Amine hydrochlorides

A certain amount of hydrolysis of the original acetamide to acid and ammonia always occurs, and the final amine always contains traces of ammonia. This is separated by extracting the mixed anhydrous hydrochlorides with absolute ethanol, which dissolves the amine hydrochloride but not the ammonium chloride filtration of the hot ethanolic extract removes the ammonium chloride, whilst the amine hydrochloride crystallises readily from the filtrate on cooling. 

In preparing an aqueous sol ution of a diazonium salt, such as benzene-diazonium chloride, it is usual to dissolve the amine in a slight excess (about 2 2 molecular equivalents) of dilute hydrochloric acid (or alternatively to dissolve the crystalline amine hydrochloride in i 2 equivalents of the acid) and then add an aqueous solution of a metallic nitrite. Nitrous acid is thus generated in situ, and reacts with the amine salt to give the diazonium compound. For a successful preparation of an aqueous solution of the diazonium salt, however, two conditions must always be observed ... 

Chill the concentrated solution of the amine hydrochloride in ice-water, and then cautiously with stirring add an excess of 20% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution to liberate the amine. Pour the mixture into a separating-funnel, and rinse out the flask or basin with ether into the funnel. Extract the mixture twice with ether (2 X25 ml.). Dry the united ether extracts over flake or powdered sodium hydroxide, preferably overnight. Distil the dry filtered extract from an apparatus similar to that used for the oxime when the ether has been removed, distil the amine slowly under water-pump pressure, using a capillary tube having a soda-lime guard - tube to ensure that only dry air free from carbon dioxide passes through the liquid. Collect the amine, b.p. 59-61°/12 mm. at atmospheric pressure it has b.p. 163-164°. Yield, 18 g. 

II This dual tilling permits the absorption of both acid smd basic vapours which may be evolved. Thus an amine hydrochloride, which has been recrystallised from concentrated hydrochloric acid, may be readily dried in such a desiccator. If concentrated sulphuric acid alone were used, so much hydrogen chloride would be liberated that tlie pressure inside the desiccator would rise considerably, smd the rate of drying would be reduced. With sodium hydroxide present, however, the hydrogen chloride is removed, smd tho water is absorbed in the normal manner by the reagents but largely by the acid. 

Dilute hydrochloric or sulphuric acid finds application in the extraction of basic substances from mixtures or in the removal of basic impurities. The dilute acid converts the base e.g., ammonia, amines, etc.) into a water-soluble salt e.g., ammonium chloride, amine hydrochloride). Thus traces of aniline may be separated from impure acetanilide by shaking with dilute hydrochloric acid the aniline is converted into the soluble salt (aniline hydrochloride) whilst the acetanilide remains unaffected. 

When ammonium chloride is heated to a higher temperature (160°) with a large excess of anhydrous formaldehyde (as paraformaldehyde), trimethyl-amine hydrochloride (trimethylammonium chloride) may be obtained ... 

The modified procedure involves refluxing the N-substituted phthaUmide in alcohol with an equivalent quantity of hydrazine hydrate, followed by removal of the alcohol and heating the residue with hydrochloric acid on a steam bath the phthalyl hydtazide produced is filtered off, leaving the amine hydrochloride in solution. The Gabriel synthesis has been employed in the preparation of a wide variety of amino compounds, including aliphatic amines and amino acids it provides an unequivocal synthesis of a pure primary amine. 

The experimental conditions necessary for the preparation of a solution of a diazonium salt, diazotisation of a primary amine, are as follows. The amine is dissolved in a suitable volume of water containing 2 5-3 equivalents of hydrochloric acid (or of sulphuric acid) by the application of heat if necessary, and the solution is cooled in ice when the amine hydrochloride (or sulphate) usually crystallises. The temperature is maintained at 0-5°, an aqueous solution of sodium nitrite is added portion-wise until, after allowing 3-4 minutes for reaction, the solution gives an immediate positive test for excess of nitrous acid with an external indicator—moist potassium iodide - starch paper f ... 

The precipitated amine hydrochloride (or sulphate), if any, dissolves during the diazotisation to give a clear solution of the highly soluble diazonium salt. The general reaction may be written ... 

Method 1 (from the amine hydrochloride). Dissolve 13 Og. of anihne hydrochloride in 200 ml. of water and filter, if necessary, from any insoluble matter into a 350 ml. beaker or conical flask. Add a solution of 6-5 g, of pure sodium cyanate in 50 ml. of warm water. Allow to stand for a few hours until crystallisation is complete. Filter with suction on a Buchner funnel, and wash with a little cold water. Dry in the steam... 

Acetyl chloride is not so satisfactory since an equivalent quantity of the amine hydrochloride is simultaneously produced ... 

It will be observed that the reaction involves two equivalents of the amine and produces, in addition to the substituted amide, an equivalent quantity of the amine hydrochloride. Acetic anhydride, on the other hand, converts the amine quantitatively into the acyl derivative, for example ... 

To illustrate the specific operations involved, the scheme below shows the first steps and the final detachment reaction of a peptide synthesis starting from the carboxyl terminal. N-Boc-glycine is attached to chloromethylated styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer resin. This polymer swells in organic solvents but is completely insoluble. ) Treatment with HCl in acetic acid removes the fert-butoxycarbonyl (Boc) group as isobutene and carbon dioxide. The resulting amine hydrochloride is neutralized with triethylamine in DMF. 

Hexanitrostilbene may be prepared by a dding a solution of TNT ia tetrahydrofuran and methanol at 5°C to aqueous sodium hypochlorite. To this mixture a 20% solution of trimethyl amine hydrochloride is added at 5—15°C. Hexanitrostilbene precipitates, and is filtered and washed with methanol and... 

