Can a cyclic Amine for a Amide?












2












$begingroup$


This is a question from CAIE!



I need to understand why the secondary amine in serotonin molecule doesnot undergo condensation reaction with $CH_3COCl$ ?



because as far as I know, there should be an amide formation for this reaction.



Here's a picture of Serotonin:



enter image description here



I must be lacking some information making that $NH$ unsuitable for this reaction. And I know that the other amine and the phenol reacts with $CH_3COCl$.










share|improve this question









$endgroup$












  • $begingroup$
    Secondary amine group shown here is quite sterically hindered..Approach at Burgi-Dunitz trajectory would most probably be difficult
    $endgroup$
    – YUSUF HASAN
    3 hours ago










  • $begingroup$
    Did you mean lone pair of electron in N is less available for carbocation to be attacked? @YUSUFHASAN
    $endgroup$
    – Amar30657
    3 hours ago










  • $begingroup$
    No..I mean what you have in mind is a nucleophilic attack by NH on CH3COCl as the first step, right? So that would be retarded by steric hindrance..
    $endgroup$
    – YUSUF HASAN
    3 hours ago








  • 1




    $begingroup$
    Nothing to do with sterics. The lone pair on the nitrogen is delocalised into the aromatic system so is not available for nucleophilic attack. If you want to functionalise the indole-NH you generally have to formally deprotonate with strong base. Otherwise it reacts as an enamine through the 3-position.
    $endgroup$
    – Waylander
    3 hours ago








  • 1




    $begingroup$
    @Amar30657 You need to read more about aromatic systems. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indole
    $endgroup$
    – Waylander
    3 hours ago


















2












$begingroup$


This is a question from CAIE!



I need to understand why the secondary amine in serotonin molecule doesnot undergo condensation reaction with $CH_3COCl$ ?



because as far as I know, there should be an amide formation for this reaction.



Here's a picture of Serotonin:



enter image description here



I must be lacking some information making that $NH$ unsuitable for this reaction. And I know that the other amine and the phenol reacts with $CH_3COCl$.










share|improve this question









$endgroup$












  • $begingroup$
    Secondary amine group shown here is quite sterically hindered..Approach at Burgi-Dunitz trajectory would most probably be difficult
    $endgroup$
    – YUSUF HASAN
    3 hours ago










  • $begingroup$
    Did you mean lone pair of electron in N is less available for carbocation to be attacked? @YUSUFHASAN
    $endgroup$
    – Amar30657
    3 hours ago










  • $begingroup$
    No..I mean what you have in mind is a nucleophilic attack by NH on CH3COCl as the first step, right? So that would be retarded by steric hindrance..
    $endgroup$
    – YUSUF HASAN
    3 hours ago








  • 1




    $begingroup$
    Nothing to do with sterics. The lone pair on the nitrogen is delocalised into the aromatic system so is not available for nucleophilic attack. If you want to functionalise the indole-NH you generally have to formally deprotonate with strong base. Otherwise it reacts as an enamine through the 3-position.
    $endgroup$
    – Waylander
    3 hours ago








  • 1




    $begingroup$
    @Amar30657 You need to read more about aromatic systems. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indole
    $endgroup$
    – Waylander
    3 hours ago
















2












2








2





$begingroup$


This is a question from CAIE!



I need to understand why the secondary amine in serotonin molecule doesnot undergo condensation reaction with $CH_3COCl$ ?



because as far as I know, there should be an amide formation for this reaction.



Here's a picture of Serotonin:



enter image description here



I must be lacking some information making that $NH$ unsuitable for this reaction. And I know that the other amine and the phenol reacts with $CH_3COCl$.










share|improve this question









$endgroup$




This is a question from CAIE!



I need to understand why the secondary amine in serotonin molecule doesnot undergo condensation reaction with $CH_3COCl$ ?



because as far as I know, there should be an amide formation for this reaction.



