Aniline diazotization

When treated with aniline, diazotized aniline (benzenediazonium chloride) yields, apart from a small quantity of 4-aminoazobenzene (33), diazoaminoben-zene (34) as the main product ... 

With simple E components, greenish-yellows are obtained with phenols and anilines, reddish-yellows with naphthols, oranges and with certain aminophenols, reds. The dia-zonium component also contributes to the final color. Naphthylamines give deeper shades than anilines. Diazotization and coupling affords intermediates used in the manufacture of other dyes. 

Aniline diazotized at 0° with aq. NaNO in aq. HGl, the resulting diazonium salt soln. added dropwise with stirring at 0 to malonic acid in dimethyl-formamide-pyridine, and the product isolated after 4 hrs. ->N,N, G-triphenyl-formazan. Y 44%. F. e. s. F. A. Neugebauer and B. Kiichler, A. 706, 104 (1967). 

It is prepared by an intramolecular transformation of diazoaminobenzene in the presence of aniline hydrochloride, or in one stage by diazotizing a solution of aniline and aniline hydrochloride with an insufficient amount of nitrous acid. 

The most important reaction of the diazonium salts is the condensation with phenols or aromatic amines to form the intensely coloured azo compounds. The phenol or amine is called the secondary component, and the process of coupling with a diazonium salt is the basis of manufacture of all the azo dyestuffs. The entering azo group goes into the p-position of the benzene ring if this is free, otherwise it takes up the o-position, e.g. diazotized aniline coupled with phenol gives benzeneazophenol. When only half a molecular proportion of nitrous acid is used in the diazotization of an aromatic amine a diazo-amino compound is formed. 

It is prepared by heating aniline sulphate for 8 hours at l C. It readily diazotizes and is used as first component in a large variety of azo dyes. 

The diazonium salts 145 are another source of arylpalladium com-plexes[114]. They are the most reactive source of arylpalladium species and the reaction can be carried out at room temperature. In addition, they can be used for alkene insertion in the absence of a phosphine ligand using Pd2(dba)3 as a catalyst. This reaction consists of the indirect substitution reaction of an aromatic nitro group with an alkene. The use of diazonium salts is more convenient and synthetically useful than the use of aryl halides, because many aryl halides are prepared from diazonium salts. Diazotization of the aniline derivative 146 in aqueous solution and subsequent insertion of acrylate catalyzed by Pd(OAc)2 by the addition of MeOH are carried out as a one-pot reaction, affording the cinnamate 147 in good yield[115]. The A-nitroso-jV-arylacetamide 148 is prepared from acetanilides and used as another precursor of arylpalladium intermediate. It is more reactive than aryl iodides and bromides and reacts with alkenes at 40 °C without addition of a phosphine ligandfl 16]. 

Yields can be very good Beyer (402) reports a 90% yield when coupling 2-amino-4-phenylthiazole with the diazonium salt of aniline. The coupling of diazotized anilines under modified conditions has been reported in a work treating the preparation of antineoplastics (403). 

Amino-5-methylthiazole does not react with diazotized p-nitroaniline in solutions acidified with acetic or hydrochloric acid (391). 2-Amino-4,5-dimethylthiazole with the diazonium salts of para-substituted anilines, however, gives product 193, involving reactivity of the exocyclic nitrogen (Scheme 122) (399). 

Fluoroaromatics are produced on an industrial scale by diazotization of substituted anilines with sodium nitrite or other nitrosating agents in anhydrous hydrogen fluoride, followed by in situ decomposition (fluorodediazoniation) of the aryldiazonium fluoride (21). The decomposition temperature depends on the stabiHty of the diazonium fluoride (22,23). A significant development was the addition of pyridine (24), tertiary amines (25), and ammonium fluoride (or bifluoride) (26,27) to permit higher decomposition temperatures (>50° C) under atmospheric pressure with minimum hydrogen fluoride loss. 

Both 2- and 3-nitrothiophenes are reduced by tin and hydrochloric acid to the corresponding aminothiophenes. In contrast to anilines, the free bases are very unstable their salts and acyl derivatives, however, are stable. 2-Aminothiophene can be diazotized and the resulting diazonium salt coupled with /3- naphthol. The chemical instability of aminothiophenes compared with aniline is illustrated by the ring opening of 2-amino-3-ethoxycar-bonylthiophenes (157) with ethanolic sodium ethoxide to give cyanothiolenones (158) <75JPR861). 

