Total synthesis of janadolide

The first total synthesis of janadolide, a new cyclic polyketide-peptide hybrid possessing a tert-butyl group, is described. The synthesis of an unsaturated hydroxycarboxylic acid was effected via the lithiation of vinyl iodide followed by addition to a Weinreb amide with a tert-butyl group and stereoselective 1,2-reduction. The cyclic structure was constructed by macrolactamization at the amide bond between the proline moiety and fatty acid moiety.     

Efficient cleavage of tertiary amide bonds via radical–polar crossover using a copper(ii) bromide/Selectfluor hybrid system

A novel approach for the efficient cleavage of the amide bonds in tertiary amides is reported. Based on the selective radical abstraction of a benzylic hydrogen atom by a CuBr₂/Selectfluor hybrid system followed by a selective cleavage of an N–C bond, an acyl fluoride intermediate is formed. This intermediate may then be derivatized in a one-pot fashion. The reaction proceeds under mild conditions and exhibits a broad substrate scope with respect to the tertiary amide moiety as well as to nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon nucleophiles for the subsequent derivatization. Mechanistic studies suggest that the present reaction proceeds via a radical–polar crossover process that involves benzylic carbon radicals generated by the selective radical abstraction of a benzylic hydrogen atom by the CuBr₂/Selectfluor hybrid system. Furthermore, a synthetic application of this method for the selective cleavage of peptides is described.

A novel approach for the efficient cleavage of the amide bonds in tertiary amides is reported.     

Chemical transformations of tetracyclo[3.3.1.1<Superscript>3,7</Superscript>.0<Superscript>1,3</Superscript>]decane (1,3-dehydroadamantane): II. Reaction of 1,3-dehydroadamantane with <Emphasis Type="Italic">N,N</Emphasis>-dialkylcarboxamides

Alkylation of N,N-dialkylcarboxamides with 1,3-dehydroadamantane has been accomplished for the first time. The reaction involves the C–H bond in the α-position with respect to the carbonyl group and provides a convenient one-step preparation of substituted carboxylic acid amides containing an 1-adamantyl substituent and a pharmacophoric group in the amide moiety.     

Covalent immobilization of a fluorescent pH-sensitive naphthalimide dye in sol–gel films

A pH indicator dye was covalently linked to inorganic?Corganic hybrid sol?Cgel layers via its carboxyl function by the formation of an amide bond. For this, the dye was activated by 2-succinimido-1,1,3,3-tetramethyluronium tetrafluoroborate and linked to N-(3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl)-ethylendiamine. Different ratios of tetraethoxy-silane, diisobutyldimethoxysilane and 3-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane were evaluated to tailor the performance of the sensing material. Fluorescence spectroscopy of the optimised sensor layers with a molar ratio of organically modified siloxane to tetraethoxysilane of 25.9 and of dye/amino groups of 1.16, showed a reversible fluorescence signal increase of 117?% upon protonation, and a pk _a 6.5. The signal changes were caused by photoinduced electron transfer between the methylpiperazine moiety and the naphthalimide fluorophore, its efficiency being modulated by protonation of the methylpiperazine nitrogen. The influence of parameters such as synthesis, dip-coating process and heat-treatment on the performance of the sensor layers was investigated. Optimum signal changes were obtained when heating the sol?Cgel structure up to 170?°C.     

Rhodium-Catalyzed ortho-Bromination of O-Phenyl Carbamates Accelerated by a Secondary Amide-Pendant Cyclopentadienyl Ligand

It has been established that a newly developed cyclopentadienyl rhodium(III) [Cp^ARh^III] complex, bearing an acidic secondary amide moiety on the Cp ring, is able to catalyze the ortho-bromination of O-phenyl carbamates with N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) at room temperature. The presence of the acidic secondary amide moiety on the Cp^A ligand accelerates the bromination by the hydrogen bond between the acidic NH group of the Cp^A ligand and the carbonyl group of NBS.     

Pyrrolic Amide: A New Hydrogen Bond Building Block for Self-assembly

Molecular self-assembly has emerged as a powerful technology for the synthesis of nanostructured materials. In design of various molecular assemblies, hydrogen bonding is a preferably selected intra- or inter-molecular weak interaction in recent research by virtue of the directionality and specificity. The research for novel hydrogen bond building blocks that self-assembly into well defined structures is great important not only for gaining an understanding of the concepts of self-assembly but also for the design of new molecular materials. Pyrrolic amide moiety has one hydrogen bond acceptor (C =O) and two hydrogen bond donors (pyrrole NH and amide NH). By deliberately design, pyrrolic amide compounds would be new kinds hydrogen bond building blocks. So, pyrrolic amide compounds 1 ～ 6, which bear one, two or three pyrrolic amide moieties respectively, were designed and synthesized.     

