Protonated anilines

The aniline-zinc porphyrin interaction has also been exploited to form dimers. Hunter (60) reported the dimerization of porphyrins functionalized at one meso position with ortho or meta aniline groups (47, 48, Fig. 15). Both compounds showed concentration-dependent H NMR spectra with large upfield shifts for the aniline protons. The dimerization constants are 160 and 1080 M-1 respectively for 47 and 48, and these values are an order of magnitude higher than the association constants of simple reference complexes (K — 10 and 130 M 1 respectively), which is indicative of cooperative self-assembly. The complexa-tion-induced changes in chemical shift were used to obtain three-dimensional structures of the dimers. 

It would be ideal if the asymmetric addition could be done without a protecting group for ketone 36 and if the required amount of acetylene 37 would be closer to 1 equiv. Uthium acetylide is too basic for using the non-protected ketone 36, we need to reduce the nucleophile s basicity to accommodate the acidity of aniline protons in 36. At the same time, we started to understand the mechanism of lithium acetylide addition. As we will discuss in detail later, formation of the cubic dimer of the 1 1 complex of lithium cyclopropylacetylide and lithium alkoxide of the chiral modifier3 was the reason for the high enantiomeric excess. However, due to the nature of the stable and rigid dimeric complex, 2 equiv of lithium acetylide and 2 equiv of the lithium salt of chiral modifier were required for the high enantiomeric excess. Therefore, our requirements for a suitable metal were to provide (i) suitable nucleophilicity (ii) weaker basicity, which would be... 

Larsson et al. 92) demonstrated also that the anisotropic pseudorotation model could be used for direct fitting of experimental PRE data for aniline protons in the complex between a Ni(II) chelate (Ni(II)(dpm)2) and ring-deuterated aniline in toluene-dg solution. The Ni(II) ion is in this case surrounded by four oxygen atoms and two nitrogen atoms, which should result in a sizable static ZFS, which indeed is confirmed by the fits. 

Acetone Cl mass spectra of aniline and other monosubstituted aromatic compounds were also studied98. For aniline, protonation was found to be the main reaction channel, but acetylation is also observed. Typically, the acetylation of aniline occurs mostly at the nitrogen atom. 

Table I. Calculated Relative Shifts of Aniline Protons...

Phenylhydrazine was used for images enhanced by the NOE at natural abundance. As in the case of aniline, proton exchange leads to nearly complete collapse of the N-H couplings for both the NH and NH2 groups. The two groups are different, however, in that the process is more rapid for the NH2 than for the NH group and so leads to a narrower N line (16 Hz at 20 °C) compared with the NH2 value of 80 Hz in the single-resonance experiment. The NOE values are nearly equal at a value of about —2.9, and the T values for N were measured as 8.40 0.1 s (for NH) and 3.91 0.01 s (for NH2). 

Both proton affinities and acidities are calculated from the difference in energy of the lowest energy conformations of both neutral and ionic species. This in itself poses a problem for systems with many atoms - how to ensure the lowest energy conformer. For example, there are five possible sites of protonation in aniline, protonation of the carbons at the ortho. 

This reaction sequence is much less prone to difficulties with isomerizations since the pyridine-like carbons of dipyrromethenes do not add protons. Yields are often low, however, since the intermediates do not survive the high temperatures. The more reactive, faster but less reliable system is certainly provided by the dipyrromethanes, in which the reactivity of the pyrrole units is comparable to activated benzene derivatives such as phenol or aniline. The situation is comparable with that found in peptide synthesis where the slow azide method gives cleaner products than the fast DCC-promoted condensations (see p. 234). 

Another category Ic indole synthesis involves cyclization of a-anilino aldehydes or ketones under the influence of protonic or Lewis acids. This corresponds to retro.synthetic path d in Scheme 4.1. Considerable work on such reactions was done in the early 1960s by Julia and co-workers. The most successful examples involved alkylation of anilines with y-haloacetoacetic esters or amides. For example, heating IV-substituted anilines with ethyl 4-bromoacetoacetate followed by cyclization w ith ZnClj gave indole-3-acetate esterfi]. Additional examples are given in Table 4.3. 

The equilibrium shown m the equation lies to the right =10 for proton transfer from the conjugate acid of aniline to cyclohexylamine making cyclohexylamine 1 000 000 times more basic than aniline... 

Even though they are weaker bases arylammes like alkylammes can be com pletely protonated by strong acids Aniline is extracted from an ether solution into 1 M hydrochloric acid by being completely converted to a water soluble amlimum salt under these conditions... 

This resonance stabilization is lost when the amine group becomes protonated and o-cyanoaniline is therefore a weaker base than aniline... 

