Alcohols, benzylic, and

Chelle et al. (1936) developed a colorimetric procedure for the determination of acetone in wine distillates. They were able to secure good checks with this procedure, even in the presence of considerable amounts of higher alcohols. Acetone was reported in wines to which commercial ethyl alcohol had been added. No benzaldehyde was found in grapes by Mathers and Schoeneman (1952), but cherries contain significant amounts. During fermentation benzyl alcohol, benzyl, and benzoin are produced from benzaldehyde. A polarigraphic procedure for its determination was developed. 

Esterification with the dineopentyl acetal is very slow (benzoic acid, 80° in benzene, 1 hr —7% yield of ester) and this reagent is used conveniently as a catalyst in the direct esterification of acids and alcohols (benzyl and p-methoxy-benzyl alcohol) where for the alcohol k kneope tyi. Trans-acetalization occurs initially via the reaction (a). 

Benzyl Alcohol, CeH5CH20H, and Benzoic Acid, CaHsCOOH. (Cannizzaro s Reaction). 

Benzyl alcohol (1) and P-phenethyl alcohol (2) (2-phenylethanol) are the simplest of the aromatic alcohols, and, as such, are chemically similar. Their physical properties are given in Table 1. 

Benzyl Alcohol and p-Phenylethyl Alcohols" ia ECT 1st ed., Vol. 2, pp. 483—489, by H. L. Simons and E. E. Polger, Harold L. Simons, Inc. (Benzyl alcohol), and E. T. Theimer, van Ametingen-Haebler, Inc. (P-Phenylethyl alcohol) "Benzyl Alcohol and P-Phenylethyl Alcohol" ia ECT 2nd ed., pp. 442—449, by William E. Ringk, Benzol Products Company (Benzyl alcohol), and E. T. Theimer, International Elavors Eragrances, Inc. (P-Phenylethyl... 

Nearly all of the benzyl chloride [100-44-7], henzal chloride [98-87-3], and hen zotrichl oride /P< -(97-i manufactured is converted to other chemical intermediates or products by reactions involving the chlorine substituents of the side chain. Each of the compounds has a single primary use that consumes a large portion of the compound produced. Benzyl chloride is utilized in the manufacture of benzyl butyl phthalate, a vinyl resin plasticizer benzal chloride is hydrolyzed to benzaldehyde hen zotrichl oride is converted to benzoyl chloride. Benzyl chloride is also hydrolyzed to benzyl alcohol, which is used in the photographic industry, in perfumes (as esters), and in peptide synthesis by conversion to benzyl chloroformate [501-53-1] (see Benzyl ALCOHOL AND p-PHENETHYL ALCOHOL CARBONIC AND CARBONOCm ORIDIC ESTERS). 

MgBr2, Et20, rt, 66-95% yield.l-Butyldimethylsilyl and MEM ethers are not affected by these conditions, but the MOM ether is slowly cleaved. The THP derivatives of benzylic and tertiaiy alcohols give bromides. 

Benzyioxycarbonyi chioride (Cbz-Ci, benzyi cbioroformate) [501-53-1] M 170.6, b 103 /20mm, d 1.195, n 1.5190. Commercial material is better than 95% pure and may contain some toluene, benzyl alcohol, benzyl chloride and HCl. After long storage (e.g. two years at 4 , Greenstein and Winitz [The Chemistry of the Amino Acids Voi 2 p. 890, J Wiley and Sons NY, 1961] recommended that the liquid should be flushed with a stream of dry air, filtered and stored over sodium sulfate to remove CO2 and HCl which are formed by decomposition. It may further be distilled from an oil bath at a temperature below 85 because Thiel and Dent [Annalen 301 257 1898] stated that benzyioxycarbonyi chloride decarboxylates to benzyl chloride slowly at 100 and vigorously at 155 . Redistillation at higher vac below 85 yields material which shows no other peaks than those of benzyioxycarbonyi chloride by NMR spectroscopy. LACHRYMATORY and TOXIC. 

Benzyl and allyl alcohols which can generate stabilized caibocations give Friedel-Crafts alkylation products with mild Lewis acid catalysts such as scandium triflate. ... 

Catalytic hydrogenolysis of an O-benzyl protective group is a mild, selective method introduced by Bergmann and Zervas to cleave a benzyl carbamate (>NC0-0CH2C6H5 —> >NH) prepared to protect an amino group during peptide syntheses. The method has also been used to cleave alkyl benzyl ethers, stable compounds prepared to protect alkyl alcohols benzyl esters are cleaved by catalytic hydrogenolysis under neutral conditions. 

DMAP, THF, 65% yield. This reaction is selective for primary alcohols. Benzyl, isobutyl, and ethyl carbonates are also prepared using this method (63-85% yield). 

AGENTS BASED ON BENZYL AND BENZHYDRYL AMINES AND ALCOHOLS... 

