A-halogenated

Fig. Vni-12. Energy spectrum of Ne" ions that are scattered over 90° by a halogenated nickel surface. The incident energy of the ions is 300 V. (From Ref. 92.)...

The table contains vertical groups of elements each member of a group having the same number of electrons in the outermost quantum level. For example, the element immediately before each noble gas, with seven electrons in the outermost quantum level, is always a halogen. The element immediately following a noble gas, with one electron in a new quantum level, is an alkali metal (lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium, francium). 

The above Born-Haber cycle represents the enthalpy changes in the formation of an alkali metal halide MX from an alkali metal (Li. Na, K, Rb. Cs) and a halogen (Fj. CI2. Br2 or I2). 

If cold benzene is treated with bromine in the absence of sunlight, very little reaction occurs if, however, a halogen carrier, such as iron, iodine, pyridine, etc., is also present, a rapid reaction by substitution occurs, forming first... 

A halogen atom directly attached to a benzene ring is usually unreactive, unless it is activated by the nature and position of certain other substituent groups. It has been show n by Ullmann, however, that halogen atoms normally of low reactivity will condense with aromatic amines in the presence of an alkali carbonate (to absorb the hydrogen halide formed) and a trace of copper powder or oxide to act as a catalyst. This reaction, known as the Ullmant Condensation, is frequently used to prepare substituted diphenylamines it is exemplified... 

If C, H and a halogen (but no nitrogen) have been detected, and the substance is freely soluble in (or readily hydrolysed by) cold water, then O must also be present. 

Push one end of a length of 20 cm. of stout copper wire into a cork (this wUl serve as a holder) at the other end make two or three turns about a thin glass rod. Heat the coil in the outer mantle of a Bunsen dame until it ceases to impart any colour to the dame. Allow the wire to cool somewhat and, while still warm, dip the coil into a small portion of the substance to be tested and heat again in the non-luminous dame. If the compound contains a halogen element, a green or bluish-green dame will be observed (usually after the initial smoky dame has disappeared). Before using the wire for another compound, heat it until the material from the previous test has been destroyed and the dame is not coloured. 

This preparation illustrates the Reformatsky reaction, which consists in the interaction of a carbonyl compound, an a-halogen ester (e.g., ethyl bromo-acetate) and zinc In the presence of ether or benzene, followed by hydrolysis. 

It is probable that the reaction proceeds through an organic zinc derivative, analogous to a Grignard reagent, formed by interaction of the a-halogen ester... 

The direct introduction of a halogen atom (usually bromine) by means of V-haloamine (generally iV-bromosuccinimide) in the allyl position is known as the Wohl-Ziegler reaction ... 

Many organic halides do not react satisfactorily with lithium to form RLi ecMnpounds or with metallic magnesium to form Grignard reagents. The desired organolithium compound can often be prepared by a halogen-metal interconversion reaction ... 

Nitrogen and sulphur absent, (i) If only one halogen is present, acidify with dilute nitric acid and add excess of silver nitrate solution. A precipitate indicates the presence of a halogen. Decant the mother liquor and treat the precipitate with dilute aqueous ammonia solution If the precipitate is white and readily soluble in the ammonia solution, chlorine is present if it is pale yellow and difficultly soluble, bromine is present if it is yellow and insoluble, then iodine is indicated. Iodine and bromine should be confirmed by the tests given below. 

The effect of a halogen atom or of phenyl is analogous to an increase in ie number of carbon atoms. 

Gr. iodes, violet) Discovered by Courtois in 1811, Iodine, a halogen, occurs sparingly in the form of iodides in sea water from which it is assimilated by seaweeds, in Chilean saltpeter and nitrate-bearing earth, known as caliche in brines from old sea deposits, and in brackish waters from oil and salt wells. 

That looks simple and direct don t it If safrole was used as the alkene one would get safrole-azide as product. Just one teensy little reduction away from MDA. Strike also found some azide papers that, with a little work, will get safrole-azide in a totally different way. Strike came across a lot of work where groups were using dinucleophilic addition to get an azide and a halogen added across a double bond. The azide would always go to the beta secondary carbon and the halogen to the primary carbon (just what one would want if safrole was the substrate). 

