Nitrates carbon-lead bonds

When PCP solution (Id4 M) under continuous air bubbling is subjected to ultrasound effects, the characteristic absorption bands decrease and the treatment leads to a complex mixture of products. Carbon-chlorine bonds are rapidly cleaved, and after a 150-min sonication time, 90% of the chlorine is recovered in the solution as chloride ions. PCP transformation in aerated solution occurs together with nitrite and nitrate formation. Carbon dioxide is a product of PCP degradation, and it has long been recognized as an inhibitor for sonochemical reactions. 

Efficient preparative sequences involving radical decarboxylation followed by carbon-nitrogen bond formation are rare. Acyl nitrates decompose at elevated temperatures to give nitroalkanes (equation 46), but are unfortunately explosive and have to be prepared in situ and stored in solution. A noteworthy exception is found in the thermal or photochemical decarboxylation of tetrahydro-l,2-oxazine-3,6-diones leading to -lactams (equation 47). Doubtless a key factor in this reaction, considered to proceed via a radical cage mechanism, is the intramolecular nature of the carbon-nitrogen bond formation. 

Efforts at C-H activation can be divided into three broad categories. The first involves C-H bonds of arenes, heteroarenes and comparable alkenes. In many cases, the formation of the carbon-metal bond may be viewed as an electrophilic substitution reaction (Scheme 3.1), following the same pathway as metallation by main-group metals such as mercury, thallium and lead, as well as classical reactions such as bromination and nitration. This is not, however, always the case. 

The quinoline-based tyrosine kinase inhibitor pelitinib (31-11) incorporates a Michael acceptor function in the side chain that can form a covalent bond with a nucleophile on the target enzyme. Such an interaction would result in the irreversible inhibition of the target kinase. Reaction of aniline (31-1) with DMF acetal leads to the addition of a carbon atom to aniline nitrogen in the form of an amidine (31-2). This intermediate is next reacted with nitric in acetic acid to form the nitrated... 

The reaction of NO3 with unsaturated ethers proceeds by addition to the >C=C< double bond. Both steric and inductive effects are known to influence the reactivity of NO3 with unsaturated alcohols, e.g. 2-methyl-3-butene-2-ol is slightly less reactive than 1-butene. Unsaturated ethers are more reactive than unsaturated alcohols towards NO3. Comparison of the measured rate constants shows that, similar to the reaction with O3, the presence of the carbonyl group decreases the reactivity of NO3 toward the >C=C< double bond. The reaction of NO3 with unsaturated oxygenates proceeds by addition to either one of the carbon atoms of >C=C< double bond, preferentially to the most substituted radical. In the presence of NOx, the reaction may ultimately lead to organic nitrates among the first generation products. 

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