrides between phosphoric, phosphonic, and phosphinic acids on one side and sulfonic or carboxylic acids on the other are conveniently prepared via phosphor-azolides.[150]... 

R" may be alkyl or aryl. For dialkyl ethers, the reaction does not end as indicated above, since R OH is rapidly converted to R OR by the sulfonic acid (reaction 0-16), which in turn is further cleaved to R 0S02R" so that the product is a mixture of the two sulfonates. For aryl alkyl ethers, cleavage always takes place to give the phenol, which is not converted to the aryl ether under these conditions. Ethers can also be cleaved in a similar manner by mixed anhydrides of sulfonic and carboxylic acids733 (prepared as in 0-33). p-Hydroxy alkyl perchlorates734 and sulfonates can be obtained from epoxides.735 Epoxides and oxetanes give dinitrates when treated with N2Os,736 e.g.,... 

The esterification of support-bound carboxylic acids has not been investigated as thoroughly as the esterification of support-bound alcohols. Resin-bound activated acid derivatives that are well suited to the preparation of esters include O-acylisoureas (formed from acids and carbodiimides), acyl halides [23,226-228], and mixed anhydrides (Table 13.15). A-Acylurea formation does not compete with esterifications as efficiently as it does with the formation of amides from support-bound acids. Esters can also be prepared from carboxylic acids on insoluble supports by acid-catalyzed esterification [152,229]. Alternatively, support-bound carboxylic acids can be esteri-fied by O-alkylation, either with primary or secondary aliphatic alcohols under Mitsu-nobu conditions or with reactive alkyl halides or sulfonates (Table 13.15). 

A.7.1 Esterification of Acids using Carbodiimides. The formation of anhydrides from carboxylic acids, thiocarboxylic acids, sulfonic acids and phosphorous acids are discussed in Section 2.4.S.2. In this section only special cases of anhydride formation are described. Mixed anhydrides of amino acids and adenylic acid are produced from the corresponding acids using DCC as the condensation agent. ° Mixed anhydrides not containing amino acids, such as butyryl adenate, adenosine 5 -phosphosulfate and p-nitrophenyl-thymidine-5-phosphate are also obtained. 

Preparation. This mixed sulfonic-carboxylic anhydride is prepared in quantitative yield by refluxing anhydrous p-toluenesulfonic acid with an excess of acetyl chloride until the evolution of hydrogen chloride ceases (3-5 hrs.) the excess acetyl chloride is removed to give the colorless crystalline anhydride. It can also be prepared from acetic anhydride (excess) and anhydrous p-toluenesulfonic acid. 

Since with stereochemically defined P-hydroxy carboxylic acids the configuration at the P-center is retained in the oxetanone product, the attack of PhS02Cl should occur at the COOH group (with formation of a mixed anhydride 7) rather than at the OH group (with formation of an O-sulfonate) of the educt [5] ... 

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