The simplest case is the substitution of a halogen at a saturated carbon atom by an alkyl group. Organocopper reagents exhibit strong carbanionic capacity, and do attack ester groups only slowly (D.E. Bergbreiter, 1975). Ketones, however, should be protected. The relative re-... 

The conversion of indoles to oxindoles can be achieved in several ways. Reaction of indoles with a halogenaling agent such as NCS, NBS or pyridin-ium bromide perbromide in hydroxylic solvents leads to oxindoles[l]. The reaction proceeds by nucleophilic addition to a 3-haloindolenium intermediate. 

Hoffmann (1). a student of Hantzsch, used the condensation of selenobenzamide with a-halogenated carbonyl derivatives to prepare a series of 2-phenylselenazoles according to the Scheme 1,... 

Thus a second method was envisaged, the reaction of a nitrile, hydrogen selenide, and an a-halogenated ketone in the presence of a condensation catalyst, which can be POCl, or POCI3 with a Lewis acid such as PCI3 or anhydrous ZnCl. The use of fresh AICI3 leads to the formation of tarry side-products. 

The O-S exchange method in presence of a-halogenated carbonyl compound is a very good one for thiazole compounds. The thioamide is prepared in situ by the action of amide upon phosphorus pentasulphide with solvent. The a-halogenated aldehyde reacts directly. But the O-Se exchange cannot be performed with a-halogenated carbonyl compounds because of the apparition of phosphoric acid. (Scheme 3), The C-Se bond is very sensitive to add pH. 

The replacement of selenoamide by selenourea in the Hantzsch s synthesis. (1st method) leads to 2-aminoselenazoles 2, 14. 15). This series of compounds has been well developed, mainlv because selenourea is much more easily accessible than the selenoamides, but also because a wide variety of a-halogenated carbonyl compounds are available for the Hantzsch s evdization reaction (Scheme 5). 2-Aminoselenazole itself was prepared from commercially available chloroacetaldehyde semihydrate... 

With a-halogenated carbonyl derivatives such as a.a -dibromobiacetyl. Br-CH -C-C-CHi-Br. and selenourea, 2.2 -diamino-4,4 -biselenazole... 

The a-halogenated acids or their esters (105) also react with thiourea to give 2-amino-4-hydroxythiazoles (106a) or their 2-amino-4-thiazolone (106b) (1, 247, 254, 530) or 2-imino-4-oxathia2olidine (106c) tautomers (Scheme 47). 

The synthesis of a-aminoketones can be achieved using a-halogenated ketones as starting material. These latter are converted into the hexamethylene tetraminium salts by the method of Mannich and Hahn (42). This reaction proceeds in two steps ... 

It IS convenient m equations such as this to represent generic alcohols and alkyl halides as ROH and RX respectively where R stands for an alkyl group In addition to con venience this notation lets us focus more clearly on the functional group transformation that occurs the OH functional group of an alcohol is replaced as a substituent on car bon by a halogen usually chlorine (X = Cl) or bromine (X = Br)... 

When the carbon chain bears both a halogen and an alkyl substituent the two are con sidered of equal rank and the chain is numbered so as to give the lower number to the substituent nearer the end of the chain... 

The reaction of an alcohol with a hydrogen halide is a substitution A halogen usually chlorine or bromine replaces a hydroxyl group as a substituent on carbon Calling the reaction a substitution tells us the relationship between the organic reactant and its prod uct but does not reveal the mechanism In developing a mechanistic picture for a par ticular reaction we combine some basic principles of chemical reactivity with experi mental observations to deduce the most likely sequence of steps... 

The rest of this chapter describes a completely different method for preparing alkyl halides one that uses alkanes as reactants It involves substitution of a halogen atom for one of the alkane s hydrogens... 

The elementary steps (1) through (3) describe a free radical chain mech anism for the reaction of an alkane with a halogen... 

Dehydrohalogenation is the loss of a hydrogen and a halogen from an alkyl halide It IS one of the most useful methods for preparing alkenes by p elimination... 

In aqueous solution chlorine and bromine react with alkenes to form vicinal halohy drins, compounds that have a halogen and a hydroxyl group on adjacent carbons... 

A proton and a halogen add to the double bond of an alkene to yield an alkyl halide Addition proceeds in ac cordance with Markovnikov s rule hy drogen adds to the carbon that has the greater number of hydrogens halide to the carbon that has the fewer hydro gens... 

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