Ammonium salts, alkyl amines

Antistatic additives are designed to be present on the surface of the molded part to achieve the full antistatic benefit. The types of additives used to enhance antistatic properties include quaternary ammonium salts, alkyl sulfonates or phosphate plus alkali metals, ethoxylated amines, or gylcerol esters. Antistatics are typically used at higher levels than other additives such as antioxidants. Therefore, antistatics are likely to increase light scattering, making it more difficult to achieve the higher chroma colors. 

Short alkyl groups (totaling four carbon atoms or less), including the pyridine nucleus, surrounding the N in quaternary ammonium salts or amine oxides, appear to have little effect. In these cases efficiency of adsorption seems to be determined almost exclusively by the length of the long carbon chain attached to the N. 

Corrosion inhibitors for mineral oils include alkyl imidazoles, amines, aminopyridines, quaternary ammonium salts, alkyl sulfonates, borate esters, hydroxy amines, naphthenic acids, phosphate esters, and stearates. 

Our compatriot N. A. Menshutkin made a great contribution to the development of the kinetics. In 1877 he studied in detail the reaction of formation and Iqrdrolysis of esters from various acids and alcohols and was the first to formulate the problem of the dependence of the reactivity of reactants on flieir chemical structure. Five years later when he studied the hydrolysis of tert-zmy acetate, he discovered and described the autocatalysis phenomenon (acetic acid formed in ester hydrolysis accelerates the hydrolysis). In 1887-, studying the formation of quaternary ammonium salts from amines and alkyl halides, he found a strong influence of the solvoit on the rate of this reaction (Menschutkin reaction) and stated the problem of studying the medium effect on the reaction rate in a solution. In 1888 N. A. Menschutkin introduced the term chmical kinetics in his monograph Outlines of Development of Chemical Views. ... 

Amines are powerful nucleophiles which react under neutral or slightly basic conditions with several electron-accepting carbon reagents. The reaction of alkyl halides with amines is useful for the preparation of tertiary amines or quaternary ammonium salts. The conversion of primary amines into secondary amines is usually not feasible since the secondary amine tends towards further alkylation. 

Even the tertiary amine competes with ammonia for the alkylating agent The product is a quaternary ammonium salt... 

A second alkylation may follow converting the secondary amine to a tertiary amine Alkylation need not stop there the tertiary amine may itself be alkylated giving a qua ternary ammonium salt... 

Ammonia can act as a nucleophile toward primary and some secondary alkyl halides to give primary alkylamines Yields tend to be modest because the primary amine IS itself a nucleophile and undergoes alkylation Alkylation of ammonia can lead to a mixture containing a primary amine a secondary amine a tertiary amine and a quaternary ammonium salt... 

Alkylation (Section 22 12) Amines act as nucleophiles toward alkyl halides Pri mary amines yield secondary amines secondary amines yield tertiary amines and tertiary amines yield quaternary ammonium salts... 

The Leuckart reaction uses formic acid as reducing agent. Reductive alkylation using formaldehyde, hydrogen, and catalyst, usually nickel, is used commercially to prepare methylated amines. These tertiary amines are used to prepare quaternary ammonium salts. 

The nitrogen of aHphatic and aromatic amines is alkylated rapidly by alkyl sulfates yielding the usual mixtures. Most tertiary amines and nitrogen heterocycles are converted to quaternary ammonium salts, unless the nitrogen is of very low basicity, eg, ia tn phenylamine. The position of dimethyl sulfate-produced methylation of several heterocycles with more than one heteroatom has been examined (22). Acyl cyanamides can be methylated (23). Metal cyanates are converted to methyl isocyanate or ethyl isocyanate ia high yields by heating the mixtures (24,25). 

For solvent extraction of pentavalent vanadium as a decavanadate anion, the leach solution is acidified to ca pH 3 by addition of sulfuric acid. Vanadium is extracted in about four countercurrent mixer—settler stages by a 3—5 wt % solution of a tertiary alkyl amine in kerosene. The organic solvent is stripped by a soda-ash or ammonium hydroxide solution, and addition of ammoniacal salts to the rich vanadium strip Hquor yields ammonium metavanadate. A small part of the metavanadate is marketed in that form and some is decomposed at a carefully controlled low temperature to make air-dried or fine granular pentoxide, but most is converted to fused pentoxide by thermal decomposition at ca 450°C, melting at 900°C, then chilling and flaking. 

Low surface energy substrates, such as polyethylene or polypropylene, are generally difficult to bond with adhesives. However, cyanoacrylate-based adhesives can be effectively utilized to bond polyolefins with the use of the proper primer/activa-tor on the surface. Primer materials include tertiary aliphatic and aromatic amines, trialkyl ammonium carboxylate salts, tetraalkyl ammonium salts, phosphines, and organometallic compounds, which are initiators for alkyl cyanoacrylate polymerization [33-36]. The primer is applied as a dilute solution to the polyolefin surface, solvent is allowed to evaporate, and the specimens are assembled with a small amount of the adhesive. With the use of primers, adhesive strength can be so strong that substrate failure occurs during the course of the shear tests, as shown in Fig. 11. 

Tertiary amines from quaternary ammonium salts by migration of an alkyl group... 

