Sodium borohydride aminals

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Sodium Borohydride. Sodium borohydride [16940-66-2] is a thermally stable, white crystalline soHd that decomposes in vacuo above 400°C. The heat of formation is —192 kJ/mol (—45.9 kcal/mol). NaBH is hygroscopic and absorbs water rapidly from moist air to form a dihydrate that decomposes slowly to sodium metaborate and hydrogen. It is soluble in many solvents including water, alcohols, Hquid ammonia and amines, glycol ethers, and dimethyl sulfoxide. 

Unusual reducing properties can be obtained with borohydride derivatives formed in situ. A variety of reductions have been reported, including hydrogenolysis of carbonyls and alkylation of amines with sodium borohydride in carboxyHc acids such as acetic and trifluoroacetic (38), in which the acyloxyborohydride is the reducing agent. 

AletalHydrides. Metal hydrides can sometimes be used to prepare amines by reduction of various functional groups, but they are seldom the preferred method. Most metal hydrides do not reduce nitro compounds at all (64), although aUphatic nitro compounds can be reduced to amines with lithium aluminum hydride. When aromatic amines are reduced with this reagent, a2o compounds are produced. Nitriles, on the other hand, can be reduced to amines with lithium aluminum hydride or sodium borohydride under certain conditions. Other functional groups which can be reduced to amines using metal hydrides include amides, oximes, isocyanates, isothiocyanates, and a2ides (64). 

Morpholiaoglucopyranosides have beea syathesized from sucrose by selective lead tetraacetate oxidatioa of the fmctofuranosyl ring to a dialdehyde (6). This product was subjected to reductive amination with sodium borohydride and a primary amine such as benzylamine to produce the /V-henzy1morpho1ino derivative (7) (99). 

Pyridoxal Derivatives. Various aldehydes of pyridoxal (Table 3) react with hemoglobin at sites that can be somewhat controlled by the state of oxygenation (36,59). It is thereby possible to achieve derivatives having a wide range of functional properties. The reaction, shown for PLP in Figure 3, involves first the formation of a Schiff s base between the amino groups of hemoglobin and the aldehyde(s) of the pyridoxal compound, followed by reduction of the Schiff s base with sodium borohydride, to yield a covalendy-linked pyridoxyl derivative in the form of a secondary amine. 

Carbonyl-containing and unsaturated materials are removed by treatment with sodium borohydride (227,228) and boric acid (229). Other methods used to remove carbonyl impurities include treatment with hydroxyl amine hydrochloride, potassium permanganate, or A/-hydroxyben2enesulfonamide (229). 

Enamines of A" -3-ketones (45) are stable to lithium aluminum hydride, but lithium borohydride reduces the 3,4-double bond of the enamine system." In the presence of acetic acid the enamine (45) is reduced by sodium borohydride to the A -3-amine (47) via the iminium cation (46). ... 

The nitro substituent is also preserved dunng fluoroester reduction with sodium borohydride [S3] (equation 67) Use of diborane itself allows reduction of nitrodifluoroacetanihde to the amine, Al-nitrodifluoroethylaniline [84] (equation 68)... 

Tertiary heterocyclic enamines are reduced with metals in acidic media 142) or electrolytically (237,238) and their salts are reduced with lithium aluminum hydride or sodium borohydride (239,240) to the corresponding saturated amines. 

Olefins are also the products of hydroboratlon of enamines, followed by treatment of the organoborane products with hot acid (543,544). The reduction of enamines with sodium borohydride and acetic acid (545) and the selective reduction of dienamines with sodium borohydride to give homo-allylic tertiary amines (138-140,225,546,547), has been applied to the synthesis of conessine (548) and other aminosteroid analogs (545,549-552). Further examples of the reduction of imonium salts by sodium borohydride can be found in the reduction of Bischler-Napieralski products, and other cyclic imonium salts (102). 

Aniline 77 was converted into its diazonium salt with nitrous acid and this was followed by reduction with stannous chloride to afford the corresponding arylhydrazine 78. Condensation of 78 with 3-cyanopropanal dimethylacetal 79 gave the arylhydrazone 80. Treatment of 80 with PPE resulted in cyclization to indole 81. The nitrile group was then reduced to the primary amine by catalytic hydrogenation. Reaction of the amine with excess formalin and sodium borohydride resulted in Imitrex (82). 

Condensation between aldehyde 40 and amine 29 followed by sodium borohydride reduction of the resultant imine and cyclisation yielded isoquinoline 41 in good yield. Cyclisation occurred exclusively at the more electron-rich aromatic group. 

