Acetanilide reactions

On acetylation it gives acetanilide. Nitrated with some decomposition to a mixture of 2-and 4-nitroanilines. It is basic and gives water-soluble salts with mineral acids. Heating aniline sulphate at 190 C gives sulphanilic add. When heated with alkyl chlorides or aliphatic alcohols mono- and di-alkyl derivatives are obtained, e.g. dimethylaniline. Treatment with trichloroethylene gives phenylglycine. With glycerol and sulphuric acid (Skraup s reaction) quinoline is obtained, while quinaldine can be prepared by the reaction between aniline, paraldehyde and hydrochloric acid. 

Sulphanilamide, the simplest member of a large series of bacteriostatic drugs, can readily be prepared by the following reactions. Acetanilide, when treated v ith an excess of chlorosulphonic acid, gives p-acetaniidobenzencsulphonyl chloride (Reaction A), w hich readily reacts with ammonia to give p-acetamido-benzenesulphonamide (Reaction H). The acetamido-group in the latter... 

Anilides, (a) To 1 ml. of aniline in a small conical flask add very slowly and carefully about i ml. of acetyl chloride. A vigorous reaction occurs and a solid mass is formed. Add just sufficient water (about 15 ml.) to dissolve the solid completely on boiling. On cooling, crystals of acetanilide separate out filter and determine the m.p. 

Add 25 g. of finely-powdered, dry acetanilide to 25 ml. of glacial acetic acid contained in a 500 ml. beaker introduce into the well-stirred mixture 92 g. (50 ml.) of concentrated sulphuric acid. The mixture becomes warm and a clear solution results. Surround the beaker with a freezing mixture of ice and salt, and stir the solution mechanically. Support a separatory funnel, containing a cold mixture of 15 -5 g. (11 ml.) of concentrated nitric acid and 12 -5 g. (7 ml.) of concentrated sulphuric acid, over the beaker. When the temperature of the solution falls to 0-2°, run in the acid mixture gradually while the temperature is maintained below 10°. After all the mixed acid has been added, remove the beaker from the freezing mixture, and allow it to stand at room temperature for 1 hour. Pour the reaction mixture on to 250 g. of crushed ice (or into 500 ml. of cold water), whereby the crude nitroacetanilide is at once precipitated. Allow to stand for 15 minutes, filter with suction on a Buchner funnel, wash it thoroughly with cold water until free from acids (test the wash water), and drain well. Recrystallise the pale yellow product from alcohol or methylated spirit (see Section IV,12 for experimental details), filter at the pump, wash with a httle cold alcohol, and dry in the air upon filter paper. [The yellow o-nitroacetanihde remains in the filtrate.] The yield of p-nitroacetanihde, a colourless crystalline sohd of m.p. 214°, is 20 g. 

The reaction is illustrated by the conversion of 3 5-dinitrobenzoic acid into 3 5-dlnltroaniline, and of acetophenone into acetanilide ... 

Acetanilide from acetophenone. Dissolve 12 g. of acetophenone in 100 ml. of glacial acetic acid containing 10 g. of concentrated sulphuric acid. To the stirred solution at 60-70°, add 9 8 g. of sodium azide in small portions at such a rate that the temperature does not rise above 70°. Stir the mixture with gentle heating until the evolution of nitrogen subsides (2-3 hours) and then allow to stand overnight at room temperature. Pour the reaction mixture on to 300 g. of crushed ice, filter the solid product, wash it with water and dry at 100°. The yield of crude acetanilide, m.p. 111-112°, is 13 g. Recrystallisation from water raises the m.p. to 114°. 

The reaction may be more easily controlled and the chlorosulphonic acid added all at once if the acetanilide is employed in the form of a hard cake. The latter is prepared by melting the acetanilide in the flask over a free flame and causing the compound to solidify over the lower part of the flask by swirling the liquid. If the reaction becomes too vigorous under these conditions, cool the flask momentarily by immersion in an ice bath. 

Hydrolysis of a substituted amide. A. With 10 per cent, sulphuric acid. Reflux 1 g. of the compound (e.g., acetanilide) with 20 ml. of 10 per cent, sulphuric acid for 1-2 hours. Distil the reaction mixture and collect 10 ml. of distillate this will contain any volatile organic acids which may be present. Cool the residue, render it alkaline with 20 per cent, sodium hydroxide solution, cool, and extract with ether. Distil off the ether and examine the ether-soluble residue for an amine. 

Acetanilide (IV,45, Method 2, J scale boil reaction mixture for 15 minutes). Use product for preparations 24 and 25. 

