Tertiary amines with other oxidants

Most of the substrates for these isomerizations have a tetrahedral carbon with at least one hydrogen substituent between the carbonyl group and the alkyne. Due to the comparable high acidity of this C-H bond neighboring the carbonyl group, already a weak base such as a carbonate, a tertiary amine or aluminum oxide can deprotonate this position and a subsequent protonation at the other end of the pro-pargyl/allenyl anion delivers the allene. 

Previous reviews have dealt with metal-catalyzed [93] and stoichiometric [94] oxidation of amines in a broad sense. This section will be limited to the selective oxidation of tertiary amines to N-oxides. Amine N-oxides are synthetically useful compounds [95, 96] and are frequently used as stoichiometric oxidants in osmium-[97-99] manganese- [100] and ruthenium-catalyzed [101,102] oxidations, as well as in other organic transformations [103-105]. Aliphatic tert-amine N-oxides are usefid surfactants [96] and are essential components in hair conditioners, shampoos, toothpaste, cosmetics, and so on [106]. Chiral N-oxides have been used in asymmetric catalysis involving metal-free catalytic transformations [107] as well as metal-catalyzed reactions where the N-oxide serves as a ligand [107, 108]. Chiral tertiary amine N-oxides were recently used as reagents in asymmetric epoxidation of a,(3-unsaturated ketones [109]. 

Ammonia, and Amines. Isopropanolamine is the product of propylene oxide and ammonia ia the presence of water (see Alkanolamines). Propylene oxide reacts with isopropanolamine or other primary or secondary amines to produce A/- and A/,A/-disubstituted isopropanolamines. Propylene oxide further reacts with the hydroxyl group of the alkanolamines to form polyether polyol derivatives of tertiary amines (50), or of secondary amines ia the presence of a strong base catalyst (51). 

The preceding section described the preparation of enamines by mercuric acetate oxidation of tertiary amines. The initial product in these oxidations is the ternary iminium salt, which is converted to the enamine or mixture of enamines by reaetion with base. Thus iminium salts synthesized by methods other than the oxidation of tertiary amines or the protonation of enamines are potential enamine sources. 

Tertiary amine N-oxides may also be used to convert sulphoxides to sulphones16. The reaction proceeds by initial attack by the N-oxide oxygen atom on the sulphoxide moiety, followed by subsequent elimination of the amine. In order to obtain good yields, the reaction must be carried out at 190°Cfor 20 hours with a 20-fold excess of N-oxide in the presence of acid catalysts. The sulphone must then be separated by chromatography, thus making the method less attractive than other procedures and so it has not been employed synthetically. 

This mechanism is the same as that of 19-23 the products differ only because tertiary amine oxides cannot be further oxidized. The mechanism with other peroxyacids is probably the same. Racemic (3-hydroxy tertiary amines have been resolved by oxidizing them with t-BuOOH and a chiral catalyst one enantiomer reacts faster than the other.This kinetic resolution gives products with enantiomeric excesses of > 90%. 

Although the ECL phenomenon is associated with many compounds, only four major chemical systems have so far been used for analytical purposes [9, 10], i.e., (1) the ECL of polyaromatic hydrocarbons in aqueous and nonaqueous media (2) methods based on the luminol reaction in an alkaline solution where the luminol can be electrochemically produced in the presence of the other ingredients of the CL reaction (3) methods based on the ECL reactions of rutheni-um(II) tra(2,2 -bipyridinc) complex, which is used as an ECL label for other non-ECL compounds such as tertiary amines or for the quantitation of persulfates and oxalate (this is the most interesting type of chemical system of the four) and (4) systems based on analytical properties of cathodic luminescence at an oxide-coated aluminum electrode. 

Amines with three different substituents are potentially chiral because of the pseudotetrahedral arrangement of the three groups and the lone-pair electrons. Under normal conditions, however, these enantiomers are not separable because of the rapid inversion at the nitrogen center. As soon as the lone-pair electrons are fixed by the formation of quaternary ammonium salts, tertiary amide N-oxide, or any other fixed bonding, the inversion is prohibited, and consequently the enantiomers of chiral nitrogen compounds can be separated. 

