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Protocol for the Synthesis of Ortho-trifluoromethoxylated Aniline Derivatives
Published on: January 19, 2016
1-(N-trifluoroacetylamino)alkylphosphonic acids: synthesis and properties
Z H Kudzin1, R Depczyński, M H Kudzin
1Institute of Chemistry, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland. zhk@chemul.uni.lodz.pl
Abstract:
The 1-(N-trifluoroacetylamino)alkylphosphonic acids (TFA-AA(P)) - sub-products in the synthesis of O,O-dialkyl 1-(N-trifluoroacetylamino)alkylphosphonates and O,O-diethyl 1-aminoalkylphosphonates, were synthesized in two-stage transformations of 1-aminoalkylphosphonic acids including: trifluoroacetylation of 1-aminoalkylphosphonic acids (AA(P)) using a trifluoroacetic anhydride/trifluoroacetic acid reagent (AA(P) + TFAA/TFA-->2) and subsequent hydrolysis of the intermediary compounds 2 into desired TFA-AA(P) (2-->TFA-AA(P)). These intermediates 2 presented mixtures of the type of mixed anhydrides of TFAA and 1-(N-trifluoroacetylamino)alkylphosphonic, pyrophosphonic and polyphosphonic acids, which underwent rapid and quantitative conversion to corresponding TFA-AA(P) during treatment with an excess of water. The title acids were isolated by direct evaporation of the corresponding post-reaction mixtures, and their physicochemical proprieties, including deacylation abilities, were determined. TFA-AA(P) compounds can be re-converted into the starting amino acids AA(P) under respectively mild conditions (AA(P)-->TFA-AA(P)-->AA(P)).
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