Aldoxim

In a 250 ml. conical flask mix a solution of 14 g. of sodium hydroxide in 40 ml. of water and 21 g. (20 ml.) of pure benzaldehyde (Section IV,115). Add 15 g. of hydroxylamine hydrochloride in small portions, and shake the mixture continually (mechanical stirring may be employed with advantage). Some heat is developed and the benzaldehyde eventually disappears. Upon coohiig, a crystalline mass of the sodium derivative separates out. Add sufficient water to form a clear solution, and pass carbon dioxide into the solution until saturated. A colourless emulsion of the a or syn-aldoxime separates. Extract the oxime with ether, dry the extract over anhydrous magnesium or sodium sulphate, and remove the ether on a water bath. Distil the residue under diminished pressure (Fig. 11,20, 1). Collect the pure syn-benzaldoxime (a-benzald-oxime) at 122-124°/12 mm. this gradually solidifies on cooling in ice and melts at 35°. The yield is 12 g. 

Veratronitrile, Dissolve 83 g. of veratraldehyde in 200 ml. of warm rectified spirit in a 1 litre bolt-head flask, and add a warm solution of 42 g. of hydroxylamine hydrochloride in 50 ml. of water. Mix thoroughly and run in a solution of 30 g. of sodium hydroxide in 40 ml. of water. Allow the mixture to stand for 2-5 hours, add 250 g. of crushed ice, and saturate the solution with carbon dioxide. The aldoxime separates as an oil allow the mixture to stand for 12-24 hours in an ice chest or refrigerator when the oil will sohdify. Filter off the crystalline aldoxime at the pump, wash well with cold water, and dry in the air upon filter paper. The yield of veratraldoxime is 88 g. 

Internal nitroalkenes can be reduced to the corresponding ketox-imes by SnCla. The second method is a modification of the first, also allowing terminal nitroalkenes (such as nitrostyrenes) to be reduced to aldoximes. The oximes, in turn, can either be reduced to the corresponding amines, or cleaved to form the carbonyl compound. 

BORSCHE - BEECH Aromatic Aldehyde Synthesis Synthesis of aromatic aldehydes and of akyl aryl ketones from aldoximes or semcaibazones and aromatic dlazonum salts... 

A variety of bifunctional compounds react with the bismaleimides to form polymers by rearrangement reactions. These include amines, sulphides and aldoximes (Figure 18.41). 

Tnfluoroacetic anhydride is an efficient dehydrating reagent [46, 47] In the presence of pyndine, it smoothly dehydrates amides and aldoximes to the correspond ing nitriles [46] and adducts of CH-acids and 1,2,3-indantnone [47] (equation 20)... 

It uill be easily understood from these formula why the /3-compound should yield bcn/onitrile vith acetic anhydride whilst thea-compoiind does not. Thepio imity of hydrogen and hydioxyl m the former case facilitates the formation and elimination of water. In this way the configuration of most of the aldoximes may be ascertained. 

The tautomerism of heteroaromatic aldoximes between forms of types 342 and 343 has been investigated by the basicity method and... 

The reaction of diacetylene with cyanic acid (HCNO) proceeds at room temperature in the presence of sulfuric acid in aqueous methanol to give 3-formyl-5,5 -diisoxazol-3 -aldoxime (85) and 3,3 -diformyl-5,5 -diisoxazoldioxime (86), whose oxidation with potassium permanganate followed by esterification results in 3,3 -dicarbomethoxy-5,5 -diisoxazoles (87) (59G598). 

The rearrangement of oximes 1 under the influence of acidic reagents to yield A -substituted carboxylic amides 2, is called the Beckmann rearrangement. The reaction is usually applied to ketoximes aldoximes often are less reactive. 

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