Transesterification amines

Polycarbonates are prepared commercially by two processes Schotten-Baumaim reaction of phosgene (qv) and an aromatic diol in an amine-cataly2ed interfacial condensation reaction or via base-cataly2ed transesterification of a bisphenol with a monomeric carbonate. Important products are also based on polycarbonate in blends with other materials, copolymers, branched resins, flame-retardant compositions, foams (qv), and other materials (see Flame retardants). Polycarbonate is produced globally by several companies. Total manufacture is over 1 million tons aimuaHy. Polycarbonate is also the object of academic research studies, owing to its widespread utiUty and unusual properties. Interest in polycarbonates has steadily increased since 1984. Over 4500 pubflcations and over 9000 patents have appeared on polycarbonate. Japan has issued 5654 polycarbonate patents since 1984 Europe, 1348 United States, 777 Germany, 623 France, 30 and other countries, 231. 

Transesterification, an equiUbrium reaction, is practical only when the alcohol to be esterified has a high boiling point and the leaving alcohol can be removed by distillation. The most widely used catalysts are sodium alcoholates and organic titanates, although amines are also used (30,31). 

Chirazymes. These are commercially available enzymes e.g. lipases, esterases, that can be used for the preparation of a variety of optically active carboxylic acids, alcohols and amines. They can cause regio and stereospecific hydrolysis and do not require cofactors. Some can be used also for esterification or transesterification in neat organic solvents. The proteases, amidases and oxidases are obtained from bacteria or fungi, whereas esterases are from pig liver and thermophilic bacteria. For preparative work the enzymes are covalently bound to a carrier and do not therefore contaminate the reaction products. Chirazymes are available form Roche Molecular Biochemicals and are used without further purification. 

Preparation of the key tropine is achieved by any one of several variations on the method first developed by Robinson, which involves reaction of a primary amine with dihydroxyacetone and glyoxal. Reduction of the carbonyl group in the product (86) followed by acylation affords the aminoester (88). Transesterification with ester aldehyde 89... 

Step-growth polymerization processes must be carefully designed in order to avoid reaction conditions that promote deleterious side reactions that may result in the loss of monomer functionality or the volatilization of monomers. For example, initial transesterification between DMT and EG is conducted in the presence of Lewis acid catalysts at temperatures (200°C) that do not result in the premature volatilization of EG (neat EG boiling point 197°C). In addition, polyurethane formation requires the absence of protic impurities such as water to avoid the premature formation of carbamic acids followed by decarboxylation and formation of the reactive amine.50 Thus, reaction conditions must be carefully chosen to avoid undesirable consumption of the functional groups, and 1 1 stoichiometry must be maintained throughout the polymerization process. 

The chemistry of the glycolysis of polyurethanes is complicated by the fact that there are additional groups in the polymer such as ureas, allophanates, and biurets, and die PURs may be crosslinked. In die presence of the appropriate glycols and at about 200°C, PURs undergo transesterification to form polyols. Under the same conditions, ureas undergo glycolysis to form urethanes and amines (Fig. 10.5). 

The development of monoalkyl phosphate as a low skin irritating anionic surfactant is accented in a review with 30 references on monoalkyl phosphate salts, including surface-active properties, cutaneous effects, and applications to paste and liquid-type skin cleansers, and also phosphorylation reactions from the viewpoint of industrial production [26]. Amine salts of acrylate ester polymers, which are physiologically acceptable and useful as surfactants, are prepared by transesterification of alkyl acrylate polymers with 4-morpholinethanol or the alkanolamines and fatty alcohols or alkoxylated alkylphenols, and neutralizing with carboxylic or phosphoric acid. The polymer salt was used as an emulsifying agent for oils and waxes [70]. Preparation of pharmaceutical liposomes with surfactants derived from phosphoric acid is described in [279]. Lipid bilayer vesicles comprise an anionic or zwitterionic surfactant which when dispersed in H20 at a temperature above the phase transition temperature is in a micellar phase and a second lipid which is a single-chain fatty acid, fatty acid ester, or fatty alcohol which is in an emulsion phase, and cholesterol or a derivative. 

Amine salts of acrylate ester polymers, which are physiologically acceptable and useful as surfactants, are prepared by transesterification of alkyl acrylate polymers with 4-morpholinethanol or the alkanolamines and fatty alcohols or alkoxy-lated alkylphenols, and neutralizing with phosphoric acid. The product was used as an emulsifying agent for oils and waxes [60]. 

Later on the crucial role played by the solvent was enlightened in the protease-catalyzed resolution of racemic amines [26]. As shown in Table 1.3, the ratio of the initial rates of acylation of the (S)- and the (Ji)-enantiomers or racemic a-methyl-benzylamine (9) varied from nearly 1 in toluene to 7.7 in 3-methyl-3-pentanol. Similarly, the same authors found a significant solvent effect for the subtilisin-catalyzed transesterification of racemic 1-phenylethanol (10) using vinyl butyrate as acyl donor (Table 1.4 [27]). 

