Thionyl chloride acid anhydride synthesis

In 1955, Hurd and Mori first described the preparation of 1,2,3-thiadiazole as an unexpected product from the reaction of the hydrazone 5 and thionyl chloride. The authors were attempting to prepare the six membered anhydride 7 in an analogous manner to the 5-membered anhydride 9, prepared from 8 using thionyl chloride. However, when the hydrazone 5 and thionyl chloride were mixed and heated at 60°C for 1 hour followed by cooling, the thiadiazole acid 6 precipitated out and was isolated by filtration. This serendipitous discovery led to a significant advance in the synthesis of thiadi azoles. 

Preparation of oxazole Cyclocondensation of amides, through dehydration, leads to the formation of corresponding oxazoles. This synthesis is known as Robinson-Gabriel synthesis. A number of acids or acid anhydrides, e.g. phosphoric acid, phosphorus oxychloride, phosgene and thionyl chloride, can bring about this dehydration. 

If benzyl carbamate is used as the amide component in the reaction with a-oxo acids 23 then the Na-benzyloxycarbonyl-DHA 24 is obtained directly (Scheme 8). Shin and et al.[77 84l widely exploited the above method in the synthesis of various a, 3-didehydropeptides (Table 3). In presence of 3 M thionyl chloride and acetyl chloride, 24 gave the A-carboxy-DHA anhydride ANCA 25, which could be conveniently converted into dehydropeptides.[77 84 Compared with the common saturated A-carboxy-a-amino acid anhydrides (NCAs), ANCAs were found to be stable at room temperature for several months. 

V-Carboxy- ,p-didehydroamino acid anhydrides 76 have been employed with success in the synthesis of peptides177-83 (Scheme 25). The ANCA formed from the reaction of (Z)-DHAwith thionyl chloride does not form the desired peptides on direct opening with amines... 

A convenient synthesis of quinazolines has been reported, and has been applied to the synthesis of representative alkaloids of the quinazoline group (Scheme 5).27 The procedure depends on the formation of sulphinamide anhydrides (23) from the reaction of anthranilic acids with thionyl chloride and the generation in situ of the iminoketens (24). Addition of the latter to the imine (25) or to 2-piperidone, for example, afforded alkaloid (27). Arborine (26) was prepared similarly from N-methylanthranilic acid application of the method to the synthesis of rutecarpine is described in Chapter 11. 

A successful synthesis of 3-hydroxyindoxazene (28) starts from salicylhydroxamic acid (29), which gives a cyclic mixed anhydride (30) with thionyl chloride 30 is converted into the indoxazene with triethylamine.48... 

N-Acylsaccharins (13) possess a certain potential as acylating agents. They will acylate amines, but will react with water or alcohols only when acid or base is present.167 The method was used to acylate a-amino-penicillanic acid.170 Micheel162-165 has based a peptide (38) synthesis on the acyl transfer from 31 [Z = carbobenzoxy, obtained through reaction with DCC or with pseudosaccharin chloride (6) or with thionyl chloride and imidazole] to amino acids. Pseudosaccharin anhydride 323, lee js thg product of a condensation between 6 and 1, mostly from hydrolysis of 6. Formation of 32 tends to occur in nonprotic solvents with base catalysis, even when practical precautions are taken to exclude moisture. Water and protic solvents seem to shield the anion 19 and prevent attack on 6. 

Aromatic nitriles are also prepared by heating amides with phosphorus pentoxide, phosphorus oxychloride, phosphorus pentachloride, thionyl chloride, and ammonium sulfamate. In addition, the action of a double salt of aluminum and sodium chlorides, NaCl- AlClj, gives excellent yields of nitriles from both aliphatic and aromatic amides. Heating an amide with phthalic anhydride causes dehydration. A novel synthesis consists in treating a mixture of an aromatic acid and p-toluene-sulfonamide with phosphorus pentachloride the yields of nitriles range from 63% to 79%. ... 

