Nitriles, addition

Cycloahphatic amine synthesis routes may be described as distinct synthetic methods, though practice often combines, or hybridi2es, the steps that occur amination of cycloalkanols, reductive amination of cycHc ketones, ring reduction of cycloalkenylarnines, nitrile addition to ahcycHc carbocations, reduction of cyanocycloalkanes to aminomethylcycloalkanes, and reduction of nitrocycloalkanes or cycHc ketoximes. 

Enantiomerically pure alkylboranes arc known to be excellent reagents for asymmetric reduction but they can also be used to generate enantiomerically pure /V-borylimines by partial reduction of nitriles. Addition of organolithium and Grignard reagents to these compounds affords secondary carbinamines in moderate to good yield but low enantioselectivity13,14. The best results reported so far are shown below. 

Thiadiazole, formation, 312, 313, 445 Thiazole formation bromoester, 298-304 bromoketone, 565 Thiazolidinone formation beta lactam, disulfide cleavage, 552 nitrile addition, 301 Thiehopyridine formation, 586 Thienothiazinol formation, 593 Thioacetal formation, 130, 185, 248 glyoxylate, 355 ethyl mercaptopropionate, 447 Thioacid formation, thioformamidoyl chloride, 184... 

Thioamide formation benzodiazepinone, 505 heteiodiazepinone, 621 phosphorus pentasulf ide, 323, 600 Thioazole formation, nitrile addition, 301 Thiocarbamate formation, 588 phenol, 95 rearrangement, 517 Thioenol ether formation, 185, 517 addition-elimination, 554 Thioester formation, mixed anhydride, 184 Thioether formation, 241, 300, 413, 416 alkylation, 586, 588 aromatic displacement, 416 Thiohydantoin formation, 293 Thiol interchange, benzothiazole formation, 422... 

Compared to the carboxylated nitrile elastomer additives, the use of thermoplastics has primarily been focused on the aerospace industry. On a cost per pound basis, the two-phase nitrile additives offer the best combination of property improvement without negative impact. The thermoplastic additives, however, may offer better high-temperature performance, but they are more difficult to formulate and to process as adhesives. As a result, the cost of these adhesives is generally much higher than that of other toughened epoxy mechanisms. 

The toughness of an epoxy-nitrile adhesive is nearly equivalent to that of an epoxynylon adhesive. However, the epoxy-nitrile system has much better hydrolytic stability. Also, the low-temperature properties of an epoxy-nitrile adhesive are superior to those of epoxy-nylon adhesive. Table 7.3 illustrates the effect of nitrile addition on tensile shear and peel strength. 

A few 6- and 8-cyanopurines have been prepared and undergo characteristic nitrile addition reactions rather readily. Thus, alkaline hydrolysis produces carboxamides, then carboxylic acids, alcoholysis leads to imidates, ammonolysis to amidines, hydrazinolysis to amidhydrazines, hydroxylamine to amidoximes, and hydrogen sulfide to thioamides. Acid hydrolysis tends to give the decarboxylated acid derivative. Reduction either by sodium-ethanol or, preferably, by catalytic hydrogenation affords aminoalkylpurines and addition of Grignard reagents produces, in the first place, acylpurines. As with aldehydes, most of the compounds examined have been relatively non-polar derivatives. Table 28 lists some reactions and relevant literature. 

Some 2-aminobenzonitriles 37 react with 1,3,5-triazine to give quinazolin-4-amines 38. The intermediate product of aminomethinylation which cannot be isolated undergoes preferential intramolecular amine —nitrile addition to afford the quinazolin-4-amine. ... 

Likewise, intermolecular reactions are possible and lead to coupling products which correspond retrosynthetically to the addition of an acyl anion synthon to a ketone. The presence of a proton-donor cosolvent is crucial, otherwise j8-hydroxy nitriles are formed preferentially. The nitrile addition reaction proceeds with good stereoselectivity, e.g. preferentially one diastereoisomer is formed from the electro-reductive addition of acetonitrile (which can advantageously be used as solvent) to dihydrocarvone. 

