FORMYLATION OF AMINES
FORMYLATION OF AMINES
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DOI:
10.1021/jo01099a023
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发表时间:
1958-01-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
HUFFMAN, CW
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作者:
HUFFMAN, CW
Many procedures have been used to formylate amines, but the range of applicability appears to be limited. Formamido compounds were required for biological testing, so that a general formylation procedure was desired. The results of this research show that acetic formic anhydride is an excellent general reagent for the preparation of formyl de-rivatives of amines.A brief summary of the shortcomings of various formylation procedures (particularly as applied to heterocyclic amines in this study) will be of interest. Formamide2 serves to formylate some aniline de-rivatives and amines such as benzylamine. It did not give the formyl derivative of 2-amino-5-nitrothiazole. Esters3 of formic acid gave good results with a number of amines, but sealed tubes or autoclaves are often required. Chloral4 5reacts with many amines to furnish the formamido compound and chloroform. Again, this reagent did not react with 2-amino-5-nitrothiazole. Sometimes chloral gives addition products. For example, 6 2-amino-pyridine and chloral formed the addition compound C7H7CI3X2O which sublimed under vacuum(11 mm.) and melted at 106.5. An odd complex re-sulted from a reaction between 2-aminoquinoxaline and chloral. This complex decomposed at 176. It could be crystallized from benzene, but an attempted crystallization from 2-propanol gave the starting 2-aminoquinoxaline (mp 154). Therefore chloral fails to formylate some amines. Formic acid alone formylates varied aniline derivatives such as 3, 4-dichloroaniline. 6 Even weakly basic anilines such as 3, 5-dinitroaniline7 gave moderate (50%) yields of the formyl derivative upon reflux with a large excess(8 moles) of formic acid. In some cases, acetic anhydride has been added to a solution of amine in an excess of formic acid. Such a procedure was used to prepare 2-(5-nitrothiazolyl) formamide. 8