Solvent oximes

Furthermore, the isopropylated product has been converted into a-amino acid (Scheme 7.19) through cleavage of the N-N bond of the diaster-eochemically pure product by hydrogenolysis in the presence of Pearlman s catalyst. In earlier work on triethylborane-induced radical reactions in organic solvents, oxime ether showed excellent reactivity. Thus we expect that the direct comparison of indium-mediated reactions with triethylborane-induced reactions would lead to informative and instructive suggestions regarding the reactivity and stereochemical course of the transformation in question. 

The oxime is freely soluble in water and in most organic liquids. Recrystallise the crude dry product from a minimum of 60-80 petrol or (less suitably) cyclohexane for this purpose first determine approximately, by means of a small-scale test-tube experiment, the minimum proportion of the hot solvent required to dissolve the oxime from about 0-5 g. of the crude material. Then place the bulk of the crude product in a small (100 ml.) round-bottomed or conical flask fitted with a reflux water-condenser, add the required amount of the solvent and boil the mixture on a water-bath. Then turn out the gas, and quickly filter the hot mixture through a fluted filter-paper into a conical flask the sodium chloride remains on the filter, whilst the filtrate on cooling in ice-water deposits the acetoxime as colourless crystals. These, when filtered anddried (either by pressing between drying-paper or by placing in an atmospheric desiccator) have m.p. 60 . Acetoxime sublimes rather readily when exposed to the air, and rapidly when warmed or when placed in a vacuum. Hence the necessity for an atmospheric desiccator for drying purposes. 

Dissolve 5 g. of hydroxylamine hydrochloride in 10 ml. of water in a small conical flask and add a solution of 3 g. of sodium hydroxide in 10 ml. of water. Cool the solution in cold or ice water, and add 6 g. (7-6 ml.) of acetone slowly. Cool the flask, shake well, and leave overnight, during which time the oxime may crystallise out. If no crystals appear, cork the flask and shake vigorously when the acetoxime usually separates as colourless crystals. Filter the crystals at the pump, dry rapidly between filter paper (yield 2- 6 g.) and determine the m.p. (59°). Extract the filtrate with two 20 ml. portions of ether, and remove the solvent a further 0 - 5 g. of acetoxime (m.p. 60°) is obtained. Recrystallise from light petroleum, b.p. 40-60° CAUTION inflammable) to obtain the pure acetoxime, m.p. 60°. Acetoxime sublimes when left exposed to the air. 

Beckmann rearrangement of benzophenone oxime to benz-anilide. Dissolve 2 g. of benzophenone oxime in 20 ml. of anhydrous ether in a small conical flask and add 3 g. of powdered phosphorus pentachloride (or 3 ml. of pure tbionyl chloride). Distil off the solvent and other volatile products on a water bath CAUTION ether), add 25 ml. of water, boil for several minutes and break up any lumps which may be formed. Decant the supernatant liquid, and recrystallise, in the same vessel, from boiling alcohol. The product is benzanilide, m.p. 163° confirm this by a mixed m.p. determination with an authentic specimen. 

The principle of solvent extraction in refining is as follows when a dilute aqueous metal solution is contacted with a suitable extractant, often an amine or oxime, dissolved in a water-immiscible organic solvent, the metal ion is complexed by the extractant and becomes preferentially soluble in the organic phase. The organic and aqueous phases are then separated. By adding another aqueous component, the metal ions can be stripped back into the aqueous phase and hence recovered. Upon the identification of suitable extractants, and using a multistage process, solvent extraction can be used to extract individual metals from a mixture. 

The extraction of metal ions depends on the chelating ability of 8-hydroxyquinoline. Modification of the stmcture can improve its properties, eg, higher solubility in organic solvents (91). The extraction of nickel, cobalt, copper, and zinc from acid sulfates has been accompHshed using 8-hydroxyquinohne in an immiscible solvent (92). In the presence of oximes, halo-substituted 8-hydroxyquinolines have been used to recover copper and zinc from aqueous solutions (93). Dilute solutions of heavy metals such as mercury, ca dmium, copper, lead, and zinc can be purified using quinoline-8-carboxyhc acid adsorbed on various substrates (94). 