Quaternary ammonium salts. Salts of alkyl amines. Alkyl chain substituted cyclic amines Acidic pH range Alkaline pH range... 

Ammonia and other amines are good nucleophiles in SN2 reactions. As a result, the simplest method of alkylamine synthesis is by Sn2 alkylation of ammonia or an alkylamine with an alky) halide. If ammonia is used, a primary amine results if a primary amine is used, a secondary amine results and so on. Even tertiary amines react rapidly with alkyl halides to yield quaternary ammonium salts, R4N+ X-... 

We ve already studied the two most general reactions of amines—alkylation and acylation. As we saw earlier in this chapter, primary, secondary, and tertiary amines can be alkylated by reaction with a primary alkyl halide. Alkylations of primary and secondary amines are difficult to control and often give mixtures of products, but tertiary amines are cleanly alkylated to give quaternary ammonium salts. Primary and secondary (but not tertiary) amines can also be acylated by nucleophilic acyl substitution reaction with an acid chloride or an acid anhydride to yield an amide (Sections 21.4 and 21.5). Note that overacylation of the nitrogen does not occur because the amide product is much less nucleophilic and less reactive than the starting amine. 

Tertiary aliphatic amines are also cleaved by HI, but useful products are seldom obtained. Tertiary amines can be cleaved by reaction with phenyl chloroformate R3N -h ClCOOPh —> RCl 4- R2NCOOPh. a-Chloroethyl chloroformate behaves similarly.Alkyl halides may be formed when quaternary ammonium salts are heated R4N+X" R3N -)- RX. ... 

Benzylic quaternary ammonium salts, when treated with alkali metal amides, undergo a rearrangement called the Sommelet-Hauser rearrangementSince the product is a benzylic tertiary amine, it can be further alkylated and the product again subjected to the rearrangement. This process can be continued around the ring until an ortho position is blocked. ... 

Tertiary amines react with alkyl halides to form quaternary ammonium salts... 

The alkyl halide (ethyl bromide in the above equation) can react further with the primary amine produced to give a secondary amine and with that to form a tertiary amine and finally a quaternary ammonium salt. Quaternary ammonium hydroxides are very strong bases like sodium hydroxide. Tetramethylammonium hydroxide is a very important chemical used in the manufacture of semiconductors and other electronic industry products. 

Certain quaternary ammonium salts will alkylate [Co (DMG)2py] . The addition of PhCH2NMc3 I to a solution of the complex in methanol gives the PhCH2Co complex in 45% yield. The reaction works more slowly with dimethylpiperidinium iodide to give the CH3—Co complex 15). There is no alkylation with tertiary amines alone 164), but in the presence of equimolar amounts of dimethylacetylenedicarboxylate certain aliphatic tertiary amines can alkylate [Co (DMG)2py] in methanol solution. The reaction also produces the enamine derivative of a maleic ester, and the mechanism appears to involve addition of the amine to the triple bond to form an ammonium salt, which can then attack the Co(I) derivative (75). 

H). On the other hand, the synthesis of unsymmetricaUy iV,iV -substituted congeners is less straightforward as a functionalised imidazole has to be isolated prior to alkylation or arylation. Two main methods are available for imidazole functionaU-sation deprotonation with metalUc Na or K leading to an imidazoUde (I) followed by reaction with RX or reaction of glyoxal with a primary amine, an ammonium salt and formaldehyde (J). Al-functionalised imidazole can then be alkylated or... 

A thio-substituted, quaternary ammonium salt can be synthesized by the Michael addition of an alkyl thiol to acrylamide in the presence of benzyl trimethyl ammonium hydroxide as a catalyst [793-795]. The reaction leads to the crystallization of the adducts in essentially quantitative yield. Reduction of the amides by lithium aluminum hydride in tetrahydrofuran solution produces the desired amines, which are converted to desired halide by reaction of the methyl iodide with the amines. The inhibitor is useful in controlling corrosion such as that caused by CO2 and H2S. 

The alkylation of neutral amines by halides is complicated from a synthetic point of view by the possibility of multiple alkylation that can proceed to the quaternary ammonium salt in the presence of excess alkyl halide. 

Secondary amines, such as pyrrolidine, must be alkylated with care too polar a solvent leads to participation of a second nearby polymer-bound alkylant in the formation of a quaternary ammonium salt, along with the desired immobilized trialkyl amine. The exception, as seen above, is diisopropylamine, which refuses to displace tosylate even in the refluxing pure amine, or in hot dimethyl-formamide or other polar solvent, while metal diisopropylamide is notorious as a powerful non-nucleophilic base. However, carboxamide is not difficult to form from (carboxymethyl)polystyrene, again using toluenesulfonyl chloride as condensing agent this can then be reduced to (diisopropyl-ethylaminoethyl)polystyrene, which is of interest as a polymer-bound non-nucleophilic base. ... 

Surfactants are also used to break low mobility oil emulsions. Organic amines and quaternary ammonium salts (128), alkylphenol ethoxylates (128), poly(ethylene oxide-co-propylene oxide-co-propylene glycol) (129) and alkyl- or alkylaryl polyoxyalkylene phosphate esters (130) are among the surfactants that have been used. 

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