Acids Boron trifluoride

Acylation may also be effected with the acetic acid - boron trifluoride complexes BF3.CH3COOH and BF3.2CH3COOH. 

Aqueous mineral acids react with BF to yield the hydrates of BF or the hydroxyfluoroboric acids, fluoroboric acid, or boric acid. Solution in aqueous alkali gives the soluble salts of the hydroxyfluoroboric acids, fluoroboric acids, or boric acid. Boron trifluoride, slightly soluble in many organic solvents including saturated hydrocarbons (qv), halogenated hydrocarbons, and aromatic compounds, easily polymerizes unsaturated compounds such as butylenes (qv), styrene (qv), or vinyl esters, as well as easily cleaved cycHc molecules such as tetrahydrofuran (see Furan derivatives). Other molecules containing electron-donating atoms such as O, S, N, P, etc, eg, alcohols, acids, amines, phosphines, and ethers, may dissolve BF to produce soluble adducts. 

Acid mixtures containing nitric acid and a strong acid, eg, sulfuric acid, perchloric acid, selenic acid, hydrofluoric acid, boron trifluoride, or an ion-exchange resin containing sulfonic acid groups, can be used as the nitrating feedstock for ionic nitrations. These strong acids are catalysts that result in the formation of nitronium ions, NO" 2- Sulfuric acid is almost always used industrially since it is both effective and relatively inexpensive. 

The choice of catalyst is based primarily on economic effects and product purity requirements. More recentiy, the handling of waste associated with the choice of catalyst has become an important factor in the economic evaluation. Catalysts that produce less waste and more easily handled waste by-products are strongly preferred by alkylphenol producers. Some commonly used catalysts are sulfuric acid, boron trifluoride, aluminum phenoxide, methanesulfonic acid, toluene—xylene sulfonic acid, cationic-exchange resin, acidic clays, and modified zeoHtes. 

B-Homosteroids have also been prepared by acid-catalyzed reaction of diazomethane with a,/5-unsaturated ketones. 3/ -Hydroxycholest-5-en-7-one acetate (57) reacts with diazomethane in the presence of concentrated fluoroboric acid, boron trifluoride etherate or aluminum chloride to give 3yS-hydroxy-B-homo-cholest-5-en-7a-one acetate (67). The 7a-keto group is reported to be chemically less reactive than an 11-keto group. 

Covalent fluondes of group 3 and group 5 elements (boron, tin, phosphorus, antimony, etc ) are widely used m organic synthesis as strong Lewis acids Boron trifluoride etherate is one of the most common reagents used to catalyze many organic reactions. A representative example is its recent application as a catalyst in the cycloadditions of 2-aza-l,3-dienes with different dienophiles [14] Boron trifluoride etherate and other fluonnated Lewis acids are effective activators of the... 

As a catalyst sulfuric acid is most often used phosphoric acid, boron trifluoride or an acidic ion exchange resin have also found application. 1,1-disubstituted alkenes are especially suitable substrates, since these are converted to relatively stable tertiary carbenium ion species upon protonation. o ,/3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds do not react as olefinic component. 

The pharmaceutical interest in the tricyclic structure of dibenz[6,/]oxepins with various side chains in position 10(11) stimulated a search for a convenient method for the introduction of functional groups into this position. It has been shown that nucleophilic attack at the carbonyl group in the 10-position of the dibenzoxepin structure renders the system susceptible to water elimination. Formally, the hydroxy group in the enol form is replaced by nucleophiles such as amines or thiols. The Lewis acids boron trifluoride-diethyl ether complex and titanium(IV) chloride have been used as catalysts. 

The Lewis acid, boron trifluoride, enhances selectivity, but not reactivity. 

Attempted Nitration of MeNGu Various methods of nitration were attempted including nitric acid alone, or in combination with 100% perchloric acid, zinc chloride, perboric acid, boron trifluoride, etc. All of them gave MeNGu nitrate, described above, but no nitro derivatives (Ref 7, p 3029)... 

Numerous Lewis acids promote the formation of nitronium ions when in the presence of nitric acid. Nitric acid-boron trifluoride, and the nitric acid-hydrogen fluoride-boron trifluoride reagents described by Olah are practical nitrating agents the latter provides a convenient preparation of nitronium tetrafluoroborate. Olah reports that nitric acid-magic acid (FSOsH-SbFs) is extremely effective for the polynitration of aromatic substrates. 

The alcohol in hemiacetal/acetal formation can be replaced with a thiol (R-SH). In addition, a glycol can be replaced with a dithiol, and then you can follow a procedure similar to the one outlined in Figure 10-21. This procedure leads to an easy method for reducing a carbonyl (Figure 10-22). The reaction with a thiol is in the presence of the Lewis acid boron trifluoride, BFj. 

