2-Oxazolines reactions

Reactive Compatibilization of Polymer Blends Table 5.21. Graft copolymer formation in PA/Styrene copolymer blends by amine + oxazoline reaction 371... 

Copolymer Formation by Carboxylic Acid + Oxazoline Reaction... 

Table 5.28 PA/styrene copolymer blends copolymer formation by amine or carboxylic acid + oxazoline reaction ...

Blends Containing Unfunctionalized PPE + Functionalized PS PO-PS Copolymer Formation by Carboxylic Acid + Oxazoline Reaction... 

Evans and co-workers investigated the effect of a number of -symmetric bis(oxazoline) ligands on the copper(II)-catalysed Diels-Alder reaction of an N-acyloxazolidinone with cyclopentadiene. Enantiomeric excesses of up to 99% have been reported (Scheme 3.4). Evans et al." suggested transition state assembly 3.7, with a square planar coordination environment around the central copper ion. In this scheme the dienophile should be coordinated predominantly in an cisoid fashion in... 

Recently Desimoni et used the same bis(oxazoline) ligand in the magnesium(II) catalysed Diels-Alder reaction of the N-acyloxazolidinone depicted in Scheme 3.4. In dichloromethane a modest preference was observed for the formation of the S-enantiomer. Interestingly, upon addition of two equivalents of water, the R-enantiomer was obtained in excess. This remarkable observation was interpreted in terms of a change from tetrahedral to octahedral coordination upon the introduction of the strongly coordinating water molecules. 

Thioacetyl derivatives (155) are obtained by direct heterocyclization reactions (365. 378, 563) and by a sulfur-oxygen exchange" reaction involving thioacetic acid and A-2-oxazoline-5-one (154) or A-2-thiazoline-5-one (156) (Scheme 81) (365, 378, 379). Ra-Ni reduction of 155 affords the 5-unsubstituted thiazole (379). 

Linear polyethyleneimine results only in low yields from low temperature polymerization of ethyleneimine for very long reaction times. It can, however, be synthesized in a targeted manner by polymerization of 2-oxazolines with subsequent hydrolytic cleavage of the resulting polyamides (355,358). 

These oxazolines have cationic surface-active properties and are emulsifying agents of the water-in-oil type. They ate acid acceptors and, in some cases, corrosion inhibitors (see Corrosion). Reaction to oxazoline also is useful as a tool for determination of double-bond location in fatty acids (2), or for use as a protective group in synthesis (3). The oxazolines from AEPD and TRIS AMINO contain hydroxyl groups that can be esterified easily, giving waxes (qv) with saturated acids and drying oils (qv) with unsaturated acids. 

Formaldehyde reacts with the hydrogen on the a-carbon of the fatty acid from which the oxazoline was formed to yield a vinyl monomer which can be polymerized or utilized for synthesis (4). Thus, esters of the oxazoline formed from TRIS AMINO undergo the reaction... 

Photochemical additions to give four-membered rings are known. Thus the reactions of imidazoles across the 4,5-bond with benzophenone and acrylonitrile are illustrated by (278) (279) and (280) (281), respectively (80AHC(27)24l). Oxazolin-2-one undergoes... 

In contrast to the above additions A-allyl- and substituted A-allyl-amides, -urethanes, -ureas and -thioureas undergo intramolecular cyclization only in 6(3-96% sulfuric acid to give the corresponding oxazolinium and thiazolinium salts. Treatment of these cations with base yields 2-oxazolines and 2-thiazolines in moderate to good yields. The reaction is illustrated by the conversion of A-2-phenylallylacetamide (342) into 2,5-dimethyl-5-phenyl-2-oxazoline (343) in 70% yield 70JOC3768) (see also Chapter 4.19). 

A number of 2-acylazetidines have been prepared by reaction of 1,3-dihaloacyl compounds with amino derivatives (Section 5.09.2.3.l(m)). This is illustrated for azetidine 2-carboxylic acid (56), the only known naturally occurring azetidine. Ring expansion of activated aziridines (43) and contraction of 4-oxazolines (55) has also found limited use (Section 5.09.2.3.2(f) and Hi)). 

Oxazolines are prepared by the reaction of a fatty acid with ethanolamine Figure 7.11). 

Polymers containing oxazoline groups are obtained either by grafting the 2-oxazoline onto a suitable existing polymer such as polyethylene or polyphenylene oxide or alternatively by copolymerising a monomer such as styrene or methyl methacrylate with a small quantity (<1%) of a 2-oxazoline. The grafting reaction may be carried out very rapidly (3-5 min) in an extruder at temperatures of about 200°C in the presence of a peroxide such as di-t-butyl peroxide Figure 7.13). 

In turn the oxazoline-containing polymer may then react very rapidly (e.g. at 240°C) with such groups as carboxyls, amines, phenols, anhydrides or epoxides, which may be present in other polymers. This reaction will link the two polymers by a rearrangement reaction similar to that involved in a rearrangement polymerisation without the evolution of water or any gaseous condensation products (Figure 7.14). 

Chiral oxazolines developed by Albert I. Meyers and coworkers have been employed as activating groups and/or chiral auxiliaries in nucleophilic addition and substitution reactions that lead to the asymmetric construction of carbon-carbon bonds. For example, metalation of chiral oxazoline 1 followed by alkylation and hydrolysis affords enantioenriched carboxylic acid 2. Enantioenriched dihydronaphthalenes are produced via addition of alkyllithium reagents to 1-naphthyloxazoline 3 followed by alkylation of the resulting anion with an alkyl halide to give 4, which is subjected to reductive cleavage of the oxazoline moiety to yield aldehyde 5. Chiral oxazolines have also found numerous applications as ligands in asymmetric catalysis these applications have been recently reviewed, and are not discussed in this chapter. ... 

The first use of chiral oxazolines as activating groups for nucleophilic additions to arenes was described by Meyers in 1984. " Reaction of naphthyloxazoline 3 with phenyllithium followed by alkylation of the resulting anion with iodomethane afforded dihydronaphthalene 10 in 99% yield as an 83 17 mixture of separable diastereomers. Reductive cleavage of 10 by sequential treatment with methyl fluorosulfonate, NaBKi, and aqueous oxalic acid afforded the corresponding enantiopure aldehyde 11 in 88% yield. 

The mechanism of organolithium addition to naphthyl oxazolines is believed to occur via initial complexation of the alkyllithium reagent to the oxazoline nitrogen atom and the methyl ether to form chelated intermediate 17. Addition of the alkyl group to the arena 7t-system affords azaenolate 18, which undergoes reaction with an electrophile on the opposite face of the alkyl group to provide the observed product 4. The chelating methyl... 

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