The soft heavier odours of the cyclo substituted aliphatic alcohols such as benzyl and phenyl-ethyl alcohols. 

It yields a diphenyl-urethane, which melts at 99° to 100°, and is very useful for identification purposes. The phenyl-urethane, melting at 80° is less useful for this purpose, since its melting-point is almost identical with those of benzyl and nonyl alcohols. It combines with phthalic acid to form a phthalic acid ester, melting at 188° to 189°. 

Palladium complexes also catalyze the carbonylation of halides. Aryl (see 13-13), vinylic, benzylic, and allylic halides (especially iodides) can be converted to carboxylic esters with CO, an alcohol or alkoxide, and a palladium complex. Similar reactivity was reported with vinyl triflates. Use of an amine instead of the alcohol or alkoxide leads to an amide. Reaction with an amine, AJBN, CO, and a tetraalkyltin catalyst also leads to an amide. Similar reaction with an alcohol, under Xe irradiation, leads to the ester. Benzylic and allylic halides were converted to carboxylic acids electrocatalytically, with CO and a cobalt imine complex. Vinylic halides were similarly converted with CO and nickel cyanide, under phase-transfer conditions. ... 

An enzymatic process using partially purified pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC) with added pyruvate overcomes the problems of benzyl alcohol formation and limiting availability of pyruvate [3]. As a result increased concentrations, yields and productivities of PAC were achieved with concentrations of PAC in excess of 50 g f (330 mM) in 28 h and yields on benzaldehyde above 95% theoretical [4-6]. Screening of a wide range of bacteria, yeasts and other fungi as potential sources of stable, high activity PDC for production of PAC confirmed a strain of the yeast Candida utilis as the most suitable source of PDC [7]. 

Furthermore, Jana et al. developed a FeCl3-catalyzed C3-selective Friedel-Crafts alkylation of indoles, using allylic, benzylic, and propargylic alcohols in nitromethane as solvent at room temperature. This method can also be used for the alkylation of pyrrole (Scheme 4). The reactions were complete within 2-3 h without the need of an inert gas atmosphere leading to the C-3-substitution product exclusively in moderate to good yields [20]. 

Previous studies by Sorokin with iron phthalocyanine catalysts made use of oxone in the oxidation of 2,3,6-trimethylphenol [134]. Here, 4 equiv. KHSO5 were necessary to achieve full conversion. Otherwise, a hexamethyl-biphenol is observed as minor side-product. Covalently supported iron phthalocyanine complexes also showed activity in the oxidation of phenols bearing functional groups (alcohols, double bonds, benzylic, and allylic positions) [135]. Besides, silica-supported iron phthalocyanine catalysts were reported in the synthesis of menadione [136]. 

This is consistent with the observed products of oxidation, i.e. benzyl alcohol, benzaldehyde and benzoic acid and with the observed oxidation of cyclohexane. Radical-cations are, however, probably formed in oxidation of napthalene and anthracene. The increase of oxidation rate with acetonitrile concentration was intepreted in terms of a more reactive complex between Co(III) and CH3CN. The production of substituted benzophenones at high CH3CN concentration indicates the participation of a second route of oxidation. 

Whittlesey, Williams and co-workers fnrther developed the catalytic indirect Wittig reaction and fonnd that the more electron-rich NHC present in complex 18 provided a more reactive catalyst [8]. Catalyst 18 was used to convert benzyl alcohol 8 and phosphoninm ylide 19 into the product 20 under slightly milder reaction conditions and in a shorter time than in previous work (Scheme 11.4). Other C-C bond-forming reactions from alcohols using a borrowing hydrogen approach have been reported, with Peris and co-workers using Ir-NHC complexes for the C-3 alkylation of indoles with alcohols [9]. 

Benzylic, allylic and propargylic positions enhance the cathodic cleavage rate of C— heteroatom bonds as, for example, in the reduction of benzylic and allylic halides or alcohols . Similar activated sulphones, due to their acidity, are in a class apart. Figure 8 shows the similitude between the cathodic behaviour of an allylic sulphone and its isomer, i.e., the corresponding vinylic sulphone when the electrolyses are run in an aprotic solvent. However, in the presence of an excess of proton donor, discrepancies appear. 

The oxygen nucleophiles that are of primary interest in synthesis are the hydroxide ion (or water), alkoxide ions, and carboxylate anions, which lead, respectively, to alcohols, ethers, and esters. Since each of these nucleophiles can also act as a base, reaction conditions are selected to favor substitution over elimination. Usually, a given alcohol is more easily obtained than the corresponding halide so the halide-to-alcohol transformation is not used extensively for synthesis. The hydrolysis of benzyl halides to the corresponding alcohols proceeds in good yield. This can be a useful synthetic transformation because benzyl halides are available either by side chain halogenation or by the chloromethylation reaction (Section 11.1.3). 

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