Imidazole and 2-phenylimidazole undergo intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction with 1,2,4-triazines tethered between an imidazole nitrogen and the triazinyl C-3 position to produce tetrahydro-l,5-naphthyridines. The reaction proceeds by a cycloaddition with subsequent loss of N2, followed by a presumed stepwise loss of a nitrile. Addition of antioxidant BHT inhibits aromatization to greatly improve the yield of tetrahydronaphthyridine 504 (Scheme 115) <2004JOC7171, 1997TL7499>. 

Treatment of the bis(propynyl)zirconocene 759 with B(C6Fs)3 results in a linear G-G coupling of the alkynyl ligands to form the zwitterionic complex 76 0582,583 (Scheme 186). Complex 760 reacts with nitriles R CN to form initially the 1 1 adduct 761 that concurrently equilibrates with 760 and the metallacyclocumulene 762 (and the nitrile-borane adduct) subsequently, irreversible reaction in the presence of excess nitrile yields the methylene-cyclopropene derivative 763.584,585 Calculations have shown that the conversion 760 —> 763 is probably triggered by nitrile addition to the metal with formation of a planar-tetracoordinate carbon intermediate that features coordination of the three-membered carbocycle through one of its G-G cr-bonds. 

Michael addition of l-(alkoxycarbonyl)methylphosphonate anions to unsaturated compounds provides a methodology for the elaboration of new reagents and also for the preparation of phosphonylated heterocycles. Thus, in the presence of basic catalysts, diethyl l-(ethoxycarbonyl)alkyl- and l-(ethoxycarbonyl)methylphosphonates add to a.p-nnsaturatcd esters and nitriles.Addition of diethyl l-(ethoxycarbonyl)methylphosphonates under basic conditions to methyl or ethyl acrylates, acrylonitrile, and benzalacetophenone occurs readily and gives rise to products of addition to one and two molecules of the unsaturated compound (Scheme 8.14). ° - ° Reaction of a-substituted phosphonoacetates with acrylates is less vigorous, and attempts at addition to crotonic and methacrylic esters fail. mi-zos-zos... 

Thermolysis of diazoacetophenone in benzonitrile at 150° gives 2,5-diphenyloxazole, probably by the 1,3-dipolar addition of the generated ketocarbene (75) to the nitrile. Addition of copper powder or copper salts afforded an optimum yield of 17% of the oxazole.164... 

MontmorilIonite KSF clay10 has also been found to catalyze the nitrile addition to aryl imines generated from aldehydes 1. The mild reaction conditions and excellent yields contribute to the utility of this variation. The clay can be recovered and recycled, which allows this reaction to be classified as green chemistry. 

With the help of a combination of selective dissolution and chromatographic separation, several of the cyclic ethers have been separated and isolated <2003OL3745>. Though not of synthetic value, gas-phase cyclization reactions of acylium ions with nitriles, forming 1,3,5-oxadiazinium ions 375 by double nitrile addition followed by cyclization, have been reported (Scheme 75) <2001MI445>. Similarly, the gas-phase reactions of acylium and thioacylium ions with isocyanates (18 Y = 0) and isothiocyanates (18 Y = S) have been reported to result in oxadiazinium (16 X = 0) and thiadiazinium (16 X = S) salts, respectively (see Scheme 2) <2005JAM1602>. 

Halonitriles in Barbier Reactions. Barbier reactions with halonitriles will lead to cyclic ketones after hydrolysis of the primary nitrile addition product [82] ... 

It is worth mentioning that the substituted cyclohexanone was also formed from the iodocyanopentane when lithiated with n-butyllithium in diethyl ether. The halogen exchange reaction is obviously much faster than nitrile addition for the organolithium reagent (see also the reaction mentioned on p.96. 

Diisobutylaluminum hydride (DIBAL) is known to be less reactive than LiAUL and can transfer only one hydride ion per molecule. For this reason DIBAL is commonly used for partial reduction of esters and nitriles. Addition of DIBAL to a nitrile results in the formation of an imine-aluminum complex that is decomposed, during workup, to the aldehyde (Scheme 14). Cyanohydrins have to be protected during the synthesis of a-hydroxy aldehydes because dimerization and isomerization can take place. Even in the protected form special care has to be taken during synthesis (low temperatures) and workup [124,136]. 

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