Aminofurans substituted with electron-withdrawing groups e.g. NO2) are known and 3-amino-2-methylfuran is a relatively stable amine which can be acylated and diazotized. 2-Amino-3-acetylfurans are converted into 3-cyano-2-methylpyrroles on treatment with aqueous ammonia. This transformation is a further illustration of the relative instability of the amino derivatives of five-membered ring heterocycles compared with anilines (Scheme 67) (781003821). 

Dia2oaminoben2ene has also been prepared by the action of nitrous acid gas on aniline in alcohol by the action of silver nitrite on aniline hydrochloride and together with phenylurea by the action of nitrosophenylurea on aniline in methyl alcohol. Niementowski and Roszkowski have reported studies on the diazotization of aniline, aniline hydrochloride, and aniline sulfate with sodium nitrite and silver nitrite. The procedure described is adapted from that of Fischer. ... 

Nitrophenylarsonic acid has been prepared by heating p-nitrobenzenediazonium chloride with arsenious acid in hydrochloric acid, by the action of -nitrobenzenediazonium chloride on sodium arsenite, by the action of sodium arsenite on sodium -nitrobenzeneisodiazo oxide, by the diazotization of -nitro-aniline in acetic acid in the presence of arsenic chloride and cuprous chloride, and by the reaction of -nitrobenzenediazonium borofluoride with sodium arsenite in the presence of cuprous chloride. ... 

Diaminoazobenzene was reported by Nietzki to have been prepared by diazotizing -nitroaniline and coupling the product with aniline. The resulting 4-nitrodiazoaminobenzene is rearranged and the nitro group reduced. The submitters tried several times to carry out this procedure but were unsuccessful. 4,4 -Diaminoazobenzene has been prepared by the oxidation of -nitroaniline with potassium persulfate followed by the reduction of the nitro groups. ... 

The second point is somewhat less obvious but is readily illustrated by the synthesis of 1,3,5-tribromobenzene. This particular- substitution pattern cannot be obtained by direct brornination of benzene because bromine is an ortho, para director. Instead, advantage is taken of the powerful activating and ortho, para-directing effects of the fflnino group in aniline. Brornination of aniline yields 2,4,6-tribromoaniline in quantitative yield. Diazotization of the resulting 2,4,6-tribromoaniline and reduction of the diazonium salt gives the desired 1,3,5-tribromobenzene. 

The preparation of an aryl fluoride—e.g. fluorobenzene 3—starting from an aryl amine—e.g. aniline 1—via an intermediate arenediazonium tetrafluoroborate 2, is called the Schiemann reaction (also called the Balz-Schiemann reaction) The diazotization of aniline 1 in the presence of tetrafluoroborate leads to formation of a benzenediazonium tetrafluoroborate 2 that can be converted into fluorobenzene 3 by thermolysis. 

Treatment of aniline 1 with nitric acid in the presence of tetrafluoroboric acid leads to a relatively stable benzenediazonium tetrafluoroborate 2 by the usual diazotization mechanism. There are several variants for the experimental procedure. Subsequent thermal decomposition generates an aryl cation species 4, which reacts with fluoroborate anion to yield fluorobenzene 3 " ... 

As an alternate route to functionalized morphinans, the intermediate, 38, is first nitrated, the group entering para to the methylene bridge (44). Reduction of the nitro to the aniline (45) followed then by diazotization and replacement by hydroxyl gives intermediate, 46. Cyclization as above again gives racemorphan. 

