SYNTHESIS OF ESTERS OF HALOGENOACETIC ACIDS

Amidoalkylating reagents containing a phthalimide group are used in the synthesis of hard-to-reach primary amines and complex heterocyclic compounds. These types of amidoalkylating compounds are suitable reagents for nucleophilic substituted reactions in acidic media due to their resistance to acids. Result of reactions of amidoalkylating reagents-N-hydroxyethylphthalimide and N-hydroxymethylphthalimide with aliphatic carbonic acids can also produce new bactericidal and fungicidal esters. In this study, halogen acids reacted with N-hydroxymethylphthalimide monochloric acetic acid, monobromic acetic acid, monoiodic acetic acid, trifluoric acetic acid and trichloroacetic acid, as well as, N-b-hydroxyethylphthaleidyl monohydric acid. As a result of the reactions, new phthalimidomethyl and phthalimidoethyl esters of haloacetic acids were synthesized. The physical properties of crystalline esters have been determined. The structure of these compounds were confirmed by the analysis of their IR and PMR spectra. The esterification reactions of halogenated acetic acids were carried out in a benzene solvent and a sulfuric acid catalyst with primary alcohols, N-hydroxymethylphthalimide and N-β- beta hydroxyethylphthalimide,. It was found that in a benzene solvent, which increases the rate of bimolecular nucleophilic exchange in primary alcohols, phthalimidoethyl esters of halogen acid are formed in high yields, and phthalimidomethyl esters are formed in low yields. It was shown that the reaction of esterification of halogen acids with N-hydroxymethylphthalimide proceeds with monomolecular nucleophilic exchange.

Crystal structures of 2-amino-2-oxoethyl 4-bromobenzoate, 2-amino-2-oxoethyl 4-nitrobenzoate and 2-amino-2-oxoethyl 4-aminobenzoate monohydrate

The title molecules were synthesized by the reaction of 4-substituted sodium benzoates with chloroacetic acid amide in the presence of dimethylformamide. The yields of 2-amino-2-oxoethyl 4-bromobenzoate, C9H8BrNO3, I, 2-amino-2-oxoethyl 4-nitrobenzoate, C9H8N2O5, II, and 2-amino-2-oxoethyl 4-aminobenzoate monohydrate, C9H10N2O3·H2O, III, are 86, 78 and 88%, respectively. The low yield of II is explained by the reduced reactivity of the molecule in a nucleophilic exchange reaction because of the negative induction and negative mesomeric effects of the nitro group on the benzene ring. Single crystals were obtained from the products under the same (temperature and solvent) conditions. In the case of III, the crystals formed as a monohydrate. In all three crystal structures, the same type of intermolecular N—H...O hydrogen bonds are observed, but the molecules differ in some torsion angles as well as in the dihedral angles between the mean planes of the benzene rings and the amide groups.