Acetanilide bromination

Acetanilide also undergoes ready bromination, with the formation of a mixture of o- and /(-bromoacetanilidc. The ortho compound is formed in only... 

Dissolve I g. of finely powdered acetanilide in 5 ml. of cold glacial acetic acid contained in a 25 ml. conical flask. Then in another small flask prepare a solution of 0 42 ml. (1 34 g.) of bromine (care ) in 6 ml. of glacial acetic acid, and add this solution slowly to the acetanilide solution, shaking the latter throughout the addition to ensure thorough mixing. Allow the final mixture to stand at room temperature for 15 minutes. Then... 

Mono-substitution products of primary amines cannot easUy be prepared by direct action of the appropriate reagent for example, bromination of aniline yields largely the 2 4 6-tribomo derivative and nitration results in much oxidation. If, however, the amino group is protected as in acetanilide, smooth substitution occurs. Thus with bromine, />-bromoacetanilide is the main product the small quantity of the ortlio isomeride simultaneously formed can be easily eliminated by crystallisation. Hydrolysis of p-bromoacetanilide gives/ -bromoaniline ... 

Dissolve the acetanilide in the acetic acid in a flask (-J litre), and add gradually the bromine, dissolved in. bout twice its volume of glacial acetic acid, and shake well. When tlie bromine has been added, let the mixture stand hour mid then pour into 200 c.c. water and rinse out with writer. Filter the crystalline precipitate at the pump and wash three or four times with water. Press it well down and let it cl min. Dissohe the moist substance in spirit (about 60 c.c.) incl pour into a beaker to crystallise. Filter the crystals, w ish with a little dilute spirit, and dry on filter paper. Yield 6—7 grams. 

The most extensive study of the effect of conditions upon the kinetics of bromination was made by Robertson et al.23l 279, who measured the rates of bromination of alkylbenzenes, acetanilide, aceto-p-toluidide, mesitylene, anisole and p-tolyl methyl ether in acetic acid at 24 °C. They found that at relatively high concentrations of bromine (A//40-M/100) the reaction is second-order in bromine, i.e. the rate equation is... 

Our recent studies on effective bromination and oxidation using benzyltrimethylammonium tribromide (BTMA Br3), stable solid, are described. Those involve electrophilic bromination of aromatic compounds such as phenols, aromatic amines, aromatic ethers, acetanilides, arenes, and thiophene, a-bromination of arenes and acetophenones, and also bromo-addition to alkenes by the use of BTMA Br3. Furthermore, oxidation of alcohols, ethers, 1,4-benzenediols, hindered phenols, primary amines, hydrazo compounds, sulfides, and thiols, haloform reaction of methylketones, N-bromination of amides, Hofmann degradation of amides, and preparation of acylureas and carbamates by the use of BTMA Br3 are also presented. 

The reaction of acetanilides with tetraalkylanunonium polyhalides, such as TBA Br3, BTMA Bf3, or BTMA Br2Cl in dichloromethane-methanol at room temperature gave bromo-substituted acetanilides in good yields, respectively. These bromination of acetanilides have usually given predominantly the corresponding p-bromo derivatives (Fig. 12) (ref. 17). Furthermore, the reaction of acetanilides with BTMA Br3 in acetic acid in the presence of ZnCl2 gave polybromo-substituted acetanilides which was not obtained from the reactions in dichloromethane-methanol (ref. 18). 

Fig. 12. Bromination of acetanilides with BTMA Br3 Bromination of arenes...

Combined effect of BTMA Br3 and ZnCl2 in acetic acid provides a new excellent bromination procedure for arenes. That is, while such reactive aromatic compounds as phenols, aromatic amines, aromatic ethers, and acetanilides have been easily brominated by BTMA Br3 in dichloromethane in the presence of methanol, the reaction of arenes, less reactive compounds, with BTMA Br3 in dichloromethane-methanol did not proceed at all, even under reflux for many hours. However, arenes could be smoothly brominated by use of this agent in acetic acid with the aid of the Lewis acid ZnCl2 (Fig. 13) (ref. 16). 

Hartwig has reported an intramolecular/intermolecular process affording the 3-aryloxindoles 105 (Scheme 32).115 The intermolecular arylation of acetanilide derivative 104 is slower than the intramolecular arylation to form the oxindole. Thus, the overall transformation starts with cyclization followed by intermolecular arylation of indole. In order to slow down the intermolecular process and speed up the intramolecular reaction, chloroarene and bromine-substituted acetanilide precursors are used according to their respective reactivity with palladium(O) in the oxidative addition process. 

