Transamidation and transamidation-reduction of N-benzyltyramine with DMF

Abstract

Tyramine and N-benzyltyramine react with formaldehyde to form azacyclophanes by means of aromatic Mannich reactions and react with non-enolizable aldehydes to form the respective Schiff bases. In this paper we present the unexpected synthesis of N-formyl-N-benzyltyramine and N-methyl-N-benzyltyramine by means of transamidation and transamidation-reduction of N-benzyltyramine with N,N-dimethylformamide. A reaction mechanism involving formylation of N-benzyltiramine followed by a Leuckart-Wallach reduction is proposed for rationalising such transformation.

Keywords

• Tiramina
• carboxamida
• Leuckart-Wallach
• dimetilformamida