Acid chlorides, additions

Esters are usually prepared from carboxylic acids by the methods already discussed. Thus, carboxylic acids are converted directly into esters by SK2 reaction of a carboxyfate ion with a primary alkyl halide or by Fischer esterification of a carboxylic acid with an alcohol in the presence of a mineral acid catalyst. In addition, acid chlorides are converted into esters by treatment with an alcohol in the presence of base (Section 21.4). 

The synthesis of ketones is very important to the organic chemist. Two common methods involve the addition of Grignard reagents to aldehydes, followed by oxidation of the secondary alcohol, and the addition of organol1th1um reagents to carboxylic acids.11 In addition, acid chlorides... 

Carboxylic acids are converted to acid chlorides, anhydrides, esters, and amides. In addition, acid chlorides are converted to esters and amides, and esters are converted to amides. All of these acid derivatives are hydrolyzed back to the parent carboxylic acid. 

Place 125 ml. of concentrated ammonia solution (sp. gr. 0-88) in a 600 ml. beaker and surround the latter with crushed ice. Stir the ammonia solution mechanically, and introduce the n-caproyl chloride slowly by means of a suitably supported separatory funnel with bent stem. The rate of addition must be adjusted so that no white fumes are lost. The amide separates immediately. Allow to stand in the ice water for 15 minutes after all the acid chloride has been introduced. Filter oflF the amide at the pump use the flltrate to assist the transfer of any amide remaining in the beaker to the Alter (2). Spread the amide on sheets of Alter or drying paper to dry in the air. The crude n-capro-amide (30 g.) has m.p. 98-99° and is sufficiently pure for conversion into the nitrile (Section 111,112) (3). Recrystallise a small quantity of the amide by dissolving it in the minimum volume of hot water and allowing the solution to cool dry on filter paper in the air. Pure n-caproamide has m.p. 100°. 

Dissolve 0 01 g. equivalent of the amino acid in 0 03 g. equivalent of N sodium hydroxide solution and cool to 5° in a bath of ice. Add, with rapid stirring, 0 -01 g. equivalent of 2 4-dichlorophenoxyacetyl chloride dissolved in 5 ml. of dry benzene at such a rate (5-10 minutes) that the temperature of the mixture does not rise above 15° if the reaction mixture gels after the addition of the acid chloride, add water to thin it. Remove the ice bath and stir for 2-3 hours. Extract the resulting mixture with ether, and acidify the aqueous solution to Congo red with dilute hydrochloric acid. Collect the precipitate by filtration and recrystallise it from dilute alcohol. 

Method 2. Place a 3 0 g. sample of the mixture of amines in a flask, add 6g. (4-5 ml.) of benzenesulphonyl chloride (or 6 g. of p-toluenesulphonyl chloride) and 100 ml. of a 5 per cent, solution of sodium hydroxide. Stopper the flask and shake vigorously until the odour of the acid chloride has disappeared open the flask occasionally to release the pressure developed by the heat of the reaction. AUow the mixture to cool, and dissolve any insoluble material in 60-75 ml. of ether. If a solid insoluble in both the aqueous and ether layer appears at this point (it is probably the sparingly soluble salt of a primary amine, e.g., a long chain compound of the type CjH5(CH2) NHj), add 25 ml. of water and shake if it does not dissolve, filter it off. Separate the ether and aqueous layers. The ether layer will contain the unchanged tertiary amine and the sulphonamide of the secondary amine. Acidify the alkaline aqueous layer with dilute hydrochloric acid, filter off the sulphonamide of the primary amine, and recrystaUise it from dilute alcohol. Extract the ether layer with sufficient 5 per cent, hydrochloric acid to remove all the tertiary amine present. Evaporate the ether to obtain the sulphonamide of the secondary amine recrystaUise it from alcohol or dilute alcohol. FinaUy, render the hydrochloric acid extract alkaline by the addition of dilute sodium hydroxide solution, and isolate the tertiary amine. 

To the cold acid chloride add 175 ml. of pure carbon disulphide, cool in ice, add 30 g, of powdered anhydrous aluminium chloride in one lot, and immediately attach a reflux condenser. When the evolution of hydrogen chloride ceases (about 5 minutes), slowly warm the mixture to the boiling point on a water bath. Reflux for 10 minutes with frequent shaking the reaction is then complete. Cool the reaction mixture to 0°, and decompose the aluminium complex by the cautious addition, with shaking, of 100 g. of crushed ice. Then add 25 ml. of concentrated hydrochloric acid, transfer to a 2 htre round-bottomed flask and steam distil, preferably in the apparatus, depicted in Fig. II, 41, 3 since the a-tetralone is only moderately volatile in steam. The carbon disulphide passes over first, then there is a definite break in the distillation, after whieh the a-tetralone distils completely in about 2 htres of distillate. 

