Oxidative amination reactions

After realizing that our hypotheses about oxidative cross-coupling reactions were not as unique as assumed, we quickly turned our attentirai to intermolecular oxidative amination reactions. In the carbazole example, regioselectivity was coti-trolled by the presence of a Lewis base that was attached near the C—H bmid that would be cleaved, resulting in a metallacyle intermediate. For die development of an intramolecular reaction, we chose to take advantage of the selectivity that is often observed in the selective metalation of electron-rich heteroarenes. At the time, the palladation of indoles was presumed to operate by an electrophilic aromatic substitution mechanism. (This has since been demonstrated to be incorrect, vide infra.) We hypothesized that regioselective palladation of an indole substrate could be followed by a subsequent C—N bond reductive elimination. At the time, the exact mechanism by which the intermediate containing Pd—C and Pd—N bonds could be formed was not clear, nor was the order of the two metalation steps, but the overall process seemed plausible. 

Scheme 6 Selected examples of oxidative amination reaction...

In recent years, there has been a considerable focus on the development of new reaction conditions that use only molecular oxygen as the co-oxidant and do not require DMSO solvent [19]. Considerable progress has been made through the use of palladium catalysts supported by pyridine or N-heterocyclic carbenes as ligands. For example, Stahl has demonstrated that the 2-allylaniline derivative 14 is transformed to indoline 15 in 79% yield upon treatment with 5 mol% IMesPd(TFA)2 and 10 mol% benzoic acid (Eq. (1.8)) 19d]. Stoltz has reported the conversion ofamide 16 to lactam 17 under similar reaction conditions (Eq. (1.9)) [19b]. Through elegant mechanistic studies Stahl has shown that the stereochemistry of the aminopalladation step is dependent on reaction conditions, and both syn- and antt-aminopalladation mechanistic pathways are accessible in oxidative amination reactions [20]. 

A related approach to the synthesis of nitrogen heterocycles also proceeds via Pd -catalyzed alkene aminopalladation, but involves substrates bearing allyhc acetates or allylic hydroxy groups [21, 22]. In contrast to the oxidative amination reactions described above, these transformations are terminated by 3-elimination of the acetate or hydroxy group (rather than P-hydride elimination). This approach alleviates the need for added oxidants, but does require the use of slightly more complex substrates. Nonetheless, this method is quite useful, and has been applied to the synthesis of... 

In 2009, Stahl and coworkers described the synthesis of the enantiomeri-cally resolved seven-membered ring NHC-Pd dimer 87 [75]. This complex was examined as a chiral catalyst under aerobic conditions in the intramolecular oxidative amination reaction of alkene 88 (Scheme 3.49). In the best case, an enantioselectivity of 63% ee was obtained with low yield (35%), while the other substrates underwent cyclization to afford essentially racemic products. 

The application of hypervalent iodine(III) mediated and catalyzed amination of hydrocarbon substrates has developed into a useful tool for organic synthesis. Reactions comprise direct amination of sp-, sp -, and sp -hybridized C-H bonds and numerous oxidative transformations of alkenes, butadienes, and allenes. Some of these methods have been developed directly in the form of catalytic transformations, which adds to underline the synthetic potential of the field. Where applicable, the possibility for enantioselective transformations has been demonstrated for some cases. One can be optimistic that hypervalent iodine chemistry is able to complement existing methodology for oxidative amination reactions in a practical manner over the next few years. 

Palladium-catalyzed oxidative amination reactions are proposed to occur by the same basic mechanism as Waeker eyclizations (Scheme 12.11, Nu = NR). Stahl and co-workers developed a catalytic system for oxidative amination using pyridine as a ligand," but found some key challenges in this system, similar to the alcohol oxidation developed by Sigman and co-workers (i) pyridine, a kinetically labile ligand, could dissociate under the reaction... 

An oxidative amination reaction has been used to generate 2-nitroimidazopyridines (Scheme 3.99) [101]. Treatment of nitrostyrenes with various 2-aminopyridines using iron nitrate as the catalyst generated the heterocycles in moderate to good yields after stirring for a few hours. One of the interesting aspects of this chemistry was the observation that... 

Amine activatitMi pathway has been well studied in catalysis by lanthanides, early transition metals, and alkali metals. In metal amide chemistry of late transition metals, there are mainly two pathways to synthesize metal amide complexes applicable under hydroamination conditions [54], One is oxidative addition of amines to produce a metal amide species bearing hydride (Scheme 8a). The other gives a metal amide species by deprotonation of an amine metal intermediate derived from the coordination of amines to metal center, and it often occurs as ammonium salt elimination by the second amine molecule (Scheme 8b). Although the latter type of amido metal species is rather limited in hydroamination by late transition metals, it is often proposed in the mechanism of palladium-catalyzed oxidative amination reaction, which terminates the catalytic cycle by p-hydride elimination [26]. Hydroamination through aminometallation with metal amide species demands at least two coordination sites on metal, one for amine coordination and another for C-C multiple bond coordination. Accordingly, there is a marked difference between the hydroamination via C-C multiple bond activation, which demands one coordination site on metal, and via amine activation. 

