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Nahm and Weinreb also reported the synthesis of aldehydes by reduction of the amide with an excess of lithium aluminum hydride (see amide reduction). The Weinreb–Nahm ketone synthesis. The major advantage of this method over addition of organometallic reagents to more typical acyl compounds is that it avoids the common problem of over-addition.
Schwartz's reagent reduces amides to aldehydes. [11] Vinylation of ketones in high yields is a possible use of Schwartz's reagent. [12] Schwartz's reagent has been used in the synthesis of some macrolide antibiotics, [13] [14] (−)-motuporin, [15] and antitumor agents. [16]
Some amides can be reduced to aldehydes in the Sonn-Müller method, but most routes to aldehydes involve a well-chosen organometallic reductant. Lithium aluminum hydride reduces an excess of N,N-disubstituted amides to an aldehyde: [citation needed] R(CO)NRR' + LiAlH 4 → RCHO + HNRR' With further reduction the alcohol is obtained.
These possibilities have been used to account for the fact that, for certain substrates like α-tetralone, the group that migrates can sometimes change, depending on the conditions used, to deliver either of the two possible amides. [8] Two proposed reaction mechanisms for the amide formation from a ketone via Schmidt reaction
The reaction of a substituted amide with phosphorus oxychloride gives a substituted chloroiminium ion (2), also called the Vilsmeier reagent. The initial product is an iminium ion (4b), which is hydrolyzed to the corresponding ketone or aldehyde during workup. [7] The Vilsmeier–Haack reaction
For example, in the three-component coupling of aldehydes, amines, and activated alkenes, the aldehyde reacts with the amine to produce an imine prior to forming the aza-MBH adduct, as in the reaction of aryl aldehydes, diphenylphosphinamide, and methyl vinyl ketone, in the presence of TiCl 4, triphenylphosphine, and triethylamine: [19]
The Hofmann rearrangement (Hofmann degradation) is the organic reaction of a primary amide to a primary amine with one less carbon atom. [1] [2] [3] The reaction involves oxidation of the nitrogen followed by rearrangement of the carbonyl and nitrogen to give an isocyanate intermediate.
A general acyl group (blue) in a ketone (top left), as an acylium cation (top centre), as an acyl radical (top right), an aldehyde (bottom left), ester (bottom centre) or amide (bottom right). ( R 1 , R 2 and R 3 stands for organyl substituent or hydrogen in the case of R 1 )