Addition displacement reactions

McDonald and coworkers (34,36,37) have studied infrared chemiluminescence from polyatomic product molecules formed by addition-displacement reactions of the type... 

Many of the reactions of halogens can be considered as either oxidation or displacement reactions the redox potentials (Table 11.2) give a clear indication of their relative oxidising power in aqueous solution. Fluorine, chlorine and bromine have the ability to displace hydrogen from hydrocarbons, but in addition each halogen is able to displace other elements which are less electronegative than itself. Thus fluorine can displace all the other halogens from both ionic and covalent compounds, for example... 

Etherification. Ethers of amyl alcohols have been prepared by reaction with ben2hydrol (63), activated aromatic haUdes (64), dehydration-addition reactions (65), addition to olefins (66—71), alkoxylation with olefin oxides (72,73) and displacement reactions involving thek alkah metal salts (74—76). 

The standard manufacturing method for tetraalkyl titanates, such as TYZOR TPT, or tetra- -butyi titanate, TYZOR TBT [5593-70 ] involves the addition of TiCl to an alcohol. In a series of reversible displacement reactions, the alkoxy substitution products and hydrochloric acid form as follows ... 

Other examples of the successful displacement of tosylates are the preparation of 31 -, 16a-,16j - and27- labeled steroids. This displacement reaction fails, however, with certain C-18 and C-19 alcohol derivatives which give mainly O—S instead of C—O bond cleavage. Unsatisfactory results were also obtained with sterically hindered tosylate esters at C-11, C-12 and C-20, which give considerable amounts of olefinic products in addition to O—S bond cleavage. ... 

The elimination from sulfonates of secondary alcohols is frequently easier than more direct methods applied to the free alcohols. As with the latter, there are the possibilities of isomeric olefin formation and rearrangement reactions. In addition, displacement and hydrolysis may occur, but these side reactions can usually be suppressed. 

The enamino ketone (49) was reported to give no identifiable products on reaction with N,N-dimethyl carbamoyl chloride 63). However, reaction of (49) with N,N-diethyl carbamoyl chloride in refluxing chlorobenzene gave the N-(3-diethyl-amino-5,5-dimethylcyclohex-2-en-1 -ylidene)pyrrolidinium salt, isolated as the perchlorate. The latter must have been formed as outlined in Scheme I, involving initial O carbamoylation followed by an addition-elimination reaction to give 138 cation which can react with diethylamino anion by a further addition-elimination displacement to give the product 46). 

Substitution of an additional nitrogen atom onto the three-carbon side chain also serves to suppress tranquilizing activity at the expense of antispasmodic activity. Reaction of phenothia zine with epichlorohydrin by means of sodium hydride gives the epoxide 121. It should be noted that, even if initial attack in this reaction is on the epoxide, the alkoxide ion that would result from this nucleophilic addition can readily displace the adjacent chlorine to give the observed product. Opening of the oxirane with dimethylamine proceeds at the terminal position to afford the amino alcohol, 122. The amino alcohol is then converted to the halide (123). A displacement reaction with dimethylamine gives aminopromazine (124). ... 

Because of resonance stabilization of the anion, a tet-nazolyl moiety is often employed successfully as a bioisosteric replacement for a carboxy group. An example in this subclass is provided by azosemide (27). Benzonitrile analogue is prepared by phosphorus oxychloride dehydration of the corresponding benzamide. Next, a nucleophilic aromatic displacement reaction of the fluorine atom leads to The synthesis concludes with the 1,3-dipolar addition of azide to the nitrile liinction to produce the diuretic azosemi de (27). ... 

Another entry into the anti ulcer sweepstakes is etinfidine (50). It is synthesized by displacement of halide from 4-chloromethyl-5-methylimidazole (4 ) with substituted thiol The latter is itself made from thiourea analogue by an addition-elimination reaction with cysteamine 52. °... 

Azaloxan (12) is an antidepressant agent. Its synthesis can be accomplished starting with the reaction of catechol (7) and 3,4-dibromobutyronitrile (obtained by addition of bromine to the olefin) to give l,4-benzodioxan-2-ylacetonitrile (8). A series of functional group transformations ensues [hydrolysis to the acid (9), reduction to the alcohol (10) and conversion to a tosylate (11)] culminating in an SN-2 displacement reaction on tosylate 11 with l-(4-piperidinyl)-2-imidazolidi-none to give azaloxan (12) [3]. 

It is usual to choose a container metal for fused salts sufficiently noble for the displacement reaction (2.16) to be negligible, and the most important aspects of corrosion are, as in aqueous solutions, those which involve reducible impurities, although in a salt melt there is also the additional possibility of a reducible anion (see above). All such factors can be described as controlling the oxidising power of the melt, which can be defined in terms of a redox potential just as in aqueous solutions The redox potential is expressed by relationships of the form... 

If a displacement reaction is to take place uniformly, the surface of A/j should be chemically clean initially in addition, a wetting agent may be employed in the plating solution. 

With bromine monochloride at 0°C in a variety of solvents, 1 was converted into addition products, the product distribution being a function of solvent. A change in halogenating agent also altered the product ratio. (Scheme 4) Nucleophilic displacement reactions between these products and silver fluoride was found to cause preferential bromine substitution (83G149). 

The importance of displacement reactions on carbonyl compounds in chemistry and biochemistry has resulted in numerous mechanistic studies. In solution, there is general acceptance of the following mechanism for addition of anionic nucleophiles which features a tetrahedral intermediate, 1, and is designated (1). However, recent experimental (2 10) and theoretical (11-17)... 

This interpretation, however, faces a new problem If the low frequency bands are not due to bridging species, what is the explanation of the distinct downward shift of the vco bands upon CO addition and also of their strong intensity Authors of quoted works [48,53,54,77,99] have probably solved this contradiction. The surface process depicted is not a simple ligand insertion into a pre-existing coordinative vacancy, but more Ukely a Hgand displacement reaction of the type reported in Eq. 2 ... 

Coordination of reactive and/or unstable molecules to metal centers is a useful approach for their stabilization,1 and it presents unique opportunities for their characterization by spectroscopic methods and for elucidation of their structure. Moreover, under appropriate conditions the coordinated species can be chemically modified. In addition, displacement of the coordinated compound from the metal and its trapping in solution by reactions with suitable substrates can form the basis for useful synthetic methodology. 

Besides addition reactions, azides or hydrazoic acid can also yield tetrazoles through displacement reactions. Thus, halide displacement in imide chloride (78) yields 1,5-disubstituted tetrazoles (79), and in 2-chloro-pyridine (80), yields tetrazolopyridine (81) (Eq. 16a,b).141 143 Vinylogous... 

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