Nucleophile amines

Another method for deallylation of ally esters is the transfer of the allyl group to reactive nucleophiles. Amines such as morpholine are used[415-417], Potassium salts of higher carboxylic acids are used as an accepter of the allyl group[418]. The method is applied to the protection and deprotection of the acid function in rather unstable /f-lactam 664[419,420]. 

Dmitrofluorobenzene also serves as an arylation agent for a wide vanety of biologically useful amines including aromatic amines [5b], ammo acids [57], and ammocarbohydrates [55,59] Weak nucleophilic amines such as benzimidazole [60] and fluoroamines [61] can also be arylated (equation 30)... 

The intramolecular variant, reported by Hegedus in 1976, expanded the scope to weakly nucleophilic amines. ort/io-Allylaniline 1 delivered 2-methyl indole in 84% yield using a stoichiometric amount of (CH3CN)2PdCl2 and triethylamine in THF via the intermediacy of 5. 

The high reactivity of trichloro-s-triazine and tetrachloropyrimi-dine, the ease of replacement of the first chlorine atom from these compounds with several types of nucleophiles (amines, alcohols, etc.) and, finally, the important role of these reactions in dye chemistry have stimulated many investigations dealing with substituents of the general types RZ and R2Z, where Z is an electron-donor atom or group (NH, 0, S, N). 

Naphthol 1 is initially protonated at a carbon center of high electron density (C-2 or C-4). The cationic species 3 thus formed is stabilized by resonance it can add a bisulfite anion at C-3. The addition product can tautomerize to give the more stable tetralone sulfonate 4 the tetralone carbonyl group is then attacked by a nucleophilic amine (e.g. ammonia). Subsequent dehydration leads to the cation... 

Reaction of 3-benzamido-2,5-dioxo-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-(2ff)-l-benzopyrans 58 with nitrogen-containing nucleophiles (amines and hydrazines) provides the corresponding quinolin-2-(l//)-ones 59 <96H(43)809>. 

Scheme 2 Proposed mechanism for NCA polymerization initiated by nucleophilic amines...

A versatile approach for the solid-phase synthesis of aminopyr-idazines used the anchoring of 3,6-dichloropyridazine to resin-bound thiophenol 59 (Scheme 28) [68]. Treatment with nucleophilic amines released the aminopyridazine products from the solid support without further oxidation. 

Scheme 11.2 illustrates the conventional sequence for the manufacture of DAST brighteners. However, it is not always necessary and may not be desirable for DAS to be the nucleophile selected for the first step. In principle the three nucleophiles can be reacted in any order, but it is preferable for the most nucleophilic amine to react last in order to avoid forcing conditions during removal of the last remaining chloro substituents. Alkylamines react more readily than alcohols, thus ensuring that alkanolamines yield their hydroxyalkylaminotriazine derivatives. 

Less nucleophilic amines are readily incorporated into these cascades if PdCy precatalysts and acyl chlorides are employed. Typical examples are shown in Fig. 8. In these cases, the intermediate amide can be isolated. 

Fig. 8. Reaction coordinate profiles for aminolysis of an organic ester. For esters with moderately poor leaving groups (i.e., R = alkyl) reacting with a moderately good nucleophilic amine (i.e., NH2R), deprotonation of the first-formed addition intermediate, T , by NH2R is considered to be rate determining at high pH, while at lower pH loss of RO from T is considered rate determining (specific OH catalysis).

In an extensive investigation of the stereochemical memory effect, a series of six diastereomeric pairs of substrates was prepared to probe the effect of single, then multiple substituents on the 5-exo cyclization of amines onto alkene radical cations [144,145]. Overall, these cyclizations were highly dia-stereoselective and were accounted for by a transition-state model employing a chairlike transition state with attack of the nucleophilic amine on the opposite face of the alkene radical to the one shielded by the phosphate anion in the initial contact ion pair (Scheme 34), as exemplified in Schemes 35 and 36. 

C-nucleophile (X = active H-borate, boronate) N-nucleophile (amine, NaN3, tosyl amide, amide, lactam, imine, carbamate, urea) O-nucleophile (alcohol, acid, carbonate) S-nucleophile (PhS02Na)... 

The methodology did not work for secondary amines, thus suggesting the formation of an isocyanate as intermediate (Scheme 27, MX2 = Pdl2, [OX] = (1/2) O2]. However, by reacting a primary amine in the presence of a secondary nucleophilic amine, a general and selective synthesis of trisubstituted ureas has been achieved, through trapping of the isocyanate intermediate by the secondary amine (Eq. 52) [274,275]. 

