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Imine to Lactone
« on: April 18, 2015, 05:17:06 PM »
I was given a homework assigment and the question gives tryptamine reacting with a lactone.  You get the imine and an alcohol, correct??
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Re: Imine to Lactone
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2015, 05:29:03 PM »
Is it not just lactone opening to give the amide?
for example
OCCCC(NCC1=CC=CC=C1)=O
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Re: Imine to Lactone
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2015, 04:40:42 PM »
Disco,

Yes you are correct.  Pretty much like hydrolysis (aminolysis).

I looked at the question again and since the professor does not shy too much away from what we have been talking about I feel this is a better approach to the answer.  Stork chemistry adapted from his synthesis of resperpine.

My first answer was adapted from Woodwards synthesis of resperpine.  Since an imine and hydroxyl do not result from the reaction of A and B, my attached answer is more chemically sound.

Attached is my answer. 
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Re: Imine to Lactone
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2015, 10:36:15 AM »
I'd be careful with the first intermediate.
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Re: Imine to Lactone
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2015, 12:41:51 PM »
The tosyl aldehyde?

Please elaborate. 
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Re: Imine to Lactone
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2015, 08:07:40 PM »
I think the preferred form is cyclic.
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Re: Imine to Lactone
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2015, 08:53:56 PM »
Even if there is a little bit of the equilibrium to to the alddehyde though I think it will go to completion.
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Re: Imine to Lactone
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2015, 07:57:46 AM »
I thought sugars remained cyclic. Reactions on the carbonyl open the ring, but I'd consider this a capture of the open form. I think reactions on the hydroxyl can occur without opening. You can check this to see if my memory is correct.
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Re: Imine to Lactone
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2015, 09:19:00 AM »
I thought sugars remained cyclic. Reactions on the carbonyl open the ring, but I'd consider this a capture of the open form. I think reactions on the hydroxyl can occur without opening. You can check this to see if my memory is correct.

This is definitely the case for sugars. For example, treatment of a sugar hemiacetal with a silyl chloride will normally give you the cyclic silyl acetal (not the open chain aldehyde/silyl ether).

This is a different case, but despite hydration equilibria of aromatic vs aliphatic aldehydes (aromatic hydrate less readily) there will still be an appreciable amount of hemiacetal form [in fact, this paper estimates 7:1 in favour of the hemiacetal]. I also think that products arising from tosylation of the hemiacetal OH will cause major problems in this synthesis.
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