Dinicotinamidium squarate

The crystal structure determination of the dinicotinamidium squarate salt, 2C₆H₇N₂O⁺·C₄O₄²⁻, is reported, with the squarate dianion residing on an inversion centre and the unique cation in a general position. Salt formation occurs by donation of two H atoms from squaric acid to the nicotin­amide base. The crystal packing is derived from three types of hydrogen bonding. The primary hydrogen bond involves a squarate anion O atom and an H atom of the protonated pyridine group of the nicotin­amide, with an N⋯O distance of 2.5760 (13) Å. The second hydrogen bond involves a second anion O atom and an amide H atom, with an N⋯O distance of 2.8374 (14) Å. Thirdly, an intermolecular interaction between two coplanar nicotin­amide moieties occurs between an amide O atom and a symmetry‐related amide H atom, with an N1⋯O3 distance of 2.8911 (15) Å. These hydrogen bonds are also responsible for the planarity of the nicotin­amide moiety in the salt.     

Efficient Synthesis of Conformationally Restricted Apoptosis Inhibitors Bearing a Triazole Moiety

Apoptosis is a biological process relevant to different human diseases that is regulated through protein–protein interactions and complex formation. Peptidomimetic compounds based on linear peptoids and cyclic analogues with different ring sizes have been previously reported as potent apoptotic inhibitors. Among them, the presence of cis/trans conformers of an exocyclic tertiary amide bond in slow exchange has been characterized. This information encouraged us to perform an isosteric replacement of the amide bond by a 1,2,3‐triazole moiety, in which different substitution patterns would mimic different amide rotamers. The syntheses of these restricted analogues have been carried out through an Ugi multicomponent reaction followed by an intramolecular cyclization. The unexpected formation of a β‐lactam scaffold prompted us to study the course of the intramolecular cyclization of the Ugi adducts. In order to modulate this cyclization, a small library of compounds bearing both heterocyclic scaffolds has been synthesized and their activities as apoptosis inhibitors have been evaluated.     

Hydrogen-bonding dynamics in photoinduced electron transfer in a ferrocene-quinone linked dyad with a rigid amide spacer

A newly designed ferrocene-quinone dyad with an amide space (Fc-Q) is employed to examine formation of the hydrogen bonding in the one-electron reduced form (Q*-) and the dynamics in the photoinduced electron-transfer reaction from the ferrocene to the quinone moiety. Photoexcitation of the Q moiety in Fc-Q in deaerated PhCN with 388 nm results in intramolecular electron transfer from Fc to the singlet excited state of Q to produce Fc+-Q*- without changing the conformation (<1 ps), followed by hydrogen bond formation with the amide proton of the spacer (tau = approximately 5 ps). The resulting radical ion pair decays via a back electron transfer to the ground state at a longer time scale with a rate constant of 2.6 x 108 s-1.     

Photoinduced switching of intramolecular hydrogen bond between amide NH and carboxyl oxygen

In this study, we synthesized two novel carboxylic acid and carboxylate compounds, both of which had an amide group linked with an azomethine moiety to introduce photoinduced switching of the intramolecular NH...O hydrogen bond. We suggest that the cis-carboxylate compound forms a stronger intramolecular NH...O hydrogen bond than the cis-carboxylic acid compound.     

De Sign and Synthesis of 1,2,4‐Oxadiazole Derivatives as Non‐Steroidal 5α‐Reductase Inhibitors

The purpose of this study was to synthesize compounds in which the 1,2,4‐oxadiazole moiety replaced the amide bond of ONO3805 and to evaluate its 5α‐reductase inhibitory activity as a potential benign prostatic hyperplasia therapeutic target. Four 1,2,4‐oxadiazole derivatives, 1,2,8, and 20, were evaluated in vitro against 5α‐reductase of rat liver microsome. The prepared 1 and 2 possessed similar binding affinity (Ki) to that of ONO3805. Therefore, the use of 1,2,4‐oxadiazole ring as surrogate of the amide bond in ONO3805 has a successful result in this study. It leads not only to enhance chemical stability but also to maintain meaningful inhibitory activity. The butyric acid moiety of these inhibitors is considered to play an important role in mimicing the phosphoric acid portion of coenzyme‐NADPH in interacting with the active site of 5α‐reductase.     

