Reversible triethylamine

Chemical off—on switching of the chemiluminescence of a 1,2-dioxetane (9-benzyhdene-10-methylacridan-l,2-dioxetane [66762-83-2] (9)) was first described in 1980 (33). No chemiluminescence was observed when excess acetic acid was added to (9) but chemiluminescence was recovered when triethylamine was added. The off—on switching was attributed to reversible protonation of the nitrogen lone pair and modulation of chemically induced electron-exchange luminescence (CIEEL). Base-induced decomposition of a 1,2-dioxetane of 2-phen5l-3-(4 -hydroxyphenyl)-l,4-dioxetane (10) by deprotonation of the phenoHc hydroxy group has also been described (34). 

Another method for the preparation of hydroxyalkanephosphonic acids is the conversion of aldehydes with dialkyl phosphites in the presence of triethylamine or sodium methylate leading directly to the corresponding a-hydroxyalkane-phosphonates. This reaction is reversible, leading to the starting materials aldehyde and diethyl phosphite again [143,146]. 

The thermal reaction of cyclopentadiene (1) with maleic anhydride gives 98 % kinetically favoured endo adduct, unless the mixture is heated for a long time [44]. Under photolysis conditions and in the presence of triethylamine in dry ethanol, a reversed selectivity was found [45] (Scheme 4.13). 

For the final optimization, a modified factorial design involving three concentration levels of triethylamine and three pH levels was used. From these results, it was clear that the optimum conditions for the analysis of the carboxylic acid were so different from those required for the other compounds studied that it was not sensible to attempt to analyse all fonr together and indeed that carboxylic acids were better analysed by using conventional reversed-phase HPLC than by using ion-pairing. 

Hydrolysis of the oxaphosphetan (25) gave the phosphine oxide (26) which was converted into (27) by treatment with a mixture of thionyl chloride and pyridine. Treatment of (25) with HC also caused ring opening to (28) which was reversed on treatment with triethylamine. The chlorophosphorane (28) lost nexaxluoroiso-propanol on heating to give (27) which was fluorinated to give (29)27. All the compounds were characterised Dy 1H, 19F and 31P n.m.r. 

R = H, X = S, A = Et3N and Py). In solution the former is mainly in an ionic form the latter exists as a complex. The basicity of the amine is assumed to be important. Triethylamine is a stronger base than pyridine and the ionic form is stabilized. When the proton affinity is weak, the basicity in relation to the B(III) atom, a Lewis acid, plays an important role. This involves an equilibrium shift toward the complex. This assumption is confirmed by an easy displacement of pyridine by triethylamine. The reverse process demands more severe conditions. In the NMR spectra of the triethylamine complex the signal is shifted from 22 to 42 ppm as pyridine is added. The absence of signals of two separate forms is evidence in favor of their fast interconversion. The chemical shift of the signal in 3IP spectra is 22 ppm (EtOH), 26 ppm (Py, DMFA), and 42 ppm (EtOH, Py) for complexes with triethylamine and pyridine. 

Competing amines such as triethylamine and di-rc-butylamine have been added to the mobile phase in reversed-phase separations of basic compounds. Acetic acid can serve a similar purpose for acidic compounds. These modifiers, by competing with the analyte for residual active sites, cause retention time and peak tailing to be reduced. Other examples are the addition of silver ions to separate geometric isomers and the inclusion of metal ions with chelating agents to separate racemic mixtures. 

Based on nucleophilic addition, racemic allenyl sulfones were partially resolved by reaction with a deficiency of optically active primary or secondary amines [243]. The reversible nucleophilic addition of tertiary amines or phosphanes to acceptor-substituted allenes can lead to the inversion of the configuration of chiral allenes. For example, an optically active diester 177 with achiral groups R can undergo a racemization (Scheme 7.29). A 4 5 mixture of (M)- and (P)-177 with R = (-)-l-menthyl, obtained through synthesis of the allene from dimenthyl 1,3-acetonedicar-boxylate (cf. Scheme 7.18) [159], furnishes (M)-177 in high diastereomeric purity in 90% yield after repeated crystallization from pentane in the presence of catalytic amounts of triethylamine [158], Another example of a highly elegant epimerization of an optically active allene based on reversible nucleophilic addition was published by Marshall and Liao, who were successful in the transformation 179 — 180 [35], Recently, Lu et al. published a very informative review on the reactions of electron-deficient allenes under phosphane catalysis [244]. 

Preliminary studies77 into the reactivity of complex endo-62 have shown that treatment with triethylamine regenerates the exo-(l,2,3-7]3)-trans-buta-dienyl complex exo-60 in almost quantitative yield, suggesting that the transformation endo-65 to endo-62 is reversible. The reactions of complex 62 with nucleophiles also suggest that this step is reversible, as this reactivity... 

The concurrent development of analytical techniques for the isolation, detection, and quantitation of indole alkaloids in small amounts of cellular material has been addressed by Hdfle and co-workers 134), who developed a reversed-phase system using either methanol-water-triethylamine or acetonitrile-triethylammonium formate buffer as the eluept. Two prepacked cartridge systems were found to be very effective, for the rapid preparation of the alkaloid mixture from the cell contents. ... 

In recent work, a homochiral substituent has been incorporated into the reactant to allow the separation of enantiomerically pure products. Thus, the homochiral reactant 288, prepared from (5)-1-phenylethylamine, gave a pair of diastereoisomers (289) and (290) that were separated by chromatography and identified via X-ray crystallography (178). The nitrile imine was generated by the hydrazonyl chloride-base route. The reaction showed only modest stereoselectivity that favored 289 when silver carbonate was used as the base but it was found that this was reversed when triethylamine was used. However, this was not the case for a related reaction (179). 

Schiff s base formation occurs by condensation of the free amine base with aldehyde A in EtOAc/MeOff. The free amine base solution of glycine methyl ester in methanol is generated from the corresponding hydrochloride and triethylamine. Table 4 shows the reaction concentration profiles at 20-25°C. The Schiffs base formation is second order with respect to both the aldehyde and glycine ester. The equilibrium constant (ratio k(forward)/ k(reverse)) is calculated to be 67. 

The system is reversible in the absence of an added electron donor but undergoes irreversible reaction at the reduced rhenium bipyridine center in the presence of added triethylamine. The observation of reaction at the rhenium site upon excitation in the absorption band of the metalloporphyrin site is compatible with an ultrafast back electron transfer, provided that the triethylamine coordinated to the magnesium prior to absorption and that the electron transfer from the metalloporphyrin to the bipyridine was followed rapidly by irreversible electron transfer from the triethylamine to the metalloporphyrin. The experiments graphically demonstrated the benefits of the incorporation of carbonyl ligands at the electron acceptor as they allowed a tracking of the sequence of charge separation and back electron transfer via time-resolved IR data . ... 

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