Bromide, alkyl synthesis from alcohol

Anhydrous HBr is available in cylinders (6.8-kg and 68-kg capacity) under its own vapour pressure (24 atm at 25°C) and in lecture bottles (450-g capacity). Its main industrial use is in the manufacture of inorganic bromides and the synthesis of alkyl bromides either from alcohols or by direct addition to alkenes. HBr also catalyses numerous organic reactions. Aqueous HBr (48% and 62%) is available as a corrosive pale-yellow liquid in drums or in large tank trailers (15 0001 and 38 0001). 

Alkylations. An ether synthesis from alcohols and alkyl bromides is promoted by CsOH and BU4NI in the presence of molecular sieves 4A in DMF at room temperature. 

The synthesis of these disubstituied thioureas takes place in three steps. First the alkyl bromide is prepared by the action of hydrobromic acid on the corresponding alcohol (518). Then the dialkylcyanamide is obtained by treatment at 25°C with calcium cyanamide. The yields are of the order of 30 to 60%. Thioureas are obtained in a third step from the cyanamide by reaction at 40 C with HjS in the presence of pyridine. Yields ranged from 57 to 90% (518),... 

Both reactants m the Williamson ether synthesis usually originate m alcohol pre cursors Sodium and potassium alkoxides are prepared by reaction of an alcohol with the appropriate metal and alkyl halides are most commonly made from alcohols by reaction with a hydrogen halide (Section 4 7) thionyl chloride (Section 4 13) or phosphorus tri bromide (Section 4 13) Alternatively alkyl p toluenesulfonates may be used m place of alkyl halides alkyl p toluenesulfonates are also prepared from alcohols as their imme diate precursors (Section 8 14)... 

A considerable amount of hydrobromic acid is consumed in the manufacture of inorganic bromides, as well as in the synthesis of alkyl bromides from alcohols. The acid can also be used to hydrobrominate olefins (qv). The addition can take place by an ionic mechanism, usually in a polar solvent, according to Markownikoff s rule to yield a secondary alkyl bromide. Under the influence of a free-radical catalyst, in aprotic, nonpolar solvents, dry hydrogen bromide reacts with an a-olefin to produce a primary alkyl bromide as the predominant product. Primary alkyl bromides are useful in synthesizing other compounds and are 40—60 times as reactive as the corresponding chlorides (6). 

The Aggarwal group has used chiral sulfide 7, derived from camphorsulfonyl chloride, in asymmetric epoxidation [4]. Firstly, they prefonned the salt 8 from either the bromide or the alcohol, and then formed the ylide in the presence of a range of carbonyl compounds. This process proved effective for the synthesis of aryl-aryl, aryl-heteroaryl, aryl-alkyl, and aryl-vinyl epoxides (Table 1.2, Entries 1-5). 

Yields of chlorides are good to excellent for primary and secondary alcohols, but a competing olefin-forming elimination process renders the method of limited value for preparing tertiary chlorides.12 An adaptation of the procedure using carbon tetrabromide allows the synthesis of alkyl bromides. Some examples are the preparation of rt-C5H11Br (97%) and C H6CH2Br (96%).12 Farncsyl bromide has been prepared in 90% yield from fame sol.23... 

DIMETHYL-3-PHENYLPRO-PIONALDEHYDE, 54, 46 Alkylboranes, oxidation, 52, 59 synthesis, 52, 59 Alkyl bromides, from alcohols, 54, 66... 

The corresponding thioether fnnctionalised NHC without a second chiral wingtip gronp bnt an asymmetric carbon atom in the thioether sidearm was also synthesised by Ros et al. [261], However, we will tnrn our attention towards a similar example from the same research gronp [262] where the NHC is pyrido[a] annulated [263], The synthesis is again rather facile and follows standard procedures (see Figure 4.86). The chiral thioether precursor compound is accessible as the alcohol and needs to be treated with tetrabromomethane and PPhj to generate the required primary alkyl bromide. 

Synthesis of Alcohol from Alkyl Halides.—This is shown also in the converse way by the fact that in the reaction as given only a portion of the alcohol is converted into ethyl bromide because when a certain... 

Replacement of the hydroxyl group of secondary and tertiary alcohols by a chlorine atom can be achieved by use of BiCl3 or Mc.SifJ-l iClj [211, 212], Secondary and tertiary alkyl bromides and iodides are converted to the corresponding chlorides and bromides by treatment with BiXs (X=C1, Br Scheme 14.103) [213]. The BiBrs-promoted nucleophilic substitution of O-acetylated /i-D-ribofuranose is used in the synthesis of //-n-nucleoside derivatives [214]. Cyclic carbonates are formed from terminal epoxides and DMF in the BiBrs-catalyzed reaction under an O2 atmosphere [215]. 

The synthesis of two alkyl halides from alcohols is the basis for these experiments. In the first experiment, a primary alkyl halide n-butyl bromide is prepared as... 

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