Transamidation
Transamidation is a chemical reaction in which an amide reacts with an amine to generate a new amide:
- RC(O)NR'2 + HNR"2 → RC(O)NR"2 + HNR'2
The reaction is rarely employed, but it could prove relevant to peptide synthesis.[1]
Amides are characteristically inert, but the amino substituents can be exchanged in the presence of Lewis acid and organometallic catalysts.[2] Primary amides (RC(O)NH2) are more amenable to this reaction.
Ureas
In contrast to the reluctance of amides as substrates, urea is more susceptible to this exchange process. Transamidation is practiced, sometimes even on an industrial scale, to prepare a variety of N-substituted ureas:[3]
- (H2N)2CO + R2NH → (R2N)(H2N)CO + NH3
- (R2N)(H2N)CO + R2NH → (R2N)2CO + NH3
Methylurea, precursor to theobromine, is produced from methylamine and urea. Phenylurea is produced similarly but from anilinium chloride:[4]
- (H2N)2CO + [C6H5NH3]Cl → (C6H5(H)N)(H2N)CO + NH4Cl
Hydrazine derivatives of urea are often produced by transamidation-like reactions. These products include carbohydrazide, semicarbazide, and biurea.
Further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.T. A. Dineen; M. A. Zajac; A. G. Myers (2006). "Efficient Transamidation of Primary Carboxamides by in situ Activation with N,N-Dialkylformamide Dimethyl Acetals". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128 (50): 16406–16409. Bibcode:2006JAChS.12816406D. doi:10.1021/ja066728i. PMID 17165798.
References
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pattabiraman, Vijaya R.; Bode, Jeffrey W. (2011). "Rethinking amide bond synthesis". Nature. 480 (7378): 471–479. Bibcode:2011Natur.480..471P. doi:10.1038/nature10702. PMID 22193101.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Emma L. Baker; Michael M. Yamano; Yujing Zhou; Sarah M. Anthony; Neil K. Garg (2016). "A two-step approach to achieve secondary amide transamidation enabled by nickel catalysis". Nature Communications. 7 11554. Bibcode:2016NatCo...711554B. doi:10.1038/ncomms11554. PMC 4876455. PMID 27199089.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Arylureas II. Urea Method p-Ethoxyphenylurea". Org. Synth. 31: 11. 1951. doi:10.15227/orgsyn.031.0011.