Unlike the intermolecular reaction, the intramolecular aminopalladation proceeds more easily[13,14,166], Methylindole (164) is obtained by the intramolecular exo amination of 2-allylaniline (163). If there is another olefinic bond in the same molecule, the aminopalladation product 165 undergoes intramolecular alkene insertion to give the tricyclic compound 166[178]. 2,2-Dimethyl-l,2-dihydroquinoline (168) is obtained by endo cyclization of 2-(3,3-dimethyiallyl)aniline (167). The oxidative amination proceeds smoothly... 

Azo Coupling. The coupling reaction between an aromatic diazo compound and a coupling component is the single most important synthetic route to azo dyes. Of the total dyes manufactured, about 60% are produced by this reaction. Other methods iaclude oxidative coupling, reaction of aryUiydraziae with quiaones, and oxidation of aromatic amines. These methods, however, have limited iadustrial appHcations. 

Basic Red 22 (134), which contains 1 part ia 7 of the yellowish red 1,4-dimethyl isomer, Basic Red 29 (135), and Basic Yellow 25 (136) are all examples of delocalized cationic azo dyes. Dyes of this type can also be synthesized by Hbnig s oxidative coupling reaction of heteroaromatic hydrazones with tertiary aromatic amines. 

Dichloropyridazine 1-Oxide produces both isomers with alkoxides. However, the ratio is dependent on the size of the alkoxy group. In the reaction with sodium methoxide 80% of 6-chloro-3-methoxypyridazine 1-oxide and 7.5% of 3-chloro-6-methoxypyridazine 1-oxide are formed. Similar results are also obtained with sodium ethoxide, while sodium propoxide affords only 6-chloro-3-propoxypyridazine 1-oxide. Amines react similarly, while only chlorine at the 3-position can be substituted with an azido group to give 3-azido-6-chloropyridazine 1-oxide. 

In addition to their reactions with amines, Zincke salts also combine with other nitrogen nucleophiles, providing various A -substituted pyridine derivatives. Pyridine A -oxides result from the reaction with hydroxylamine, as exemplified for the conversion of Zincke salt 38 to the A -oxide 39 Reactions of Zincke salts with hydrazine, meanwhile, lead... 

The increase in thermodynamic stability of 85 is achieved by easy ring opening (01H127). This knowledge allows one to control the regioselectivity of the oxidative amination of the 6-aryl-l,2,4-tiiazine 4-oxides 53, obtaining either (i) the 5-amino-1,2,4-triazine 4-oxides 56 in the reaction of 53 with amines at low temperature in the presence of the oxidant or (ii) the 3-amino-1,2,4-triazine 4-oxides 88, provided the reaction is carried out in two steps (addition and oxidation) at room temperature or higher. 

This approach offers unique opportunities for the generation of multi-functionalized cyclic 2-azadiene systems. A wide variation of the substitution pattern at the positions N-1 and C-6 can be determined by an appropriate choice of the aldehyde and amine. Various substituents can easily be introduced at the C-3 position via addition/elimination reactions on the sensitive imidoyl chloride moiety [24]. Upon reaction with bi-functional reagent, an adequately AT-protected 2(lH)-pyrazinone was elaborated into C-nucleoside analogues (Scheme 8). The desired skeleton and functionalities were obtained by oxidation-cyclization reaction followed by photochemical removal of the protective o-nitrobenzyl group [25]. 

TS-1 is a material that perfectly fits the definition of single-site catalyst discussed in the previous Section. It is an active and selective catalyst in a number of low-temperature oxidation reactions with aqueous H2O2 as the oxidant. Such reactions include phenol hydroxylation [9,17], olefin epoxida-tion [9,10,14,17,40], alkane oxidation [11,17,20], oxidation of ammonia to hydroxylamine [14,17,18], cyclohexanone ammoximation [8,17,18,41], conversion of secondary amines to dialkylhydroxylamines [8,17], and conversion of secondary alcohols to ketones [9,17], (see Fig. 1). Few oxidation reactions with ozone and oxygen as oxidants have been investigated. 

With some secondary amines, especially morpholine, the reaction leads to a mixture of the oxidative amination product and of the hydroamination product, both corresponding to an anh-Markovnikov addition (Eq. 4.39) [166]. 

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