Reactive aldehydes

Benzaldehyde, salicylaldehyde, semicarbazide hydrochloride, paraldehyde, 1 % solutions of Na2C03, NaOH, AgN03, NH3, 4 % solutions of Bi(N03)3 and Seignette salt KNaC4H40fi 4 H2O, concentrated H2SO4, ethanol, formaldehyde solution (highly diluted), NaHS03, parafuchsine. 

About 1 g of the dyestuff parafuchsine hydrochloride is dissolved in IL of hot water in the large beaker. After the solution has cooled, sodium hydrogensul-fite is added until the solution is colorless. The aldehyde test is carried out in 4 test tubes 2 mL of the fuchsinesulfurous acid (to which a few crystals of NaHS03 have been added) are added dropwise to 2 mL of each of the samples (sec above) in aqueous-alcoholic solution. After a few minutes the contents of test tubes 1, 2 and 4 are reddish violet in color, while those of test tube 3 remain colorless. 

10 g of semicarbazide hydrochloride are stirred into 150 mL of water in the third Erlenmeyer flask. 3 mL each of benzaldehyde and salicylaldehyde are dissolved in 5 mL of ethanol in two test tubes and stirred with 5 mL of the semicarbazide solution after adding a few drops of 10% soda solution. In each case 

30 g of paraldehyde arc mixed with 2 ml of concentrated sulfuric acid. A few boiling chips are added and the mixture distilled from a water bath. The acetaldehyde, which boils at 21 °C, condenses in the well-cooled receiver. It can be used for the experiment either in a pure state or mixed with water. Paraldehyde is again formed if the acetaldehyde is allowed to stand for a long period of time. 

In the course of the reactions described in section (I) the complex silver and bismuth ions are reduced to the metal by the -CHO group of the aldehyde. No reaction occurs if this group is not present (paraldehyde). In reaction (II) the SO3 group of the fuchsinesulfurous acid is split off and adds to the aldehyde to form an a-hydroxysulfonic acid. The color of the fuchsine itself is now visible. All the normal reactions of an aldehyde are observed if acetaldehyde is set free from its trimer paraldehyde. Sulfuric acid catalyses both the forward and back reactions in this equilibrium (eqn. 1)  

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Benzaldehyde is a versatile iatermediate because of its reactive aldehyde hydrogen, its carbonyl group, and the benzene ring. 

The formation of 65 must have taken place via the normal alkylation product (66) which undergoes hydrolysis with water followed by reaction of pyrrolidine with the more reactive aldehyde group to give an intermediate (67), which can then cyclize to give the observed product (65). 

The AFO reaction has seen very few variations since it was first reported in 1934. However, the most significant modification was reported in 1958 by Ozawa and further elaborated by Smith and others. Prior to this modification the intermediate chalcones were purified and then subjected to hydrogen peroxide in a basic medium. With the modification, the chalcone was generated in situ, from an aldehyde and a hydroxyacetophenone, and then allowed to react with aqueous hydrogen peroxide in the presence of sodium hydroxide to deliver the flavonol. Smith and coworkers conducted a limited study to examine the scope and limitations of this modification.Flavonols were delivered in 51-67% however, no flavonols were isolated with highly reactive aldehydes such as p-nitrobenzaldehyde and when 2-hydroxy-4-methoxyacetophenone was used. 

Hydroformylation of nitrile rubber is another chemical modification that can incorporate a reactive aldehyde group into the diene part and further open up new synthetic routes to the formation of novel nitrile elastomers with a saturated backbone containing carboxyl or hydroxyl functionalities. 

Uses of Formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is the simplest and most reactive aldehyde. Condensation polymerization of formaldehyde with phenol, urea, or melamine produces phenol-formaldehyde, urea formaldehyde, and melamine formaldehyde resins, respectively. These are important glues used in producing particle hoard and plywood. 

As an example of enolate-ion reactivity, aldehydes and ketones undergo base-promoted o halogenation. Even relatively weak bases such as hydroxide ion are effective for halogenation because it s not necessary to convert the ketone completely into its enolate ion. As soon as a small amount of enolate is generated, it reacts immediately with the halogen, removing it from the reaction and driving the equilibrium for further enolate ion formation. 

Surprisingly, acetylation in hot pyridine yields the pyridinium salt 10. The amino group has amidine character and is resistant to diazotization, and condenses only with reactive aldehydes such as formaldehyde and trichloroacetaldehyde.41... 

With reactive aldehydes an early transition state is probably involved and therefore the steric demands of the aldehyde substituents are not highly influential. On the other hand, with less reactive ketones, the carbon-carbon bond formation is established further along the reaction coordinate, permitting the steric effects to play a greater role in the determination of the transition stale structure. 

