Activation with bromine compounds

Electrophilic substitution reactions of diarylamines are easily accompHshed since the amino group activates the aromatic ring. Thus, DPA reacts with bromine or chlorine to form the 2,2H,4 tetrahalo derivative nitration usually produces the trinitro compound. 

As a result of the 7r-deficiency of the pteridine nucleus, alkyl pteridines are activated in the a-positions. The common reactions based on C—H acidity are found with a wide variety of compounds. Bromination of 6- and 7-methyl groups leads to mono- and di-substitution selective formation of the monobromomethyl derivatives has not yet been achieved satisfactorily. 6-Methylisoxanthopterin is claimed to give the 6-bromomethyl derivative with bromine in acetic and sulfuric acids at 100 °C for 2 min (50ZN(B)132) and with 1,7-dimethyl-lumazine a 90% yield of the 7-bromomethyl derivative (60CB2668) is obtained after 4h... 

The bromination of 5,8-dimethoxyquinoxaline in methanol gives a mixture of 6-bromo and 6,7-dibromo compounds/ Treatment of 2-methylquinoxaline with bromine in acetic acid yields a mixture of 27% of 2 bromomethyl- and 37% of 2-dibromomethyl-quinoxaline." Thus in the absence of powerfully activating groups, side-chain rather than nuclear substitution takes place. 

The Ullman reaction has long been known as a method for the synthesis of aromatic ethers by the reaction of a phenol with an aromatic halide in the presence of a copper compound as a catalyst. It is a variation on the nucleophilic substitution reaction since a phenolic salt reacts with the halide. Nonactivated aromatic halides can be used in the synthesis of poly(arylene edier)s, dius providing a way of obtaining structures not available by the conventional nucleophilic route. The ease of halogen displacement was found to be the reverse of that observed for activated nucleophilic substitution reaction, that is, I > Br > Cl F. The polymerizations are conducted in benzophenone with a cuprous chloride-pyridine complex as a catalyst. Bromine compounds are the favored reactants.53,124 127 Poly(arylene ether)s have been prepared by Ullman coupling of bisphenols and... 

The reaction of bromine with optically active sec-butyltin compounds Bu SnRs, to give sec-butyl bromide, can give retention or inversion in the sec-butyl group, depending on the natime of the group R... 

Organic compounds containing active hydrogen atoms adjacent to a carbonyl group (aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids) may react violently in unmoderated contact with bromine. 

Several methods are available for the synthesis of CFsSBr. Either CF2BrSBr is fluorinated at 100°C with antimony trifluoride (186) or CFsSCl is reacted with bromine cyanide over activated carbon at 70°C (86). Apart from that it is obtained always contaminated with CFsSSCFj in the reaction between Hg(SCF8)2 and bromine (31) these compounds react at 0°C to give a mixture composed of 56% CFsSBr and 45% CFjSSCFs. 

Different primary, secondary aryl or heteroaryl manganese bromides 519 were prepared by reaction of activated manganese [prepared form manganese dichloride, lithium and a catalytic amount (15%) of 2-phenylpyridine as electron carrier, in THF] with the corresponding brominated compounds 516. These intermediates react with different electrophiles in THF at 0°C with or without copper chloride, to yield the corresponding products 20 (Scheme 144). ... 

These agents would be used as adjuncts to beta lactams since they have no antibacterial activity in their own right. A key reaction in the synthesis of each compound involves the replacement of the amine at 6 and the protection of that position as a mono- or di-halide. Thus reaction of 6-APA (2-4) with nitrous acid gives the diazonium salt (9-1) this is converted to the dibromide (9-2) on treatment with bromine. The ring sulfur is then oxidized with permanganate to the sulfone (9-3). Hydrogenolysis of the product replaces the two bromine atoms by hydrogen to afford sulbactam (9-4) [13]. 

The dehalogenase activity of dehydrated cells of R. erythropolis, for both chlorinated and brominated compounds, increases with the carbon chain length of the compound (up to 1-chlorohexane and 1-bromohexane). The opposite has been reported for the aqueous phase for both the isolated enzyme [54] and resting cells [14]. Eliminating solubilization requirements also clearly improves rates of... 

Polybrominated Biphenyls. In air, the two processes that may result in significant degradation or transformation of PBBs are photooxidation by hydroxyl radicals and direct photolysis. The estimated half-life of pentachlorobiphenyl in air due to reaction with hydroxyl radicals is 41.6 83.2 days (Atkinson 1987a). Based on a structure-activity relationship for the estimation of half-lives for the gas-phase reactions of hydroxyl radicals with organic compounds (Atkinson 1987b), the estimated half-lives of hexabromobiphenyl and decabromobiphenyl due to reaction with OH radicals are 182 and 2,448 days, respectively. These half-lives are consistent with the half-life of pentachlorobiphenyl due to reaction with OH radicals. However, the half-lives of brominated biphenyls expected to be present in the particulate phase in the air may be even longer than the estimated half-lives due to gas phase reaction. Therefore, the Iransfonnation of the hexa- and other higher brominated PBBs in the atmosphere due to reaction with OH radicals may not be irrportant. 

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