Here's a picture of Serotonin:



enter image description here



I must be lacking some information making that $NH$ unsuitable for this reaction. And I know that the other amine and the phenol reacts with $CH_3COCl$.







organic-chemistry amines amides






share|improve this question













share|improve this question











share|improve this question




share|improve this question










asked 4 hours ago









Amar30657Amar30657

626




626












  • $begingroup$
    Secondary amine group shown here is quite sterically hindered..Approach at Burgi-Dunitz trajectory would most probably be difficult
    $endgroup$
    – YUSUF HASAN
    3 hours ago










  • $begingroup$
    Did you mean lone pair of electron in N is less available for carbocation to be attacked? @YUSUFHASAN
    $endgroup$
    – Amar30657
    3 hours ago










  • $begingroup$
    No..I mean what you have in mind is a nucleophilic attack by NH on CH3COCl as the first step, right? So that would be retarded by steric hindrance..
    $endgroup$
    – YUSUF HASAN
    3 hours ago








  • 1




    $begingroup$
    Nothing to do with sterics. The lone pair on the nitrogen is delocalised into the aromatic system so is not available for nucleophilic attack. If you want to functionalise the indole-NH you generally have to formally deprotonate with strong base. Otherwise it reacts as an enamine through the 3-position.
    $endgroup$
    – Waylander
    3 hours ago








  • 1




    $begingroup$
    @Amar30657 You need to read more about aromatic systems. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indole
    $endgroup$
    – Waylander
    3 hours ago




















  • $begingroup$
    Secondary amine group shown here is quite sterically hindered..Approach at Burgi-Dunitz trajectory would most probably be difficult
    $endgroup$
    – YUSUF HASAN
    3 hours ago










  • $begingroup$
    Did you mean lone pair of electron in N is less available for carbocation to be attacked? @YUSUFHASAN
    $endgroup$
    – Amar30657
    3 hours ago










  • $begingroup$
    No..I mean what you have in mind is a nucleophilic attack by NH on CH3COCl as the first step, right? So that would be retarded by steric hindrance..
    $endgroup$
    – YUSUF HASAN
    3 hours ago








  • 1




    $begingroup$
    Nothing to do with sterics. The lone pair on the nitrogen is delocalised into the aromatic system so is not available for nucleophilic attack. If you want to functionalise the indole-NH you generally have to formally deprotonate with strong base. Otherwise it reacts as an enamine through the 3-position.
    $endgroup$
    – Waylander
    3 hours ago








  • 1




    $begingroup$
    @Amar30657 You need to read more about aromatic systems. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indole
    $endgroup$
    – Waylander
    3 hours ago


















$begingroup$
Secondary amine group shown here is quite sterically hindered..Approach at Burgi-Dunitz trajectory would most probably be difficult
$endgroup$
– YUSUF HASAN
3 hours ago




$begingroup$
Secondary amine group shown here is quite sterically hindered..Approach at Burgi-Dunitz trajectory would most probably be difficult
$endgroup$
– YUSUF HASAN
3 hours ago












$begingroup$
Did you mean lone pair of electron in N is less available for carbocation to be attacked? @YUSUFHASAN
$endgroup$
– Amar30657
3 hours ago




$begingroup$
Did you mean lone pair of electron in N is less available for carbocation to be attacked? @YUSUFHASAN
$endgroup$
– Amar30657
3 hours ago












$begingroup$
No..I mean what you have in mind is a nucleophilic attack by NH on CH3COCl as the first step, right? So that would be retarded by steric hindrance..
$endgroup$
– YUSUF HASAN
3 hours ago






$begingroup$
No..I mean what you have in mind is a nucleophilic attack by NH on CH3COCl as the first step, right? So that would be retarded by steric hindrance..
$endgroup$
– YUSUF HASAN
3 hours ago






1




1




$begingroup$
Nothing to do with sterics. The lone pair on the nitrogen is delocalised into the aromatic system so is not available for nucleophilic attack. If you want to functionalise the indole-NH you generally have to formally deprotonate with strong base. Otherwise it reacts as an enamine through the 3-position.
$endgroup$
– Waylander
3 hours ago






$begingroup$
Nothing to do with sterics. The lone pair on the nitrogen is delocalised into the aromatic system so is not available for nucleophilic attack. If you want to functionalise the indole-NH you generally have to formally deprotonate with strong base. Otherwise it reacts as an enamine through the 3-position.
$endgroup$
– Waylander
3 hours ago






1




1




$begingroup$
@Amar30657 You need to read more about aromatic systems. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indole
$endgroup$
– Waylander
3 hours ago






$begingroup$
@Amar30657 You need to read more about aromatic systems. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indole
$endgroup$
– Waylander
3 hours ago