In this procedure, the ketone is first converted to its enol acetate by reaction with acetic anhydride in the presence of a proton acid. Since this enol acetylation is performed under equilibrating conditions, the more stable enol acetate (usually the more highly substituted isomer) is produced. Acetylation of this enol acetate, catalyzed by the Lewis acid boron trifluoride, usually leads to the formation of the enol acetate of a /3-diketone which is cleaved by boron trifluoride to form acetyl fluoride and the borofluoride complex of the /3-diketone. Thus, this procedure offers a convenient and general synthetic route... 

The carbon-sulfur bond of thiazines can be reductively cleaved (Sections 7.06.5.7 and 7.06.6.7) and 2//-thiazines, being imines, can be hydrolyzed (Section 7.06.5.5). Saturated thiazines (thiomorpholines) are stable toward alkaline hydrolysis <1981CPB1554> and Lewis-acidic boron trifluoride <1980JHC449>. 

Figure 5.19. Illustration of the formation of a donor-acceptor complex by the sequential adsorption of trimethylamine and boron trifluoride. The Lewis-basic trimethylamine forms a dative bond with the electrophilic Si dimer atom, and the Lewis-acidic boron trifluoride bonds to the nucleophilic Si dimer atom [278].

Several catalysts and initiator systems have been tested for the polymerization of GlcAnBzl3, including the following Lewis acids boron trifluoride and its etherate, phosphorus pentafluoride, titanium tetrachloride, and antimony pentachloride and pentafluoride. Several cationic initiators have also been used, including (triphenylmethyl) antimony hexachloride, 2,3,4,6-tetra-O-acetyl-D-glucopyranosyl hexa-fluorophosphate, acetyl hexafluorophosphate, pentamethylbenzyl hexa-fluorophosphate (most of which were generated in situ), and triethyl-... 

Concerning electrophilic side reactions, intramolecular Friedel-Crafts condensations have been reported for example, fluorenone is formed from 2-benzoylbenzenediazonium tetrafluorobo-rate.241 The strong Lewis acid boron trifluoride can also be responsible for side reactions, such as the extensive formation of tars from nitro-substituted arenediazonium tetrafluorobor-ates or the acidic hydrolysis of ester substituents, especially in the case of 2-(ethoxycar-bonyl)benzenediazonium tetrafluoroborate.105,242... 

The direct hydration of a C—C triple bond has been recently reviewed.302,303 Hydration is possible under acid or metal catalysis, as well as by photohydration. Hydration under acid catalysis is generally done with sulfuric acid, although other acid systems such as phosphoric acid/boron trifluoride have been reported.304 It is established that acid catalysis occurs by a vinyl cationic intermediate which reacts with... 

The reaction is reversible and reaches equilibrium slowly. Generally, acidic catalysts are used, such as strong sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, boron trifluoride, and -toluenesulfonic acid (27). Batchwise and continuous processes are used for the esterification reaction. 

Notes. (1) Alternatively the reaction may be effected by adding the ketone and the acetic anhydride to 100 g (0.75 mol) of a 1 1 acetic acid-boron trifluoride complex (Section 4.2.5, p. 421). 

Important aviation and motor alkylate gasoline processes are the jet-type sulfuric acid process, the Kellogg sulfuric acid autoref rigeration process, the UOP hydrofluoric acid process, and the Stratford effluent refrigeration process. Petrochemical alkylation includes various processes using as catalysts solid phosphoric acid, aluminum chloride, hydrofluoric acid, boron trifluoride, and phenol and ether complexes of boron trifluoride (1). 

Although, in principle, this triazinone is in equilibrium with the diazonium salt in strong acid solution, it was unaffected by anhydrous fluoroboric acid, boron trifluoride, or polyphosphoric acid (cf. below).142... 

Nitronium tetrafluoroborate, from nitric acid, boron trifluoride, and hydrogen fluoride, 47, 56 in nitration of aromatic rings, 47,... 

Compounds containing carbon-carbon double bonds m y also act as Lewis bases. The rather high solubilities of the inorganic Lewis acids, boron trifluoride, aluminum bromide, and silver perchlorate, in benzene derivatives and in olefinic compounds suggest acid-base interactions. Addition compounds formed from silver perchlorate and a number of such hydrocarbons have been isolated it has been shown that the silver ion is not bonded to any single carbon atom but sits astride the two -electron dumbbells as shown in Figure 5-1. Thus, such adducts are... 

A 16a-bromo-ketone (233) reacts with 1,2-diaminoethane to give the dihyd-ropyrazine (234) the required oxidation step probably uses atmospheric oxygen.202 Some further steroidal tetrazoles and bis-tetrazoles have been prepared from ketones by the action of hydrazoic acid-boron trifluoride.203... 

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