Nucleophilic addition reactions nitrogen nucleophiles

In addition to being more basic than arylammes alkylammes are also more nucleophilic All the reactions m Table 22 4 take place faster with alkylammes than with arylammes The sections that follow introduce some additional reactions of amines In all cases our understanding of how these reactions take place starts with a consideration of the role of the unshared electron pair of nitrogen... 

In addition to alkenes and alkynes, allenes have attracted considerable interest due to their unique reactivity and multireaction sites. Therefore, transition-metal-catalyzed nucleophilic addition reaction of amines and imines to allenes has been extensively studied to prepare biologically important amines and nitrogen-heterocycles.31,31d... 

Pyrrole is very reactive towards electrophiles charge distribution from the nitrogen makes either C-2 (or C-3) electron rich. Thus, a second porphobilinogen acts as the nucleophile towards the methylidene pyrrolium cation in a conjugate addition reaction. It is now possible to see that two further identical steps will give us the required linear tetrapyrrole, and that one more time will then achieve ring formation. 

Murahashi and co-workers (49) extensively studied the synthesis of nitrones such as 29 by a decarboxylative oxidation of proline derivatives (Scheme 12.12). However, these nitrones were primarily used in nucleophilic addition reactions rather than 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions. Others have synthesized cyclic nitrones 30 and 31 having a chiral center adjacent to the nitrogen atom (50,51). Saito and co-workers (51) applied nitrone 31 in reactions with fumaric and maleic acid... 

Ethoxymethylene)-2-phenyl-5(47/)-oxazolone 404, readily available from hippuric acid and triethyl orthoformate, has also been used as a starting material for other unsaturated oxazolones via addition-elimination reactions. Nitrogen nucleophiles are most commonly used and amines give rise to 4-(aminomethyl-ene)-2-phenyl-5(4//)-oxazolones 405 (Scheme 7.130 Table 7.37, Fig. 7.48) which, in many cases have been evaluated as antihypertensives. 

The reductive NO chemistry will cover some new developments on the electrophilic reactions of bound nitrosyl with different nucleophiles, particularly the nitrogen hydrides (hydrazine, hydroxylamine, ammonia, azide) and trioxodinitrate, along with new density functional theoretical (DFT) calculations which have allowed to better understand the detailed mechanistic features of these long-studied addition reactions, including the one with OH-. The redox chemistry of other molecules relevant to biochemistry, such as O2, H2O2 and the thiolates (SR-) will also be presented. 

Diazines are considerably more reactive toward nucleophiles than pyridines and as the number of ring nitrogens increases the propensity for nucleophilic addition reactions increases still more. Many 1,2,4-triazines give addition products with various nucleophiles which are formally dihydrotriazines. 

Reaction between 5-alkoxythiatriazole and triphenylphosphine, which is a weaker nucleophile, proceeds more sluggishly.18 At 25° triphenylphosphine reacted exothermically with 5-(4-chlorophenyl)thiatriazole in ether the products were those of total fragmentation, i.e., 4-chloro-phenyl cyanate and triphenylphosphine sulfide, in addition to nitrogen. Since thiatriazaphosphorines normally are stable at room temperature... 

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