1 Answer
1






active

oldest

votes


















2












$begingroup$

The heterocycle in this question is indole and is aromatic. This means that the N lone pair is delocalised and not readily available for nucleophilic attack. Think of it as similar in reactivity to a secondary amide nitrogen RCONHR. Generally you need to formally deprotonate to functionalise though there are some interesting techniques using carbonyl azoles catalysed by DBU reference and others using aldehyde and alcohol substrates such as here. Note that 3-unsubstituted indoles react with acyl halides by F-C acylation at the 3 position example






share|improve this answer









$endgroup$














    Your Answer








    StackExchange.ready(function() {
    var channelOptions = {
    tags: "".split(" "),
    id: "431"
    };
    initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);

    StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
    // Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
    if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
    StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
    createEditor();
    });
    }
    else {
    createEditor();
    }
    });

    function createEditor() {
    StackExchange.prepareEditor({
    heartbeatType: 'answer',
    autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
    convertImagesToLinks: false,
    noModals: true,
    showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
    reputationToPostImages: null,
    bindNavPrevention: true,
    postfix: "",
    imageUploader: {
    brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
    contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
    allowUrls: true
    },
    onDemand: true,
    discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
    ,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
    });


    }
    });














    draft saved

    draft discarded


















    StackExchange.ready(
    function () {
    StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fchemistry.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f114536%2fcan-a-cyclic-amine-for-a-amide%23new-answer', 'question_page');
    }
    );

    Post as a guest















    Required, but never shown

























    1 Answer
    1






    active

    oldest

    votes








    1 Answer
    1






    active

    oldest

    votes









    active

    oldest

    votes






    active

    oldest

    votes









    2












    $begingroup$

    The heterocycle in this question is indole and is aromatic. This means that the N lone pair is delocalised and not readily available for nucleophilic attack. Think of it as similar in reactivity to a secondary amide nitrogen RCONHR. Generally you need to formally deprotonate to functionalise though there are some interesting techniques using carbonyl azoles catalysed by DBU reference and others using aldehyde and alcohol substrates such as here. Note that 3-unsubstituted indoles react with acyl halides by F-C acylation at the 3 position example






    share|improve this answer









    $endgroup$


















      2












      $begingroup$

      The heterocycle in this question is indole and is aromatic. This means that the N lone pair is delocalised and not readily available for nucleophilic attack. Think of it as similar in reactivity to a secondary amide nitrogen RCONHR. Generally you need to formally deprotonate to functionalise though there are some interesting techniques using carbonyl azoles catalysed by DBU reference and others using aldehyde and alcohol substrates such as here. Note that 3-unsubstituted indoles react with acyl halides by F-C acylation at the 3 position example






      share|improve this answer









      $endgroup$
















        2












        2








        2





        $begingroup$

        The heterocycle in this question is indole and is aromatic. This means that the N lone pair is delocalised and not readily available for nucleophilic attack. Think of it as similar in reactivity to a secondary amide nitrogen RCONHR. Generally you need to formally deprotonate to functionalise though there are some interesting techniques using carbonyl azoles catalysed by DBU reference and others using aldehyde and alcohol substrates such as here. Note that 3-unsubstituted indoles react with acyl halides by F-C acylation at the 3 position example






        share|improve this answer









        $endgroup$



        The heterocycle in this question is indole and is aromatic. This means that the N lone pair is delocalised and not readily available for nucleophilic attack. Think of it as similar in reactivity to a secondary amide nitrogen RCONHR. Generally you need to formally deprotonate to functionalise though there are some interesting techniques using carbonyl azoles catalysed by DBU reference and others using aldehyde and alcohol substrates such as here. Note that 3-unsubstituted indoles react with acyl halides by F-C acylation at the 3 position example







        share|improve this answer












        share|improve this answer



        share|improve this answer










        answered 1 hour ago









        WaylanderWaylander

        7,04811424




        7,04811424






























            draft saved

            draft discarded




















































            Thanks for contributing an answer to Chemistry Stack Exchange!


            • Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!

            But avoid



            • Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.

            • Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.


            Use MathJax to format equations. MathJax reference.


            To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.




            draft saved


            draft discarded














            StackExchange.ready(
            function () {
            StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fchemistry.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f114536%2fcan-a-cyclic-amine-for-a-amide%23new-answer', 'question_page');
            }
            );

            Post as a guest















            Required, but never shown





















































            Required, but never shown














            Required, but never shown












            Required, but never shown







            Required, but never shown

































            Required, but never shown














            Required, but never shown












            Required, but never shown







            Required, but never shown







            Popular posts from this blog

            Ponta tanko

            Tantalo (mitologio)

            Erzsébet Schaár