Tertiary amines with chloroformates

Compared with primary and secondary amines, tertiary amines are virtually unreac-tive towards carbenes and it has been demonstrated that they behave as phase-transfer catalysts for the generation of dichlorocarbene from chloroform. For example, tri-n-butylamine and its hydrochloride salt have the same catalytic effect as tetra-n-butylammonium chloride in the generation of dichlorocarbene and its subsequent insertion into the C=C bond of cyclohexene [20]. However, tertiary amines are generally insufficiently basic to deprotonate chloroform and the presence of sodium hydroxide is normally required. The initial reaction of the tertiary amine with chloroform, therefore, appears to be the formation of the A -ylid. This species does not partition between the two phases and cannot be responsible for the insertion reaction of the carbene in the C=C bond. Instead, it has been proposed that it acts as a lipophilic base for the deprotonation of chloroform (Scheme 7.26) to form a dichloromethylammonium ion-pair, which transfers into the organic phase where it decomposes to produce the carbene [21]. 

The flow-cell design was introduced by Stieg and Nieman [166] in 1978 for analytical uses of CL. Burguera and Townshend [167] used the CL emission produced by the oxidation of alkylamines by benzoyl peroxide to determine aliphatic secondary and tertiary amines in chloroform or acetone. They tested various coiled flow cells for monitoring the CL emission produced by the cobalt-catalyzed oxidation of luminol by hydrogen peroxide and the fluorescein-sensitized oxidation of sulfide by sodium hypochlorite [168], Rule and Seitz [169] reported one of the first applications of flow injection analysis (FTA) in the CL detection of peroxide with luminol in the presence of a copper ion catalyst. They... 

Olofson, R.A., Schnur, R.C., Bunes, L., Pepe, J.P. Selective N-dealkylation of tertiary amines with vinyl chloroformate - an improved synthesis of naloxone, Tetrahedron Lett. 1977, 1567-1571. 

An easy route to amine oxides is the oxidation of tertiary amines with /n-chloroperoxybenzoic acid in chloroform solution at 0-5 °C for 3 h. Trimethylamine oxide, tribenzylamine oxide, and dimethylaniline oxide are obtained in 96, 96, and 94% yields, respectively [320],... 

Degradation of tertiary amines with cyanogen bromide (BrCN), or ethyl, benzyl or phenyl chloroformate (see 1st edition). 

Deamination via sulphonamide intermediates allows the conversion of the carbon-nitrogen bond into the carbon-oxygen bond. Conditions have been established such that nitrates may be obtained from the deamination of primary amines with dinitrogen tetroxide at low temperature rather than alcohols/ The oxidation of amines to nitriles has been carried out using copper(l) chloride in pyridine under an oxygen atmosphere/ which is a milder reagent than those previously used to perform this transformation. Cleavage of tertiary amines with ethyl chloroformate affords a simple preparation of di- and tri-substituted olefinic synthons (Scheme... 

Chloroformates are reactive intermediates that combine acid chloride and ester functions. They undergo many reactions similar to those of acid chlorides however, the rates are usually slower (4—8). Those containing smaller organic (hydrocarbon) substituents react faster than those containing large organic (hydrocarbon) substituents (3). Reactions of chloroformates and other acid chlorides proceed faster with better yields when alkaU hydroxides or tertiary amines are present to react with the HCl as it forms. These bases act as stoichiometric acid acceptors rather than as tme catalysts. 

Aliphatic Alcohols and Thiols. Ahphatic alcohols on reaction with chloroformates give carbonates and hydrogen chloride. Frequendy, the reaction proceeds at room temperature without a catalyst or hydrogen chloride acceptor. However, faster reactions and better yields are obtained in the presence of alkaU metals or their hydroxides, or tertiary amines. Reactions of chloroformates with thiols yield monothiolocarbonates (14). 

Heterocyclic Alcohols. Thek reactions with chloroformates lead to carbonates. Thus furan- and tetrahydrofuran-derived alcohols give the corresponding carbonates in 75% yield (15). Inorganic bases and tertiary amines as acid acceptors increase the rate and yield in this reaction. 

Tertiary aliphatic amines are also cleaved by HI, but useful products are seldom obtained. Tertiary amines can be cleaved by reaction with phenyl chloroformate R3N -h ClCOOPh —> RCl 4- R2NCOOPh. a-Chloroethyl chloroformate behaves similarly.Alkyl halides may be formed when quaternary ammonium salts are heated R4N+X" R3N -)- RX. ... 

Aliphatic amines have been determined by a number of methods. Batley et al. [290] extracted the amines into chloroform as ion-association complexes with chromate, then determined the chromium in the complex colorimetri-cally with diphenylcarbazide. The chromium might also be determined, with fewer steps, by atomic absorption. With the colorimetric method, the limit of detection of a commercial tertiary amine mixture was 15ppb. The sensitivity was extended to 0.2 ppb by extracting into organic solvent the complex formed by the amine and Eosin Yellow. The concentration of the complex was measured fluorometrically. Gas chromatography, with the separations taking place on a modified carbon black column, was used by Di Corcia and Samperi [291] to measure aliphatic amines. 

Although dealkylation using haloformates has been used with tertiary amines to provide intermediate carbamates, in the case of aromatic amines the reaction requires a large excess of the chloroformate, high temperatures, and long reaction times. For example, see a) J. P. Bachelet, P. Caubere, 7. Org. Chem. 1982, 47, 234 b) R. A. Olofson, D. E. Abbott, 7. Org. Chem. 1984, 49, 2795 c) R. A. Olofson, Pure Appl. Chem. 1988, 60,1715. 