This is due to a resonance effect. Aniline is stabilized by sharing its nitrogen lone-pair electrons with the aromatic ring. In the anilinium ion, the resonance stabilization is dismpted by the proton bound to the lone pair. 

Ultraviolet. Benzene has a series of relatively low intensity absorption bands in the region of 230 to 270 nm. When there is a substituent on the ring with nonbonding electrons, such as an amino group, there is a pronounced increase in the intensity of these bands and a shift to longer wavelength. Aniline shows an absorption band at 230 nm (e = 8600) and a secondary band at 280 nm (e = 1430). Protonation of the amino groups reduces these effects and the spectmm resembles that of the unsubstituted benzene. 

Basic Orange 1 (130) (aniline coupled to 2,4-diamiaotoluene) and Basic Orange 2 (22) (aniline coupled to y -phenylenediamiae) are examples of amine salt type cationic azo dyes. The cation is formed by protonation under acidic conditions. Under neutral or alkaline conditions, these dyes behave more like disperse dyes. In 1988 the U.S. production of Cl Basic Orange 2 amounted to 132 tons. 

The effect of pH is rarely of use for pK measurement it is more often of use in identifying the site of protonation/deprotonation when several basic or acidic sites are present. Knowing the incremental substitutent effects Z of amino and ammonium groups on benzene ring shifts in aniline and in the anilinium ion (40), one can decide which of the nitrogen atoms is protonated in procaine hydrochloride (problem 24). 

Diffusion-limited rate control at high basicity may set in. This is more eommonly seen in a true Br nsted plot. If the rate-determining step is a proton transfer, and if this is diffusion controlled, then variation in base strength will not affect the rate of reaction. Thus, 3 may be zero at high basicity, whereas at low basicity a dependence on pK may be seen. ° Yang and Jencks ° show an example in the nucleophilic attack of aniline on methyl formate catalyzed by oxygen bases. 

The mechanism of the indolization of aniline 5 with methylthio-2-propanone 6 is illustrated below. Aniline 5 reacts with f-BuOCl to provide A-chloroaniline 9. This chloroaniline 9 reacts with sulfide 6 to yield azasulfonium salt 10. Deprotonation of the carbon atom adjacent to the sulfur provides the ylide 11. Intramolecular attack of the nucleophilic portion of the ylide 11 in a Sommelet-Hauser type rearrangement produces 12. Proton transfer and re-aromatization leads to 13 after which intramolecular addition of the amine to the carbonyl function generates the carbinolamine 14. Dehydration of 14 by prototropic rearrangement eventually furnishes the indole 8. 

The Zincke reaction is an overall amine exchange process that converts N- 2,A-dinitrophenyl)pyridinium salts (e.g, 1), known as Zincke salts, to iV-aryl or iV-alkyl pyridiniums 2 upon treatment with the appropriate aniline or alkyl amine. The Zincke salts are produced by reaction of pyridine or its derivatives with 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene. This venerable reaction, first reported in 1904 and independently explored by Konig, proceeds via nucleophilic addition, ring opening, amine exchange, and electrocyclic reclosure, a sequence that also requires a series of proton transfers. By... 

In terms of the final loss of aniline after ring closure, the fact that reactions using EtsN and BU3N, (ammonium ion as proton source) occurred at the same rate as the reactions with methoxide base (MeOH as proton source) suggested a lack of general acid catalysis. Also, it was found that varying the amount of available acid did not change the rate of cyclization appreciably. ... 

In summary, these results were interpreted to support rate-determining electrocyclization for the ring closure, starting from the all-trans iminium 11, via the cis conformation 13 of the neutral form, followed by fast proton transfer and elimination of aniline (Scheme 8.4.6). 

Condensation of an aniline with a dione with loss of water provides enamine 16. Ketone protonation and cyclization forms 18 followed by loss of water provides quinoline 4. Some have suggested the formation of dication 19 as a requirement to cyclization. Cyclization of 19 to 20 and subsequent conversion to quinoline 4 requires loss of water and acid. Another rendering of the mechanism takes into account participation of an electron-donating group (EDG), which stabilizes intermediate 21. 

CaveU and Chapman made the interesting observation that a difference exists between the orbital involved in the quatemization of aromatic nitrogen heterocycles and aromatic amines, which appears not to have been considered by later workers. The lone pair which exists in an sp orbital of the aniline nitrogen must conjugate, as shown by so many properties, with the aromatic ring and on protonation or quatemization sp hybridization occurs with a presumed loss of mesomerism, whereas in pyridine the nitrogen atom remains sp hybridized in the base whether it is protonated or quaternized. Similarly, in a saturated compound, the nitrogen atom is sp hybridized in the base and salt forms. 

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