The usual kinetic law for S/v Ar reactions is the second-order kinetic law, as required for a bimolecular process. This is generally the case where anionic or neutral nucleophiles react in usual polar solvents (methanol, DMSO, formamide and so on). When nucleophilic aromatic substitutions between nitrohalogenobenzenes (mainly 2,4-dinitrohalogenobenzenes) and neutral nucleophiles (amines) are carried out in poorly polar solvents (benzene, hexane, carbon tetrachloride etc.) anomalous kinetic behaviour may be observed263. Under pseudo-monomolecular experimental conditions (in the presence of large excess of nucleophile with respect to the substrate) each run follows a first-order kinetic law, but the rate constants (kQbs in s 1 ruol 1 dm3) were not independent of the initial concentration value of the used amine. In apolar solvents the most usual kinetic feature is the increase of the kabs value on increasing the [amine]o values [amine]o indicates the initial concentration value of the amine. 

Weakly nucleophilic amines such as 2,4-dinitroaniline are acylated in excellent yields by the mixed anhydride 301, prepared from the trimethylsilyl esters 299 (R = Me, i-Pr, t-Bu, PhCH2CH2, 2-MeCgH4 etc.) and 4-trifluoromethylbenzoic anhydride (300) under titanium(IV) catalysis 340... 

Other interesting data in these reactions concern the H/D isotopic effect of the nucleophile/catalyst, for example when [2-hydroxypyridine] = [2 — 02H] = 0.08, fcobsH/ obsD = 1-5. Since a very poor H/D effect is usual in SjvAr reactions with neutral nucleophiles (amines) in apolar solvents10, the authors conclude that the unusually high H/D effect should be due to a difference in the Xh/Xd = 1.75 of the molecular complex. Nevertheless, the same effect could be explained on the basis of an autoassociation of... 

Allylammonium ylides can undergo 2,3-sigmatropic rearrangement [1234]. With weakly nucleophilic amines, C-H bond insertion or hydride abstraction can compete efficiently with ammonium ylide formation. 

Scheme 6 Formation of hyperbranched thin film nanocomposites using an electrophilic polymeric reagent 14 and a nucleophilic amine-functionalized PAMAM dendrimer 15...

Angeli pioneered the concept of nucleophilic amine nitration by A-nitrating aniline with ethyl nitrate in the presence of potassium or sodium metal. In this reaction a complex anion... 

In addition, acid cocatalysts can assist the formation of the enamine. With very basic, nucleophilic amines, such as pyrrolidine and its derivatives, acid catalysis is not necessarily required for enamine formation. However, with less basic amines, Brpnsted or Lewis acids are often used to assist in enamine formation (Scheme 7). 

Convertible isocyanide reagent 66 allows a mild and chemoselective in situ post-Ugi activation of the isonitrile bom amide with simultaneous deprotection of the nucleophilic amine, that is, liberation and activation of two Ugi-reactive groups, if desired also under subsequent lactam formation [33]. Another recently introduced convertible isocyanide, l-isocyano-2-(2,2-dimethoxyethyl)-benzene 73, was shown effective by Rhoden et al. In the course of this short sequence, a hydrolytically labile W-acylindole 78 is formed, which is displaced intramolecularly by the amine portion of the former Boc-protected amino acid 75 (Scheme 13). 

Amines may also behave as nucleophiles (Lewis bases). Primary amines are stronger nucleophiles than secondary amines, which, in turn, are stronger nucleophiles than tertiary amines. As nucleophiles, amines attack acid chlorides to form amides. Later in this chapter you see that they re important in the formation of sulfonamides. 

Proposed mechanisms for polycondensations are essentially the same as those proposed in the organic chemistry of smaller molecules. Here, we will briefly consider several examples to illustrate this similarity between reaction mechanisms for small molecules and those forming polymers. For instance, the synthesis of polyamides (nylons) is envisioned as a simple Sn2 type Lewis acid-base reaction, with the Lewis base nucleophilic amine attacking the electron-poor, electrophilic carbonyl site followed by loss of a proton. 

Amines are generally prepared by nucleophilic amination, which is a coupling of carbon electrophiles with a nucleophilic amination reagent, NR2, and Ni and Pd catalyzed reaction of aryl halides with arylamines (Hartwig-Buchwald amination) . Thus, the direct C—N bond formation between carbon nucleophiles and electrophilic nitrogen functionality R2N+ constitutes an example of the umpolung methodology. 

Many researchers have investigated the use of amines and alcohols as initiators for the ROP of lactones. As a rule, amines and alcohols are not nucleophilic enough to be efficient initiators, and it is then mandatory to use catalysts to perform the polymerization successfully. Nevertheless, highly reactive p-lactones exhibit a particular behavior because their polymerization can be initiated by nucleophilic amines in the absence of any catalyst. As far as tertiary amines are concerned, the initiation step implies the formation of a zwitterion made up of an ammonium cation and a carboxylate anion, as shown in Fig. 20. Authors coined the name zwitterionic polymerization for this process [80]. Nevertheless, this polymerization is not really new because the mechanism is mainly anionic. Interestingly, Rticheldorf and coworkers did not exclude the possibility that, at least at some stage of the polymerization, chain extension takes place by step-growth polycondensation [81]. 

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