Poly amines reduction

Elovitz, M. S., and W. J. Weber, Sediment-mediated reduction of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene and fate of the resulting aromatic (poly)amines , Environ. Sci. Technol., 33,2617-2625 (1999). 

Open-chain poly amines such as 1,4,8,11-tetraazaundecane and its complexes with Cu11, Ni11 and Zn11 are chemical sensitizers as well,23 although the effect of the chelates may be ascribable in part to their being a source of the free amine (a possible reduction sensitizer, another important class of chemical sensitizers). 

Putrescine and Cadaverine.— The poly-amines may be obtained by the reduction of poly-nitro compounds or poly-cyanogen compounds (pp. 70, 75). In the former case the amine has the same number of carbons as the nitro compound but in the latter case the amine has two more carbons than the radical of the di-cyanogen compound. The usual method of formation, however, is the one already used in preparing the mono-amines, viz., from the corresponding halogen compound by action of ammonia. 

The Zincke reaction has also been adapted for the solid phase. Dupas et al. prepared NADH-model precursors 58, immobilized on silica, by reaction of bound amino functions 57 with Zincke salt 8 (Scheme 8.4.19) for subsequent reduction to the 1,4-dihydropyridines with sodium dithionite. Earlier, Ise and co-workers utilized the Zincke reaction to prepare catalytic polyelectrolytes, starting from poly(4-vinylpyridine). Formation of Zincke salts at pyridine positions within the polymer was achieved by reaction with 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene, and these sites were then functionalized with various amines. The resulting polymers showed catalytic activity in ester hydrolysis. ... 

Nonetheless, it was a fairly short step from octopus compounds to dendrimers, and the step was taken by Vogtle in the late 1970s when he attempted to use a cascade reaction to prepare a molecule of the dendrimer type that would now be considered a dendron rather than a fully developed dendrimer. It began with the addition of acrylonitrile to an anfine, followed by reduction of the nitrile to amine. This was followed by a further reaction with acrylonitrile, and the process was repeated several times to yield highly branched macromolecules. There were initially problems with the reduction step but these were overcome, and the preparation of these poly(propylene imine) dendrimers was later commercialized. 

It is convenient to include under Aromatic Amines the preparation of m-nitroaniline as an example of the selective reduction of one group in a polynitro compound. When m-diuitrobenzene is allowed to react with sodium poly-sulpliide (or ammonium sulphide) solution, only one of the nitro groups is reduced and m-nitroaniline results. Some sulphur separates, but the main reaction is represented by ... 

Reduction of Poly(2-cyano-l,3-phenylene arylene ether), 20 Twenty-five mL of a 1.0 M solution of lithium aluminum hydride (LAH) in THF was cooled to 0° C before adding a solution of 1.64 g (5.0 meg) of 20 in 120 mL of THF. The resultant slurry was stirred for 24 h at 0° C, refluxed for 1 h, recooled to 5° C, and the excess LAH decomposed with 2 mL of water. The volume of the solution was reduced to 25 mL before pouring the mixture into 500 mL of 5% HC1 to dissociate the amine aluminum salt complex and precipitate the polymer. The polymer was recovered by filtration, reslurried in 20 mL of water and the pH adjusted to 9.0 with NaOH. After recovery of the neutralized polymer was recovered, it was dried in vacuo redissolved in CHC13, and reprecipitated using water as the nonsolvent. Final drying in vacuo for 24 h at 35° C left 1.2 g (72.3%) of poly[oxy-l,4-phenylene-(l-methylethylidene)-l, 4 -phenylene-oxy-(2"-aminomethyl)-l",3"-phenylene], 21, [n] (CHCI3) 0.3 dl/g. 

Miller and co-workers have recently prepared nanometer-scaled molecular dumbbells based on poly(benzyl ether) dendrons (G1-G4) and oligoimide spacers [64], Their synthetic approach involved the coupling of amine-terminated oligoimides to dendrons with a carboxylic acid focal point. The resulting hybrid materials were found to be quite soluble thus allowing their analysis by cyclic voltammetry in DMF. Consistent with Roncali s observation, the kinetics of reduction of the oligoimide core was not found to be limited by the presence of the dendritic wedges. 

The electrochemical reduction of phenylglyoxylate oxime in the presence of strychnine afforded the corresponding optically active amines (equation 4). Also, the electrochemical reduction of oximes by utihzing poly-L-vahne-coated graphite electrode afforded optically active amine. However, in both cases the enantioselectivities were very low. 

The chemical entrapment of TEMPO moiety in the sol-gel silica hybrid material is performed in two steps reductive amination of 4-oxo-TEMPO with 3-aminopropyl-trimethoxysilane (APTMS) followed by sol-gel co-poly-condensation of the TEMPO-funcionalized alkoxide thereby obtained with methyl-trimethoxysilane (MTMS) catalyzed by fluoride (Figure 6.2). 

It has also been possible to confirm the presence of the reduction product of a Schiff base on the polymer by proton magnetic resonance. For this purpose we have used unmodified poly(ethylenimine), since it too catalyzes the decarboxylation of oxalacetate to its product, pyruvate. Unmodified polyethylenimine was mixed with oxalacetate-4-ethyl ester. One-half of this solution was treated with NaBH4 the second half was exposed to a similar environment but no NaBH4 was added. The borohydride-treated polymer exhibited a strong triplet in the nmr spectrum centered at 3.4 ppm upfield from the HOD resonance. This new feature would be expected from the terminal methyl protons of the oxalacetate ester attached to the polymer. Only a very weak triplet was found in the control sample not treated with borohydride. These observations are strong evidence for the formation of Schiff bases with the polymer primary amine groups. Evidently the mechanistic pathway for decarboxylation by the polymer catalyst is similar to that used enzymatically. 

The lower members of the homologous series of 1. Alcohols 2. Aldehydes 3. Ketones 4. Acids 5. Esters 6. Phenols 7. Anhydrides 8. Amines 9. Nitriles 10. Polyhydroxy phenols 1. Polybasic acids and hydro-oxy acids. 2. Glycols, poly-hydric alcohols, polyhydroxy aldehydes and ketones (sugars) 3. Some amides, ammo acids, di-and polyamino compounds, amino alcohols 4. Sulphonic acids 5. Sulphinic acids 6. Salts 1. Acids 2. Phenols 3. Imides 4. Some primary and secondary nitro compounds oximes 5. Mercaptans and thiophenols 6. Sulphonic acids, sulphinic acids, sulphuric acids, and sul-phonamides 7. Some diketones and (3-keto esters 1. Primary amines 2. Secondary aliphatic and aryl-alkyl amines 3. Aliphatic and some aryl-alkyl tertiary amines 4. Hydrazines 1. Unsaturated hydrocarbons 2. Some poly-alkylated aromatic hydrocarbons 3. Alcohols 4. Aldehydes 5. Ketones 6. Esters 7. Anhydrides 8. Ethers and acetals 9. Lactones 10. Acyl halides 1. Saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons Cyclic paraffin hydrocarbons 3. Aromatic hydrocarbons 4. Halogen derivatives of 1, 2 and 3 5. Diaryl ethers 1. Nitro compounds (tertiary) 2. Amides and derivatives of aldehydes and ketones 3. Nitriles 4. Negatively substituted amines 5. Nitroso, azo, hy-drazo, and other intermediate reduction products of nitro com-pounds 6. Sulphones, sul-phonamides of secondary amines, sulphides, sulphates and other Sulphur compounds... 

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