Nitrogen acid hydrolysis

J lie decarboxylation is frequently the most troublesome step in this sequence. Attempts at simple thermal decarboxylation frequently lead to recycliz-ation to the lactam. The original investigators carried out decarboxylation by acidic hydrolysis and noted that rings with ER substituents were most easily decarboxylated[2]. It appears that ring protonation is involved in the decarboxylation under hydrolytic conditions. Quinoline-copper decarboxylation has been used successfully after protecting the exocyclic nitrogen with a phthaloyl, acetyl or benzoyl group[3]. 

The THP derivative of the imidazole nitrogen in purines has been prepared by treatment with dihydropyran (TsOH, 55°, 1.5 h, 50-85% yield). It is cleaved by acid hydrolysis. ... 

Isopropylidene and benzylidene" groups have been used to protect simultaneously amide nitrogens and a neighboring hydroxyl. They can be removed by acid hydrolysis or hydrogenolysis (Pd-C, hydrazine, MeOH, 95% yield), respectively. 

Acidic hydrolysis of 14 occurs via protonation of the nitrogen followed by attack of water on the resulting cationic intermediate. Proton transfer followed by ring-opening affords cation 15, which is trapped by a second equivalent of water. Another proton transfer followed by loss of the amino group affords protonated carboxylic acid 16, which loses to provide the carboxylic acid product. 

Cleavage of the chiral auxiliary is effected in a three-step procedure commencing with quatemization of the nitrogen with methyl fluorosulfonate, methyl trlfluoromethanesulfonate, or trimethyloxonium tetrafluoroborate. Reduction of the corresponding iminium salt 19 with NaBH4 and acidic hydrolysis of the resulting product affords substituted aldehyde 5 without epimerization of either stereocenter. 

The acid hydrolysis of diaziridines has been investigated kinetic-ally. The reaction is first order and shows a relatively high temperature coefficient. Thus one finds a relatively high activation enthalpy (23-28 kcal) and a positive activation entropy (2-6 eu). The influence of substitution on nitrogen is small. The velocity of the diaziridine hydrolysis depends only in the weakly acid region on the acid concentration. Between pH 7 and 3 the fc-values rise by nearly 10 . For the... 

Conversion of Amides into Carboxylic Acids Hydrolysis Amides undergo hydrolysis to yield carboxylic acids plus ammonia or an amine on heating in either aqueous acid or aqueous base. The conditions required for amide hydrolysis are more severe than those required for the hydrolysis of add chlorides or esters but the mechanisms are similar. Acidic hydrolysis reaction occurs by nucleophilic addition of water to the protonated amide, followed by transfer of a proton from oxygen to nitrogen to make the nitrogen a better leaving group and subsequent elimination. The steps are reversible, with the equilibrium shifted toward product by protonation of NH3 in the final step. 

Lipases are the enzymes for which a number of examples of a promiscuous activity have been reported. Thus, in addition to their original activity comprising hydrolysis of lipids and, generally, catalysis of the hydrolysis or formation of carboxylic esters [107], lipases have been found to catalyze not only the carbon-nitrogen bond hydrolysis/formation (in this case, acting as proteases) but also the carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. The first example of a lipase-catalyzed Michael addition to 2-(trifluoromethyl)propenoic acid was described as early as in 1986 [108]. Michael addition of secondary amines to acrylonitrile is up to 100-fold faster in the presence of various preparations of the hpase from Candida antariica (CAL-B) than in the absence of a biocatalyst (Scheme 5.20) [109]. 

Ros M, Pascuala JA, Garciaa C, Hemandeza MT, Insam H (2006) Hydrolase activities, microbial biomass and bacterial community in a soil after long-term amendment with different composts. Soil Biol Biochem 38 3443-3452 Rovira P, Vallejo VR (2002) Labile and recalcitrant pools of carbon and nitrogen in organic matter decomposing at different depths in soil an acid hydrolysis approach. Geoderma 107 109-141... 

This solid intermediate is reasonably stable to storage under nitrogen however, the yield in the acid hydrolysis step is better when freshly prepared material is hydrolyzed immediately. 

The determination of amino nitrogen before and after acid hydrolysis of urine has frequently been used for the quantitative estimation of the amount of urinary peptides (H5, M4). The number of liberated a-amino groups represents, in fact, the whole of formerly combined amino groups, not necessarily attached to a second amino acid partner. Besides, considerable losses connected with decomposition of some amino acids occur in the course of hydrolysis thus limiting the true quantitative value of this procedure. 

When calcium carbinde is made to react with nitrogen calcium cyanamide is produced which on acid hydrolysis yields cyanamide. Cyanamide on heating to 100°C yields dicyanamide which on heating above its Melting point yields melamine. 

Chiral amines, ArCH(R)NH2, can be prepared by addition of a dialkylzinc to A-(diphenylphosphinoyl)imines, ArCH=N—P(=0)Ph2, using a suitable auxiliary, followed by acid hydrolysis to cleave the phosphorus moiety. A series of 2-azanorbornylmethanols (65) give ee% up to 92%, and they also induce some enantioselectivity in additions to benzaldehyde. A highly organized transition state with two zincs is proposed one coordinates the nitrogens of substrate and catalyst and the other coordinates the oxygens. 

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