Acetanilides iodination

Kinetic smdies of the iodination of benzene and acetanilide by iodine, diiodine pentoxide, and sulfuric acid in acetic acid indicate that benzene is involved in an equilibrium reaction prior to the rate-limiting <7-complex formation." It is proposed that this equilibrium involves the formation of a itt-complex between iodine adsorbed on diiodine pentoxide and the benzene as it is adsorbed. In the case of acetanilide the a-complex is formed directly with activated iodine adsorbed on the diiodine pentoxide. 

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... 

Iodoaniline has been prepared by the reduction of -nitro-iodobenzene 1 by the hydrolysis of -iodoacetanilide formed by the action of iodine monochloride on acetanilide 2 and by the direct iodination of aniline.3 The method described here is an adaptation of the procedure used by Wheeler/ and by Hann and Berliner 5 for the iodination of the toluidines. 

Nitro- and amrwo-aromatic compounds do not respond favorably. However, acylations of acetanilide with acetic anhydride using iodine... 

Thymol is incompatible with iodine, alkalis, and oxidizing agents. It liquefies, or forms soft masses, on trituration with acetanilide, antipyrine, camphor, monobromated camphor, chloral hydrate, menthol, phenol, or quinine sulfate. 

Analyzing the frequency factor v, Bursey43 was able to show that the details of the reaction mechanisms of the electron impact induced ketene elimination from ortho substituted phenyl acetates and from acetanilides, 36, are dramatically influenced by the nature of the substituent R = F, Cl, Br, J. The results demonstrate that the decrease of v going from the voluminous iodine to the small fluorine is not caused by steric effects (which should operate in an opposite direction) but is the result of an electronic interaction of both substituents, leading to a tighter transition state in the case of the more electronegative fluorine. Additional factors which are not yet completely understood play a decisive part in the fragmentation of the anilides. 

Iodine in trace amounts has been used as catalyst in Friedel-Crafts acylations of furane and thiophene and of more active members of the benzene series such as anisole and acetanilide. " Oddly enough, it is not effective for benzoylation of anthracene.""... 

METHYL SULFOXIDE (67-68-5) CjHjOS (CHjIjSO Combustible liquid [explosion limits in air (vol %) 2.6 to 63.0 flashpoint 203°F/95°C oc autoignition temp 419°F/215°C Fire Rating 2]. Violent or explosive reaction with strong oxidizers, acryl halides, aryl halides and related compounds, alkali metals p-bromobenzoyl acetanilide, boron compounds, especially hydrides iodine pentafluoride, magnesium perchlorate, methyl bromide, perchloric acid, periodic acid, silver fluoride, sodium... 

Pharmaceutical Incompat, (from Remington s Pharmaceutical Sciences) Aspirin forms a damp to pasty mass when triturated with acetanilide, phenacetin, antipyrine, amidopyrine, methenamine, phenol or phenyl salicylate. Powders containing aspirin with an alkali salt such as sodium bicarbonate become gummy on contact with atmospheric moisture. Hydrolysis oecnrs in admixture with salts contg water of crystallization. Solns of the alkaline acetates and citrates, as well as alkalies themselves, dissolve aspirin but the result -ing solns hydrolyze rapidly to form salts of acetic and salicylic acids. Sugar and glycerol have been shown to hinder this decompn. Aspirin very slowly liberates hydriodic acid from potassium or sodium iodide. Subsequent oxidation by air produces free iodine. 

Iodoaniline 5 03,504 A solution of IC1 (1 mole) is prepared from iodine (127 g) in glacial acetic acid (150 ml) (cf. page 182). When this is dropped, with stirring, into a solution of acetanilide (1 mole) in glacial acetic acid (150 ml) (exothermic reaction ) and the whole is stirred for a further few hours, p-iodoacetanilide is precipitated. After 12 h, the mixture is poured into water (21), and the product is collected and washed with water and dilute sodium hydroxide solution. Recrystallization of this crude material from ethanol gives a 90 % yield of the amide, m.p. 184°, which is hydrolysed by concentrated hydrochloric acid to p-iodo-aniline. 

The synthesis of SFs-substituted phenothiazine was disclosed in a patent from Smith, Kline French Laboratories (63USP3107242). 3-SFs-Acetanilide (120), prepared by acetylation of d-SFs-aniline (39) with acetic anhydride, was first condensed with bromobenzene under basic conditions, in the presence of Cul and copper-bronze powder, and after add hydrolysis provided 3-SFs-diphenylamine (121). This product was then fused with sulfur in the presence of a catalytic amount of iodine to give 2-SFs-phenothiazine (122) in unreported yield (Scheme 34). 

The reaction of acetanilides with silver triflate in the presence of a mild iodine(III) oxidizing agent yields para-substituted derivatives (9). 

In the presence of acetanilide, phenacetin cannot be separated by acid hydrolysis and a method for separation of phenacetin from acetanilide as well as from caflFeine and phenazone (other substances likely to be found in admixture with it) was devised by Emery. The method depends upon the fact that when phenacetin is added to a solution of iodine in potassium iodide containing a mineral acid, an iodine addition compound separates, whilst the corresponding product of acetanilide remains soluble. The details of the method are briefly ... 

A study, including computational results, of the role of copper enolate complexes in the a-arylation of enolates has shown that the reaction is likely to occur through oxidative addition of the iodoarene to form an aryl-copper(III) intermediate, (46), followed by reductive elimination to give the product. Copper(III) species are also likely to be involved in the meta-selective C-H arylation of acetanilides by diaryliodonium salts. However, radical species may be involved in the rhenium-catalysed electrophilic triflu-oromethylation of arenes using hypervalent iodine reagents. 

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