Anisole, preparation reactions

Scheme 11.11 gives some representative preparative reactions based on these methods. Entry 1 is an example of the classical procedure. Entry 2 uses crown-ether catalysis. These reactions were conducted in the aromatic reactant as the solvent. In the study cited for Entry 2, it was found that substituted aromatic reactants such as toluene, anisole, and benzonitrile tended to give more ortho substitution product than expected on a statistical basis.180 The nature of this directive effect does not seem to have been studied extensively. Entries 3 and 4 involve in situ decomposition of A-nitrosoamides. Entry 5 is a case of in situ nitrosation. 

Trinitroanisole was first obtained by Cahours [2a] by the direct nitration of anisole. The reaction proceeds very vigorously, as file presence of a methoxy group greatly facilitates the introduction of nitro groups and some highly coloured by-products are formed [20]. For this reason it is preferable to prepare trinitroanisole via chlo-rodinitrobenzene (p. 547). 

In view of the high cost of methyl iodide in the above preparation of anisole, and the fact that, unless absolute methanol is used, the ready hydrolysis of the methyl iodide may cause a low yield of the ether, the preparation of anisole may be ad antageously replaced by that of phenetole. I he reaction is not of course a methylation, but is nevertheless of the same type as that used in the preparation of anisole. 

Sulfation by sulfamic acid has been used ia the preparation of detergents from dodecyl, oleyl, and other higher alcohols. It is also used ia sulfating phenols and phenol—ethylene oxide condensation products. Secondary alcohols react ia the presence of an amide catalyst, eg, acetamide or urea (24). Pyridine has also been used. Tertiary alcohols do not react. Reactions with phenols yield phenyl ammonium sulfates. These reactions iaclude those of naphthols, cresol, anisole, anethole, pyrocatechol, and hydroquinone. Ammonium aryl sulfates are formed as iatermediates and sulfonates are formed by subsequent rearrangement (25,26). 

Brown et al. were not able to prepare 3-(prop-2-ynyl)indole [i.e., 3-propargylindole (49)] by the Grignard reaction however, Williamson and later Zenitz readily obtained 49 in satisfactory yield by the action of propargyl bromide on indole magnesium bromide in anisole. 

Ethers can be prepared by reaction of an alkoxide or phenoxide ion with a primary alkyl halide. Anisole, for instance, results from reaction of sodium phenoxide with iodomethane. What kind of reaction is occurring Show the mechanism. 

Whereas the production of arylnitrenes by the deoxygenation of nitrosobenzenes or nitro-benzenes by trivalent phosphorus reagents and their subsequent intramolecular ring expansion to 3//-azepines are well-known processes, the corresponding intermolecular reactions to form 1//-azepines have been exploited only on rare occasions and appear to be of little preparative value. For example, the highly electrophilic pentafluorophenylnitrene, obtained by deoxygenation of pentafluoronitrosobenzene with triethyl phosphite in benzene solution, produced a low yield (2-10%) of l-(pentafluorophenyl)-l//-azepine, which was isolated as its [4 + 2] cycloadduct with ethenetetracarbonitrile.169 With anisole as the substrate l-(pentafluorophenyl)-l//-azepin-2(3//)-one (16% bp 128 —130 C/0.4 Torr) was obtained. 

A New Improved Synthesis of Tricycle Thienobenzazepines Apphcation of chemistry recently developed by Knochel" combined with the well-described halogen dance (HD) reaction, allowed preparation of our key intermediate A in only three synthetic transformations (Scheme 6.4). In this respect, treatment of 2-bromo-5-methylthiophene with hthium diisopropylamide followed by dimethylformamide afforded aldehyde 11 in good yield, lodo-magnesium exchange with conunercial 4-iodo-3-nitro anisole followed by reaction with 11 afforded the thiophene catbinol 12. Dehydroxylation of 12 provided our key intermediate A which presented the requisite functionality to examine our approach to the construction of the seven-member ring system. 

Ethylbenzene, Thallium triacetate Ucmura, S. et al., Bull. Chem. Soc., Japan., 1971, 44, 2571 Application of a published method of thallation to ethylbenzene caused a violent explosion. A reaction mixture of thallium triacetate, acetic acid, perchloric acid and ethylbenzene was stirred at 65°C for 5 h, then filtered from thallous salts. Vacuum evaporation of the filtrate at 60°C gave a pasty residue which exploded. This preparation of ethylphenylthallic acetate perchlorate monohydrate had been done twice previously and uneventfully, as had been analogous preparations involving thallation of benzene, toluene, three isomeric xylenes and anisole in a total of 150 runs, where excessive evaporation had been avoided. 

Diathiadiphosphetane disulfides are probably the most studied and the most thermally and hydrolytically stable of all the phosphorus-chalcogen heterocycles. They contain a central four membered P2S2 ring and can be prepared from heating phosphorus pentasulfide with aromatic compounds. The most well-known of these is Lawesson s reagent (43), which is made from anisole and phosphorus pentasulfide,92 and is used extensively in organic synthesis procedures (see Section 5.4.1). Other dithiadiphosphetane disulfides of note are 44 and 45, formed from the reaction of phosphorus pentasulfide with ferrocene or 1 -bromonaphthalene respectively.93... 

Aryloxymethyl chlorides may be prepared by the reaction of sodium aryloxymethanesulfonates with phosphorus pentachloride. The chlorination of anisole does not, as previously reported, give phenoxymethyl chloride, but rather a mixture of p- and o-chloroanisoles. Similarly, anisole and other unsubstituted methyl aryl ethers undergo ring chlorination with phosphorus pentachloride and chlorine, whereas ring-chlorinated anisoles, such as />-chloroanisole, undergo chlorination at the methyl group with chlorine at 190-195° in the presence of a catalytic amount of phosphorus pentachloride. ... 

Cyanation of iodoarenes with NaCN was catalyzed by [PdCl2(TPPMS)2] in the presence ofNaBH4 and ZnC in water/heptane, toluene or anisole biphasic systems (Scheme 9.11) [37]. Lipophilic catalysts prepared with P(p-tolyl)3 or PPhs showed negligible activities for the biphasic cyanation, due to the lack of CN in the organic phase. The reaction provided good to excellent yields of the respective benzonitriles with several substituted iodoarenes. 

The reaction in Scheme 5.11 gives the snlfoninm salt (anion CIO4 ) in a 90% yield (ronte a). One-electron reduction of the thianthrene cation-radical by anisole is the side reaction (ronte b). Route b leads to products with a 10% total yield. Addition of the dibenzodioxine cation-radical accelerates the reaction 200 times. The cation-radicals of thianthrene and dibenzodioxine are stable. Having been prepared separately, they are introdnced into the reaction as perchlorate salts. 

Dynamic formation of graft polymers was synthesized by means of the radical crossover reaction of alkoxyamines by using the complementarity between nitroxide radical and styryl radical (Fig. 8.13) [40]. Copolymer 48 having alkoxyamine units on its side chain was synthesized via atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) of TEMPO-based alkoxyamine monomer 47 and MMA at 50°C (Scheme 8.9). The TEMPO-based alkoxyamine-terminated polystyrene 49 was prepared through the conventional nitroxide-mediated free radical polymerization (NMP) procedure [5,41], The mixture of copolymers 48 and 49 was heated in anisole... 

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