Amines oxidized aromatic

Amine oxides, known as A[-oxides of tertiary amines, are classified as aromatic or aliphatic, depending on whether the nitrogen is part of an aromatic ring system or not. This stmctural difference accounts for the difference in chemical and physical properties between the two types. 

Aromatic amine oxides, produced on a much smaller scale and having some pharmaceutical importance, do not demonstrate the surface-acting properties that the aUphatic amine oxides do. 

Decomposition. Most amine oxides undergo thermal decomposition between 90 and 200 °C. Aromatic amine oxides generally decompose at higher tempeiatuies than ahphatic amine oxides and yield the patent amine. 

Reduction. Just as aromatic amine oxides are resistant to the foregoing decomposition reactions, they are more resistant than ahphatic amine oxides to reduction. Ahphatic amine oxides are readily reduced to tertiary amines by sulfurous acid at room temperature in contrast, few aromatic amine oxides can be reduced under these conditions. The ahphatic amine oxides can also be reduced by catalytic hydrogenation (27), with 2inc in acid, or with staimous chloride (28). For the aromatic amine oxides, catalytic hydrogenation with Raney nickel is a fairly general means of deoxygenation (29). Iron in acetic acid (30), phosphoms trichloride (31), and titanium trichloride (32) are also widely used systems for deoxygenation of aromatic amine oxides. 

Owiag to the lower basicity of the parent amines, aromatic amine oxides cannot be formed directiy by hydrogen peroxide oxidation. These compounds may be obtained by oxidation of the corresponding amine with a peracid perbenzoic, monoperphthaUc, and monopermaleic acids have been employed. 

E. 0(dcmi, Aromatic Amine Oxides, Elsevier Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1967. 

Oxidation. Aromatic amines can undergo a variety of oxidation reactions, depending on the oxidizing agent and the reaction conditions. For example, oxidation of aniline can lead to formation of phenyUiydroxylamine, nitrosobenzene, nitrobenzene, azobenzene, azoxybenzene or -benzoquinone. Oxidation was of great importance in the early stages of the development of aniline and the manufacture of synthetic dyes, such as aniline black and Perkin s mauve. 

Alkylamines react with leucoquinizarin in a stepwise manner to give l-alh anaino-4-hydroxyanthraquinone, and 1,4-diaLkylamino derivatives after air oxidation. Aromatic amines react similarly in the presence of boric acid as a catalyst. The complex formed (129) causes the less nucleophilic aromatic amines to attack at the 1-, and 4-positions. 

Amine oxides, prepared to protect tertiary amines during methylation and to prevent their protonation in diazotized aminopyridines, can be cleaved by reduction (e.g., SO2/H2O, 1 h, 22°, 63% yield H2/Pd-C, AcOH, AC2O, 7 h, 91% yield Zn/HCl, 30% yield). Photolytic reduction of an aromatic amine oxide has been reported [i.e., 4-nitropyridine A-oxide, 300 nm, (MeO)3PO/CH2Cl2, 15 min, 85-95% yieldl. ... 

The sulfated alkylbenzenesulfonamides (no. 7-8) and alkylaroylsulfo-propionates (no. 9) were found to be efficient lime soap dispersants [27]. Although the nonionics (nos. 10-11) had low LSDR values they did not potentiate the detergency of soap and exhibited some antagonism. Amphoteric surfactants with alkyl side chains from C12 to C18 (nos. 12-13) possessed the lowest LSDR values, ranging from 2 to 4. The amine oxide derived from an aromatic sulfonamide had a low LSDR of 5 close to that of amphoterics. 

Intramolecular Friedel-Crafts acylation of diaryl ketones Oxidation of phenols or aromatic amines Oxidation of aromatic hydrocarbons... 

In a first step oxidized aromatic amines are reduced with titanium(III) chloride in glacial acetic acid solution and then condensed to a colored Schiff s base with 4-(dimethylamino)-benzaldehyde (cf. Chapter 2). 

The oxidized aromatic amines yield yellow-colored chromatogram zones on a colorless background. 

Peroxodisulfate ions oxidize aromatic amines md phenols to colored derivatives, paitic ularly under the catalytic influence of silver ions [1-4]. 

Ben2yl azide 1855 and N-benzyloxycarbonylbenzylamine 1859 are both transformed by the cheap polymethylhydrosiloxane (PMHS) 1856, in the presence of (B0C)20 and Pd/C, into 92-94% N-BOC-benzylamine 1857 and the polymer 1858 [81]. (Scheme 12.22). Aromatic and aliphatic amine oxides are readily reduced by 1856/Pd/C into their corresponding amines. Thus, e.g., pyridine-N-oxide 860 and quinohne-N-oxide 877 give pyridine and quinohne in 90 and 92% yield, respectively. Analogously, benzyldimethylamine-N-oxide is converted in 88% yield into free benzyldimethylamine [82]. 

Much research has been carried out into direct amination of aromatic substrates, typified by the direct conversion of benzene to aniline using ammonia and a catalyst. Although there have been many patented routes conversions, are normally low, making them uneconomic. Modem catalysts based on rhodium and iridium, together with nickel oxide (which becomes reduced), have proved more active,and such is the research activity in this area that it is only a matter of time before such processes become widely used. 

Amine Oxides Catalytic hydrogenolyses of aromatic N-oxides occurs easily except if the N-O bond is hindered. Rh/C is the most active catalyst compared with Ru/C, Pt/C, and Pd/C, but this catalyst is unselective and reduces aromatic rings as well. N-Oxides can also be reduced in EtOH with a catalytic amount of Ra-Ni under hydrogen at 40°C for 1.5 hours.533... 

Amination of aromatic nitro compounds is a very important process in both industry and laboratory. A simple synthesis of 4-aminodiphenyl amine (4-ADPA) has been achieved by utilizing a nucleophilic aromatic substitution. 4-ADPA is a key intermediate in the rubber chemical family of antioxidants. By means of a nucleophibc attack of the anilide anion on a nitrobenzene, a o-complex is formed first, which is then converted into 4-nitrosodiphenylamine and 4-nitrodiphenylamine by intra- and intermolecular oxidation. Catalytic hydrogenation finally affords 4-ADPA. Azobenzene, which is formed as a by-product, can be hydrogenated to aniline and thus recycled into the process. Switching this new atom-economy route allows for a dramatic reduction of chemical waste (Scheme 9.9).73 The United States Environmental Protection Agency gave the Green Chemistry Award for this process in 1998.74... 

Hydroperoxides oxidize aromatic amines more readily than analogous phenols. Thus, at 368 K cumyl hydroperoxide oxidizes a-naphthylamine and a-naphthol with ku = 1.4 x 10 4 and 1.7 x 10 5L mol-1 s 1, respectively [115,118], The oxidation of amines with hydroperoxides occurs apparently by chain mechanism, since the step of free radical generation proceeds much more slowly. This was proved in experiments on amines oxidation by cumyl hydroperoxide in the presence of /V,/V -diphcnyl-l, 4-phcnylcnediamine (QH2) as a radical acceptor [125]. The following reactions were supposed to occur in solution (80% decane and 20% chlorobenzene) ... 

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