Other substituents which belong with this group have already been discussed. These include phenol, anisole and compounds related to it ( 5.3.4 the only kinetic data for anisole are for nitration at the encounter rate in sulphuric acid, and with acetyl nitrate in acetic anhydride see 2.5 and 5.3.3, respectively), and acetanilide ( 5.3.4). The cations PhSMe2+, PhSeMe2+, and PhaO+ have also been discussed ( 9.1.2). Amino groups are prevented from showing their character ( — 7 +717) in nitration because conditions enforce reaction through the protonated forms ( 9.1.2). 

The diazonium salts 145 are another source of arylpalladium com-plexes[114]. They are the most reactive source of arylpalladium species and the reaction can be carried out at room temperature. In addition, they can be used for alkene insertion in the absence of a phosphine ligand using Pd2(dba)3 as a catalyst. This reaction consists of the indirect substitution reaction of an aromatic nitro group with an alkene. The use of diazonium salts is more convenient and synthetically useful than the use of aryl halides, because many aryl halides are prepared from diazonium salts. Diazotization of the aniline derivative 146 in aqueous solution and subsequent insertion of acrylate catalyzed by Pd(OAc)2 by the addition of MeOH are carried out as a one-pot reaction, affording the cinnamate 147 in good yield[115]. The A-nitroso-jV-arylacetamide 148 is prepared from acetanilides and used as another precursor of arylpalladium intermediate. It is more reactive than aryl iodides and bromides and reacts with alkenes at 40 °C without addition of a phosphine ligandfl 16]. 

Wnte the structure of the product formed on reaction of acetanilide with each of the fol lowing... 

Conversion of aniline to acetanilide [103-84-4] by reaction with acetic anhydride, is a convenient method for protecting the amino group. The acetyl group can later be removed by acid or base hydrolysis. 

In a 500-ml. round-bottomed flask equipped with a reflux condenser and a magnetic stirrer (Note 6) are placed 150 ml. of methanol, 150 ml. of 6N hydrochloric acid, and the total yield of 4,4 -bis(acetamido)azobenzene. The mixture is heated under reflux for 1.5 hours. The reaction mixture is cooled and the violet solid collected on a Buchner funnel (Note 7). The damp product is suspended in 500 ml. of water in a 1-1. beaker equipped with a stirrer, and the mixture is slowly neutralized by the addition of 2.5N sodium hydroxide. In the course of the neutralization, the salt dissolves and the free base separates. The 4,4 -diaminoazo-benzene is collected on a Buchner funnel, washed with water, and dried under reduced pressure. The yield of yellow product, m.p. 238-241° (dec.),is ll-12g. The over-all yield from/ -amino-acetanilide is 52-56%. 

Properties.—needles m.p. 165 —166 . On liy-drolysis with concentrated hydrochloric acid, /-bromaniline is formed (see above reaction for acetanilide). 

Beckmann s Reaction.—Dissolve i giam of aceto-phenoneoxime in 30 c.c. anhydious ether, and add giadually I 5 grams of powdeied phosphorus pentachloride. Distil off the ether, and add a little water to the lesidue. On cooling, ciystals of acetanilide separate. Recrystallise from water, and determine the melting point. 

Acetanilide, Bromacetanilide.—Primary and secondary bases form acetyl derivatn-cs with acetic acid, acetyl chloiide, or acetic anhydride (see Reactions, pp. 76, 77)-... 

The first cyclization of acetanilide was carried out by Knorr in 1883 who subsequently demonstrated that the reaction was also applicable to acetoacylated aryl amines that have a vacant ortho position. ... 

The classical Vilsmeier-Haack reaction is one of the most useful general synthetic methods employed for the formylation of various electron rich aromatic, aliphatic and heteroaromatic substrates. However, the scope of the reaction is not restricted to aromatic formylation and the use of the Vilsmeier-Haack reagent provides a facile entry into a large number of heterocyclic systems. In 1978, the group of Meth-Cohn demonstrated a practically simple procedure in which acetanilide 3 (R = H) was efficiently converted into 2-chloro-3-quinolinecarboxaldehyde 4 (R = H) in 68% yield. This type of quinoline synthesis was termed the Vilsmeier Approach by Meth-Cohn. ... 

Typically, an acetanilide (1 mol. equiv.) was treated with the Vilsmeier reagent generated from POCI3 (7 mol. equiv.) and V,V-dimethylformamide (DMF, 2.5 mol. equiv.) at 75 °C for 4 - 20 h. The reaction products were readily obtained by filtration after pouring the reaction mixture onto ice-water minor reaction products were isolated after basification of the filtrate. A variety of acetanilides were studied under these optimised reaction conditions and some significant observations were noted. Activated acetanilides 3 [e.g. R = 4-Me (70%), 4-OMe (56%)] reacted faster and in better yield to give quinolines 4 than other strongly deactivated systems 3 [e.g. R = 4-Br (23%), 4-Cl (2%), 4-NO2 (0%)] — in these cases, formamidines 5 and acrylamides 6 were the major reaction products. 

