Subject primary amines

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). 

The reaction of disubstituted diacetylenes with hydrazine hydrate was reported by Darbinyan et al. (70AKZ640). In the first stage the addition of hydrazine to the terminal carbon atom of the diacetylene system is analogous to that of primary amines to diacetylene (69ZC108 69ZC110). With monosubstituted diacetylenes (R = H), hydrazine adds to the terminal triple bond. This leads to the formation of vinylacetylenic hydrazine 22 which cyclizes to dihydropyrazole 23 subjected to further isomerization to the pyrazole 25. It is possible that hydrazine 22 undergoes hydration to the ketone 24 which can easily be cyclized to the pyrazole 25... 

The Skraup reaction is of wide scope for the synthesis of substituted quinolines. Certain primary amines, bearing a cyano, acetyl or methyl group, may however be subject to decomposition under the usual reaction conditions. 

Nitriles and oximes are considered together because of common features. Both functions are reduced to primary amines, both undergo coupling reactions to secondary amines, and both are subject to reductive hydrolysis. These similarities arise from a common intermediate, an imine. The imine is... 

The viscous oil resin Is slurried twice with 250 cc portions of methanol to remove any unreacted primary amines. The oil residue after being washed with methanol is dissolved in ethyl alcohol and 75 cc of concentrated hydrochloric acid is added dropwise to the warm alcohol solution of the base. The dihydrochloride salts of the several hydroabietyl ethylenediamines precipitates immediately from solution. The salt is then separated by filtering and is washed twice with 100 cc portions of cooled ethyl alcohol. The dihydrochloride salts of the dehy-droabietyl, dihydroabietyl and tetrahydroabietyl ethylenediamine mixture have a melting point of about 292°C to 295°C. On subjecting the mixture to solubility analyses it Is found that the dehydroabietyl ethylenediamine is present in substantially the same proportion as is the dehydroabietylamine in the original "Rosin Amine D."... 

In this study we examine the generalities in reductive alkylation however, since the subject is vast, we limited ourselves to the interaction of aromatic and aliphatic primary amines and diamines with ketones. The ketones examined include the cyclic ketone, cyclohexanone, and aliphatic ketones such as acetone, and methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK). We limited our study to sulfided and unsulfided Pt and Pd catalysts supported on activated carbon that were commercially available from Evonik Degussa Corporation. 

To demonstrate the feasibility of this method for library generation, the isocyanides produced were subjected to an Ugi three-component condensation with various primary amines and carboxybenzaldehyde. The resulting 2-isoindolinone derivatives were obtained in high to excellent yields. 

The susceptibility of the sydnone ring to acid-catalyzed hydrolysis at elevated temperature is exploited for the preparation of hydrazines <2000MI227>. Primary amines are first converted to sydnones, which are then hydrolyzed to give hydrazines that may be isolated or reacted further without isolation <1996CHEC-II(4)165>. As masked hydrazines, 3-arylsydnones are firstly subjected to acid-catalyzed ring opening and then allowed to react further in situ with 2-(4-chlorophenyl)hydrazono-3-oxo-butyric acid to form substituted pyrazolidinones (Equation 2) <2005SC2169>. 

The drawback of this reaction is its extremely high sensitivity to the steric bulk of the nitrogen substitutent. When the analogous /V-benzylimine 101 was subjected to the standard hydrosilylation conditions, the reaction gave 55% conversion and 47% ee with prolonged reaction time (96 hours). A practical way to overcome this problem is to employ a nucleophilic promoter to convert the intermediate into a more reactive species. In this case, it has been found that primary amines have the most pronounced effect on the reaction. For example,... 

The simplicity of the two-phase modification of the Gabriel synthesis of primary amines, via the N-alkylation of potassium phthalimide, makes the procedure considerably more convenient than the traditional method, which normally requires the use of anhydrous dipolar aprolic solvents. The reaction can be conducted under solid liquid conditions using potassium hydroxide in toluene [25], or with preformed potassium phthalimide [26, 27] (cf ref. 28). As is normal for acylation reactions, relatively mild conditions are required for the preparation of the A-ethoxycarbonyl derivative [29], whereas a reaction temperature of 100°C is generally used for N-alkylation (Table 5.16). The reaction time for the soliddiquid two-phase system can be reduced dramatically with retention of the high yields, when the reaction mixture is subjected to microwave irradiation [30]. 

