Ammonia nucleophilic substitution

Amines like ammonia are weak bases They are however the strongest uncharged bases found m significant quantities under physiological conditions Amines are usually the bases involved m biological acid-base reactions they are often the nucleophiles m biological nucleophilic substitutions... 

Nucleophilic substitution by ammonia on a halo acids (Section 19 16) The a halo acids obtained by halogenation of car boxylic acids under conditions of the Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction are reac tive substrates in nucleophilic substitu tion processes A standard method for the preparation of a ammo acids is dis placement of halide from a halo acids by nucleophilic substitution using excess aqueous ammonia... 

Alkylamines are in principle capable of being prepared by nucleophilic substitution reactions of aUtyl halides with ammonia... 

One of the oldest methods for the synthesis of ammo acids dates back to the nineteenth century and is simply a nucleophilic substitution m which ammonia reacts with an a halo carboxylic acid... 

Amina.tlon, 2-Antinoquinoline [580-22-3] is obtained from quinoline in 80% yield by treatment with barium amide in Hquid ammonia (19). This product, as weU as 3-aminoquinoHne [580-17-6] and 4-antino quinoline [578-68-7], maybe obtained through nucleophilic substitution of the corresponding chloroquinolines with ammonia. 

Nucleophilic substitution of the chlorine atom in 2-chloropyrazine and 2-chloroquinoxa-lines has been effected with a variety of nucleophiles, including ammonia and amines, oxygen nucleophiles such as alkoxides, sodium azide, hydrazine, sulfur containing nucleophiles, cyanide, etc., and reactions of this type are typical of the group (see Chapter 2.02). 

Mononitration of a mixture of J- and 4 chlorobenzotnfluondes followed by nucleophilic substitution by hydroxide, ammonia, or a primary or secondary amine in dimethylformamide, leads to 5 chloro 2 nitrobenzotrifluoride The 4-chloro-3-nitro isomer selectively reacts and can be removed as a water-soluble phenoxide [19] (equation 16)... 

Arynes are intermediates in certain reactions of aromatic compounds, especially in some nucleophilic substitution reactions. They are generated by abstraction of atoms or atomic groups from adjacent positions in the nucleus and react as strong electrophiles and as dienophiles in fast addition reactions. An example of a reaction occurring via an aryne is the amination of o-chlorotoluene (1) with potassium amide in liquid ammonia. According to the mechanism given, the intermediate 3-methylbenzyne (2) is first formed and subsequent addition of ammonia to the triple bond yields o-amino-toluene (3) and m-aminotoluene (4). It was found that partial rearrangement of the ortho to the meta isomer actually occurs. 

Because of the ease of ring synthesis, symmetrically trisubstituted s-triazines have been more thoroughly studied, but a few nucleophilic substitutions of derivatives bearing a single leaving group are known. 2-Chloro-4,6-diphenyl- and 2-chloro-4,6-dimethyl-s-triazines (318) undergo facile nucleophilic displacements with ammonia, amines, and hydrazine, with alkoxide, or with hydrosulfide... 

The relatively poor resonance activation of the 2-Le-3-aza orientation in bicyclics (cf. Section IV, A) is illustrated by nucleophilic substitutions below. Vigorous conditions are required for methoxylation (110°, 17 hr, quantitative yield) of 3-bromocinnoline and for amination (aqueous ammonia, copper sulfate, 20 hr, high yield) of 3-bromo- (at 130°) or of 3-chloro-derivatives (at 165°). 3,4-Dichlorocinnoline gives predominantly 4-substitution in hydra-zination (90% yield, 20°, 4 days in alcohol), amination (70% yield, 150°, 22 hr in alcohol), and hydroxylation (50% yield, 150°, 22 hr, aqueous ammonia). The poorer-leaving phenoxy group in 3-chloro-4-phenoxycinnoline, is displaced with ammonium acetate (160°, few mins, 60% yield). ... 

A further factor which must also be taken into consideration from the point of view of the analytical applications of complexes and of complex-formation reactions is the rate of reaction to be analytically useful it is usually required that the reaction be rapid. An important classification of complexes is based upon the rate at which they undergo substitution reactions, and leads to the two groups of labile and inert complexes. The term labile complex is applied to those cases where nucleophilic substitution is complete within the time required for mixing the reagents. Thus, for example, when excess of aqueous ammonia is added to an aqueous solution of copper(II) sulphate, the change in colour from pale to deep blue is instantaneous the rapid replacement of water molecules by ammonia indicates that the Cu(II) ion forms kinetically labile complexes. The term inert is applied to those complexes which undergo slow substitution reactions, i.e. reactions with half-times of the order of hours or even days at room temperature. Thus the Cr(III) ion forms kinetically inert complexes, so that the replacement of water molecules coordinated to Cr(III) by other ligands is a very slow process at room temperature. 

Azide is widely useful as a surrogate for ammonia in nucleophilic substitution reactions, due to its high nucleophilicity, low basicity, and stability towards a variety of conditions for subsequent transformations. In particular, the azidolysis of... 

A long series of studies of aromatic nucleophilic substitution included the kinetics of reactions of l-chloro-2,4-bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)benzene, 3-nitro-4-chlorophenyl trifluoromethyl sulfone and 2-chlorophenyl trifluoromethyl sulfone with sodium methox-ide or ammonia in methanol . The SO2CF3 group was found to have an enormous accelerating effect, in accord with the value of 1.65, based on the dissociation of anilinium ion. Further examples of the promotion of nucleophilic aromatic substitution by fluoro-substituted sulfonyl groups are given by Yagupol skii and coworkers . 

Photochemical nucleophilic substitution of some simple anthraquinone derivatives has been reported by Griffiths and Hawkins.<145) Irradiation of 1-methoxyanthraquinone (90) in ammonia solution resulted primarily in 1-aminoanthraquinone (91) ... 

Such nucleophilic displacements are likely to be addition-elimination reactions, whether or not radical anions are also interposed as intermediates. The addition of methoxide ion to 2-nitrofuran in methanol or dimethyl sulfoxide affords a deep red salt of the anion 69 PMR shows the 5-proton has the greatest upfield shift, the 3- and 4-protons remaining vinylic in type.18 7 The similar additions in the thiophene series are less complete, presumably because oxygen is relatively electronegative and the furan aromaticity relatively low. Additional electronegative substituents increase the rate of addition and a second nitro group makes it necessary to use stopped flow techniques of rate measurement.141 In contrast, one acyl group (benzoyl or carboxy) does not stabilize an addition product and seldom promotes nucleophilic substitution by weaker nucleophiles such as ammonia. Whereas... 

The enormous number of coordination compounds undergo many reactions, but a large number of reactions can be classified into a small number of reaction types. When one ligand replaces another, the reaction is called a substitution reaction. For example, when ammonia is added to an aqueous solution containing Cu2+, water molecules in the coordination sphere of the Cu2+ are replaced by molecules of NH3. Ligands are held to metal ions because they are electron pair donors (Lewis bases). Lewis bases are nucleophiles (see Chapter 9), so the substitution of one nucleophile for another is a nucleophilic substitution reaction. Such a reaction can be illustrated as... 

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