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Glycine to triethylamine?...
Heyy guys, I'm working on a reaction to synthesize triethylamine from glycine. I'm really crappy at chemistry and don't know much about how the
reactions work. Can you see any errors in it? Thank you <3
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EDIT: Please ignore my inability to discern functional groups from an image.
Do you absolutely have to synthesize triethylamine from glycine? It's going to be terribly inefficient no matter which way you go about it. If you can
settle for just obtaining it from a different source, there are weedkillers and herbicides that use triethylammonium salts, such as this one found at
Home Depot in the US: http://www.kellysolutions.com/erenewals/documentsubmit/Kelly...
The above product can yield 18-20 grams of triethylamine if boiled down, treated with base, and distilled.
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Quote: Originally posted by Amos  | | The first step isn't an esterification; the functional group you're making is an ether, not an ester. This will require a methylating agent such as
methyl iodide or dimethyl sulfate, which actually can't be used because they'll end up methylating the amine group on glycine and giving you a mixture
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Sure about that? Looks like an esterification to me. The ether is then formed from the ester by
Clemmensen reduction. The real problem here is that the ester will not survive the conditions of the Clemmensen reduction (or the Wolff-Kishner
reduction, for that matter). If this route is to be used, a different reaction will need to be used for that step.
Also, I'd hazard a guess that based on the OP's previous posts, this is a theoretical homework problem, and not something that they intend to actually
do.
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the errors IMO are:
1.The first step might lead to N-methylation,as Amos mentioned
2.clemmenson's can't reduce ester to ether,so it won't work
3.collin's oxidation step might oxidise the amine
4.the last step would give you tetraethylammonium iodide as well
You could get the target compound in 2 steps from glycine:-
1.reduce the COOH in glycine to CH3 http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=73024#...
2.Do an eschenweiler clarke using acetaldehyde on ethylamine to get TEA
You could also do it the other way round.You might even be able to do a one step reductive ethylation of glycine to get TEA
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| Quote: Originally posted by zts16 | | Quote: Originally posted by Amos | | The first step isn't an esterification; the functional group you're making is an ether, not an ester. This will require a methylating agent such as
methyl iodide or dimethyl sulfate, which actually can't be used because they'll end up methylating the amine group on glycine and giving you a mixture
of products. |
Sure about that? Looks like an esterification to me. The ether is then formed from the ester by
Clemmensen reduction. The real problem here is that the ester will not survive the conditions of the Clemmensen reduction (or the Wolff-Kishner
reduction, for that matter). If this route is to be used, a different reaction will need to be used for that step.
Well now I feel dumb; I think I was thrown off by the way the molecule is oriented in the diagram. Either way, glycine won't form an ester becaus
Also, I'd hazard a guess that based on the OP's previous posts, this is a theoretical homework problem, and not something that they intend to actually
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Well, now I feel dumb. I guess I got confused by the orientation of the molecule in the diagram. Regardless I'm pretty sure Fischer esterification is
not a viable method for glycine due to its zwitterionic nature.
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No, it's perfectly possible to make glycine methyl ester hydrochloride by treatment of a solution of glycine in methanol with dry HCl gas. I would
call that a Fischer esterification.
But this overall route isn't viable anyway, so it's of little matter.
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What if I reacted the glycine with benzaldehyde to protect the nitrogen then at the end react it with ethyl iodide, then hydrolize it to break off the
benzaldehyde, then react it with ethyl iodide again?
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I found this: (https://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/faculty/reusch/virttxtjml/Ima...). It shows the amine as a salt (hydrochloride maybe) and it doesn't get
N-methylated by the Fischer esterification.
How would I get the Clemmensen reduction to work though?
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Can hydrobromic acid really cleave that ether?? You could skip straight to the amino alcohol by reacting your starting material with lithium aluminum
hydride. It might be possible to reduce the hydroxyl with catalytic hydrogenation with the right catalyst, but if you dehydrate it first (with
something like sulfuric acid) or oxidize it to a carbonyl, you'll have an easier time. Would Collins oxidation actually oxidize the amine under normal
conditions?
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Yes, apparently refluxing it with concentrated hydrobromic acid demethylates an ester.
I don't think the Collins oxidation would oxidise the amine. I'm following this: (https://chemistlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/oxidation...) page 20, though it doesn't really say anyting about amines.
Lithium aluminium hydride is way too expensive so I can't use that. I could put some sort of protecting group on the nitrogen (benzaldehyde maybe?).
Are you saying I can break off the OH (when it's a carboxylic acid) with sulfuric acid??? I thought only LiAlH4 could do that?
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I don't think hydrobromic acid would be able to demethylate that particular ether, though it could demethylate the ester... every example I'm seeing
of hydrobromic acid demethylating a methyl ether involves a phenol product.
I don't think you can dehydrate a carboxylic acid with sulfuric acid, but I think you could dehydrate the alcohol with it, as I stated previously. I'm
not seeing how a protecting group on the nitrogen would be helpful.
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How would I go from a carboxylic acid/ester to a ketone (so the Clemmensen reduction would work) (with easily availabe chemicals)?
Sorry if I sound really dumb :$...
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You could make an aldehyde by dry distilling the calcium salt with calcium formate as discussed here: http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=10336
This would not be high yielding but would require cheap and easily available reactants.
You could then reduce the aldehyde with a Wolff-Kishner reduction and proceed with ethyl iodide.
Oh, sorry, did I say ketone? I meant aldehyde.
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Hmmm, that sounds pretty good! What's the yield like?
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Probably around 5-60%. I think a vapor phase reaction with formic acid and a manganese dioxide catalyst might form the aldehyde, perhaps with better
yields.
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see pg 25(43 in pdf) of that article | Quote: | | Selenides are oxidized to selenoxides that normally suVer an in situ elimination.111 amines are destroyed,
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why is the glycine methyl ester unstable ? no zwitter ion to waltz with ?
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RebeccaOlson
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Sorry what's a zwitter ion?
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| Quote: Originally posted by CuReUS |
see pg 25(43 in pdf) of that article | Quote: | | Selenides are oxidized to selenoxides that normally suVer an in situ elimination.111 amines are destroyed,
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The cited reference is about cyclic nitrones, not amines: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040402001...
I remain skeptical.
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JJay, wouldn't dry distilling the calcium salt with calcium formate make a ketone? How would I get rid of the methyl group? Like get rid of R2...
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Dry distilling with formic acid supposedly makes an aldehyde rather than a ketone. I have not tried this but believe that it actually works.
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Oh okey. Thank you so much. You guys are so helpful <3
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So would this be the final reaction?
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Would the dry distillation work with two molecules of glycine per atom of calcium?
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Ummm but wouldnt calcium formate turn the OH into a CH3. How do I get rid of that? I want it to be a H.
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Would the Wolff kiscner reaction work with esters?
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