Unidad 19: Aminas Basado en: McMurry’s Organic Chemistry, 6th edition, Chapter 24 Reactions of Amines Reactions of amines almost always involve the nitrogen lone pair. as a base: N •• H X as a nucleophile: N •• C O 2 Reactions of Amines 3 Reactions of Amines, SN2 n Ammonia and other amines are good nucleophiles 4 Uncontrolled Multiple Alkylation n Primary, secondary, and tertiary amines all have similar reactivity, the initially formed monoalkylated substance undergoes further reaction to yield a mixture of products 5 Reaction with Alkyl Halides Amines act as nucleophiles toward alkyl halides. N •• + R + •• – N R + •• X •• •• X •• •• •• H H N •• R + H + 6 Reaction with Alkyl Halides Amines act as nucleophiles toward alkyl halides. 7 Example: excess amine NH2 + ClCH2 (4 mol) (1 mol) NaHCO3 90°C NHCH2 (85-87%) 8 Example: excess alkyl halide CH2NH2 methanol + 3CH3I heat + – CH2N(CH3)3 I (99%) 9 Reactions of Amines n Alkylation and acylation have already been presented 10 Reacción con RSO2Cl n La reacción con un cloruro de sulfonilo produce una sulfonamida 11 Reaction with HNO2 n Primary arylamines react with HNO2, yielding stable arenediazonium salts 12 Alkylamines and Nitrous Acid n Alkylamines react with HNO2 but the alkanediazonium products of these reactions lose N2 rapidly, leaving carbocations 13 Hofmann Elimination n n Converts amines into alkenes NH2− is very a poor leaving group so it converted to an alkylammonium ion, which is a good leaving group 14 Silver Oxide Is Used for the Elimination Step n Exchanges hydroxide ion for iodide ion in the quaternary ammonium salt, thus providing the base necessary to cause elimination 15 Orientation in Hofmann Elimination n n n We would expect that the more highly substituted alkene product predominates in the E2 reaction of an alkyl halide (Zaitsev's rule) However, the less highly substituted alkene predominates in the Hofmann elimination due to the large size of the trialkylamine leaving group The base must abstract a hydrogen from the most sterically accessible, least hindered position 16 Steric Effects Control the Orientation 17 The Hofmann Elimination a quaternary ammonium hydroxide is the reactant n and an alkene is the product is an anti elimination n the leaving group is a trialkylamine n the regioselectivity is opposite to the Zaitsev rule. n 18 Reactions of Quaternary Ammonium Hydroxides A Hofmann elimination is an E2 reaction The leaving group of a quaternary ammonium ion has about the same leaving tendency as a protonated amino group 19 Quaternary Ammonium Hydroxides are prepared by treating quaternary ammmonium halides with moist silver oxide CH2N(CH3)3 I Ag2O – H2O, CH3OH + – CH2N(CH3)3 HO 20 The Hofmann Elimination on being heated, quaternary ammonium hydroxides undergo elimination CH2 + N(CH3)3 + H2O (69%) 160°C + – CH2N(CH3)3 HO 21 Mechanism – •• •• O •• •• O •• H H H H CH2 CH2 N(CH3)3 + •• N(CH ) 3 3 22 Regioselectivity Elimination occurs in the direction that gives the less-substituted double bond. This is called the Hofmann rule. H2C CH3CHCH2CH3 CHCH2CH3 (95%) heat + N(CH3)3 – HO + CH3CH CHCH3 (5%) 23 Regioselectivity Steric factors seem to control the regioselectivity. The transition state that leads to 1-butene is less crowded than the one leading to cis or trans-2-butene. 24 Regioselectivity H CH3CH2 H H H H CH3CH2 + N(CH3)3 H C C H major product largest group is between two H atoms 25 Regioselectivity H H CH3 CH3 H + N(CH3)3 CH3 H C C H CH3 minor product largest group is between an H atom and a methyl group 26