Acyl bromides from acid anhydrides

These reactions are most important for the preparation of acyl fluorides.1061 Acyl chlorides and anhydrides can be converted to acyl fluorides by treatment with polyhydrogen fluoride-pyridine solution996 or with liquid HF at -10°C.1062 Formyl fluoride, which is a stable compound, was prepared by the latter procedure from the mixed anhydride of formic and acetic acids.1063 Acyl fluorides can also be obtained by reaction of acyl chlorides with KF in acetic acid1064 or with diethylaminosulfur trifluoride (DAST).1065 Carboxylic esters and anhydrides can be converted to acyl halides other than fluorides by the inorganic acid halides mentioned in 074, as well as with Ph3PX2 (X = Cl or Br), 066 but this is seldom done. Halide exchange can be carried out in a similar manner. When halide exchange is done, it is always acyl bromides and iodides that are made from chlorides, since chlorides are by far the most readily available.1067... 

Acyl cyanides are versatile synthetic intermediates and are generally prepared by the reaction of acid chlorides, acid bromides, and occasionally acid anhydrides with metal cyanides. It has now been found that the very reactive acyl iodides, used either preformed or generated in situ, are useful substrates for the preparation of ap-unsaturated and other acyl cyanides. Aryl acyl cyanides are obtained from the flash vacuum pyrolysis of 3-azido-l,2,4-oxadiazoles, and ethoxalyl cyanide from the reaction of di-n-heptyl sulphide with 2,3-dicyano-oxiran-2,3-dicarboxylate. The chemistry of acyl cyanides has been reviewed. ... 

The mercapto group of 9-mercapto-4//-pyrido[ 1,2-a]pyrimidin-4-ones 513 was alkylated with (het)aralkyl bromides and chlorides in the presence of potassium carbonate in dimethylformamide at ambient temperature for several hours. It also was acylated with carboxyl chlorides in the presence of potassium carbonate in acetone at room temperature or with mixed anhydride, prepared from aryl carboxylic acid and ethyl chloroformate,... 

Carbon atom 2 of the oxazole ring is also supplied by aldehydes in their reaction with a- (hydroxylamino) ketones, which proceeds in the presence of sulfuric acid and acetic anhydride (equation 109). Three further oxazole syntheses involving incorporation of a C(2) fragment are the condensation of triethyl orthoformate with the hydrochlorides of a-aminoacetophenones (equation 110), the reaction of acyl chlorides with a-azido ketones or a-azido esters in the presence of triphenylphosphine (equation 111), and the preparation of 2-aminobenzoxazole and benzoxazoleimines from o-aminophenols and cyanogen bromide (equation 112). 

Interchange of halogen is a means of synthesis of certain acyl halides which cannot be conveniently prepared by other methods. Acetyl fluoride is made from acetyl chloride and sodium hydrogen fluoride in acetic anhydride solution." By passing a stream of hydrogen bromide through oxalyl chloride an 85% yield of oxalyl bromide, (COBr), is obtained. The bromide cannot be made by the action of phosphorus pentabromide on oxalic acid. The method has also been applied to the preparation of acetyl bromide and iodide and other acyl iodides. ... 

Synthesis of Derivatives of Carboxylic Acids.—Dicarboxylic acid di-iodides are prepared (in 37 to 94% yield) from the corresponding diacid chlorides and sodium iodide. Carboxylic acid bromides are prepared under neutral conditions by the reaction of the corresponding acid with dibromotriphenylphosphorane. Radicals generated from cyclohexylmercuric acetate and NaBH4 react with maleic anhydride and related compounds to give cyclic derivatives of maleic acid in 55 to 98% yield. The chemistry of acyl cyanides has been reviewed. ... 

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