A stereocontrolled access to ring-fused piperidines through a formal [2+2+2] process

[reaction: see text] A formal [2+2+2] process has been devised that allows the stereocontrolled formation of ring-fused piperidines from allylsilanes possessing an oxime moiety. The cascade involves an intermolecular radical addition of an alpha-iodoacetate onto an allylsilane double bond, which is followed by a 5-exo-trig cyclization onto an oxime and is completed by the formation of the amide bond by nucleophilic attack of the amine onto the ester function.     

Structural Characterization of N‐Alkylated Twisted Amides: Consequences for Amide Bond Resonance and N−C Cleavage

Herein, we describe the first structural characterization of N‐alkylated twisted amides prepared directly by N‐alkylation of the corresponding non‐planar lactams. This study provides the first experimental evidence that N‐alkylation results in a dramatic increase of non‐planarity around the amide N?C(O) bond. Moreover, we report a rare example of a molecular wire supported by the same amide C=O‐Ag bonds. Reactivity studies demonstrate rapid nucleophilic addition to the N?C(O) moiety of N‐alkylated amides, indicating the lack of n_N to π^*_C=O conjugation. Most crucially, we demonstrate that N‐alkylation activates the otherwise unreactive amide bond towards σ N?C cleavage by switchable coordination.     

Organometallic[bond]polyoxometalate hybrid compounds: metallosalen compounds modified by Keggin type polyoxometalates

Hybrid compounds with two functional centers consisting of a metallosalen moiety (M[bond]salen; M = Mn, Co, Ni, and Pd) connected by an alkylene bridging group to a lacunary Keggin type polyoxometalate were synthesized and characterized. In these metallosalen-polyoxometalate compounds (M[bond]salen[bond]POM) it was shown by the use of a combination of UV[bond]vis, (1)H NMR, EPR, XPS, and cyclic voltammetry measurements that the polyoxometalate exerts a significant intramolecular electronic effect on the metallosalen moiety leading to formation of an oxidized metallosalen moiety. For the Mn[bond]salen[bond]POM, the metallosalen center is best described as a metal[bond]salen cation radical species; that is, a localized "hole" is formed on the salen ligand. For the other M[bond]salen[bond]POM compounds, the metallosalen moiety can be described as a hybrid of a metal[bond]salen cation radical species and an oxidized metal[bond]salen species, that is, a delocalized "hole" is formed at the metallosalen center. It is proposed that these oxidized metallosalen centers are best characterized as stabilized charge transfer (metallosalen donor[bond]polyoxometalate acceptor) complexes despite the relatively large distance between the two functional centers.     

Specific features of the reduction of disubstituted amide derivatives of p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene

Regardless of the reducing agent, the reduction at 25°C and higher of the amide groups in a large number of p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene derivatives containing amide fragments with different substituents on the nitrogen atoms was accompanied by hydrogenolysis of the C-N bond with formation of the corresponding O-(2-hydroxyethyl) calixarenes and by partial cleavage of the ether bond between the calixarene framework and the substituent to give compounds with a lower degree of substitution.     

Improved mutasynthetic approaches for the production of modified aminocoumarin antibiotics

This study reports improved mutasynthetic approaches for the production of aminocoumarin antibiotics. Previously, the mutasynthetic production of aminocoumarins with differently substituted benzoyl moieties was limited by the substrate specificity of the amide synthetase CloL. We expressed two amide synthetases with different substrate specificity, CouL and SimL, in appropriately engineered producer strains. After feeding of precursor analogs that were not accepted by CloL, but by SimL or CouL, a range of aminocoumarins, unattainable in our previous experiments, was produced and isolated in preparative amounts. Further, we developed a two-stage mutasynthesis procedure for the production of hybrid antibiotics that showed the substitution pattern of novobiocin in the aminocoumarin moiety and that of clorobiocin in the deoxysugar moiety. The substitution pattern of the benzoyl moiety was determined by external addition of an appropriate precursor. Twenty-five aminocoumarin compounds were prepared by these methods, and their structures were elucidated with mass and 1H-NMR spectroscopy.     

