202402-03-7Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Ammonium nitrate: A biodegradable and efficient catalyst for the direct amidation of esters under solvent-free conditions
Ramesh, Perla,Fadnavis, Nitin W.
supporting information, p. 138 - 140 (2015/02/19)
A simple, metal-free, and environment-friendly procedure is developed for the direct conversion of esters to amides using ammonium nitrate as a catalyst under solvent-free conditions. Aryls, heteroaryls, and aliphatic esters are easily converted to the corresponding amides in excellent isolated yields (85-99%). An enantiopure ester and amine were both shown to react without racemization. The methodology has been successfully applied to preparation of procainamide.
Umpolung reactivity in amide and peptide synthesis
Shen, Bo,Makley, Dawn M.,Johnston, Jeffrey N.
experimental part, p. 1027 - 1032 (2011/08/06)
The amide bond is one of natureg€s most common functional and structural elements, as the backbones of all natural peptides and proteins are composed of amide bonds. Amides are also present in many therapeutic small molecules. The construction of amide bonds using available methods relies principally on dehydrative approaches, although oxidative and radical-based methods are representative alternatives. In nearly every example, carbon and nitrogen bear electrophilic and nucleophilic character, respectively, during the carbong€"nitrogen bond-forming step. Here we show that activation of amines and nitroalkanes with an electrophilic iodine source can lead directly to amide products. Preliminary observations support a mechanism in which the polarities of the two reactants are reversed (German, umpolung) during carbong€"nitrogen bond formation relative to traditional approaches. The use of nitroalkanes as acyl anion equivalents provides a conceptually innovative approach to amide and peptide synthesis, and one that might ultimately provide for efficient peptide synthesis that is fully reliant on enantioselective methods.