The conversion of cyclohexanone to cyclohexanone oxime is brought about by the use of hydroxylamine sulphate. The sulphuric acid is neutralised with ammonia to ammonium sulphate and this is separated from the oxime. In the presence of oleum the oxime undergoes the process known as the Beckmann rearrangement to yield the crude caprolactam. After further neutralisation with ammonia the caprolactam and further ammonium sulphate are separated by solvent extraction (Figure 18.7). 

This method is an adaptation of that of Dengel. -Methoxy-phenylacetonitrile can also be prepared by the metathetical reaction of anisyl chloride with alkali cyanides in a variety of aqueous solvent mixtures by the nitration of phenylaceto-nitrile, followed by reduction, diazotization, hydrolysis, and methylation 1 by the reduction of ct-benzoxy- -methoxy-phenylacetonitrile (prepared from anisaldehyde, sodium cyanide, and benzoyl chloride) and by the reaction of acetic anhydride with the oxime of -methoxyphenylpyruvic acid. ... 

Tropinone, CgHi30N. This substance, first prepared by Willstatter, crystallises in spear-shaped needles, m.p. 41°, b.p. 219-20°/714 mm., dissolves in ordinary solvents, is a strong base and has the properties of a ketone, giving an oxime, m.p. 111°, and a semicarbazone, m.p. 212°. It is a tertiary base and the methiodide is decomposed by alkalis producing dimethylamine and dihydrobenzaldehyde. When reduced by sodium... 

The treatment of ketoximes with lithium aluminum hydride is usually a facile method for the conversion of ketones into primary amines, although in certain cases secondary amine side products are also obtained. Application of this reaction to steroidal ketoximes, by using lithium aluminum deuteride and anhydrous ether as solvent, leads to epimeric mixtures of monodeuterated primary amines the ratio of the epimers depends on the position of the oxime function. An illustrative example is the preparation of the 3(x-dj- and 3j5-di-aminoandrostane epimers (113 and 114, R = H) in isotopic purities equal to that of the reagent. 

A mixture of 3 -hydroxypregna-5,l6-dien-20-one acetate (10 g), 70 ml of ethanol and 2 ml of methoxylamine is refluxed for 12 hr (Note methoxyl-amine hydrochloride leads to oxime formation). After cooling, another 1.75 ml of methoxylamine is added and the reaction is refluxed for another 12 hr. The solvent is removed in vacuo and the residue is dissolved in ether. Hydrogen chloride gas is passed into the ether solution and the white crystalline salt (113) is filtered off and washed with ether (85% yield crude mp 228-229°). 

Two different sets of experimental conditions have been used. Buu-Hoi et al. and Hansen have employed the method introduced by Papa et using Raney nickel alloy directly for the desulfurization in an alkaline medium. Under these conditions most functional groups are removed and this method is most convenient for the preparation of aliphatic acids. The other method uses Raney nickel catalysts of different reactivity in various solvents such as aqueous ammonia, alcohol, ether, or acetone. The solvent and activity of the catalyst can have an appreciable influence on yields and types of compounds formed, but have not yet been investigated in detail. In acetic anhydride, for instance, desulfurization of thiophenes does not occur and these reaction conditions have been employed for reductive acetylation of nitrothiophenes. Even under the mildest conditions, all double bonds are hydrogenated and all halogens removed. Nitro and oxime groups are reduced to amines. 