Treatment of the sulfinamide anhydride, prepared from anthranilic acid and thionyl chloride, with carboxamides and thiocarboxamides 1 affords quinazolin-4(3//)-ones 2. Thiocarbox-amides, being much more easily dissolved than carboxamides in nonprotic solvents such as benzene, are more suitable as starting materials. This approach has been used by Kametani et al. in the synthesis of the quinazoline alkaloids glomerine, homoglomerine, chrysoginc, and glycosminine. " ... 

Substituted oxazolidin-5-one derivatives, which are prepared from N -protected a-annino dicarboxyhc acids and paraformaldehyde, are employed for dual protection of the a-annino and a-carboxy groups in the synthesis of P-aspartyl and y-glutamyl esters (Scheme 4).Py For this purpose the oxazolidinone derivatives are synthesized by treatment of the Z amino acids with paraformaldehyde in a nnixture of acetic anhydride, acetic acid, and traces of thionyl chloride or by azeotropic distillation of the Z amino acids with paraformaldehyde and 4-toluenesulfonic acid in benzene. The resulting heterocychc compounds are readily converted into the tert-butyl esters with isobutene under acid catalysis. Esterification is achieved with tert-butyl bromidet or with Boc-F.P l Finally, the oxazolidinone ring is opened by alkaline hydrolysis or catalytic hydrogenolysis to yield the tert-butyl esters. 

A solid phase copolymer of 4-vinylpyridine is a highly effective catalyst for the synthesis of acid anhydrides from mixtures containing equimolar quantities of carboxylic acids and acid chlorides. The reaction can be simplified even more if a mixture of carboxylic acid and one-half equivalent of thionyl chloride in dichloromethane is treated with the solid state copolymer of 4-vinylpyridine. The conversion is accomplished equally well in batch or column mode. Some examples are given in Table 10. 

When imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylic acid is heated with acetic anhydride, the bis-azolide (146) which is formed readily hydrolyzes in water to give the monocarboxylic acid. This is a novel method of removing one carboxyl group <82JHC253>, which has been modified to broaden its applicability to the synthesis of mono- and diesters and -amides. Replacement of the acetic anhydride by thionyl chloride forms the related azolide (147) which forms the unstable carboxylic analogue which reacts with nucleophiles such as alcohols and amines (Scheme 81) <84SC251,85JHC413>. 

I,2,3-Benzotriazin-4-ones are useful reagents in peptide synthesis and may be synthesized from the anthranilic acid by successive reaction with thionyl chloride (which forms an unstable sulphinamide anhydride), O-(trimethylsilyl)hydroxylamine and a nitrous acid-hydrochloric acid mixture at low temperature. 

Chromones.- Enamines have previously been converted into chromones and in another approach, the enamine (104) reacted with thionyl chloride to give the chromone (105 n=2) in moderate yield. The sulphinic acid was readily oxidized to the sulphonic acid (105 n=3) by 3-chloroperoxybenzoic acid.110 A convenient synthesis has been described of 2-methylchromene-4-thione in 57% yield from 4-(2-hydroxyphenyl)butane-1,3-dione.111 The t-amino-methylchromones (106) have been synthesized and shown to be central nervous system depressants. A new synthesis of 2-substituted chromones (including flavones) uses 2-acetoxyphenacyl bromide (107) which is converted into its phosphorane (108). Heating this with an alkanoyl or aroyl chloride or anhydride in pyridine gave good yields of the chromone (109).113... 

Oxadiazole has been prepared by heating glyoxal dioxime with succinic acid anhydride at 150-170°C. For the synthesis of substituted compounds, mere heating is sufficient in some cases, whereas the action of thionyl chloride in 1,2-dichloroethane gives good results in others. 

Chakraborty et al. (26) synthesized 1 by cyclization of the < -acyl-aminobenzamide 13 with diphosphorus pentoxide. Kametani et al. have developed a one-step synthesis of quinazolinone derivatives by condensation of sul-phinamide anhydrides generated from anthranilic acids and thionyl chloride with amides (27,28), imines (29,30), or thioamides (31). This reaction was applied to the synthesis of 1 (28,31,32), glycosminine (6) (28,31), glomerin (2) (27,31), homoglomerin (27), glycerine (3) (27), chrysogine (7) (27), and other quinazoline alkaloids (Scheme 1). 

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