A phenyl ethanol amine in which the nitrogen is alkylated by a long chain alphatic group departs in activity from the prototypes. This agent, suloctidil (43) is described as a peripheral vasodilator endowed with platelet antiaggregatory activity. As with the more classical compounds, preparation proceeds through bromination of the substituted propiophen-one ( ) and displacement of halogen with octyl amine. Reduction, in this case by means of sodium borohydride affords suloctidil (43). ... 

A solution of 24.6 g of o-allyl-epoxypropoxybenzene dissolved in 250 ml of absolute ethanol saturated with ammonia was placed in an autoclave and heated on a steam-bath for 2 hours. The alcohol was then removed by distillation and the residue was redissolved in a mixture of methanol and ethylacetate. Hydrogen chloride gas was introduced into the solution. The hydrochloride salt was then precipitated by the addition of ether to yield 11.4 g of product. Five grams of the amine-hydrochloride thus formed were dissolved in 50 ml of methanol and 9 ml of acetone. The resulting solution was cooled to about 0°C. At this temperature 5 g of sodium borohydride were added over a period of 1 hour. Another 2.2 ml of acetone and O.B g of sodium borohydride were added and the solution was kept at room temperature for 1 hour, after which 150 ml of water were added to the solution. The solution was then extracted with three 100-ml portions of ether which were combined, dried over potassium carbonate, and evaporated. The free base was then recrystallized from petrol ether (boiling range 40°-60°C) to yield 2.7 g of material having a melting point of 57°C. 

Bromo-6,7,8,9-tetrahydro-l//-3-benzazepin-2-amine(6) with thiocyanate ion undergoes substitution of bromide to give the thiocyanatotetrahydro-l//-3-benzazepine 7.105 Attempts to replace bromide by azide ion failed, as did diazotization of the amine group with sodium nitrite in 6 M sulfuric acid. Oddly, treatment of the aminobromo compound with sodium borohydride in methanol results not in reduction, but in methoxy-debromination to give the 2-methoxy derivative which, on the basis of HNMR spectral data, is best represented as the 2-imino tautomer 8. 

Although catalytic hydrogenation is the method most often used, double bonds can be reduced by other reagents, as well. Among these are sodium in ethanol, sodium and rerr-butyl alcohol in HMPA, lithium and aliphatic amines (see also 15-14), " zinc and acids, sodium hypophosphate and Pd-C, (EtO)3SiH—Pd(OAc)2, trifluoroacetic acid and triethylsilane (EtsSiH), and hydroxylamine and ethyl acetate.However, metallic hydrides, such as lithium aluminum hydride and sodium borohydride, do not in general reduce carbon-carbon double bonds, although this can be done in special cases where the double bond is polar, as in 1,1-diarylethenes and in enamines. " °... 

The highly strained and reactive 2iT-azirines have been extensively studied for various synthetic purposes, such as ring expansion reactions, cycloaddition reactions, preparation of functionalized amines and substituted aziridines. The older literature on azirines in synthesis has extensively been reviewed [69]. Concerning azirines with defined chirality only scarce information is available. Practically all reactions of azirines take place at the activated imine bond. Reduction with sodium borohydride leads to cz5-substituted aziridines as is shown in Scheme 48 [26,28]. 

Diketimines can be prepared by condensation of 1,2-diketones with 2 equiv of an amine, or 1 equiv of a 1,2-diamine, by azeotropic removal of water. Either a chiral diketone or a chiral amine/diamine can be used in order to obtain a chiral diimine. In both cases, the use of 1,2-diamines is expected to provide better stereocontrol, because of the rigidity of the derived cyclic diimines. For example, the reaction of camphor 1,2-diketone 275 and racemic 1,2-diphenylethylenediamine (d,l)-26 gave the diimine 276 as a mixture of two diastereomers (Scheme 45) [138]. Reduction of 276 with sodium borohydride followed by hydrogenolysis of the N substituents afforded the camphordiamine, which was isolated as the dihydrochloride... 

Amides can also be deacylated by partial reduction. If the reduction proceeds only to the carbinolamine stage, hydrolysis can liberate the deprotected amine. Trichloroac-etamides are readily cleaved by sodium borohydride in alcohols by this mechanism.237 Benzamides, and probably other simple amides, can be removed by careful partial reduction with diisobutylaluminum hydride (see Section 5.3.1.1).238... 

Sulfonamides are very difficult to hydrolyze. However, a photoactivated reductive method for desulfonylation has been developed.240 Sodium borohydride is used in conjunction with 1,2- or 1,4-dimethoxybenzene or 1,5-dimethoxynaphthalene. The photoexcited aromatic serves as an electron donor toward the sulfonyl group, which then fragments to give the deprotected amine. The NaBH4 reduces the radical cation and the sulfonyl radical. 

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