The hydrochloric acid is removed by the strong tertiary base, methyldibutylamine, which has a soluble hydrochloride. In B.P. s 631,549 and 652,981 it was shown that compound (II) could be prepared by the action of dimethylamine on P0C13 in chloroform containing an excess of methylbutylamine. The further reaction with water is very conveniently carried out in the same system by adding an excess of aqueous sodium hydroxide solution. The chloroform layer contains the tertiary amine and (I). The solvent and amine are stripped off leaving the product. Side reactions take place, and the commercial product also contains some triphosphoric pentadimethylamide (I A) and smaller amounts of other phosphoric amides. The compound (I A) is itself also a valuable systemic insecticide. 

Mixed anhydrides (see Section 2.6) The mixed-anhydride method provides efficient coupling of peptides with minimal isomerization if the established protocol is strictly adhered to. This includes a short activation time at low temperature, isopropyl chloroformate as the reagent, and A-methylmorpho-line or /V-mcthylpipcridinc as the tertiary amine (Figure 2.25, path D). In what is an apparent anomaly with respect to conventional wisdom, a polar solvent such as dimethylformamide seems to be preferable to apolar solvents for minimizing isomerization. Aminolysis at the wrong carbonyl of the anhydride of a peptide (path F) is less than that for the anhydride from the corresponding /V-alkoxycarbonylamino acid. 

Triethylamine (7) is a strong, hindered base originally employed for mixed-anhydride reactions. However, it reduces the rate of anhydride formation if the solvent is dichloromethane or chloroform (see Section 7.3) and promotes disproportionation of the anhydride under conditions in which /V-mcthylmorpholinc does not (see Section 7.5). It causes enantiomerization of urethane-protected amino-acid /V-carboxyanhydrides and reaction between two molecules with release of carbon dioxide (see Section 7.14). It is also used in the synthesis of Atosiban (see Section 8.9). There is no reaction for which it is recommended as superior to other tertiary amines, except possibly for coupling employing BOP-C1 (see Section 8.14). 

In this way, the concept of donicity explains some properties of substances usually defined apolar from their usual parameters of polarity (dielectric constant, dipolar moment, Et parameter value) but which presents high possibilities of interaction (and of solvatation) with positively charged centres. This is the case of tertiary amines such as triethylamine (or of ethers such as THF, dioxane) which shows usual polarity parameters near that of apolar solvents (benzene, chloroform, chlorobenzene, 1,2-dichloroethane, etc.) but high ability to coordinate positive charges. 

Aniline may complex (as a proton donor) not only with tertiary amines (proton acceptors) such as 7V,7V-dimethylaniline, pyridine or A,A-diethylcyclohexylamine, but also with apparently neutral molecules such as CCI492, benzene93 or chloroform, which acts as proton donor toward amines94. 

The tertiary amine thus obtained was dissolved in absolute ethanol and was refluxed for two days with five molar percent excess of the appropriate bromoalkane (97% Humphrey Chemical, North Haven, Conn.). Solvent was removed and the residue in aqueous Na2C03 solution was extracted with hexane to remove any unreacted bromoalkane. Next, the N-alkyl N-benzyl N-methylglycine was extracted into chloroform from the aqueous layer. Solvent was stripped off and the crude material was recrystallized thrice from carbon tetrachloride and twice from THF/CHCl3 (60 40 v/v) mixture. The yields of the purified betaines were about 75% of the theoretical. 

Schugerl 115] has recently furnished a detail analysis of the reactive extraction of penicdlin-G and V and precursors like phenyl and phenoxy acetic acids. Thirty different amines have been studied for reactive extraction of penicillins 116] in various solvents such as butyl acetate, chloroform, di-isopropyl ether, kerosene, dioctyl ether, etc. Tertiary amines in n-butyl acetate were found to be advantageous because of their low reactivity with solvent but the distribution coefficients of their complexes are significantly lower than those of secondary amines. While using quaternary ammonium salts for ion-exchange extraction, re-extraction is difficult and very large amounts of anion (e.g.. Cl ) are needed to recover penicillins. The basic relationship for distribution coefficient and extraction kinetics have now been fairly developed for amine-penicillin systems. 

Cyclization of the product (27-2) under Friedel-Crafts conditions gives the desired indolinone (27-3). Reaction of the carbanion obtained on treatment of that with 3-chloropropyldimethylamine then gives the alkylation product (27-4). It should be noted that, in spite of this extra step, the scheme is greatly simplified by starting with the very readily available tertiary amine. The superfluous methyl group is then removed by reaction of (27-4) with ethyl chloroformate in the current version of the Von Braun reaction. There is thus obtained amedalin (27-5). Reduction of the amine by any of several methods, for example diborane, leads to the antidepressant daledalin (27-6) [28]. 

Isothiocyanates can be prepared from support-bound primary amines by treatment with thiophosgene [14] or synthetic analogs thereof (Entry 5, Table 14.2). In an alternative two-step procedure, the amine is first treated with CS2 and a tertiary amine to yield an ammonium dithiocarbamate, which is subsequently desulfurized with TsCl or a chloroformate (Entry 6, Table 14.2 Experimental Procedure 14.1). Highly reactive acyl isothiocyanates have been prepared from support-bound acyl chlorides and tetra-butylammonium thiocyanate (Entry 7, Table 14.2). These acyl isothiocyanates react with amines to give the corresponding 7V-acylthiourcas, which can be used to prepare guanidines on insoluble supports (Entry 6, Table 14.3). 

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