Dehydrogenation ammonia

Synthesis of dihydropyridines by condensation of two moles of a p-dicarbonyl compound with one mole of an aldehyde in the presence of ammonia. Dehydrogenation to the corresponding pyridine is accomplished with an oxidizing agent ... 

This reaction consists of the condensation of two molecular equivalents of a 1,3 diketone (or a J3-keto-ester) with one equivalent of an aldehyde and one of ammonia. Thus the interaction of ethyl acetoacetate and acetaldehyde and ammonia affords the 1,4-dihy dro-pyridine derivative (1), which when boiled with dilute nitric acid readily undergoes dehydrogenation and aromatisation" to gb e the diethyl ester of collidine (or 2,4,6-trimethyl-pyridine-3,5 dicarboxylic acid (II)). For the initial condensation the solid aldehyde-ammonia can conveniently be used in place of the separate reagents. 

This reaction is known as dehydrogenation and is si multaneously both a source of ethylene and one of the methods by which hydrogen is prepared on an in dustrial scale Most of the hydrogen so generated is subsequently used to reduce nitrogen to ammonia for the preparation of fertilizer... 

Heating butanediol or tetrahydrofuran with ammonia or an amine in the presence of an acidic heterogeneous catalyst gives pyrroHdines (135,136). With a dehydrogenation catalyst, one or both of the hydroxyl groups are replaced by amino groups (137). 

The 1,4-isomer has been similarly generated from terephthalonitdle [623-26-7] (56) using a mixed Pd/Ru catalyst and ammonia plus solvent at 125 °C and 10 MPa (100 atm). It is also potentially derived (57) from terephthaUc acid [100-21-0] by amination of 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol (30) [105-08-8], Endocyclization, however, competes favorably and results in formation of the secondary amine (31) 3-a2abicyclo[3.2.2]nonane [283-24-9] upon diol reaction with ammonia over dehydration and dehydrogenation catalysts (58) ... 

Ring expansion of ftve-membered ring heterocycHc compounds has been accompHshed to form pyridine derivatives. Reaction of tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol with ammonia gives pyridine (1) under dehydrogenating conditions, and gives piperidine (18) under reductive conditions. 

In a much different approach based on cyanamide, acrylonitrile, and acetonitrile, cyanoacetamidine [56563-07-6] (32) is cyanoethylated and the condensation product [56563-10-1] (33) is dehydrogenated and hydrogenated direcdy to Grewe diamine in the presence of Raney cobalt and ammonia (56). 

Dutch State Mines (Stamicarbon). Vapor-phase, catalytic hydrogenation of phenol to cyclohexanone over palladium on alumina, Hcensed by Stamicarbon, the engineering subsidiary of DSM, gives a 95% yield at high conversion plus an additional 3% by dehydrogenation of coproduct cyclohexanol over a copper catalyst. Cyclohexane oxidation, an alternative route to cyclohexanone, is used in the United States and in Asia by DSM. A cyclohexane vapor-cloud explosion occurred in 1975 at a co-owned DSM plant in Flixborough, UK (12) the plant was rebuilt but later closed. In addition to the conventional Raschig process for hydroxylamine, DSM has developed a hydroxylamine phosphate—oxime (HPO) process for cyclohexanone oxime no by-product ammonium sulfate is produced. Catalytic ammonia oxidation is followed by absorption of NO in a buffered aqueous phosphoric acid... 

The breadth of reactions catalyzed by cobalt compounds is large. Some types of reactions are hydrotreating petroleum (qv), hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, hydrodenitrification, hydrodesulfurization, selective oxidations, ammonoxidations, complete oxidations, hydroformylations, polymerizations, selective decompositions, ammonia (qv) synthesis, and fluorocarbon synthesis (see Fluorine compounds, organic). 

New aluminophosphate oxynitrides solid basic catalysts have been synthesised by activation under ammonia of an AIPO4 precursor. When the nitrogen content increases, XPS points out two types of nitrogen phosphorus bonding. The conversions in Knoevenagel condensation are related to the surface nitrogen content. Platinum supported on aluminophosphate oxynitride is an active catalyst for isobutane dehydrogenation. 

A novel basic support and catalyst have been prepared by activation of aluminium phosphate with ammonia. Fine control of time and temperature allows to adjust the 0/N ratio of these oxynitride solids and thus to tune the acid-base properties. The aluminophosphate oxynitrides are active in Knoevenagel condensation, but a basicity range can not yet determined. Supporting Pt or Pt/Sn on AlPONs allows to prepare catalysts that are highly active and selective in dehydrogenation reactions. 

Evidently this is a hydrogenation and the source of the hydrogen is benzylamine as indicated by the production of benzaldehyde and ammonia in equivalent amounts presumably the benzylamine is dehydrogenated to the imine C,HjCH =NH, which is then hydrolysed. In the absence of hexamine, the maximum yield of benzaldehyde is 50 per cent. When hexamine is added to the reaction mixture, the yield of aldehyde is increased and that of methylbenzylamine is decreased, and methyl-amine is present at the end of the reaction. Hexamine reacts as the methylene derivative of ammonia, CH2=NH, which is hydrogenated to methylamine. The fundamental stage of the Sommelet reaction may be written as ... 

More convenient synthetic access to 15 is provided by the sequence in Figure 13 (68). Alkylation of the potassium salt of 2,6-dimethoxy-1,4-cyclohexadiene with 2-(2-naphthyl)ethy1 bromide in liquid ammonia followed by mild acidic hydrolysis generated the diketone (16). Cyclization of 16 in polyphosphoric acid took place smoothly in the desired direction to afford the partially saturated ketone which underwent dehydrogenation with DDQ to 15. 

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