Copper-catalyzed intermolecular C(sp3)–H bond functionalization towards the synthesis of tertiary carbamates

We describe the development of an intermolecular unactivated C(sp³)–H bond functionalization towards the direct synthesis of tertiary carbamates. The transformation proceeded using a readily available, abundant first-row transition metal catalyst (copper), and isocyanates as the source of the amide moiety. This is a novel strategy for direct transformation of a variety of unactivated hydrocarbon feedstocks to N-alkyl-N-aryl and N,N-dialkyl carbamates without pre-functionalization or installation of a directing group. The reaction had a broad substrate scope with 3° > 2° > 1° site selectivity. The reaction proceeded even on a gram scale, and a corresponding free amine was directly obtained when the reaction was performed at high temperature. Kinetic studies suggested that radical-mediated C(sp³)–H bond cleavage was the rate-determining step.     

Isomerization reaction of olefin using RuClH(CO)(PPh(3))(3)

When methyl 5-(tert-butyldiphenylsilyl)oxy-2-pentenoate was refluxed in toluene in the presence of RuClH(CO)(PPh(3))(3) (5 mol %), double-bond migration took place to afford methyl 5-(tert-butyldiphenylsilyl)oxy-4-pentenoate in high yield. This means that the double bond conjugated with the ester moiety migrates to a deconjugated position by a ruthenium catalyst. We planned to prepare an enol ether from alpha,beta-unsaturated compounds having an ether moiety in a tether using ruthenium-catalyzed isomerization of the double bond. As a result, silyl or benzyl enol ether was obtained from the alpha,beta-unsaturated ester having alcohol protected by the silyl or benzyl group in a tether in high yield. In this reaction, double bond migration of alpha,beta-unsaturated ketone and alpha,beta-unsaturated amide took place to produce deconjugated compounds. Moreover, the double bond of alpha, beta-unsaturated ester having a triple or double bond in a molecule migrated to produce conjugated enyne and diene. On the other hand, treatment of a bis-metalated compound having an alpha, beta-unsaturated ester moiety or the double bond in a tether with RuClH(CO)(PPh(3))(3) gave allyl bis-metalated compound in good yield. These compounds are useful units in synthetic organic chemistry.     

Guanidine–Amide-Catalyzed Aza-Henry Reaction of Isatin-Derived Ketimines: Origin of Selectivity and New Catalyst Design

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were performed to investigate the mechanism and the enantioselectivity of the aza-Henry reaction of isatin-derived ketimine catalyzed by chiral guanidine–amide catalysts at the M06-2X-D3/6-311+G(d,p)//M06-2X-D3/6-31G(d,p) (toluene, SMD) theoretical level. The catalytic reaction occurred via a three-step mechanism: (i) the deprotonation of nitromethane by a chiral guanidine–amide catalyst; (ii) formation of C–C bonds; (iii) H-transfer from guanidine to ketimine, accompanied with the regeneration of the catalyst. A dual activation model was proposed, in which the protonated guanidine activated the nitronate, and the amide moiety simultaneously interacted with the ketimine substrate by intermolecular hydrogen bonding. The repulsion of CPh₃ group in guanidine as well as N-Boc group in ketimine raised the Pauli repulsion energy (∆E_Pauli) and the strain energy (∆E_strain) of reacting species in the unfavorable si-face pathway, contributing to a high level of stereoselectivity. A new catalyst with cyclopropenimine and 1,2-diphenylethylcarbamoyl as well as sulfonamide substituent was designed. The strong basicity of cyclopropenimine moiety accelerated the activation of CH₃NO₂ by decreasing the energy barrier in the deprotonation step. The repulsion between the N-Boc group in ketimine and cyclohexyl group as well as chiral backbone in the new catalyst raised the energy barrier in C–C bond formation along the si-face attack pathway, leading to the formation of R-configuration product. A possible synthetic route for the new catalyst is also suggested.     

Synthesis of soluble polymers for medicine that degrade by intramolecular acid catalysis

Aqueous soluble polymers designed to rapidly degrade by an intramolecular assisted acid catalysed mechanism were prepared. Degradation studies at pH 5.5 and 2.0 exhibited a rapid first phase followed by a slower phase and incomplete degradation to macromonomeric species. The fast phase was attributed to repeat units containing a carboxylic acid pendent chain cis to an amide bond in the polymer mainchain and the slow phase by the absence of this free carboxylic acid moiety.