Solvent hydantoin

Preservatives. Most products must contain preservatives to ensure that yeasts, molds, and bacteria do not thrive in them. These preservatives include alcohol, methylparaben, propylparaben, DMDM hydantoin, diazohdinyl urea, and imidazohdinyl urea. The parabens have limited solubiUty in water, eg, 0.25% for methylparaben and 0.05% for propylparaben (22). If these levels are exceeded in the formula, then the addition of solvents is needed to ensure clear, stable products. 

Solvent variation can gready affect the acidity of hydantoins. Although two different standard states are employed for the piC scale and therefore care must be exercised when comparing absolute acidity constants measured in water and other solvents like dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), the huge difference in piC values, eg, 9.0 in water and 15.0 in DMSO (12) in the case of hydantoin itself, indicates that water provides a better stabilization for the hydantoin anion and hence an increased acidity when compared to DMSO. 

The addition proceeds most smoothly with highly functionalized (more polar) steroids as seen in examples by Bernstein and others. The polar reaction conditions pose solubility problems for lipophilic androstane, cholestane and pregnane derivatives. Improved yields can be obtained in some cases by using dimethyl sulfoxide or t-butanol " as solvents and by using sodium A-bromobenzenesulfonamide or l,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethyl hydantoin (available from Arapahoe Chemicals) as a source of positive bromine. The addition of bromo acetate and bromo formate to steroid olefins has been studied to a limited extent. ... 

The first improvement of the Bucherer-Bergs reaction was the Bucherer-Lieb variation using the diluted alcoholic solution as described at the end of section 7.2.2. The Bucherer-Lieb variation is possibly the most popular process for synthesizing hydantoins. Another notable variation is the Henze modification using fusing acetamide as the solvent in place of water, benzene or 50% alcohol. Recently, ultrasound-promoted hydantoin synthesis has been reported to accelerate the reaction. 

Several examples of 1,2,4-thiadiazolidin-3-one 5,5-dioxides 191-194 were isolated as by-products in the synthesis of sulfonopeptides. These are formed by refluxing in benzene or toluene the corresponding acylazides. These sulfonyl-hydantoins are extremely labile in protic solvents (96T(52)5303). 

The soluble polymer support was dissolved in dichloromethane and treated with 3 equivalents of chloroacetyl chloride for 10 min under microwave irradiation. The subsequent nucleophilic substitution utilizing 4 equivalents of various primary amines was carried out in N,N-dimethylformamide as solvent. The resulting PEG-bound amines were reacted with 3 equivalents of aryl or alkyl isothiocyanates in dichloromethane to furnish the polymer-bound urea derivatives after 5 min of micro-wave irradiation (Scheme 7.75). After each step, the intermediates were purified by simple precipitation with diethyl ether and filtration, so as to remove by-products and unreacted substrates. Finally, traceless release of the desired compounds by cyclative cleavage was achieved under mild basic conditions within 5 min of micro-wave irradiation. The 1,3-disubstituted hydantoins were obtained in varying yields but high purity. 

In a related approach from the same laboratory, the perfluorooctylsulfonyl tag was employed in a traceless strategy for the deoxygenation of phenols (Scheme 7.82) [94], These reactions were carried out in a toluene/acetone/water (4 4 1) solvent mixture, utilizing 5 equivalents of formic acid and potassium carbonate/[l,T-bis(diphe-nylphosphino)ferrocene]dichloropalladium(II) [Pd(dppf)Cl2] as the catalytic system. After 20 min of irradiation, the reaction mixture was subjected to fluorous solid-phase extraction (F-S PE) to afford the desired products in high yields. This new traceless fluorous tag has also been employed in the synthesis of pyrimidines and hydantoins. 

Peach et al. developed a general, racemization free, and high yield procedure for the synthesis of O-desyl peptide esters from the poorly nucleophilic benzoin.1261 Employing the cesium salt of the model dipeptide Z-Gly-Phe-OH in acetone the intramolecular hydantoin formation obtained in polar aprotic solvents, such as DMF and DMSO, can be suppressed and a high yield of Z-Gly-Phe-O-desyl with ee >90% can be generated. 261 ... 

Treatment of the hydantoins (98a-c) with /-butyl hypochlorite in methanol gave the /V-chloro compounds (99) in quantitative yield. Alcoholic solvents were required for the chlorination of (98a) and (98b), since there... 

Early syntheses of SeMet were tedious, non-stereospecific or limited to small-scale preparations. Klosterman and Painter (1947), for example, first reacted 5-((3-bromoethyI)- hydantoin with benzyl selenol to yield y-benzylselenoho-mocysteine. The latter was converted to the sodium salt of DL-selenohomo-cysteine with sodium in liquid ammonia, and reacted with methyl iodide to yield DL-SeMet. Plieninger (1950) obtained DL-SeMet by the reaction of sodium selenomethyl mercaptide with a-amino-y-butyrolactone in an inert solvent at 170°C. A synthesis of DL-SeMet from acrolein was also described (Zdansky, 1968). The first stereospecific synthesis of L-SeMet via esters of tosylated homoserine was reported by Pande et al. (1970). 

The typical example of one-stage derivatization of amino acids is their treatment by isopropyl bromide in presence LiH with the formation of N-isopropy-lated isopropyl esters. Unfortunately, this reaction can take place only in high-boiling aprotic bipolar solvents like dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO, = 189°C, RInonpoiar 90 18) tWs is a significant restriction for its application, in practice. A more important method is based on the reaction of amino acids with methyl or phenyl isothiocyanates with the formation of 3-methyl (phenyl) hydantoins ... 

A conceptual alternative way to the activation of the carboxylic acid function is the reaction of carboxylic acids with amino groups activated as isocyanates - and isothiocyanates (equation 16). Preparation of these derivatives is racemization free. The reaction proceeds via mixed acid anhydrides in aromatic hydrocarbon solvents at elevated temperatures, and decarboxylation leads to the V-substituted amide. Pyridine as solvent enhances the conversion rate but increases also the amount of the urea side product via disproportionation. Application to peptide chemistry is limited, because peptide ester fragments tend to form hydantoins. ... 

The hydrophobic shielding of the hydantoin ring by alkyl substituents affected all the solvent-solute interactions of cured resins. Two of the resins and the DMH-based resin mixture were cured with a commercially available aromatic amine mixture derived from aniline-formaldehyde condensation, identified in Table VII. Weight gain and solvent plasticization were followed in a number of solvents and aqueous media. Some of the exposure was at 60 C as well as at room temperature. 

SOLVENT RESISTANCE OF AROMATIC AMINE-CURED HYDANTOIN EPOXY RESIN... 

Steric factors - branching at or close to the hydantoin ring - raised the glass transition temperature while maintaining the shielding effect. Amines of different structures were used as room temperature curatives with a few representative resins, to observe the effect on hydrophilic-hydrophobic balance. Solvent effects were examined on aromatic amine-cured resins the most hydrophilic cured system proved to have the broadest range of lyophobicity. 

Beilstein Handbook Reference) AI3-61127 BRN 0002827 Dantoin 736 Dantoin DMH Dimethylhydantoin DM Hydantoin DMH EINECS 201-051-3 HSDB 5216 Hydantoin, 6,5-dimethyl- NSC 8652 T10. Intermediate for textiles and other applications. Prisms mp = 178° soluble in H2O and organic solvents 7.m = 219 (s 6607 EtOH/KOH). Great Lakes Fine Chem. Janssen Chimica Lonzagroup. 

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