Indicine IV-oxide (169) (Scheme 36) is a clinically important pyrrolizidine alkaloid being used in the treatment of neoplasms. The compound is an attractive drug candidate because it does not have the acute toxicity observed in other pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Indicine IV-oxide apparently demonstrates increased biological activity and toxicity after reduction to the tertiary amine. Duffel and Gillespie (90) demonstrated that horseradish peroxidase catalyzes the reduction of indicine IV-oxide to indicine in an anaerobic reaction requiring a reduced pyridine nucleotide (either NADH or NADPH) and a flavin coenzyme (FMN or FAD). Rat liver microsomes and the 100,000 x g supernatant fraction also catalyze the reduction of the IV-oxide, and cofactor requirements and inhibition characteristics with these enzyme systems are similar to those exhibited by horseradish peroxidase. Sodium azide inhibited the TV-oxide reduction reaction, while aminotriazole did not. With rat liver microsomes, IV-octylamine decreased... 

Oxidation of cyclic secondary amines such as pyrrolidine (351) and piperidine (353) with iodosobenzene in water leads to lactams 352 and 354, respectively (88TL6913, 88TL6917) (Scheme 90). Similar oxidation of 2-piperidinecarboxylic acid and 2-pyrrolidinecarboxylic acid is accompanied by decarboxylation. Cyclic tertiary amines 355, 357, and 359 (Eq. 48) are likewise oxidized to the corresponding lactams. Other examples include phencyclidine (360) to A-(l-phenylcyclohexyl)piperidone (361), N-(cyanocyclohexyl)piperidine (362) to A-(l-cyanocyclohexyl)piperidone (363) (Scheme 91), and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline to 1,2,3,4-tetrahy-droisoquinolinone (Eq. 49). 

Several reports have appeared on the effect of additives on the Pauson-Khand reaction employing an alkyne-Co2(CO)6 complex. For example, addition of phosphine oxide improves the yields of cyclopentenones 119], while addition of dimethyl sulfoxide accelerates the reaction considerably [20]. Furthermore, it has been reported that the Pauson-Khand reaction proceeds even at room temperature when a tertiary amine M-oxide, such as trimethylamine M-oxide or N-methylmorpholine M-oxide, is added to the alkyne-Co2(CO)6 complex in the presence of alkenes [21]. These results suggest that in the Pauson-Khand reaction generation of coordinatively unsaturated cobalt species by the attack of oxides on the carbonyl ligand of the alkyne-Co2(CO)6 complex [22] is the key step. With this knowledge in mind, we examined further the effect of various other additives on the reaction to obtain information on the mechanism of this rearrangement. 

Protection of an alcohol function by esterification sometimes offers advantages over use of acetal or ether groups. Generally, ester groups are stable under acidic conditions. Esters are especially useful in protection during oxidations. Acetates and benzoates are the most commonly used ester derivatives. They can be conveniently prepared by reaction of unhindered alcohols with acetic anhydride or benzoyl chloride, respectively, in the presence of pyridine or other tertiary amines. 4-Dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP) is often used as a catalyst. The use of A-acylimidazolides (see Section 3.4.1) allows the... 

Since nicotine is the major precursor to NNN in tobacco and tobacco smoke, the reaction of nicotine with sodium nitrite was studied to provide information on formation of other tobacco specific nitrosamines, especially NNK and NNA, which could arise by oxidative cleavage of the l -2 bonds or l -5 bond of nicotine followed by nitrosation (26). The reaction was investigated under a variety of conditions as summarized in Table I. All three nitrosamines were formed when the reaction was done under relatively mild conditions (17 hrs, 20 ). The yields are typical of the formation of nitrosamines from tertiary amines (27). At 90 , with a five fold excess of nitrite, only NNN and NNK were detected. Under these conditions, both NNK and NNA gave secondary products. NNK was nitrosated a to the carbonyl to yield 4-(N-methyl-N-nitrosamino)-2-oximino-l-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone while NNA underwent cyclization followed by oxidation, decarboxylation and dehydration to give l-methyl-5-(3-pyridyl)pyrazole, as shown in Figure 4. Extensive fragmentation and oxidation of the pyrrolidine ring was also observed under these conditions. The products of the reaction of nicotine and nitrite at 90 are summarized in Table II. 

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