In a modification the acid chloride is treated with excess of dry pyridine whereby the addition complex ArCOCl. CgHjN is formed decomposition of the latter with water aflFords the acid anhydride ... 

The main use of organocadmium compounds is for the preparation of ketones and keto-esters, and their special merit lies in the fact that they react vigorously with acid chlorides of all types but add sluggishly or not at all to multiple bonds (compare addition of Grignard reagents to carbonyl groups). Some t3rpical syntheses are ... 

The most general methods for the syntheses of 1,2-difunctional molecules are based on the oxidation of carbon-carbon multiple bonds (p. 117) and the opening of oxiranes by hetero atoms (p. 123fl.). There exist, however, also a few useful reactions in which an a - and a d -synthon or two r -synthons are combined. The classical polar reaction is the addition of cyanide anion to carbonyl groups, which leads to a-hydroxynitriles (cyanohydrins). It is used, for example, in Strecker s synthesis of amino acids and in the homologization of monosaccharides. The ff-hydroxy group of a nitrile can be easily substituted by various nucleophiles, the nitrile can be solvolyzed or reduced. Therefore a large variety of terminal difunctional molecules with one additional carbon atom can be made. Equally versatile are a-methylsulfinyl ketones (H.G. Hauthal, 1971 T. Durst, 1979 O. DeLucchi, 1991), which are available from acid chlorides or esters and the dimsyl anion. Carbanions of these compounds can also be used for the synthesis of 1,4-dicarbonyl compounds (p. 65f.). 

Acyl halides are intermediates of the carbonylations of alkenes and organic-halides. Decarbonylation of acyl halides as a reversible process of the carbo-nylation is possible with Pd catalyst. The decarbonylation of aliphatic acid chlorides proceeds with Pd(0) catalyst, such as Pd on carbon or PdC, at around 200 °C[109,753]. The product is a mixture of isomeric internal alkenes. For example, when decanoyl chloride is heated with PdCF at 200 C in a distillation flask, rapid evolution of CO and HCl stops after I h, during which time a mixture of nonene isomers was distilled off in a high yield. The decarbonylation of phenylpropionyl chloride (883) affords styrene (53%). In addition, l,5-diphenyl-l-penten-3-one (884) is obtained as a byproduct (10%). formed by the insertion of styrene into the acyl chloride. Formation of the latter supports the formation of acylpalladium species as an intermediate of the decarbonylation. Decarbonylation of the benzoyl chloride 885 can be carried out in good yields at 360 with Pd on carbon as a catalyst, yielding the aryl chloride 886[754]. 

The acylpalladium complex formed from acyl halides undergoes intramolecular alkene insertion. 2,5-Hexadienoyl chloride (894) is converted into phenol in its attempted Rosenmund reduction[759]. The reaction is explained by the oxidative addition, intramolecular alkene insertion to generate 895, and / -elimination. Chloroformate will be a useful compound for the preparation of a, /3-unsaturated esters if its oxidative addition and alkene insertion are possible. An intramolecular version is known, namely homoallylic chloroformates are converted into a-methylene-7-butyrolactones in moderate yields[760]. As another example, the homoallylic chloroformamide 896 is converted into the q-methylene- -butyrolactams 897 and 898[761]. An intermolecular version of alkene insertion into acyl chlorides is known only with bridgehead acid chlorides. Adamantanecarbonyl chloride (899) reacts with acrylonitrile to give the unsaturated ketone 900[762],... 

The unit has virtually the same flow sheet (see Fig. 2) as that of methanol carbonylation to acetic acid (qv). Any water present in the methyl acetate feed is destroyed by recycle anhydride. Water impairs the catalyst. Carbonylation occurs in a sparged reactor, fitted with baffles to diminish entrainment of the catalyst-rich Hquid. Carbon monoxide is introduced at about 15—18 MPa from centrifugal, multistage compressors. Gaseous dimethyl ether from the reactor is recycled with the CO and occasional injections of methyl iodide and methyl acetate may be introduced. Near the end of the life of a catalyst charge, additional rhodium chloride, with or without a ligand, can be put into the system to increase anhydride production based on net noble metal introduced. The reaction is exothermic, thus no heat need be added and surplus heat can be recovered as low pressure steam. 