Ethyl ethylenetetracarboxylate has been prepared from monochloro- and monobromomalonic ester through removal of halogen acid with sodium,1 sodium ethylate,2 potassium acetate,3 potassium carbonate,4 sodium urethane, sodium formanilide and sodium acetanilide.6 It has also been prepared by treating the disodium derivative of ethyl ethane-1,1,2,2-tetracarboxylate with bromine,7 or iodine 8 by treating dibromomalonic ester with sodium,9 or sodium ethylate 10 and by treating the disodium derivative of malonic ester with iodine.11... 

Protection of the amino group by acetylation, as in acetanilide, therefore usually permits monosubstitution reactions with appropriate electrophilic reagents to proceed smoothly. Thus with bromine, p-bromoacetanilide is the main product the small quantity of the ortho isomer simultaneously formed can be easily eliminated by recrystallisation (Expt 6.67) hydrolysis of p-bromoacetanilide gives p-bromoaniline. Nitration leads similarly to p-nitroacetanilide which can be hydrolysed to p-nitroaniline (Expt 6.68). 

Acylation of the amino substituent decreases the rate of bromination by 1010 (Robertson et al., 1953). Acetanilide is, accordingly, somewhat more readily studied. The partial rate factors for bromination, chlorination, and mercuration are presented in Table 4. 

Bhattacharjee369, who has brominated acetanilide suspended in aqueous solution of potassium bromide and hydrogen peroxide in presence of vanadium pent oxide catalyst. Chloroperoxidase has been mimicked using supported manganese phorphyrin catalyst in the oxychlorination of dimedone370 and by clay-supported iron(III) chloride in the oxy-chlorination of toluene and anisole371. The kinetics and mechanism of the haloper-oxidases have been studied extensively372,373. 

Microsolvent effects in the cyclodextrin cavity have also been observed in hypochlorite chlorination of acetophenone1029. Higher para selectivity has been observed in the bromination of acetanilide and benzanilide in presence of cyclodextrins or amylose1030 and in the anodic chlorination of anisole with cyclodextrin-modified electrode1031. 

Finally, ortho- 2,2-dibromovinyl)-aniline or -acetanilide can successfully be applied in a sequential cyclizing amination-cross coupling reaction with diethyl phosphonate to furnish the indolyl phosphonic ester 136 or the N-acetyl 2-aryl indole 137 as recently shown by Bisseret and coworkers [ 105] (Scheme 50). This sequence can be also performed with corresponding phenol derivatives furnishing benzofurans. For the N-acetyl 2-aryl indole 137 it can be shown that the Suzuki coupling occurs prior to the intramolecular animation as a consequence of the gradual difference in reactivity between trans-and czs-carbon-bromine bonds. 

The isomer is the major product because attack at the positron is sterreally hindered-Neverlheiess, ca, 10 - of -brorrroacetanilide is produced during the bromination acetanilide. 

The electron-donating ability of an amino group is moderated by acetylation. Only monobromination of acetanilide occurs on reaction with bromine in acetic acid (Scheme 8.5). Acetanilide behaves similarly on nitration. 

The reactivity of the aniline may be modified by acetylation. Bromination of acetanilide with bromine in acetic acid gives 4-bro-moacetanilide (4.6). Under some conditions, bromination can take place first on the amide to give the A-bromo compound. This then undergoes a rearrangement known as the Orton rearrangement to give the para substituted product. 

The direct chlorination or bromination of aniline takes place more easily than that of benzene, the result being the symmetrical tri-chlor or tri-brom aniline, viz., i-amino 2-4-6-tri-chlor benzene, C6H2CI3-(NH2) and I-amino 2-4-6-tri-brom benzene, CeH2Br3(NH2). The mono-halogen anilines are prepared by reducing mono-chlor nitro benzenes, or by halogenating acetanilide and then hydrolyzing. 

Penta - acetoxy mercuri acetanilide, C g.NH Ac. (Hg.O Ac) 5. — An intimate mixture of 16 grams of mercuric acetate and 1 gram of acetanilide is heated at 115° to 145° C. until a test portion gives no reaction for mercury ions. The product is dissolved in ammonium hydroxide, acetic acid added, and in twenty-four hours needles are deposited. These dissolve in cold water, the solution being viscous, and when heated to 80° C. coagulation takes place. When treated with bromine, penta-bromacetanilide, M.pt. 284° to 285° C., is obtained. 

Just by knowing the effects summarized in these short lists, we can now predict fairly accurately the course of hundreds of aromatic substitution reactions. We now know, for example, that bromination of nitro enzene will yield chiefly the /M-isomer and that the reaction will go more slowly than the bromination of benzene itself indeed, it will probably require severe conditions to go at ail. We now know that nitration of CeHsNHCOCH, acetanilide) will yield chiefly the o-and / -isomers and will take place more rapidly than nitration of benzene. 

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