To 375 cc. (4.3 moles) of hydrochloric acid (sp. gr. 1.18) and 200 g. of ice is added 139.6 g. (1.5 moles) of aniline. The resulting solution is diazotized with a solution of 103.5 S (x-5 moles) of c. p. sodium nitrite, ice being added to the reaction mixture, as necessary, in order to keep the temperature below 50. The final volume of the diazotized solution is about 1 1. This solution is added in a slow stream from a dropping funnel to the potassium selenide solution, which is being vigorously stirred with a mechanical stirrer. When all the diazotized solution has been added, the red aqueous solution is decanted from the dark oil which forms and is heated to boiling (Note 4). It is then poured back on the oil, the mixture is well stirred (Note 5), 200 cc. of chloroform is added, and the selenium collected on a filter and washed with a little more chloroform (Note 6). After the chloroform layer is separated, the aqueous layer is again... 

The method described here is a modification of that of Schoeller.1 Diphenyl selenide has also been prepared from diazotized aniline and alkali monoselenides 2 by the Friedel-Crafts reaction with benzene and selenium tetrachloride3 or selenium dioxide 4 from diphenyl sulfone and selenium 5 from phenylmagnesium bromide and selenium,6 selenium dichloride,7... 

The basic principle of all diazotizations of aromatic amines with a hydroxy- or a sulfonamido group in the 4-position relative to the amino group involves a deprotonation of the OH or NH group, respectively, after diazotization of the amino group. There is also a case of a deprotonation of a CH group in the 4-position of an aniline derivative, namely in the diazotization of 4-aminophenylmalononitrile (2.41) which, by the sequence of steps shown in Scheme 2-23, yields 3-diazo-6-dicyanomethylene-1,4-cyclohexadienone (2.42), as found by Hartzler (1964). This product can also be represented by a zwitterionic carbanion-diazonium mesomeric structure. 

It has already been pointed out that nitrosation is probably the first step in diazotization. Ingold (1952) describes the reaction as N-nitrosation and classifies it as an electrophilic substitution, together with related processes such as the formation of 4-nitrosophenol, an example of a C-nitrosation. It was probably Adamson and Kenner (1934) who first applied these ideas to diazotization and realized that in aniline itself the electron density at the nitrogen atom is greater than in the anilinium ion, so that the base is more reactive. On the other hand, the nitrosoacidium ion (3.1), the addition product of nitrous acid and a proton, is a more powerful electrophilic reagent than the HN02 molecule. They therefore represented the first step of diazotization as in Scheme 3-5. 

Although Hammett convincingly explained the nitrosation of aliphatic amines and the diazotization of aniline under the conditions employed by Schmid and others, one unsatisfactory point remained namely the second-order kinetic equation obtained by Hantzsch and the workers who followed him for diazotization in a more weakly acidic medium. Comparison of experimental details shows that at concentrations of free mineral acid below 0.05 m the reaction is apparently second-order, but it becomes third-order at higher concentrations of acid. 

In the first instance, acidity influences the acid-base equilibria of the reactants. The amine is a Bronsted base. Aniline, a typical substrate, has pKa = 4.6, which means that the protonation shown in Scheme 3-11 is almost complete under normal conditions of diazotization (pH < 1). The base is definitely a much better reagent than the anilinium ion for nitrosation because the latter is an electrophilic substitution. One expects — simply on the basis of the equilibrium shown in Scheme 3-11 — that the rate of diazotization should decrease linearly with increasing acid concentration or, at higher acidities, with the Hammett acidity function h0 (for acidity functions see Rochester, 1970 Cox and Yates, 1983). 

The rate-determining step in the diazotization of aniline in aqueous perchloric acid below concentrations of 0.05 m (pH >0.7) is the formation of N203. The following A-nitrosation step is faster (rate equation of Scheme 3-12). However, with aromatic amines that are weaker nucleophiles than aniline, e.g. 4-nitroaniline, nitrosation is slower than the formation of N203, and the rate is second-order with respect to nitrous acid and first-order in amine (Scheme 3-13, Larkworthy, 1959). 

On increasing the acidity still further (>0.1 m H2S04, i.e., H0< 1), the rate of diazotization of aniline passes through a minimum and then increases rapidly (region B in Fig. 3-1). The plot in Figure 3-1 is a somewhat schematic representation of the minimum, the position of which depends very much on the concentration of nitrous acid. Moreover, with other aromatic amines the plot is not exactly the same, but it can be explained by analogous arguments. 

Fig. 3-1. Variation in rate of diazotization of aniline with acidity (after Ridd, 1965). H0 = -log h0.

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