Additional phosphonic acid is derived from by-product streams. In the manufacture of acid chlorides from carboxyUc acids and PCl, phosphonic acid or pyrophosphonic acid is produced, frequentiy with copious quantities of yellow polymeric LOOP. Such mixtures slowly evolve phosphine, particularly on heating, and formerly were a disposal problem. However, purification of this cmde mixture affords commercial phosphonic acid. By-product acid is also derived from the precipitate of calcium salts in the manufacture of phosphinic acid. As a consequence of the treatments of the salt with sulfuric acid, carbonate is Hberated as CO2 and phosphonic acid goes into solution. 

Phosphonic (phosphorous) acid, produced by hydrolysis of PCl, is for the most part consumed captively. It has also been offered as a flaked product and a 70 wt % solution by Rhc ne-Poulenc. Phosphonic acid is a by-product from manufacturing carboxyHc acid chlorides and alkaH peroxides. Additional by-product phosphonic acid is recovered in the manufacture of phosphinic acid. 

Ahyl alcohol undergoes reactions typical of saturated, aUphatic alcohols. Ahyl compounds derived from ahyl alcohol and used industriahy, are widely manufactured by these reactions. For example, reactions of ahyl alcohol with acid anhydrides, esters, and acid chlorides yield ahyl esters, such as diahyl phthalates and ahyl methacrylate reaction with chloroformate yields carbonates, such as diethylene glycol bis(ahyl carbonate) addition of ahyl alcohol to epoxy groups yields products used to produce ahyl glycidyl ether (33,34). 

Primary cycloaUphatic amines react with phosgene to form isocyanates. Reaction of isocyanates with primary and secondary amines forms ureas. Dehydration of ureas or dehydrosulfuri2ation of thioureas results in carhodiimides. The nucleophilicity that deterrnines rapid amine reactivity with acid chlorides and isocyanates also promotes epoxide ring opening to form hydroxyalkyl- and dihydroxyalkylaniines. Michael addition to acrylonitrile yields stable cyanoethylcycloalkylarnines. 

Sulfosahcyhc acid is prepared by heating 10 parts of sahcyhc acid with 50 parts of concentrated sulfuric acid, by chlorosulfonation of sahcyhc acid and subsequent hydrolysis of the acid chloride, or by sulfonation with hquid sulfur trioxide in tetrachloroethylene. It is used as an intermediate in the production of dyestuffs, grease additives, catalysts, and surfactants. It is also useful as a colorimetric reagent for ferric iron and as a reagent for albumin. Table 9 shows the physical properties of sahcyhc acid derivatives. 

The analogous reaction between anhydrides and alkoxysilanes also produces acyloxysilanes. The direct reaction of acids with chlorosilanes does not cleanly lead to full substitution. Commercial production of methyltriacetoxysilane direcdy from methyltrichlorosilane and acetic acid has been made possible by the addition of small amounts of acetic anhydride or EDTA, or acceptance of dimethyltetraacetoxydisiloxane in the final room temperature vulcanising (RTV) appHcation (41—43). A reaction that leads to the formation of acyloxysilanes is the interaction of acid chlorides with silylamides. 

Most of the reactions of thiophosgene involve the expected chemistry of an acid chloride, in which the chlorine atoms are replaceable by various nucleophiles. A reaction involving the C=S bond is the Diels-Alder addition ... 

Addition compounds form with those organics that contain a donor atom, eg, ketonic oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur. Thus, adducts form with amides, amines, and A/-heterocycles, as well as acid chlorides and ethers. Addition compounds also form with a number of inorganic compounds, eg, POCl (6,120). In many cases, the addition compounds are dimeric, eg, with ethyl acetate, in titanium tetrachloride-rich systems. By using ammonia, a series of amidodichlorides, Ti(NH2) Cl4, is formed (133). 

The polyaddition reaction is influenced by the stmcture and functionaHty of the monomers, including the location of substituents in proximity to the reactive isocyanate group (steric hindrance) and the nature of the hydroxyl group (primary or secondary). Impurities also influence the reactivity of the system for example, acid impurities in PMDI require partial neutralization or larger amounts of the basic catalysts. The acidity in PMDI can be reduced by heat or epoxy treatment, which is best conducted in the plant. Addition of small amounts of carboxyHc acid chlorides lowers the reactivity of PMDI or stabilizes isocyanate terrninated prepolymers. 

A significant group of carbonamides are the Naphtol products formed by condensation of 2-hydroxy-3-naphthoic acid (via its acid chloride) with a wide range of arylamines. The simplest example, Naphtol AS from aniline, is typical, and manufacture is accompHshed by suspending the acid ia a solvent such as toluene, preforming the acid chloride by addition of phosphoms trichloride, and then adding the aniline. 

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