Pentamethylphosphorotriamide. Of the phosphoramide derivatives, pentamethylphosphorotriamide [10159-46-3] is the most effective finish when appHed to fabric in conjunction with dimethylolmelamine and an amine hydrochloride catalyst. The finished fabric passes the FF3-71 flammabihty test. Its main appHcation is for use on heavyweight clothes since the finish imparts a harsh hand to lightweight fabrics (99). 

A variation of this method involves the conversion of the amine into the amine hydrochloride prior to treatment with phosgene. This method has the advantage of producing generally cleaner products by retarding the secondary reaction of the free amine with carbamoyl chloride. 

Condensation of an o-nitrosophenol with an amine hydrochloride in acetic acid (10) Nile Blue [2381-85-3] is formed from the hydrochloride of 1-naphthyl amine. 

An assay method for benzaldehyde involves condensing benzaldehyde with hydroxyl amine hydrochloride to form an oxime. The released hydrochloric acid is then titrated. 

Carbonyl-containing and unsaturated materials are removed by treatment with sodium borohydride (227,228) and boric acid (229). Other methods used to remove carbonyl impurities include treatment with hydroxyl amine hydrochloride, potassium permanganate, or A/-hydroxyben2enesulfonamide (229). 

Dissociation extraction is the process of using chemical reac tion to force a solute to transfer from one liquid phase to another. One example is the use of a sodium hydroxide solution to extract phenolics, acids, or mercaptans from a hydrocarbon stream. The opposite transfer can be forced by adding an acid to a sodium phenate stream to spring the phenolic back to a free phenol that can be extrac ted into an organic solvent. Similarly, primary, secondary, and tertiary amines can be protonated with a strong acid to transfer the amine into a water solution, for example, as an amine hydrochloride salt. Conversely, a strong base can be added to convert the amine salt back to free base, which can be extracted into a solvent. This procedure is quite common in pharmaceutical production. 

Phenylpftenanttirldlne (3).3 Amine hydrochloride 1 (2.72 g, 9 28 mmol) in EtOH (75 mL) was treated with 0 926 N cold solution of KCXI. Colorless crystals appear The mixture was shaken lor 30 mtn in ice, water was added and the product was filtered and dryed (PaOs) to afford 2.7 g of 2 (100%), rnp 102°C (hexane) 2 (2 0 g, 6 6 mmol) in anh pyndine (20 mL) was treated with an excess of NaOCHa (exothermc) Alter 20 h the solvent was removed In vacuum, the residua triturated with EtaO and the extract treated with dry HCI to obtain the hydrochlonda of 3, mp 107-108°C (from petroleum ether), mp 95-100° (Irom water) Olphenylmethyieneanlllna (5). To a suspension of lead tetraacetate (4.9 g, fO mmol) in PhH (100 mL) under Na was added a solution of tnphenyhnethylamine 4 (2 6 g, 10 mmol) in PhH (100 mL) dropwise under stirring The mixture was refluxed for 1 h, cooled, filtered, washed and the solvent evaporated The residue was crystallized from EtOH to give 2 2 g of 5 (85%), mp 111-112°C. 

C. Thiete 1,1-dioxide. A sample of 3-chlorothietane l,l-d1ox1de (8.0 g, 0.057 mol) Is dissolved In dry toluene (300 ml) (Note 7) In a 500-mL, twonecked, round-bottomed flask equipped with a reflux condenser, magnetic stirrer, heating mantle (or silicone oil bath), and thermometer. The reaction Is heated to 60° C and tri ethyl amine (28.7 g, 0.28 mol, 39,5 ml) Is added through the condenser. The reaction mixture Is stirred for 4 hr and triethyl-amine hydrochloride is removed by filtration and washed with toluene (100 mL), Toluene is removed on a rotary evaporator and the residue is recrystallized from diethyl ether-ethanol (Note 8) to give a white solid (4.5-4.8 g, 75-81 ) mp 49-50°C (llt mp 52-54°C). 

Alternatively, the amine may be dissolved in a suitable solvent (e.g. toluene) and dry HCl gas is passed through the solution to precipitate the amine hydrochloride. This is purified by recrystallisation firom a suitable solvent mixture (e.g. ethanol/diethyl ether). The free amine can be regenerated by adding sodium hydroxide and isolated as above. 

These substances contain the -C=NH group and, because they are strong, unstable bases, they are kept as their more stable salts, such as the hydrochlorides. (The free base usually hydrolyses to the corresponding oxo compound and ammonia.) Like amine hydrochlorides, the salts are purified by solution in alcohol containing a few drops of hydrochloric acid. After treatment with charcoal, and filtering, dry diethyl ether (or petroleum ether if ethanol is used) is added until crystallisation sets in. The salts are dried and kept in a vacuum desiccator. 

Bis-(3-chloroetbyl)amine hydrochloride [821-48-7] M 178.5, m 214-215 , pKEst 5.8 (free base). Crystd from Mc2CO. 

Tri-n-octylamine [1116-76-3] M 353.7, b 164-168 /0.7mm, 365-367 /760mm, d 0.813, n 1.450, pK 10.65. It was converted to the amine hydrochloride etherate which was recrystd four times from diethyl ether at -30° (see below). Neutralisation of this salt regenerated the free amine. [Wilson and Wogman J Phys Chem 66 1552 1962.] Distd at l-2mm pressure. 

The present method is applicable with slight modifications to the preparation of both the ortho and para aminonaphthols and to many homologues, benzologues, and heterocyclic isologues of these substances. The chief feature of novelty is in the use of stannous chloride as an antioxidant in preparing and crystallizing the amine hydrochlorides. 

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