Typical primary amines which undergo such nitrosation are m-toluidine, p-xylidine, m-anisidine, 2-amino-4-methoxytoluene, 3-amino-4-methoxy-toluene, m-aminophenol, a-naphthylamine, l-naphthylamine-2-, -6-, -7-, and -8-monosulfonic acids, and l-naphthylamine-4-monosulfonic acid (which reacts with displacement of the sulfonic acid group). The secondary amines derived from these primary amines also can be nitrosated directly (i.e., without the intermediate formation of an JV-nitroso compound which needs to be subjected to the Fischer-Hepp rearrangement). The entering nitroso group appears to substitute exclusively in the para position. 

Very frequently the transition through urethanes is employed by treating the primary amine with chloroformate. The N-substituted urethane so obtained is nitrated by substituting the free N-hydrogen and then subjecting the product to alkaline hydrolysis which results in the formation of the salt of a primary nitramine and a base. The free nitramine is obtained by acidification. 

Reduction of aldehydes and ketones. Earlier work on amine borane reagents was conducted mainly with tertiary amines and led to the conclusion that these borane complexes reduced carbonyl compounds very slowly, at least under neutral conditions, and that the yield of alcohols is low. Actually complexes of borane with primary amines, NHj or (CH3)3CNH2, reduce carbonyl compounds rapidly and with utilization of the three hydride equivalents. BH3 NH3 is less subject to steric effects than traditional complex hydrides. A particular advantage is that NH3 BH3 and (CH3)3CNH2 BH3 reduce aldehyde groups much more rapidly than keto groups, but cyclohexanone can be reduced selectively in the presence of aliphatic and aromatic acyclic ketones. 

Isatin has been used in the Strecker degradation of a-amino acids to aldehydes,434-437 and in the formation of benzaldehydes from benzyl-amines.431,435,438-440 These conversions have been the subject of a review, and mechanisms have been proposed.441 This formation of aldehydes from primary amines may, in part, explain some of the... 

Addition of primary amines to carbonyl groups has been the subject of extensive study, notably by Jencks and co-workers.91 The most striking feature of these reactions is the characteristic maximum in the graph of reaction rate as a function of pH.92 Figure 8.10 illustrates the observations for the reaction of hydroxylamine with acetone. It is also found that the sensitivity of rate to acid catalysis,93 and to substituent effects,94 is different on either side of the maximum in the pH-rate curve. These phenomena may be understood in terms of the two-step nature of the reaction. In acetal formation, we saw in Section 8.3 that the second step is rate-limiting in the overall process, and it is relatively easy to study the two steps separately here, the rates of the two steps are much more closely balanced, so that one or the other is rate-determining depending on the pH. 

The reaction may be subject to limitations in the alkene structure similar to those of the nitrile process. Besides simple amides, one can also utilize urea and urethanes in this reaction. Demercuration is best effected by using alkaline sodium borohydride in the presence of a primary amine such as Bu"NH2. 

Secondary amines can be prepared from the primary amine and carbonyl compounds by way of the reduction of the derived Schiff bases, with or without the isolation of these intermediates. This procedure represents one aspect of the general method of reductive alkylation discussed in Section 5.16.3, p. 776. With aromatic primary amines and aromatic aldehydes the Schiff bases are usually readily isolable in the crystalline state and can then be subsequently subjected to a suitable reduction procedure, often by hydrogenation over a Raney nickel catalyst at moderate temperatures and pressures. A convenient procedure, which is illustrated in Expt 6.58, uses sodium borohydride in methanol, a reagent which owing to its selective reducing properties (Section 5.4.1, p. 519) does not affect other reducible functional groups (particularly the nitro group) which may be present in the Schiff base contrast the use of sodium borohydride in the presence of palladium-on-carbon, p. 894. 

Fluorogenic labelling of pesticides. The subject has been reviewed earlier by Lawrence and Frei (27). Labelling consists in replacing a proton or other atom of a pesticide with a so-called labelling compound such as dansyl chloride (V) or fluores-camine (VI). The former reacts with primary and secondary amines, phenols, some thiols and aliphatic alcohols. The latter reacts very selectively with primary amines. 

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