Compounds containing carbon-nitrogen double bonds can be hydrolyzed to the corresponding aldehydes or ketones. For imines (W = R or H) the hydrolysis is easy and can be carried out with water. When W = H, the imine is seldom stable enough for isolation, and hydrolysis usually occurs in situ, without isolation. The hydrolysis of Schiff bases (W = Ar) is more difficult and requires acid or basic catalysis. Oximes (W = OH), arylhydrazones (W = NHAr), and, most easily, semicarbazones (W = NHCONH2) can also be hydrolyzed. Often a reactive aldehyde (e.g., formaldehyde) is added to combine with the liberated amine. 

Thioethers 210 are smoothly formed upon cyclization of silyl nitronates 209, generated in situ from the nitro compounds 208, on treatment with N,0-bis(trimethylsilyl)acetamide (BSA, Scheme 24) [57]. Fluorodesilylation of 210 gave the AT-oxide 212, presumably via highly reactive aldehyde 211, which was reduced to the target compound actinidine 213 in an overall 27% yield. 

Route (b) offers a short cut since the reaction between (5) and PhCHO under dehydrating conditions needs no control as (3) is the only possible enone from a ketone enolate attacking the more reactive aldehyde (p T 167). The Michael reaction is also better by this route as explained on p T 171, This is the published synthesis. 

Our attempts to isolate larger amounts of 6 from the solution have failed so far. The mass peak of the sodium adduct of 8 (Mg Na+ = 246.8), however, strongly supports the oxidation of 5 into 6 as a prerequisite for the subsequent formation of 8 from 7 as outlined (eqs. 6 and 7). The addition of ethylamine to capture the reactive aldehyde 6 as imine did not result in recognized reaction products. 

Another reagent that has found use in pinacolic coupling is prepared from VC13 and zinc dust.264 This reagent is selective for aldehydes that can form chelated intermediates, such as (3-formylamides, a-amidoaldehydes, a-phosphinoylaldehydes,265 and 8-ketoaldehydes.266 The vanadium reagent can be used for both homodimerization and heterodimerization. In the latter case, the reactive aldehyde is added to an excess of the second aldehyde. Under these conditions, the ketyl intermediate formed from the chelated aldehyde reacts with the second aldehyde. 

Montmorillonite K10 was also used for aldol the reaction in water.280 Hydrates of aldehydes such as glyoxylic acid can be used directly. Thermal treatment of K10 increased the catalytic activity. The catalytic activity is attributed to the structural features of K10 and its inherent Bronsted acidity. The aldol reactions of more reactive ketene silyl acetals with reactive aldehydes proceed smoothly in water to afford the corresponding aldol products in good yields (Eq. 8.104).281... 

JR Schwier, GG Cooke, KJ Hartauer, LYu. Rayon a source of furfural—a reactive aldehyde capable of in-solubilizing gelatin capsules. Pharm Technol 17(5) 78-79, 1993. 

An investigation of the wound reaction of Caulerpa spp. showed that the aldehyde 55 found as minor component in algal extracts is indeed an intermediate in a wound-activated transformation of 54. This sesquiterpene is degraded within seconds after tissue disruption to form the reactive aldehydes 55 and 59-64 that were characterized after trapping reactions (Scheme 17) [121]. 

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This same type of modification strategy also can be used to create highly reactive groups from functionalities of rather low reactivity. For instance, carbohydrate chains on glycoproteins can be modified with sodium periodate to transform their rather unreactive hydroxyl groups into highly reactive aldehydes. Similarly, cystine or disulfide residues in proteins can be selectively reduced to form active sulfhydryls, or 5 -phosphate groups of DNA can be transformed to yield modifiable amines. 

The formation of an aldehyde group on a macromolecule can produce an extremely useful derivative for subsequent modification or conjugation reactions. In their native state, proteins, peptides, nucleic acids, and oligonucleotides contain no naturally occurring aldehyde residues. There are no aldehydes on amino acid side chains, none introduced by post-translational modifications, and no formyl groups on any of the bases or sugars of DNA and RNA. To create reactive aldehydes at specific locations within these molecules opens the possibility of directing modification reactions toward discrete sites within the macromolecule. 

Since sialic acid is a frequent terminal sugar constituent of the polysaccharide trees on glycoproteins, this method selectively forms reactive aldehydes on the most accessible parts for subsequent modifications. The carbohydrate polymer of a protein provides a long spacer arm that can be used to conjugate another large macromolecule, such as a second protein, with little steric problems. 

Figure 4.28 Hydrolysis of epoxy groups forms 1,2-dihydroxy derivatives that can be oxidized with periodate to create reactive aldehydes.

Figure 5.13 M2C2H can be used to crosslink a sulfhydryl-containing molecule with an aldehyde-containing compound. Glycoproteins may be conjugated using this reagent after treatment with sodium periodate to form reactive aldehyde groups.

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