The enzymatic KR between racemic amines and nonactivated esters using a lipase as biocatalyst is shown in Scheme 7.15. In the same manner as in the transesterification of secondary alcohols, this process fits Kazlauskas rule [32], where normally if the large group (L) has larger priority than medium group (M), the (R)-amide is obtained. In general, major size differences between both groups result in better enantios-electivities ( ). 

Mikolajczyk and coworkers have summarized other methods which lead to the desired sulfmate esters These are asymmetric oxidation of sulfenamides, kinetic resolution of racemic sulfmates in transesterification with chiral alcohols, kinetic resolution of racemic sulfinates upon treatment with chiral Grignard reagents, optical resolution via cyclodextrin complexes, and esterification of sulfinyl chlorides with chiral alcohols in the presence of optically active amines. None of these methods is very satisfactory since the esters produced are of low enantiomeric purity. However, the reaction of dialkyl sulfites (33) with t-butylmagnesium chloride in the presence of quinine gave the corresponding methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, isopropyl and n-butyl 2,2-dimethylpropane-l-yl sulfinates (34) of 43 to 73% enantiomeric purity in 50 to 84% yield. This made available sulfinate esters for the synthesis of t-butyl sulfoxides (35). 

Initiators such as (306) initiate the ROP of CL to form telechelic triblock diols.478 Molecular weights approach theoretical values with polydispersities <1.3 and no significant level of transesterification was detected at up to 95% conversions. Alternative bimetallic samarium initiators have been used to synthesize aromatic, cumulene and amine/imine link-functionalized poly(lactones).479... 

In a lipase-catalyzed reaction, the acyl group of the ester is transferred to the hydroxyl group of the serine residue to form the acylated enzyme. The acyl group is then transferred to an external nucleophile with the return of the enzyme to its preacylated state to restart the catalytic cycle. A variety of nucleophiles can participate in this process. For example, reaction in the presence of water results in hydrolysis, reaction in alcohol results in esterification or transesterification, and reaction in amine results in amination. Kirchner et al.3 reported that it was possible to use hydrolytic enzymes under conditions of limited moisture to catalyze the formation of esters, and this is now becoming very popular for the resolution of alcohols.4... 

In addition, iodine snccessfnlly catalyzed the electrophilic snbstitntion reaction of indoles with aldehydes and ketones to bis(indonyl)methanes [225], the deprotection of aromatic acetates [226], esterifications [227], transesterifications [227], the chemoselective thioacetalization of carbon functions [228], the addition of mercaptans to a,P-nnsatnrated carboxylic acids [229], the imino-Diels-Alder reaction [230], the synthesis of iV-Boc protected amines [231], the preparation of alkynyl sngars from D-glycals [232], the preparation of methyl bisnlfate [233], and the synthesis of P-acetamido ketones from aromatic aldehydes, enolizable ketones or ketoesters and acetonitrile [234],... 

Although in recent years transesterification processes of racemic alcohols have received major attention, enzymatic acylation of amines for synthetic purposes is also being employed as a conventional tool for the synthesis of chiral amines and amides [31], using CALB as the biocatalyst in the majority of these reactions [31a]. The main difference between enzymatic acylation of alcohols and amines is the use of the corresponding acyl donor, because activated esters which are of utility... 

The formation of vinylcarbamates is restricted to secondary amines and also to terminal alkynes, which is in line with the formation of a metal vinylidene intermediate. It is noteworthy that even starting from secondary amines, the presence of a hydroxy group in propargylic alcohols drove the reaction towards the formation of fi-keto carbamates, resulting from initial Markovnikov addition of the carbamate anion to the triple bond followed by intramolecular transesterification [10]. The proposed general catalytic cycle which applies for the formation of vinylic carbamates is shown in Scheme 10.2. 

Esters are less reactive than acid chlorides and acid anhydrides. They are converted to carboxylic acid hy acid or base hydrolysis, and to another ester by acid or base alcoholysis (transesterification). The 1°, 2° or 3° amides are obtained from esters by treatment with ammonia or 1° or 2° amines, respectively. 

In 1997, Sturmer highlighted the importance of the combination of enzymes and transition metals in one pot [36]. Since then, this concept has aroused much interest within the scientific community. In all the DKRs presented in this section, the enzyme catalyzes a transesterification process. Thus, enzyme- and metal-catalyzed DKRs are categorized according to the nature of the substrates as being allylic substrates, secondary alcohols, or primary amines. In the first case,... 

It many ways the alkyl cyanurates behave as typical esters. They are hydrolyzed to cyanuric acid and the appropriate alcohol, and readily undergo transesterification reactions. Cyanurates react with ammonia to form melamine under severe conditions <59HC(l3)l, p.i7). The reaction with amines usually gives mixed products, but triallyl cyanurates react to form the monosubstituted products in excellent yields (Scheme 35) (75S182.75S184). 

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