In the Meth-Cohn quinoline synthesis, the acetanilide becomes a nucleophile and provides the framework of the quinoline (nitrogen and the 2,3-carbons) and the 4-carbon is derived from the Vilsmeier reagent. The reaction mechanism involves the initial conversion of an acylanilide 1 into an a-iminochloride 11 by the action of POCI3. The a-chloroenamine tautomer 12 is subsequently C-formylated by the Vilsmeier reagent 13 derived from POCI3 and DMF. In examples where acetanilides 1 (r = H) are employed, a second C-formylation of 14 occurs to afford 15 subsequent cyclisation and... 

The Vilsmeier cyclisation of acetanilides by the conventional methods described above often requires long reaction times and elevated temperatures. Moreover, only activated acetanilides react efficiently to afford 2-chloro-3-substituted-quinolines strongly deactivated systems afford mainly amidine 5 or acrylamide 6. ... 

Gupta et al. reported that the Vilsmeier-Haack cyclisation of acetanilides 20 using supported reagents and microwave-irradiation in solvent-free conditions is rapid and efficient. Reaction yields are good, although only a few activated derivatives have been investigated. 

It has been shown that acetamidothiophenes 22 can be converted to either chlorothieno[2,3-h]pyridines 23 or chlorothieno[2,3-h]pyridinecarboxaldehydes 24 using POCI3 and DMF by appropriate choice of reaction conditions. However, unlike the acetanilides, initial ring formylation rather than side-chain formylation is believed to lead to the formation of the pyridine ring. These reactions have been extended to the synthesis of the isomeric thieno[3,2-I>]- and thieno[3,4-I>]pyridines, 25 and 26, from 3-acetamidothiophene and 3-acetamido-2,5-dimethylthiophene, respectively. 

The yields of Skraup/Doebner-von Miller reaction can be dramatically improved by running the reaction as a two-phase mixture. Reaction of crotonaldehyde with 30 in acidic ethanol provides only 10% of quinoline 31. However, when a toluene solution of crotonaldehyde is reacted with 30 (starting as the acetanilide) in 6M HCI at 100 °C for 2 h, quinoline 31 is isolated in 80% yield on 5kg scale. 

Halothiophenes, which are not activated through the presence of —I—M-substituents, undergo substitution smoothly under more forcing conditions with copper salts in pyridine or quinoline. Hence 3-cyanothiophene and 5-methyl-2-cyanothiophene have been obtained from the corresponding bromo compounds. 2-Bromothiophene reacts readily with aliphatic cuprous mercaptides in quinoline at 200°C to give thioethers in high yields. The use of the copper-catalyzed Williamson synthesis of alkoxythiophenes from iodo- or bromo-thiophenes and alcoholate has been mentioned before. The reaction of 2-bromothiophene with acetanilide in nitrobenzene in... 

Pyridine has been phenylated with the following free-radical sources benzenediazonium chloride with aluminum trichloride the Gomberg reaction " phenylhydrazine and metal oxides A -nitroso-acetanilide dibenzoyl peroxide phenylazotriphenylmethane di-phenyliodonium hydroxide and electrolysis of benzoic acid. ° Although 2-phenylpyridine usually accounts for over 50% of the total phenylated product, each of the three phenyl derivatives can be obtained from the reaction by fractional recrystallization of the... 

Udenfriend et al. observed that aromatic compounds are hydroxyl-ated by a system consisting of ferrous ion, EDTA, ascorbic acid, and oxygend Aromatic and heteroaroinatic compounds are hydroxylated at the positions which are normally most reactive in electrophilic substitutions. For example, acetanilide gives rise exclusively to the o-and p-hydroxy isomers whereas quinoline gives the 3-hydroxy prod-uct. - The products of the reaction of this system w ith heterocyclic compounds are shown in Table XIII. 

TL2403). Thus, or /io-cyclopalladation of acetanilide 138 gave organo-palladium reagent 139. The or /io-vinylation of 139 afforded enone 140, which was then cyclized to quinoline 141 under acidic conditions. Notice this reaction requires stoichiometric amounts of Pd(OAc)2. 

The drugs are available by one of two fairly straightforward routes. Chlorosulfonation of acetanilide gives the corresponding sulfonyl chloride (88) reaction with the appropriate amine gives the intermediate, 89. Hydrolysis in either acid or base leads to the sulfanilamide (90). 

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