Reaction of 2-(A -allylamino)-3-formyl-4//-pyrido[l, 2-u]pyrimidin-4-ones 219 in EtOH with HONH2 HCI yielded ( )-oximes 220 at 0°C and 221 (R = PhCH2) under reflux. Heating 220 (R = H) in a boiling solvent afforded cw-fused tetracyclic cycloadducts 221 (R = H). In an aprotic solvent (e.g., benzene or MeCN) the main a>fused cycloadducts 221 (R = H) were accompanied by a mixture of trauA-fused cycloadducts 222, A -oxides 223 and tetracyclic isoxazoline 224 (96T887). The basicity of the 2-allylamino moiety of compounds 219 affected the rate of the conversion. Cycloadditions were also investigated in dioxane and BuOH. 

Both base and noble-metal catalysts have been used with success in the hydrogenation of oximes. Base metals, such as nickel 1,13,50,76) or cobalt 26,63), are used at elevated temp>eratures and pressures ( 80-l00 "C, 100 atm), and under these conditions runaway reactions have occurred with easily reduced compounds. Due caution must be exercised by limiting the catalyst or hydrogen or by sufficient dilution with solvent 22). 

Solvents influence the hydrogenation of oximes in much the same way as they do hydrogenation of nitriles. Acidic solvents prevent the formation of secondary amines through salt formation with the initially formed primary amine. A variety of acids have been used for this purpose (66 ), but acids cannot always be used interchangeably (43). Primary amines can be trapped also as amides by use of an anhydride solvent (2,/5,57). Ammonia prevents secondary amine formation through competition of ammonia with the primary amine in reaction with the intermediate imine. Unless the ammonia is anhydrous hydrolysis reactions may also occur. 

During hydrogenation, intermediate aromatic hydroxylamines may undergo various cyclization reactions in molecules containing a suitably disposed carbonyl group, or carbonyl derivative, such as an oxime (13). The cyclized product may or may not maintain the N—OH bond, depending on the solvent, the catalyst, and the electrophilicity of the carbonyl (27,28,29,32,67,68). 

Excellent yields of the oximes of phenylacetaldehydes are obtained by reduction of 6-nitrostyrenes over Pd-on-C in a pyridine solvent (74,75). The technique gives yields of only about 60% when applied to aliphatic unsaturated nitrocompounds better yields are obtained in acidic media(6 5). Over 5% Rh-on-Al203 in ethanol-acetic acid-ethyl acetate, 2- 6-dinitro-styrenes are converted to 2-nitrophenylacetaldehyde oximes (13). 

The resulting mixture does not crystalize and is converted into a mixture of oximes by treatment of a solution of the mixture in 20 ml of ethanol with a solution of 1.8 g of hydroxylamine sulfate in 3 ml of water. 1.B g of sodium acetate In 5 ml of water is added, and the mixture is refluxed for 5 hours, then extracted with ethyl acetate, and the ethyl acetate solution is washed with a saturated aqueous sodium chloride solution and dried over Sodium sulfate. After evaporating the solvent, the residue is triturated with warm ether and 1.1 g of a crystalline oxime is obtained, MP 16B° to 171°C. 

The synthesis of alkoxy amines 2 by addition of organometallic reagents to the C-N double bond of oxime ethers 1 is plagued by the propensity for proton abstraction a. to the C-N double bond, the lability of the N-O bond and the poor electrophilicity of the oxime ethers. Therefore, frequently no products, undesired products or complex mixtures are obtained. The result depends on the substrate, organometallic reagent, solvent, temperature and additives1 6. 

Reaction of the enantiomerically pure alkoxyamines 3, prepared from L-ephedrine or norephedrine derivatives 1 with acetaldehyde, isobutyraldehyde or benzaldehyde using ethanol as the solvent, afford the corresponding oxime ethers 4 as mixtures of E/Z-stereoisomers11. 

Much better results are achieved in the addition of butyllithium to oxime ethers 4a, 4b and 4c activated by boron trifluoride-diethyl ether complex (BF3 OEt2) at — 78 °C (above a reaction temperature of — 30 °C complex mixtures of products are obtained) using toluene as the solvent. Furthermore, the stereoselectivity depends on the E/Z ratio of the starting oxime ethers. The reaction appears to be highly stereoselective, with the diastereoselectivity of the... 

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